If All You See…

By William Teach May 20, 2020 – 1:00 pm

…is coffee that will soon be too expensive for most people to drink due to carbon pollution, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is The Other McCain, with a post on the Battle of Atillis Gym.

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University Of California Divests From Fossil Fuels

By William Teach May 20, 2020 – 10:30 am

The divestment craze continues. Guess who will pay for the loss of all that revenue from their portfolio?

UC becomes nation’s largest university to divest fully from fossil fuels

The University of California announced Tuesday that it has fully divested from all fossil fuels, the nation’s largest educational institution to do so as campaigns to fight climate change through investment strategies proliferate at campuses across the country.

The UC milestone capped a five-year effort to move the public research university system’s $126-billion portfolio into more environmentally sustainable investments, such as wind and solar energy. UC officials say their strategy is grounded in concerns about the planet’s future and in what makes financial sense.

“As long-term investors, we believe the university and its stakeholders are much better served by investing in promising opportunities in the alternative energy field rather than gambling on oil and gas,” Richard Sherman, chair of the UC Board of Regents’ investments committee, said in a statement.

The movement against fossil fuels has mushroomed to encompass more than 1,100 faith, educational, government, corporate and nonprofit institutions with $14 trillion in assets in the last decade, according to 350.org, a global climate justice organization. Among them, more than 50 universities have committed to full or partial divestment.

One question every reporter writing these articles forgets to ask is “well, are you going to stop using fossil fuels for your institutional functions?” Because there is no mention from UC that they are going to replace all their fossil fueled vehicles, and fossil fueled travel for things like their sports teams.

At UC, students began organizing for divestment across all 10 campuses in 2012 and formed Fossil Free UC with staff, faculty and alumni. A major win came in 2017, when UC Santa Barbara Chancellor Henry Yang became the first campus leader to endorse divestment following a three-day occupation of the administration building, according to an account by two UC Santa Barbara students.

Remember this from England

And when the kiddies said the response was flippant, the professor replied “It is all too easy to request others to things that carry no personal cost to yourself.” Well, there doesn’t seem to be any sort of personal cost for the UC system or the kids. Or, is there?

In all fairness, this is also due to the massive revenue loss from Coronavirus in multiple ways. Kids aren’t happy, though. Will they be more happy when the revenue from divestment is lost? It won’t be coming back from “green” investments. UC should ban all fossil fueled vehicles from campus. That would be fair, right?

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“Carbon Emissions” Dropped 17% During Bat Soup Pandemic

By William Teach May 20, 2020 – 8:43 am

That’s good news for climahysterics, isn’t it? Of course, they are all Very Concerned that people will start living modern lives again soon (there are lots of charts at the Washington Post link)

Global emissions plunged an unprecedented 17 percent during the coronavirus pandemic

The wave of shutdowns and shuttered economies caused by the coronavirus pandemic fueled a momentous decline in global greenhouse gas emissions, although one unlikely to last, a group of scientists reported Tuesday.

As infections surged in March and April, nations worldwide experienced an abrupt reduction in driving, flying and industrial output, leading to a startling decline of more than 1 billion tons of carbon dioxide emissions. That includes a peak drop in daily emissions of 17 percent in early April, according to the study, published in the journal Nature Climate Change. For some nations, the falloff was much steeper.

Scientists have long insisted that the world must scale back carbon pollution significantly — and quickly — to mitigate the worst effects of climate change over the coming decades, although none have suggested that a deadly global pandemic is the way to do so.

Tuesday’s study projects that total emissions for 2020 will probably fall between 4 and 7 percent compared with last year — an unheard-of drop in normal times but considerably less dramatic than the decline during the first few months of the year, when economies screeched to a halt. The final 2020 figure will depend on how rapidly, or cautiously, people around the world resume ordinary life.

The unprecedented situation produced by the coronavirus has offered a glimpse at the massive cuts in global emissions, year after year, that would be required to meet the most ambitious goals set by world leaders when they forged the 2015 Paris climate accord. Last fall, a United Nations report estimated that global greenhouse gas emissions must begin falling by 7.6 percent each year beginning in 2020 to avoid the worst effects of climate change.

Have you enjoyed your test drive of a Modern Socialist world where their ‘climate change’ policies are enacted? Being locked down? Law enforcement pulling you over during your few drives to check where you’re going? Telling you you cannot go to your vacation home? Being told who is essential and who isn’t? Telling you where you can go and when? What activities are allowed? What you are allowed to purchase?

Tuesday’s study underscores how far the world remains from that long-term aspiration. The forced plunge in greenhouse gas emissions in recent months, while extraordinary, returned carbon pollution only to levels last seen in 2006. And the changes are unlikely to last.

