Good News: Hundreds Of Private Planes Head To Burning Man

By William Teach August 27, 2024 – 3:00 pm

This is Burning Man

Whether at the Burning Man event in Black Rock City, or at Regional Events around the world, Burners pride themselves in devising better, more efficient ways to do things. We’ve been building our ephemeral home in Black Rock City since 1990; all along participants have been imagining and experimenting with technology that conserves water, minimizes waste and utilizes renewable energy sources. As with all things Burning Man, these learnings come back to our lives, and impact the greater world in which we all live.

The nonprofit Burning Man Project and the global Burning Man community are working to make the Burning Man event in Black Rock City more ecologically sustainable. This sustainability web page summarizes our efforts.

They yammer about being carbon negative, climate change adaptation, and sustainability for everything

Also Burning Man

Hundreds of private planes are touching down at a makeshift airport for billionaire favorite Burning Man

Hundreds of charter and personal planes touched down on the same tarmac this weekend — and it wasn’t in the Hamptons, Lake Tahoe, or any other particularly bougie hot spot. It was a pop-up airport called 88NV in the middle of the Nevada desert.

Officially named Black Rock City Municipal Airport, 88NV’s two 6,000-foot runways created from a dry lakebed handle the hundreds of planes flying in for the annual Burning Man festival. The temporary airfield is only open for about two weeks before it’s taken down “without a trace,” the website says.

Huh. Can’t let ‘climate change’ get in the way of getting your groove on and showing your wealth, eh? Of course, how many of the non-uber rich also take fossil fueled flights then vehicles to Burning Man?

Meanwhile

Ford Loses $44,000 On Every EV Sells As It Switches To Hybrids

Last week, we reported that Ford was canceling its plans for a three-row electric crossover as part of an adjustment to its electric strategy because of cooling demand for EVs. Now we are getting a better look at just how much that strategy is changing and what it’ll end up costing The Blue Oval. Chiefly, Ford is expected to take on $1.9 billion in related charges and write-downs.

Ford said its EV business is on track to lose an eye-watering $5 billion this year alone. In the three-month period ending in June, the automaker lost about $44,000 on every electric vehicle it sold. That is not sustainable.

Hey, that’s better than the $130K they lost per EV in the 1st quarter, eh?

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If All You See…

By William Teach August 27, 2024 – 1:00 pm

…are horrible Bad Weather clouds approaching, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is This ain’t Hell…, with a post on one last look at Biden’s Gaza pier.

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California Representative Claims Harris Would Expand DACA

By William Teach August 27, 2024 – 10:30 am

You know DACA, the Executive Branch rule from the Obama administration which Obama himself said was un-Constitutional, and various courts have claimed was unlawful

Rep. Barragan of California says that, as president, Harris will expand DACA protections

U.S. Rep. Nanette Barragan of California spoke with USA TODAY at the Democratic convention last week, saying that a potential Kamala Harris administration would push for expanded protections for “dreamers”—people covered by the Obama-era immigration policy Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA).

“I know that a President Kamala Harris is very supportive and is going to be ready on day one to sign a bill from Congress to provide those protections that we need to provide for dreamers,” Barragan said.

DACA offers deferred deportation (but not a green card or citizenship) to some people with a clean criminal history and a high school degree or military service record who came to the United States with their family as children.

The law was passed in 2012 as a temporary measure, and holders of legal status based on DACA remain in a tenuous position as courts have repeatedly thrown the law’s status into doubt.

Are the two USA Today writers ignorant or straight up lying? DACA was never passed into law. Democrats tried to pass The DREAM Act a few times during the early Obama years, but, it never crossed Obama’s desk for a signature. I’ve left the link in the 1st paragraph to stand, because it explains that it is an administrative amnesty instituted by the Obama admin, not a law. Did the two USA Today writers, Swapna Venugopal Ramaswamy and George Fabe Russell, read the story they linked, which is also at the USA Today? And then the Credentialed Media wonders why no one trusts them.

Earlier this year, President Joe Biden’s administration expanded the law to add a path for DACA recipients to apply for employer-sponsored work visas and green cards. It also allowed them to enroll in the Affordable Care Act exchange health insurance plans, often called “Obamacare.”

Barragan said that the president alone cannot expand laws like DACA: “That’s something that Congress is going to have to do.”

It’s not a law, meaning that the USA Today writers, and any editor that approved this, are just ignorant or lying. But, Barragan is correct: expanding DACA is illegal, because it is not a law to start with. But, it is no surprise that Harris would want to expand the un-Constitutional administrative amnesty, considering how many illegals flowed into the USA during the Biden-Harris time, with her as the “Border Czar”. With all the migrants flown in from Central and South America.

