If All You See…

By William Teach February 26, 2026 – 1:00 pm

…is an evil carbon pollution infused beer causing sea rise, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Jo Nova, with a post on the Net Zero opinion polls in the UK.

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Fish Wrap Worries New ACA Plans Could Be “Unaffordable”

By William Teach February 26, 2026 – 10:30 am

This is such a fantastic program, a law called the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, which has pretty much been called unaffordable since it started

New A.C.A. Plans Could Increase Family Deductibles to $31,000

The Trump administration’s proposed new rules for Obamacare plans next year would shift more health care costs to Americans, with much higher deductibles that could lead to greater medical bills.

Under the proposal, people who rely on the Affordable Care Act for their health insurance coverage could choose plans with much lower monthly premiums. But that could leave them exposed to medical expenses totaling thousands of dollars more than A.C.A. plans do now before their insurance would kick in.

Heading into the midterm elections, offering these new plans is one of few options open to the Trump administration to lower Obamacare premiums that do not require congressional approval. Affordability has become a campaign mantra for Democrats: Health care costs were viewed as the top economic concern in a recent public opinion poll from KFF, a health research group.

In his State of the Union address, Mr. Trump blamed “the crushing costs of health care” on the Affordable Care Act, saying the program funneled money to the big insurance companies, He advocated sending the payments directly to Americans, so they could “buy their own health care, which will be better health care at a much lower cost.”

Really, the entire thing needs to be scrapped and redone so that it works correctly, because what it’s done since it started was increase the cost of health insurance and medical care for everyone, including those not on Obamacare. It would be best if it was states doing it, not the federal government, but, the door was opened, and you can almost never close a door on a federal “help” program once it is opened.

Low cost premium plans always had deductibles that were virtually impossible to meet for those who wanted the plans. The premiums themselves kept rising to the point that federal subsidies were out of control. So, what now? All the news outlets and Democrats never actually offer any solutions, because they love that all those medical companies they profess to hate are getting gobs of easy money which gets funneled back to Democrats.

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Your Fault: Earth’s Green Center Is Moving

By William Teach February 26, 2026 – 7:15 am

I love when there’s a new one from the doomsday cult

Earth’s ‘green center’ is drifting, and climate change is pushing it

Earth’s peak greenness has shifted decisively toward the northeast over the past four decades, establishing a measurable relocation of the planet’s living surface.

That steady drift redraws where seasonal plant growth concentrates, altering the geographic balance of carbon uptake and ecosystem timing worldwide.

Once you write “carbon” instead of “carbon dioxide” you’ve exposed yourself as this being not about science.

From daily satellite views of global vegetation, a single shifting point marks where the planet’s greenery concentrates most strongly at any moment.

Working from that planetary record, Professor Miguel Mahecha at Leipzig University documented how this balance point has moved persistently northeast over recent decades.

Rather than swinging evenly between hemispheres, the annual loop now leans north in every season and stretches farther east than before.

By compressing global plant activity into one moving coordinate, the finding sets up a clearer test of what forces are pushing Earth’s green center off its historical track.

OK, and? Things change during Holocene warm and cool periods. Do they have specific data on what happened during the previous warm periods over the last 8,000 years? If not, there is no comparison, and that is necessary for science.

Carbon dioxide explained about 70% of observed global greening, a long-term rise in leaf cover worldwide, in one large analysis.

Meaning this is all on you. Cult.

To see what might come next, the researchers ran the same metric through six major climate models.

Those Earth system models, computer simulations that couple land, air, and oceans, kept the northward drift under every scenario tested. (snip)

Satellites cannot see everything clearly, and clouds, snow, or dense evergreen can blur what greenness means on the ground.

To make the work checkable, the team released scripts that rebuild every figure and its codebase.

So, a ton of this is all based on garbage in garbage out computer models. I’m shocked!

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LOL: Massachusetts Federal Judge Says Illegals Cannot Be Deported To Third-Party Countries

By William Teach February 26, 2026 – 7:00 am

Didn’t the Supreme Court already say they can?

