Your Fault: List Of Places For Winter Olympics Is Shrinking

By William Teach January 13, 2026 – 3:00 pm

ABC “News” is getting an early start on scaremongering for the upcoming Olympics, which start February 6th in Italy

How will climate change reshape the Winter Olympics? The list of possible host sites is shrinking

Belgian biathlete Maya Cloetens can’t help but think about the future of winter sports as she trains for next month’s Olympic Games in Milan and Cortina, Italy.

Evidence of climate change is all around her in the mountains above Grenoble, France, where the 24-year-old fell in love with the sport that combines cross-country skiing and shooting.

Grenoble hosted the 1968 Winter Olympics, but its winters are shorter and milder nowadays, and with less consistent heavy snowfall. When the games return to the French Alps in 2030, Grenoble won’t be the focal point.

“I grew up there, and I really see the difference of snow,” Cloetens said. “In 15 years, it has completely changed.”

Yes, that’s what happens in a Holocene warm period in an interglacial period. I wonder what the snow would have been like during the Medieval Warm Period

With the Earth warming at a record rate, the list of locales that could reliably host a Winter Games will shrink substantially in the coming years, according to researchers. The situation is serious enough that the International Olympic Committee is considering rotating the games among a permanent pool of suitable locations and holding them earlier in the season because March is getting too warm for the Paralympic Games, said Karl Stoss, who chairs the games’ Future Host Commission.

Out of 93 mountain locations that currently have the winter sports infrastructure to host elite competition, only 52 should have the snow depth and sufficiently cold temperatures to be able to host a Winter Olympics in the 2050s, according research conducted by University of Waterloo professor Daniel Scott and University of Innsbruck associate professor Robert Steiger that the IOC is using. The number could drop to as low as 30 by the 2080s, depending on how much the world curbs carbon dioxide pollution.

And there we go, 2050s. What happens if things are fine then: who gets fired? But, no one will remember this bit of scaremongering.

Diana Bianchedi, the organizing committee’s chief strategy, planning and legacy officer, said that from the very beginning, they sought to model a more sustainable future, both for the Olympic movement and for larger social transformation.

“This is the point,” she said, “where we have to change.”

It’s expected that over 2 million will attend the coming Winter Olympics, and around 2,900 athletes, plus all the staff and such. These same athletes tend to travel a lot. How about making them stop using fossil fuels to do so?

Anyhow, my big question is “who will open up the Games?” Metal heads around the world were treated to Gojira opening up the Paris Olympics (and, an emphatic no as to it being Satanic, at least for Gojira’s part. Would have been cool if they had been the musicians for Celine Dion) and most of us squeed like a 10 year old girl getting a pony for her birthday. How about having Lacuna Coil open up?

One of my faves from them. I love Cristina Scabbia’s voice.

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If All You See…

By William Teach January 13, 2026 – 1:00 pm

…are flowers blooming in winter due to carbon pollution heating, you might just be a Warmist

The blog off the day is The Last Refuge, with a post on Trump talking to Mexico’s president.

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EU Gets Tough With Iran, Bans Diplomats From European Parliament Premises

By William Teach January 13, 2026 – 10:30 am

This was not quite the response anyone was expecting

European Parliament bans Iranian diplomats to avoid ‘legitimising the regime’

All the Iranian diplomats and representatives will be banned from the European Parliament’s premises as a response to Iran’s crackdown on protesters, the Parliament’s president, Roberta Metsola, announced on Monday.

“This House will not aid in legitimising this regime that has sustained itself through torture, repression, and murder,” Metsola wrote on X.

The ban will apply to all the Parliament’s premises in Brussels, Strasbourg and Luxembourg, and will remain in place until revoked by another president’s decision.

What about the member states banning those diplomats?

In the meantime, the European Union is prepared to push for fresh sanctions on the country after the repression of the protesters.

Earlier on Monday, a European Commission spokesperson confirmed that Brussels was working on “new, more severe” sanctions against the Iranian regime using a “dedicated legal framework” to target individuals and entities accused of “serious human rights violations and abuses”.

Their yammering is decidedly calmer than against Israel when Israel said “ENOUGH!” after the big Hamas attack and started annihilating Gaza, with the EU going after Israel

When solidarity costs too much: Europe’s silence on Iran

Over the past year, Europe’s streets have been chock full of protesters. Hundreds of thousands have turned out in London, Paris, Berlin, Madrid, and Brussels – demonstrating on behalf of Gaza. Parliaments have convened emergency sessions. Millions have signed petitions. Several governments have halted arms sales to Israel. For much of the time, Gaza has dominated Europe’s political discourse, particularly on the left.

