Say, Why Is The Southern Ocean Cooling Despite Global Boiling?

You know this is your fault, right?

In a Warming World, Why Is the Southern Ocean Getting Cooler?

Climate models predict that as the planet warms, so will the Southern Ocean. But for decades, the waters around Antarctica have grown mysteriously cooler. A new study shows why.h

We could really just stop there. Once the cult trots out “climate models predict” we know this is trash. And

Anyhow

With warming, the region is seeing more rainfall and more ice melt, which are introducing more freshwater into the Southern Ocean. Because freshwater is not as dense as saltwater, it stays on the surface of the ocean instead of sinking down below. Freshwater acts like a lid, keeping warmer waters from rising up, scientists say, and the effect is much greater than previously appreciated.

Until now, models have failed to fully account for the influence of rain and, in particular, melting. Study coauthor Earle Wilson, of Stanford University, said the impact of meltwater is “completely missing from most climate models.”

Missing freshwater, he and colleagues found, accounts for 60 percent of the mismatch between predicted and actual temperatures. The findings were published in Geophysical Research Letters.

Yup, just another handy dandy way to blame cooling on you horrible people driving fossil fueled vehicles.

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If All You See…

…is horrible beer full of carbon pollution causing glaciers to disappear, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Cold Fury, with a post on some piping hot poetic justice.

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Credentialed Media Have A Snit Fit Over Proposed Briefing Room Seat Shakeup

The legacy media is apoplectic. Here’s CNN

Trump White House plans to shake up briefing room seating, flexing power over press corps

In the Trump administration’s latest assertion of power over the press corps, the White House intends to take over the seating assignments in the press briefing room, according to a senior official.

The plan may cause a tug-of-war with the White House Correspondents’ Association, the independent group that currently assigns seats and manages the relationship between the White House and the press corps.

“Assertion of power”. ZOMG, Trump is a dictator! You can feel the freakout from CNN. And the Washington Post

Journalists call out reported White House plan to reshuffle media seats

The White House Correspondents’ Association on Monday strongly objected to a reported plan for the White House to take over the process of determining where reporters sit in the briefing room.

The organization has long determined the seating chart, awarding prime positions for the major television networks, news wires and newspapers.

Remember that last paragraph.

The Trump White House’s Latest Blow to the Press Is About Way More Than Seating Charts

That may sound like a small thing, and in some ways it is. Deciding who sits where in the briefing room has long been within the purview of the White House Correspondents’ Association, a journalist-led organization. In theory, snagging one of the front-row seats that currently go to some of the biggest broadcasters and newspapers gives reporters a better chance of getting a question in during a press briefing. But in a White House already so openly hostile to the mainstream media—a White House that has used the briefing room to accuse journalists of being propagandists—those seats have diminishing returns.

The issue is not so much how the seating chart will impact this White House’s press briefings, which mostly make news these days for the extent of their obfuscations. But, in assuming power over a system that has traditionally been the domain of the free press, President Donald Trump is sending a message about who’s really in charge of how his presidency gets covered and who gets to cover it.

See, it’s all about Freedom Of The Press being obliterated for the big Credentialed News outlets! This continues through lots and lots of the old school leftist outlets. Nice to see Vanity Fair. Perfect name for the outlet

(Semafor) The WHCA’s current system reflects the 20th century media power structure: wire services and broadcast and cable television networks occupy the front row, major newspapers and radio get the second and third rows, and a more fluid collection of news organizations sits further back. The White House proposal would upend the arrangement in a move White House officials reportedly believe will be a “fundamental restructuring of the briefing room, based on metrics more reflective of how media is consumed today.”

Oh, that has to make the activist media outlets upset. Not giving the old TV stations and newspapers the first few rows? How dare the Trump administration! Arglebargle! But, yeah, things have changed. How many truly consume the news the way they used to? Maybe the Boomers and older tune into the cBS Evening News and PBS on the radio, but, not so much Gen X and down. Sure, I go to cBS.com, the NY Times, and others, but, I scroll and move from source to source. I use Yahoo News to aggregate, along with other aggregators. We hit blogs and new media. We’re reading left, right, international. We scroll Twitter and other social media (Twitter is my only one).

