Canada Makes COVID Tests Mandatory For International Flyers

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

A shade of things to come, where all flights require COVID tests, not just international arrivals? Also, isn’t Canada about 8 months too late? (misspelling of travelers not mine)

What You Need To Know About Canada’s New COVID-19 Test Requirements For International Travellers

The Canadian government has just announced that pre-departure COVID-19 testing and proof of negative results are now required for all air travellers coming into Canada as of January 7, 2021.

The news release states that “The COVID-19 pandemic has created a global crisis that is having a significant impact on the air industry and all travellers. The Government of Canada has multiple measures in place to protect the health and safety of Canadians, and to help prevent air travel from being a source of further introduction and spread of COVID-19 and new variants of the virus into Canada. Since March 13, 2020, the Government of Canada has strongly advised against non-essential travel, and that travel restrictions and measures can be amended at any time as necessary for public health reasons.”

However, these measures have proven not as effective as the government would like so that is why the Minister of Transport, the Honourable Marc Garneau, is requiring that, effective January 7, 2021, at 12:01 a.m. EST, all air passengers five years of age or older will be required to test negative for COVID-19 before travelling from another country to Canada. It’s believed that waiting until January 7 will provide all airlines, both foreign and domestic, adequate time to comply with the new requirements.

According to the press release: “Documentation of a negative laboratory test result must be presented to the airline prior to boarding a flight to Canada. The test must be performed using a COVID-19 molecular polymerase chain reaction (or PCR) test and must be taken within 72 hours prior to the traveller’s scheduled departure to Canada.”

The PCR test is the more invasive “stick it way up your nose or in your throat” test, vs the rapid test which just goes about half an inch up your nose. On one hand, you can completely understand the caution, on the other hand, it’s January 2021, why is this suddenly important now? One would have thought it would have been important months and months ago. Is this a precursor to more movement crackdowns? Or just a one off?

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Climate Change (scam) Could Doom Amazon By 2064 Or Something

By William Teach January 2, 2021 – 7:05 am

Another day, another prognostication of Doom. But, hey, we can stop this with a tax and you giving up your liberty, freedom, and choice

Amazon Rainforest to reach ‘tipping point before 2064’ and 25% will be destroyed – study

The Amazon rainforest is the world’s largest tropical rainforest, famed for its sheer size and diversity of species. However, the outlook for the tropical rainforest is looking increasingly uncertain, according to landmark new University of Florida research.

The study reveals much of the expansive area is caught between rapidly-accelerating resource exploitation and climate change-fuelled fires.

Lengthening dry periods will soon not allow the necessary five-year window of respite between dry seasons.

This will not allow rainforest canopies to recover from fires, encouraging the invasion of more flammable vegetation.

Dr Robert T Walker, a University of Florida geologist, said: “Southern Amazonia can expect to reach a tipping point sometime before 2064 at the current rate of dry-season lengthening.”

Now, see, if this does come to pass, the people involved in the study can say “see!” And when it doesn’t come to pass they’ll say “the policies government’s enacted stopped this!” And, in the meantime, they can get more funding from the taxpayers, and take fossil fueled trips down to the Amazon.

The number of Amazon rainforest fires in 2020 had exceeded the previous year’s fire season by October.

Yeah, and most of those were intentionally set, especially by those who are, sadly, clearcutting the Amazon, not because of the climate. We’re not dealing with rational people, we’re dealing with a doomsday cult.

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Iran Threatens Trump, Those Involved In Killing Soleimani

By William Teach January 2, 2021 – 6:49 am

General Soleimani was a very bad man, in charge of operations that killed scores of Americans, plus civilians and military members from throughout the Middle East. Of course, the Trump haters took the side of Iran when President Trump authorized his assassination. Interestingly, almost no news services have covered Iran’s threats other than Fox News and the Times Of Israel. One would think that a nation threatening the President of The United States would be important news, eh?

Iran says killers of top general Soleimani, including Trump, ‘not safe on Earth’

Iran’s judiciary chief warned Friday that Qassem Soleimani’s killers will “not be safe on Earth,” as the Islamic Republic began marking the first anniversary of the top general’s assassination in a US strike.

Ebrahim Raisi, speaking at an event in Tehran to pay tribute to Soleimani, said not even US President Donald Trump, who ordered the strike, was “immune from justice.”

Soleimani was killed in a US drone strike at Baghdad airport on January 3, 2020, ratcheting up tensions between decades-old enemies the United States and Iran.

“They will witness severe revenge. What has come so far has only been glimpses” of it, Raisi told the gathering at Tehran University.

“Do not presume that someone, as the president of America, who appeared as a murderer or ordered a murder, may be immune from justice being carried out. Never,” he said. “Those who had a role in this assassination and crime will not be safe on Earth.”

