Bill Gates: Hotcoldwetdry “will not lead to humanity’s demise”

By William Teach October 28, 2025 – 5:41 pm

Has he come to his senses, or, some ulterior motive?

Bill Gates makes a stunning claim about climate change

stop global warmingIn a stunning and significant pushback to the “doomsday” climate activist community, Bill Gates, a leading proponent for carbon emissions reductions, published a remarkable essay Tuesday that argued resources must be shifted away from the battle against climate change.

Instead, Gates argues, the world’s philanthropists must increase their investment in other efforts aimed at preventing disease and hunger.

Climate change is not going to wipe out humanity, he argued, and past efforts that strive for achieving zero carbon emissions have made real progress. But Gates said that past investments fighting climate change have been misplaced, and too much good money has been put into expensive and questionable efforts.

He’s not wrong on that. How much has been utterly wasted in doing cult things, which could have been used for, say, real environmental concerns? How much time has been wasted? Resources misdirected?

The Trump administration’s funding cuts, Gates argues, necessitate an immediate and larger focus on investment and resources to support those abandoned efforts.

“Although climate change will have serious consequences – particularly for people in the poorest countries – it will not lead to humanity’s demise,” Gates wrote. “This is a chance to refocus on the metric that should count even more than emissions and temperature change: improving lives. Our chief goal should be to prevent suffering, particularly for those in the toughest conditions who live in the world’s poorest countries.”

Obviously, this is not going over well in Cult World

And Mann is tame compared to some of the stuff I’m seeing, calling Gates a traitor, saying he should be executed, and more.

Gates denied his new position represents a reversal from his past stances. He said in Tuesday’s essay that the world must continue to support its past efforts to achieve zero carbon emissions.

If you read it, Gates has not stopped being a card carrying member of the cult, he’s just realizing that the cult needs to be less cult, and there are other more worthy things to spend time and money and resources on. It’s the whole theory vs practice argument: most cultists/Warmists are happy to yap about Doing Something in theory, but, when it is their own lives and money they aren’t interested in practice.

Will Bill apologize? Or, is there something else going on?

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If All You See…

By William Teach October 28, 2025 – 1:00 pm

…are Evil fossil fueled vehicles, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Vox Popoli, with a post on Odessa being next.

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GOP Demands DOJ Investigate Biden’s Autopen Use

By William Teach October 28, 2025 – 10:30 am

I mean, we all knew what was going on. Even the Democrat moonbats constantly defending Biden had to know what was going on

Comer unleashes on Biden, demands DOJ probe of autopen use in scathing new report

Biden Brain SlugHouse Oversight Committee Chair James Comer, R-Ky., is demanding the Department of Justice (DOJ) conduct a “comprehensive” investigation into former President Joe Biden’s autopen use.

The committee’s GOP majority released a 100-page report on Tuesday morning detailing findings from its monthslong probe into Biden’s White House, specifically whether his inner circle covered up signs of mental decline in the ex-president, and if that alleged cover-up extended to executive actions signed via autopen without Biden’s full awareness.

“Faced with the cognitive decline of President Joe Biden, White House aides — at the direction of the inner circle — hid the truth about the former president’s condition and fitness for office,” the report said.

The report also detailed a “haphazard documentation process” for pardons made by Biden, which the committee argued left room for doubt over whether the former president made those decisions himself.

“In the absence of sufficient contemporaneous documentation indicating that cognitively deteriorating President Biden himself made a given executive decision, such decisions do not carry the force of law and should be considered void,” the GOP report said.

“The Department of Justice should immediately conduct a review of all executive actions taken by President Biden between January 20, 2021, and January 19, 2025. Given the patterns and findings detailed herein, this review should focus particularly on all acts of clemency. However, it should also include all other types of executive actions.”

Obviously, this is not going down well in the Credentialed Media, with the wagons being circled, such as

(Politico) In a new report released Tuesday morning, the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee’s Republican majority claims to have found evidence that senior Biden White House aides “exercised the authority of the former president” and concealed signs of Biden’s mental deterioration. In fact, the probe concluded with the need for answers to more questions than any appearance of a smoking gun.

More question! Actually, that’s a bad thing, because all those autopen signatures should be rather cut and dried, easy to understand. There should be no ambiguity.

The House Oversight GOP is citing, in part, this barrier to getting information from the witnesses as proof of an internal cover-up around Biden’s health. The committee chair is now asking President Donald Trump’s Department of Justice to look into each and every one of Biden’s executive actions, with Comer arguing the state of Biden’s mental faculties could not be accounted for at the time of signing.

“[B]arring documentation establishing a record of President Biden’s decision-making, the Committee deems void President Biden’s executive actions that were signed using the autopen,” Comer wrote in a letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi. “[A]nd the Committee determines that action by the Department of Justice is warranted to address the legal consequences of that determination.”

