United Nations Wants Every Nation To Declare A Climate Emergency, St. Greta Calls This ClimaVirtue Signaling

By William Teach December 14, 2020 – 7:59 am

St. Greta isn’t exactly wrong

UN secretary general urges all countries to declare climate emergencies

Governments around the world should all declare a state of climate emergency until the world has reached net zero carbon emissions, the UN secretary general, António Guterres, has told a summit of world leaders.

At least 38 countries have already declared such a state of emergency, often owing to their vulnerability to the impacts of climate breakdown, which are already being felt.

“Can anybody still deny that we are facing a dramatic emergency?” Guterres said on Saturday. “I urge all others to follow.”

Yes, lots of us can still say that. This is the same UN that was useless as Russia invaded Crimea and China abused freedom lovers in Hong Kong. The same UN that does little about slavery in Africa, jihadi groups capturing young girls, and is an Israel hater.

Declaring an emergency would require countries to step up their actions on greenhouse gas emissions urgently. An increasing number of governments have a target to reach net zero emissions by around mid-century, but few have detailed plans on how to get there.

Isn’t that what the Paris Climate Agreement was about?

Many countries are also pouring money into high-carbon activities as they strive to recover from the coronavirus crisis and recession. Guterres noted that G20 countries were spending 50% more in their stimulus packages on fossil fuels and carbon-intensive sectors than they were on low-carbon energy.

“This is unacceptable,” he told the online Climate Ambition Summit, co-hosted by the UN, the UK and France. “The trillions of dollars needed for Covid recovery is money that we are borrowing from future generations. This is a moral test. We cannot use these resources to lock in policies that burden future generations with a mountain of debt on a broken planet.”

In other words, the United Nations wants that money, and is prioritizing climate scam stuff over really helping people hurt by the China virus, as their WHO covered up for China multiple times.

Greta Thunberg calls out New Zealand Government for ‘so-called’ climate emergency declaration

Swedish environmental activist Greta Thunberg has called out the New Zealand Government for its “so-called” climate emergency declaration earlier this month.

In a tweet on Sunday (local time), the 17-year-old linked to a Newsroom opinion piece, arguing the Government’s declaration is merely virtue signalling unless it’s backed by immediate action to reduce the country’s carbon emissions.

“‘In other words, the Government has just committed to reducing less than 1 percent of the country’s emissions by 2025’,” Thunberg tweeted, quoting an excerpt from the article.

She continued: “Text explaining New Zealand’s so-called climate emergency declaration. This is of course nothing unique to any nation. #FightFor1Point5.”

They’ve upset St. Greta! She’s not wrong though, right? Most of the plans around the world are really more about climavirtue signaling than actually doing anything. Most have their plans Doing Something in the mid-2030’s to 2050, by which time they will be ignored in practice.

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Western States Approve COCID Vaccines Safety Separately From FDA

By William Teach December 14, 2020 – 7:43 am

Wait, I thought all these uber-Leftist states loved them some big, centralized government? No? They have to have their own review and approval of COVID vaccines? It’s almost like these people think themselves not part of the United States. Perhaps I’ve missed something in the news, but, I haven’t seen North Carolina or any other state run their own approval scheme, accepting FDA approval

COVID-19 vaccine clears key hurdle in California and across much of the West

The COVID-19 vaccine developed by Pfizer and BioNTech cleared another hurdle in California on Sunday when a working group of scientists and experts endorsed its safety.

The group, representing the states of California, Nevada, Oregon and Washington, reviewed the vaccine separately from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, which had issued emergency-use authorization on Friday. The group made its recommendation to the governors of the four states Sunday morning, officials said in a news release.

The move paved the way for vaccines to be distributed across the state. Officials expect the first shipments to arrive as soon as Monday, with more to follow later this month and in January.

“With shipments of the vaccine soon on their way to California,” Gov. Gavin Newsom said in a statement, “we are working hand-in-hand with local public health officials to get the vaccine out to the first phase of recipients.”

So, what if this panel wasn’t in line with the FDA, and didn’t give their full approval? Would that mean that the four Modern Socialist states wouldn’t take the vaccines for distribution?