So, just wondering if China Joe will warn Iran not to mess with Trump and other Americans, not to attempt to harm/kill any of them, or will he blow their threats off in an attempt to curry Iran’s favor to reinstate Obama’s Iran Deal, which Iran is reneging on

Iran Tells U.N. Agency It Will Enrich Uranium Back To Pre-Nuclear Deal Level Of 20%

Iran says it intends to start enriching uranium to 20% at its Fordow nuclear facility, exceeding regulations set by the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action known as the Iran nuclear deal, as first reported by Reuters. Iran has previously suggested this increase could be a possibility.

The nuclear deal includes regulations that Iran cannot enrich uranium past 3.67% and that it specifically cannot conduct any enrichment at Fordow, which is located beneath a mountain near the city of Qom.

Iran has already breached parts of the agreement since the Trump administration withdrew in 2018, including increasing enrichment of uranium to 4.5%. Bringing enrichment to 20% would be the highest the country has gone since the agreement was established in 2015. In order to manufacture a nuclear weapon, it must hit 90%. (snip)

The law also vows to stop U.N. nuclear facility inspections if oil and banking sanctions on Iran are not removed by February.

Even if Trump pulled the U.S. out, all the other nations were still in it and giving Iran what they want. Now Iran wants more, and will demand sanctions be removed and threaten the increases in uranium enrichment and stopping inspections if they don’t get it, which is all probably aimed at China Joe as he takes office (yeah, it’s going to happen unless some big, whopping evidence is shown). And Iran is threatening Trump and the others. What does China Joe do? Kowtow to Iran, or defend Americans? Especially since Iran has consistently trotted out their “Death to America” stuff, even after Obama signed the Iran Deal.

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A New Year’s Prediction Challenge For Climate Alarmists

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

Happy New Year’s! Welcome to 2021, and a new decade. And one year closer to End Of Life As We Know it. 2150 and 2200 are fast approaching, the primary dates that the climate alarmists always want to use to denote when Earth is going to burn, baby, burn in fire, dan dan daaaan, fire, dan dan daaaaan.

New Year’s is usually a time when we make resolutions which we abandon when we realize that chocolate, bacon, and beer are great (and bacon cooked in beer and covered with chocolate!) In the blogosphere, we often make predictions for the New Year. Instead, how about a challenge?

For a long time, the alarmists have been making predictions as to what the climate will do. They say in 10 years, 50, 100. Instead, why not, say, make predictions for……2021! What I want for them to do, from the biggest of big climahypocrites, such as Al Gore, James Hansen, Barack Obama, and Leonardo DiCaprio, to the smallest climate dupes, is tell us exactly what the climate will do this year. For some of these questions, I’m using the USA, but, alarmists from around the world can use their own country/region, if they like:

  • What will the average temperature of the Earth be for 2021? Most scientists place it at 59 degrees F (15 C). How far above, or below, will it be?
  • What will the average temperature be for the USA?  The rough average for the USA is 53 F.
  • How many tropical systems will there be in the Atlantic? How many will hit the USA?
  • What will the four seasons do in 2021? Warmer, colder, hotter, wetter? Tell us
  • What will each month look like in the USA? How about in your home state?
  • Which months will be above average, and which ones below, temperature wise?
  • What states will have big floods, and during what months?
  • What will tornado season look like?
  • How many destructive thunderstorms will there be, and in which states?
  • How many “extreme” weather events will there be?
  • How much ice will the poles gain/lose?
  • Will the Arctic be ice free this summer?
  • What will the average precipitation be for your home city? Average temperature? Average low’s and highs?
  • How many earthquakes will there be (since, apparently, climate change/globull warming creates earthquakes)?
  • Pick an island, and tell us how much the sea will rise around it.

There are many, many, many more questions that can be asked, but, I know what the alarmists are thinking: “Teach, that is weather, not climate! I refuse to participate!” Ah, but, what, exactly, is climate? Let’s pull a couple good definitions

  • Climate encompasses the statistics of temperature, humidity, atmospheric pressure, wind, rainfall, atmospheric particle count and numerous other meteorological elements in a given region over long periods of time
  • Climate is the average weather conditions at a particular place over a long period of time. Climate is the long-term predictable state of the atmosphere. It is affected by physical features such as mountains, rivers, positioning of the globe, plateaus, deserts, depressions and much more.
  • The general or typical atmospheric conditions for a place and/or period of time. Conditions include rainfall, temperature, thunderstorms, lightning, freezes, etc.

