Religion Is Fundamental To The Climate (scam) Movement Or Something

Gee wiz, I’m totally wrong when I refer to the climate change’ movement as a cult, right?

Why religion is fundamental to addressing climate change

“There is no time for imagination, religious or otherwise. We need to act now!” an irritated scientist told me during a workshop on climate change and religion in 2024. Contrary to the tone of his comment, this scientist was not dismissing religion as being marginal to tackling climate change, but his underlying assumption rang clear: religion, while undoubtedly a necessary part of the solution, is only useful if it works alongside rational science.

Research by me and my colleagues suggests that framing religion and science as totally separate entities is unhelpful in advancing a global response to climate change.

In 2022 and 2023, I spent four months conducting fieldwork in Egypt, living and interacting with Muslim and Christian communities in Cairo and Alexandria. As a salient reminder of the ongoing climate crisis, my research took place over the summer, when temperatures reached more than 45°C.

Who would have thought it got hot in Egypt in the summer? to the end

Fortunately, things are changing. Through initiatives such as the UN Environment Programme’s Faith for Earth Coalition and the faith pavilion at recent UN climate summits, religious groups are becoming more prevalent and active on the global climate stage.

But efforts to seek collaborations between scientists and faith communities are not good enough. We need to resist the urge to see religion as a mere vehicle for convincing most of the global population for whom religion gives meaning to life. The only way we can do that is for scientists and faith leaders to start laying the groundwork for new ways of thinking together.

As Russian author Leo Tolstoy once wrote, “Science is meaningless because it has no answer to the only questions that matter to us: ‘What should we do and how shall we live?‘” The climate crisis demands new ways of thinking, new ways of perceiving reality, and religion is fundamental to achieving that.

Yes, it is a cult, but, you have to understand that the point here is to subsume religion under the banner of global boiling, to make it secondary and controlled by the cult. The cult attempts to do it to everything, because this is about empowering government, making it bigger and more controlling, taking away the freedom, free speech, movement, everything from the masses. That is the heart of the ‘climate change’ movement: authoritarianism.

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If All You See…

…are mountains which lost their snow cover, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is GeeeZ…., with a post on ending the deficit.

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LOLCNN: Federal Employees Are In Bedlam Over Musk Email

Did CNN really think about this before publishing it? Because I thought it was from a satire site when I ran across it on Yahoo News first.

‘It’s bedlam’: Federal workers left in limbo as clock ticks down to Musk’s email deadline

Federal workers spent Monday trying to figure out how – or even whether – to respond to Elon Musk’s weekend email blast telling them to explain their work last week or risk losing their job.

A day of confusing and often contradictory guidance left many federal workers still unclear ultimately how to handle Musk’s request. Some were told to comply, others were advised not to, and still others were awaiting instructions from their agency’s leaders until late in the day.

Speaking from the Oval Office on Monday afternoon, President Donald Trump called Musk’s email demand “ingenious” and said that anyone who didn’t respond is “semi-fired or fired.”

Then, a couple of hours later, Trump’s own administration directly contradicted him, when the Office of Personnel Management formally notified agencies that response was voluntary and that any failure to respond would “not equate to a resignation.”

“Our chief said it was mandatory. Then OPM said it became voluntary. Then I guess Trump just told us it was mandatory again,” said one career employee with the Department of Veterans Affairs. “No one knows who is in charge and who to listen to.”

“It’s bedlam,” added one IRS employee.

Do federal employees not realize that Americans working in the private sector a laughing at them? Speaking derogatorily about them? Have zero sympathy? It’s 5 things. Over the course of a week. If you cannot think of 5 things you did last week and write it in 5 quick bulletin points then you aren’t really doing anything. It is not hard. Not hard at all.

The leftover bosses in the Permanent Federal Bureaucracy do not need to confuse things. How about finding out what your employees are doing? It’s rather your job. If this was the private sector there would be a lot of people on the chopping block for the inability to come up with 5 things, and for fighting against it. It really was brilliant to make this requirement, because it shows just how unhinged and intransigent the federal bureaucracy is. They live in a completely different world from the rest of Americans.

Not too belabor the point, if your boss, your bosses the boss, a person who assists the CEO, said “give me 5 quick things you did last week”, would you fight it? Or, would you jump on the computer and take 5 minutes to write the email and move on with your day?

