Politico: The World Wants A Climate President Or Something

By William Teach November 13, 2025 – 10:30 am

Are Americans supposed to care what the world wants? Anyhow, I thought Obama was the climate president? Or was that Biden?

The climate president in waiting
The world wants an American climate leader, and Gavin Newsom is happy to play the part — even if the country he represents isn’t quite ready to follow.

BELÉM, Brazil — Gavin Newsom can’t get out of a meeting or a talk at the international climate talks here without being swarmed by reporters and diplomats eager for a quote, a handshake, a photo.

On a tour Tuesday of a cultural center with Gov. Helder Barbalho, the leader of the Brazilian state hosting the talks, a passerby recognized them both. “There’s the governor,” he exclaimed. “And there’s the California governor.” Later in the day, as Newsom rode up an escalator packed with reporters and international officials on his way to deliver a speech, a bystander shouted: “The escalator’s not broken for you!” — a dig at President Donald Trump, who once had an escalator malfunction on him at the United Nations.

Newsom grinned wide: “Oh, I like that.”

The adulation was gold for a governor with presidential aspirations as he steps into a power vacuum. The Trump administration is trying to dismantle climate policies both at home and abroad, and other likely Democratic presidential contenders are absent from the United Nations climate talks. Seeing a chance to plant his green flag on an international stage, Newsom is embracing the role of climate champion as his own party backs away at home and the politics of the issue shift rightward.

This would be the same Gavin Newsom who flew over 5,000 miles on a private jet to BELÉM, Brazil, right? It’s all a gorgeous little bit of slobbering over Gavin from Politico, but, are Americans slobbering? Do they care about a “climate president”? Who’s 100% Trump deranged, despite Trump not running in 2028? Many Americans may care about ‘climate change’ in theory, but, when it comes to practice? Ask Jay Inslee, who ran his campaign in 2019-2020 as being a climate president and only that, and having to drop out early in the Democrat primaries.

Exposing Gavin Newsom’s Top 10 Failures

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  1. Highest Cost-of-Living in the Nation
  2. Soaring Crime
  3. Worst Homelessness Crisis in the Nation
  4. Weakest Election Integrity in Nation
  5. Helping Human Traffickers While Creating a Border Crisis
  6. Failing Schools – And Attacks on Parents
  7. Negligence Creating an Insurance Crisis
  8. A Pattern of “Pay-to-Play” Politics
  9. Destroying Direct Democracy by Gutting Citizen Initiative Rights
  10. Failed Green New Deal Policies (Energy, Water Rationing)

That last one has led to much higher energy costs, especially as 30% of the used energy must be brought into California from other states. Gas prices are the highest in the lower 48. Water issues abound, such as the failure to have water available for the Palisades wildfire. For which barely any homes have been built and permitted to be built.

Under Gavin, there is water rationing, rolling brownouts and blackouts, and highest taxes in the nation. And so, so much more. Refineries are closing due to legislation and lawfare, not market forces. And

Newsom’s climate warrior image is backsliding, environmental groups say

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As Newsom was touting himself as a climate change warrior in New York, back home in California a coalition of more than 40 environmental groups was chastising him in a sharply worded letter for, they said, backsliding on the issue.

“As Governor Newsom touts his climate record on the national and international stage, we must not let him forget that it takes more than words to be a climate leader,” Nicole Ghio, executive director of Food & Water Watch California, said in a statement accompanying the letter.

The Google AI blurb that led to this says

Gavin Newsom’s climate failures include vetoing a bill to protect environmental regulations, failing to prevent worsening wildfire seasons, and cutting climate funding. Critics also cite his administration’s actions, such as seeking potential bailouts for a refinery, and vetoing bills that could have reduced emissions or protected air quality.

Anyhow, good luck running on the climate scam.