Meanwhile, in Iran, something remarkable is unfolding. Women are tearing off their hijabs in open defiance. Students are facing down security forces. Workers are walking off the job. Protesters are being dragged to prison, tortured, and executed after trials in kangaroo courts. And Europe’s response? A few statements. Some vigils. NGO reports that barely make the news. Nothing remotely approaching the mobilization for Gaza.

This isn’t about compassion fatigue or lack of information. The images are there. The stories are brutal. The gap reveals something fundamental: certain causes carry an ideological cost, and that cost determines which struggles ignite mass solidarity.

In fairness, there have been a few decent sized demonstrations in European cities that are anti-Iran’s regime/pro-solidarity with the protesters, but, nothing close to the pro-Hamas ones. Those protests were led by all the Islamists in EU countries, of course, which is why we didn’t see the same in countries like, say, Poland.

The uprising in Iran checks every box that should matter to progressive Europeans. It targets a theocratic regime that subjugates women, censors thought, executes dissidents, and denies basic freedoms. The protesters in Iran demand exactly what the European left claims to defend as universal human rights: free speech, bodily autonomy, and the dignity of self-determination. By any measure, what is happening from Tehran to Iranian backwaters is a textbook liberation movement.

Yet it remains marginal in Europe’s political imagination. The reason is structural, not moral.

Iran is Israel’s primary ideological and military adversary. For decades, Tehran has funded Hamas and Hezbollah and built its regional strategy around confronting the Jewish state. This creates an uncomfortable reality: Israel and the Iranian protesters share, at minimum, a common adversary. Whether through intelligence cooperation, cyber operations, or simple geopolitical alignment, any weakening of the Iranian regime potentially serves Israeli interests.

That overlap – real or perceived – is precisely what makes the Iranian revolt so difficult to integrate into the current framework of the European left.

Is that true? There might be something too it.

Consider what each cause offers symbolically. Supporting Gaza reinforces moral identity, provides clear political positioning, produces a coherence of activism, and fits seamlessly into existing frameworks that rely on Western guilt and the rejection of colonialism. Supporting Iranian protesters, by contrast, requires condemning a regime that positions itself as “anti-imperialist,” complicates familiar geopolitical narratives, and creates potential alignment – even indirect – with Israeli interests. The cognitive dissonance and ideological ambivalence are too much to bear.

It’s worth reading the rest.

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Catholic Groups Worried US “Abandoning Its Moral Authority” On Climate Doom

By William Teach January 13, 2026 – 7:00 am

Isn’t there something in the Bible about not worshiping golden calves?

US ‘abandoning its moral responsibility’ with exit from bedrock climate treaty, Catholic groups say

Catholic groups quickly assailed the Trump administration’s move to withdraw from dozens of international accords and organizations, including the bedrock United Nations treaty that for three decades has convened global efforts to address climate change.

In an executive order issued Jan. 7, President Donald Trump directed the U.S. to withdraw as soon as possible from 66 U.N. entities and related organizations that his administration deemed “contrary to the interests of the United States.” Chief among them was the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change, the 1992 treaty that facilitates international climate negotiations and under which nations adopted the Paris Agreement to rein in heat-trapping greenhouse gas emissions, released primarily from burning fossil fuels. (snip)

“These decisions will have painful and direct repercussions on the lives of vulnerable populations and God’s creation already suffering from a changing climate,” Bishop A. Elias Zaidan, chairman of the Committee on International Justice and Peace for the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, said in a statement to the National Catholic Reporter (snip)

In a joint statement, Catholic Climate Covenant — the Washington-based group that with 20 national Catholic partners guides church responses to climate change — and the North American chapter of the Laudato Si’ Movement said that in withdrawing from international climate and environmental institutions, the U.S. “undermines our responsibility to listen to both the cry of the Earth and the cry of the poor.”

“Climate change, ecological degradation, environmental disasters, forced migration, water scarcity, and biodiversity loss do not recognize national borders,” the statement said. “Turning away from international cooperation on these issues does not make them disappear; it only leaves the most vulnerable and marginalized people, along with future generations, more exposed to harm.”