Warmists want to put you further in the hole.

Although some aspects of life may change in the wake of the pandemic — more people working remotely, fewer people commuting and taking frequent plane trips — individual changes are unlikely to make much of a long-term mark on emissions, said Zeke Hausfather, a scientist and director of climate and energy at the Breakthrough Institute.

“Unless anything structurally changes, we can expect emissions to go back to where they were before this whole thing happened,” he said.

Structural, meaning Government dictating your life. Interestingly, here’s the BBC News article on the same subject of the emissions drop

“A big worry that people will naturally want to go back to their cars to go to work, and that could rebound the emissions to the same level or even higher than before, once everybody goes back,” said Prof Corinne Le Quéré from the University of East Anglia, who led the analysis.

The researchers say that fundamental, systemic change is needed if the emissions curve is to be flattened in a way that would limit the very worst impacts of climate change.

Interestingly, most of these same climate cult scientists refuse to give up their own use of fossil fueled travel. They just want government to restrict yours, along with the rest of your life.

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Senate Democrats Seem Upset That GOP Is Probing Obama Era Abuses

By William Teach May 20, 2020 – 8:11 am

If you’ll remember, Democrats were calling to impeach Trump even before he took office, and formalized that process once he took the oath of office. They’ve wanted, and held, investigations into Trump firing public employees, most particularly appointees, who serve at the pleasure of the President. You name it, Democrats want to investigate it. And they spent years on their Russia Russia Russia investigation, and haven’t given up even after the Mueller report was a big nothingburger, considering yet another impeachment process. And then they had their Ukraine Ukraine Ukraine investigation, which was really a bad idea, because it exposed Joe Biden and potentially Obama, which led to more GOP investigations of Russiagate, which has now led to

Tensions flare over GOP’s Obama probes

Tensions are flaring in the Senate as Republicans prepare to ramp up their investigations into Obama-era officials.

Amid public and private pressure from President Trump, GOP senators are increasingly embracing calls to use their congressional power to investigate some of Trump’s biggest grievances stemming from the Obama administration, including the origins of the Russia investigation, the court established by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) and Hunter Biden.

Democrats argue Republicans are using their committee gavels to probe Trump’s political enemies, an effort they say is designed to hunt for political fodder against former Vice President Joe Biden, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, while inadvertently spreading Russian misinformation.

Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) railed against Republicans, saying they were chasing a “wild conspiracy theory.”

“Senate Republicans are diving head-first into the muck to smear the family — the family — of the president’s political opponent. It is such a gross misuse of the power of the majority,” Schumer added.

Seems like Chuck isn’t a big fan of Democrats being investigated, especially when there is actual meat in the investigation, actual reality. He’s only good with Republicans being investigated in what turned out to be a witchhunt. Perhaps he knows something is not on the up and up with ObamaBidenGate?

Those frustrations are poised to come to a head as two committee chairmen — Sens. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) and Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) — have vowed to hold votes on subpoenas as part of their investigations over the objections of Democrats.

Graham is asking for the Judiciary Committee to vote to give him broad subpoena authority to call dozens of officials to testify, either in depositions or hearings, as part of his investigation into the FISA court and “Crossfire Hurricane,” the name of the FBI’s investigation into Russia’s election meddling and the 2016 Trump campaign.

“We’re going to investigate the investigators, and try to find out how Crossfire Hurricane got off the rails,” Graham said.

That really should have happened years ago, but, it has been tough to get the necessary information from the utterly partisan DOJ and FBI, which have been infested with Obama supporters over his 8 years in office, people who put politics over their jobs.

The subpoena will be on the committee’s agenda Thursday, but the vote is expected to take place on June 4. Under a timeline outlined by Graham, he would release a report on his findings by October, saying he wants “to do it before the election.”

“I want to get all the information out there. … I’m trying to explain to the American people what happened with Crossfire Hurricane,” Graham said when asked if releasing a report in October would look like he was trying to influence the November election.

Ah, so that’s what Democrats do not like, that Graham will expose the malfeasance of the Obama administration when it came to Russia Russia Russia, and how Democrats followed along in the Big Lie.

Trump raised the investigations during a closed-door GOP lunch Tuesday, urging Republicans to be “tough” on Democrats, citing what he has called Obamagate.

Say what you will about Trump personally, Republican voters have been calling for the GOP to get tough with Democrats, and the media, for decades. Trump has gotten many squishy Republicans, including Graham and Mitch McConnell, to get tough and fight back.