The request could prolong the administration’s crusade against some of Trump’s biggest political rivals, though the efforts to overturn Biden’s executive actions could be blocked by the courts. Presidents also have for years relied on the autopen to sign materials as a standard practice, and Biden has maintained that his decisions were his own.

The GOP wants to keep digging, which, let’s be fair, this is politics, and look what the Democrats did even before Trump was elected in 2016, and then continued when elected, and continued after he lost. But, I have to say, there may never be answers, because there will most likely never be an answer to the reality of Biden’s mental decline. I don’t care about his physical issues, because, really, he was old. The mental issues were and still are the issue. All the Democrats know it. Proving it? That’s the rub, and, most likely will never be solved.

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Bummer: Humanity Has Missed The 1.5C (fake) Threshold

By William Teach October 28, 2025 – 7:15 am

Weird how this can happen after all those countries pledged to Do Something back in 2015

‘Change course now’: humanity has missed 1.5C climate target, says UN head

Humanity has failed to limit global heating to 1.5C and must change course immediately, the secretary general of the UN has warned.

In his only interview before next month’s Cop30 climate summit, António Guterres acknowledged it is now “inevitable” that humanity will overshoot the target in the Paris climate agreement, with “devastating consequences” for the world.

He urged the leaders who will gather in the Brazilian rainforest city of Belém to realise that the longer they delay cutting emissions, the greater the danger of passing catastrophic “tipping points” in the Amazon, the Arctic and the oceans.

“Let’s recognise our failure,” he told the Guardian and Amazon-based news organisation Sumaúma. “The truth is that we have failed to avoid an overshooting above 1.5C in the next few years. And that going above 1.5C has devastating consequences. Some of these devastating consequences are tipping points, be it in the Amazon, be it in Greenland, or western Antarctica or the coral reefs.

“Our failure”? How about the failure of all the Elites who have done absolutely zero to reduce their own carbon footprints? Imagine what might have happened if all the Warmists had given up their own use of fossil fuels and made their own lives carbon neutral? Even cut their carbon footprints in half? This could have been solved. If the whole thing was real, of course.

He said the priority at Cop30 was to shift direction: “It is absolutely indispensable to change course in order to make sure that the overshoot is as short as possible and as low in intensity as possible to avoid tipping points like the Amazon. We don’t want to see the Amazon as a savannah. But that is a real risk if we don’t change course and if we don’t make a dramatic decrease of emissions as soon as possible.”

Is this the same COP30 where 40K will take fossil fueled flights from around the world then take fossil fueled vehicles to the venue traveling down a road which was built by chopping down lots of the Amazon?

Fewer than a third of the world’s nations (62 out of 197) have sent in their climate action plans, known as nationally determined contributions (NDCs) under the Paris agreement. The US under Donald Trump has abandoned the process. Europe has promised but so far failed to deliver. China, the world’s biggest emitter, has been accused of undercommitting.

Well, that’s weird? It’s almost like most do not actually care to go beyond the pledges.

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US Detains Islamist Speaker Hamdi, Revokes Visa

By William Teach October 28, 2025 – 7:00 am

Maybe he should have re-considered being a shill for Hamas before coming to the U.S.

US detains British commentator Hamdi in middle of national speaking tour

U.S. immigration authorities detained British commentator Sami Hamdi, revoked his visa and said he would be deported rather than allowed to complete his speaking tour in the United States, a Homeland Security official said on Sunday.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement has Hamdi in custody, DHS spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin posted on social media site X. “Under President Trump, those who support terrorism and undermine American national security will not be allowed to work or visit this country,” she wrote.

Hamdi spoke at a gala for the Council on American Islamic Relations in Sacramento, California on Saturday and was scheduled to speak on Sunday at one of the group’s events in Florida, the organization said in a statement. CAIR said he was detained at San Francisco International Airport.

Conservative figures had been urging the Trump administration to expel Hamdi from the United States.

CAIR and other Islamists are upset

(NY Post) Days after the attack, he reportedly told a crowd at a mosque in London to “celebrate the victory.”

“We are pitying a people who brought a huge victory since 1948,” he said. “Don’t pity them, they don’t want your pity. Celebrate the victory,” he said.

“How many of you felt it in your hearts when you got the news that it happened? How many of you felt the euphoria? Allahu Akbari!”

Hamdi also claimed Israel’s accusations of sexual violence committed by Hamas were false, according to The Telegraph.

Why would we allow an Islamic extremist be in the U.S.?

(Forward) “We’ve said it before, we’ll say it again: The United States has no obligation to host foreigners who support terrorism and actively undermine the safety of Americans,” The State Department posted to X. “We continue to revoke the visas of persons engaged in such activity.”

