Your Fault: San Francisco’s Fog Could Maybe Possibly Disappear

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

It would be a real shame, because the fog hides the poop and drug needles in the streets

A fog-free San Francisco? Scientists ponder California’s climate future

As most of the U.S. sweltered in mid-July 2022 ? when temperatures in many major cities reached the high 90s and even triple digits ? a national weather map showed San Francisco topping out at 65 degrees.

It was just a typical foggy summer day in the city by the bay, which averaged 62 degrees that month, about the same as the next two Julys.

Now the advent of climate change raises the question of whether summertime visitors will stop rushing out to buy sweatshirts upon arrival and instead feel perfectly comfortable in shorts and T-shirts.

The future of San Francisco’s iconic fog has been debated in media stories during recent years, and some experts note a diminished cloud cover along the California coast that could lead to a warming trend.

But few if any detect signs that San Francisco’s summer chill is going away like the once-celebrated Fog City Diner, which shut down at the end of May.

Um, what? What does the closing have to do with anything? The owners never gave a reason why they closed. It probably had something to do with being near the area of SF where everything was closing, because it was too filthy and too dangerous.

“From the data, I can’t foresee it any time soon,’’ said Rachel Clemesha, a project scientist with the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego, who studies the state’s coastal climate. “There are years when there’s more or less cloud cover. The last couple of years have been within that range. It is a very foggy place, so it would be very dramatic to get you a fog-free city.’’

So, paragraph six says there was no need for the article at all.

Peter Weiss, a faculty researcher and lecturer at the UC Santa Cruz department of environmental sciences, said that despite a growing narrative of waning fog along the California coast, the data to support it is “very spotty,’’ with few academic studies in the past decade.

So, it’s all a big nothingburger

“Under climate change, we know the land is warming much faster than the ocean, so that temperature difference across the land and ocean interface is increasing, which could drive stronger winds, which could help preserve this cloudiness,’’ Faloona said. “So there are two arguments you could make about what we theoretically think should happen, and which one’s winning out I think is still an open scientific question.’’

Sara Baguskas, an assistant professor at San Francisco State University with a specialty in coastal fog, said the lack of conclusive evidence that it’s ebbing should not induce complacency but rather stimulate funding to study and predict its patterns.

No data, but, plenty of fearmongering.

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Bummer: DHS Starts Terminating Those On Biden’s TPS

By William Teach June 13, 2025 – 6:45 am

There’s a reason it’s called temporary protected status: it’s temporary, hence, those on CHNV, most of whom were given extensions by the Brandon admin, will need to go home

DHS Begins Terminating Biden’s Migrant Parole Scheme, Warns Illegal Aliens They Should Self-Deport

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has started terminating former President Joe Biden’s mass migration parole pipeline, warning illegal aliens they ought to self-deport from the United States.

On Thursday, DHS officials announced that Biden’s parole migrants had started receiving termination notices informing them that their parole and work permits had been revoked, effective immediately.

In March, the Trump administration announced that DHS would revoke the legal status of more than 530,000 migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela who were allowed into the United States interior via a Biden-era parole pipeline known as the CHNV program.

Two Soros-linked groups sought to stop the Trump administration, but the Supreme Court ruled that DHS could move forward with ending the program.

The programs were pretty much scheduled to end, so, it is time to go home

DHS is urging the parole migrants to self-deport from the United States, advertising that those using the CBP Home phone application will receive cost-free travel out of the country and a $1,000 bonus once they have proved they self-deported.

Similarly, this week, DHS announced that illegal aliens who self-deport using the mobile app will be forgiven for any civil penalties or fines that they incurred from being illegally in the United States.

Of course, the really bad ones, whom were pretty much barely checked by the Biden admin, will need to be escorted out.

Meanwhile, the citizens, even the Dem voters, in the People’s Republik Of California might not quite be on the side of the politicians supporting the riots and illegals, such as Gavin

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Say, Why Are The Mostly Peaceful Rioters Targeting Waymos?

By William Teach June 12, 2025 – 3:08 pm

This is very bad for the environment, you know

Why Waymos Have Been Vandalized by Protesters

As protesters and police clash across Los Angeles and beyond, a striking image from the mayhem has been that of graffiti-strewn white cars engulfed in flames.

But these aren’t ordinary cars. They’ve got sensors protruding from the top and sides—and, critically, they’ve got no drivers.

Waymo, a robotaxi company, found itself at the center of the demonstrations against the Trump Administration’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids after a group of protesters over the weekend, according to the Los Angeles Times, approached a parked row of the autonomous vehicles and smashed their windows, slashed their tires, spray-painted them with anti-ICE slogans, and set them on fire.