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Surprise: Democrat Governors Are Getting Hit With Lots Of Lawsuits

By William Teach May 19, 2020 – 3:48 pm

The Politico’s Caitlin Oprysko seems rather shocked that Democrats are getting sued left and right, but mostly not Republicans

Democratic governors hit with flurry of legal challenges to coronavirus lockdowns

The raging public debate over statewide coronavirus lockdowns is running parallel to a series of legal battles in state capitals — and the lockdown skeptics got a big boost this week.

The decision by Wisconsin’s Supreme Court on Wednesday to toss Gov. Tony Evers’ statewide shelter-in-place order set off a scramble in cities across the state to impose their own local restrictions. Elsewhere, bars and restaurants shut down by the order declared themselves open for business.

And legal challenges are continuing to pile-up across the country — even as governors who extend their state’s shelter-in-place orders begin peeling back some restrictions. The plaintiffs are business owners, aggrieved private citizens, pastors and in some cases, state legislators and legislatures.

The targets? Almost always Democratic governors or their top health appointees.

Gee, I wonder why? Suits against Dems in Maine, Michigan, California, New York, Oregon, Washington state, Colorado, Virginian, and others

The lone pair of Republican governors facing such lawsuits, Maryland’s Larry Hogan and Ohio’s Mike DeWine, recently announced reopening plans that could potentially render pending lawsuits moot.

They aren’t drunk with power

Legal threats against Democrats who have kept more stringent social distancing restrictions in place have taken different forms.

In Texas, for example, the pressure has come from the top down. There, state Attorney General Ken Paxton on Tuesday threatened the leaders of three major metro areas — Austin, Dallas and San Antonio — with legal action if they don’t roll back parts of their local stay-at-home orders.

Because cities and counties run by Democrats have been just as authoritarian. What started as elected officials slapping restrictions and such because they were afraid and people were afraid and wanted to do something morphed into quasi-dictatorships. Hogan and DeWine knew when to back off. They weren’t the ones telling people that no only do they have to stay home, but they couldn’t even be outside at their own home, so, no gardening stuff (initially, that woman in Michigan backed off).

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Americans Haven’t Forgotten About ‘Climate Change’ During Bat Soup Virus

By William Teach May 19, 2020 – 1:00 pm

Do you believe that the climate has changed, that it has gotten warmer since 1850? I do. Because there have been multiple warm and cool periods during the Holocene alone. The debate is on causation, not warming. But, hey, good news, people polled haven’t forgotten about ‘climate change’

Americans See Climate as a Concern, Even Amid Coronavirus Crisis

Americans’ positions on climate change have remained largely unshaken by the coronavirus pandemic and economic crisis, according to a new national survey that showed acceptance of the reality of global warming at record highs in some categories.

In the report, Climate Change in the American Mind, written by researchers at Yale University and George Mason University and scheduled to be made public on Tuesday, 73 percent of those polled said that climate change was happening, which matches the highest level of acceptance previously measured by the survey, from 2019.

The percentage of people who are “extremely” or “very” certain that it is happening has risen to a record high, 54 percent. And 62 percent accepted the established scientific view that global warming is mostly caused by human activity, a level also tied with the figure for 2019.

That seems like good news, right? Of course, the question from the survey in section 2 “Global warming beliefs”, is simply “do you think global warming is happening?” I would answer yes, because it doesn’t differentiate between anthropogenic and natural, or some combination of the two.

The new survey also found that two out of three Americans said global warming was either extremely, very or somewhat important to them personally, and more than four in 10 said they would be personally harmed by the effects of a warming planet. Nearly half said global warming would affect people in their community, and a majority said they were at least moderately interested in news stories about climate issues, including actions by government.

You know what is missing from the study? A question on how much of their own money they would be willing to spend/give up to solve their beliefs. Also, how much of their own freedom, liberty, and choice they would give up.

We also learn from the survey (chapter 5)

More than six in ten Americans (64%) say they “rarely” or “never” discuss global warming with family and friends. Fewer than four in ten (36%) say they discuss global warming “occasionally” or “often,” but that reflects a 10 percentage-point increase over the past five years (since our March 2015 survey)

Two in three Americans (66%) say the issue of global warming is either “extremely” (13%), “very” (24%), or “somewhat” (29%) important to them personally.

So, people are very engaged, think it is important, they just don’t bother talking about it. Must be super important, eh? People care in theory. Most people do not care in practice. Seriously, this super important poll only used 1,029 adults.

And, the NY Times article can’t help itself in Trump bashing and such and linking Bat Soup in

Dr. Maibach agreed. The loss of 90,000 American lives, he said, “has been a very powerful and bitter lesson in the need to listen to experts.”

