If All You See…

By William Teach August 17, 2023 – 1:00 pm

…are trees dying from too much carbon pollution, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Bunkerville, with a post on Arizona’s Democrat governor wanting to prosecute Trump for daring to question the election.

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NC General Assembly Overrides Cooper Vetoes, Including On Parental Rights And Banning Trans Surgeries For Kids

By William Teach August 17, 2023 – 10:30 am

Obviously, this has made the moonbats very upset. How dare the GOP have that kind of majority! The voters must be horrible (but, it’s fine in places like California, which has a a super-majority of Democrats who can do whatever they want)

NC Legislature overrides 6 governor vetoes, putting measures into law

The North Carolina Legislature voted to successfully override six vetoes by Gov. Roy Cooper on Wednesday afternoon, putting the measures into law.

One of those was Senate Bill 49, the Parents’ Bill of Rights.

After the Senate voted to override, the House later overrode the veto of SB 49, enacting the Parents’ Bill of Rights into law.

“This legislation (SB 49) codifies the rights of parents and guardians to guarantee their direct involvement in their child’s education,” said Rep. Brian Biggs, R-Randolph, on the House floor during the override debate. “This bill brings much-needed transparency and openness to our schools.”

Why are Democrats so against parental rights? Republicans should make sure to run on this in 2024, noting that Democrats are against parents having rights and being involved.

Two of those bills focus on charter school regulations, a third on building code procedures, and two on transgender issues. (snip)

House Bill 574, the Fairness in Women’s Sports Act, mandates athletes in middle school, high school, and college to play with their sex assigned at birth. That’s aimed almost exclusively at preventing biological males from participating in girls’ sports activities. (snip)

Another bill that drew attention was House Bill 808, which would ban most so-called gender-transition surgical procedures for children.

HB 808 prohibits gender transition surgeries and puberty blockers for minors.

Obviously, the brain-damaged and grooming wackjobs are upset about this, being so hell-bent on destroying the lives of children, rather than allowing kids to wait till they are adults and can make their own informed decisions. I’m still unclear why Democrats are so pushy about creating “trans” kids and wanting to mutilate their bodies. What political purpose does this serve?

How about gender confused boys in women’s sports? Why are Democrats so gung-ho to replace women with males in sports?

North Carolina lawmakers override veto on bill limiting LGBTQ instruction in early grades

North Carolina’s Senate and House voted minutes apart Wednesday to override Gov. Roy Cooper’s veto of a bill limiting LGBTQ+ instruction in the early grades, immediately making it law.

The law, which is expected to face a legal challenge, requires public school teachers in most circumstances to alert parents before they call a student by a different name or pronoun. It also bans instruction about gender identity and sexuality in K-4 classrooms, which critics have previously likened to a Florida law opponents call “Don’t Say Gay.”

That’s what a lot of national articles look like, with the groomers apoplectic that parents would have rights over their children and be required to be notified. Likewise, stopping schools from teaching adult sexuality, and it bans straight sexuality as well, to young children.

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We Need To Discuss Cocaine, Eels, And The Climate Crisis (scam)

By William Teach August 17, 2023 – 7:00 am

This is what a cult looks like: a perfectly reasonable article on the issue of cocaine in the waters causing issues with wildlife, ala cocaine bear, and then they had to drag ‘climate change’ into it because it’s required these days

Eels, Cocaine and Climate Change

This summer many media outlets smelled blood in the water and went on a feeding frenzy, publishing sensationalized reports about sharks getting high on cocaine off the coast of Florida.

The story originated with a Discovery Channel “Shark Week” program, which posited that odd, manic shark behavior observed off the Florida Keys originated after the predators consumed bales of cocaine dropped in the water by smugglers.

Shark scientists quickly debunked this theory by pointing out that sharks would only be attracted to cocaine if it smelled like meat, and that cocaine has never been found in wild sharks’ systems.