Federal judge rules Trump admin may not remove people to third countries without due process

A federal judge in Massachusetts ruled Wednesday that the Trump administration’s policy to quickly remove people to third countries to which they have no previous connection is illegal and that people must receive meaningful notice and the chance to challenge their deportations.

“This case is about whether the Government may, without notice, deport a person to the wrong country, or a country where he is likely to be persecuted, or tortured, thereby depriving that person of the opportunity to seek protections to which he would be undisputedly entitled,” U.S. District Judge Brian Murphy wrote in what is likely to be his final ruling on the merits of the case.

The case originated after eight migrants were removed from the United States with the intended destination of South Sudan in March but were instead rerouted to Djibouti. The eight migrants did not have South Sudan or Djibouti as the listed country on their final orders of removal paperwork, and immigration advocates filed a lawsuit in an attempt to get them back to the U.S. for due process.

Murphy said the federal government may not remove people with final orders of removal to third countries other than their own. Instead, the government must first try to send people to the countries of removal listed on their paperwork. An immigration judge issues a “final order of removal,” which orders a noncitizen’s deportation. The person is then able to appeal the judge’s decision to the Board of Immigration Appeals within 30 days of the ruling.

They usually do attempt to send to their own country first. 3rd party is the last resort.

Last year, the Supreme Court paused an order by Murphy that had temporarily blocked the administration from sending noncitizens to third countries unless they were first able to have a “meaningful opportunity” to bring claims that they would be at risk of torture, persecution or death.

Yeah, so, he’s already been overruled by the Supreme Court. And will most likely be overruled by an appeals court or SCOTUS again. In the mean time, ICE should move all illegals in Murphy’s court district out of it, then send them to a 3rd party country if necessary.

Meanwhile, Ilhan is still big mad

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Israeli High Court Joins The Climate Cult

By William Teach February 25, 2026 – 4:21 pm

It’s not just some US states, Canada, and Europe

Heeding green groups’ demand, High Court orders government to justify climate targets

A day after hearing the first petition in Israel against the state’s climate policy, the High Court of Justice ordered the government on Tuesday to define and explain its minimum target for cutting global warming emissions, to detail what steps it was taking to reduce those emissions, and to explain what was happening with its climate bill.

The court set a June 26 deadline for responses from the government and the environmental protection, energy and health ministers.

On Monday, three High Court justices heard a petition submitted by two green organizations, Green Course and Youth for Climate, calling for an interim injunction to compel the government to explain why its 2030 emissions-cut target is 27 percent rather than 43%, as set by the UN to cap rising global temperatures.

Well, I would have thought that the answer was “Israel is not a state of the United Nations, and the UN is not actually a government,” but, apparently not

The Sixth Assessment Report of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), issued in 2022, called for a global 43% cut in emissions of carbon dioxide, methane and other gases helping to drive climate change in order to implement the Paris agreement, which seeks to cap global warming at 2 degrees Celsius (3.6?F), preferably 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7?F), relative to pre-industrial levels.

Representing the petitioners, Assaf Fink argued on Monday that Israel’s ratification of the Paris Agreement did not align with the government’s decision to set a 2030 target of just 27%. In practice, he added, the state would likely cut emissions by only 19%.

How about if all the Warmists in Israel cut their own emissions by at least 43%, instead of forcing Other People to cooperate?

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If All You See…

By William Teach February 25, 2026 – 1:00 pm

…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.

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CNN: Dems Played Seethers Till Trump Started Talking About Illegals

By William Teach February 25, 2026 – 10:30 am

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

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NY Times: Say, Hotcoldwetdry Could Maybe Possibly Be Making Inflation Worse

By William Teach February 25, 2026 – 7:15 am

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.

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DOJ Sues NJ Governor Over Pro-Illegals EO

By William Teach February 25, 2026 – 7:00 am

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.

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Surprise: Charlotte’s First EV Fire Truck Not Working After One Month

By William Teach February 24, 2026 – 3:00 pm

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

There is a two word phrase to accurately describe the electric buses sold to transit agencies, and the first of those two words is “cluster”.

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

(snip)

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.

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