News of the group’s recommendation came as conditions continued to deteriorate at California’s hospitals. There were 13,047 COVID-19 patients as of Saturday, according to data released by the state on Sunday. That’s a nearly sixfold increase from two months ago, when there were 2,226 patients.

Weird how this paradise of Listen To The Science is having such a tough time, eh? The San Francisco area is devastated, as is the whole of Los Angeles (the county, not the city). Southern California is bad, and it’s now starting to hit the suburbs.

Jay Inslee, the Democratic governor of Washington, said the review by the four states should help assure residents of the region.

“It was crucial that the Western states had their own independent review of the vaccine,” Inslee said in a statement, “so we can have additional confidence on its safety and efficacy before we start administering to the people of our states.”

The FDA isn’t good enough for Jay? Or is it that the loopy Modern Socialists who say to Trust The Science need even more government to approve the use of the vaccines so that these people take it when available?

Meanwhile, only 4 million out of 40 million Californians signed for for the COVID exposure alert system. I’m guessing they don’t really like Government tracking their own lives, just those of Someone Else.

And in Germany

(The Telegraph) Germany is set to enter a strict lockdown from Wednesday onwards due to the “exponential growth” in coronavirus cases, with restrictions on private gatherings and the closure of shops and schools.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel made the announcement in Berlin on Sunday after a consultation with state leaders, saying “we are forced to act and we are acting now”.

“With increasing mobility and additional contacts in the pre-Christmas period, Germany is now in exponential growth of infection numbers,” she said.

Mrs Merkel conceded that Germany’s so-called ‘lockdown light’, which began in November, has “not done enough” to curb rising infection rates across the country.

Germany was another nation which was authoritarian in its response in the late winter through spring, with mandates and closures and masks and stuff, and the people Comply (whether they want to or not), with law enforcement forcing compliance. Yet, they’re having a big resurgence.

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If All You See…

By William Teach December 13, 2020 – 1:00 pm

…is horrible carbon pollution created heat snow, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Irons In the Fire, with a post on the peasants not being sufficiently compliant.

It’s snow week!

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Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup

By William Teach December 13, 2020 – 9:21 am

Patriotic Pinup

Happy Sunday! Another gorgeous day in America. The Sun is shining, the geese are honking (I can hear them with the windows closed and the TV on), and less than two weeks to Christmas. This pinup is by Art Frahm, with a wee bit of help.

What is happening in Ye Olde Blogosphere? The Fine 15

  1. Weasel Zippers notes how many gun crimes suspects have been released in NYC
  2. Watcher of Weasels covers the values schism in the time of Wuhan
  3. Vox Popoli discusses a non-military war
  4. The Right Scoop features Allen B West’s response to SCOTUS blowing off the Texas election suit
  5. The People’s Cube has its Comrades of the Year
  6. The Other McCain discusses Eric Swalwell’s honey trap
  7. The Last Tradition wonders if Joe Biden will be China’s bitch
  8. The First Street Journal notes blacks in Philly protesting the police and also complaining about crime
  9. The Feral Irishman covers “the chair is against the wall”
  10. White House Dossier notes Trump creating more peace in the Middle East
  11. Raised On Hoecakes discusses what one of those “evil” police officers did
  12. Powerline notes that the higher education meltdown is here
  13. Pacific Pundit highlights the crowd at the Army-Navy game loving Trump (you can bet Biden won’t get this type of response if he goes)
  14. MOTUS A.D. has some Sunday holiday fun
  15. And last, but not least, Moonbattery covers a sickly Santa being featured in NHS propaganda

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.

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?

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ClimaPope Links COVID And Climate Scam, Calls For Net Zero By 2050

By William Teach December 13, 2020 – 8:08 am

Pope Francis has been deep in the Cult of Climastrology camp since he took his position, spending more time yapping about ‘climate change’ than seemingly stuff that supports the beliefs of the Catholic church and the Bible. Now, like so many high ranking poobahs in the CoC, he is linking COVID and ‘climate change’, because, let’s face it, unlike the peons he doesn’t have to worry about having his own life negatively effected by the policies

Pope Francis Calls for ‘Net-Zero Emissions’ Plan to Beat Climate Change

Pope Francis tied together the coronavirus pandemic and climate change Saturday, insisting that both crises have ethical, social, economic, and political relevance.