But cocaine in the water — that’s something we should still be afraid of. Only it’s not coming from bales of drugs dropped from the sky. It’s coming from human urine, the same way antidepressants and other pharmaceuticals end up in our sewers and waterways. (snip)

Eels regularly swim in waterways where cocaine has been detected, like the Thames River in London. Previous studies have detected the drug in eels’ systems, but Capaldo and her team wanted to find out exactly what that meant. They exposed young eels to levels of cocaine equivalent to those found in the environment (20 ng/L?1) for 30-50 days. (All experiments were conducted under ethical guidelines for animal experimentation.)

So, they force-fed the eels cocaine? I just have to wonder, is cocaine still that big of a drug these days? I don’t keep up with drugs (and, while I’ve tried coke a few times decades ago, I never cared for it), but, I’d think things like the growth of THC, CBD, and Fentanyl, among others, would be more of a concern as people urinate.

Capaldo points out that pharmaceuticals and illicit drugs are just one threat to European eels; climate change poses a danger to all eel species across the world. But the two threats remain linked, as temperature fluctuations can cause chemical interactions to change and become more toxic.

“All these findings would suggest that climate change, and in particular the rise in temperatures, could pose a problem for eels’ survival,” she says.

They really just cannot help themselves

And the problem is only going to get worse. Cocaine production increased another 35% between 2021 and 2022, according to a recent United Nations report. Meanwhile a commentary published this July in the Journal of Addiction Medicine predicts that climate change — and its resulting human suffering — will worsen the opioid epidemic and increase abuse of fentanyl, cocaine, and other legal and illegal stimulants.

I guess cocaine has increased. But, the rest is just pure cult, linking drug abuse to Hotcoldwetdry.

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Illegal Alien Advocates Want Governor To Force NY Towns To Take Illegals

By William Teach August 17, 2023 – 6:45 am

If NY’s governor wasn’t a wackjob illegal alien supporter her proper response would be to send them to the towns of the advocates

Hochul should force NY towns to take migrants, advocates’ letter says

Dozens of advocacy groups have joined in a letter to Gov. Kathy Hochul demanding the state force towns to accept migrants from New York City, pressuring the governor to take a more aggressive approach to the city’s deepening asylum seeker crisis.

Hochul should take executive action overruling county-level orders meant to block the movement of migrants, according to the Monday letter, which was led by the Coalition for the Homeless and the Legal Aid Society.

The groups said in the letter that Hochul should deploy executive powers to “invalidate executive orders in counties that have refused to accept new arrivals” or “alternatively, have the State intervene in pending cases to overturn the obstructive executive orders.”

The letter also asked Hochul to personally pressure mayors and county executives to accept migrants; to help coordinate relocation efforts; and to identify more state-run spaces to house people.

First off, shouldn’t the towns and counties which vote overwhelmingly Democrat, and especially those which are sanctuary areas…

Albany
Columbia County
Franklin County
Ithaca
Nassau County
New York City
Onondaga County
St. Lawrence County
Westchester County

…be more than willing to take on the illegal aliens/migrants, feed them, house them, give the healthcare and money and clothes and stuff, rather than wanting to shift the burden to non-sanctuary areas? Why isn’t the city of Albany, the capitol of NY, taking on a whole bunch?

The sort of executive action urged by the groups could swiftly invite lawsuits. The state is already a party to a flurry of legal proceedings around the treatment of migrants and the city’s efforts to bus arrivals upstate.

Yes, lawsuits would be coming fast. For one thing, that would be taxation without representation. Remember, these same types of “advocates” constantly yammer on about “defending Democracy.” I guess their version is be forcing people to accept things. Are any of these advocates inviting the illegals into their own homes? Are these groups, some of which are not even based in the state of New York, offering to provide aid themselves? Is the Riverside Edgecombe Neighborhood Association, Syracuse Tenants Association, Saratoga Immigration Coalition, Hudson/Catskill Housing Coalition, and the others hooking the illegals up?

