Russian, Ukranian Climate Delegates Apologize For War Or Something

By William Teach February 27, 2022 – 2:47 pm

This is what the climate cultists really care about, because it is a cult

Russian climate delegate apologizes on Ukraine, saying many ’fail to find any justification for the attack’

The head of the Russian delegation at a major United Nations climate meeting apologized Sunday for his country’s invasion of Ukraine, telling hundreds of government ministers and scientists that “those who know what is happening fail to find any justification for the attack.”

Russia’s Oleg Anisimov’s unexpected remarks came during a virtual meeting of delegates from 195 nations who had convened to finalize a major assessment of how climate change will affect the globe in the coming decades, according to two participants who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk about the closed-door negotiations.

“Let me present an apology on behalf of all Russians who were not able to prevent this conflict,” Anisimov said, according to a participant in the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s recent session.

The comments by Anisimov, a scientist at the state hydrological institute, mark a rare public rebuke of the Russian invasion by a government official. His apology came after an impassioned speech from his Ukrainian counterpart, Svitlana Krakovska, who linked the invasion of her country to the global challenge the ministers and scientists sought to confront: climate change.

First, Anisimov is surely going to find himself, at best, sent to Siberia. As for Krakovska, her country is under attack: the climate crisis scam should be the last thing she should be worried about, but, this is what the cultists do. Link a trace increase in the Earth’s temperature to every single thing that happens

“Human induced climate change and the war on Ukraine have the same roots, fossil fuels, and our dependence on them,” another delegate recalled Krakovska saying.

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If All You See…

By William Teach February 27, 2022 – 1:00 pm

…is the blue of the sea which will swamp the land and the yellow of the sun which will shine through bright, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Da Techguy’s Blog, with a post on the Ukraine war fallout.

It’s Ukraine week!

Second photo below the fold, so check out The Gateway Pundit, with a post on Excitable Adam Kinzinger getting punked on a meme.

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Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup

By William Teach February 27, 2022 – 9:40 am

Patriotic Pinup Pearl Frush

Happy Sunday! Another gorgeous day in the Once and Future Nation of America. Getting a bit of much needed rain, the squirrels are barking at the birds, and the new pleco in the tank is surviving. They can be fickle. This pinup is by Pearl Frush, with a wee bit of help.

What’s happening in Ye Olde Blogosphere? The Fine 15

  1. Independent Sentinel notes Biden never sending the weapons to Ukraine
  2. If All You See… has stupid people of the week
  3. The Right Scoop covers CNNLOL claiming they will dial down the liberal cheerleading squad
  4. The O.K. Corral has feel good Friday
  5. The Last Refuge has a piece on evidence Biden baited Russia to invade Ukraine
  6. The First Street Journal covers Philadelphia keeping its mask mandate tyranny
  7. Powerline discusses Putin’s best friends in the West, environmentalists
  8. Moonbattery covers NPR trying to help soft people cope with the headlines
  9. Legal Insurrection notes Trump was 100% right on Europe’s reliance on Russian energy
  10. Jihad Watch has some interesting information on Biden’s SCOTUS pick
  11. Gen Z Conservative covers Biden’s lowest point yet
  12. Geller Report discusses Iceland dropping all COVID restrictions
  13. Dissecting Leftism covers studies on neurological issues from COVID
  14. Climate Depot notes Biden pulled support for a pipeline that would have supplied natural gas to Europe from Israel
  15. And last, but not least, No Tricks Zone covers wind farms altering the North Sea

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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“Studies” Say Wuhan Flu Came From Wet Market, Not Lab Or Something

By William Teach February 27, 2022 – 7:15 am

I’m sure they went into the labs and checked, right? It’s absolutely no surprise that a far left outlet like the U.K. Guardian would champion these “studies”

Coronavirus came from Wuhan market and not Chinese lab, twin studies say

International scientists on Saturday released two major studies which one participant said made it “extraordinarily clear” a market in Wuhan, China was the source of the coronavirus which fueled the Covid-19 pandemic – and not a Chinese government laboratory, a theory championed in the US by rightwing campaigners, columnists and politicians.