So, yeah, they’re upset, enough to act like toddlers

On Sunday, key members of the WHCA, including the organization’s leadership and some White House bureau chiefs, met to discuss a range of potential responses should Trump communications officials decide to dictate where reporters in the room sit.

According to two people familiar with the discussions, among the proposals raised by members was a potential Civil Rights era-style “sit-in” protest, in which members would return to their old seats and refuse to leave them.

Good grief. Can they not hear throughout the room? Are they that entitled? Hell of a difference between sitting at a Woolworth’s lunch counter in Greensboro to fight for equality and a petulant sit in to retain your power, wanting to leave the Other Outlets sitting at the back of the bus.

Asked about a potential protest by members of the WHCA, including a potential sit-in, White House communications director Steven Cheung responded: “Hahahahahahahaha…..…hahahahahahahahaha.”

Yup.

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NY Climate Cult Groups Sue To Force The State To Act On Cap And Invest

One has to wonder what these cultists are doing themselves to reduce their own carbon footprints

NY sued over lagging cap-and-invest climate regulations

A coalition of environmental advocacy groups is suing New York over the state’s slower than expected implementation of its landmark climate law, which requires regulations to meet the state’s mandated transition away from fossil fuels to reduce carbon emissions.

The groups argued in the lawsuit that the state hasn’t taken the necessary steps to meet its upcoming mandates, which require a 40% reduction in emissions by 2030 to begin an ambitious set of targets over the next 25 years.

“With only five years until the first deadline, New York’s emissions are rising rather than falling,” their attorneys wrote. “The state must not only reverse this trend but must rapidly decrease emissions in the next few years.”

NY is finding out that passing these laws is easy, but, actually making it happen in the face of Reality Land is much more difficult

The civil action was filed against the state Department of Environmental Conservation in state court Monday by Citizen Action of New York, the Sierra Club, WE ACT for Environmental Justice and PUSH Buffalo. They’re represented by Earthjustice, another environmental group.

Too bad you can bet the judge(s) involved will never ask the Warmists what they have done in their own lives. It matters.

The conflict is centered on the state’s proposed “cap-and-invest” program, which would essentially impose a tax on carbon emissions. It’s included in the state’s scoping plan, a roadmap toward its climate mandates developed by the Climate Action Council more than two years ago.

The program would place a cap on the amount of carbon emissions allowed in New York. Companies that report heavy emissions from transportation and heating fuels would have to pay the state for permission to create that pollution.

And that will skyrocket the cost of energy and the cost of living for NY residents.

The proceeds from the program would then be reinvested into renewable energy projects and infrastructure. They would also be used to help ratepayers offset any rise in utility costs that result because of the program.

It can only offset so much, and you know a good chunk of that money will simply disappear into government.

They want a judge to order the agency to immediately issue those draft regulations and finalize a timeline on which they would be adopted.

“These regulations are not just a technicality — they are the primary means of ensuring the state meets its climate mandates,” said Rachel Spector, a senior attorney at Earthjustice. “We don’t have time to wait to act on climate, and that’s why our clients are going to court today.”

What do the citizens of NY think? What do they want? If they want this, give them this. And then restrict any who support this from leaving the state.

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NY Times Upset Trump Squeezing Illegal Alien Workforce

I mean, who’s going to clean the bathrooms and do the floors at the NY Times building? Who’s going to clean the homes and fix the gardens of the NY Times high muckity mucks?

As Trump Squeezes the Immigrant Work Force, Employers Seek Relief

In recent weeks, managers of the nation’s resorts, plant nurseries, fish processors and racetracks started getting very worried.

The Trump administration had yet to release a batch of H-2B visas — those available for seasonal businesses that often can’t find enough workers domestically to fulfill demand.

Usually, the Department of Homeland Security releases them a few days after receiving more applications than the number of visas allowed for the second half of the year. That cap was reached on March 5, but no announcement came. Industry lobbyists got members of Congress to reach out on their behalf, put on a fund-raiser at Mar-a-Lago and sent a letter urging the administration to continue issuing the visas.

“It needs to be done by April 1, otherwise we all get backed up,” said Greg Chiecko, the president of the Outdoor Amusement Business Association, which represents traveling carnival producers. “We’ve heard that they’re going to, but they’re being very deliberate in waiting a little bit.”

