Germany To Phase Out Coal, Replace With Pixie Dust And Unicorn Flatulence

By William Teach July 4, 2020 – 6:04 pm

Germany is already slated to do away with all nuclear power by 2022, which accounted for around 11% of its power needs. Now we get coal, accounting for around 40% of Germany’s energy

Germany is first major economy to phase out coal and nuclear

German lawmakers have finalized the country’s long-awaited phase-out of coal as an energy source, backing a plan that environmental groups say isn’t ambitious enough and free marketeers criticize as a waste of taxpayers’ money.

Bills approved by both houses of parliament Friday envision shutting down the last coal-fired power plant by 2038 and spending some 40 billion euros ($45 billion) to help affected regions cope with the transition.

The plan is part of Germany’s ‘energy transition’ – an effort to wean Europe’s biggest economy off planet-warming fossil fuels and generate all of the country’s considerable energy needs from renewable sources. Achieving that goal is made harder than in comparable countries such as France and Britain because of Germany’s existing commitment to also phase out nuclear power by the end of 2022.

“The days of coal are numbered in Germany,” Environment Minister Svenja Schulze said. “Germany is the first industrialized country that leaves behind both nuclear energy and coal.”

Of course, they’re kinda forgetting to mention exactly what they will replace 51% of their energy budget with. Will they allow more natural gas? Germans have been switching to it over the years, and big portion comes from Russia. Virtually all comes from Russia, the UK, and Norway. They are also importing a lot of wood, in the form of wood pellets. Why? Solar and wind are unreliable, and it is not a good place for geothermal nor hydrothermal. And ecowackos won’t allow dams to be built.

“Germany, the country that burns the greatest amount of lignite coal worldwide, will burden the next generation with 18 more years of carbon dioxide,” Greenpeace Germany’s executive director Martin Kaiser told The Associated Press.

Exactly. If this is so darned important, why wait till 2038? Do it now. We’re told that solar and wind is ready for prime time. I’m no fan of coal, but, how will they replace 40% of their energy?

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If All You See…

By William Teach July 4, 2020 – 1:00 pm

…are wonderful low carbon bikes, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is The Other McCain, with a post on our patriotic duty.

Doubleshot below the fold, so check out Raised On Hoecakes, with a post on great patriotic movies.

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It’s Hard For Modern Socialists To Celebrate July 4th This Year Or Something

By William Teach July 4, 2020 – 10:30 am

Let’s be honest, it’s hard for a goodly chunk of Democrat Party voters to celebrate Independence Day every year, as they hate the U.S.

It’s hard to celebrate the Fourth of July this year

In 1975, PBS aired an episode of the documentary series Bill Moyers Journal called “Rosedale: The Way It Is”, about the firebombings of black families’ homes in Rosedale, then a predominantly white area of Queens, New York. A disturbing two-minute clip from the documentary — in which a mob of white children and teens verbally and physically abuse a group of Black children who were biking through the neighborhood — went viral after being posted on Twitter last year, prompting The New York Times to seek out those involved. They could find none of the assailants, but they tracked down a dozen of the victims, most of whom are now in their fifties.

As they were on their “bike hike,” they told the Times, they saw people gathered beneath an American flag, and, thinking it was a parade, they went over to have a look. “I laugh about it until this day, because it was a parade,” said Mark Blagrove, now 57. “To get the Black people out of Rosedale.” The children had stumbled into a rally for a white supremacist group then active in the area, and within seconds, they were surrounded and assaulted with racist epithets and stones.

“The American flag is the image when I think about that incident,” Renée Lipscomb-McDonald, now 58, said. “That’s the symbol that pulled us into that situation, because of the idea that we live in America, the American flag means good things … They took that beautiful image and turned it into something ugly for me.”

That’s right, The Week writer Jacob Lambert really went back to 1975 to find a way to show his hate for the flag (in mostly Democrat voting NYC), which is surely causing other Democrats to agree on how much they hate the American Flag.

On this Fourth of July, I’ve been thinking about those words, that video, and about how our symbols can mean radically different things to different people. On one side of that Rosedale street, the flag symbolized a place in which non-whites were unwelcome; on the other, it represented aspiration and hope. But as the crowd closed in, the latter meaning collapsed. In that moment, for both groups, there was only one way to interpret the flag.