Yeah, whatever. Tell all your folks in these groups to give up their own use of fossil fuels and make their loves carbon neutral.

In an interview, Sr. Barbara Bozak, an American sister who represents the Congregations of St. Joseph at the U.N., said the latest U.S. withdrawals were not surprising but go against long-standing commitments made by the United States — commitments she said affirmed multilateralism, the U.N. Charter and “peaceful responses to difficult situations.”

At the same time, said Bozak, who attended COP30 in Brazil, the absence of an official U.S. presence at the conference was in some ways a relief because of past U.S. intransigence to multiple climate treaties and agreements, including the Trump administration’s opposition to climate-related initiatives.

Did she walk there, bike, take a sailing ship? Or, a fossil fueled flight?

Sr. Carol De Angelo, director of the Office of Peace, Justice and Integrity of Creation for the Sisters of Charity of New York and an NGO liaison for her congregation at the U.N., said she is upset by the Trump administration’s moves to withdraw from U.N. treaties and leave U.N. programs, saying that it “goes against [global] coalition and consensus building.”

I’m pretty sure Jesus went against the consensus in Israel. And that God is a jealous god, who gets upset when other gods are put ahead of Him.

The Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns, which in its missionary work in 25 countries sees up close the life-threatening impacts of intensifying droughts and rising sea levels, called it an “isolationist move” whereby the U.S. “is abandoning its moral responsibility as a leading global power and as the world’s largest historical contributor to greenhouse gas emissions.”

 

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LOL: Minnesota, Twin Cities Sue Over Immigration Enforcement

By William Teach January 13, 2026 – 6:45 am

Oh, this should be good, since enforcement of immigration laws is given to the federal government, and federal says those illegally present in the US should be detained and deported

Minnesota, Twin Cities sue Trump administration over unprecedented immigration operations

The state of Minnesota and the Twin Cities are suing the Trump administration, arguing the unprecedented federal immigration operation in the state is “a federal invasion,” and seeking a court order halting the crackdown, according to a lawsuit filed Monday.

“This has to stop; it just has to stop,” Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison said at a Monday news conference announcing the lawsuit.

The suit was filed shortly after Illinois and the city of Chicago also sued the Trump administration, alleging the Department of Homeland Security has terrorized residents in “organized bombardment.”

Both suits argue the federal government is violating the Tenth Amendment.

Suddenly Democrats like and recognized the 10th? Too bad it doesn’t apply

“Sanctuary politicians like Ellison are the EXACT reason that DHS surged to Minnesota in the first place,” DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said in a statement.

“If he, Tim Walz, or Jacob Frey had just done their sworn duty to protect the people of Minnesota they are supposed to serve to root out fraud and get criminals off the street — if they had worked with us to do it — we wouldn’t be having this conversation in the first place,” McLaughlin said. (snip)

The lawsuit claims Operation Metro Surge is not a legitimate law enforcement action, but a retaliation effort against Democratic-led Minnesota, citing the president’s disparaging comments toward local officials.

“President Trump expressed the root of his displeasure in plain terms during a recorded interview: he essentially claimed that Minnesota is ‘corrupt’ and ‘crooked’ because its officials accurately reported election results and those results did not declare him the winner,” the lawsuit says, citing a January 9 interview by the president.

Are they arresting illegal aliens? Immigration agents are going to go where the illegals are. Anyhow, is there more to the suit, because it really is pretty weak

(NPR) State Attorney General Keith Ellison said in a press conference that federal agents during the surge have arrested peaceful bystanders, detained U.S. citizens and fired chemical irritants at demonstrators and others exercising their First Amendment rights, including outside a local high school. The lawsuit calls on the Trump administration to end its immigration crackdown in the state.

“Thousands of armed and masked DHS agents have stormed the Twin Cities to conduct militarized raids and carry out dangerous, illegal, and unconstitutional stops and arrests in sensitive public places, including schools and hospitals—all under the guise of lawful immigration enforcement,” the lawsuit says. The complaint also alleges that immigration agents have engaged in racial profiling.

Nice try throwing in the race card, but, if you Demorats would simply hold illegals who are detained by police for federal immigration authorities to come and get there wouldn’t be an issue. I mean, really, I’ve read about 10 different articles and few really go into any depth on the suit, just lots of feelings. And, what will most likely happen is a far left wacko judge will rule in Minnesota’s favor, and that will be quickly overturned on appeal.