The sad part here is that it used to be American kids who did these jobs. After school, on the weekends, during the summer. What the hell are they doing now? Do they even have summer jobs? Is it truly necessary to bring temporary aliens in to do these jobs?

Finally, last Wednesday, a news release announced that the visas would continue to flow, allowing businesses that banked on having them for the summer to move forward with their plans.

But the anxiety reflected a deep uncertainty about where President Trump is headed on legal immigration programs, both temporary and permanent, as the administration ramps up deportations and moves to end the legal status of millions who arrived in recent years. Those actions will squeeze the labor supply that many employers depend on — and they’re using the crackdown to argue for broader channels for people to come and work.

Most of those the Biden-Harris admin brought/allowed in are not here for jobs: they’re here for free everything. They did not come on work visas. Further, we have seen for decades that many who come here on these temporary visas do not leave, and then demand citizenship a decade or two later. Same with other types of visas.

Last week, the American Business Immigration Coalition — a group representing employers of immigrants — gathered its members in Washington to plead their case with lawmakers. Their refrain: Congress can both stop illegal migration and bring more people in legally, as well as give those already here a chance to stay.

We can. But, Democrats do not want to. Right off the bat if you make employers and schools responsible under threat of big fines to keep track of the immigration status of those on visas, requiring them to notify the visa holders that they are about to end and federal immigration forces, then terminate them or boot them from schools if the visas expire, this would go a long way towards ending visa abuse. Make the penalties for those with expired visas tough, starting with the law allow immediate deportation and using any money/assets to fund this. Change the law to require immediate deportation for anyone caught illegally in the US, the way it use to be as late as the 1980s.

Democrats do not want to stop illegal immigration

The could start with a fix for the people brought to the United States as children who are currently shielded from deportation under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, which polls well even among Republicans. Representative Jim Jordan, the Ohio Republican who heads the House Judiciary Committee, has said immigration reforms including help for the Dreamers, as they’re known, could follow the tax bill currently being negotiated.

And there it is. Amnesty for all the Dreamers. But, like I wrote in 2017

Here’s a recommendation: Congress puts DACA into law, but allows 4 year renewals, rather than 2 years, in order to decrease burden on federal agencies. Just like with people who are applying for citizenship, any serious crimes can be cause to cancel an illegals legal status and deport them. And, yes, even DUIs may be considered cause, just like with those applying for citizenship. After 12 years, they can go through the same process as those applying for citizenship in order to attempt to earn full citizenship.

BUT, if we aren’t going to lay the “sins” of the parent(s) on the children, we are going to lay them on the parent(s). In order to obtain DACA status, the parent(s) must self deport, and provide proof at an immigration checkpoint as they leave. They are not allowed back in the United States for 2 years, and then only for a short visit. If they are caught residing in the U.S., or attempting to enter the country illegally, the children will have their DACA status ended and will be deported. After 12 years, they would be allowed to apply for temporary resident status, conditioned on speaking English and having good moral character. This seems fair. The parents broke our laws.

If you don’t agree with punishing the parents, then you’re simply using DACA to create a backdoor amnesty for all.

Dems do not want the parents gone. They do not want the illegals/fake asylum seekers gone

Judge pauses Trump administration plans to end temporary legal protections for Venezuelans

A federal judge on Monday paused plans by the Trump administration to end temporary legal protections for hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans, a week before they were scheduled to expire.

The order by U.S. District Judge Edward Chen in San Francisco is a relief for 350,000 Venezuelans whose Temporary Protected Status was set to expire April 7 after Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem reversed protections granted by the Biden administration.

Chen said in his ruling that the action by Noem “threatens to: inflict irreparable harm on hundreds of thousands of persons whose lives, families, and livelihoods will be severely disrupted, cost the United States billions in economic activity, and injure public health and safety in communities throughout the United States.”

The protections for the Venezuelans is already going to expire: is he making law from the bench that the TPS must continue? Same for the Haitians who’s protection ends in August? Under what statute?