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Strange: Fossil Fuels “Emissions” To Hit Record Highs In 2025

By William Teach November 13, 2025 – 7:15 am

How can this be? Aren’t more and more people driving hybrids? Buying EVs because they are being forced into them/enticed with insane subsidies? Aren’t some nations, like in the EU, going nuts in blocking the use of fossil fuels, blocking new drilling/extraction? Stopping the use of natural gas for home heat, cooking, and hot water? Replacing fossil fuels with “green” energy? And many US states doing the same? How is this possible? Aren’t all the Warmists giving up their own use of fossil fuels?

Global fossil fuel emissions to hit record high in 2025, study says

Global fossil fuel emissions are set to hit a new high in 2025, according to research published Thursday that also warns curbing warming under 1.5°C would now be essentially “impossible.”

The annual Global Carbon Budget report looks at humanity’s emissions of planet-heating CO? from burning hydrocarbons, cement production, and land use — such as deforestation — and relates the figures to the warming thresholds outlined in the 2015 Paris Agreement.

An international team of scientists found that CO? emissions from fossil fuels will be 1.1 percent higher in 2025 than a year ago, with the massive rollout of renewable technologies still not enough to compensate for growing energy demand.

With emissions from oil, gas, and coal all set to rise, the overall figure is due to reach a record 38.1 billion tonnes of CO?.

If all those Warmists stopped using fossil fuels that would drop quite a bit, right?

Released as nations meet for COP30 climate talks in the Brazilian Amazon, the new study calculated a remaining allowance of 170 billion tonnes of CO? to limit warming to 1.5°C from pre-industrial levels — the target outlined in the Paris Agreement.

“This equates to four years of emissions at the current rate before the budget for 1.5°C is exhausted, so that is impossible, essentially,” said Pierre Friedlingstein of Britain’s Exeter University, who led the research.

I wonder how many tons of “emissions” could be cut if 40K weren’t taking long, fossil fueled trips to COP30 to complain about Other People using fossil fuels and trying to restrict them for those Other People?

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Oh Noes, Tariffs Could Skyrocket The Cost Of Italian Made Pasta

By William Teach November 13, 2025 – 7:00 am

It’s horrible!

Since the WSJ has a pretty hard paywall, let’s go to the NY Post

Thirteen Italian pasta brands could pull their products from US grocery stores — or potentially be forced to hike prices dramatically as soon as January, when punishing 107% tariffs are set to take effect.

The levies — the highest the White House has moved to impose on a specific product since the start of President Trump’s crackdown on imports — come from the US’ 15% baseline tariff on European Union goods plus a punishing 92% levy over accusations that Italian pasta makers have been undercutting US competitors.

The Commerce Department says the penne purveyors have been violating “antidumping” laws, exporting their products to the US market at a very low price to gain an advantage over local businesses.

One affected company decried the new policy to The Post, declaring it would not pass on costs from the new tariff to customers. (big snip)

Last year, the Department of Agriculture launched an investigation after two US pasta manufacturers called for a review of Italian exporters.

So, this all started under Biden. Huh.

Along with Pasta Garofalo, La Molisana and Rummo, the impacted pasta brands include Agritalia, Aldino, Antiche Tradizioni Di Gragnano, Barilla, Gruppo Milo, Pastificio Artigiano Cav. Giuseppe Cocco, Pastificio Chiavenna, Pastificio Liguori, Pastificio Sgambaro and Pastificio Tamma.

Barilla makes pasta for the US market within the States and is less likely to be impacted by the tariffs than the other businesses, Italian media noted. The Post has sought comment from Barilla.

Barilla accounts for around 30% of US pasta sales, made in Ames, IA and Avon, NY for both US and Canadian sales. I usually buy Barilla or some off brands, like at Lidl. And, I will make my own when it comes to thin spaghetti and similar, as well as some thicker noodles, at times. Weird shapes and egg noodles, nah, always buying. Most people are not buying Italian import pasta. So, chill out, News Media.