The experts said that 2.2 million would die. Other nations had the same kind of predictions. Certainly, many measures have helped reduce that number, but, experts were making all sorts of dire predictions, just like with ‘climate change’. What prognostications from climate cultists have actually come true?

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If ALl You See…

By William Teach May 19, 2020 – 1:00 pm

…is a horrible fossil fueled vehicle, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is The Daley Gator, with a post on the number one thing to remember about the Russia hoax.

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Cult Of Climastrology Claims There Is A Detectable Trend In Stronger Hurricanes Or Something

By William Teach May 19, 2020 – 8:46 am

This is your fault for taking a fossil fueled trip to the beach or lake and eating a burger while there, you know

The strongest, most dangerous hurricanes are now far more likely because of climate change, study shows

A new study provides observational evidence that the odds of major hurricanes around the world — Category 3, 4 and 5 storms — are increasing because of human-caused global warming. The implications of this finding, published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, are far-reaching for coastal residents, insurers and policymakers, as the most intense hurricanes cause the most damage.

The study, by a group of researchers at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the University of Wisconsin at Madison, builds on previous research that found a trend, though not a statistically robust one, toward stronger tropical cyclones. (snip)

Importantly, the observed, statistically significant trends match projections seen in computer model simulations of a warming world.

Wait, are they saying that the trend is for bigger hurricanes, or that the odds of one happening are greater? There’s a big difference between saying there’s a better chance of it happening and it actually happening. Especially since most years since 2006 have been lacking in major (cat 3,4,5) hurricanes, especially landfalling ones, not too mention a lack in category 1 and 2 hurricanes.

“We’ve just increased our confidence of our understanding of the link between hurricane intensity and climate change,” said James Kossin, the lead author of the new study and a researcher with NOAA and the University of Wisconsin. “We have high confidence that there is a human fingerprint on these changes.”

Of course they do. What about all the storms that came before CO2 broke 350ppm, which Warmists consider “safe”? The Great Galveston Hurricane of 1900? The Bangladesh cyclone on 1582, which killed around 200k?

The study finds a global increase of about 8 percent per decade of the likelihood that a given tropical cyclone will become a Category 3 or greater storm.

The big question during the past two decades of hurricane research has been whether there is already a detectable trend toward stronger storms, or whether this will emerge in the future, said Suzana Camargo, a climate scientist at Columbia University’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory.

The new study answers that question by showing there is already a significant detectable trend, she said in an interview. Camargo was not associated with the new research.

Really? Or is it just the data they are looking at?

The study grapples with inconsistent data collection methods by creating a 39-year data set (1979 to 2017) of satellite-based storm intensity estimates for tropical cyclones around the world. The researchers then examined their more homogenous record for any clear trends. The work builds upon an earlier study, done by this same group in 2013, that used a 28-year period of data and found an upward trend but fell short of statistical significance.

So, let’s see: they looked at a limited data set, which doesn’t include all that happened during the non-satellite era, especially since a warming trend started around 1978-1979, while there was a massive cooling trend from the late 1940’s to about 1978. A period with many big hurricanes, such as Camille. Then they did “estimates”. It’s a study guaranteed to produce the result they wanted.

Of course, this “study” is being pimped all over the Credentialed Media, like the NY Times. It is now Holy Writ for the CoC, and you know what it means? Basically, that major hurricane activity will drop off again, just like it did when the Cult proclaimed the big season of 2005 the “new normal”.

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Judge Rules Against Tyrannical Oregon Governor On Church Closings

By William Teach May 19, 2020 – 8:27 am

Oregon Kate Brown has been on a tyrannical tear, much like other Democratic Party governors who started out doing the right thing in the face of fear and uncertainty before delving into ruling with an iron fist and ignoring both the federal and state constitutions. And she is not happy about losing in court

That article has already changed, because the state supreme court has jumped in to put a hold on the order, because Il Duce Brown is a dictator

Oregon Supreme Court puts hold on Baker County judge’s ruling declaring governor’s coronavirus orders ‘null and void’

In a late Monday ruling, the Oregon Supreme Court stepped in to put a hold on a dramatic decision by an eastern Oregon judge that declared not only Gov. Kate Brown’s restrictions on church gatherings “null and void” but all her “Stay Home Save Lives’’ coronavirus emergency orders.

State Supreme Court Presiding Justice Thomas A. Balmer in a three-paragraph ruling issued at 7:45 pm. granted the state’s emergency motion after reviewing briefs from both sides.

The hold will remain in effect until the high court considers the state’s full petition to dismiss the Baker County Circuit judge’s preliminary injunction.