Is this actually a policy of Cackles Harris? No one actually knows, because she won’t say.

“We just saw the administration provide greater access to healthcare to dreamers,” Barragan continued. “And so we’ll continue to do that until we, of course, hear from the courts.”

I distinctly remember when Obama, his people, and elected Democrats said that Republicans were just fearmongering, that illegals would not be eligible for taxpayer funded Obamacare.

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UN Head Takes Long Fossil Fueled Flight To Complain About Sea Rise

By William Teach August 27, 2024 – 7:00 am

All the way to Tonga

UN chief calls rising seas a ‘worldwide catastrophe’

Highlighting seas that are rising at an accelerating rate, especially in the far more vulnerable Pacific island nations, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres issued yet another climate SOS to the world. This time he said those initials stand for “save our seas.”

The United Nations and the World Meteorological Organization Monday issued reports on worsening sea level rise, turbocharged by a warming Earth and melting ice sheets and glaciers. They highlight how the Southwestern Pacific is not only hurt by the rising oceans, but by other climate change effects of ocean acidification and marine heat waves.

Guterres toured Samoa and Tonga and made his climate plea from Tonga’s capital on Tuesday at a meeting of the Pacific Islands Forum, whose member countries are among those most imperiled by climate change. Next month the United Nations General Assembly holds a special session to discuss rising seas.

“This is a crazy situation,” Guterres said. “Rising seas are a crisis entirely of humanity’s making. A crisis that will soon swell to an almost unimaginable scale, with no lifeboat to take us back to safety.”

“A worldwide catastrophe is putting this Pacific paradise in peril,” he said. “The ocean is overflowing.”

Tonga and Samoa are 468 miles apart, which means Guterres would have to take a fossil fueled flight between them. For Somoa, the tide gauge was actually moving up slowly, less than would be expected for a Holocene warm period, until the 2009 earthquake, which has caused the rise to accelerate. Tonga’s gauge only goes back to 2000, so, there is no actual long term trend. It really is all doom and gloom with these climahypocrites, and little science.

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Harris Goes After Trump On Economy And Inflation Or Something

By William Teach August 27, 2024 – 6:45 am

It’s not often that a politics article gives me a good laugh. I’m not sure how Politico writer Adam Cancryn could write this. He must be a Believer

Harris goes after Trump on economy and inflation in new ad

Vice President Kamala Harris is trying to make up ground with voters who still give former President Donald Trump an edge on the economy, airing a new ad this week that attempts to go on offense on inflation.

The ad, titled “Everyday” and first shared with POLITICO, features clips of Harris’ speech earlier this month in North Carolina, where she unveiled a series of proposals aimed at making housing more affordable, targeting corporations over price gouging and expanding a tax credit for families.

“Prices are still too high,” Harris said. “I will be laser-focused on creating opportunities for the middle class that advance their economic security, stability and dignity.”

The spot, which will start running on Tuesday, is part of a $150 million ad blitz targeted at battleground states surrounding last week’s Democratic convention, and the second in the last few days to focus on cutting costs and taxes. An earlier 30-second ad made only broad references to bolstering the middle class; this newest, one-minute one outlines Harris’ main focus areas, while also attacking Trump by name as siding with “billionaires and large corporations.”

Shame Adam failed to mention

Where was her laser focus the past 3 1/2 years? Also at Politico

Hill Dems try to tamp down backlash to Harris’ grocery price gouging pitch

Under pressure to defend Kamala Harris’ grocery price gouging plan, some Democratic lawmakers are delivering a quiet message to anxious allies: Don’t worry about the details. It’s never going to pass Congress.

The Harris campaign’s proposal, unveiled as part of her first big economic policy speech, has become a focal point for her presidential rival, Donald Trump, and fellow Republicans, who claim she’s pushing “communist price controls.” It has also alarmed food industry officials and even some left-of-center economists, who’ve warned such policies can hurt more than they help.

A lot of Democrats, particularly those who are not wacko leftists, and have to deal with tough re-election campaigns, know that this policy, which Harris is still pushing (I heard the commercial here in Raleigh yesterday or today), is really bad for them, and they do not want to hitch their wagon to something being called a communist policy.

