If All You See…

By William Teach December 13, 2023 – 1:00 pm

…is a wonderful low carbon bicycle which should be required for Everyone Else, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Diogenes’ Middle Finger, with a post on the ugly face of DEI in the Poison Ivy League.

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UNC Chapel Hill Promises To “Do More” Over Campus Jew Hatred

By William Teach December 13, 2023 – 10:30 am

But, what, exactly are they planning to do? The article is rather light on that

UNC pledges action in response to concerns over antisemitism: ‘We will do more’

Amidst a national discourse on antisemitism, some members of the UNC-Chapel Hill community have voiced concerns over its campus environment.

“We had a student saying that they support Hamas. We had fliers calling for the destruction of the state of Israel,” said Neill Motus, a junior who grew up in Israel.

“I hear Jewish jokes every single day. I hear antisemitism every single week. It’s unfair. I’ve never in my entire life ever seen this,” added sophomore Justin Sonnenreich.

Over the past two months, ABC11 has spoken with students, faculty, parents, and donors, who have expressed their hopes the university would take stronger measures to support Jewish students.

“The Jewish community at UNC represents below 2% of the student body. And I think it’s imperative for the Jewish community to seek out growth, to seek out understanding and to bridge this gap,” expressed Sonnenreich.

If any other group acted the way the pro-Hamas demonstrators did the administration would have identified who they were and kicked them out and then held a forum explaining that the campus does not stand for that type of hateful and violent rhetoric, nor for physical harassment of other students. While the UNC chancellor has said the right things, and was blasted by other employees of Chapel Hill, nothing has been done

In a statement, Chancellor Kevin Guskiewicz responded to the event (2 weeks ago):

“I was appalled by the remarks of a visiting speaker at a recent event on our campus regarding the war in the Middle East. Her language did not align with the values of our university community. Our university strives for discussions made rich by expertise and a variety of perspectives. We expect those conversations to bring learning and understanding, not applause or support for violence or prejudice. We have made our expectations clear to our campus and will continue to do so. The Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences is reviewing the practices and policies for how panels are organized, and how we support free speech, and also host events that encourage respectful debate rather than hate.”

He was appalled, like he was appalled from previous “protests”, and has done nothing.

She emphasized other efforts to foster understanding amongst all students.

“I know that we are planning to do a lot more training around issues of antisemitism, discrimination, Islamophobia. I think that that we can step it up and engage more folks in the conversation. It’s a large campus. And in talking with some of our students, they’re not even aware of what’s going on in the world in terms of Israel and Hamas, so I think we have to do a better job of making sure that they’re engaged in those conversations because these are their fellow classmates that are feeling this pain and this hurt and these threats. And so we can do more and I think we will do more,” Cox explained, adding university officials have participated in panel discussions with Jewish, Muslim, Arab, and Palestinian students.

And, that appears to be it. Conversation. How do you have one with people who support wiping Israel from the map and killing Jews? Who support what Hamas did on October 7?

In response to those reservations, Schiff has cancelled plans to attend his 60th reunion next year, and ceased contributions to the university, including a planned six-figure donation as part of his will.

It could be that the university is saying they are going to Do Something because they are seeing donations dry up. But, they aren’t really doing anything. Because they’d rather allow the Jew hatred, intimidation, and harassment than get blasted with calls of Islamophobia for punishing the pro-Hamas students and faculty. Like most Democratic party run college, they’re doing nothing.

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USA Today Is Thrilled To Let You Know That Winter Is Due To Global Boiling

By William Teach December 13, 2023 – 7:00 am

All that snow, cold, and ice is your fault for refusing to sell your fossil fueled vehicle and buy an EV, plus give a ton of your money to government

From the link

stop global warmingOn the coldest days, Francis Tarasiewicz dons long johns, sweat pants, snow pants, hooded jackets, outerwear jackets, a scarf, gloves, mittens and goggles to make the trek a few hundred feet outdoors to the Mount Washington Observatory’s precipitation station.

When winds blow hardest at the 6,288-foot summit, New Hampshire’s tallest peak, the trip takes up to 20 minutes and makes the flapping of his hood sound like a chainsaw.

Braving such harsh conditions, Tarasiewicz – a weather observer and education specialist at the observatory, a nonprofit research institution – and his colleagues have documented a year of crazy extremes on the mountain in 2023, with wild swings in rain, snow and temperatures.

