Good Grief, The Climate Cult Discovers Contrails (again)

By William Teach July 18, 2025 – 3:00 pm

This is not exactly a new thing from the Cult of Climastrology, but, I’ve only seen it once.

Contrails are aviation’s most ignored problem. Could new routes help?

Passenger aircraft contribute significantly to global warming, primarily due to the large amounts of carbon dioxide (CO2) emitted during flights – one of the main greenhouse gases driving climate change.

But flight traffic is also responsible for other climate-damaging emissions including aerosols, nitrogen oxides and, to a very large extent, contrails.

Combined, these so-called non-CO2 emissions account for more than 60% of the climate damage caused by aircraft, according to researchers.

Last year they said it was just over a third from contrails.

Contrails — the white line-shaped clouds left behind by planes — pose a particular problem as they are able to trap heat, contributing to warming.

Research has been under way for years whether air masses in which particularly long-lived contrails form can be circumvented.

But, what if we do not see contrails from planes? Does that mean it’s not happening?

What are contrails?

First: No, they do not consist of chemicals nefariously left behind in the sky (remember the chemtrail conspiracists?).

Sure sounds like the cult is claiming they are chemicals nefariously left behind in the sky. Because, really, contrails are primarily water vapor. Except in Cult Land.

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If All You See…

By William Teach July 18, 2025 – 1:00 pm

…is a wonderful low carbon bike, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Green Jihad, with a post on climate cultist hijacking a plane.

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$9 Billion Rescission Bill Heads To Trump’s Desk

By William Teach July 18, 2025 – 10:30 am

It’s amazing how much caterwauling this minor cut, at least in terms of the federal budget, is causing among Democrats and a few squishy Republicans

Congress sends bill clawing back $9B in foreign aid, public media funds to Trump’s desk

House Republicans late Thursday night approved the first batch of cuts made by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), sending the $9 billion package to President Trump’s desk in a big victory for the GOP.

The legislation — which claws back already-approved federal funding for foreign aid and public broadcasting — cleared the chamber in a mostly party-line 216-213 vote less than one day after the Senate passed the measure.

Two Republicans, Reps. Brian Fitzpatrick (Pa.) and Mike Turner (Ohio), voted with every Democrat against the measure.

Trump is expected to sign the bill soon, as Republicans face a Friday deadline to enact the cuts or release the funds to the organizations they were appropriated for.

Would it be too much to ask for Republicans to go through the federal budget with the legendary fine toothed comb and eliminate everything that is unnecessary, that is not part of what Congress is supposed to do per the Constitution? To audit every agency and cut the fraud, waste, and abuse? That would be some real cuts.

“We’re gonna downsize the scope of government,” Mike Johnson said. “Government is too large, it does too many things and it does almost nothing well. We believe in a limited government that’s accountable and efficient and effective for the people and we’re gonna continue to demonstrate that through our actions here on the floor.”

$9 billion isn’t much, but, hopefully a start. We’ll see.

Some Republicans have also warned the president’s use of the rare tool to secure cuts to funding previously approved by Congress risks further eroding trust between both parties as lawmakers ramp up their annual funding work.

“Some”. Why do we care? Democrats do not care about bipartisanship. We all remember Obamacare, right?

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) earlier this month said passage of the rescissions package “would be an affront to the bipartisan appropriations process.”

“That’s why a number of Senate Republicans know it is absurd for them to expect Democrats to act as business as usual and engage in a bipartisan appropriations process to fund the government, while they concurrently plot to pass a purely partisan rescissions bill to defund those same programs negotiated on a bipartisan basis behind the scenes,” he continued, later adding: “This is beyond a bait and switch – it is a bait and poison-to-kill.”

Cry me a river. These little things are never negotiated, they’re just included and no one thinks about them. No one has been making a stunk in arguing over the small stuff. Suck it up, Dems.

Certainly NPR can make up that 1% of budget that the rescission package eliminates so they can yammer about liberal stuff, right?

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Bummer: Trump Sign Order Waiving Biden EPA Regs For 2 Years

By William Teach July 18, 2025 – 7:00 am

Can’t wait for yet another whiny lawsuit within a few days

Trump signs proclamations granting two-year relief from Biden-era EPA regulations

U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday signed four proclamations granting two years of regulatory relief from Biden-era Environmental Protection Agency regulations, the White House said.

The proclamations cover coal plants, taconite iron ore processing facilities and certain chemical manufacturers that produce chemicals related to semiconductors, medical device sterilization, advanced manufacturing, and national defense systems, according to the White House.

