Surprise: UN Blames US For Losing Ground On ‘Climate Change’

By William Teach October 22, 2026 – 3:00 pm

Right, right, because India and China mean nothing if we’re supposed to believe that this is all caused by “carbon pollution”

U.S. is a big reason the world is losing ground in the fight against climate change, U.N. report says

Losing more ground in the fight against climate change, humanity is heading for a hotter world than experts projected last year — and the United States is a big reason for that, a new United Nations report says.

If all the countries do what they promise to reduce heat-trapping emissions, Earth will most likely still warm another 2.2 degrees Fahrenheit (1.2 degrees Celsius) above current temperatures, according to Wednesday’s update of climate calculations by the United Nations Environment Programme. That’s about two-tenths of a degree Fahrenheit (0.1 degrees Celsius) more than last year’s projections by the same science team.

“This is a worse outcome than expected last year, as a result of the formal withdrawal of the United States of America from the Paris Agreement and revised estimates of historical emissions,” the report said.

The report also blames the United States for increased emissions last year, saying all the other top 20 major economies reduced their carbon pollution or at least slowed the growth in how much carbon dioxide was spewed from the burning of coal, oil and gas.

“In terms of magnitude, the increase in the United States of America (133 megatons of CO2 equivalent) far exceeded that of all other countries and was driven by increased electricity demand and a rebound of coal power generation,” the report said.

They actually believe that China and India, among others, were playing nice with this. But, then, the UN, and the leftist news outlets, are always happy to Blame The US.

The new calculations say that if countries do all they promise in the climate-fighting plans they submitted to the United Nations, by 2100 the globe will be 2.6 degrees Celsius (4.7 degrees Fahrenheit) hotter than pre-industrial times. If the world continues on its current path — without national promises — it will be 2.8 degrees Celsius (5 degrees Fahrenheit) warmer than the last half of the 19th century, the same as last year’s projection.

Both of those temperatures blow far past the goal of less than 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) and preferably 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) adopted by the 2015 Paris climate pact. The world is now at about 1.4 degrees Celsius (2.5 degrees Fahrenheit) above pre-industrial times and earlier this year — and again in this report — United Nations officials conceded that there is no way of limiting warming to the 1.5-degree goal that they had embraced. Instead, officials are pinning their hopes of limiting warming to about 1.8 degrees Celsius (3.2 degrees Fahrenheit) and then somehow pulling enough carbon dioxide out of the air to lower temperatures back down to 1.5 degrees.

BS. Just BS. Go peddle your climahysteria elsewhere.

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If All You See…

By William Teach October 22, 2026 – 1:00 pm

…is a coral reef which will die due to carbon pollution, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is The Dry Bone Blog, with a post on “The continuing spread of “Free Palestine” protests”

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50 Million AI “Songs” Removed From Spotify Out Of Recommendations This Year

By William Teach October 22, 2026 – 10:30 am

It’s wild how all the “we’re all going to die!” articles about AI have mostly dried up within a month, and now we get

Spotify Has Removed 50 Million AI Slop Tracks From Recommendations This Year

Spotify‘s quest to curb the chaos AI-generated music has brought onto the platform has prompted it to remove 50 million AI slop tracks from users’ recommendations this year, a new figure shared Tuesday as part of the company’s public insights into how it’s navigating the AI era.

The disclosure came in a post on its “For the Record” blog, where Spotify laid out the efforts it’s taken since it promised to push back against various forms of AI slop and spam that have proliferated across the streaming service.

The 50 million tracks the streamer removed from recommendations were in addition to more than 75 million tracks Spotify pulled completely after being flagged as spam, though tracks that comprise the 50 million figure have not been removed from the platform. According to Spotify, the 50 million AI-generated tracks are still available but a user would have to actively seek them out to find them (since they aren’t recommended algorithmically or editorially).

“Earlier this year, we looked closely at the tracks listeners were skipping, ignoring, or telling us they didn’t want to hear,” the platform shared in the post. “A clear pattern emerged: these tracks were consistently ones identified as slop or spam. Over the past six months, we’ve made numerous updates to our recommendation system to remove slop and spam, and surface more music made by authentic, human artists. Our editors hold the same standard and don’t program content identified as slop or spam. Since we made these changes, we’ve seen a marked decrease in listener concerns about this content showing up in recommendations.”

So, were the songs any good? I have no idea, because I’m sure they are in the “Today’s Hit Music” category. All that pop, hip-hop, rap, etc category, not metal. All the various types of rock other than metal I listen to (Rush, Jimmy Buffett, yacht rock, Eagles, etc) aren’t making much these days, so, not affected. But, are any of these AI songs better than the current today’s hit music! “songs”?