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We Can MAHA If We Stop Fueling The Climate Crisis (scam) Or Something

By William Teach January 12, 2026 – 3:00 pm

I’m sure the cult is onto something (that they won’t actually do themselves)

Want to make America healthy again? Stop fueling climate change

If you’ve been following recent debates about health, you’ve been hearing a lot about vaccines, diet, measles, Medicaid cuts and health insurance costs – but much less about one of the greatest threats to global public health: climate change.

Anybody who’s fallen ill during a heat wave, struggled while breathing wildfire smoke or been injured cleaning up from a hurricane knows that climate change can threaten human health. Studies show that heat, air pollution, disease spread and food insecurity linked to climate change are worsening and costing millions of lives around the world each year.

The U.S. government formally recognized these risks in 2009 when it determined that climate change endangers public health and welfare.

And, yet, the vast majority of Warmists fail to make more than token changes in their own lives. Why is that?

As physicians, epidemiologists and environmental health scientists who study these effects, we’ve seen growing evidence of the connections between climate change and harm to people’s health. More importantly, we see ways humanity can improve health by tackling climate change.

The weather always affects health. Like, say, the spread of the Black Death during the Dark Ages, which was a Holocene cold period. I wonder what changes these people have made in their own lives? It’s weird that they so rarely tell us

As an individual, you can reduce your risk by following public health advice during heat waves, storms and wildfires; protecting yourself against tick and mosquito bites; and spending time in green space that improves your mental health.

Would these be the same wildfires caused by incompetence of government, not a 1.7F increase in global temperatures ince 1850?

You can also make healthy choices that reduce your carbon footprint, such as:

  • Walking, biking or using public transit instead of driving, since more physical activity reduces chronic disease risks.
  • Rebalancing your diet from meat-heavy to plant-forward, which can cut your risk of heart disease and lower greenhouse gas emissions from meat production.
  • Making your home more energy-efficient and opting for electric rather than gas- or oil-powered heating and cooking, which can reduce emissions while improving indoor air quality.

However, there are limits to what individuals can do alone.

Why have Warmists not done this already? And why is there never a “just give up your own use of fossil fuels?”

Governments can ensure that public transit is available and not overly expensive to reduce the number of vehicles on the road. They can promote clean energy rather than fossil fuels to cut emissions, which can also save money since the cost of solar energy has dropped spectacularly. In fact, both solar and wind energy are less expensive than fossil fuel energy.

Yet the U.S. government is currently going in the opposite direction, cutting support for renewable energy while subsidizing the fossil fuel industries that endanger public health.

To really make America healthy, in our view, the country can’t ignore climate change.

In other words, government in control. Surprise?

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If All You See…

By William Teach January 12, 2026 – 1:00 pm

…is horrible no good ice cream from moo cows, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Sonoran Conservative, with a post on Monday rule 5.

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Trump Threatens Overwhelming Force As Iran Starts To Cross Red Lines

By William Teach January 12, 2026 – 10:30 am

The danger of establishing red lines is that you have to actually do something about them. Obama learned a hard lesson after yammering about them in regards to Syria, and then not doing anything about it for a long time

Trump says Iran ‘starting to’ cross US red lines as protesters die in government crackdown

Trump saying hello to Judge Sara

President Donald Trump said Sunday that Iran is “starting to” cross U.S. red lines, citing reports of civilian deaths and warning that any attack on American interests would be met with overwhelming force as his administration weighs what he called “very strong options.”

Trump spoke to reporters aboard Air Force One while traveling from Palm Beach, Florida, back to Washington, D.C., after being asked whether Iran had crossed a threshold that would trigger a response.

“They’re starting to, it looks like, and there seem to be some people killed that aren’t supposed to be killed,” the president said. “These are violent — if you call them leaders, I don’t know if they’re leaders or just if they rule through violence. And, we’re looking at some very strong options. We’ll make a determination.”

Some protesters were killed in a stampede while others were shot, Trump later said, adding that he receives hourly briefings and will decide based on ongoing reports.

The question here is will Trump do something? Based on history, he’s not bluffing in a case like this. He will do what he says.

The Associated Press reported Sunday that activists claimed at least 544 people have been killed, with more feared dead. Tehran also warned that the U.S. military and Israel would be considered “legitimate targets” if the U.S. intervenes to protect demonstrators.