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Enviroweenies: We Want Renewable Energy. Also Enviroweenies: But, Not There

By William Teach August 16, 2023 – 3:00 pm

How many times have we seen this: the enviroweenies/Warmists demand more and more “green” energy, but, the minute either the government or private sector tries to do it they try to stop it. Remember the Cape Wind Project, and how long they tried to stop it, along with grand high poobahs in the climate cult like John Kerry? How about when they tried to stop the transmission line from the desert into Los Angeles? Or how Dianne Feinstein worked to block a solar project in the Mojave Desert, along with the extreme-enviros? There are lots of examples. If they cannot stop the project, and there’s always some Reason, they’ll attempt to block the transmission lines. And now we have (via Hot Air)

Environmentalists sue Puerto Rican government over location of renewable energy projects

Activists and environmental groups including the Sierra Club sued Puerto Rico’s government Monday over the planned location of dozens of renewable energy projects meant to ease the U.S. territory’s power woes.

The lawsuit claims the projects would be built on lands that are ecologically sensitive and of high agricultural value, a violation of local laws.

The groups requested that a judge prohibit various local government agencies from approving projects on such lands, noting that they should instead be built on roofs, parking lots, landfills in disuse and previously contaminated grounds.

“The loss of prime agricultural land to install solar projects of an industrial magnitude is a serious attack on the food security of Puerto Rico, which is already in precarious condition,” said David Sotomayor, a soils professor at the University of Puerto Rico.

Puerto Rico’s Energy Bureau has so far approved 18 projects on more than 2,000 hectares that the lawsuit states are classified as special agricultural reserve and specially protected rustic land.

Like I said, it’s always some Reason. And if they did try and do this on the mentioned areas, they would complain about that. Surely, building on some roofs would be great, but, what happens when another hurricane, and there’s bound to be one, destroys homes? A company can respond a lot quicker to repair a solar farm, and could have worked to protect it from a coming storm.

As far as agricultural lands, do these activists and environmental groups own those lands? No? Then it’s none of their business. They can all piss off.

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If All You See…

By William Teach August 16, 2023 – 1:00 pm

…is a wonderful big city full of fellow Warmists, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is American Greatness, with a post on the hostile judge Tanya Chutkan.

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Biden Finally Mentions Disaster In Maui, Forgets Name

By William Teach August 16, 2023 – 10:30 am

If this was Trump or any other Republican, the Credentialed Media would have destroyed him for all the no comment stuff (he did that multiple times), for saying he’s not going there (which is actually wise policy, presidents should almost always avoid disaster areas to not create a circus, but, really, Biden just doesn’t care, which shows with him being on vacation), and for this

Biden Brain Sucker(UK Daily Mail) Joe Biden on Tuesday appeared to forget the name Maui, referring to the island in a speech in Milwaukee as ‘the one where you see on television all the time.’

As the death toll rose to 106 as rescuers combed the rubble in Lahaina, Hawaii, the president told the crowd that there were still fires on the Big Island – also known as Hawaii.

He pointed out the fires were blazing on the Big Island, not Maui, but appeared to struggle to name Maui.

‘The Army helicopters helped fire suppression efforts on the Big Island because there’s still some burning on the Big Island — not the one that, not the one where you see on television all the time,’ he said.

And the speech was really about Bidenomics on the anniversary of the Inflation Reduction Act which wasn’t about reducing inflation. Did they not properly put the minimal info about the disaster on the teleprompter? Is Biden unable to read it correctly? The media would annihilate Trump if he did this, and the opinion section would be calling for a mental faculties examination.

Meanwhile

(Washington Post) At 10:47 p.m. last Monday, a security camera at the Maui Bird Conservation Center captured a bright flash in the woods, illuminating the trees swaying in the wind. “I think that is when a tree is falling on a power line,” says Jennifer Pribble, a senior research coordinator at the center, in a video posted on Instagram.