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Rolling Stone Melts Down Over Trump Trying To Convince World Global Warming Is Good

Is a slight increase in global temperatures over 177 years good? Bad? Or, really, is it something Mankind can mostly do nothing about? Anyhow, I remember when Rolling Stone was counter culture and wasn’t into taking the Big Government POV

TRUMP WANTS TO CONVINCE THE WORLD THAT CLIMATE CHANGE IS A GOOD THING

Windmills cause cancer. They’re killing birds and whales. Electric vehicles don’t work. Have you heard about the electric sharks? Climate change is a hoax. There are many things Donald Trump has said about climate change and renewable energy that are difficult to make sense of, but Trump’s newest line on climate change is both dumbfounding and truly dangerous: He is now determined to convince the world that climate change is a good thing.

Trump has certainly downplayed the effects of climate change in the past. He’s claimed rising sea levels will create more beachfront property, which would seem to be a misunderstanding of how land works. He’s talked about how people would actually be happy if it was a little warmer outside. Even Trump adviser Elon Musk, who runs an EV company, has downplayed the threat of climate change in recent months.

Now, Trump is aiming to use the power of the federal government to reframe climate change as something that will benefit humanity.

Trump is reportedly intent on rewriting an Environmental Protection Agency’s 2009 endangerment finding, which found greenhouse gases are a threat to public health and welfare, in order to downplay the negative effects of climate change. He’s working to decimate climate reporting in general. He also wants to muddy the waters by producing a National Climate Assessment written by climate deniers who argue that the impacts of climate change are overstated — or would even be a net positive.

Yeah, the Trump Derangement/pro-climate cult stuff continues on and on, but, consider: Mankind has done a whole lot better during Holocene warm periods than cool ones, for the most part. Empires rose during warm ones, collapsed during cool ones. Famine was worse during cool periods than warm ones. Mankind has moved further and faster during the Modern Warm Period than during any previous warm period. Of course, none of this matters to the Warmists.

Trump is reportedly intent on rewriting an Environmental Protection Agency’s 2009 endangerment finding, which found greenhouse gases are a threat to public health and welfare, in order to downplay the negative effects of climate change. He’s working to decimate climate reporting in general. He also wants to muddy the waters by producing a National Climate Assessment written by climate deniers who argue that the impacts of climate change are overstated — or would even be a net positive.

Obviously, I’m saving that graphic.

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If All You See…

…is a field that’s perfect to be replaced with a solar farm, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Watts Up With That?, with a post on ‘climate change’ to blame for the Myanmar earthquake.

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Credentialed Media Shocked The Border Is Quiet

Will they come to the right conclusion as to why the border is rather quiet now?

California-Mexico border, once overwhelmed, now nearly empty

When the humanitarian aid workers decided to dismantle their elaborate tented setup — erected right up against the border wall — they hadn’t seen migrants for a month.

A year earlier, when historic numbers of migrants were arriving at the border, the American Friends Service Committee, a national Quaker-founded human rights organization, came to their aid. Eventually the group received enough donations to erect three canopies, where it stored food, clothing and medical supplies.

But migrant crossings have slowed to a near halt, bringing a striking change to the landscape along the southernmost stretch of California.

Shelters that once received migrants have closed, makeshift camps where migrants waited for processing are barren, and nonprofits have begun shifting their services to established immigrants in the U.S. who are facing deportation, or migrants stuck in southern Mexico.

Meanwhile, the Border Patrol, with the assistance of 750 U.S. military troops, has reinforced six miles of the border wall with concertina wire.

So, wait, all those things worked? I wonder who shut the border down and who left it open?

Border Patrol agents in the San Diego sector are now making about 30 to 40 arrests per day, according to the agency. That’s down from more than 1,200 per day during the height of migrant arrivals to the region in April.

So, 30 times less in just this sector, which already had a border wall up.

In May 2023, the Biden administration ended a pandemic-era policy under which migrants were denied the right to seek asylum and were rapidly returned to Mexico. In the leadup to the policy change, migrants descended on the border by the thousands.

Whoa. The LA Times uses the most Biden friendly way of saying that he opened the floodgates. But, he did it for humanitarian reasons, you know! He didn’t care about US citizens, but, he loves him some poor migrants (who spend thousands to tens of thousands to come to America from all over the world, including Islamic terrorists.

Stalnaker said federal prosecutors in San Diego had also accepted more than 1,000 border-related criminal cases this fiscal year. And following Trump’s tariff threats, Mexico vowed to send 10,000 National Guard troops to its northern border. Those troops now meet with U.S. agents a few times a week and conduct synchronous patrols on their respective sides of the border, Stalnaker said.

