British House Of Lords Tells Young Climate Cultists Should Pay For Their Beliefs

It’s super easy for young Warmists, indoctrinated by adults, to recommend that Something Be Done about the climate crisis (scam). It’s something else when the young Warmists actually have to practice what they preach

Young People Should Pay the Costs of Green Agenda, Says House of Lords

The economic burden of Boris Johnson’s ‘Build Back Better’ green push towards a net-zero economy should be borne by younger generations as older Britons will not benefit from the schemes, a House of Lords committee has suggested.

report from the Industry and Regulators Committee in the upper house of the British parliament claimed that it will cost the government some £321 billion to reach the goal of transitioning the British economy to net-zero carbon emissions by the year 2050. This figure is hotly contested, however, with a recent report from the House of Commons stating that the government itself has “no reliable” estimate of the costs for government and indeed consumers of the green agenda. (snip)

In order to pay for the massive overhaul of the economy the chairman of the committee, Lord Hollick, said: “The amount that can realistically be raised via surcharges on energy bills is not enough.

“Bills are regressive as the poor pay more of their income on energy costs. It is also unfair to the current generation, as we are asking current billpayers to cover the huge costs of something that is designed to mainly benefit future generations.”

The House of Lords peer suggested, therefore, that the government should look to incur more debt through public borrowing to pay for the “long-term infrastructure costs” and pass on the costs to future generations.

While the over 70 crowd has the money to be able to afford all the taxes and such, they are also the least likely to believe in ‘climate change’. The young want this so bad, why do they not move from believing it in theory and putting it into practice?

The ones who believe in the climate scam should be dared, triple dog dared into practicing what they preach. No fossil fueled vehicles, flights, or boats. Move into tiny homes. No ice makers. Hand wash clothes. All the rest. I’ve never understood why the big shots with big perches never go after the Warmists like that.

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Biden Plans On Approaching Saudi Arabia, Venezuela, To Pump More Oil

Let’s see: because Brandon spiked lots of new domestic production, the U.S. is buying around 600K barrels of oil from Russia, and working on a plan to get more from Iran. And now

From the link

President Biden’s advisers are discussing a possible visit to Saudi Arabia this spring to help repair relations and convince the Kingdom to pump more oil, Axios has learned.

Why it matters: A hat-in-hand trip would illustrate the gravity of the global energy crisis driven by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Biden has chastised Saudi Arabia, and the CIA believes its de facto leader, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, was involved in the dismemberment of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi. (snip)

Zoom in: Bin Salman isn’t making it easier on Biden to repair their relations.

He appeared to go out of his way to aggravate the White House during an interview with the Atlantic published last week.

Between the lines: Sanctions against Russia’s oil exports — including a possible ban on importing Russian oil into the U.S. — would both elevate worldwide gas prices and stoke domestic inflation.

If this happens, the Saudi’s are going to make Joe beg. And

(CBS News) Senior American officials are in Venezuela this weekend to meet with the government of Nicolás Maduro, whose authoritarian rule of the oil-producing country has meant no formal diplomatic relations between the two countries since 2019.

News of the trip was first reported by The New York Times. That report prompted Republican Senator Marco Rubio of Florida, the vice chairman of the Senate Intelligence and Foreign Relations Committees and a vocal critic of the Maduro regime, to criticize the trip.

“Joe Biden using #Russia as an excuse to do the deal they always wanted to do anyway with the #MaduroRegime,” Rubio tweeted Sunday morning. “Rather than produce more American oil he wants to replace the oil we buy from one murderous dictator with oil from another murderous dictator.”

Why don’t we just do like Rubio, and pretty much every sane thinking person, thinks, and produce our own? Oh, and remember this?

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If All You See…

…is an area perfect for some wind turbines, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is 90Ninety Miles From Tyranny, with a post on some quick hits of wisdom, knowledge, and snark.

It’s Asian week, because, why not?