Let’s look at the order

The exemptions ensure that these facilities within these critical industries can continue to operate uninterrupted to support national security without incurring substantial costs to comply with, in some cases, unattainable compliance requirements.

Biden-era emissions standards impose costly and, in some cases, unattainable compliance requirements on these industries essential to national interests.

The technologies necessary to comply with these Biden-era standards are further not commercially viable in many instances.

Many of Biden’s, well, his advisor’s, orders were impossible to comply with, and were simply meant to shut companies down.

Here’s the thing: Executive Orders under one president can be cancelled out by another president’s EOs. Rules can be temporarily waived. And then rules can be cancelled. Most of what Biden was doing was all for ‘climate change’, and really made no difference except killing companies.

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ICE Given Access To Medicaid Records To Track Down Illegals

By William Teach July 18, 2025 – 6:45 am

I’m not sure why Democrats are so incensed by this, because they keep saying

So, then why the caterwauling over ICE getting access?

ICE will get access to Medicaid enrollees’ personal information

The Trump administration will start sharing the personal information of nearly 79 million Medicaid enrollees, including home addresses and ethnicities, with federal immigration authorities as the president seeks to ramp up deportations.

In a statement to NBC News on Thursday, Department of Homeland Security spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin described the latest data-sharing agreement between her agency and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services as “an initiative” to ensure undocumented immigrants don’t access Medicaid benefits.

The Associated Press first reported the new agreement, which hasn’t been made public yet.

Immigrants who lack legal status and some lawfully present immigrants are already barred from enrolling in Medicaid, a federal health services program that provides nearly free coverage to beneficiaries. Yet federal law requires all states to offer emergency Medicaid, temporary coverage that pays only for lifesaving services in emergency rooms to anyone regardless of immigration status.

Medicaid is a jointly funded program between states and the federal government.

Does anyone really think they aren’t getting Medicaid in deep Democrat states? Because if they weren’t Democrats wouldn’t care.

Under the agreement, officials from Immigration and Customs Enforcement will use Medicaid data to get identity and location information of people ICE believes are in the country unlawfully, the AP reported.

ICE will have access to a database that includes the names, addresses, birth dates, ethnic and racial information, as well as Social Security numbers for all people enrolled in Medicaid, the AP reported. The agreement allows ICE to review the database only from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday until Sept. 9. It isn’t allowed to download the data.

Obviously, ICE knows something. They aren’t just on a fishing expedition, which would be a big waste of manpower. They know what they’re looking for.

California Attorney General Rob Bonta said the state is moving quickly to obtain a court order to block the sharing of data for immigration enforcement.

If there is nothing there why bother?

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Climate “Scientists” Super Concerned About Coming Winter Weather From Too Much Heat

By William Teach July 17, 2025 – 3:40 pm

I mean, how many times have we seen this? It’s like a cult leader who gives the same sermon every couple of weeks. Usually, though, we get his in late Fall or in the middle of serious winter weather

Scientist issue warning about concerning phenomenon ahead of upcoming winter season: ‘Keeps the surface cooler’

Experts have projected record low levels of Arctic sea ice for the coming winter, which counterintuitively could mean frigid conditions for the United States, Canada, and Europe, Severe Weather Europe reported. (big snip through cult blah)

Less Arctic sea ice during the winter months also means higher temperatures in the atmosphere, which can weaken or even collapse the polar vortex, according to Severe Weather Europe.

The condition of the polar vortex influences everyday weather around the globe.

“A strong/stable polar vortex usually means strong polar circulation and jet stream,” Severe Weather Europe explained. “This locks the colder air into the Arctic Circle, creating milder conditions for most of the United States and warmer-than-normal conditions over southern Canada.”

A weaker and more unstable polar vortex, on the other hand, weakens the jet stream, which allows cold air to escape from the Arctic region and descend upon the U.S. and Canada.

In other words, winter is going to be colder and snowier and stuff because you drive a planet boiling fossil fueled vehicle.

Meanwhile, one of my favorite rocker went cult (couldn’t be due to low ticket sales, right? Especially with no new albums since 2011, and your last big album was 1982? With six not so good since Abracadabra?)

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If All You See…

By William Teach July 17, 2025 – 1:00 pm

…is a field perfect for a solar farm, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is IOTW Report, with a post on a J&J scientist saying their COVID shots were not safe and effective.