Oh, look, they finally mention Trump, the president who shut it down.

Farther east, Jacumba Hot Springs was once the site of additional open-air camps, where hundreds of migrants slept on plastic tarps (or in tents, if they were lucky) and huddled around campfires fueled by brush to stay warm.

Sam Schultz, a retired international relief worker who has lived near Jacumba for nine years, once made daily deliveries of water, hot meals and blankets to migrants there. When the camps popped up a few miles from his home, he felt compelled to help.

All these people and their groups are very upset that they are no longer getting tons of taxpayer money to help all the fake asylum seekers destroying America’s small towns. How much was used for payroll?

Immigrant Defenders Law Center, headquartered in Los Angeles, served migrants who were bused there from the border by the Texas governor; the group also provided legal help to those waiting in Tijuana for appointments with Customs and Border Protection. After his inauguration, President Trump quickly canceled existing appointments and ended use of a phone application used by the Biden administration to schedule them.

Finally, another mention of the guy who significantly reduced illegal immigration. Anyhow, there sure are lots of groups meant to help the fake asylum seekers/illegals, all getting government money, eh? Anyhow, it’s amazing what Trump was able to do without any sort of absurd legislation from Congress, right? It’s like the laws were already there.

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Bummer: More Americans Are Opting Out Of The Climate Cult

Maybe it’s just no longer as fashionable with Trump in office, and people are waking up

Growing Number of Americans ‘Aren’t Buying’ Climate Change Alarmism

Considering the massive propaganda effort to brainwash Americans into believing that climate change will doom humanity if we don’t stop burning fossil fuels yesterday, it is impressive to see just how little the American public buys the narrative.

A recent poll finds that Americans value energy independence, keeping car prices lower, and reducing the cost of electricity ahead of fighting climate change.

When asked, “Is it more important to make America energy independent or fight climate change?” most respondents (57%) chose energy independence, while another 39% chose climate change, and 4% said they were not sure.

When asked, “Which is more important, reducing greenhouse gas emissions to combat climate change, or keeping the price of cars low enough for families to afford them?” about half of respondents (50%) chose keeping car prices low, while 43% said reducing greenhouse gas emissions was more important. The remaining 7% said they were not sure.

When reality intrudes on the ability to live the high life and worry about bullshit make believe, the cares of Americans change. But, then, there are all those past polls where people who say They Care weren’t willing to make changes in their own lives nor want to see their own cost of living or taxes/fees go up.

When asked, “Which is more important, reducing greenhouse gas emissions or reducing the cost and improving the reliability of electricity and gas for American families?” respondents again rejected the climate goals. A majority (59%) said reducing energy cost and improving reliability was more important, while about a third (35%) chose the climate option. The remainder (5%) said they were not sure.

Even with the constant bleating from the media and elected officials for 35+ years, it’s not going well for the cult. But, never, ever think they will give up. They won’t.

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Oh Noes: Orange Man Bad To Remove Nearly 200 Year Old Magnolia Tree From White House

This is so horrible!

White House to remove magnolia tree dating to Andrew Jackson

The White House will remove from its property a magnolia tree planted nearly 200 years ago with seeds said to have been brought from former President Jackson’s home in Tennessee.

Horrible! Of course, this is simply a TDS clickbait headline from The Hill, one meant for those suffering from TDS to see it and rage at Trump, without bothering to read the article, which was up near the top of page

President Trump announced Sunday that, after consulting with the Executive Residence Staff and the National Park Service, the administration has decided to replace the tree, saying it poses a safety hazard.

“The bad news is that everything must come to an end, and this tree is in terrible condition, a very dangerous safety hazard, at the White House Entrance, no less, and must now be removed,” Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social, noting that the “good news” is that his administration is “making tremendous enhancements to the White House.”

They been trying to save the tree for decades, but, it is toast. Trees do die. This is really much ado about nothing. Remember the complete freakout over Melania wanted to utterly destroy the rose garden, which was created in 1913? But, it ended up being them tearing it all up and making it more modern and replanting everything? Much like Jackie Kennedy did in the early 60s.

And everyone wonders why the media has lost all trust. And all the TDS, like this

Yeah, they were MIA with all that, and more. They sure didn’t have any criticism of Biden nor Obama.

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