See? Your fault. It’s not like Mount Washington doesn’t always have wild swings in weather because it has always had wild swings. BTW, cool webcam at the top, and from the train that takes you there.

Like thousands of researchers around the globe, they’re compiling increasing evidence that climate change is bringing weirder weather, even in frigid locations like this northeastern landmark.

Notoriously fickle, the world’s weather is lurching from one extreme to another more often and to a greater degree as the warming atmosphere pushes natural variability to new extremes, breaking records time and again, the researchers say.

Blah blah blah. It’s just more people living in areas that witness weather and whining about it because they’ve been indoctrinated.

“People are experiencing climate change right now, right outside their windows, especially through the impacts of extreme weather events,” said Allison Crimmins, director of this fifth national assessment.

No, people are experiencing weather. Weather happens. What we really need is an alien invasion or zombie apocalypse, so people have real things to worry about.

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DHS Warns Of Threats To Public Safety Over Christmas

By William Teach December 13, 2023 – 6:45 am

Darned Amish at it again

FBI, DHS warn of ‘threats to public safety’ during holiday season, amplified by Israel-Hamas conflict

The FBI and the Department of Homeland Security are warning the public of heightened threats to public safety this holiday season and through winter associated with the ongoing Israel-Hamas conflict.

The FBI says it is “closely monitoring threats to public safety during the holiday season which may be amplified” by the war.

“We take all potential threats seriously and will work closely with our law enforcement partners to determine their credibility, share information, and take appropriate investigative action,” the bureau says in a PSA.

If they did they’d be shutting down the border and rejected all of those Quakers coming in, legally and illegally

Per an assessment from the FBI and DHS, ongoing tensions related to the conflict between Israel and Hamas “likely heighten the threat of lone actor violence targeting large public gatherings throughout the winter, including holiday-related, faith-based, New Year’s Eve, and First Amendment protected events related to the conflict.”

The bureau says these targets are likely to remain “attractive to lone actors inspired by a range of ideologies due to their accessibility and symbolic nature.”

It’s weird that DHS and the FBI are just couching this in just generic terms. Who would be considering lone actor violence around Christmas time? They’re simply too chickenshit and involved with multiculturalism, diversity, and other leftist idiocy to do their jobs.

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Climate Cult Super Worried About Artificial Intelligence

By William Teach December 12, 2023 – 2:48 pm

Over in Dubai, where 90K took fossil fueled trips, they’re super concerned…in between eating all that meat and posing in their fast fashion

AI emissions are fueling a new doomerism. This time it’s climate change

There is a new doomer narrative over artificial intelligence emerging in the background at this year’s COP meeting. This one isn’t focused on a malignant superintelligence. Instead, it is over sustainability and concerns over AI’s burgeoning energy demands.

A recent study projects that by 2027, NVIDIA’s new AI servers will be consuming over 85.4 terawatt-hours annually, exceeding the energy usage of countries such as Sweden and Argentina.

Research from the University of Massachusetts Amherst suggesting that training a single AI model can emit over 284 tonnes of CO2, equivalent to the lifetime emissions of five average American cars, paints a concerning picture of AI’s environmental impact. Annually, AI’s carbon footprint is approaching 1% of global emissions.

AI’s energy demands have indeed increased dramatically. A Stanford study flags a 300,000-fold rise in AI systems’ power requirements since the early 2010s. And some of this energy is derived from fossil fuels, with data centers globally consuming over 1% of global electricity, a third of which comes from coal and natural gas.

Yeah, it’s pretty much typical for the climate cult to look at something happening and say “hey, we need to drag this into our cult”

However, what the doomers miss is the ingenuity of human research and industry. Analyzing IT’s electricity consumption back to the 2000s, Jonathan Koomey and colleagues found that the energy intensity of the global data center industry dropped by around 20% per year between 2010 and 2018. Efficiency gains in data centers, chips, and programming have outstripped the increase in energy use.

This human factor is what the doomers’ narrative misses, suggesting that while AI’s energy demands are growing, so too are the efficiencies in the systems that support it.

The Warmists do not care. Once they’ve latched onto an issue they will never let it go.

This is the kind of insanity we get from Warmists: they take long fossil fueled trips to say we need to ditch fossil fuels.

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If All You See…

By William Teach December 12, 2023 – 1:00 pm

…are hills eroding from carbon pollution, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Dissecting Leftism, with a post on the Supreme Court’s view of Wuhan Flu vaccine mandates.