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Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup

Patriotic Pinup Gil Elvgren

Happy Sunday! Another gorgeous day in the Once and Future Nation of America. The Sun is shining, the birds are singing, and everyone’s getting a good walk in (because gas is too expensive). This pinup is by Gil Elvgren, with a wee bit of help.

BTW, this is the 900th post in the Patriotic Pinup category, going all the way back to April 3rd, 2005

What is happening in Ye Olde Blogosphere? The Fine 15

  1. The Right Scoop cover Iowa’s governor signing a law banning males from playing female sports
  2. This ain’t Hell.. discusses Russia being in Ukraine for a long time
  3. Independent Sentinel notes Biden having Russia negotiating with Iran for a new nuclear deal
  4. The Lid notes a NY school district spying on parents
  5. The Last Refuge discusses Authoritarian Trudeau denouncing Authoritarian Putin
  6. Powerline wonders why COVID restrictions are coming off so fast
  7. Pacific Pundit has a good laugh at a guy having to constantly remove “I Did That” stickers from gas pumps
  8. Outside The Beltway has questions why there were no airstrikes on the big Russian convoy
  9. MOTUS A.D. notices how long it’s been since we had a Mean Tweet
  10. Moonbattery covers SJWs advocating for child abuse
  11. Legal Insurrection discusses France and Belgium removing most COVID restrictions
  12. Jihad Watch says Islam is the only winner in the Ukraine-Russia war
  13. Gen Z Conservative notes the Finish president dropping a truth bomb on Brandon
  14. Geller Report covers North Korea getting frisky with missile launches
  15. And last, but not least, Real Climate Science features the notion that green idiocy helped enable Putin

As always, the full set of pinups can be seen in the Patriotic Pinup category, or over at my Gallery page (nope, that’s gone, the newest Apache killed access, and the program hasn’t been upgraded since 2014). While we are on pinups, since it is that time of year, have you gotten your Pinups for Vets calendar yet? And don’t forget to check out what I declare to be our War on Women Rule 5 and linky luv posts and things that interest me. I’ve also mostly alphabetized them, makes it easier scrolling the feedreader

Don’t forget to check out all the other great material all the linked blogs have!

Anyone else have a link or hotty-fest going on? Let me know so I can add you to the list. And do you have a favorite blog you can recommend be added to the feedreader?

Two great sites for getting news links are Liberty Daily and Whatafinger.

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Illegal Aliens Are Frustrated With Brandon Over Failed Promises

Are we supposed to care about their feelings? In a sane world, one in which the government of the United States enforced its laws, the ones screeching for amnesty would be immediately deported

Undocumented immigrants are frustrated with Biden on reforms as Build Back Better stalls

illegal alien DemocratKatia Escobar was preparing to start college at the University of Houston last year, excited about the prospect that Congress might soon pass legislation that would wipe out the barriers she faced as an undocumented “Dreamer,” brought to the U.S. from Mexico illegally by her parents when she was a year old.

But today, the once bright hopes of Escobar — and millions of other Dreamers — have all but evaporated. Despite President Biden’s brief renewed pledge in his State of the Union address to push for a “pathway to citizenship” for Dreamers, farmworkers and essential workers, the prospect for immigration reform seems more remote than ever, and undocumented immigrants like Escobar are increasingly disillusioned.

Boo hoo. Most Americans do not care. We’ve been dealing with COVID for 2 years, dealing with the soft tyranny of the government response, now dealing with inflation, and now a war in Ukraine

“I’m fighting for my life, and many others are with me on that,” said Escobar, who has become an activist on the issue. “My life and the lives of millions of others who are like me should not be up for debate.”

She’s right, it shouldn’t be up for debate. She should be deported forthwith to her country of origin.

As for Biden’s remarks during his address, Escobar added that she’s not sure she trusts the White House to be truly committed. “We have seen in the past him making empty promises,” she said.

Brandon making empty promises? Well, that’s strange.

Escobar is an example of the real-life costs of congressional inaction on the issue of immigration — and the political risks for Biden and Democrats as they face challenging midterm elections without being able to deliver on an issue that has been a top priority of Hispanic groups for years.