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ABC News Helpfully Explains How Cultists Can Alleviate Their Climate Anxiety

By William Teach November 12, 2025 – 3:43 pm

Me, I’d suggest visiting a fully accredited mental health professional who can deprogram the Warmists. Let’s see what ABC has to say

Climate change is in the news during COP30. We’ve got tips to tackle your climate anxiety

Every autumn, news feeds get flooded with stories about climate change. That’s because around this time each year, global leaders gather to discuss collective efforts to limit our emissions of planet-warming gases, released primarily from oil, gas and coal.

Some of the information coming out of the COP30 conference is bleak. But it’s not just COP. Climate stories can be difficult to consume year-round, whether it’s about natural disasters, victims of heat waves or sea level rise or new studies about global warming impacts.

“When you throw a ton of scary facts and information at people, their nervous system shuts down. It’s a coping mechanism,” said Sarah Newman, founder and executive director of the Climate Mental Health Network.

Like this?

How Climate Change Can Lead to Earthquakes

Climate change does its damage in a lot of ways—birthing hurricanes, heat waves, floods, droughts, and wildfires. Now add to that list earthquakes, continental rifting—or breakup—and magma production. That’s the conclusion of a new paper in Scientific Reports, which adds to a growing agreement among scientists that the Earth’s atmospheric processes can affect its geological processes in surprising ways.

Those things never happened before fossil fuels, you know. Anyhow, there’s lots of wackadoodle in the ABC piece, getting to

Newman said that one of the most effective ways to combat climate anxiety is to find other people who are experiencing it too, and to talk about it.

Every year, New York City hosts something called Climate Week. Folks from all over descend upon Manhattan for hundreds of events and panels on energy, the environment and climate change.

Between 15 and 20 people showed up to one event about finding connection and hope in the face of climate change. It was intimate, but so is confiding feelings of dread and isolation with a room full of strangers.

“How many of you wake up in the morning with feelings of despair or hopelessness?” asked the leader at the front of the room.

Just about every hand sheepishly went up.

Maybe it’s not the best idea to be associating with people who reinforce your cultish beliefs. You wouldn’t look for other alcoholics who are still drinking to help you stop drinking, right?

Immediate grounding exercises include the 3-3-3 technique, where you name three things you see, three you hear and three parts of your body that you can move. Another one is the 5-4-3-2-1 technique, where you identify five things you can see, four things you can touch, three things you can hear, two things you can smell and one thing you can taste.

Prozac would probably work better for these nuts.

That starts with something Doherty calls ceremonial actions. They don’t meaningfully change the world, but they’re easy, they can be repeated, they align with a person’s values and make them feel better, like picking up litter or bringing reusable bags to the grocery store.

Then those ceremonial actions fuel the desire and resilience needed for something larger, like getting rid of the gas appliances in the house, which could take years to afford and invest in. The U.N. lists 10 actions to reduce a person’s impact on the planet.

How about giving up all use of fossil fueled vehicles in their own lives?

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If All You See…

By William Teach November 12, 2025 – 1:02 pm

…is a horrible weapon of war due to climate crisis strife, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Climate Depot, with a post on raw sewage and a lack of water in Belem, Brazil, where COP30 is being held.

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Too Bad: Obamacare Could Collapse Under Trump’s Plan

By William Teach November 12, 2025 – 10:30 am

It would be a terrible thing giving money directly to those on Ocare instead of the insurance companies, right?

Obamacare could collapse under Trump’s new plan, policy experts say

Republicans are putting their own spin on subsidizing Americans’ health care: Route money away from insurers and put cash directly in consumers’ hands to give them more choice over their coverage.

Economists and policy experts suspect President Donald Trump and GOP lawmakers are presenting this alternative to extending the enhanced Affordable Care Act subsidies because they want to undermine or even replace Obamacare — something the party has repeatedly failed to do in the past.

Ocare is probably not going away. How many big federal programs ever go away? But, can it be changed into something that actually works for the citizens? Something that makes sense?

