New Hotness: It Could Take 90% Getting Vaccine For Herd Immunity

By William Teach December 24, 2020 – 3:48 pm

Hey, remember the good old days (like a couple weeks ago) when we needed 70-75% of Americans to get the vaccine and/or have the antibodies from having had Wuhanflu? Good times, good times

Fauci says herd immunity could require nearly 90% to get coronavirus vaccine

Herd immunity against the novel coronavirus could require vaccination rates approaching as high as 90%, Dr. Anthony Fauci, the most prominent U.S. infectious disease expert, said in an interview published on Thursday in The New York Times.

More than 1 million Americans have received a first dose of a vaccine since Dec. 14, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control, or only about 0.3% of the population.

Fauci, who is advising both President Donald Trump and President-elect Joe Biden on the pandemic, acknowledged that he had increased his estimates from earlier in the year, when he tended to say only 60% to 70% would need to be inoculated for herd immunity to be reached.

“We need to have some humility here,” Fauci told The New York Times. “We really don’t know what the real number is. I think the real range is somewhere between 70 to 90 percent. But, I’m not going to say 90 percent.”

The Elites are going to be running out of ways to keep the People compliant.

“When polls said only about half of all Americans would take a vaccine, I was saying herd immunity would take 70 to 75 percent,” Fauci, who turned 80 on Thursday, told the Times.

“Then, when newer surveys said 60 percent or more would take it, I thought, ‘I can nudge this up a bit,’ so I went to 80, 85.'”

What’s your guess as to how they keep stretching this out? Oh, wait

Decades.

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If All You See…

By William Teach December 24, 2020 – 1:00 pm

…is an angry ocean from carbon pollution caused extreme weather, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Bunkerville, with a post on a Democrat asking the House to overturn election she lost.

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Who’s Up For Cooking Christmas Dinner In The Microwave To Stop ‘Climate Change’?

By William Teach December 24, 2020 – 10:30 am

Who wants to bet that the climate cultists pushing this climainsanity will be cooking with their ovens?

Microwave your Christmas dinners before using the oven to save the planet, scientists warn

People have been urged to microwave their Christmas dinners before using the oven, as scientists reveal cooking’s contribution to greenhouse gasses.

Scientists are warning that “small changes” to what we eat and how we cook it could help reduce greenhouse gas emissions over the holidays.

Researchers, who have published their findings in the online journal, Nature Food, have revealed that around 60 per cent of food-related greenhouse gases (GHG) come from home cooking methods.

Many people source food locally to try and prevent producing the unnecessary carbon emissions that are incurred from buying food from miles away – but then cook their dinner in a very environmentally unfriendly way.

Producing and consuming just one kilogram of meat protein emits more GHG than flying from London to New York. As a result, scientists say that swapping out certain meat products, reducing food waste and limiting oven-times could help save the planet this Christmas.

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Surprise: GHGs Dropped Under Trump, Warmists Are Still Not Happy

By William Teach December 24, 2020 – 8:44 am

Warmists are never happy, though. They always have something to complain about, because it really is a doomsday cult, and that requires constant scaremongering, which makes them angry, sad, unhinged. Plus, if it happened under President Trump, that climate anxiety is going to go through the roof

US greenhouse gas emissions drop under Trump, but climate experts aren’t celebrating

As President Donald Trump prepares to leave office, U.S. greenhouse gas emissions are plunging to levels not seen in decades.

“Our regulations are meaningful. We’re seeing reductions in greenhouse gases. And, you know, should we go further? We’re going to the extent that the law allows us to go with the agency,” said outgoing Environmental Protection Agency administrator Andrew Wheeler in an interview with ABC News Live on his agency’s four-year track record.

The U.S. is projected to generate 5.9 billion metric tons of emissions in 2020 — down more than 9% from 2019 and about the same level as in 1983, according to a BloombergNEF study.

That should be good, right? Warmists are always yammering on about getting to below the 1980 average

Climatologists and environmental advocates say the rosy headline masks a sobering reality: the decline in emissions isn’t happening nearly fast enough to stave off catastrophic impacts of a rapidly warming planet.

“In 2020, U.S. greenhouse gas emissions will be substantially lower than they were in 2019, but that’s not because of progress that the Trump administration has made in reducing emissions,” said Trevor Houser, an energy and climate analyst with the Rhodium Group, a nonpartisan research organization. “That’s because we had the largest economic recession in a generation. So that’s not exactly cause for celebration.”

Last year, U.S. carbon pollution slid to the lowest level since 1992, according to EPA.

Well, here’s an idea (I bet you know where I’m going): all Warmists should act like it’s lockdown and travel nowhere, do not use fossil fuels, do not buy stuff.