Since the ones who find it being a priority are mostly in the U.S. illegally, their opinion doesn’t count. Let them go back to their countries and apply for citizenship.

A poll from Morning Consult/Politico released in January found that 56 percent of registered voters disapprove of Biden’s handling of immigration, an apparent reflection of persistent reports of surging border crossings since he took office. But while the spike in illegal entries has been amplified by conservative media and denounced by GOP lawmakers, some of the most stinging criticism of the White House is coming from Hispanic activists who once enthusiastically welcomed the Democratic president’s election and now see the administration as giving them little more than lip service.

Reports? It’s just reports of surging border crossings? Like, they’re not really real, we’re just getting “reports”? The border is almost completely open.

As for Escobar, she has been able to enroll as a freshman at the University of Houston. But being undocumented, she has been unable to receive financial aid from the federal government. She’s also had difficulty finding work to support herself and faces an uncertain future once she graduates, hostage to the seemingly endless debates in Washington over immigration.

“There’s a lot of things they have promised us,” she said. “Right now, before we even give them the chance to start giving up on us, we just want to remind them that they have a moral obligation to pass citizenship to 11 million undocumented immigrants.”

She shouldn’t even be allowed to enroll, much less Demand that the government legalize them all.

As for Escobar, while she continues to pursue higher education, her legal status remains in perpetual limbo.

Last March, she applied for DACA status in Texas under the Obama-era program. But her application was thrown out when U.S. District Judge Andrew Hanen in Texas ruled that the program was illegal and ordered a halt to all first-time applications to the program.

“I really was depending on this program to give me a work permit to be able to generate income during my time in college to support myself. Of course, that all changed in an instant, and my life was once again in limbo,” Escobar said.

When did she arrive illegally where she would apply for the un-Constitutional DACA last March? The authorities know where she is: she should be deported under federal law.

Escobar said she was ultimately able to fund her way through college after applying for and being awarded money through the Texas Application for State Financial Aid, or TASFA.

Which takes money away from actual U.S. citizens.

And while she said she’s glad Biden mentioned immigration reform during his State of the Union address, she wishes he had emphasized how important it is for Dreamers like her that Congress act right away.

“The situation is urgent,” she said. “We need these protections now.”

Then apply for citizenship in your home country. These people have no right to demand anything. Criminals do not get to demand anything.

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War And ‘Climate Change’ Are Shaping The Nuclear Industry Or Something

Hmm, I wonder if this climate cult piece will advocate for the use of nuclear energy?

How the war in Ukraine and climate change are shaping the nuclear industry

Climate change and global security are pushing against each other in shaping the future. That’s particularly apparent in this week’s events surrounding nuclear power.

Nuclear power plants generate energy with no carbon dioxide emissions, providing an alternative to the fossil fuels that are warming the atmosphere.

“Coal and other fossil fuels are choking humanity,” U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres said on Monday after the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released its most recent report. “The present global energy mix is broken.”

In the same week, Russian military forces attacked the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in Ukraine. One building in the nuclear power plant compound was set on fire.

Just another day when the climate cult drags a real world event into their doomsday cult world.

Seeing Ukraine’s nuclear reactors come under attack is new, and especially alarming to “much of the population that equates nuclear with weapons and with danger, and with radioactivity and health concerns.”

At the same time, nations are coming to realize they can’t meet their climate goals with renewables, like wind and solar, alone. Luongo says there was a “sea change” in sentiment about nuclear at the COP 26 climate conference last year.

Both China and Russia are pushing hard to build new nuclear power plants. And the article doesn’t blow off building new plants here in the U.S., next generation ones, which is rather unusual. Most Warmists tend to be dead set against them, which is a shame, because, while Skeptics could not care less about them being “low carbon” or “carbon free”, they’d be great for power, and Warmists should be be happy over being “net zero”.

Having all that abundent energy is against the dogma of the climate cult, though, who want Other People limited.

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If All You See…

…is a big wall meant to stop sea rise, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Patterico’s Pontifications, with a post not all players being onboard with the Woke women’s national soccer team.

