Study Blames Warming Arctic For Big Texas Winter Storm

By William Teach September 4, 2021 – 7:08 am

The climate cultists just refuse to give up on their talking point. They came up with a theory, then created data to match it, rather than coming up with a hypothesis and gathering data, testing, reassessing, that whole Scientific Method thing

Study: Warmer Arctic led to killer cold in Texas, much of US

Warming of the Arctic caused by climate change has increased the number of polar vortex outbreaks, when frigid air from the far north bathes the central and eastern United States in killer cold, a study finds.

The study in the journal Science Thursday is the first to show the connections between changes in the polar region and February’s Valentine’s Week freeze that triggered widespread power outages in Texas, killing more than 170 people and causing at least $20 billion in damage.

The polar vortex normally keeps icy air trapped in the Arctic. But warmer air weakens the vortex, allowing it to stretch and wander south. The number of times it has weakened per year has more than doubled since the early 1980s, said study lead author Judah Cohen, a winter storm expert for Atmospheric Environmental Research, a commercial firm outside of Boston.

“It is counterintuitive that a rapidly warming Arctic can lead to an increase in extreme cold in a place as far south as Texas, but the lesson from our analysis is to expect the unexpected with climate change,” Cohen said.

Even if true, it still wouldn’t settle the actual debate, which is over causation. Hey, it could be true, but, what if the warming climate is mostly natural, just like during multiple warm periods since the end of the glacial age 20,000 years ago? Wouldn’t this mean that all the massive warm snaps are caused by a very cold Arctic? Has this been tested in the Southern Hemisphere? From the study

Anthropogenic global warming is projected to increase some weather extremes—for example, more heat waves and heavy precipitation events (1, 2)—but not severe winter weather such as cold air outbreaks and heavy snowfalls (3, 4). Yet, contrary to global climate model (GCM) projections, recent weather extremes have included an increase in cold air outbreaks and/or heavy snowfalls across the Northern Hemisphere (NH) since 1990 up to the recent past (3, 5–8). The most recent example of extreme winter weather was the anomalous cold weather of January and February 2021 in Asia (9), Europe (10, 11), and especially the United States (US).

So, they began with the belief that this was all caused by Mankind, hence, a doomsday cult study, nothing more, nothing less. They also incorporated a slew of previous computer model studies to get to their endpoint. And more of their own computer models. Pure junk science.

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20% Of Voters Want To Take Back Their Biden Vote

By William Teach September 4, 2021 – 6:53 am

Well, gee, perhaps they should have thought hard before casting their vote for against the guy with mean tweets who was doing a heck of a good job in getting America back. Roaring economy, lowest black unemployment ever, prices low, freedom high, and so much more. Instead, the checked the box for Biden/Harris, the guy who has been wrong on most things since he entered the Senate in 1973

One in five Americans want to take their vote for Biden BACK: Poll shows 20% regret voting for him

Illegitimate President Joe BidenOne-fifth of voters who marked Joe Biden’s name on their ballot now want their vote back, according to a new poll.

A poll conducted by Zogby Analytics  found 20 percent of Biden voters now regret their choice, 4 percent aren’t sure and 76 percent still have confidence in the commander-in-chief.

Nearly three in ten (29%) Republicans who voted Biden regretted it, while one-fifth (20%) of Democrats felt the same and 14% of Independents.

Men were far more likely to regret their vote than women – 27% of males regretted their vote for the Democratic ticket, where only 13% of females felt the same.

Young people and minorities were also far more likely to regret their vote. Hispanics regretted their vote the most, 33% of them, where 25% of African Americans felt the same, as did 16% of white people.

Meanwhile, 27% of voters 18-29 regretted their vote for Biden, 30% of voters 30-49 felt the same. Only 10% of voters 50-64 regretted their Biden vote and 6% of those 65+ felt the same.

Voting is something that people should really think about, not just go ahead and pull the trigger for a candidate. It takes careful consideration of policy position, what the person has done in the past, what it’s thought this person will do now. People now, though, tend to focus more on personality, and not much else. And you can’t take a vote back for a presidential race except 4 years later.