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AP Manages To Drag Climate Crisis (scam) Into Story About Herding Cows In Nigeria’s Capitol City

By William Teach August 26, 2024 – 3:00 pm

Much of Nigeria is arid, and has been for centuries, especially the northern areas, which tend to see 20 inches or less a year of rain. The Sahara Desert has been encroaching on northern Nigeria for at least 5,000 years, and, scientists think that the area would have been considered a desert even during the last glacial age, since it receives so little rain, do to the location. But, you know, facts are immaterial to the Cult Of Climastrology and their official media outlets

Cows obstruct Nigeria’s capital as climate change and development leave herders with nowhere to go

climate cowAt an intersection seven miles from the presidential villa, frustrated drivers honk as a herd of cattle feeds on the grass beautifying the median strip and slowly marches across the road, their hooves clattering against the asphalt. For the teenage herder guiding them, Ismail Abubakar, it is just another day, and for most drivers stuck in the traffic, it’s a familiar scene unfolding in Nigeria’s capital Abuja.

Abubakar and his cattle’s presence in the city center is not out of choice but of necessity. His family are originally from Katsina State in northern Nigeria, where a changing climate turned grazing lands into barren desert. He moved to Idu — a rural, bushy and less developed part of Abuja — many years ago. But it now hosts housing estates, a vast railway complex and various industries.

Fulani herders like Abubakar are traditionally nomadic and dominate West Africa’s cattle industry. They normally rely on wild countryside to graze their cattle with free pasture, but the pressures of modernization, the need for land for housing and crop farming and human-caused climate change are challenging their way of life. To keep cattle off of Abuja’s major roads and gardens, some suggest that herders need to start acquiring private land and operating like other businesses. But to do that, they’d need money and government incentives.

Idu is right outside of Abuja. Katsina state is as far north as you can get in Nigeria, so, that area will have been mostly desert for thousands of years, hence, nothing to do with human caused climate change mule fritters.

“It’s disheartening,” said Baba Ngelzarma, the president of Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria, a Fulani pastoralists’ advocacy group. “Nigeria is presented as an unorganized people. The herders take the cattle wherever they can find green grasses and water at least for the cows to survive, not minding whether it is the city or somebody’s land.”

Yes, they do, and the northern part of Nigeria has been a barely optimal area for grazing for a long time, well before the industrial revolution. It’s been hit or miss for farming and grazing, being an arid area.

Meanwhile

New study suggests climate change will make hail bigger and more costly

Hail will become less common but larger and more damaging because of human-caused climate change — according to a new study published in the Nature journal Climate and Atmospheric Science. (snip)

His group simulated future hailstorms using weather models run on supercomputers and analyzed how such storms would change as greenhouse gas emissions from the burning of fossil fuels increase in the atmosphere.

If it “suggests”, that is looking at a crystal ball, not science, which is facts. But, considering they used their computer models which are biased, this is no real surprise. I do enjoy that they’re trotting out the “less common but bigger” like they did for hurricanes when hurricane strikes fell way off.

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If All You See…

By William Teach August 26, 2024 – 1:00 pm

…is a palm tree that will Soon! grow in the Arctic, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Real Climate Science, with a post on Gen Z math and solutions.

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Iran’s Foreign Minister Threaten Retaliation Or Something

By William Teach August 26, 2024 – 10:30 am

Perhaps the Iranian big wigs should consider what Israel just did to Hezbollah after the Iranian backed Hezbollah was making threats

Iran’s Foreign Minister Vows ‘Definitive’ Retaliation Against Israel

Iran’s foreign minister again has referenced his country’s planned retaliation over the assassination of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran.

Abbas Araghchi said late Sunday he made the remark in a conversation with Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani by telephone.

“Iran reaction to Israeli terrorist attack in Tehran is definitive, and will be measured & well calculated,” Araghchi wrote on the social platform X. “We do not fear escalation, yet do not seek it — unlike Israel.”

Tajani said in a statement he “called for restraint and to pursue a constructive approach, in order to stop the cycle of military actions in the region, which only risks bringing more suffering.”

“It is important that Iran exercises moderation towards Hezbollah in order to avert an escalation on the Lebanese-Israeli border, where Italian soldiers of the UNIFIL contingent are operating, and towards the Houthis in order to avoid an increase in tensions in the Red Sea area, where Italy plays a leading role in the (European Union’s) Aspides mission,” he said in the statement.

Iran has been making threats for weeks that retaliation is coming soon, but, so far, have made no moves. Wisely. If there is any sort of buildup or pre-attack posturing, the leaky intelligence agencies haven’t given any indication of this.

Meanwhile

Yahya Sinwar ‘dressed as a woman’ hiding among Gaza’s populace – Daily Express

Yahya Sinwar, Hamas’s most senior leader, has “dressed as a woman” while hiding among Gaza’s populace during his time outside of the terror group’s tunnel network in the Gaza Strip, the UK’s Daily Express reported on Sunday, citing Israeli intelligence sources.