While eye-catching, the trend is also extremely dangerous. Electric vehicles, like those in Waymo’s fleet, have lithium-ion batteries, and in a post on X, the L.A. Police Department warned: “Burning lithium-ion batteries release toxic gases, including hydrogen fluoride, posing risks to responders and those nearby.” According to Scientific American, first responders exposed to the fumes of burnt lithium-ion batteries without protection historically “have developed throat burns and breathing difficulties upon arriving,” and, depending on the hydrogen fluoride levels, individuals can start coughing up blood within minutes of exposure.

So…….EVs are dangerous and bad for the environment? Huh. Who knew!

Anyhow, why are they being targeted by the hardcore lefties, who are surely members of the climate cult?

The Wall Street Journal reported that part of the reason the cars were vandalized was to obstruct traffic—a traditional, albeit controversial, protest tactic.

Some social media users have suggested that self-driving vehicles in particular have become a new target because they are seen by protesters as “part of the police surveillance state.”

Waymo’s cars are equipped with cameras that provide a 360-degree view of their surroundings, a tool that has been tapped by law enforcement, according to reports.

True? Or, just burned because they happened to be there, and the Democrat base is inherently violent and destructive?

“There are people on here saying it’s violent and domestic terrorism to set a Waymo car on fire,” racial justice organizer Samuel Sinyangwe posted on X. “A robot car? Are you going to demand justice for the robot dogs next? But not the human beings repeatedly shot with rubber bullets in the street? What kind of politics is this?”

“There is no human element to Waymo,” climate and labor organizer Elise Joshi similarly posted on X. “It’s expensive and bought-out politicians are using it as an excuse to defund public transit. I pray on Waymo’s downfall.”

I bet you they’d feel different if it was their own property. Also, I wonder how often Elise takes public transit?

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If All You See…

By William Teach June 12, 2025 – 1:00 pm

…is a world killing dog, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is A View From The Beach, with a post on Thursday tanlines.

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Bummer: Groups Supporting Unfettered Illegal Immigration Being Investigated

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

The LA Times has a big sad over this. They do not care about the groups that are funding the riots and all the gear delivered in LA, though

Death threats, vandalism, investigations: L.A. immigrant rights groups in the fight of their lives

“No firmes nada,” a union organizer shouted into a bullhorn as he stood atop the flatbed of a truck outside Ambience Apparel, doling out battlefield legal advice not to sign anything. “You have a right to a lawyer. You are not alone.”

Advocates and lawyers had arrived at the downtown store minutes after tips began to pop off at the hotline set up by the Los Angeles Rapid Response Network, a coalition of 300 volunteers and 23 labor unions and immigrant rights and social justice groups that was organized last year to respond to enforcement. (snip)

Although she had never seen any sweeps like it in scale and aggression, she said advocates were prepared. “It’s a very well-organized community. That’s why coming into L.A. is so important for this Trump administration, because what they want to do is they want to break us.”

You might be over-estimating what Trump thinks of y’all.

Two Republican Congress members announced Wednesday that they would lead committee investigations of 200 nongovernmental organizations, including CHIRLA, “that were involved in providing services or support to inadmissible aliens during the Biden-Harris administration’s historic border crisis.” And Josh Hawley, a Missouri senator who chairs the Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Counterterrorism, threatened an investigation solely into CHIRLA, saying that it was “bankrolling” civil unrest.

And well they should, as should all the others. Let’s see what was happening with the money. How much that was allocated from the government ended up in the pockets of the people working for the NGOs, and how much went to aid. Anyhow, it’s a long, long piece, meant to tug on the heart strings, but, failing to deal with what the law says.

As far as death threats

Salas said her office has received death threats. Two weeks ago, vandals threw bricks through the front office window, smashing a few items inside. Workers have reported threatening calls.

“It’s always been hard, and it’s always been, what I would say, controversial,” she said. “But this is at a different level.”

And we know the vandals were anti-illegal alien supporters in Los Angeles how, exactly? Did they offer any proof of the death threats? Did the LA Time reporters as for any? Were the death threats reported to law enforcement? Because the story doesn’t say.

The newest fear — one she never would have thought possible in the past — was that the federal government would start prosecuting them for simply doing their jobs and trying to uphold the right to due process.

On Friday federal officials arrested Huerta, the president of Service Employees International Union California, on suspicion of interfering with federal officers. The union is part of the rapid response network. The U.S. attorney in Los Angeles, Bill Essayli, seemed to suggest on Sunday that other union officials and organizers would be investigated.

Well, don’t get in the middle of riots. Does anyone think ICE had any idea who Huerta was? No, they didn’t. He was just another chump interfering with federal law enforcement.

In Los Angeles County, 1 in 3 residents were born elsewhere and 1 in 4 children live in families with mixed legal statuses.

“These are people who you know were working, who had kids in school, and who were just ripped out of our communities. And I think that it feels like a real attack on our city,” Salas said. “They’re testing California. They’re testing our city.”