“The power goes out, our generator kicks in, the camera comes back online, and then the forest is on fire.”

At that exact moment, 10 sensors in Makawao, a small, rural town in the East Maui region of Upcountry — where the Conservation Center is located — recorded a significant incident in Hawaiian Electric’s grid, according to data from Whisker Labs, a company that uses an advanced sensor network to monitor grids across the United States. The bright light in the video was probably an “arc flash,” something that happens when a power line “faults” — meaning it has come in contact with vegetation or another line, or gets knocked down, releasing power, usually through sparks, according to a Whisker Labs official and other experts.

It’s correlated, not confirmed, but, it would not be a surprise. And people are wonder why the power was not shut off to the area with all those high winds.

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New One: “Carbon Pollution” Is Now Bad For Plants

By William Teach August 16, 2023 – 7:00 am

What do plants need? Water, nutrients from the soil, and carbon dioxide. But, because this is a cult, CO2 is called a pollutant, and it’s required to find a way to say it is super bad for the very thing that needs it

For Decades, Our Carbon Emissions Sped the Growth of Plants — Not Anymore

Sherman Potter Bull CookiesFor the last century, rising levels of carbon dioxide helped plants grow faster, a rare silver lining in human-caused climate change. But now, as drier conditions set in across much of the globe, plant growth may be failing to keep up with emissions, a new study suggests.

Through photosynthesis, plants convert water and carbon dioxide into storable energy. By burning fossil fuels, humans have driven up carbon dioxide levels, from around 280 parts per million before the Industrial Revolution to 417 parts per million last year. That extra carbon dioxide has sped up photosynthesis, spurring plants to soak up more of our emissions and grow faster. Since 1982, plants globally have added enough leaf cover to span an area roughly twice the size of the continental U.S.

But the effect appears to be wearing off. While carbon dioxide levels continue to climb, more than a century of warming has also made the climate more hostile to plants. Drier conditions in many parts of the world mean that, even as plants get more carbon dioxide, they are also losing more of the other key ingredient needed for photosynthesis — water.

For the new study, scientists gathered data from ground monitors measuring levels of carbon dioxide and water in the air from 1982 to 2016. They compared these data with satellite images of forests, grasslands, shrublands, farmlands, and savannas, using artificial intelligence to spot changes over time. Small differences in the green hue of plants, for instance, indicate a shift in the rate of photosynthesis.

So, they never actually went into the field to observe the plants? Isn’t observation a vital part of Science, particularly when you can observer it

The study suggests that photosynthesis sped up until around the year 2000, at which point it began to level off, owing to more arid conditions. Looking ahead, authors say, the rate of photosynthesis could flatten out entirely, making it harder to keep rising carbon emissions — and warming — in check. The findings were published in the journal Science.

Suggest? The results should either say this is or is not happening, and, if it “suggests”, that means there is no conclusion, so, they should be doing more research to determine what is actually happening. Warmists do not care, because no one will call them on their shoddy studies, they’ll just be published in places like Yale, who should know better.

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Large Supermarket In Nation’s Capitol May Close Over $500K Worth Of Shoplifting

By William Teach August 16, 2023 – 6:45 am

It’s one thing to have all this theft in a place like Portland or San Francisco. This is our nation’s seat of government

DC supermarket near closing after $500K in groceries walks out the door

As cities across the U.S. grapple with a growing shoplifting problem, a Washington, D.C., grocery store may be on the verge of closure after rampant theft has depleted much of its resources, a D.C. councilman warned.

A popular Giant Food store reported $500,000 in product loss due to shoplifting, the store’s management told D.C. Councilman Trayon White recently, which equates to roughly 20% of sales after theft.

White called the news “disheartening” in a press conference last week, especially after the store recently spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to hire security guards and upgrade its equipment.