More than 10,600 people have been detained during the more than two weeks of protests, according to the U.S.-based Human Rights Activists News Agency, which the AP noted has been accurate during previous unrest. The group said 496 of those killed were protesters and 48 were members of security forces.

Where is the line for Trump?

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Your Fault: You Made Your Earnings Go Down By 12%

By William Teach January 12, 2026 – 7:00 am

AND IT IS GOING TO GET A WHOLE LOT WORSE!!!!!

Climate change has now shrunk US salaries by 12%. And worse is to come

Climate change isn’t all flooding, wildfires and melting glaciers – it comes with a price tag too. And if you assume rising temperatures haven’t hit your wallet because you haven’t lost a home to a natural disaster, the latest research suggests otherwise.

A new study finds that climate change has already cut incomes in the US by around 12 per cent since 2000. The figure is a significant increase on previous estimates and a signal that the costs of global warming are not just future projections, but a present-day reality.

“If we can’t figure out what climate change is already costing us with the data we have, projecting the future becomes almost hopeless,” said Derek Lemoine, a professor of economics at the University of Arizona and lead author of the research.

Lemoine’s previous research had put the impact on incomes at a much lower 1 per cent. But his new analysis, which captures how warming unfolds persistently over time and across the entire country, pushes that figure sharply higher.

“Climate change is already costing the US economy by changing temperatures around the country,” Lemoine told BBC Science Focus. “Most of those costs are not driven by changes in weather where you live but by how changes in weather everywhere else affect supply chains and the cost of products you buy from elsewhere in the US.”

1.7F increase since 1850 is really doomy

To isolate that effect, Lemoine had to model the world both with and without manmade greenhouse gas emissions. He then examined 50 years of county-level income data (1969–2019), measuring how changing numbers of hot and cold days affected wealth locally and nationally.

And there it is: model. Complete BS.

Also, Gemini AI really took the old barking moonbat graphic and went to town.

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States Think They Have The Power To Do Something About ICE

By William Teach January 12, 2026 – 6:45 am

They’re going to quickly learn that they have no power, and, really, most state, county, and local law enforcement will make zero attempt to impede ICE

States move to rein in ICE after fatal Minnesota shooting

Blue state lawmakers have had it with ICE.

State legislatures across the country are accelerating efforts to shape immigration enforcement policy after the deadly shooting of a Minnesota woman by a federal agent, raising tensions between local leaders and the Trump administration.

From California to New York and Illinois to New Jersey, they’re pushing a range of bills aimed at limiting enforcement and protecting people targeted by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, while turning up the rhetoric with comparisons to the Gestapo.

Some policies were moving before an ICE agent fatally shot Renée Good, a 37-year-old Minneapolis mother last week. But her death has been cited by lawmakers as reason to squeeze ICE out of their states.

Perhaps these unhinged Democrats should be telling their peeps to not interfere with federal law enforcement, because the lawmakers aren’t the ones getting arrested, maced, run over, thrown to ground, and shot. They’re safely away from the action.

New York state Sen. Pat Fahy, who sponsored a bill that would prohibit ICE agents from wearing masks and one that would create a state dashboard tracking immigration officials’ activity, said “momentum is on our side.”

Like California and the other states giving this a whirl, they have no power to enforce this, especially when they give their own law enforcement the ability to wear masks.

President Donald Trump and other administration officials have also said the agent who shot Good acted in self defense — an account that has been contested by local Minneapolis officials. In a statement to POLITICO, White House Spokesperson Abigail Jackson defended ICE activity and pushed back against state Democratic lawmakers.

Democrats say to ignore your own eyes when you see the video.

In Illinois, a Democratic state senator has filed legislation that would bar anyone hired by ICE under Trump from obtaining employment in state or local law enforcement.

That would be against federal employment law.

Across the Hudson River, New Jersey lawmakers are pushing to codify the state’s practice that limits state and local police from cooperating with federal immigration authorities; bar the government and hospitals from collecting immigration information; and set up guidelines on how health care facilities, schools and other institutions should respond to federal immigration authorities. The suite of bills — which started advancing before the Minnesota shooting — could be on Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy’s desk this upcoming week.

Well, hey, if all those police departments, government agencies, hospitals, etc, want to forgo taking federal money and return what they already have they can do that, right?

These are the same types of people that states like NJ and NY are protecting. Unfortunately, elected Republicans suck at getting their message out, for the most part.

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