“Let’s be clear. We need to bring carbon emissions down to net zero within a couple of decades, and we need to bring them halfway there within the next decade,” said Michael Mann, Penn State University climatologist and geophysicist and author of “The New Climate War.” “That requires massive action on our part and on the part of every other country in the world.”

Practice what you preach.

“COVID-19 is a big problem for the country; the economic situation. But the climate really is right up there beyond any lip service given,” said Aji Piper, 20, the Washington state climate activist who is one of nearly two dozen young Americans who have been suing the federal government since 2015 for contributing to climate change.

After four years of Trump’s hands-off approach to climate, Piper said the harms to his family are only getting worse.

“My mom has some pretty serious lung issues. And so wildfire smoke and the increased wildfire seasons just put her health at risk in jeopardy, which is personally distressing for me,” Piper said. “You don’t want to see your parents suffering like that.”

Let me get this straight: because Trump didn’t really do anything but keep things the same as Obama, Doom for parents? I’m just wondering if Piper and cohorts have stopped using their smartphones for more than texting and calling, because all that streaming and high use of the Internet is Bad for ‘climate change.’

Anyhow, lots more whining in the article, but, strangely, not one Warmist says they’ve forgone the use of fossil fuels and made their own lives Net Zero.

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China Joe Is Good With $600 For You, Wants Lots More For Migrants

By William Teach December 24, 2020 – 8:30 am

We can’t quite call them illegal aliens yet, as they are waiting on the other side of the border, but, Joe is prioritizing them over Americans

Joe Biden to Get Aid for Foreigners, Settles for $600 Checks for Americans

President-Elect Joe Biden is looking to provide foreign nationals in Mexico with better housing and coronavirus tests as they await their asylum hearings in the United States.

As Biden suggested he is satisfied with Congress allocating just $600 stimulus checks for each American out of a $900 billion coronavirus relief package, his advisers said he will push to fund better housing and coronavirus tests for foreign nationals in Mexico.

Biden said, “Congress did its job this week” in reference to the Democrat-controlled House and Republican-controlled Senate passing the package. President Trump, on the other hand, has demanded the package be reworked to include $2,000 stimulus checks for each American.

On a call with reporters this week, Biden transition team officials said, “they plan on providing funding to improve shelter and humanitarian assistance to immigrants waiting in northern Mexico, as well as provide COVID-19 testing to ensure people presenting at POE have a negative test before being processed,” according to a Buzzfeed News report.

The move, as noted by Center for Immigration Studies Director of Policy Jessica Vaughan, would mean that foreign nationals who have yet to prove their asylum case in U.S. hearings would be provided with American taxpayer-funded aid.

Who’s surprised? In fairness, China Joe did say that the current hideous COVID relief package is just a “down payment“, but, when will he recommend something that actually help? If Congress is going to do something, why not do it now? Why wait? Why put together another package at some time later in the Winter or Spring? Oh, right, because Democrats will attempt to again add all sorts of giveaways for Dem Party run cities and states that when loony tunes with lockdowns and are also really bad with their money.

(Fox News) House Democrats and Republicans are set to make dueling “unanimous consent” requests on Thursday based on grievances President Trump aired Tuesday night to the massive coronavirus stimulus and government funding package lawmakers sent to his desk — exchanging political barbs as it’s still unclear whether Trump will veto the original piece of legislation.

Trump on Tuesday night released a scathing video in which he called panned $600 stimulus checks for Americans as too small, saying the number should instead be $2,000.

He also demanded that “wasteful and unnecessary” spending – Trump specifically listed foreign aid to several countries, along with a few other line-items – be cut from the year-end spending package which lawmakers married to the coronavirus aid so it could all be passed in one vote.

Congress should have split the funding and COVID bills, but, as usual, they think they can get away with jamming stuff through, and know that for all the uproar the People of the United States have no power to do a damned thing.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., swiftly announced plans to bring a stand-alone piece of legislation to the House floor Thursday, when the body is set to meet at 9 a.m. EST in a pro forma session, to boost the stimulus checks to $2,000. By asking for unanimous consent to pass it she will essentially be daring House Republicans to object — which they will, Fox News is told.

“Mr. President, sign the bill to keep government open! Urge McConnell and McCarthy to agree with the Democratic unanimous consent request for $2,000 direct payments! This can be done by noon on Christmas Eve!” Pelosi tweeted Wednesday.

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., on Wednesday evening responded by announcing Republicans would put forward their own unanimous consent request to address the other part of Trump’s twofold grievances — foreign aid.

This could get interesting.