More: ran across this at Real Clear Politics

RCP Podcast: What Did You Get Done This Week? DoD Shakeup, Trump vs. AP, Goodbye Joy Reid, Bongino’s FBI

“An organization that wants to take stock of what its employees are doing is a healthy thing, but this was not that,” Carl Cannon commented. “This was one step above trolling, really…It wasn’t a good faith effort to do what President Trump and Elon Musk say they’re trying to do, which is make sure the federal government workforce is working efficiently.”

“The tone was insulting and demeaning… Also, what person is going to read 2.3 million responses?”

Is this the new Talking Point? The email sent to require 5 things Was Mean? Frankly, Margaret, I don’t care. You are a worker bee. You do not run the federal government. There are requirements to have the job.

“…you need to know.”

“We had a lady on CNN today, a supposed federal worker who said she was infuriated by the getting this e-mail. She had time to go on CNN, but she didn’t have time to send a 30 second email saying, here’s what I was working on last week.”

“This is what people in the private sector have come to hate about how they view the public sector.”

Yeah. Are federal employees saying they cannot be held accountable?

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Climate Scam Groups Say They Will Spend The Scam Money Given By Biden Regime

Well, enjoy it. Because there will be no more forthcoming. If the Trump admin doesn’t figure out a way to cancel the contracts

Recipient isn’t giving in as Trump’s EPA tries to revoke climate grants

A coalition of nonprofits under fire from President Donald Trump’s appointees says it will begin doling out money from a $2 billion climate grant it received during the Biden era — despite the Environmental Protection Agency’s attempts to claw back the funds.

“When the EPA made a grant to us and grants to other awardees, there’s an official contract that the government enters into,” said Tim Mayopoulos, the CEO of Power Forward Communities, in an interview with POLITICO. “The agreement has not been terminated, and we have an obligation to fulfill it.”

He said his group, an umbrella for five nonprofits that include United Way and Habitat for Humanity, will deploy its initial $539 million disbursement from the grant over the coming weeks to help communities across the country build energy-efficient housing.

Asked for comment on the status of the fund, EPA referred POLITICO to a videotaped statement Feb. 12 in which Administrator Lee Zeldin demanded that a total of $20 billion in Biden-era green grants be returned — vowing, “The days of irresponsibly shoveling boat loads of cash to far-left activist groups in the name of environmental justice and climate equity are over.”

Well, good luck with that. If they do spend it they best keep complete records and it best all go where it’s supposed to for what it’s supposed to. They best not siphon it off, either for the umbrella groups or the recipients. It best not be wasted. Because you can bet that the auditors will be taking a hard look at any disbursements.

Mayopoulos said those accusations misrepresent his organization, which intends to improve or build 11,000 multifamily and 61,000 single-family homes, spur 64,000 jobs and curb energy bills $1.26 billion over the seven-year grant period.

Good for them. What does that, for the most part, have to do with the climate scam? Those homes best be on the up and up.

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Homeland Security Ends Use Of Biden Era Fake Asylum Seeker App For Boarding Domestic Flights

The Trump admin keeps give the “migrants” more and more excuses to not come. They’ve already cancelled the use of the CBP One app. Now the ones here won’t be able to freely fly around the country, especially on the taxpayer dime.

Noem ends Biden-era use of controversial app to allow migrants to board flights, except to self-deport

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is ending the use of the controversial CBP One app to allow migrants to board domestic flights – unless it is being used for their self-deportation.

“Secretary Noem is reversing the horrendous Biden-Era policy that allowed aliens in our country illegally to jet around our country and do so without identification,” a DHS spokesperson told Fox News Digital.

“Under President Trump, TSA and DHS will no longer tolerate this. Aliens in our country illegally can no longer fly unless it is out of our country to self-deport,” they said.

The Biden administration had expanded the use of the CBP One app to allow migrants to enter the U.S. at ports of entry or via a separate parole process. That process involved them uploading information including a photograph. The Biden administration also allowed for the app to be used by the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) to verify a migrant without sufficient ID by comparing a photograph of a migrant in DHS records, and also use biometric matching. Those verified would also receive additional physical screening.

Of course, how many actually received that extra screening? It seems like a goodly chunk barely got basic screening, if any.