In a video message for Saturday’s “High Level Virtual Climate Ambition Summit,” organized by the United Nations, Great Britain, and France, in collaboration with Chile and Italy, to commemorate the fifth anniversary of the adoption of the Paris Climate Accord, the pontiff reiterated his summons for greater efforts to combat global warming.

There are a number of “measures that cannot be put off any longer,” the pope said, including “a net-zero emissions strategy.”

“The current pandemic and climate change, which have not only an environmental relevance, but also an ethical, social, economic, and political relevance, have an impact, above all, on the lives of the poorest and most fragile,” Francis said, in an address delivered in his native Spanish.

The pope articulated the commitment of the Vatican on two levels, one for the Vatican City State itself and one for the Holy See in its role as global teacher.

“The Vatican City State commits to reducing net emissions to zero by 2050,” he said, “by intensifying ongoing environmental management efforts that have been in place for some years to enable the rational use of natural resources such as water and energy, energy efficiency, sustainable mobility, reforestation, and the circular economy also in waste management.”

Secondly, “the Holy See is committed to promoting education for comprehensive ecology,” Francis said. “Political and technical measures must be linked to an educational process that promotes a cultural model of development and sustainability focused on fraternity and the alliance between human beings and the environment.”

Secondly, sounds like the ClimaPope wants indoctrination into CoC beliefs. First, why is he waiting till 2050 for the Vatican City State to go net zero? Start doing it hardcore right now. He could

  • Fully embrace solar power, and get power from nothing else but solar and wind (in fairness, the city/state has been called the greenest state)
  • Restrict the use of all fossil fueled vehicles in the city starting now. All deliveries must be by non-fossil fueled vehicles, no PopeMobile, no scooters, no bringing in anything or anyone by fossil fueled vehicle. Which still leaves the problem of fossil fuels used to the gates of the Vatican city
  • Tell people to stop taking long, fossil fueled flights to Italy to visit the Vatican
  • No meat being available anywhere in the city
  • Start sending a huge chunk of money to the UN
  • Pope France and everyone who lives in Vatican City should no longer take fossil fueled flights around the world.

Like most nations, the Vatican has plans for 30 years down the road, because they want Other People to be forced to live the Cult’s life, not themselves.

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Al Gore Gives Us Doubleshot Of Whine About ‘Climate Change’ And Election 2000

By William Teach December 12, 2020 – 6:04 pm

See, we can totally reclaim America’s standing with Modern Socialist nations cracking down on their citizens while the Elites refuse to reduce their own carbon footprints, nations with a heck of a lot fewer speech, protest, and press protections

Al Gore: Where I Find Hope
The Biden administration will have the opportunity to restore confidence in America and take on the worsening climate crisis.

This weekend marks two anniversaries that, for me, point a way forward through the accumulated wreckage of the past year.

The first is personal. Twenty years ago, I ended my presidential campaign after the Supreme Court abruptly decided the 2000 election. As the incumbent vice president, my duty then turned to presiding over the tallying of Electoral College votes in Congress to elect my opponent. This process will unfold again on Monday as the college’s electors ratify America’s choice of Joe Biden as the next president, ending a long and fraught campaign and reaffirming the continuity of our democracy.

Well, Dem voters still whine about this, saying the election was stolen, so, I guess Gore can whine about it 20 years on, eh?

The second anniversary is universal and hopeful. This weekend also marks the fifth anniversary of the adoption of the Paris Agreement. One of President Trump’s first orders of business nearly four years ago was to pull the United States out of the accord, signed by 194 other nations to reduce the emissions of greenhouse gases threatening the planet. With Mr. Trump heading for the exit, President-elect Biden plans to rejoin the agreement on his Inauguration Day, Jan. 20.

Now, with Mr. Biden about to take up residence in the White House, the United States has the chance to reclaim America’s leadership position in the world after four years in the back seat.

Would this be the same Paris Climate Agreement that almost no nation is even close to being in compliance with?

