St. Greta Wins Big Prize, Complains About EU COVID Recovery Plan

By William Teach July 21, 2020 – 4:30 pm

St. Greta is putting all her worldly experience and numerous degrees to good use

Greta Thunberg wins prize worth €1m – but pledges to give it away to climate change charities

Climate activist Greta Thunberg was on Monday awarded a Portuguese rights award and promptly pledged the €1 million prize to groups working to protect the environment and halt climate change.

Thunberg was awarded the Gulbenkian Prize for Humanity for the way she “has been able to mobilise younger generations for the cause of climate change and her tenacious struggle to alter a status quo that persists”, Jorge Sampaio, chair of the prize jury, said earlier.

But Thunberg said she would use the money to support charities working to protect the environment.

So, they gave her the prize for doing…..nothing. Just yapping. Of course, this is more of an indictment of the award committee than St. Greta. Too many confuse “organizing” and being an activist with actually doing something concrete. Meanwhile

Greta Thunberg says EU recovery plan fails to tackle climate crisis

Greta Thunberg has accused EU politicians of failing to acknowledge the scale of the climate crisis and said its €750bn Covid-19 recovery plan does not do enough to tackle the issue.

The climate campaigner said the package of measures agreed by EU leaders proved that politicians were still not treating climate change as an emergency.

“They are still denying the fact and ignoring the fact that we are facing a climate emergency, and the climate crisis has still not once been treated as a crisis,” Thunberg told the Guardian. “As long as the climate crisis is not being treated as a crisis, the changes that are necessary will not happen.”

First, there is no climate crisis. Second, most people who think there is are only willing to do things theoretically, not in actual practice. Remember, most do not want to spend their own money or modify their own lives. Third, St. Greta is a child. An uneducated one at that. Why would anyone listen? If your 17 year old child was telling you how to live your life, would you listen? But, these lunatic climate cultists elevated this child, so, they’re getting what they created.

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If All You See…

By William Teach July 21, 2020 – 1:00 pm

…is an area drying out from Other People’s fossil fuels emissions, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Maggie’s Farm, with a post on Tuesday morning links.

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Redwood, Ca. Removes BLM Slogan From Street After Resident Asks To Paint MAGA

By William Teach July 21, 2020 – 10:30 am

The resident should have asked to paint something like “Back The Blue”, but, this shows government being used for hardcore leftist purposes

A California city removed its Black Lives Matter mural in the middle of the night after a Trump supporter asked to paint ‘MAGA 2020’ on the same street

A California city removed its Black Lives Matter mural in the middle of the night last week after a local lawyer asked whether she could install one nearby in support of President Donald Trump’s reelection bid.

CBS San Francisco reported on Sunday that a Redwood City resident, Dan Pease, asked city officials earlier in July if he could paint “Black Live Matter” on a street downtown as part of an Independence Day public-art celebration. Officials agreed and provided him with yellow poster-board paint he used to paint the 17-foot mural.

“Because we were using the poster-board paint that would eventually deteriorate over time, my understanding from them was that the mural would last as long as the paint lasted,” Pease told the outlet.

But on Thursday, city officials scrubbed the mural from the street in the middle of the night, saying it could be a traffic hazard, CBS San Francisco reported.

“Traffic hazard”. Would love for them to explain how so.

They removed it not long after Maria Rutenburg, a real-estate lawyer, requested that she be allowed to paint “MAGA 2020,” Trump’s reelection campaign slogan, on the same street.

“I saw ‘Black Lives Matter’ sign appearing on Broadway Street, on the asphalt. I figured that’s going to be a new public space open for discussion, and I wanted to get my message out too,” Rutenburg told the local CBS station.

Surprise! People should make these requests in every city, see how the city responds, whether they will be allowed to pain their own  “murals”.

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Here We Go Again: CoC Claims Polar Bears Could Be Lost By 2100

By William Teach July 21, 2020 – 8:19 am

Never let a good talking point go to waste

Climate change: Polar bears could be lost by 2100

Polar bears will be wiped out by the end of the century unless more is done to tackle climate change, a study predicts.

Scientists say some populations have already reached their survival limits as the Arctic sea ice shrinks.

The carnivores rely on the sea ice of the Arctic Ocean to hunt for seals.

As the ice breaks up, the animals are forced to roam for long distances or on to shore, where they struggle to find food and feed their cubs.

The bear has become the “poster child of climate change”, said Dr Peter Molnar of the University of Toronto in Ontario, Canada.