The survey, conducted online with 2,173 Biden-voting respondents, was taken the week of Aug. 5-13, before the fall of Kabul and the most recent onslaught of criticism Biden has faced for his handling of the Afghanistan withdrawal.

I wonder if Zogby will take the poll again post Afghanistan? And even if they didn’t vote for Trump, that would have still made a huge difference in the election outcome in battleground states, which were rather close. Especially once you throw all the cheat votes out. But, see, mean tweets are more important than a president who isn’t messing things up. What has Biden done correctly since assuming office?

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Teen Vogue Wants Fossil Fuels Companies To Climate Reparations

By William Teach September 3, 2021 – 3:00 pm

I just have to wonder, for all the work writers for Teen Vogue put in on screeds like this, do any of the teen girls actually read them? Or, are they more interested in the fashion, makeup, celebs, hair, and the other things that most teen girls are interested in? Or, is TV driving teen girls away as readers, because most aren’t Woke Warriors? Also, will TV stop pushing all the stuff that requires fossil fueled trucks to deliver to stores for teen girls to purchase? Starting with the print edition of TV?

Fossil Fuel Companies Should Pay Reparations for Fueling Climate Change

If you look out at the water off the coast of Southern California long enough, you’re likely to spot some dolphins. Another easily spotted local sight, though much less scenic: the oil-producing and transporting facilities dotting the shoreline. In late June, near the coast of San Diego, Captain Domenic Biagini of Gone Whale Watching San Diego filmed a pod of dolphins swimming in oil sheen. The United States Coast Guard tells Teen Vogue that the source of the oil sheen is unclear but that there is an ongoing investigation.

First, they do not know where it came from. Second, that is environmentalism, not ‘climate change’.

The evidence is out there, but we know the fossil fuel industry’s lobbyists and PR teams have for decades minimized the impact of carbon emissions in contributing to the climate crisis. The industries and individuals that have devastated this planet should not be able to continue to profit. What we need now is an end to destructive new fossil fuel projects, and climate reparations.

Yet, these same people continue to use fossil fuels themselves.

Pearson says he believes that his community and family deserve reparations from the U.S. government and companies that contribute to the poor air quality, though he adds that he doesn’t often use the term “reparations” to describe the work that needs to be done. He mentions ensuring health care for those impacted and closure of the facilities that have been polluting the community. “There’s going to have to be a rethinking of the value of people’s lives in those communities,” he says, “and an intentional investment in the millions, if not billions of dollars, to remediate a lot of the harm that has been done.”

CO2 is not a pollutant. This sounds more like a redistribution scheme designed to dupe voters. The article spends a lot of time hating on pipelines and pipeline projects, before diving into hatred of law enforcement and how police are Bad.

When thinking of the scope of harm that the fossil fuel industry has caused, it’s hard to imagine financial compensation that could ever be substantial enough. What cost can be put on the mass extinction of wildlife, the illness and deaths of human beings, and the destruction of the Earth’s land and waters? The companies and individuals that have benefited from so much destruction must be held responsible, and we must stop them from creating more violence. We must look at the world we live in and how colonialism, anti-Blackness, and capitalism have allowed industries to be so negligent for so long. It’s not just one pipeline that needs to be stopped; it’s a complete value system that needs to be eradicated.

Nope, this is totally about Science and not politics. And the climate cultists are trying to shift blame to others, rather than their own big carbon footprints.

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If All You See…

By William Teach September 3, 2021 – 1:00 pm

…is a wonderful train which Everyone Else should be forced to ride, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Not A Lot Of People Know That, with a post showing that hurricanes aren’t really dumping more rain these days.

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ACLU: COVID Mandates Actually Increase Civil Liberties Or Something

By William Teach September 3, 2021 – 10:30 am

They might have a case if the COVID vaccines were at least over 90% effective. We don’t mandate flu shots, right? They are typically about 60% effective. But, this is the ACLU, who find defending civil liberties a subjective thing

We Work at the A.C.L.U. Here’s What We Think About Vaccine Mandates.