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Sea Level Could Be Worse Than Prognosticated Or Something

By William Teach December 23, 2020 – 3:00 pm

Yeah, it’s a doomsday cult, and the scientists who proscribe to this have to constantly trot out more and more doom to keep the funding flowing

Sea-level rise from climate change could be worse than projected

Of the many threats from climate change, sea-level rise will most certainly be among the most impactful, making hundreds of thousands of square miles of coastline uninhabitable and potentially displacing over 100 million people worldwide by the end of the century. This threat is a top concern for national security experts because forced migration poses significant risks to international security and stability.

The magnitude of this threat depends heavily on how much the oceans rise in the coming decades. But because of the complex dynamics of massive ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica, exact estimates remain elusive, ranging from just over a foot to several feet above current levels. That disparity is the difference between tens of millions of people forced from their homes or a much more unmanageable hundreds of millions displaced.

Now, a new paper published in the past week warns that if global warming continues at the current pace — reaching high-end warming projections for 2100 — then sea-level rise will probably surpass those projections.

Since the late 1800s, sea level has risen an average of about 10 inches globally, but the amount varies from region to region. Last century the largest contributor to the rise of the oceans was thermal expansion; simply put, warmer water expands. But now the melting of ice sheets, mainly from Greenland and Antarctica, constitutes a greater proportion, and that fraction will only grow.

Again, 10 inches would be exactly average for the Holocene. One would expect much more during a warm period

In fact, there is enough ice locked up in Greenland and Antarctica such that if all the ice melted it would cause a sea-level rise of 210 feet, a little taller than the Leaning Tower of Pisa. No scientist is expecting anything even close to that this century, but after the Earth surpasses a certain level of warming, ice sheets become less stable and less predictable, with potential tipping points coming into play.

Not expecting it, yet, let’s trot it out

While scientists and scientific periodicals tend to be conservative in their public projections of sea-level rise, scientists will often remark that they are concerned it may be much worse. When CBS News asked Englander what he thinks is a “realistic range” of sea-level rise by 2100, he said, “With the current global temperature level and rate of temperature increase I believe that we could get 5 to 10 feet before the end of this century.”

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If All You See…

By William Teach December 23, 2020 – 1:00 pm

…are evil plastic bottles of water and cans of soda, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is The Other McCain, with a post recommending to be patient.

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NY Times: Travel Restrictions Are Nice, But, We Really Need To Surveille All You People

By William Teach December 23, 2020 – 10:30 am

If you remember, the NY Times wasn’t particularly enthused about President Trump’s travel bans, first on China then on Europe. Just like the rest of their Democratic Party Comrades. Now? The editorial board has Ideas

The Coronavirus Is Mutating, and America’s Leaders Are Flying Blind

A new and potentially more contagious variant of the coronavirus has been detected in Britain and elsewhere. With the Trump administration continuing to do little to address the pandemic, state and local leaders have, again, been left to deal with this problem on their own.

To that end, on Monday Gov. Andrew Cuomo of New York persuaded major airlines to require people traveling from Britain to New York to first clear a coronavirus test. Mr. Cuomo’s willingness to act quickly and decisively here is commendable — refreshing in a year rife with failures to do exactly that — and the move seems reasonable in the face of federal inaction and many unknowns.

It wasn’t so commendable when Trump did this, eh? It’s also sorta beyond Cuomo’s actual Constitutional, federal and state, powers.

Genomic surveillance is also one of the few ways officials can determine whether, where and how to put travel restrictions in place. Without this data, even the fastest-acting, best-intentioned leaders — like Mr. Cuomo, in this case — are flying blind. They have no way to know which countries such measures should focus on, or whether such an effort would be worth the political blowback. For instance, it may not be worth it if the variant in question is already circulating widely in the United States, or if only a tiny amount of spread is being driven by overseas cases.

Well, sure, looking at the genomes of those who have COVID could be worthwhile. But, is that really, really what the NYTEB is pushing?

But to truly solve this problem, federal officials need to increase the nation’s disease surveillance efforts, and in particular its genomic surveillance. Until they do that, Americans everywhere will be stuck in the same place we’ve been for the better part of this year: making often brutal sacrifices to try to slow the spread of the virus ourselves.

Yeah, not just genome, but, surveillance on everyone, in order to track everyone. Where they go, who they see. Like states try and do with your smartphones. How soon till some Dem party run states start requiring this, rather than asking? As for sacrifices, what sacrifices have politicians and the news media made? They’re still getting paychecks. They aren’t going out of business

It’s unfair that individuals and small businesses have borne so much of that pain. But right now, it’s the only way to squelch this mutant — and any other that has yet to be detected.

You peons will just have to suffer more. It’s easy for people who aren’t being hit with loss of money, etc, who really do not have skin in the game.

Van’s tweet is mostly aimed at the Irish government, but, he’s utterly correct. It’s easy for news outlets to call for draconian measures, when they do not have to pay the penalties.