Despite its effort to crack down on shoplifters, thieves remained emboldened and continued to walk out of the store with their carts filled with stolen items, White said.

What are they supposed to do, continue to deal with the theft? They certainly do not want to get physically involved with the shoplifters, who could get violent, pull out a knife or gun.

If the store has to shut its doors, White warned the impact would be felt hard in the community, as the chain is the only major grocery outlet in Ward 8, serving more than 85,000 people. (snip)

In June, Giant President Ira Kress told Washington, D.C., radio station WTOP that thieves are stealing “everything” at the chain’s outlets, from food to beauty products. Some Giant locations began placing products behind a lock and key.

He added that shoplifting at Giant has “probably increased five to 10 times in the last three years.” The chain has 165 locations across Delaware, Maryland, Virginia and D.C.

Profit margins for grocery stores are based on volume, and with that much theft it becomes difficult to stay in business, not too mention the concern for their employees. Ward 8 is the section of D.C. that is south of the Anacostia River, and, overall, is probably the worst ward for crime. Should this really be happening in our nation’s capitol? This is embarrassing.

 

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Why Is It So Hot? Well, Your Fault, Plus Natural Processes Like A Volcano

By William Teach August 15, 2023 – 3:00 pm

The Arizona Republic’s Phil Boas attempts to give a dose of reality while still pushing the climate cult line

Why is it so hot in Phoenix this year? Climate change may not be the only explanation

This year’s summer heat wave in Arizona has already killed 59 people with 345 deaths now under investigation.

Our July set a new record for the most consecutive days (31) with high temperatures at or above 110 degrees, reports The Arizona Republic’s Fernando Cervantes Jr.

That we know.

What we don’t know is why.

Why are we seeing these record-smashing temperatures this year in metro Phoenix and across the globe?

I’ve been reliably informed that this is solely your fault. You could have given up your use of fossil fuels, stopped eating meat, moved into a tiny home, and given your money and freedom to government. But, no, you didn’t

Some will scoff at the question. But it’s actually a mystery that will take time to study and understand.

Yes, climate change undoubtedly played a roll.

I’m sure it did. The Earth goes through warm and cool cycles, as it’s done numerous times throughout the Holocene. Mankind does play a part, as I’ve always maintained. How much is the question. Certainly, land use and the Urban Heat Island effect plays a part, as does the release of greenhouse gas from more humans, agriculture, landfills, and ocean pollution (messes with the plankton, the number one converter of CO2 to oxygen). Yes, and fossil fuels. Certainly, air pollution traps heat, especially at night. Lower radiative cooling. So, how much is local from Man, how much is global from Man, and how much is natural?

One of those factors was a massive underwater earthquake near the island nation of Tonga more than a year and a half ago.

On Jan. 15, 2022, the Hunga Tonga–Hunga Ha’apai underwater volcano erupted.

A year later, January 2023, scientists mostly from Oxford University published a study in the peer-reviewed Nature Climate Change that noted the Tonga-Hunga volcanic eruption was extraordinary in that it pushed an enormous amount of water into the atmosphere.

Most volcanic eruptions spew large amounts of sulfur dioxide into the atmosphere that form particles that can actually reflect the sun and cool the planet.

This one did that as well, but was offset and exceeded by the amount of moisture it sent skyward — roughly the equivalent of 58,000 Olympic-sized swimming pools, according to separate research done by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

Because water vapor is a greenhouse gas, “it is possible that over a multiyear period Hunga Tonga–Hunga Ha’apai will cause a temporary increase in global surface temperatures,” the Oxford group noted.

Oops?

Of course, the climate cult will say that the loss of glaciers because Other People drive fossil fueled vehicles and have gas stoves is messing with tectonics and caused this. Because cult.

Anyhow, Mr. Boas also mentions the El Nino conditions and pollution control. Yes, that last one is Man-induced: we created the pollution, and removing it can also let in more sunlight to heat up the buildings and roadways. But, that’s localized.

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