Do vaccine mandates violate civil liberties? Some who have refused vaccination claim as much.

We disagree.

At the A.C.L.U., we are not shy about defending civil liberties, even when they are very unpopular. But we see no civil liberties problem with requiring Covid-19 vaccines in most circumstances.

While the permissibility of requiring vaccines for particular diseases depends on several factors, when it comes to Covid-19, all considerations point in the same direction. The disease is highly transmissible, serious and often lethal; the vaccines are safe and effective; and crucially there is no equally effective alternative available to protect public health.

In fact, far from compromising civil liberties, vaccine mandates actually further civil liberties. They protect the most vulnerable among us, including people with disabilities and fragile immune systems, children too young to be vaccinated and communities of color hit hard by the disease.

So, then the people who want them should get them, and the people who don’t should be left to deal with the consequences of their own actions. A vaccine is meant to protect the person: if someone else doesn’t get it that matters little to affecting me.

Vaccine requirements also safeguard those whose work involves regular exposure to the public, like teachers, doctors and nurses, bus drivers and grocery store employees. And by inoculating people from the disease’s worst effects, the vaccines offer the promise of restoring to all of us our most basic liberties, eventually allowing us to return safely to life as we knew it, in schools and at houses of worship and political meetings, not to mention at restaurants, bars, and gatherings with family and friends.

That’s a pretty big stretch in deeming that Government should force people to get a vaccine that has shown that it cannot fully stop a person from getting COVID. Especially since Government seems to be searching for reasons to continue slapping on restrictions. Where was the ACLU when government was going crazy, some more than others, last year, particularly during lockdown? Where is the ACLU when Biden, Harris, Pelosi, and so many others were, and still are, blowing off their own masking mandates? And, yes, this is the ACLU saying this. The two ACLU employees, David Cole and Daniel Mach, certainly didn’t write this for the NY Times without corporate approval.

The real threat to civil liberties comes from states banning vaccine and mask mandates. Even though most Covid-19 vaccine mandates do not infringe civil liberties, several states, including Florida, Iowa, South Carolina and Texas, have banned vaccine mandates or mask mandates — and sometimes both — in the name of freedom. But these bans directly endanger the public health and make more deaths from the disease inevitable. They trample the rights of the most vulnerable, who want to participate in society without putting their health at grave risk.

We care deeply about civil liberties and civil rights for all — which is precisely why we support vaccine mandates.

We care about civil liberties so we want Government to force everyone to take a vaccine that hasn’t been studied for years. And, yes, I am pro-vaccine. I will take a booster if I can. Whether you want one is your business.

(USA Today) The concept of what “full vaccination” means – two doses of the Pfizer or Moderna vaccine or one of the Johnson & Johnson shot – is likely to change.

That’s the estimation of Dr. Anthony Fauci, who on Thursday presented data supporting booster shots during a briefing of the White House COVID-19 response team.

Asked whether another dose will be required, Fauci said the decision will be up to the Food and Drug Administration, but added, “I would not at all be surprised that the adequate full regimen for vaccination will likely be three doses.’’

They don’t even know the effectiveness to the point they think 3 doses will be required, and, heck, perhaps even every 6 months, yet, the ACLU wants to mandate this for all.

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Climate Cultist Matthew Dowd Claims Hotcoldwetdry Will Kill 100 Million This Year

By William Teach September 3, 2021 – 7:08 am

There’s climascaremongering, and then there’s Climascaremongering. This is kicking the amp up to…well, the climate cult is usually at 11 anyhow, so, how about a 15? Unsurprisingly, Dowd is using the suffering and deaths from Ida to push his cultish beliefs

Matthew Dowd predicts 100 million deaths this year from climate change, blames Republicans

Political analyst Matthew Dowd predicted on Thursday the world will see more deaths due to climate change this year than “all of the World Wars in the last 100 years combined.”

