…is an invasive lizard invading because of carbon pollution warming but also falling out of trees due to carbon pollution driven cold weather, you might just be a Warmist
The blog of the day is Climate Change Dispatch, with a post on whether nor’easters are getting stronger or not.
Read: If All You See… »
I’ll admit, Trump spoke for way, way too long. But, hey, if the Dems that showed up, with many saying they wouldn’t, wanted to sit there like bumps on a log and fail to cheer for the success of Americans and America, let them have the Gen Z Stare. But, when it came to illegal immigration, nope, they had to freak.
‘You have killed Americans’: Ilhan Omar tries to shout down Trump’s immigration attacks
For the first hour of President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address Tuesday, Democrats in the House chamber largely stuck to their plan: Sit in stony, defiant silence.
But once Trump began to level attacks on immigrants, that strategy went out the window.
Democratic Reps. Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib repeatedly yelled at Trump, objecting to his characterization of Minnesota’s Somali community as “pirates” and accusing him of enabling the deaths of US citizens through his hardline immigration crackdown in the state.
The back-and-forth crested after Trump told Democrats in the chamber they “should be ashamed” for refusing to stand and applaud in response to his declaration that the government’s primary duty is “to protect American citizens, not illegal aliens.”
Why would that be controversial? That is the job of the federal government. Heck, state, county, and local governments should be protecting their citizens from illegals.
But as the president leaned into his more divisive policies, including his immigration crackdown that led to the fatal shootings of two US citizens in Minnesota, the protestations on the Democratic side of the aisle began to grow more audible.
Trump credited his immigration policies with sealing the southern border and rapidly deporting undocumented immigrants on multiple occasions, without mentioning the killings by federal immigration agents of protesters Renee Good and Alex Pretti last month.
The president raised Omar’s ire in particular when he singled out Minnesota as a “stunning example” of the fraud that he’s alleged with little evidence is running rampant in blue states, blaming the state’s Somali community.
Little evidence? Somalis were arrested, tried, and sentenced for fraud. We all saw the fake “learing” centers and more. Whistleblowers said it was happening.
Anyhow, Dems failed to do anything but sit stone faced with mentions of America’s 250th birthday, drop in murder rate, drop in deaths from fentanyl, gas prices down, the wins for the men’s and women’s hockey teams at the Olympics, the upcoming Olympics in LA, honoring World War II veteran Buddy Taggart, awarding the Legion of Merit to Coast Guard rescue swimmer Scott Ruskin, and more. Only illegals and 3rd World Islamists from Somalia in Minnesota got a response. Most did sit there like expressionless.
They’re trash, and the people they represent are trash. Also notice how many remained seated. After Trump’s speech they had Abigail Spanberger give the response
Read: CNN: Dems Played Seethers Till Trump Started Talking About Illegals »
They have absolutely no idea, but, they’re going to fearmonger it anyhow
Is Climate Change Making Inflation Worse?
When we think of the costs of climate change, the first thing that usually comes to mind is catastrophic losses from disasters like floods and wildfires. But what about everyday expenses like milk, eggs and your electricity bill? Is climate change driving inflation?
The short answer: Probably, but it’s complicated.
The first thing I think is that a lot of cultists who are complete hypocrites are trying to force me and other people to do things we do not want to do, buy things we do not want to buy, increase taxes and fees, and take away liberty. Anyhow, by “it’s complicated” they mean we’re simply going to make up dots to connect because we want the cult in charge of the economy
There’s mounting evidence that more frequent extreme weather events do make some things more expensive. But how that plays out depends on where you live.
For example, the International Monetary Fund has found that extreme temperatures have actually lowered inflation, but only in developing countries. In wealthier countries, heat generally makes prices increase. Droughts tend to increase inflation, but the effect is bigger and lasts longer in poorer countries. And after storms, inflation can rise briefly but then sink below where it was originally.
Wait, you mean that weather can affect consumer prices? Like always? Like creating massive bread issues in France during the Little Ice Age which helped lead to 1st French Revolution. Food production was so problematic that the Elites tried to get the peasants to eat potatoes, which were considered the lowest of the low food. History is replete with weather causing good, bad, or neutral. No need to involve witchcraft, er, anthropogenic climate change.