In post-George Floyd America, with the nation’s racist rot exposed to a degree of sunlight not seen in years, Lipscomb-McDonald’s disillusionment seems appropriate. The ugly version of America feels unsettlingly present, as does the obvious fact that for the country’s people of color, it has always felt that way. Amid the rage and sadness of recent weeks, our rhetoric and our symbols — the soaring eagle, the land of the free — have come to feel like relics, as does the holiday on which those symbols coalesce.

See, when one person does something bad, which had nothing to do with the flag or really America (and let’s not forget that Minneapolis overwhelmingly votes Democrat), we have to hate on America and the flag. Especially on Independence Day. But don’t you dare say Democrats are unpatriotic and hate America.

Celebrating Independence Day — really celebrating it — has always necessitated a certain suspension of disbelief: We are asked to wear the colors and wave the flag as if it is V-Day, as if living here can bring us only joy. In some years — and especially for white people like myself, towards whom the American system tilts — this is not so hard to do. But in 2020, the prescribed exuberance feels out of step with our grim reality.

There are 6 more paragraphs of America hate. Are you surprised? Interestingly, these people never actually leave despite hating the nation so much.

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Happy Independence Day Patriotic Pinup (sticky post)

By William Teach July 4, 2020 – 7:34 am

Everyone have a great day!

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Young Warmists Are Upset Over People Paying Attention To Coronavirus Over ‘Climate Change’

By William Teach July 4, 2020 – 7:24 am

All these people getting sick, dying, economies crashing, people scared and fearful, businesses going under, all that stuff is rather annoying to Warmists as it gets in the way of their Cult

‘Make The Climate A Priority Again,’ Says Germany’s Student Activist Neubauer

In a not-so-distant past before coronavirus lockdowns, students around the world were storming the streets to demand climate action. In Berlin, there was a name on many activists’ lips: Luisa-Marie Neubauer.

A 24-year-old university student, Neubauer is sometimes considered Germany’s answer to Swedish activist Greta Thunberg. And like the younger Swede, Neubauer staged weekly Fridays for Future student strikes in her city to push for a stronger response to climate change.

But since the coronavirus pandemic, Fridays for Future had to cancel mass mobilizations and move most of its campaigning online. Now the movement is taking careful steps to retake the public sphere.

NPR caught up with Neubauer recently to talk about activism in the time of the coronavirus, what lessons can be learned from dealing with COVID-19 and what’s happening with her movement.

Perhaps she should get a job at the age of 24.

As the coronavirus has dominated the global agenda, is anybody talking about climate protection anymore?

Luisa-Marie Neubauer: Of course, we’re directing our focus on the coronavirus for now, and that’s the right thing to do. There is no going back to the time before the coronavirus. … But we understood that the climate doesn’t care how busy we are and what we’re busy with — and whether we’re fighting a pandemic at the moment. Because the climate crisis continues to get worse and continues to put people at risk.

We have to make the climate a priority again. That’s what we as activists have to fight for. This is only possible if we fight the coronavirus efficiently, fairly and caringly — as quickly as possible.

See? A tiny increase in the global temperature over 170 years is more important than granny dying from COVID19 and no one being allowed to visit her.

Looking at the reopening process, what is most important to you?

We need sustainable, just and transformative coronavirus policies that take our emissions budget and the ecological costs into account. We must ensure the massive funds spent to tackle this crisis do not lead to an acceleration of other crises, especially the climate crisis.

Reopening? What are they reopening? It’s not a business, just a bunch of whiny brats demanding Everyone listen to them and do what they say.

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Majority Oppose Getting Rid Of Mt. Rushmore

By William Teach July 4, 2020 – 7:08 am

Will those Democrats drinking the hateraid give up their their calls to get rid of Mt. Rushmore? Or double down?

(Breitbart) The overwhelming majority of likely U.S. voters, including a majority of black Americans, oppose the tearing down of the Mount Rushmore National Memorial featuring Presidents George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln, a poll finds.

While rioters, as well as some Republican and Democrat lawmakers, have sought to remove monuments, statues, and flags associated with the Civil War and the nation’s presidents, the overwhelming majority of Americans say they are opposed to such plans.

The latest Rasmussen Reports survey finds 75 percent of likely U.S. voters oppose closing or changing Mt. Rushmore in Keystone, South Dakota. Less than 20 percent said they support the removal of Mt. Rushmore.