Dowd appeared on MSNBC’s “Deadline White House” to discuss the devastation from Hurricane Ida and insisted the powerful storm was caused by climate change, and we could be seeing worse storms in the future.

“We’re about to have more deaths in a year in the globe because of climate change than all of the World Wars in the last 100 years combined,” Dowd warned viewers.

An estimate of over 100 million people died from World War I and World War II.

He added that we have only “12 to 24 months” to act before the situation becomes “irreversible.”

“We are fast approaching, unless we fundamentally do something in the next 12 to 24 months, an irreversible problem we’re going to be facing this week every single week. And it’s going to include droughts, it’s going to include deaths, it’s going to include freezes, it’s going to include all of that,” he said.

Typically, 56-60 million die every year on this planet. He’s actually making the claim that there will be 100 million just from Bad Weather alone. No, no, this is definitely not a doomsday cult.

Will Dowd blame ‘climate change’ for cold weather deaths? Unsurprisingly, no one on MSNBC pushed back and demanded proof for this assertion

Dowd placed the blame for the devastation from Hurricane Ida solely on Republicans for not believing in “the common good” and “discounting science.”

“There’s not equal blame, and there’s not both sides on anything close to this issue. Actually, both sides stuff has hurt us in getting anything done. There is one side that has listened to science, and one side that hasn’t,” Dowd said.

Sure thing, Sparky. What have the climate change believers, like yourself, done in your own lives, other than spread awareness and scaremonger? Why are all your policies about Big Government and taxation and controlling people’s lives? Taking over economies, restricting goods and services?

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New Zealand Police Shoot ISIS Believer After Stabbing Of Six In Supermarket

By William Teach September 3, 2021 – 6:57 am

According to Modern Socialist doctrine, we’re supposed to ask “what did New Zealand do to make the Islamist jihadi upset?” Also, we can thank Surrender Joe for whipping up the jihadis with his foolish Afghanistan withdrawal

ISIS supporter shot dead by New Zealand police after shoppers stabbed in ‘terrorist attack’

Joe Biden Ice Cream AfghanistanNew Zealand police have shot and killed an ISIS supporter who injured at least six people in a supermarket “terrorist attack” in the Auckland suburb of New Lynn on Friday, authorities say.

“This afternoon at approximately 2:40 p.m., a violent extremist undertook a terrorist attack,” said Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern in a news conference Friday afternoon. “This was a violent attack, it was senseless, and I am so sorry it happened.”

Ardern added that the man was a Sri Lankan national, a “supporter of ISIS ideology,” and a “known security threat.” He was under constant surveillance by multiple government agencies, and security personnel were able to shoot and kill him within 60 seconds from the start of the attack, she said.

The attacker obtained a knife within the store and used it to stab shoppers before police shot him, said New Zealand Police Commissioner Andrew Coster, who described him as a lone actor. The man died at the scene.

Three of the people are in critical condition

(Axios) “The terrorist is a Sri Lankan national who arrived in 2011,” Ardern said, noting he came to security services’ attention in 2016.

Ardern said he was being constantly monitored as he could not legally be imprisoned, and that police were nearby when the attack happened.

How about deporting him, especially since he had been in court previously? No one stated at any briefing that he was now a New Zealand citizen, so, send him packing. Jarden also stated

“What happened today was despicable. It was hateful, it was wrong, it was carried out by an individual, not a faith, not a culture, not an ethnicity, but an individual person who was gripped by ideology that is not supported here by anyone or any community.”

That’s a far cry from what she was saying after a lunatic killed 51 Muslims in Christchurch two years ago. Then it was all about blaming all sorts of people and ideologies, not blaming the individual.

Meanwhile, the Spite House is noting there are active ISIS threats happening in Afghanistan. ISIS was pretty quiet while Trump was president. Joe also decided to visit the troops hurt in the ISIS attack from a week ago in Walter Reed Hospital. And USA Today was forced to admit their “fact check” on Joe checking his watch was wrong. He did it many times during the ceremony.