“Predicts”. Using computer models, of course. Because the Cult of Climastrology always has to have some sort of scary prognostication that cannot be proven, and when the scaremongering doesn’t happen, they’ll say it was because of changes that were made or something. The first three stores on Google News for climate change over the last 24 hours were the same thing. And, see, the study is simply activist

The study, published in Nature Climate Change, said “aggressive” cuts to greenhouse gas emissions are now needed to save the animals, which rely on sea ice to reach their prey, from extinction.

Let’s start with putting a carbon tax on the activities of climate scientists. Bet they change their tune quickly.

New Polar Bear ‘Death’ Model Based On Junk Science And Climate Porn

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This new model, published today as a pay-walled paper in Nature Climate Change, also did something I warned against in my last post: it uses polar bear data collected up to 2009 only from Western Hudson Bay – which is an outlier in many respects – to predict the response of bears worldwide.

The lead author, Peter Molnar, is a former student of vocal polar bear catastrophist Andrew Derocher – who himself learned his trade from the king of polar bear calamity forecasts, Ian Stirling.

Steven Amstrup, another co-author of this paper, provided the ‘expert opinion’ for the failed USGS polar bear extinction model featured in my book, The Polar Bear Catastrophe That Never Happened.

Well, these authors and their supporters got the headlines they crave, including coverage by outlets like the BBC and New York Times (see below), but I have to say that the combination of using out-of-date Western Hudson Bay information on when polar bears come ashore in summer and leave for the ice in fall (only to 2009) to make vague projections (‘possible’, ‘likely’, ‘very likely’) about all other subpopulations in addition to depending on the most extreme and now discredited RCP8.5 climate scenario (Hausfather and Peters 2020) for this newest polar bear survival model is all that’s needed to dismiss it as exaggerated-fear-mongering-by-proxy.

In reality, polar bear populations are thriving.

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Racism On Display: Judge Refuses To Release Girl From Facility Over Missed Homework

By William Teach July 21, 2020 – 8:01 am

This has become a cause celebre’ for the BLM crew and their “non-black allies”

Judge denies release of teen girl who was jailed after not doing homework

Race CardA 15-year-old Black girl who has been incarcerated in Michigan since mid-May after she failed to do her online schoolwork won’t be returning home, a judge decided Monday, in a case that has stoked outrage that it is emblematic of systemic racism and the criminalization of Black children.

Oakland County Judge Mary Ellen Brennan determined that the girl has been benefiting from a residential treatment program at a juvenile detention center, but is not yet ready to be with her mother. Brennan, the presiding judge of the court’s Family Division, scheduled another hearing for September, NBC affiliate WDIV reported.

The girl, who is being identified only by her middle name, Grace, was the subject of a report published last week by ProPublica Illinois, with politicians and community activists expressing outrage over her incarceration.

Well, she should have done her homework, right?

This past school year, Grace was a sophomore at Groves High School in the Birmingham Public Schools, which is 79 percent white, according to school district data.

See, gotta be racism. Seriously, jailed for not doing homework?

At Monday’s hearing, Brennan stressed that police had responded to incidents between the mother and the daughter three times, and that Grace’s detainment was the result of that, the Detroit News reported.

“She was not detained because she didn’t turn her homework in,” Brennan said. “She was detained because she was a threat to her mother.”

Ah. So the story finally comes out.

Rep. Debbie Dingell, D-Mich., is among those who have questioned whether race was a factor in detaining Grace. Black youth in Michigan are more than four times as likely to be detained or committed than white youth, according to 2015 data analyzed by the nonprofit Sentencing Project.

“If it was a white young person, I really question whether the judge would have done this,” Dingell said Monday on MSNBC. “Putting a young person in a confined area in the midst of COVID isn’t the answer.”

Of course he says this.

Her case not only touches upon the issue of racial bias within the criminal justice system, but is also entwined with larger concerns over the coronavirus’ spread in juvenile detention centers, as well as how children with learning disabilities are being disparately affected during the pandemic as a result of home schooling.

So, open the schools?

The girl and her mother, identified as Charisse, had bouts of conflict. In 2018, Grace was placed into a court diversion program for “incorrigibility,” but was released from it early, Charisse told ProPublica.

In November, an assault charge was filed against Grace after police were called to an incident in which the mother said Grace became violent because she was upset she couldn’t go to a friend’s house. Weeks later, according to ProPublica, Grace was charged with larceny after she was caught on surveillance video stealing another student’s cellphone from a school locker room. The phone was subsequently returned.

So, not homework? She’s a violent teenager and a thief?

Brennan sentenced Grace to “intensive probation,” with several requirements, including staying home, checking in with a caseworker, no phone use and completing her schoolwork. But the girl was unable to focus properly while learning from home, and she told a new caseworker in April that she felt anxious about the probation and overwhelmed.