The question of where Covid-19 came from and how it spread has proved divisive. (snip)

In August last year, a US intelligence review of the issue proved inconclusive.

The New York Times first reported the new studies, which it said had not been published in any journal.

Michael Worobey, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Arizona and a co-author on both studies, told the paper: “When you look at all of the evidence together, it’s an extraordinarily clear picture that the pandemic started at the Huanan market.”

The one-sentence summary of one study said: “Geographical clustering of the earliest known Covid-19 cases and the proximity of positive environmental samples to live-animal vendors suggest that the Huanan seafood wholesale market in Wuhan was the site of origin of the Covid-19 pandemic.”

In the abstract to the other study, scientists said: “Understanding the circumstances that lead to pandemics is critical to their prevention.”

So, none of the studies have actually gone through peer review and been published? Huh. Anyhow, neither of the studies actually spent any time investigating the actual lab, which has had previous releases, and was, in fact, playing around with coronaviruses. We know this. It is a fact. The studies are simply putting together some data and “analyzing” it. It doesn’t even appear that they spent time in China.

It’s cute how this is a right wing thing, saying it was a lab leak, when you’ll find that plenty of Democrats, and left leaning folks in countries around the world, have serious reservations that this happened because someone ate a bat or pangolin or something in a we market that just happened to be right down the road from the Wuhan Institute of Virology which just happens to have a poor record of security and was working on coronaviruses. A lab which the Chinese haven’t let anyone into since this all started.

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Brandon Admin Continues Working Hard To Destroy American Energy

By William Teach February 26, 2022 – 4:07 pm

Many leading Warmists, including ones like Michael Mann, have advocated for the use of nuclear power to help wean the world off of coal, oil, and natural gas. However, most Warmists are irrational boobs and loathe nuclear

From the article

Federal officials have reversed a decision to allow a South Florida nuclear power plant to continue running for another 30 years by ordering a new review of potential environmental risks, including those posed by climate change.

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission issued an order Thursday to reverse a 2019 decision by a previous, Republican-led commission to extend Florida Power & Light’s operating license for two reactors at the Turkey Point nuclear power plant until 2052 and 2053, respectively. The reactors have been operating since 1972 and 1973, respectively.

The new decision shouldn’t immediately affect operations at Turkey Point, which is south of Miami along Biscayne Bay. The NRC, which oversees commercial nuclear power plants, had previously granted FPL a 20-year extension that will allow the reactors to run until 2032 and 2033.

The reversal gives environmental groups a chance to reiterate concerns that federal regulators didn’t adequately consider the risks of climate change and flooding from sea level rise when granting the last extension. The NRC plans to hold hearings after staff completes a new site-specific environmental impact statement.

Oh, please, they don’t care about ‘climate change’, they just despise nuclear. It makes you wonder: how many of the people in these enviroweenie groups actually live in Florida? How many will see their power rise in the future if the licenses are denied? One of the groups mentioned is Beyond Nuclear, which, from their website, seems to be rather hysterical (not the good way), and is also based in Maryland. Attorney Diane Curran, also mentioned, is based either out of D.C. or Connecticut, and seems to work for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. And is taking the side of the Warmists.

Besides the reversal at Turkey Point, the NRC also reversed a license extension for the Peach Bottom nuclear plant in Pennsylvania. Days after taking office in January 2021, President Joe Biden named Democrats to take over the NRC and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. The agencies have been reevaluating decisions made by Republican-led panels under former President Donald Trump, including the 2019 decision on Turkey Point.

Seems rather childish to reverse the licenses due to Trump Derangement Syndrome.

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If All You See…

By William Teach February 26, 2022 – 1:00 pm

…is an elevated house needed for when the seas rise dozens of feet, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Weasel Zippers, with a post on a poll saying 56% calling Biden a failure.

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Majority Of Voters Think Putin Wouldn’t Have Invaded Ukraine With Trump In Office

By William Teach February 26, 2022 – 10:30 am

Democrats can say what they want, but, Putin didn’t go on any adventures while Trump was president, like he did when Obama was in office and Joe was VP

62 percent of voters say Putin wouldn’t have invaded Ukraine if Trump were president: poll

Joe Biden Ice Cream AfghanistanA majority of American voters say that Russian President Vladimir Putin would not have invaded Ukraine had former President Trump still been in office, according to a new survey released on Friday.