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Climate Crisis (scam) Is Supercharging Weather Like Ida Or Something

By William Teach September 2, 2021 – 3:00 pm

I tried to avoid getting involved with the whole “Ida was your fault!” stuff, but, this one is a little crazier than most

Ida turns New York City into a front line of extreme weather supercharged by climate change

After Hurricane Ida battered the southern US states, its remnants lashed the northeast on Wednesday night, transforming New York City into a danger zone Thursday morning. Ida dumped record-shattering amounts of rainfall on Central Park and the subway was inundated with fast-moving floods, knocking nearly the whole system out of operation. The neighboring city of Newark, New Jersey, saw the heaviest single day of rain on record.

These are the kinds of scenes that scientists say the world will see more of because of human-caused climate change.

Officials in New York appeared totally caught off guard by the floods. Meteorologists — who knew storms and floods were on their way, even roughly how much rain would fall — were surprised at the storm’s pace. (big snip)

Globally, extreme rainfall events — including those in Germany and China in recent months — are becoming more common because of human-caused global warming, scientists say.

A recent UN climate report said that “the frequency and intensity of heavy precipitation events have increased since the 1950s over most land area.”

Scientists are saying? That means nothing. Are they proving? And are they proving that these are mostly/solely being caused by the actions of mankind? Can we prove that this is different than during the previous Holocene warm periods? Hurricanes are not getting bigger and more frequent, they are not truly dropping more rain. It may seem like it, because we have better tracking of storms than 30-40 years ago. As for rain, well, storms happen. They always do. Oh, and, apparently, winter weather from heat trapping gases

Climate crisis likely creating extreme winter weather events, says report

The climate crisis has not only been leaving deadly heatwaves and more destructive hurricanes in its wake, but also probably creating extreme winter weather events, according to a new report released on Thursday by the American Association for the Advancement of Science’s journal Science. (snip)

The new report, titled Linking Arctic variability and change with extreme winter weather in the United States, has helped to clarify that connection.

No need to read more, it’s the same old same old. Though they do seem to be getting ahead of this talking point well before winter is here. Though they did have some crazy winter weather in the Southern Hemisphere. How is the Artic causing big winter weather there? I’m sure they’ll have some sort of doomsday cult Excuse for that.

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Miami Herald Seems Surprised Florida AG Would Get Involved On Mask Mandates

By William Teach September 2, 2021 – 10:30 am

Seriously, why would a state attorney general get involved with the legal proceedings of the state? That’s just silly

Florida AG inserts herself in mask mandate legal fight as state defies court ruling

Attorney General Ashley Moody on Wednesday injected her legal opinion into Florida’s ongoing court battle over school mask mandates, adding noise to an increasingly political fight.

Moody, a Republican ally of Gov. Ron DeSantis, said school districts must comply with a state rule that says parents must have the ability to opt their kids out of mask requirements “unless and until the judiciary declares them invalid.”

Her legal opinion comes days after a Leon County judge ruled that DeSantis and his administration “acted without legal authority” when issuing and enforcing a blanket ban on mask mandates. The ruling was delivered orally and is not effective until written and filed. As of Wednesday evening, no ruling has been filed, which has given an opening to DeSantis and his administration to act.

“Injected”. Like she has no business chiming in.

Minutes after Moody published her legal opinion, the Florida Department of Education issued a statement that said her legal opinion proves districts have broken the law and need to follow state orders because “the judiciary has not declared the rule to be invalid.”

“Today, the department is urging every school district that has mandated masks without an opt out to promptly change its policies and comply with Florida’s rules and laws,” said Department of Education spokesman Jared Ochs, who did not immediately respond when asked if the state agency coordinated with Moody’s office.

It’s an interesting thing, that a judge in one county would rule that it’s a bad thing that the State mandates that people have a choice whether they want to mask up or not.

Meanwhile, in other mandate news

Sheriff pulls school resource officers from schools, says vaccine mandate infringes on their rights

As the K-12 school year began this week, school resource officers were absent at four Chelan County school districts.