Here’s a closer look at how climate change might be hitting your wallet.
Rather than try to assess the overall effects of warming on prices, it is easier to look at a few different goods and services individually. There are three big pocketbook items currently under pressure: Food, energy, and insurance.
Blah Blah Blah. Food is partially much higher because of COVID and climate cult policies. Same with energy. Replace reliable, dependable, affordable with the opposite and you get high energy prices. Insurance? Well, certainly changing weather can cause issues, just like more expensive infrastructure, buildings, etc, and having them change pathways for water runoff. Let’s skip to the end
This also plays out across borders. The European Union, for instance, has tried to reduce deforestation and carbon pollution with new trade policies. That’s added to costs for producers who are trying to adapt to changing weather patterns at the same time.
“If I’m a coffee grower in the Horn of Africa, I’ve got not only the challenges of growing and costs of fertilizer, but also the costs of new regulation and shipping costs,” Dr. Keane said. “The perennial question is, who bears those cost increases? Is it at the node of production, or is it consumers? It all depends on market structure and market power.”
So, wait, you mean sketchy cult regulations based on cult doctrine are causing higher prices? Huh.
Read: NY Times: Say, Hotcoldwetdry Could Maybe Possibly Be Making Inflation Worse »
Trump should drop busloads of illegals right outside the governor’s mansion in NJ. And Mickie Sherril’s actual home
Trump sues New Jersey over immigration sidelining
The Trump administration sued New Jersey and Governor Mikie Sherrill over the state’s policy to bar immigration officials from entering state-owned property.
In the 21-page lawsuit filed Monday evening, the U.S. Department of Justice claims the state’s new policy wrongfully prohibits federal immigration officials from using state property as a staging area, processing location or base for their operations.
Earlier this month, Sherrill signed an executive order preventing federal immigration officials from commandeering state-owned office buildings, parking lots, garages and other facilities for their activities.
State officials also have encouraged New Jerseyans to share photos and videos of interactions with Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials through an online portal.
However, the Justice Department says the executive order usurps Congress’ authority and violates the supremacy clause of the U.S. Constitution.
“Federal agents are risking their lives to keep New Jersey citizens safe, and yet New Jersey’s leaders are enacting policies designed to obstruct and endanger law enforcement,” Attorney General Pam Bondi said in a statement. “States may not deliberately interfere with our efforts to remove illegal aliens and arrest criminals. New Jersey’s sanctuary policies will not stand.”
Seriously, Democrats made federal supremacy on immigration quite clear when they sued Arizona over their “show your papers” law, SB1070. Democrats cheered the legal rulings. Nor did most complain about Obama detaining illegals in cages, nor his catch and quickly deport program. But, now that Trump is president, they seem to want to do all they can to protect all illegals, including the hardcore criminals. It might makes some sense if they were like “here are the criminals, but, we’re shielding those without a criminal history”, but, no.
If only someone had warned that doing this stuff was a Bad Idea
Charlotte’s first electric fire truck is out of commission after a month
A little more than a month after the Charlotte Fire Department held a ceremony celebrating the city’s first all-electric fire station and fire truck, the city’s electric fire truck is in the shop.
A spokesperson for Charlotte Fire confirmed to Channel 9 that the city’s electric fire engine is currently out of service while warrant-related items are being addressed. (they proofread as well in the story as I often do in my headlines)
“As with any newly delivered, highly specialized apparatus incorporating emerging technology, minor adjustments and corrections are handled in coordination with the manufacturer under warranty,” a Charlotte Fire spokesperson said.
A spokesperson for Charlotte Fire says response coverage has not been impacted. A reserve engine is in service to ensure an uninterrupted response.
In 2022, the Charlotte City Council spent $1.9 million to purchase the electric fire truck.