“Secretary Noem is reversing the horrendous Biden-Era policy that allowed aliens in our country illegally to jet around our country and do so without identification,” a DHS spokesperson told Fox News Digital.

“Under President Trump, TSA and DHS will no longer tolerate this. Aliens in our country illegally can no longer fly unless it is out of our country to self-deport,” they said.

You and I have to go through the who rigamarole when we fly, because we are illegals. Well, now they cannot even fly unless leaving the country.

Trump administration directing ICE to track down unaccompanied minors: Source

President Donald Trump’s administration is directing immigration agents to track down unaccompanied migrant children in the U.S., a source familiar with the plans told ABC News.

An internal document from Immigration and Customs and Enforcement (ICE), headlined the “Unaccompanied Alien Children Joint Initiative Field Implementation,” said the initiative claims to prevent children from being human trafficked or other types of exploitation.

There are more than 600,000 migrant children who have crossed the U.S.-Mexico border without a legal guardian or parent since 2019, according to government data.

And the Biden-Harris admin lost almost 300K of them.

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Climate Cult Now Blaming Egg Prices On Global Boiling

I’m surprised it took this long. Heck, they weren’t even blaming ‘climate change’ for egg prices during Bidenflation. And mostly saying there was no problem with eggs. But, now Trump is president, so….

What climate change means for bird flu — and the soaring price of eggs

Buying eggs at the grocery store has become a major headache for U.S. consumers, with the average price of a dozen large eggs in a typical American city reaching $4.95 last month. Since the start of 2020, the cost of eggs has increased by nearly 240 percent, according to data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Recently, acquiring eggs has become a game of luck — as shoppers find barren cooler cases and limits on how many cartons they can buy at the grocery store. The kitchen staple has gotten so hard to come by that thieves stole 100,000 eggs — worth $40,000 — off of a distribution trailer in Pennsylvania earlier this month.

President Donald Trump ran his reelection campaign on, among other things, a promise to bring down the cost of groceries. But in the first two months of 2025, egg prices have continued to climb, sending government officials in search of answers and interventions.

Well, yeah, Biden killed off 100 million chickens. I do not blame him or his administration, they were worried about bird flu. Unless someone can provide solid proof that this was done in order to hose Trump. I’ve seen the conspiracy theories, and I wouldn’t put it past Democrats, but, I need proof. I really wasn’t blaming Biden for eggs during COVID/Bidenflation, except in terms of him making fuel prices higher. Anyhow, here we go after many more paragraphs

Climate change is also playing a role in rising egg prices — albeit differently from how it’s increased the price of other kinds of food. In recent years, extreme weather events like drought and flooding have disrupted food supply chains and sent shock waves through the economy that end up hitting grocery shoppers. In 2022, the Mississippi River entered a period of such extreme drought that ships transporting crops for cattle feed couldn’t navigate its channels. Meanwhile, in California, flooding and extreme heat hit some of the nation’s biggest suppliers of lettuce. As a result, the price of salad greens and some dairy and meat products rose. A study published last year projected that extreme heat driven by climate change will exacerbate overall inflation in nearly every country in the world by 2035.

When it comes to eggs, climate change is affecting supply more indirectly — by changing the migratory patterns and nesting habits of birds that carry avian influenza. As global average temperatures rise and extreme weather events scramble animal migration patterns and force some species north toward increasingly temperate climes, animals are crossing paths in entirely new configurations, making it easier for them to swap diseases.

Sigh.

Because bird flu evolves quickly and mostly in the wild, it’s hard for researchers to pinpoint exactly where and how climate change may be affecting its spread. What the handful of scientists who work on this topic can say for certain is that warming temperatures and rising sea levels are changing when and how birds move across continents, which may be influencing the unusually fast-paced and large outbreaks of bird flu that have been occurring for the past half decade or so.

So, they know jack shit, but, feel the need to fearmonger.

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If All You See…

…is a world killing dog, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Green Jihad, with a post on rekindling the fire at a California lithium battery plant.