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Long Overdue: Senator Cruz Submits Bill Designating Muslim Brotherhood Terrorist Organization

By William Teach July 17, 2025 – 10:30 am

The Muslim Brotherhood has long been one of the main roots of Islamic extremism and terrorism around the world. There’s a reason Egypt bans them. Hamas, Hezbollah, Islamic Jihad, Al Qaeda, ISIS, and so many more have heavy links to the MB, really going back to the around the late 1930s. But, the MB doesn’t just want violence, they want to spread by soft power, infiltrating Western worlds and pushing them towards Islamic extremism

Ted Cruz Introduces Bill to Label Muslim Brotherhood a Foreign Terrorist Group

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) reintroduced legislation Wednesday to officially designate the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist organization, marking the latest push in his decade-long crusade to impose sanctions on the worldwide Islamist network that spawned Hamas and other terror groups threatening American interests.

The Texas Republican’s Muslim Brotherhood Terrorist Designation Act of 2025 employs a new “bottom up” strategy designed to overcome previous Democratic opposition by first identifying Brotherhood branches that explicitly engage in terrorism before designating the entire organization for supporting those terror affiliates.

“The Muslim Brotherhood is a terrorist organization, and it provides support to Muslim Brotherhood branches that are terrorist organizations,” Cruz declared in a statement. “One of those branches is Hamas, which on October 7 committed the worst single-day massacre of Jews since the Holocaust, which included the murder and kidnapping of at least 53 Americans.”

Cruz emphasized the urgency of the designation, noting that the Brotherhood remains “committed to the overthrow and destruction of America and other non-Islamist governments across the world, and pose an acute threat to American national security interests.”

Most of what you see happening in London, Paris, EU nations, Australia, Canada, has its roots in the MB plan for a soft takeover. The United Nations making blasphemy against the “Prophet” (and pedophile) Muhammed forbidden is part of the plan. Canada forbidding insulting Islam and prosecuting is part of the plan.

The legislation formally codifies the connection between Hamas and its parent organization, stating in the bill text that “Hamas is a Muslim Brotherhood branch, according to its charter; which describes Hamas as ‘one of the wings of the Muslim Brotherhood in Palestine.’” The bill further notes that “on October 7, 2023, Hamas terrorists committed the worst 1-day massacre of Jews since the Holocaust, which included the murder, kidnapping, or disappearance of at least 53 United States citizens.”

Will Democrats support legislation that goes against the group looking to kill Jews?

The legislation takes a fundamentally different approach from Cruz’s previous attempts in 2015, 2017, 2020, and 2021, which faced criticism for potentially sweeping up Brotherhood affiliates that weren’t directly involved in violence. Speaking on his podcast Tuesday, Cruz outlined the strategic shift designed to overcome past objections.

Cruz acknowledged that previous efforts stumbled because critics argued that not all Brotherhood branches were actively engaged in violence, making a blanket designation difficult to justify. The new approach flips the methodology, beginning with clear identification of Brotherhood-supported groups that indisputably engage in terrorism before building the case for designating the parent organization.

His previous legislation was better, because it’s the “soft power” that is more insidious. Who would have thought that London would look like it does? That wasn’t created via violence. You have the Muslim Student Association here in the US, for instance, which pushes Islamic extremism on campus. Pushes Israel and Jew hatred. And America hatred. But, maybe, the more limited legislation will be a start.

Will Democrats try and block it? That would be a direct response from the MB affiliates using their soft power to influence the Democrats over the past 3-4 decades.

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Your Fault: Hurricanes Could Maybe Possibly Cause 60% More Damage In NY

By William Teach July 17, 2025 – 7:00 am

It’s all in the future, of course, unless you give up your use of fossil fuels and give your money and freedom to government

NY’s Hurricane Insured Loss Potential Up More Than 60% as Climate Changes

Insurance industry scientists put the spotlight on Northern U.S. cities in a new research paper about hurricane potential under a warmer climate scenario, finding that New York’s insured losses could rise by more than 60 percent.

Sam Phibbs and Ed L. Pope, the authors of “Insured U.S. Hurricane Loss Under a 2°C Warmer Climate,” also found that Rhode Island and Massachusetts may see increases of over 70 percent in average annual insurance hurricane loss under a climate scenario that is 2°C warmer than pre-industrial climate compared to a present-day climate (defined as 1.1°C above pre-industrial). (snip)

“These results suggest building codes applied in Gulf Coast states should be applied at higher latitudes to mitigate current and future impacts of climate change,” wrote the authors, who were both members of MS Amlin’s catastrophe research team. (Editor’s Note: Phipps is now Natural Catastrophe Lead for Hiscox, according to his LinkedIn profile.)