Anyhow, The Goracle also mentions COVID and inequality stuff and

What lies before us is the opportunity to build a more just and equitable way of life for all humankind. This potential new beginning comes at a rare moment when it may be possible to break the stranglehold of the past over the future, when the trajectory of history might be altered by what we choose to do with a new vision.

Ever notice that these Elites always want to build things, and do not give a flying shit about the opinions of the people they are building it for? Why would we want the Government building our economy?

Mr. Biden will take office at a time when humankind faces the choice of life over death. Two years ago, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change warned of severe consequences — coastal inundations and worsening droughts, among other catastrophes — if greenhouse gas emissions are not reduced by 45 percent from 2010 levels by 2030 and 100 percent by 2050.

Life or death, people! Life or death!

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If All You See…

By William Teach December 12, 2020 – 1:00 pm

…is climate change death coming for us all without a carbon tax, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Flopping Aces, with a post on watching history happen.

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Activists Livid That Tulsi Gabbard Is Supporting Bill Protecting Women In Sports From “Trans Women”

By William Teach December 12, 2020 – 10:30 am

At what point do actual, real, biological women start to realize that the Democratic Party mostly puts a tiny number of people with mental health issues over real, biological women? That the Democrats do not have the best interests of real, biological women at heart? That Democrats have relegated real, biological women’s interests to well below that of the tiny number of gender confused men who want to compete as women, often because they cannot compete against men?

For Her Final Act, Tulsi Gabbard Is Promoting A Bill That Threatens Trans Women In Sports

While she might be ending her final term in Congress in just several short weeks, former presidential candidate and Representative Tulsi Gabbard partnered up with Representative Markwayne Mullin to introduce a new bill before she says goodbye — and it has a deeply transphobic twist. H.R. 8932, entitled the Protect Women’s Sports Act, seeks to limit women’s collegiate sports programs to only people assigned female at birth. “Title IX was designed to give women and girls an equal chance to succeed, including in sports. Allowing biological males to compete in women’s sports diminishes that equality and takes away from the original intent of Title IX,” Gabbard said in a statement.

But this is only the latest attempt to prevent transgender athletes from competing in sports according to their true gender as opposed to their gender assigned at birth — or what Gabbard has referred to as “biological sex.” In September, Republican Senator Kelly Loeffler paired up with Tom Cotton and several other senators to propose another transphobic bill, the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act. That bill similarly aimed to make it a violation of Title IX protections for any educational institution that receives federal funds to allow transgender women to participate in women’s sports.

Good for Tulsi. Why should actual, real women have to compete against biological men in their sports, so often losing to the “trans women”, which has a real world implication of losing scholarships and wins which they would have earned? They shouldn’t have to

Additionally, a law that bans trans athletes from participating in school sports also passed in Idaho. However, a preliminary injunction was granted to stop the bill from doing irreversible harm. In June, the Supreme Court also decided that under the Civil Rights Act, discrimination on the basis of gender identity is classified alongside sex discrimination.

Akin to Loeffler’s bill, Gabbard’s new bill introduced would also make it a violation for schools that receive federal funding to “permit a person whose biological sex at birth is male to participate in an athletic program or activity that is designated for women or girls.” If it were to become law, it would make it impossible for trans women to play women’s sports. So far, advocates have come out in droves to denounce the harm that the Protect Women’s Sports Act could do. “Dare I say that women’s sports may benefit from actual protection like resources, equal pay, training, support. Stop weaponizing your fear of transness to hurt all women,” said Chase Strangio, an ACLU lawyer and trans advocate.

Gotta love how the activists say that protecting “trans women” so they can beat real women in competitions is somehow protecting real women.

What is perhaps just as alarming is the fact that Gabbard may be the only (technical) Democrat to promote anti-trans legislation like this.

I bet most people beyond the “activists” think of this as promoting protection of real women.