By a 56-percent majority, black Americans said they oppose tearing down Mt. Rushmore, while only about 35 percent said they support removing the monument. Likewise, more than six-in-ten Democrats, 76 percent of swing voters, 82 percent of white Americans, and 88 percent of Republican voters said they oppose tearing down Mt. Rushmore.

So, even blacks and Democrats oppose the push to get rid of Mt. Rushmore. What now, moonbats? The same poll found that a huge majority are against tearing down Washington and Jefferson monuments and renaming buildings. Bummer! What now?

Well, of course you have all those calling to get rid of the Star Spangled Banner before sporting events (by people who probably do not watch sporting events). And then

Stephen Jackson Calls for #BlackOutDay on 4th of July: ‘We’re Not Wearing Red, White and Blue’

As we head into Fourth of July weekend, Stephen Jackson has urged his followers to make a political statement through their clothing.

“This 4th of July we’re not wearing red, white, and blue. We’re wearing all black,” read a post on his Instagram this week. “Independence Day is another Black Out day so they know we’re still in this together. Pass this on so the whole world knows Black Lives Matter.”

Perhaps Stephen should spend some time in Chicago, where blacks are killing each other, including children. Some folks just keep showing they hate the U.S. But won’t leave.

And then there were the unhinged “Conservatives” at The Lincoln Project whining about Trump saluting at Mt. Rushmore

I can find, as you can, tons of presidents saluting.

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Climate Cultists Consider New Ways To Get Other People To Give Up Their Freedom And Money For ‘Climate Change’

By William Teach July 3, 2020 – 5:52 pm

They have several new buzz phrases

How to close the gap between public opinion and public policy on the climate crisis?
Introducing the concepts of “finite pool of worry” and “fear vividness”

This is from the National Catholic Reporter, which should probably be more worried about Catholic stuff and governments eroding religious freedom

As the country deals with the crises of pandemic, police brutality and racism, the ongoing climate crisis continues to loom directly overhead. Despite the temporary easing of pollution in many parts of the world as a result of the lockdown, the long-term outlook will remain grim unless and until public policy catches up with public opinion.

When it comes to public opinion, there is some reason for modest optimism. The Yale Program on Climate Change Communication found in a survey conducted April 7-17 that a majority of registered voters (61 percent) believe global warming is caused mostly by human activities.

What I found most interesting about the program’s report, titled “Climate change in the American Mind,” was its discussion of “the finite pool of worry.” Social scientists describe it as the tendency for worry about one issue to decrease worry about other issues. Despite a pandemic killing a staggering number of people, the survey found concern about the climate crisis as high as or higher than earlier findings.

Of course, it all breaks down when it comes to actually paying and losing freedom and choice. This is all theoretical, not in practice.

But there remains the critical question of how best to talk about climate change – and, for journalists, the challenge of how best to report the issue – in ways that result in significant change in public policy.

That was the topic of the first story I wrote as NCR’s climate editor a year ago. A new book by Australian researcher Rebecca Huntley, How to Talk about Climate Change in a Way that Makes a Difference,” explores the relevance of “risk vividness” to the actions we take or don’t take as a result.

That’s not journalism: that’s activism. That’s blogging. Journalists simply report a story. This piece is advocating for spinning their beliefs. I bet “journalists” wouldn’t be so gung ho if they knew all the policies would hit their own businesses, eh? Let them practice what they preach by Government force.

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If All You See…

By William Teach July 3, 2020 – 1:00 pm

…is a sea that will soon rise to swamp all the land, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Never Yet Melted, with a post on how easy it is to lose a job in an age of PC hysteria.

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Minneapolis Paper Recommends National Soul Searching On July 4th

By William Teach July 3, 2020 – 10:30 am

Well, you know, Modern Socialists have to Modern Socialist. We’ve long know that Democrats hate America, so, they hate Independence Day with a passion and will find any way to ruin it

This July 4th calls for national soul-searching

For July 4th observances this year, President Donald Trump plans a reprise of last year’s “Salute to America” in Washington. And on Friday, he will attend a fireworks display and military flyby at Mount Rushmore, where pyrotechnics have been banned for years. Environmentalists, Native groups and public health experts are objecting, but the celebrations appear likely to proceed as planned.