A new fossil fueled fire truck typically goes for $750K to $2 million, with that upper range being the big hook and ladder types. The one Charlotte purchased is your standard sized truck. So, about double the cost. If I’m spending $1.9 million I’m kinda expecting it to, you know, work from the get go. Not need “minor adjustments and corrections” after a month. This is not a base model, assembly line built sedan. It’s not a $700 guitar which I will take over to Harry’s to get it set up (not always necessary out of the box). If I buy a $1400 Warren Demartini blood and skull, I’m not going to be upset if I need to get it set up a little bit. Floyd Rose, string height without buzz. If I have to polish the frets it’s going back. If it’s the $3,700 version, it better be f’ing perfect.
Funny, though, that the EV truck is down right after that big snow and freeze in the Charlotte area. Let’s not forget this piece from January 2024
e Biden Administration and the global warming climate change activists want to force all new vehicles sold in the United States to be zero-emission come 2035, because they believe that our personal choices don’t matter, but even now they are pushing plug-in electrics, seemingly unconcerned with the possible drawbacks. From Fox Business:
Electric buses are sitting unused in cities across the US; here’s why
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I did snag an image from the article, which amusingly tells us that the zero emissions are “Clearly Better,” which I suppose is true . . . because buses sitting parked truly are zero emission!
True, true, are zero emissions. There’s more to that article. And here’s from a couple days ago
The story practically wrote itself: a northern state buys electric buses, winter arrives, and the fleet ends up parked behind the depot. The Daily Mail framed Vermont’s experience as an ideological failure – “a liberal stronghold wasting $8 million on buses that freeze in the cold.” It’s a sharp headline, but it obscures more than it reveals.
The underlying facts are real enough. Green Mountain Transit sidelined five electric buses after a manufacturer-identified battery-welding defect raised fire-safety concerns. Cold weather didn’t help; range loss in sub-freezing temperatures is well-documented across the industry. But the narrative that Vermont’s buses “froze” because of political naïveté misses the technical and operational context that actually matters.
Electric buses in cold climates face three predictable stresses: battery heating loads, hilly terrain, and charging logistics. These aren’t ideological problems—they’re engineering challenges. Transit agencies in Minnesota, Québec, and Alberta have been wrestling with the same physics, often successfully, by pairing larger battery packs with depot pre-heating, on-route chargers, and route redesigns. Vermont’s buses weren’t undone by winter so much as by a manufacturer recall layered on top of an early-stage pilot program.
They paid $8 million for the 5 buses and infrastructure. For over a million a pop they should damned will work like the aforementioned Blood and Skull guitar. Like a $4000 Les Paul Supreme (love the wine color, almost a Blood Moon, hate gold pickups, stopbar, etc), $1800 for a Fender American Professional II (that’s about the price point for a “don’t need to do a thing” Fender). Really, buying these buses and fire trucks is like going to the Fender or Gibson custom shops, getting a custom made Jackson or Charvel, a super top end ESP. You do not expect any issues. Not for that money. Of course, the guitar stores and makers are not forcing people into the expensive ones. I can get a nice Epiphone Prophecy or Jackson Adrian Smith in green (seriously considering that one along with a demo Charvel Sunburst) for a good price.
Read: Surprise: Charlotte’s First EV Fire Truck Not Working After One Month »
…is an area flooded by too much carbon pollution Bad Weather, you might just be a Warmist
The blog of the day is No Tricks Zone, with a post on the greening of the Sahara.
Read: If All You See… »
I thought he said ‘climate change’ was the most important issue? Or, was that importing Islamists and 3rd worlders to change the UK into a completely different nation? Or, was it destroying free speech for British citizens, taking their flags away, arresting them for silently protesting abortion, sending Mean Tweets?
UK’s Starmer: Ukraine war the most critical issue of our age
Keir Starmer has offered fresh support for Kyiv on the fourth anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Britain announced Tuesday it will provide £20 million for emergency repairs to energy supplies damaged by Russian attacks over the winter, as well as help to resist so-called “Russification” tactics, and helicopter training for Ukrainian pilots in the U.K.