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Surprise: Canada To Raise Carbon Tax Prices

By William Teach December 12, 2020 – 7:34 am

Interestingly, the same government applying the cultish taxation scheme isn’t really giving up its own use of fossil fuels and such, because it would be really difficult to run a government in the cold and snowy conditions of Canada without them. See how well your Tesla does next time Canada gets a big snowstorm

Canada to boost carbon price to fight climate change, Ontario premier blasts “green scam”

Canada plans to steadily ramp up its price on carbon as part of a program to fight climate change, the government said on Friday, prompting praise from green groups often critical of Ottawa’s record.

Canada, which has missed every one of its emissions targets, is relying heavily on the measure to help meet 2030 commitments. Starting in 2023, the price will go up by C$15 ($11.70) per tonne a year from the current C$30 until it hits C$170 in 2030.

“The cleaner your economy, the faster and stronger it will grow,” Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told reporters. The majority of the proceeds are returned directly to individuals and families through rebates.

Canada, a vast cold country that is also a major crude exporter, has struggled to control emissions of greenhouse gases that are widely blamed for global warming.

If the cleaner is faster and stronger thing is real, then why hasn’t Canada, and so many other Warmist led nations, simply just instituted all the climarules immediately? Why is everything out 10+ years? Why not implement the raised tax right now? Why is it that the governments and politicians pushing this stuff don’t change their own behavior?

The premier of Ontario, the most populous of the 10 provinces, called the announcement a “green scam” that would cripple an economy struggling to cope with the coronavirus.

“This carbon tax is going to be the worst thing you could ever see,” Doug Ford told reporters.

“You don’t have to protect the environment on the backs of the hardworking people of this province … at a time when people are barely holding on by their fingernails.”

Because cults don’t care about people, they care about people complying.

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The Atlantic: Republicans Need To Just Shut Up And Accept China Joe’s Win

By William Teach December 12, 2020 – 7:17 am

The next thing the leftist news media will tell us is that we are required to get behind China Joe’s policies, otherwise we Hate Democracy

Republicans Are Going Down a Dangerous Road

Even with the Supreme Court still deciding whether to consider a last-ditch legal effort to invalidate the results from the key swing states, there appears little chance that Trump will succeed in subverting Joe Biden’s victory. But Trump’s failure on that front has obscured his success at enlisting a growing swath of his party to join his cause—a dynamic that is already prompting new Republican efforts to make it more difficult to vote and raising concerns about the party’s commitment to the basic tenets of Western democratic rules and conventions, including the peaceful transfer of power.

“Where their hearts are is hard to know, but their behavior is not small-d democratic,” Susan Stokes, a political-science professor and the director of the Chicago Center on Democracy at the University of Chicago, told me.

Stokes, like other experts, says the Republican Party is on a continuum toward the kind of “democratic erosion” visible in other countries, including Turkey under Recep Erdoğan, Hungary under Viktor Orbán, or, in the most extreme example, Russia under Vladimir Putin. In those nations, a party that wins office through a democratic election then seeks to use state power to tilt or completely undermine future elections.

“With one of our political parties trying to overturn the results of a free and fair election, we are way farther down that road now than we were before the election, or a year ago,” she told me. Republicans “have been going down that road all through Trump’s term, but this is the parting gift, which is more extreme than what has happened before.”

What follows is The Atlantic’s Ronald Browstein being upset that Republicans have tried to enforce the notion of one person one vote and that we should require proof that the person voting is actually that person, along with all the complaints of election fraud that have been alleged by Republicans for the 2020 election. Because trying to ensure election intergrity is just dumb, right? Because the enormous amount of election irregularities, bad software, ballots just appearing out of thin air, election watchers being kept away, counts being restarted after watchers went home, etc and so on, you know the drill, is just silly. No one should ever contest anything, right?

It’s all very interesting, because we were treated to 8 years of Democrats proclaiming that George W. Bush stole the 2000 and 2004 elections, and refereed to him as pResident and “not my president”. They then spent 4 years proclaiming that Trump was an illegitimate president because Russia stole the election for him, that he was an agent of Vladimir Putin. They wanted him impeached even before he took office. They figured out a way to get a several years long special council investigation, and still wouldn’t accept the results when it turned out their Russia Russia Russia meme was a bunch of mule fritters.

But, see, Republicans are just supposed to accept China Joe.

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