The US has no obligation. Democrats should realize that Islamists are in direct competition for control.

Meanwhile

(AP) The detention by immigration authorities of a Chicago man whose 16-year-old daughter is undergoing treatment for advanced cancer is illegal, and he must be given a bond hearing by Oct. 31, a federal judge has ruled.

Attorneys for Ruben Torres Maldonado, 40, who was detained Oct. 18, have petitioned for his release as his deportation case goes through the system. While U.S. District Judge Jeremy Daniel said in an order Friday that Torres’ detention is illegal and violates his due process rights, he also said he could not order his immediate release.

Why is it illegal to hold an illegal alien pending deportation? Furthermore, let’s say Ruben was a US citizen who was being sent to the slammer: would the cancer have any bearing on that?

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Your Fault: Hurricane Melissa Is Being Supercharged By ‘Climate Change’

By William Teach October 27, 2025 – 5:01 pm

If only you’d listed and stopped eating meat and started eating bug, but, no, you had to be stubborn

As the Atlantic Ocean warms, climate change is fueling Hurricane Melissa’s ferocity

The warming of the world’s oceans caused by climate change helped double Hurricane Melissa’s wind speed in less than 24 hours over the weekend, climate scientists said Monday.

Melissa is currently a Category 5 storm, the highest category, with sustained wind speeds of over 157 mph (252 kph). Melissa is forecast to make landfall in Jamaica on Tuesday before crossing Cuba and the Bahamas through Wednesday.

Scientists said this is the fourth storm in the Atlantic this year to undergo rapid intensification of its wind speed and power.

“That part of the Atlantic is extremely warm right now — around 30 degrees Celsius (86 degrees Fahrenheit), which is 2 to 3 degrees Celsius above normal,” said Akshay Deoras, a meteorologist at the University of Reading, in the United Kingdom. “And it’s not just the surface. The deeper layers of the ocean are also unusually warm, providing a vast reservoir of energy for the storm.”

Deoras, who has tracked the impact of climate change on weather phenomena for decades, said scientists are seeing storms intensify quickly.

But, wait, there is a very telling bit of cultology

“Climate change is fundamentally changing our weather. It does not mean that every single tropical cyclone is going to go through rapid or super-rapid intensification. However, in our warmer world, it will continue to increase the likelihood of storms going through rapid and super-rapid intensification,” said Bernadette Woods Placky, chief meteorologist at Climate Central, an independent group of scientists and communicators.

See? They gave themselves an out for when hurricanes do no cooperate with their rapid intensification and “fundamentally changing our weather.”

Of course, none of this proves anthropogenic causation, simply that the Earth is going through a warm period just like has happened multiple times since the glacial period started ending. And this AP screed is being published all over the Credentialed Media.

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If All You See…

By William Teach October 27, 2025 – 1:00 pm

…is a super-foggy day from carbon pollution Bad Weather, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Green Jihad, with a post on Porsche in crisis due to embracing EVs.

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Excitable Eric Swalwell Says Any Dem Running For President Must Pledge To Get Rid Of New Ballroom

By William Teach October 27, 2025 – 10:30 am

He’s serious, as serious as dating a Chinese spy

Eric Swalwell Wants Candidate Litmus Test: Must Pledge to Demolish the Trump Ballroom

Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) has become the latest to succumb to what Trump supporters are now calling “BDS” – Ballroom Derangement Syndrome.

The northern California congressman wants a pledge from any 2028 Democrat presidential candidate that he or she will demolish President Donald Trump’s planned “big beautiful ballroom” — or not bother to seek the party’s nomination.

“Don’t even think of seeking the Democratic nomination for president unless you pledge to take a wrecking ball to the Trump Ballroom on DAY ONE,” Swalwell wrote on X on Saturday night.

The political pejorative “BDS” — the acronym emerging in social media and even making it to the screen at Fox News — is a new variation of TDS, Trump Derangement Syndrome, a slam that has been around since the first Trump term in office.

Well, see, I don’t like that, because BDS is Bush Derangement Syndrome, the first true derangement by the moonbats. It’s what earned them the barking moonbat moniker. But, there really isn’t another good word for ballroom as a descriptor, so, anyhow, does Eric “Fang Fang” Swalwell have the juice to make this stick? To make the moonbat Democrat base adopt this as a belief?

A variety of eyebrow-raising ballroom reactions have been reported by Breitbart News.

Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) told MSNBC’s The Weeknight that the demolition of a section of the East Wing was “taking a wrecking ball to our democracy.”

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) told reporters the project was so the 47th president could be “celebrated as if he was a king.”