A new Harvard Center for American Political Studies (CAPS)-Harris Poll survey released Friday found that 62 percent of those polled believed Putin would not be moving against Ukraine if Trump had been president. When looking strictly at the answers of Democrats and Republicans, 85 percent of Republicans and 38 percent of Democrats answered this way.

However, 38 percent of all Americans polled believed that Putin would have invaded Ukraine even if Trump had been president.

I’m guessing they only polled affiliated voters, not independents? Did they ignore those voters? It’s a rather strange political poll if they did, unless the numbers of independents caused the average to still be 62. Anyhow, it’s a pretty bad thing for Brandon that even 38% of Democrats think he failed.

A majority of Americans polled — 59 percent — also said they believed that the Russian president moved on Ukraine because Putin saw weakness in President Biden, while 41 percent said that it was not a factor in Putin’s decision to invade Ukraine.

No one seems to have a link to the actual poll, and it is not published at Harvard-Harris website at this time. Something else in the poll

A majority of voters say President Biden is too lenient with Russia as Moscow undertakes a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, according to a Harvard CAPS-Harris Poll survey released Friday.

Sixty-four percent of registered voters in the survey said Biden is “too lenient” with Russia, while 31 percent said he handles Moscow “just right.” Five percent said he’s “too tough.”

Ouch. And

President Biden’s approval rating has hit a new low of 38 percent, according to a new Harvard CAPS-Harris Poll survey released exclusively to The Hill on Friday.

Seventeen percent of registered voters said they “strongly approve” of Biden’s job in office while another 21 percent said they “somewhat approve.”

Another 39 percent said they “strongly disapproved” of Biden’s job, while 16 percent said they “somewhat approved.”

Isn’t it great that there are no more mean tweets?

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Federal Government’s Capability To Regulate “Carbon Pollution” To Be Litigated At Supreme Court Next Week

By William Teach February 26, 2022 – 7:00 am

I’ll believe “carbon pollution” is dangerous when people like Biden stop putting out so darned much themselves

In EPA Supreme Court case, the agency’s power to combat climate change hangs in the balance

President Biden’s ambitious plans to combat climate change, blocked by an uncooperative Congress, face an equally tough test next week at the Supreme Court. With the court’s conservative justices increasingly suspicious that agencies are overstepping their powers, the case’s outcome could not only reshape U.S. environmental policy but also call into question the authority of regulators to tackle the nation’s most pressing problems.

First, it’s not a real problem. Second, Americans are way, way, way more concerned with things like high gas and energy prices, high food prices, housing, and so much more.

climate cowOn Monday, the court takes up a years-long challenge from coal-mining companies and Republican-led states contesting the authority of the Environmental Protection Agency to mandate sweeping changes to the way the nation’s power sector produces electricity, the nation’s second-largest source of climate-warming pollution.

West Virginia v. EPA comes before a Supreme Court that’s even more conservative than the one that stopped the Obama administration’s plan to drastically reduce power plants’ carbon output in 2016.

“This will undoubtedly be the most important environmental law case on the court’s docket this term, and could well become one of the most significant environmental law cases of all time,” said Jonathan H. Adler, an environmental law expert at Case Western Reserve University School of Law.

This has nothing to do with the environment, at least as argued, because this is not about mining, but, the release of CO2. And, granted, I’ve said many, many times that I would love to see coal replaced with other energy that’s reliable and affordable, because of the environmental damage.

Environmental advocates fear the Supreme Court’s conservative majority could limit the Biden administration’s ability to curb carbon pollution from power plants before any regulation is written, and leave the United States short of its climate goals at a time when scientists suggest drastic cuts in emissions are needed to avert dangerous warming. The president wants the U.S. power grid to run entirely on clean energy by 2035.

I expect the Brandon admin to lose this one, and, this is also what Leftists are concerned with

But this case could resonate beyond environmental issues, since the Supreme Court’s conservatives have become more and more skeptical of federal agencies exercising their authority on a range of fronts. Pointing to what is called the “major questions” doctrine, the justices are insisting that Congress specifically authorize agency action that touches on significant issues.