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USAID Begins Process Of Putting Employees On Leave And Terminating, While LA Times Says Agency Is Awesome

Such a shame, putting people involved in graft, waste, fraud, siphoned aid for idiotic projects on leave and terminating them. Closing USAID and folding any worthwhile projects directly under the State Department. None of the people defending them had any problem with terminating people who didn’t take the COVID “vaccine”

The Trump administration is putting USAID staffers on leave worldwide and firing at least 1,600

The Trump administration moved its fast-paced dismantling of the U.S. Agency for International Development toward what appeared to be its final phases, telling all but a fraction of staffers worldwide that they were on leave as of Monday and notifying at least 1,600 of the U.S.-based staffers they were being fired.

The move was the latest and one of the biggest steps in what President Donald Trump and cost-cutting ally Elon Musk say is their goal of gutting the six-decade-old aid and development agency in a broader campaign to slash the size of the federal government.

The move comes after a federal judge on Friday allowed the administration to move forward with its plan to pull thousands of USAID staffers off the job in the United States and around the world. U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols rejected pleas in a lawsuit from employees to keep temporarily blocking the government’s plan.

“As of 11:59 p.m. EST on Sunday, February 23, 2025, all USAID direct hire personnel, with the exception of designated personnel responsible for mission-critical functions, core leadership and/or specially designated programs, will be placed on administrative leave globally,” according to the notices sent to USAID workers that were viewed by The Associated Press.

Perhaps they should have done a better job. Should have not treated USAID as their personal slush fund for funding their personal beliefs

Lawsuits by government workers’ unions, USAID contractors and others say the administration lacks the constitutional authority to eliminate an independent agency or congressionally funded programs without lawmakers’ approval.

First, it was created by Executive Order, so, Trump can erase it the same way. As for funding, did Congress specifically authorize money for transgender comics in South America? Or, just for USAID? Anything specifically allocated can be disbursed properly by the remaining USAID employees, or, moved to State.

But, hey, this gets fun from the LA Times

Opinion: We may all regret dismantling USAID

American foreign assistance is experiencing an existential moment. The foreign assistance budget appears to be on the chopping block, and the primary agency responsible for delivering foreign assistance, the U.S. Agency for International Development, is undergoing rapid, unplanned disassembly. Some are saying it’s time to give up on foreign assistance altogether, but is it?

As someone who worked on USAID-funded projects around the world for nearly 15 years, I can say that USAID deserves much of the criticism it receives — critiques such as poor performance, misplaced focus and insubordination. Many of its projects run far behind schedule or fail to achieve their intended results. Others appear to be poorly aligned with U.S. foreign policy objectives or simply disconnected from them. Even the more successful programs cost substantially more than one might expect. And U.S.-based contractors and nongovernmental organizations take home a large portion of the assistance, all while working on contracts and grants that minimize their risk and guarantee a profit (where permitted).

So, basically, Ryan Crow just gave enough reasons to close USAID. Probably not the best way to start a defense of the agency.

But our strategic interests, including energy, critical minerals and counterterrorism, among others, span the globe. A few billion dollars wielded effectively in countries around the world can do far more for American interests than some want to believe, especially in the long run. Dismantling the agency may be something we come to regret.

Is giving lots of money to jihad supporting organizations helping American interests? How about transgender puppet theater? And what portion cannot be, again, performed out of State?

  • $50 million to fund condoms in Gaza
  • $70,000 for the production of a DEI musical in Ireland
  • $47,000 on a transgender opera in Colombia
  • $6 million in non-emergency funding for redundant administrative supports for the Center of Excellence

Maybe this money should be spent on Americans.

Effectively shuttering USAID will also take important power projection capabilities off the table. As many have already noted, containing disease outbreaks, reducing migration and bolstering political stability are all more difficult without the unique set of skills and expertise built up (often painfully) over decades at USAID. The value of these activities can be difficult to recognize in the short term because they often work far upstream and geographically far away from the consequence they are intended to avert, such as strengthening the justice system in Honduras to reduce migrant flows. But they do have demonstrable value. A saferhealthierless violent and more prosperous world is in the United States’ interests as much as anyone’s, and foreign aid can help achieve these goals where military force, private interests or markets cannot alone.

All can, and should, be performed within primary agencies. And USAID emboldened illegal immigration. So, bye!

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Report: Trump To Shut Down All Federal EV Chargers

Real? Not real? Do these EV chargers require payment for use? Or, are they simply free? Are federal employees charging for government business, or, for their own personal use?