All parties must file responses by Friday, and he has not given any time for a ruling. I’m guessing a petition may be made for an emergency ruling to a federal court

Earlier Monday, Baker County Circuit Judge Matthew B. Shirtcliff ruled that the governor’s executive orders in response to the global pandemic exceeded a 28-day limit adopted by state lawmakers and were no longer valid in response to a suit filed by 10 churches against the governor.

The governor’s office appealed to the Oregon Supreme Court to keep her emergency orders in effect, arguing that Shirtcliff overstepped his authority and his legal reasoning was flawed.

That ruling

Shirtcliff granted a preliminary injunction to the churches, finding they had shown “irreparable harm” from the deprivation of the right to freely exercise their religions.

“The governor’s orders are not required for public safety when plaintiffs can continue to utilize social distancing and safety protocols at larger gatherings involving spiritual worship,” he ruled.

He added: “Plaintiffs have shown that they will be harmed by deprivation of the constitutional right to freely exercise their religion. Other plaintiffs have also shown great economic harm to their businesses and their ability to seek livelihood.”

The Oregon Constitution notes in Article 1: Section 2. Freedom of worship. All men shall be secure in the Natural right, to worship Almighty God according to the dictates of their own consciences. That’s rather clear, is it not. There’s no real escape clause for taking away people’s Rights. Here’s where Oregon citizens should be rather worried

The trial court exceeded its discretion and committed “fundamental legal error,” because the argument that the governor lacks authority to address the coronavirus emergency “lacks merit,” Solicitor General Benjamin Gutman wrote. He noted that the state constitution grants the governor “all the police power vested in the state.”

Any time limits to the provisions for public health emergencies in state law “supplement rather than supplant” the governor’s unlimited powers under her declaration of a state of emergency, he wrote. He further argued that the public interest overwhelmingly weighs against disturbing the governor’s executive orders.

Maybe she missed Article 1 Section 1. Natural rights inherent in people. We declare that all men, when they form a social compact are equal in right: that all power is inherent in the people, and all free governments are founded on their authority, and instituted for their peace, safety, and happiness; and they have at all times a right to alter, reform, or abolish the government in such manner as they may think proper. An emergency doesn’t give her dictator-like powers. Expect a lot of churches in the more suburban and rural areas to start meeting, because those are the areas that are more freedom loving, not sheeple, and vote Republican in the state.

In North Carolina the Democrat governor took his loss with good grace and just essentially said “OK, you win, now, please, just be careful. Wear masks, wash your hands, clean up the church often and social distance, OK?” Kate Brown got her taste of power, and cares little for Rights.

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HotColdTake: “People Of Color” Experience ‘Climate Change’ Grief More Deeply

By William Teach May 18, 2020 – 3:42 pm

This is an interesting take, since the vast majority of the Cult of Climastrology membership is very, very white, and really just goes to show that this has little to do with science and everything to do with politics

People of Colour Experience Climate Grief More Deeply Than White People

When the wildfires hit Australia last year, Bee Cruse was horrified at the sight of the red sky, the black ash falling like snow, and the smoke choking the whole East Coast.

The fires were a direct reminder of the British genocide against Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people like her, and the tearing of them from country and their traditional ways of land management.

In an article for Vox, Cruse, a Wiradjuri, Gomeroi, and Monaroo-Yuin storyteller, told me, “We see and feel the spirit of our animals and our land; they are our ancestor spirits. We don’t own country, country owns us; we come from her to protect her. When country hurts, we hurt. When our animals, our spirit cousins, cry, we cry.”

What Cruse was describing was climate grief, a psychological phenomenon that affects Black and Indigenous peoples, and other people of colour, in uniquely devastating ways.

Seriously, that stuff happened hundreds of years ago, but, of course, the Cult has to link it.

Just as we are seeing with theCOVID-19 outbreak, environmental racism forces people of colour, especially Black and Indigenous peoples, to bear the brunt of global disaster. We are not only disproportionately affected by the climate crisis—breathing in more pollution, living in communities with higher temperatures, suffering from more medical conditions, experiencing more natural disasters, and being displaced at much higher rates—but we carry the pain of the climate crisis deep inside us.

The interesting part here is that most of this stuff happens in areas controlled by Modern Socialists.

Anyone can experience climate grief, regardless of their identity. But for us, our grief—and our anger—is rooted in centuries of painful history, and the current ecological violence hurled at our communities.

This isn’t about climate change, is it.

“People of colour know…society is going to make sure we’re impacted first, and impacted the hardest,” Dent said.

So, wait, Modern Socialists are going to make sure “people of color” are impacted first? Huh. Really, though, look at any photo of a climate change march, and see just how few people of color are in attendance. Because most do not care. This is a 1st World middle class and rich white person thing.

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