Wrapping up with a couple more photos of Ukrainian ladies, clean out the folder, so, check out The First Street Journal, with a post on high gas prices being exactly what the Elites want. And The Other McCain, with a post on crazy people being dangerous.

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Bummer: Despite All The “New” Jobs, Inflation Continues To Dog Joe

See, this is bad for Joe. All you little people out there, you’re just role players. Not even supporting characters, you’re those people they have cattle calls for, where you might get an overall “thanks to all the people who came out and dressed up for the big fight scene shoot” in the credits. Or, maybe no

As job market booms, 1 word continues to dog Biden

(there’s an alternate headline, This week in Bidenomics: Good news nobody cares about)

One thing is going right for President Biden. The job market remains hot, with businesses hiring just about anybody they can find. Employers added 678,000 jobs in February, far more than economists expected. The February report was uniformly solid, with gains in nearly every sector. Upward revisions to job growth in the two prior months show that the surge of the Omicron COVID variant had little to no effect on hiring.

The thing is, the vast majority of those jobs were not new, they were just rehiring to fill the existing position that were shut down thanks to the Chinese superflu. It’s not like many new businesses are starting or giant projects.

This may not benefit Biden at all, politically. Americans are now overwhelmingly worried about inflation, which is likely to get worse in coming weeks on account of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and its impact on oil and gas prices. Oil prices have risen by $25 per barrel since the Russian invasion began on Feb. 24, and by $36 per barrel since the start of the year. That flows directly into gas prices, which are up about 50 cents per gallon to a national average of $3.84. Average prices seem likely to top $4 soon and could eclipse the all-time high of $4.11, from 2008.

Just for utter, crazy wild leftist fairness, CNN says that the average gas price in America on Trump’s last day was $2.393. When I filled up a car last night the local station was $3.799. Just a couple days ago it was $3.599. And $3.299 a few days before that. That truly adds up, does it not?

But soaring gas prices are perilous for Biden, anyway, for three reasons. First, while Biden is earning high marks for unifying allies in support of Ukraine, he has not prepared Americans for any kind of sacrifice. In fact, he has said repeatedly that he’s trying to protect the U.S. economy from rising prices, given that inflation was running at 7.5% before the Russian invasion. Gas prices are rising anyway, and drivers are getting mad.

Politicians can speak about all sorts of high minded ideals and agendas, however, at the end of the day it is all about pocket-book issues.

Second, many voters associate Biden’s push for green energy with rising gas prices, even if the connection is tenuous, at best. Voters mistakenly think Biden’s cancellation of the Keystone XL pipeline, which would have run from Canada to Nebraska, removed oil from the market and pushed prices up, when in reality it wasn’t even built or operational. Some think Biden has reined in drilling, when in fact permits for drilling on public land under Biden so far have gone up. By demonizing fossil fuels and pushing for renewables, Biden has made it seem like he’s happy to drive oil out of the market, no matter how much it costs consumers. That’s not what he’s actually doing, but it’ll now be tough persuading skeptics otherwise.

But, things like that, even when not operational, can affect the stock market, and cause pricing to rise over futures.

With average gas prices heading rapidly toward $4 per gallon, overall inflation could hit 10% within a couple of months. Inflation hasn’t yet hindered job or economic growth, but if it gets much higher and stays there for a while, it will. Wage growth, at 5.1%, isn’t keeping up with inflation, which erodes purchasing power. Consumers have been spending freely, drawing down savings they built up while stuck at home during the worst of the COVID pandemic. But that spending boom could be winding down.

Notice that discounts and specials are going goodbye all over the place, particularly if prices are staying mostly similar. Special values are disappearing for fast food joints, and they’re sending out fewer coupons. Some products are hard to find, and may only be available in limited quantities. Shouldn’t things be getting better now that COVID19 is fading?