Reigning in the power of the federal government to simply do whatever they want whenever they want, in violation of their assigned powers, could take a bit hit, as could the Executive Branch simply inventing Reasons to do what they want from minor things in legislation.

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U.S. To Impose Sanction Putin Directly

By William Teach February 26, 2022 – 6:45 am

Not quite sure why this wasn’t one of the first sanctions, but, at least Brandon is playing catchup quickly

U.S. joins EU and U.K. in sanctioning Putin directly

The U.S. imposed sanctions Friday on Russian President Vladimir Putin, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and other members of Russia’s Security Council.

Why it matters: It is extremely rare for the U.S. to sanction a sitting world leader, and the Kremlin had previously said it would consider sanctions on Putin himself to be a de facto severing of relations between the U.S. and Russia.

  • The move reflects Moscow’s new pariah status but is mostly symbolic, as it’s unclear what assets Putin and Lavrov actually hold in the West after years of escalating sanctions against Russia.
  • Putin in particular is believed to rely on his inner circle of Russian oligarchs to stash his vast wealth abroad.

Driving the news: The sanctions prohibit Putin and Lavrov from traveling to the U.S. and also target Minister of Defense Sergei Shoigu and Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces Valery Gerasimov.

And therein lies one of the issues, what, exactly, will this mean to Putin? What holdings does he have in the U.S. and Europe, as the EU sanctions on him do the same as the U.S. ones.

And, of course, as expected, Russia vetoed the UN Security council resolution.

Double of course, you wouldn’t know any of this stuff if you tuned into the White House twitter feed, which doesn’t mention Ukraine at all today. It’s primarily about Brandon nomination Judge Jackson. The only mention at Whitehouse.gov is on Brandon’s call with Ukranian president Zelenskyy. Which is also the only thing mentioned in relation to Ukraine on the POTUS twitter account.

Now, he’s supposedly going to attend a funeral for his daughter-in-law’s mother, and work on his SOTU. Pretty bad optics to be out of Washington all weekend, though, and you know if Trump were president the media and Democrats would be wondering why he couldn’t go to the funeral then come back to D.C. Different rules, you know. And, really, this whole war thing is just so inconvenient for Joe.

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Your Fault: ‘Climate Change” Makes Some Feel Like Hostages

By William Teach February 25, 2022 – 3:19 pm

What is needed are more mental health professionals who won’t coddle these cultists, who will tell the politicians, news media folks, and those pushing climate crisis doom to just stop it

‘Climate hostages’: Overwhelming impacts of climate change have many feeling trapped

The original headline, “Ecopsychologist discusses how climate change makes many people feel like ‘hostages'”, but, King5 news in Seattle probably thought that was too over-the-top even for the unhinged leftists in the area. And very silly

Scientists have warned for years that the effects of climate change will impact our health, even beyond weather-related disasters.

In 2019, while the Natural Resources Defense Council released a study that showed 245 people died from 2012’s wildfire smoke, young activists like Jamie Margolin from Seattle were also pointing out another health issue: climate anxiety.

“It’s really hard to grow up on a planet full of ifs,” she told the Associated Press.

Margolin and a number of other mostly young people are what psychologist Dr. Thomas Doherty refers to as “climate hostages.”

Mentally, these imminent and long-term effects make some individuals feel trapped. Doherty uses the phrase “climate hostage” to explain this feeling. He told KING 5 the term is “meant to capture the pressure that people feel kind of trapped between their desires for a better world for themselves and their community in terms of sustainability.”

Doherty, who counsels and practices “ecopsychology” in Portland, believes nature has healing powers and helps his patients develop a stronger bond with the natural world while also working through the anxiety they might have over the harm humans have caused.

“A lot of these climate and environmental concerns just affect our nervous system, just like any other concern, like economic concerns or family concerns, so we get a stress reaction on our body,” he said.

Here’s an idea: practice what you preach. Or, better yet, stop preaching doom and gloom to people, scaring the crap out of them.

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