With direct cash payments from the federal government into special accounts, “healthy people could get much cheaper insurance that has medical underwriting and doesn’t cover preexisting conditions, but that would leave much sicker people in the ACA pool, and likely send it into a death spiral,” said Larry Levitt, executive vice president for health policy at KFF, a nonpartisan research organization.

If younger, healthier consumers choose such so-called junk health plans — with lower costs and less robust coverage — or don’t use the money for health insurance, it could throw off the balance of risk and prompt insurers to exit the market entirely, Levitt and others said.

Republican proposals for the direct payments still lack key details. They include creating health savings accounts or flexible spending accounts for millions of Americans and depositing cash into them instead of providing the enhanced premium subsidy that goes directly to health insurers.

How many in the existing pools are sick, and how many are just getting insurance because they are required to by law? What if this plan ends with the insurance companies lowering premiums and deductibles? Don’t forget, one of the original complaints about Ocare plans was that deductibles made the insurance unusable. We knew this back in 2013.

Democrats appear unlikely to buy in.

“We are not going to come up with that deal during open enrollment,” said Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.). “Right now, the only option is to extend the subsidies for a year.”

How about putting language in a subsidy extension, with the GOP plan kicking in prior to the next enrollment year?

Providing health insurance subsidies, like the enhanced Obamacare tax credits, meanwhile, can have an upward impact on health care price inflation, because people are more likely to seek out medical care if they’re insured, they said.

But the Republican plans, depending on how they’re designed, could prompt fewer people to enroll in ACA marketplace coverage.

What if Ocare was changed so that the insurers could offer bare-bones plans via the exchange, ones with lower premiums and deductibles, higher copays because lots of the healthies rarely use the plans, ones that fit the people signing up? This can actually help reduce costs in the non-Ocare market.

But former Trump adviser Brian Blase, now president of the influential right-leaning think tank Paragon Health Institute, argues that some plans to divert funds from insurers and into Americans’ pocketbooks would have little to no impact on Obamacare enrollment.

Paragon wants Republicans to let the enhanced ACA subsidies expire and has been promoting a new health care plan that would allow some lower-income Obamacare enrollees to take a portion of the government cost-sharing subsidies that go to health insurers and instead use them as health savings account deposits.

It’s funny, because people thought Ocare was meant to put health insurers out of business originally, which would require the government to be the insurer. To get to single payer. Who knew that it would end up being a way to reward those companies and make them reliable Democrat donors.

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National Geographic: Lake Effect Snowfall Is Your Fault

By William Teach November 12, 2025 – 7:15 am

So, snow fell from Michigan to Vermont and up to Canada Monday. NJ got it, Western NC, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Toronto

It was also still coming down in NY, Vermont, and Canada Tuesday, even into Tuesday night. So, of course

What is lake-effect snow? Here’s how climate change is altering it

Winter weather is ransacking the Chicago metro area and parts of Indiana as the region experiences one of winter’s most brutal weather phenomena: lake-effect snow. Heavy snow covered the area Sunday night into Monday morning, with more than a foot of snow recorded by mid-Monday.

Lake-effect snow forms when warm, unfrozen lake water and cold air meet. Some of the lake water evaporates into the air, making it warmer and wetter. Once that air moves inland, that moisture cools and turns into snow.

If the wind is blowing over large portions of one of the Great Lakes, the storm system will take in more water. The greater the temperature difference between the winds and water, the more moisture is absorbed into the atmosphere.

This type of snow storm is most common in the Great Lakes region because of their large size and location near populous cities.

So, it’s normal. It’s been as normal as normal as long as people were in the area.

But as the planet warms, will we continue to see major Midwestern snow storms? Here’s the science behind this phenomena and how climate change could make these storms more intense in the short term.

You’re welcome to read the article, but, it’s the same old same old cult propaganda, where you driving a fossil fueled vehicle and making the world burn causes lots of snow.