After her caseworker learned she had fallen back asleep one day and failed to do her homework, a hearing was held in May and the judge decided she had violated the terms of her probation.

And that’s where the homework thing came from, because Grace failed to do the requirements. If she feels overwhelmed, then she should maybe work on her anger issues.

Tylene Henry, who has a teenage son in the local school district and was among several supporters outside of the courthouse Monday, said she doesn’t know Grace, but her situation has “opened up my eyes to the school-to-prison pipeline problem.”

Henry said she supports Grace’s release and a larger overhaul of the juvenile system.

“There’s a lot of students like Grace. They’re put into the criminal justice system as children instead of getting the help they really need,” she said. “Why does mental health and behavioral health treatment have to come at a cost of being held in a detention center?”

And why do these things keep happening in cities run by the Democratic Party? I’m confident I’ll be deemed a raaaaacist for asking, but, why, out of 4,800 juvenile cases going through Oakland County Circuit court, are 42% of them black kids, when blacks are only 15% of the population?

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Democrats Want To “Close The Digital Divide” To Fight Hotcoldwetdry

By William Teach July 20, 2020 – 3:41 pm

I’m starting to think this really has nothing to do with science or the climate

To fight climate change, Democrats want to close the ‘digital divide’

One of the starkest inequalities exposed by the coronavirus pandemic is the difference between the digital haves and have-nots. Those with a fast internet connection are more able to work and learn remotely, stay in touch with loved ones, and access critical services like telemedicine. For the millions of Americans who live in an internet dead zone, fully participating in society in the age of social distancing has become difficult if not impossible.

But if the pandemic has laid bare America’s so-called “digital divide,” climate change will only worsen the inequality that stems from it. As the weather grows more extreme and unpredictable, wealthy urban communities with faster, more reliable internet access will have an easier time responding to and recovering from disasters, while rural and low-income Americans — already especially vulnerable to the impacts of a warming climate — could be left in the dark.

Unless, that is, we can bring everyone’s internet up to speed, which is what Democratic lawmakers on the House Select Committee on the Climate Crisis are now hoping to do.

Buried in a sweeping, 538-page climate change plan the committee released last month is a call to expand and modernize the nation’s telecommunications infrastructure in order to prepare it, and vulnerable communities around the country, for future extreme weather events and climate disruptions. The plan calls for increasing broadband internet access nationwide with the goal of getting everyone connected, updating the country’s 911 emergency call systems, and ensuring cellular communications providers are able to keep their networks up and running amid hurricane force winds and raging wildfires. This plan isn’t the first to point out that America’s internet infrastructure is in dire need of an upgrade, but it is unusual to see lawmakers frame better internet access as an important step toward building climate resilience.

And guess who would control that Internet service? For all the words in the Dems climate plan and in the long, long article, it’s about government controlling the Internet, including that via your mobile service. It’s just like the Net Neutrality push.

The call for hardening our internet infrastructure is especially salient to Paul Barford, a computer scientist at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. In 2018, Barford and two colleagues published a study highlighting the vulnerability of America’s fiber cables to sea level rise, and he’s currently investigating how wildfires threaten mobile networks. In both cases, he says, it’s clear that the telecommunications infrastructure deployed today was designed with historical extreme conditions in mind — and that has to change.

“We’re living in a world of climate change,” he said. “And if the intention is to make this new infrastructure that will serve the population for many years to come, then it is simply not feasible to deploy it without considering the potential effects of climate change, which include, of course, rising seas, severe weather, floods, and wildfires.”

Just using the climate change scam to implement more control. This is what Democrats do. Guess whose bill will go up?

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If All You See…

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

…is an area flooded due to carbon pollution, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Victory Girls Blog, with a post on pro-life now being deemed a raaaaacist term.

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Naked Woman Challenges Portland Police Or Something

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

She’s definitely doing this to help BLM and not stuff for her Instagram, right? Has nothing to do with narcissism, right?

From the article

This cheeky protester gave cops in Portland a public dressing-down.

Wearing only a face mask and a beanie, a woman dubbed “Naked Athena” waltzed between officers and protesters during a standoff in the city on Friday night, according to Oregon Live.

Video posted on social media shows the woman pacing the sidewalk, before sitting down and launching into a series of yoga and ballet poses.

Right, right, totally about protesting, folks. Totally. Meanwhile

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UN Secretary General Calls For A “New Model For Global Governance” To Stop ‘Climate Change’ (scam)

By William Teach July 20, 2020 – 7:16 am

Remember, this is all about Science and has nothing to do with politics

UN chief calls for “a new model for global governance”

In what The Guardian newspaper called “his most stinging speeches to date”, UN Secretary-General António Guterres highlighted the global crisis of inequality as “a growing threat to our future” that should be addressed with a “New Global Deal” before it “destroys our economies and societies”.