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Climate Cult Says Dangerous Temperatures Will Be Here Soon

By William Teach December 23, 2020 – 8:03 am

The best way to stop this from happening is taxing you and restricting you from eating delicious steaks and other meat, force you to take no more than 2 minute showers, and have you take the train to work. Or walk. Or bike. Anything but fossil fuels

Climate change: New study says ‘dangerous’ temperatures will be here sooner than we think

Climate scientists say it’s almost certain we’ll cross the threshold for a “dangerous” level of global warming as soon as 2038, possibly as early as 2027, if drastic measures aren’t taken.

It’s a gloomier scenario than the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has put forward, they say; but being based on real-world historical data, sadly perhaps more accurate.

“Climate skeptics have argued that global warming projections are unreliable because they depend on faulty supercomputer models,” said Bruno Tremblay, a professor in the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences at McGill University and co-author of a new study looking at the future state of the climate.

“While these criticisms are unwarranted, they underscore the need for independent and different approaches to predicting future warming.”

How much do you want to bet that neither the raw data nor the methodology will be shared? Of course, if they are using the smoothed/adjusted data from places like NOAA and the UK Met Office, this projection is unreliable.

The threshold for 1.5C of warming will be passed sometime between 2027 and 2042, they say – depending on what actions humanity takes. The IPCC’s estimate is 2052.

Under a best-case scenario, where emissions are phased out by 2100, the world has an 80 percent chance of keeping temperature rises below 1.5C this century, and a 97 percent chance of keeping it below 2C.

In the middle scenario – emissions rising to 2050, then falling to about half that level by 2100 – it’s almost certain we’ll pass 1.5C mid-century, and 94 percent likelihood of breaching 2K by 2100.

The third scenario – emissions keep rising through the 21st century – the 1.5C threshold will be breached in the 2030s or 2040s, and 2C in the 2050s.

The Medieval Warm Period and the Minoan Warm period (from around 1500 BC to 600 BC) were both way warmer than today, especially the latter. It’s debatable if the Roman Warm Period (O AD to about 550 AD) was as warm as now, but, it was pretty warm. Why? No fossil fueled vehicles, right? Reconstructions also show the possibility of the two warm periods prior to the Minoan were way, way warmer. Regardless, this is all about the Doom, trying to scare people into giving up their money and freedom. And, setting the stage that if some countries Do Something then their models won’t fail.

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Trump Calls COVID Package A Disgrace, Wants $2000 Checks To Citizens

By William Teach December 23, 2020 – 7:41 am

This isn’t out of the blue, as President Trump has mentioned wanting $2,000 relief payments since not long after the first COVID relief passed

Donald Trump demands bigger stimulus checks in $900 billion COVID-19 relief package passed by Congress

In an unexpected video posted to Twitter on Tuesday night, President Donald Trump denounced a sweeping COVID-19 relief package he was expected to sign, calling it a “disgrace” and urging congressional leaders to make several changes to the bill including increasing direct payments for Americans.

“It’s called the COVID relief bill, but it has almost nothing to do with COVID,” he said in a video posted just moments after he issued a raft of pardons for several allies. “I’m asking Congress to amend this bill and increase the ridiculously low $600 to $2,000 or $4,000 for a couple.”

The president stopped short of saying he would veto the bipartisan legislation but was expected to sign the measure alongside a $1.4 trillion spending bill to fund the government. Trump called on Congress to remove “wasteful and unnecessary items from this legislation,” appearing to conflate the relief bill with the government spending measure. (snip)

“I am also asking Congress to immediately get rid of the wasteful and unnecessary items from this legislation, and to send me a suitable bill, or else the next administration will have to deliver a Covid relief package,” Trump said. “And maybe that administration will be me, and we will get it done.”

Let’s be honest, most citizens are conflating the two measures, since they were joined and Congress voted on them together.

(Breitbart) Trump criticized the bill for extending direct coronavirus relief payments to family members of illegal aliens, getting up to $1,800 each.

“This is far more than the Americans are given,” Trump said.

The also president lamented that the bill also failed to provide substantial aid to restaurants and small businesses.

Trump berated members of Congress for failing to even read the massive bill before passing it quickly in the last hours before the Christmas holiday.

“It’s called the COVID relief bill, but it has almost nothing to do with COVID,” he said.

“Congress found plenty of money for foreign countries and lobbyists and special interests, while sending the bare minimum to the American people who need it,” Trump said.

Nancy Pelosi is in favor of the $2,000 payment, though, she, as House Speaker, didn’t work particularly hard to help the American people with the COVID relief bill. Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez are also on-board with the $2,000 payout. Congress could easily strip tens of billions, if not more, from the COVID relief and government spending measures to pay for this and help for small businesses and such.

Yes, it would be much better to open the economy, get people working, but, at this point, a lot of people are hurting because of the lockdowns and such.

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