The New York Times on Sunday, citing American and Israeli officials, reported that Sinwar may have left tunnels in which he had been hiding on a number of occasions over the last year.

Sinwar has reportedly been moving from place to place in the Gaza Strip to stay ahead of Israeli efforts to hunt him down.

LOL.

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Climate Cultists Wants Everyone Else To Rethink Refrigeration

By William Teach August 26, 2024 – 7:00 am

The crazies are telling you what they want, if only people would listen

Who the heck puts tomatoes in the fridge, unless you’ve sliced one and are saving the rest for later? From the link

The “cold chain” that delivers our food is inconspicuous but vast. The US alone boasts around 5.5 million cubic feet of refrigerated space (that’s 150 Empire State Buildings!) and three-quarters of the average American plate has spent some time in a commercial fridge. Now, the developing world is catching up.

Nicola Twilley, author of Frostbite: How Refrigeration Changed Our Food, Our Planet, and Ourselves, says this expansion of the world’s “distributed winter” has wide-ranging climate implications.

What Twilley is primarily yammering about is large scale refrigeration for shipping, which isn’t just from in your state or from across the country, but, from around the world, which, as you can guess, is Bad for ‘climate change’, hence, the use of refrigeration must be dramatically be decreased. And, who would implement this? Government force, of course!

It’s a very long interview with Twilley at the link.

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LOL: Attendees At DNC Come Down With COVID?

By William Teach August 26, 2024 – 6:45 am

How can this happen, when so many wear masks and got the initial shots and multiple boosters?

Democratic National Convention surprise guest turns out to be COVID-19 as multiple attendees test positive

Maybe there was a surprise guest at the Democratic National Convention after all.

Multiple attendees at the convention in Chicago last week subsequently tested positive for the COVID-19 respiratory illness, as health officials worry about infections spiking across the country.

“When you spend five days in Chicago for the DNC and come home with COVID-19. Womp womp,” Christopher Wiggins, a reporter at The Advocate, an LGBTQ magazine, posted on X.

Several others also shared their diagnosis on social media.

“Indeed. I arrived at the DNC healthy and hopeful and left very sick and disillusioned,” human rights lawyer Yasmine Taeb wrote on X.

How is this possible? It’s so weird that the people who have taken the most number of COVID shots (can’t call it a vaccine when it doesn’t seem to actually stop Wuhan Flu) seem to get it the most. Especially when they wear a mask.

Why do we have to keep getting COVID?

Nearly five years into life with COVID-19, I find myself selfishly wondering how many more times I – by which I mean, all of us – need to get it before we acknowledge that allowing multiple reinfections poses a very large problem? I thought my second bout of it (or was it my third?) in February, 2023, was tough – that one set me back a few months. But this nasty little bug, which is again surging here, there and everywhere, has bitten me once again, and has been a beast to overcome.

My latest infection – which began in June and is mild by medical standards – surprised me. I’m an active, healthy woman in her 40s. In addition to having been infected previously, I’ve gratefully received every single vaccine offered, including the booster shot only about 18 per cent of Canadians got last fall. I’m not sure I blame those who didn’t rush out in droves to get it. There was little public push to do so, and a general sense that infection after vaccination was okay so long as you’re “healthy.” Continued protection against a virus that makes swift and powerful adaptations is a hard sell when you don’t invest in the power of prevention, too.

Well, that shot sure isn’t protecting, nor do masks. I have yet to get it (knocking on my wooden table). I do not know anyone who got it a second time, and even most of my liberal friends and coworkers did not get more than the first booster. I only know a few who got it bad, like a bad flu, but, no one who had to be hospitalized.

(The Hill) Health experts are urging school staff and families to take active steps to mitigate the spread of COVID-19 amid rising infections as school districts stick to their previous plans to combat the virus similarly to how they would the flu or strep throat.

They’re really trying to ramp up the scaremongering over what is mostly like getting the flu or a cold pre-election, eh?

(NBC News) Free Covid-19 tests will be available once again come late September, the Biden administration announced Friday.

“These tests will help families and their loved ones stay safe this fall and winter season,” Dawn O’Connell, the assistant secretary for preparedness and response at the Department of Health and Human Services, said Friday at a briefing on the upcoming respiratory virus season.

Yeah yeah yeah.

(CNN) Newly updated vaccines against Covid-19 will be in pharmacies soon, just as the US is experiencing a surge of infections. But is it a good idea to get in line for a new shot pronto, or should you wait a few weeks to get optimal protection against a possible winter wave?

Experts say it depends on your health, whether you’ve recently had Covid-19, which vaccine you plan to get and when it’s convenient for you.

Will these work as poorly as the previous ones?

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