The UN chief used this year’s Nelson Mandela lecture on Saturday, July 18, to point out that the coronavirus pandemic is exposing “fallacies and falsehoods everywhere”: “While we are all floating on the same sea, it’s clear that some of us are in superyachts while others are clinging to the floating debris”, he said. (snip)

The UN chief stated that addressing inequality must start by reforming global institutions at the top.

With an indirect reference to the five permanent members of the Security Council he lamented that this was not happening: “The nations that came out on top more than seven decades ago have refused to contemplate the reforms needed to change power relations in international institutions. The composition and voting rights in the United Nations Security Council and the boards of the Bretton Woods system are a case in point.”

According to the UN Secretary-General, “the global political and economic system are not delivering on critical global public goods: public health, climate action, sustainable development, peace.” He called for a “New Social Contract” and a “New Global Deal” that “create equal opportunities for all, and respect the rights and freedoms of all” and bring about “a redistribution of power, wealth and opportunities.”

First, this doesn’t give too much ammunition to 1 World conspiracy theory folks, eh? Second, it’s always interesting that one of the primary policy prescriptions for solving Hotcoldwetdry is massive centralized Big Government, eh?

In his speech Guterres advocated a “new model for global governance” that “must be based on full, inclusive and equal participation in global institutions.” He did not provide specifics on how exactly this model should look like, though.

Would it be too much to suggest that Guterres wants the UN to run every nation and country, be in control of your lives? You know member nations like China, Venezuela, Cuba, and all the 3rd World sh*tholes with repressive governments would love a shot at controlling 1st World nations.

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Thousands Plan To Walk Off Jobs To Protest Inequality For BLM Monday

By William Teach July 20, 2020 – 6:59 am

Checking the notes, these are mostly union employee….say, isn’t the point of a union to protect the employees? They’re apparently doing a poor job for all that money forceibly taken from employee paychecks….who are using BLM and the killing of George Floyd to agitate for their same old same old

Thousands to walk off job to protest racial inequality

Organizers of a national workers strike say tens of thousands are set to walk off the job Monday in more than two dozen U.S. cities to protest systemic racism and economic inequality that has only worsened during the coronavirus pandemic.

Dubbed the “Strike for Black Lives,” labor unions, along with social and racial justice organizations from New York City to Los Angeles, will participate in a range of planned actions. Where work stoppages are not possible for a full day, participants will either picket during a lunch break or observe moments of silence to honor Black lives lost to police violence, organizers said.

“We are … building a country where Black lives matter in every aspect of society — including in the workplace,” said Ash-Lee Henderson, an organizer with the Movement for Black Lives, a coalition of over 150 organizations that make up the Black Lives Matter movement.

“The Strike for Black Lives is a moment of reckoning for corporations that have long ignored the concerns of their Black workforce and denied them better working conditions, living wages and healthcare,” said Henderson, who is also co-executive director of the Tennessee-based Highlander Research and Education Center.

Among the strikers will be essential workers: nursing home employees, janitors and delivery men and women. Fast food, ride-share and airport workers are also expected to take part in planned events.

I’m not quite sure what this has to do with police reform, which was the entire point of all this, wasn’t it?

When the strike was announced on July 8, partnering unions included the Service Employees International Union, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, the American Federation of Teachers, United Farm Workers and the Fight for $15 and a Union. Several more worker collectives have since joined, along with social and racial justice groups.

So, the same old same old groups.

In Manhattan, essential workers will gather outside of the Trump International Hotel to demand the Senate and President Donald Trump pass and sign the HEROES Act. The House-passed legislation provides protective equipment, essential pay and extended unemployment benefits to workers who have not had the option of working from home during the coronavirus pandemic. Organizers said New York Sen. Chuck Schumer is expected to rally with workers.

And agitating in a political manner.

Strikers in Minneapolis, where Floyd was killed on May 25, will include nursing home and airport workers demanding a $15-per-hour minimum wage, organizers said. In Missouri, participants will rally at McDonald’s locations in St. Louis and Ferguson, a key landmark in the protest movement sparked by the death of Michael Brown, a Black teenager who was killed by police in 2014. The Ferguson strikers will also march to a memorial site located on the spot where Brown was shot and killed.

“We want free money!!!!” Oh, and Michael Brown was shot for attacking a police officer multiple times. Even Obama’s DOJ said so.

Meanwhile, at least these people still have jobs. Lots of people don’t. Want more money? Get a better education. Learn to do your job better and get a raise and/or promotion. Get a better job elsewhere. That’s the way it works. And this is just another example of the continuation of the dilution of the original police reform message.

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