And, really, a ton of these hardcore leftists are freaking over a ballroom replacing a wing of the White House that virtually none of them could say what happens there. Even the Washington Post editorial board has defended the ballroom, but, the crazies have worked themselves up into a foaming lather against the ballroom. Dems will be running against Trump in 2028, even though he’s not running again, so, hey, why not BDS?

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Exxon Sues PRC Over Climate (scam) Reporting Rules

By William Teach October 27, 2025 – 7:00 am

I still maintain that the thing for Exxon to do is stop selling their products to the state government of the People’s Republik Of California, if not pull out of the state altogether. Let’s see how Californian’s like it. But, they want to sue

Exxon sues California over new laws requiring corporate climate disclosures

ExxonMobil has filed suit in federal court challenging two California laws that would require the oil giant to report the greenhouse emissions resulting from the use of its products globally.

The 30-page complaint, filed Friday in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California, argues that the laws violate the company’s free speech rights by requiring it to “trumpet California’s preferred message even though ExxonMobil believes the speech is misleading and misguided.”

Senate Bill 253, the 2023 legislation known as the Climate Corporate Data Accountability Act, requires the California Air Resources Board to adopt regulations by this year to mandate public and private companies with more than $1 billion in annual revenue to begin publicly disclosing their emissions across three “scopes.” (snip)

ExxonMobil contends that the legislative history shows that the bills seek to “place disproportionate blame on companies like ExxonMobil for being large and for the avowed purpose of spurring public opprobrium,” according to the lawsuit.

“California may believe that companies that meet the statutes’ revenue thresholds are uniquely responsible for climate change, but the First Amendment categorically bars it from forcing ExxonMobil to speak in service of that misguided viewpoint,” the complaint said.

Well, we’ll see how that goes.

Filipinos sue Shell, say climate change worsened typhoon

Philippine victims of a 2021 typhoon are seeking compensation from energy giant Shell for deaths and damage that they say were intensified by climate change partly resulting from the oil and gas company’s carbon emissions.

Shell says it is not legally liable for the disaster wreaked by 2021 Super Typhoon Odette, known as Typhoon Rai internationally. It killed more than 400 people and was the second-most costly storm in Philippine history.

The nearly 70 Filipinos who lost family members or suffered injuries or damage sent a “letter before action” this past week to Shell seeking an unspecified amount of compensation. If the company does not provide a satisfactory response, they say they plan to file a lawsuit in Britain in mid-December. (snip)

Groups supporting the effort — Greenpeace Philippines, the Legal Rights and Natural Resources Center, the Philippine Movement for Climate Justice and the green energy transition group Uplift — said they focused on Shell because of its “high historic emissions and early knowledge of the causes and effects of climate change.”

In other words, it’s an astroturfed climalawfare suit. Shell should stop selling their product in the Philippines, and Filipinos can watch their energy prices skyrocket.

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Rand Paul Wants A Bipartisan Commission On ACA Subsidies To Reopen The Government

By William Teach October 27, 2025 – 6:45 am

Good idea? Bad idea?

Paul floats bipartisan commission amid Affordable Care Act subsidies battle

Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) called on President Trump to appoint a select group of bipartisan senators to a commission tasked with addressing the expiring health care subsidies — the issue at the core of the ongoing shutdown standoff.

In an interview on “Fox News Sunday,” the libertarian senator suggested Democrats could agree to reopen the government for a one-month period, during which the commission would formulate proposals to address the enhanced Affordable Care Act (ACA) tax credits set to expire at the end of the year and raise health insurance premiums for millions of Americans.

“I suggest that President Trump come forward and name three Republicans and three Democrats in the Senate to an official commission to figure this out over a one-month period and come back with a solution,” Paul said. “But in exchange for that, I think the Democrats need to open the government for a month, and then we need to pay the workers, pay our soldiers.”

The Kentucky Republican said he opposes extending the ACA subsidies but agrees “there’s a problem” with health insurance costs. He argued the subsidies have contributed to the rising health care premiums and said lawmakers must find another solution.

“As we’ve expanded ObamaCare subsidies, what’s happened is premiums have continued to rise, and big insurance has gotten richer and richer and richer,” he said.

I would not be against a 1 year extension of the subsidies, because, look, the chance to truly kill Obamacare was 2012, but, too many Republicans sat out and refused to vote Romney. Once it went into effect getting rid of it is virtually impossible. However, that doesn’t mean there can’t be changes, including big ones. I would recommend giving in on the subsidies, and only the subsidies, nothing else, for 1 year. Democrats would have to agree, otherwise, their whole argument goes down the tubes. What, will they argue in favor of health insurance/care for illegals, money for DEI programs in other countries, climate scam programs, etc?

During that 1 year the panel would need to come up with recommendations to make changes to the Ocare program to actually reduce costs

It’s worth the reading the entire thread, but, these two stand out

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