That’s on them. The law is the law. No one complains when a parent or parents are taken from their kids and put in jail for breaking the law. And it is a big failure on the part of government for failing to stop all these illegals.

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Bummer: Warmists Are Losing The Culture War

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

This is interesting: Politico is saying that this is not about science, but, other stuff

‘We’ve lost the culture war on climate’

President Donald Trump’s latest climate rollback makes it all but official: The United States is giving up on trying to stop the planet’s warming.

In some ways, the effort has barely started.

More than 15 years after federal regulators officially recognized that greenhouse gas pollution threatens “current and future generations,” their most ambitious efforts to defuse that threat have been blocked in the courts and by Trump’s rule-slicing buzzsaw. Wednesday’s action by the Environmental Protection Agency would extend that streak by wiping out a Biden-era regulation on power plants — leaving the nation’s second-largest source of climate pollution unshackled until at least the early 2030s. Rules aimed at lessening climate pollution from transportation, the nation’s No. 1 source, are also on the Trump hit list. (snip)

“There’s no way around it: The left strategy on climate needs to be rethought,” said Jody Freeman, who served as counselor for energy and climate change in President Barack Obama’s White House. “We’ve lost the culture war on climate, and we have to figure out a way for it to not be a niche leftist movement.”

Well, perhaps if they hadn’t framed it as being about government control of people, of telling them how to live their lives, taking away their freedom, liberty, and life choices, and taking more of their money, it wouldn’t have failed. Perhaps if the people pushing the climate scam hadn’t been all about fearmongering while refusing to practice what they preach it wouldn’t have failed. Perhaps if they relied on science rather than bloviating.

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WWIII Watch: Neocons Whine At Hegseth Over Ukraine

By William Teach June 12, 2025 – 6:45 am

I wonder what kind of financial stake they have in continuing to prop up Ukraine?

McConnell Tells Hegseth America’s Reputation Is at Stake in Ukraine War

Two senior Republican senators sharply criticized Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Wednesday over the Trump administration’s handling of Russia in its efforts to end the war in Ukraine, revealing a deepening public split in the party on foreign policy.

Senator Mitch McConnell — one of three Republicans who opposed Mr. Hegseth’s confirmation in January — opened a Senate budget hearing with a blunt critique of President Trump’s approach to Ukraine.

“It seems to me pretty obvious America’s reputation is on the line,” said Mr. McConnell, the former Senate majority leader who leads the Appropriations Committee’s defense subcommittee. “Will we defend democratic allies against authoritarian aggressors?”

Mr. McConnell, an outspoken hawk on Russia and military issues, has been critical of the Trump administration’s defense spending plan, and countered Mr. Hegseth’s argument that the administration was making the largest investment in the military in 20 years through Mr. Trump’s reconciliation package.

Mr. McConnell, a Kentucky Republican, said that putting military spending into that package and not increasing spending in the regular budget “may well end up functioning as a shell game to avoid making the most significant annual investments that we spent years urging the Biden administration to make.”

Yeah yeah yeah

The exchange between Mr. McConnell and Mr. Hegseth offered a glimpse into the widening foreign policy gap between the diminishing cohort of internationalists in the Republican Party, like Mr. McConnell, and an emboldened wing led by figures like Mr. Hegseth and Vice President JD Vance, who articulate an “America First” view of U.S. involvement around the globe.

“We don’t want a headline at the end of this conflict that says Russia wins and America loses,” Mr. McConnell told the Pentagon chief, chiding him for failing to include additional military assistance for Ukraine in the Pentagon’s proposed budget for the upcoming fiscal year.

What they never really say, and Lindsay Graham, is how, exactly, Ukraine can win. And how WWIII can be avoided.

Senator Lindsey Graham, Republican of South Carolina, also challenged Mr. Hegseth and Gen. Dan Caine, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, on whether President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia was going to stop at Ukraine, if successful on the battlefield there.

“I don’t believe he is,” General Caine said.

Russia is having a tough time taking Ukraine: how will Putin go after other nations?

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Bummer: Carbon Capture (scam) Industry Having Issues Because Trump

By William Teach June 11, 2025 – 3:00 pm

If your business model cannot survive without massive influxes of government cash it might not be the most stable idea. It’s one thing if you are a defense contractor or provide specific things that government needs. But, carbon capture? It was really based on Government giving them money

Carbon Capture Comes Back Down to Earth

Six months ago, the prospects for the nascent carbon removal market seemed as vast as the sky.

Bill Gates and other investors were lining up to fund start-ups that promised to suck carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere, helping to curb global warming. Big-name companies like Google, Airbus and Amazon moved in to buy carbon removal credits. And McKinsey projected the market could be worth as much as $1.2 trillion by 2050. One investor called it “the single greatest opportunity I’ve seen in 20 years of doing venture capital.”