It’s unfortunate, because this year the nation could use a more sensitive and inclusive observance of its identity. It’s a year to take stock and reflect on the spasms that have convulsed the country — namely, the virus that has killed more Americans than were lost in the Vietnam and Korean wars combined, and the horrendous events that began on Memorial Day with a Minneapolis police officer’s knee on George Floyd’s neck. This Independence Day is an opportunity for soul-searching. It’s a time to ponder how well the country has succeeded at the goal passed down in the preamble to the Constitution: to “secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity.” Whether we can do that depends on who we mean when we say “ourselves.”

A good place to begin the soul-searching is Frederick Douglass’ speech of 168 years ago, titled “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” As a man born into slavery himself, the abolitionist leader knew that when the Founders said “ourselves,” they were not talking about him. His entire speech is worth reading, but here is a bit of it:

Does the Star Tribune’s Editorial Board understand that slavery is abolished? And has been abolished for quite some time? And that it was the Republican Party which abolished it? The party which was created specifically to oppose slavery? While the Democrats were the party of slavery?

GOP senators propose replacing Columbus Day with Juneteenth as new federal holiday

Two Republican senators have filed an amendment to a piece of legislation that would replace Columbus Day with Juneteenth as a new federal holiday.

“Juneteenth is a day in our history that redefined the meaning of freedom and equality in America,” Sen. James Lankford, of Oklahoma, said in a news release. “Throughout our history, we have strived to become a more perfect union and Juneteenth was a huge step in attaining that goal.”

Lankford and Sen. Ron Johnson, of Wisconsin, filed the amendment to Sen. John Cornyn’s bipartisan bill that would make Juneteenth a federal holiday.

I’m actually good with this. Consider that Columbus never once set foot in the territory that would go on to become the United States Of America (and there’s lots of evidence that Vikings did). And it would be great to have a yearly federal holiday that represents the Republican Party freeing the slaves from the Democratic Party run Confederacy.

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Because Reagan Recognized Ozone Layer Issue Conservatives Should Acknowledge The Climate Crisis (scam) Or Something

By William Teach July 3, 2020 – 8:03 am

These are the same people who constantly and consistently hate on Ronald Reagan, you know

Reagan recognized the threat to the ozone layer; conservatives today should respond the same way to climate change | Column

As folks across Florida don bikinis or swim trunks and head to the pool or the beach this holiday weekend, they probably don’t realize that they have President Ronald Reagan to thank for being able to do so safely.

As odd as that sounds, it’s true. In the 1980s the world was facing a big problem. Scientists had discovered that chemicals used in air conditioners, refrigeration equipment, and aerosols—such as chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) and hydrochlorofluorocarbons (HCFCs)—were rapidly depleting the earth’s stratospheric ozone layer. (snip)

Instead, [Reagan] became the world’s first head of state to personally approve a national negotiating policy on ozone protection. He then led the effort to push through the Montreal Protocol treaty to phase out the use of CFCs and HCFCs.

Reagan’s success with the Montreal Protocol was a point of pride for the Republican Party. Its 1988 party platform heaped effusive praise on the treaty and called for a similar approach in solving other complex global problems such as tropical forest destruction and climate change.

That would have been nice, but special interests —mainly fossil fuel companies—swooped in and swayed the party away from tackling those problems.

In reality, Republicans were able to get information from other sources, and started seeing that this was less about the climate and mostly about hardcore Modern Socialist policies.

Today, climate change is a much more visible and advanced threat than it was in 1988, and we could use Reagan’s brand of conservative leadership in tackling that problem.

Raise your hand if you think Reagan would be pushing for bigger and bigger government, for more governmental control of people’s lives, liberty, and choice. And controlling more and more of the economy. And taxing the hell out of citizens and private entities.

Two of Reagan’s top cabinet officials, James Baker and George Shultz, are pushing for a carbon fee and dividend approach to address climate change, which is a market-friendly solution long preferred by economists and business leaders.

Reagan would not support this: it is destructive, raises costs for companies and citizens, and then makes citizens more dependent on the government with the “dividend” payout.

When faced with a similar threat, President Reagan felt a moral duty to heed scientific warnings and do what is necessary to protect the public. Florida and the nation need our leaders to do the same today.

When faced with Commies being Commies, Reagan fought back and refused to give in. You know what’s missing from the opinion piece? Any shred of science proving the current warm period is mostly/solely caused by Mankind. And Reagan would dare the Warmists to practice what they preach if they believe.

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