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ICE Arrests Murderous Moldovan Illegal, Biden Let Her Stay

By William Teach November 12, 2025 – 7:00 am

I guess Let’s Go Brandon just couldn’t be bothered to let federal authorities do their job. And wouldn’t let them

ICE arrests Moldovan illegal immigrant and convicted killer who tortured, threw victim out ninth-floor window

Biden Brain SuckerThe Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has announced the arrest of a Moldovan illegal immigrant and convicted killer who tortured and threw a victim out of a ninth-floor window.

Victoria Sorocean was taken into custody in Los Angeles on Nov. 4 by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) after authorities learned she had been convicted of premeditated murder with exceptional cruelty in 2013, ICE told Fox News on Tuesday.

According to DHS, Sorocean and an accomplice tortured their victim inside an apartment in Chisinau, Moldova, beating the person with a stick and electrical cable before throwing the victim out a ninth-floor window.

She was sentenced to 17 years in prison but fled the country to avoid serving her sentence.

Sorocean was first arrested by ICE on Jan. 10, 2020, under the first Trump administration, but she later filed multiple legal appeals and asylum claims to delay removal, DHS said.

How in the f**k does the system allow someone convicted of murder in another country to stay in the US? Sure, there is no bilateral extradition with Moldova, however, Moldova did ask for her back. No one with a murder conviction like this is eligible for asylum. Anyhow, can you guess what happened next?

Officials said she was ultimately released back into the U.S. in 2022 under the Biden administration.

They let a hardcore, torturous murderer loose in the U.S.

DHS said the case highlights the failures of the previous administration, which it said allowed millions of illegal aliens, including violent criminals and murderers like Sorocean, to roam free in American neighborhoods.

“It shocks the conscience that the Biden administration released into America a cruel, violent illegal alien who tortured a human being, beat them with an electrical cable and a stick and then threw her victim from a ninth-floor window,” DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said in a statement.

The thing is, I’m not shocked about this at all. Which is rather sad. Who knew that Biden’s insanity would just keep messing with America.

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Warmist Gavin Newsom Takes Long Fossil Fueled Trip To COP30

By William Teach November 11, 2025 – 2:54 pm

Climahypocrisy matters, with a side portion of TDS

During COP30, Governor Newsom highlights subnational climate action as the defining economic opportunity of the 21st Century, while Trump sleeps

Today, Governor Gavin Newsom kicked off his official trip in Brazil by engaging in discussions on climate, emphasizing that climate action is one of the greatest economic opportunities of this century. In a fireside chat at the Milken Institute Global Investors’ Symposium with CEO Rich Ditizio, the Governor urged the world’s top financial and business leaders to look to California as proof that investments in clean energy and innovation are a win-win-win for economic growth, communities, and the health of the planet.

After the discussion, the Governor convened a roundtable in partnership with the Milken Institute and with support from Amcham Brasil. Leading climate investors and private-sector partners joined to deepen partnerships on clean energy, sustainable manufacturing, and economic growth in California and across the Americas.

While Donald Trump is handing the future to China, California is proving that climate action, business growth, supporting workers, and good-paying jobs go hand in hand. We’re not turning backwards to the failed policies of the past — California is fighting for a clean-energy future, even as President Trump bends the knee to his Gulf State patrons and takes a nap as the world burns.

This is a governor who is forcing Comrades in the People’s Republik Of California into EVs. Or buses. Bikes. Increasing consumer prices by requiring EV trucks and “green” energy. Suing fossil fuels companies. All while

And, don’t forget taking a fossil fueled vehicle from the airport to the COP30 conference center down a road created by cutting down lots and lots of trees, along with 40,000 other Warmists.

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If All You See…

By William Teach November 11, 2025 – 1:48 pm

…is early snow due to Other People driving fossil fueled vehicles, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is MOTUS A.D., with a post on the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald.

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