But less than six months into President Trump’s second term, in which he has moved to drastically reshape climate policy, the carbon capture industry is decidedly more subdued.

The Energy Department last month terminated 24 awards worth $3.7 billion, most of which had been earmarked for carbon capture and storage projects. Applications for new carbon capture and sequestration permits in the United States were down 55 percent in the first three months of the year.

If these start ups were so great why can’t they do it without the government money? Surely Gates and the others could fund them 100% with their own money, right? Or, is it that they were looking for a big return based on Los Federales spending a ton of taxpayer money on the projects, not caring if they succeed, but, just looking good temporarily?

Yet it’s not just the political landscape that has changed. There are also new questions about the viability of some prominent carbon capture technologies.

Climeworks’ flagship plant in Iceland, which uses so-called direct air capture to scrub carbon dioxide from the sky, removed just a sliver of the carbon dioxide it had hoped to during its first 10 months in operation, according to Heimildin, an Icelandic news organization.

In other words, it’s BS. Maybe some of these projects around the world should be audited, see where the money has gone. Did it enrich some people, while doing little, just like with lots of solar projects (Solyndra, for instance)? If it is projected to be so big, then why is it failing and unable to operate without vast sums of taxpayer money, whether taxpayers like it or not?

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If All You See…

By William Teach June 11, 2025 – 1:00 pm

…are wonderful low carbon skateboards, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Jo Nova, with a post on the damage an EV can do on one bad day.

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Mexican Flag Is Defining Symbol Of LA Riots

By William Teach June 11, 2025 – 10:30 am

Many of the violent illegals being picked up are not Mexicans, but, I guess it’s a little harder to find flags of their home countries

CNN: ‘Mexican Flag Has Become a Defining Symbol’ of Los Angeles Riots

CNN, the left-leaning media conglomerate, has declared that the Mexican flag is “a defining symbol” of riots across Los Angeles, California, over Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents enforcing federal immigration laws.

Days worth of photos and footage from the riots have depicted rioters burning cars, assaulting police, and throwing bricks at vehicles, all while waving the Mexican flag.

CNN, in a piece titled “The Mexican flag has become a defining symbol of the LA protests,” is boasting that rioters are using the foreign flag to “express solidarity with immigrants and denounce the Trump administration’s raids…”

But the waving of foreign flags speaks to the generations of people from Mexico and other Latin American countries who have called the US, and particularly California, home, Hinojosa-Ojeda, the UCLA professor, said. [Emphasis added]

“The flags mean their families. The flags mean their communities. It’s not about having an international invasion,” he added.  [Emphasis added]

It’s one thing if they are actually citizens and celebrating their heritage on Cinco De Mayo, much like Irish flags are flown on St. Patrick’s day. But, they are being flown in support of illegal actions, much in the same way people flew Palestinian flags, in support of terrorists.

Mexican flags have become so prominent at the riots that organizers are now reportedly handing out American flags following intense criticism.

Vice President JD Vance has called the rioters “insurrectionists” and said the riot is even further proof why Republicans ought to pass President Donald Trump’s “Big, Beautiful Bill,” which includes a remittance tax on money transfers from immigrants sending funds to their native countries.

“Insurrectionists carrying foreign flags are attacking immigration enforcement officers, while one half of America’s political leadership has decided that border enforcement is evil,” Vance wrote on X. “Time to pass President Trump’s beautiful bill and further secure the border.”

If the illegal alien Mexicans want to be Americans they should be flying US flags to start with. For the American liberals, well, they hate the US flag, and, I hope the Mexicans and other illegals realize they are just being used.

And here’s the NY Times dropping some seizing!

Mexican Flags Have Become Republican Fodder, but Protesters Keep Waving Them

As images of protests in Southern California have flooded television and social media in recent days, a key question has emerged: Why are so many protesters carrying Mexican flags at an American political protest?

The sea of red, white and green Mexican flags at anti-deportation protests this week in Los Angeles has been seized upon by conservatives who argue that the demonstrations are inherently un-American, causing some protesters to consider leaving them at home.

Photos of masked provocateurs waving Mexican flags atop burning Waymo taxis spread instantly across conservative social media this weekend. Republicans pointed to them as a prime example of why President Trump called in the National Guard and how immigration had gone too far in California.

Oh, NY Times, never change

But protesters said this week that they see the Mexican flag as a symbol of defiance against Mr. Trump’s immigration policies or of solidarity with other Mexican Americans. The flag has become so ubiquitous in recent decades that it is a part of the Southern California landscape, adorning pickup trucks and flapping from bridges. Few mass gatherings occur in the region without a Mexican flag or two, from weekend soccer matches to Los Angeles Dodgers championship parades.

You mean as a symbol against the laws of the United States?

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