Really, when does Spotify remove all the over-produced garbage that uses a ton of autotune and computers to generate the limited amount of music? Heck, I bet a ton of the newer songs were generated using AI. Which can generate interesting lyrics, but, there’s no soul to them, because they are not based on experiences. There are no real stories attached.

Can AI produce Life In The Fast Lane? A song that started because of a warm-up lick by Joe Walsh? Do 3 guitars, drums, bass? Have them play something besides the equivalent of a metronome? Lyrics that tell a story? Or Aja by Steely Dan, a masterpiece which people would use to adjust the equalizer on their stereos for perfect sound? Voodoo Chile by Jimi Hendrix? Until it can do stuff like that, it is basically the same as all the slop you hear on today’s hit music stations. Maybe the people listening to it should try something different.

Everyone is squeeing about this at the moment

This might as well be AI slop. What’s the difference? AI could make this easily. Also, it’s hilarious that Tate, like so many of the women in this THM! slop, is saying she doesn’t need men but wears clothes and dances like she’s at a strip club (she has nor real rhythm, though, it’s not fluid) to attract men. Do males listen to this crap? They don’t go to “concerts” like this.

Anyway, I’m not worried about AI making music because there’s not much difference between it and Today’s Hit Music. I’ll worry when it can do actual songs. When it can make metal songs and do guitars, when it can do more than a basic metronome with the drums and bass guitar.

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California Climate Assessment By Warmists Warns Of Doom For California

By William Teach October 22, 2026 – 7:15 am

We can solve this with more taxes, fees, and control of citizen’s lives

Latest Climate Report Warns of Major Upheaval to California Way of Life

In just a few decades, summers in California will not only be much hotter, but will also stretch for months longer. Floods will become more widespread and extreme. Exposure to wildfire smoke will kill thousands more people every year.

Those are the dire projections of California’s Fifth Climate Change Assessment, a report produced by California every few years that analyzes the impacts of changing weather patterns on the nation’s most-populous state.

The future laid out in the report, which was published on Monday, touches on familiar warnings: more wildfires, bigger storms, longer droughts. But it illustrates in unsettling detail just how quickly the climate is being reshaped, and reveals what is likely to be major upheaval to long-established ways of life in California.

According to the report, average temperatures are likely to increase in California by about 4 degrees Fahrenheit by the middle of the century. Current warming in California is unprecedented compared with the past century and estimates for the past millennium, the report shows.

Dire! 4F in 24 years even though it’s only gone up 1.7F since 1850.

A longer summer means a shorter winter for California, and warmer temperatures are expected to blanket lower-elevation ski resorts with rain instead of snow. The snowpack is expected to fall by 60 percent by 2100.

The report also found that without major intervention, as much as three-quarters of California’s beaches could disappear — either seasonally or permanently — by 2100 because of coastal erosion. In that same time frame, sea level rise is expected to threaten $78 billion worth of property because of coastal flooding.

The state’s agricultural industry is expected to take a major hit as well.

Dire! It’s so tedious.

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Cool: Trump Admin Has Revoked Over 300K Visas

By William Teach October 22, 2026 – 7:00 am

It’s like the old joke: What do you call 1,000 lawyers at the bottom of the sea?

A good start. Of course, this whole thing gives the totally unbiased folks at Reuters a sad

Trump administration says it has revoked over 300,000 visas

President Donald Trump’s administration has revoked over 300,000 US visas during his second term, the ?State Department said on Tuesday as the federal government continues its ?sweeping immigration crackdown.

The number showed an acceleration in the pace of visa revocations in recent ?weeks.

In an update issued on August 10, the State Department had put the number of visa revocations since Trump’s current term began in January 2025 at over 175,000.

Trump says his immigration crackdown and deportation drive aim to improve ?domestic security. Rights advocates ?say the crackdown has violated due process and free speech rights and has created an unsafe environment, particularly for ?ethnic minorities, who have raised concerns about racial profiling. (snip)

Among visa revocations particularly condemned by rights advocates are those of pro-Palestinian foreign protesters demonstrating against US ally Israel’s attacks on Gaza and of foreigners over their social media comments about conservative ?commentator Charlie Kirk’s assassination.

Yeah, we really do not need Jew haters, America haters, and pro-Islamic terrorist groups folks in the U.S. There’s no right for them to be here: their visas are conditional, and can be revoked at any time. It’s right there in the terms and conditions. If they didn’t read it, that’s on them.

In announcing the latest number on X, State Department spokesman Tommy Pigott said the Trump administration “has revoked more ?visas at ?a faster pace than any administration ?in history.”

Pigott said the administration ?had “zero tolerance for foreigners here on visas who break the law, commit fraud, or undermine our national security.”

Most Americans agree with this, except the America, Israel, and Jew haters who vote Democrat.