Biden says he has his own plan for cutting prices—but it would require Congress to act. In his March 1 State of the Union speech, Biden said he wants Congress to pass a law cutting prescription drug prices, subsidizing green energy, and covering child care costs for millions of families. This is part of his “build a better America” plan, the new and improved version of “build back better.” Congressional Democrats, however, continue to bicker about what to prioritize and who to blame if they can’t get anything done. For voters, that’s not a problem. They’ll blame Biden, whether he deserves it, or not.

None of those will help the current economic issues. Is this a case of Biden being divorced from reality, or, intentional?

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Even With War In Ukraine, ‘Climate Change’ Is Our Biggest Crisis Or Something

Yeah, the chance of World War III pales in comparison to a slight rise in the Earth’s average temperature, something that has happened multiple times since the end of the last ice age

Opinion: Ukraine is at war. Climate change is still our biggest emergency

Good morning. I’m Paul Thornton, and it is Saturday, March 5, 2022. Let’s look back at the week in Opinion.

Fully aware that most adults can chew gum and scratch their heads at the same time, I am about to make what may seem a zero-sum comparison of the threats posed by Russia’s unprovoked assault on Ukraine and climate change. So allow me to make a few points upfront: The Biden administration and the rest of us have the capacity to address both crises vigorously, while acknowledging that the gratuitous death and disruption inflicted on 44 million Ukrainians pose graver immediate consequences for a lot of people right now, whereas climate change looms over every problem faced by humanity.

That said, it’s hard not to be discouraged about our ability to focus on climate change right now. For this gloominess, I have none other to thank than the president who has put forth the most ambitious environmental agenda in our history.

“Our”? Go for it, Paul. Give up all use of fossil fuels, no flying, buy an EV, get rid of your ice maker, turn the AC up/heat down, etc and so on. Demand that the Los Angeles Times give up use of fossil fuels for all their operations. Seriously, this is the ravings of a doomsday cultist, more concerned with things that have always happened over a war started by a nuclear armed nation.

And fast is important. As the Times Editorial Board pointed out this week, a report by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change noted what should be obvious to anyone living in Southern California (where this week, during our “wet season,” a wildfire burned hundred of acres in the Cleveland National Forest) — that the climate catastrophe is already upon us and wreaking havoc sooner and more intensely than anticipated, and the window to cut fossil fuel use in half to avoid the worst effects down the road will likely close by 2030.

Not decades — eight years.

What happens if we aren’t seeing doom in 8 years? Who’s held responsible for this bit of scaremongering?

In other words, complicating factors like wars and pandemics and, yes, Republican control of government are always present and pose significant threats to us. There’s also the objection that higher fuel costs disproportionately burden middle- and low-income earners. This is true, but so is the reality of global warming, pollution and environmental injustice — which also disproportionately harm traditionally marginalized groups.

In other words, F*ck those middle and lower income earners. They don’t know what’s good for them, and should just listen to their betters. Just like in any cult.

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74% Of Americans Want No Fly Zone, Leading To WWIII

Critical thinking is not something being taught in government schools

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From the link

Some 74% of Americans – including solid majorities of Republicans and Democrats – said the United States and its allies in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization should impose a no-fly zone in Ukraine, the poll found.

An equally bipartisan 80% of Americans said the United States should stop buying Russian oil. The White House on Friday said it was weighing cuts to U.S. imports of Russian oil, though it is proceeding cautiously, concerned about a spike in gasoline prices that would add to high inflation.

Moreover, 81% of Americans think Washington should impose additional sanctions on Russia, up from 77% in a Reuters/Ipsos poll conducted on Monday and Tuesday. Support for more sanctions was also bipartisan.

Stopping the purchase of oil from Russia and potentially more sanctions makes some sense. Imposing a no fly zone would bring NATO military jets into direct conflict with Russia. Do the NATO jets shoot them down? How does that not lead to a wider war? People need to start thinking about this stuff when they take a poll. Thankfully, neither Biden nor the other NATO members are considering a no fly zone. Even Joe gets that this would be the very definition of a Bad Idea.

Yup, Biden’s taking the weekend off again. Interestingly, he wore the mask outside with only Jill near him, then took it off to get on the helicopter.

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