The announcement comes ahead of a a virtual “coalition of the willing” meeting of Ukraine’s allies Tuesday — the first since Britain and France signed a declaration to send troops to Ukraine if a peace deal is agreed.
Starmer will co-chair the meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron to discuss plans in the event of a ceasefire.
“This war remains the most critical issue of our age. It asks the question of whether Ukrainian and European freedom will endure. Our answer, together, is unequivocal. Russia is not winning this war. They will not win this war,” Starmer said in a statement announcing the extra support.
So important that they’re sending $27 million? That’s it? It’s the whole part about talking about freedom that is funny. Of course, their version of freedom is different then ours. They just mean Europe isn’t under the foot of authoritarian Russia, not the foot of authoritarian EU politicians.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told the BBC in an interview to mark the anniversary he believes Russian President Vladimir Putin has already started a third world war. “The question is how much territory he will be able to seize and how to stop him,” he said.
Well, so far, Russia isn’t trying to invade any other nations: they’re having enough trouble with Ukraine. But, if Ukraine is the most critical issue, then why are there so few articles about it? Most are far down the page, certainly not front page news. The war just keeps grinding on 4 years in. No real movement. Most want Russia out. How’s that going to happen? It really made no difference when Europe and the Biden admin were feeding massive amounts of weapons and money to Ukraine.
Quite frankly, there’s been less chance of WWIII since Trump took office.
If EU leaders want freedom, when does Ukraine have elections?
Zelenskyy denies plan to announce elections in Ukraine soon despite pressure from Trump
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy does not plan to make an announcement about looming presidential elections in an upcoming speech commemorating the four-year mark of the war, the Ukrainian leader said late Wednesday, after a report suggested he would schedule a national vote due to pressure from President Trump.
Zelenskyy told reporters that Ukraine would “move toward elections when all the relevant security guarantees are in place.”
He’s cancelled them all during war. Maybe these people can vote?
Read: Ul Duce Starmer Thinks Ukraine Is Most Important Issue Of Our Age »
You knew this had to be coming, right?
The Science Behind NYC’s Severe Snow Storm: Arctic Air, Atlantic Winds and a Historic Nor’easter
NYC Snow Storm: The snowstorm that recently struck New York City was far from an ordinary winter event, as it was driven by an unusual and powerful combination of atmospheric conditions. Millions of city residents in the New York area and the Northeast are under mandatory road travel restrictions as a strong blizzard moves through the area.
In the New York City area, a travel ban has been issued for all non-emergency travel until noon Monday, while similar bans have been issued in Rhode Island and New Jersey. Emergency alerts were issued to cell phones warning of dangerous blizzard conditions, while Mayor Zohran Mamdani has declared Monday a serious snow day, canceling all public school classes. (snipping all the way to the end)
Although experts warn that individual storms cannot be specifically attributed to climate change, scientists have observed that warmer ocean temperatures can lead to more intense storms as a result of increased moisture. When this increased moisture interacts with cold air, snowfall can become heavier and more hazardous. This particular storm demonstrated how warmer Atlantic waters and intense Arctic air outbreaks can combine to create more extreme winter weather events.
New York City’s intense snowstorm was the result of a unique combination of weather factors, including heavy Arctic cold, strong Atlantic winds, and a slow-moving nor’easter that fed on ocean moisture. Taken together, these factors made it one of the most serious winter storms to hit New York City in years.
Sigh. They really can’t help themselves. Was the Great Blizzard Of 1888 caused by ‘climate change’? The photo above is from then. More here.
Brian Krassenstein tried one, but, I guess he was getting to abused to keep it up. Not just because of the ‘climate change’ crap, but, saying that it was 65 mph winds prior to the 11am time frame he posted at for Plymouth, Mass was utterly wrong. Winds were hitting around 55 mph gusts around 1-4. This is what he posted
It’s impressive, but, no weather station recorded anything close to that at 6am. Anyhow
A couple days ago the Raleigh N&O whined about local Raleigh area eateries having issues. Now we have the NY Times
Worse Than the Pandemic’: Restaurants Say ICE Presence Imperils Business
In several cities where immigrants are being detained, owners say they’re struggling to stay open as fear keeps customers and workers from leaving home.