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Weird: LA Non-profit Took Lots Of Taxpayer Money And Failed To Spend It

By William Teach October 21, 2026 – 3:00 pm

It’s almost like it is a horrendous idea to give tons of taxpayer money to private entities with zero oversight, who basically just enrich themselves

LA’s $87M taxpayer money mystery deepens as nonprofit backed by mayoral hopeful Nithya Raman faces spending scrutiny

surprise surprise surpriseAn LA nonprofit bankrolled with millions in taxpayer funds through mayoral candidate Nithya Raman’s eviction-defense program more than tripled its revenue in five years, even as reported housing and eviction-defense spending plunged, a California Post investigation found.

The Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles (LAFLA) saw its annual revenue soar from $17.6 million in 2019 to $58.6 million in 2024, while its net assets doubled to nearly $44 million, according to its IRS returns.

But City Attorney Hydee Feldstein Soto’s office found that LAFLA’s reported housing and eviction-defense spending plunged from $17.6 million in 2022 to $4.4 million in 2024.

Feldstein Soto is now demanding a full audit, warning that $55 million to $87 million in city and county funding cannot be reconciled with the nonprofit’s public financial records.

Unfortunately, this is the norm. What isn’t normal is Government looking for accountability, so, I suspect Karen Bass might have something to do with siccing the LA Attorney’s Office on the LAFLA. Democrats should all remember that, sure, most of this graft and slush ends up in the hands of Democrat entities, with some being fed back to Democrat politicians, but, imagine what could be done if the money was actually spent wisely and on what it was supposed to be spent on.

Like Marco Rubio said, only about 20% of the money USAID dealt around actually went to the stated purpose. What if we spent all of it on the stated purpose? It also points out that spending could be cut tremendously and still get the job done.

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If All You See…

By William Teach October 21, 2026 – 1:00 pm

…is horrible heatsnow from carbon pollution, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Pacific Pundit, with a post on “Ramaswamy ad causes crazy communist Amy Acton to ditch campaign event – claims she “lost her voice””

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Feds Supposedly Have DNA That Proves Ilhan Omar Married Her Brother

By William Teach October 21, 2026 – 10:30 am

This just got disturbingly hilarious. Of course, you won’t find this in places like the NY Times, Washington Post, and so many others

Feds have DNA evidence that could prove Ilhan Omar wed her brother, committed immigration fraud: sources

Federal prosecutors are planning to use DNA evidence to try to prove Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) committed immigration fraud, as part of the sprawling investigation into the congresswoman, sources told The Post.

People familiar with the years-long criminal probe said the feds have made use of whistleblowers, government records and now obtained DNA in an effort to substantiate decade-old allegations that Omar — and possibly members of her family like her father — defrauded immigration authorities.

One source said the DNA evidence was critical to proving an allegation that Omar married her brother when she wed Ahmed Nur Said Elmi in 2009 because she was trying to help him get a green card — which never came to fruition.

It’s unclear whether the DNA was taken before or after Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) searched the congresswoman’s home in Washington, DC, last Monday, when federal agents were seen exiting the bungalow with boxes marked “Seized Property Evidence.”

Two more indicated that the execution of the search warrant on Oct. 12, coupled with the DNA and additional evidence, has provided a solid basis to bring charges of conspiracy to commit some form of immigration fraud before a grand jury, stemming from the probe initiated by the Minnesota US Attorney’s Office.

Given the case is being pursued as a general conspiracy, the evidence will prove useful even if some of the acts fall outside of the statute of limitations.

“If you argue a conspiracy, you can allege overt acts in furtherance of the conspiracy that are outside the statute of limitations,” said Neama Rahmini, a former federal prosecutor.

But, what is the crime? It is illegal under state laws to marry a direct family member, but, not federally.

Elmi, who divorced from Omar in 2017, reportedly applied and then withdrew his application for a marriage-based green card in 2019, when US Citizenship and Immigration Services asked for additional evidence about his marriage to her, according to The Washington Post.

But, it is illegal federally to marry someone for fraudulent immigration purposes. So, this could be just one more point of possible criminality in any trial of Ilhan. And the conspiracy part could get more in depth if Ilhan was actually 18 when her father received citizenship (which he never should have received, but, that’s a different story) and faked being 17.

DC US Attorney Jeanine Pirro is also investigating issues related to the congresswoman’s finances — including entries in House disclosures that resulted in Omar deflating her net worth by tens of millions of dollars in the last year due to an unexplained accounting “discrepancy.”

“That judge would not have signed that warrant unless there was probable cause,” Pirro told Fox News. “If there was a crime committed, it will be prosecuted.”

Really, that is the one which could end up being the big deal. If there is evidence of fraud, if there is a link to the fraud in Minnesota, that could put her in jail while the whole sordid affair of her immigration status is adjudicated to the point that her citizenship is stripped and then she gets deported after serving jail time.