Notice, “long term predictable.” Weather and other natural forces create climate. And right now the alarmists are saying “but, Teach, one year is not considered to be a “long period of time!”” Well, you have plenty of data available for the long term, and, with all your vast knowledge of what the climate is doing, due to man’s release of greenhouse gases, surely you alarmists can make predictions for 2021 based on that long term data, and be mostly correct, right? Surely, you aren’t afraid to make predictions for this year, and tell us what the climate during 2021 will do, right? But, you have to make your predictions, and can’t go back and change them up as the year goes on. And at the end of the year, we will see how well you have done.

Any alarmist up for the challenge? And no cheating be reading the Farmer’s Almanac, which tends to be right way more than the Met, NASA, UN IPCC, and other alarmist groups are. Forget about your PR blitzes, “spreading awareness” campaigns, your advocacy, your stunts, and tell us what will happen. If you’re correct, for a change, maybe people will start to believe you again.

Oh, and a second challenge: live your life in 2021 in the manner you tell everyone else to live. Change your life. Buy an electric vehicle, ditching your use of fossil fuels. Demand your high poobahs in the Cult of Climastrology practice what they preach. Start with China Joe.

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If All You See…

By William Teach January 1, 2021 – 1:00 pm

…are horrible carbon pollution driven storm clouds, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Bunkerville, with a post on Portland, the new Venezuela.

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Trump Admin Votes Against UN’s Israel Hatred Agenda

By William Teach January 1, 2021 – 10:30 am

One thing you can say about the Trump administration, they’ve come out hard in favor of our ally Israel over the past four years. And they continue to do that

In Late Trump Salvo, US Rejects UN Budget Over Israel, Iran

President Donald Trump’s outgoing administration on Thursday fired a late salvo against the United Nations by voting against its budget, citing disagreements on Israel and Iran, but it found virtually no international support.

Only Israel voted with the United States, with 167 nations in favor, as the General Assembly closed the year by approving the $3.231 billion U.N. budget for 2021.

Kelly Craft, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, voiced objections that the budget would fund a 20th anniversary event for the 2001 U.N. conference on racism in Durban, South Africa, where the United States walked out in solidarity with Israel over what it said was a fixation by Muslim-majority countries against the Jewish state.

The United States, the biggest funder of the U.N., “called for this vote to make clear that we stand by our principles, stand up for what is right and never accept consensus for consensus’s sake,” Craft said on the General Assembly floor.

“Twenty years on, there remains nothing about the Durban Declaration to celebrate or to endorse. It is poisoned by anti-Semitism and anti-Israel bias,” she said.

Israel’s ambassador to the U.N., Gilad Erdan, said that the Durban conference “will become another meeting demonizing the Jewish state — it will be used once again to slander us and to launch false accusations of racism against Jewish self-determination.”

The United Nations has long been an anti-Israel and anti-Jew organization, and that won’t change anytime soon. But, Trump’s moves with establishing peace between Israel and multiple Muslim nations has done a world of good. The question now becomes “what does the China Joe administration do?” Will Joe start catering to Iran like Obama did while blowing off Israel? Will Joe start abusing our relationship with Israel, constantly denigrating them, as his hardcore Progressive base wants to do, because Democrats tend to be anti-Israel, which has morphed into Jew hatred?

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Wonder Woman 1984 Is All About Climate Crisis (scam) Or Something

By William Teach January 1, 2021 – 8:43 am

This is, again, what is called Climarette’s, similar to Tourette’s, but, while the latter is a natural disorder, the former is driven by mental illness from the beliefs of a doomsday cult, where they just cannot help dragging their cult into everything

‘Wonder Woman 1984’: Patty Jenkins Says the Movie Is Secretly About ‘Climate Change’

The director of Wonder Woman 1984, Patty Jenkins, recently spoke about the real meaning behind her 2020 film. According to the filmmaker, the new Wonder Woman movie has to do with climate change.

“I wanted to do a full-blown Wonder Woman movie,” Jenkins recently told The New York Times about the 2020 sequel. “But what I really wanted to talk about was what I was feeling is happening in the world.”

While at first glance, Wonder Woman 1984 is a comic-book movie without much to say about current events, Jenkins claims: there’s more under the surface. However, she was hesitant to admit her vision behind the film in the interview.

“Not to get too heavy about it — I don’t want people to even know it’s about climate change,” Jenkins revealed to The Times. “But we’re about to lose this world.”

Bet you’re super excited to watch it now, eh? Reminds me of the movie The Predator, the recent one with Olivia Munn. The pulled that same card, and the movie tanked. It’s actually not bad, right up to near the end where they yap about Hotcoldwetdry. If forgot about it when I re-watched it last week. Massive eye roll. So, it’s no wonder Jenkins wanted to keep this quiet, because it would ruin the box office, and, really, does anyone want their climate cult lectures during COVID?