Even as the Covid pandemic shut down every dining room across the country in April 2020, Americans were still ordering takeout, and millions of restaurant employees were getting paychecks funded by government assistance.
Now, as that same government is rounding up immigrants it believes to be in the country illegally — about 70,000 are currently in detention — Cecelia Lizotte, the owner of two Nigerian restaurants called Suya Joint, in Boston and Providence, R.I., says many of her customers are afraid to come in. She can’t even get people in her neighborhood to pick up free meals.
Several of her employees are nervous about coming to work, though Ms. Lizotte says they are in the country lawfully. Her brother, Paul Dama, a Nigerian immigrant who is the restaurant’s manager and was in the process of applying for asylum, was detained on the way to church by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in June and held for three months at a detention center in New Hampshire.
See, that link the Times offers fails to mention relevant information
Asked about the case, ICE spokesman James Covington said in a statement, “Paul Naanman Dama is an illegally present, 46-year-old Nigerian alien who has been unlawfully residing in the United States since August 2019, when he violated the terms of his lawful admission. Dama has two prior convictions for operating a motor vehicle under the influence of liquor. ICE Boston arrested Dama in Brockton, Massachusetts June 15 and placed him into removal proceedings.”
We do have laws. If he had gone through the normal system of becoming a US citizen those convictions would have disqualified him.
In interviews over the past few weeks, restaurant owners in several cities where ICE agents are out on the streets echoed that sentiment: Their businesses are not only teetering on insolvency, they said, but feel even more vulnerable than during the pandemic.
You know, forget the rest of the pro-illegal alien article, let’s cut to the chase: if your business model relies upon hiring illegal aliens and serving illegal aliens, well, any problems are ones you created. They’re lucky the feds aren’t charging the owners with violating federal law in hiring the illegals. It is a federal crime.
Read: NY Times Seems Upset That Restaurants Having Trouble Due To Immigration »
That would be the People’s Republik of Colorado, not People’s Republik Of California. You know, the state that relies heavily on fossil fuels to clear all the snow, to bring all those tourists to ski. The airport in Denver is the largest in the US (by land). 2nd largest in the world. 3rd busiest in the US. And 9th busiest in the world.
Supreme Court takes up oil companies’ plea to end climate change lawsuits
The Supreme Court agreed Monday to hear an attempt by energy companies to throw out a lawsuit filed in Colorado seeking to hold them accountable for the costs of climate change.
The court’s ultimate ruling in the case will have national implications, likely determining whether similar lawsuits filed by cities and municipalities across the country seeking billions of dollars in damages can move forward.
Exxon Mobil and Suncor Energy are appealing a May 2025 Colorado Supreme Court ruling that said the lawsuit brought by the city of Boulder and Boulder County could move forward in state court.
The lawsuit claims that the companies, via their marketing, production and sale of fossil fuels, bear responsibility for the harms caused by climate change, including extreme temperatures and more frequent wildfires. The plaintiffs allege violations of various state laws, including consumer protection provisions.
The companies argue that climate policy is a purely federal issue, in part because pollution crosses state lines and cannot be addressed on a piecemeal basis. Air pollution is regulated via the federal Clean Air Act, but more comprehensive efforts to combat climate change at the national level have stalled, with President Donald Trump’s administration particularly opposed to addressing the issue.
And I still maintain that the companies being sued by Colorado, and specifically Exxon Mobil and Suncor since they are countersuiting, should stop selling their products to Boulder and Boulder County. Why would you provide your goods/services to an entity that is suing you? The suit may involved the city and county, but, the State is backing the suit against the fossil fuels companies so it should be involved in full. Boulder has a municipal airport. Lots of people fly in or drive in to go skiing at Eldora Mountain Resort. And they’re all wearing clothes made from petroleum. Plus bags, ski goggles, and skis and boards made with petroleum.
Now we have to wonder how the suit will be ruled.
Read: SCOTUS To Hear Lawsuit From Fossil Fuels Companies Against PRCII »
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