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Your Fault: California To Maybe Possibly We Think Lose A Lot Of Beachfront

By William Teach October 21, 2026 – 7:15 am

In the future, of course

Major loss of California beaches predicted in latest climate forecast

As ocean levels rise, waves crash farther inland and the coast continues to crumble, Southern California is on track to lose 30 to 70% of its beaches over the next several decades. Almost half of all beach cliffs are likely to retreat by 30 to 80 feet by 2100. And a 1.6-foot increase in sea level rise by 2060 will leave low-lying coastal areas including the ports, Santa Monica, Venice and Redondo beaches particularly vulnerable to floods and storms, with one estimate predicting 15,000 people exposed in Los Angeles County.

Those are just some of the dire findings in California’s Fifth Climate Change Assessment, a state-commissioned report that comes out every several years and details how climate change is expected to affect everything from public health to animal habitat to central touchstones of the California way of life.

“There are things in there that are hard to digest, and hard to wrap our heads around,” said Abby Edwards, senior deputy director for the Governor’s Office of Land Use and Climate Innovation, which led the assessment. “I just hope that this can be a call to action to make sure we are still really doubling down on all of our climate mitigation goals.”

Let’s see:

Santa Monica (which would cover Venice, as well, since so close): .36 feet since 1983

Redondo Beach is halfway between Santa Monica and the LA station, which shows .17 feet since 1983

We aren’t going to get 1.6 feet of rise in 34 years. More like another 150-200 years, if things continue the way they’ve been. This is all doomsaying for money and and government controlling citizen’s lives.

I’m not digging the change to the NOAA website, especially since no longer seems to have international data, and it really doesn’t have the historical tide gauge data. The probably removed it as it is even more inconvenient.

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NYC Pitches Snit Fit At Private Companies Using AI Chatbots

By William Teach October 21, 2026 – 7:00 am

It’s always some type of government controlling private companies with these Democrats

Customer Service Chatbots Must Be Stopped

Press 1 if you’ve heard this story before. Press 2 if it has happened to you.

After a recent trip, I noticed several mysterious charges on my hotel bill. Certain I hadn’t raided the minibar, I went hunting for a customer service number to get an explanation. I searched and I searched. Nothing. Instead, all I could find was an offer for a “live chat” blinking in the bottom-right corner of my phone screen. I gave it a try.

Three dots danced. A friendly name appeared. Cheerful pleasantries were exchanged. I began explaining my problem until an F.A.Q. menu suddenly interrupted me. That’s when I realized I had been communicating with a chatbot all along.

I had stumbled into the digital labyrinth — a veritable Hotel California, and I was just a prisoner of my own device. I explained my predicament. I re-explained it, supplying information it already seemed to have, answering prompts that had little to do with the the question I was asking, and rebuffing discount codes and propositions to book another stay. At one point, I pleadingly typed a single word in all caps: HUMAN. The machine whirred, ignoring me.

As I floundered, I found myself reflecting on the future of customer service. Based on my 25-minute ordeal, I began to suspect that the chatbot was not designed to solve my problem. It seemed to be designed to test how much friction customers would tolerate — how much information we would provide to train future models — before giving up. What the chatbot probably didn’t know was that this customer is in a position to fight back.

Yeah, this happens with real humans, as well. Since late December 2025 I’ve dealt with it twice: 1st trying to order a knockoff guitar, went back and forth to the point I threatened to put in a dispute with my credit card company, and then did. And the CC company found in my favor within 24 hours. Another involved an app which connects to something I use a lot, wasn’t working, all I wanted was it to work and, heck, they could reimburse $10. There’s a lot more to this, but, the multiple people involved were atrocious (one didn’t even know their own product), and ended with me typing a letter, putting it in an envelope, and mailing it. That’s how PO’d I was. Finally got 2 months free and an apology.

In my job as commissioner of the New York City Department of Consumer and Worker Protection, I hear similar complaints from New Yorkers of every stripe. Automated customer service systems tasked with handling our data and money are driving us crazy. Whether you’re trying to return a purchase, cancel a subscription or recover a hacked account, getting actual help requires a Homeric quest past a morass of junk. (blah blah blah)

Today, New York City is going a step further, proposing some of the most rigorous rules in the nation to protect customers against automated doom loops, including automated voice systems and chatbots. Our proposal is simple: Companies can still use A.I. and other automated tools, but they need to tell consumers when they are communicating with a chatbot — and make it much easier to reach a human being.

Companies whose chatbots and automated voice systems mislead people, leave them stuck without help or only pretend to offer support would face significant penalties, with fines per violation (per customer) ranging from $525 for a first-time offender up to $3,500. Reminder: There are roughly 8.6 million people living in New York City, according to the latest census.

Of course they’re doing this, and those fines will be based on very subjective standards. And Samuel A.A. Levine hopes this becomes a template for cities everywhere, because Leftists love government controlling the private sector. A lot of the time simply because they had a poor experience.

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