Trump administration reportedly shutting down federal EV chargers nationwide

The General Services Administration, the agency that manages buildings owned by the federal government, is planning to shut down its entire network of electric vehicle chargers, according to a report in The Verge.

The GSA reportedly operates a network of hundreds of EV chargers with a total of 8,000 plugs that can be used to charge vehicles owned by the government and by federal employees. A source told The Verge that federal workers will receive guidance next week to shut those chargers down, with some regional offices already told to take their chargers offline.

Earlier this week, Colorado Public Radio obtained an internal email stating that charging stations at the Denver Federal Center would be shut down as they are “not mission critical.”

Let’s flip to that link

According to an internal email CPR News obtained from multiple sources, the U.S. General Services Administration says the government-owned chargers are not critical to how it does its work.

“As GSA has worked to align with the current administration, we have received direction that all GSA-owned charging stations are not mission-critical,” the email reads.

The GSA’s website says the Federal Center has 22 “fully functional” charging stations at 11 locations on the campus in Denver’s western suburbs. The email, sent from a GSA official, says some will be taken offline within the next week and others will be shut down once contracts are canceled.

“Neither Government Owned Vehicles nor Privately Owned Vehicles will be able to charge at these charging stations once they’re out of service,” the email says.

They are supposedly operated by solar power, so, if 100% so, let them run. And if there are lots of GSA owned EVs, let them operate. They are already in operation. But, I’ve had no luck in finding out how many EVs operate out of Denver. If there are lots, leave the charging stations operational. Certainly more cost effective to charge than at privately owned stations.

I say leave any anywhere that are operating up and running. Can’t hurt. But, the report will surely make the moonbats bark. Oh, and the last paragraph

Local officials also are worried that the administration’s plans to slash federal workspace could mean the closure of the Federal Center itself. Many federal workers who have not been terminated, however, are being instructed to return to the office.

If they can prove they are just as productive at home as at the office and do not need to be there everyday, I’m OK with remote. But, the employees do not get that choice.

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Bummer: South American Fake Asylum Seekers Turning Around, Going Home

This is what happens when the federal government institutes policies that entice people to not come illegally/seek fake asylum. When the government rounds them up and deports them. When it says “don’t come.”

They crossed the Darien Gap to reach the US. Now, boat-by-boat, migrants are returning

They once braved the jungles of the Darien Gap, trekking days along the perilous migrant passage dividing Colombia and Panama with a simple goal: seek asylum in the U.S.

Now, boat-by-boat, those migrants – mainly from the Andean nations of Venezuela and Colombia – have given up after President Donald Trump’s crackdown on asylum, and are returning to the countries they once sought to escape.

One of those speed boats zipped through dense jungle-cloaked rivers near the Colombia-Panama border on Sunday, headed south. Inside were around 20 migrants clinging to their backpacks and shielding themselves from the water’s spray.

Many of those same people waited months, sometimes more than year in Mexico to get an asylum appointment in the U.S. through a Biden-era CBP One app, which ended under Trump.

“ When Trump arrived and eliminated the application (CBP One) all our hopes went up in smoke,” said Karla Castillo, a 36-year-old Venezuelan traveling with her younger sister.

If they had real asylum claims they would continue, right? Except just 10% are accepted for asylum. Anyhow, they call this a “reverse flow.”

The boats were part of a well oiled migrant smuggling machine that once raked in money from the steady flow of hundreds of thousands of people headed north nearly a year ago.

The boat route, which crosses through Indigenous Guna Yala lands, was once part of what smugglers called the VIP route, in which migrants paid more so they wouldn’t have to take the deadly trek through the Darien Gap.

But now that much of the Darien’s migrant smuggling industry has collapsed, some smugglers are taking advantage of the reverse migration to charge steep costs to migrants – between $200 and $250 per person, including minors – for the boat rides.

And Democrats abetted this by enticing the illegals to make the dangerous trek. How much did they aid this by providing US taxpayer money to help the illegals make the trek? How much was fed from federal agencies such as USAID to NGOs and other private groups to distribute that money to helping illegals? All while pocketing quite a bit themselves.

Now, notice that photo, which is the first one in the AP article: go scroll the others. There are very few women and children. It is mostly men. As usual. How many are criminals? Why do we see so few families?

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