Sheriff Brian Burnett said he believes Gov. Jay Inslee’s mandate requiring school employees and on-site contractors and volunteers to receive a COVID-19 vaccination infringes on his deputies’ rights. The sheriff’s action puts school resource officer programs on hold at the Cascade, Cashmere, Chelan and Manson school districts.

In fairness, Burnett didn’t ask any officers if they were vaccinated and whether they want to be in the schools. And in the neighboring state of Oregon

Portland Police Union to City: Vaccine Mandate Will “Exacerbate an Already Dangerous Staffing Crisis” for Police and 911 Staff

The city of Portland’s vaccine mandate, announced Aug. 30, is likely to spur widespread resignations of police officers and 911 operators, says the union that represents Portland police.

Through a public records request, WW obtained an email exchange Aug. 27 between Anil Karia, who is an attorney for the Portland Police Association, and Jerell Gaddis, who manages labor and employee relations matters for the city.

In the email, Karia outlines several arguments for why the vaccine mandate is illegal and not enforceable for PPA members, which consists of most Portland Police Bureau sworn officers, as well as emergency operators employed by the city’s Bureau of Emergency Communications.

Portland already has enough problems with a shortage of law enforcement and rising crime, so, have fun, Democrat voters in Portland.

Greek health care workers protest compulsory vaccinations

Hundreds of Greek health care workers, accompanied by ambulances with sirens blaring, marched through central Athens on Thursday to protest regulations mandating coronavirus vaccines for anyone working in their sector.

Under the regulation, which went into effect Wednesday, any health care worker who isn’t vaccinated against COVID-19 or hasn’t recovered from the disease within the last six months will be suspended from work without pay.

Who knew there were so many Trump voters in Greece? In Cincinnati they’re worried that 30% of the nurses could quit over the vaccine mandate. That seems to be happening a lot.

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China Says Poor Relations With U.S. Imperil Progress On ‘Climate Change’

By William Teach September 2, 2021 – 8:08 am

China likes to say the right things on Doing Something about the climate emergency (scam), but, they’re also building lots of coal fired power plants and putting more and more fossil fueled vehicles on the streets. And so much more that the Warmists hate. This is all about scamming the climate crisis scammers

China warns US poor relations could undermine progress on climate change

Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi has warned US climate envoy John Kerry that deteriorating US-China relations could undermine cooperation between the two countries on climate change.

In a video link call on Wednesday, Wang told Kerry that such cooperation cannot be separated from the broader relationship and called on the US to take steps to improve ties, a foreign ministry statement said.

Kerry, who is in the Chinese city of Tianjin for climate talks with his Chinese counterparts, said the US is committed to cooperating with the rest of the world on climate and encouraged China to take additional steps to reduce emissions, the US state department said.

Kerry, a former secretary of state, also said that China “plays a super-critical role” in the effort to combat climate change, according to a brief video clip from the meeting shown on CGTN, the international arm of state broadcaster CCTV.

What this is really all about is getting nations like the U.S. to stop bugging China about the other issues if people like Kerry want cooperation on ‘climate change’

Relations between Washington and Beijing have been strained by disputes over trade, technology and human rights. But the sides have identified the climate crisis as an area for possible cooperation.

“China and the US have differences on some issues. In the meantime, we share common interests in a range of areas such as climate change,” Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin said at a daily briefing on Wednesday.

In other words, stop bugging them about human rights, don’t attempt to push fair trade rules, don’t bug them about make a push to take over Taiwan, don’t bug them about stealing intellectual property, leave them alone when they are hacking the U.S. government and private companies, and more. Not if you want cooperation on Hotcoldwetdry with the next U.N climate meeting coming up, for which China will then ignore afterwards and keep doing what it wants to do.

And, sadly, climate cultists like Kerry and Biden, along with those in other nations, will ignore all China’s issues, including their abuse of human rights and citizens, if they can get China to agree to Do Something about ‘climate change’. And then look shocked when China doesn’t actually do anything in their nation.

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