To conduct their analysis, the catastrophe research scientists relied on a third-party climate change dataset provided by Reask—specifically, regional rates of change in landfall rate for different intensities of tropical cyclone for a 2°C climate compared to the present-day climate. They then used the data to adjust MS Amlin’s simulated 100,000 year view of landfall rates for the U.S. (which is based on Moody’s medium-term rates, validated to be an appropriate representation of the present-day climate.)

So, all simulated rather than real world, and all based on “we think”. What about the Long Island Hurricane of 1938, when CO2 was below the safe level of 350ppm?

New York, ranked fourth in terms of absolute insured losses by state under both the present day and warmer climate scenarios, sees a 64 percent jump for a warmer climate.

So, they’re prognosticating a whole lot more hurricane landfalls for NY? OK. Who gets fired when this doesn’t happen?

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Heartache: LA County Sheriff Transferring Illegals To ICE

By William Teach July 17, 2025 – 6:45 am

There’s some teeth gnashing going on amongst the illegal alien supporters in the Los Angeles area, particularly those who make sure that the illegal criminals stay far away from their fancy-pants homes

L.A. County jails are handing inmates over to ICE for the first time in years

The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department has resumed transferring jail inmates to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement for the first time in years, despite local sanctuary policies that aim to shield people from deportation.

Eight inmates were released to ICE in May and a dozen more in June, according to sheriff’s department records reviewed by The Times. Eleven are Mexican, six are Guatemalan, and one each is from Colombia, El Salvador and Honduras. Their ages ranged from 19 to 63 years old.

The transfers to ICE are the first by the sheriff’s department since early 2020, when records show 43 people were sent to federal immigration custody from sheriff’s stations, jails and courts. That marked a steep decline from the 457 handed over in 2019, during President Trump’s first term.

The sheriff’s department and legal experts say the recent transfers were lawful and conducted in accordance with sanctuary policies and ordinances approved in recent years by the state, L.A. County and cities including Los Angeles, Long Beach and West Hollywood.

The LASD received warrants signed by federal judges, and, really, had no option but to hand the criminal illegals over.

Sanctuary laws generally forbid local authorities from enforcing civil immigration laws, but there are exceptions for cases that involve criminal offenses. The recent transfers, the sheriff’s department said, involved warrants for illegally reentering the country after having been previously deported, a federal crime that can carry a multiyear prison sentence.

Is that what they were being held for? Does anyone think that the LASD or LAPD arrested and detained these illegals over that? Or, for something else criminal, and then realized they were illegally present, and someone contacted ICE (when they are not supposed to) or ICE saw the arrest reports?

On the other side of the country in a different sanctuary city

Immigrants File Class-Action Lawsuit to Stop ICE Courthouse Arrests

A coalition of legal groups representing immigrants filed a class-action lawsuit against the Trump administration on Wednesday, arguing that the federal government’s campaign to arrest people at immigration courthouses so that they can be swiftly deported is unlawful and violates due process protections.

The lawsuit, filed by Democracy Forward and three other legal organizations on behalf of 12 immigrants, aims to stop the arrests at immigration courts, a contentious tactic that the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency began using in May to increase deportations nationwide.

So, they want to stop ICE from picking up illegals in a safe location as the illegals go to court for….to quote Excitable Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson…(wait for it)…. breaking the law? They don’t want illegals picked up in the streets, at schools, churches, shopping malls, restaurants, or their homes, and now court houses, so, where can they pick them up? Oh, right, they do not want them detained and deported no matter what, even if they are a child rapist.

The lawsuit was filed in the Federal District Court for the District of Columbia against the Department of Justice, which oversees the immigration courts; the Department of Homeland Security; and ICE. Several officials at federal agencies also were sued.

The plaintiffs include 12 immigrants, identified only by pseudonyms, from Cuba, Ecuador, Guinea, Venezuela and elsewhere. Many had entered the country without authorization from 2021 to 2024 and had applied for asylum. They were arrested when they showed up at courthouses this year. Most are in detention — in New York, Pennsylvania and Texas — and fear persecution in their home countries, the lawsuit said.

Well, we know that whatever crazy liberal judge gets this they’ll rule in favor of the illegals, and probably try the nationwide injunction thing, despite what the Supreme Court said, and then the judge will be smacked down, either by a courts of appeal or SCOTUS.

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