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COVID “Model” California Now A Massive Mule Fritters Show Of Contagion

By William Teach January 1, 2021 – 8:26 am

Remember when so many states wanted to follow the California model? How the media said California, a state run lock, stock, and barrel by Democrats, was Doing It Right when it came to bat soup virus? All the lockdowns, restrictions, police arresting people out and about who weren’t anywhere near another human being? You know the hit parade. Now?

Once a model, California now struggles to tame COVID-19

Ambulances waited hours for openings to offload coronavirus patients. Overflow patients were moved to hospital hallways and gift shops, even a cafeteria. Refrigerated trucks were on standby, ready to store the dead.

For months, California did many of the right things to avoid a catastrophic surge from the pandemic. But by the time Gov. Gavin Newsom said on Dec. 15 that 5,000 body bags were being distributed, it was clear that the nation’s most populous state had entered a new phase of the COVID-19 crisis.

Now infections have been racing out of control for weeks, and California has routinely set new records for infections and deaths. It remains at or near the top of the list of states with the most new cases per capita.

Experts say a variety of factors combined to wipe out the past efforts, which for much of the year held the virus to manageable levels. Cramped housing, travel and Thanksgiving gatherings contributed to the spread, along with the public’s fatigue amid regulations that closed many schools and businesses and encouraged — or required — an isolated lifestyle.

Perhaps all those liberals in California are just not wearing their masks, right? Right! California is basically looking like Italy in March/April.

Another factor could be a more contagious variant of the virus detected in Southern California, although it’s not clear yet how widespread that may be.

Seems as if that’s just an excuse to shift the blame from Gov Gavin Newsome and other politicians.

California’s woes have helped fuel the year-end U.S. infection spike and added urgency to the attempts to beat back the scourge that has killed more than 340,000 Americans. Even with vaccines becoming available, cases are almost certain to continue growing, and yet another surge is expected in the weeks after Christmas and New Year’s.

The article does attempt to offer reasons, such as very dense housing, but, there are plenty of areas in the nation, and the world, where they have dense housing and not this big of a problem.

In March, during the early days of the pandemic, Newsom was hailed for issuing the nation’s first state stay-home order.

The Democrat eased business restrictions in May, and when a broader restart led to another surge, imposed more rules. In early December, with cases out of control, he issued a looser stay-home order. He also closed businesses such as barbershops and salons, halted restaurant dining and limited capacity in retail stores. The latest restrictions apply everywhere except in rural Northern California.

But Dr. Lee Riley, an infectious diseases professor at the University of California at Berkeley, said that while the state managed to flatten the curve of rising cases, it never effectively bent the curve downward to the point infections would die out.

Thing is, it was never going to stop it, just delay the inevitable. Yes, things were very much in flux early on. We know slightly more now. But, really, we knew enough to not have to deal with the authoritarian lockdowns, and the whole world which pulled these dictatorial craziness are dealing with a massive resurgence.

Masks? How’s that working out? Now it’s just time to wait for the vaccine, which is coming

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Climate Cultists Demand Removal Of Politician For Wrongthink

By William Teach December 31, 2020 – 7:29 pm

We apparently cannot remove politicians for sending COVID patients to nursing homes, instead giving them awards. Nor for misusing their offices, major campaign finance offenses, and more. Nope. But, Wrongthink?

Pennsylvania lawmaker subject of removal petition over climate change views

Butler County Rep. Daryl Metcalfe, one of the General Assembly’s most conservative members with a habit of sponsoring impeachment resolutions, now faces a removal petition of his own.

The Better Path Coalition asked House Speaker Bryan Cutler, R-Lancaster, to remove Metcalfe as majority chairman of the House Environmental Resources and Energy Committee this week over his views on climate change.

“A minimum qualification of the person who wields the most power on climate policy in the legislature is that they accept climate change,” said the coalition in a letter signed by 42 other groups opposed to his chairmanship and delivered to Cutler this week. “Metcalfe is an unabashed climate denier.”

Karen Feridun, co-founder of the coalition, said 70 percent of residents support climate action as the toll of weather-related disasters grows more severe each year. In 2020 alone, such natural disaster have cost the country $16 billion, the coalition said.

OK, they just want him gone from the committee, which seems to be about the environment and energy, real issues, not the climate crisis scam

“Speaker Cutler has no choice but to seize this opportunity to name a chair who has the skills and the basic understanding of science needed to address the unfolding climate crisis,” she said.

Oh, he has many choices, and the one he will probably take is for the climate cultist Democrats to go pound sand.

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If All You See…

By William Teach December 31, 2020 – 1:00 pm

…is an Evil gas fireplace causing big winter storms from carbon pollution, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Blazing Cat Fur, with a post on the year Big Tech became the ministry of truth.

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