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New Mexico Governor Pushes Pushes Different “Assault Rifle” Reform

By William Teach December 12, 2023 – 10:30 am

As usual, this would only effect law abiding citizens, not the criminals. The big point here is that more Democratic Party run states could give this a whirl

Governor wants New Mexico legislators to debate new approach to regulating assault-style weapons

New Mexico could become an early political testing ground for a proposal to make assault-style weapons less deadly.

Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham on Monday said she’ll encourage the state’s Democratic-led Legislature to consider statewide restrictions that mirror an unconventional proposal from U.S. senators aimed at reducing a shooter’s ability to fire off dozens of rounds a second and attach new magazines to keep firing.

The proposed federal Go Safe Act was named after the internal cycling of high-pressure gas in the firearms in question and comes from such senators as New Mexico’s Martin Heinrich, a Democrat. If approved, it would mean assault-style weapons would have permanently fixed magazines, limited to 10 rounds for rifles and 15 rounds for some heavy-format pistols.

“I’ve got a set of lawmakers that are more likely than not to have a fair debate about guns, gun violence, weapons of war and keeping New Mexicans safe than members of Congress are,” said Lujan Grisham, a Democrat, at a news conference in the state Capitol. “We will have to see how those votes all shake out.”

The Democrats have comfortable majorities in both the house and senate in the New Mexico general assembly, so, they can easily pass it if they so choose. But, what would all this accomplish? Will criminals comply, or will it just turn law abiding citizens into criminals while the real criminals do what they want? This is all an end run around the 2nd Amendment and Supreme Court rulings, which the Court will surely figure out.

Further, this is beyond disingenuous: no semi-automatic rifle or handgun can fire off dozens of rounds a second. You didn’t expect the Associated Press and “journalist” Morgan Lee to be honest and/or know how guns work.

If the GOP had any brains, even at the state level, they’d introduce legislation to allow those who protect the governor and others in the New Mexico governor to only carry the Go Safe approved weapons.

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18 California Youts Sue EPA Over Global Boiling

By William Teach December 12, 2023 – 7:00 am

I’ll write it again: the first thing the EPA lawyers should ask is if the kiddies have give up their own use of fossil fuels and made their own lives carbon neutral. Being the uber-Leftist EPA, they’ll probably give in quickly and barely defend

18 California children are suing the EPA over climate change

Eighteen California children are suing the Environmental Protection Agency, claiming it violated their constitutional rights by failing to protect them from the effects of climate change. This is the latest in a series of climate-related cases filed on behalf of children.

The federal lawsuit is called Genesis B. v. United States Environmental Protection Agency. According to the lawsuit, the lead plaintiff “Genesis B.” is a 17-year-old Long Beach, California resident whose parents can’t afford air conditioning.

As the number of extreme heat days increases, the lawsuit says Genesis isn’t able to stay cool in her home during the day. “On many days, Genesis must wait until the evening to do schoolwork when temperatures cool down enough for her to be able to focus,” according to the lawsuit.

The family should move out of the People’s Repulik Of California, and they’d be able to afford AC.

The other plaintiffs range in age from eight to 17 and also are identified by their first names and last initials because they are minors. For each plaintiff, the lawsuit mentions ways that climate change is affecting their lives now, such as wildfires and flooding that have damaged landscapes near them and forced them to evacuate their homes or cancel activities.

They should be suing California for their environmental weenie policies which stop things like firebreaks, back burns, and cleaning dead brush, along with antiquated and absurd infrastructure that cannot take typical high winds. Don’t forget, most of the wildfires are caused by idiots being idiots or intentional arson.

The lawsuit does not specifically seek financial compensation, other than plaintiff costs and attorneys’ fees. It asks instead for various declarations about the environmental rights of children and the EPA’s responsibility to protect them.

Our Children’s Trust filed a different federal lawsuit in 2015, Juliana v. United States, against the entire government. It was dismissed in 2020 and revived by an Oregon judge this summer. The group also has legal actions pending in Florida, Hawaii, Utah and Virginia.

Basically, this is all an astroturfed suit to enrich the lawyers and the Trust. Weird that the article, nor the others I can find, do not mention how a slight temperature increase of 1.5F since 1850 violates their constitutional rights. Because the actual text of the suit is insane. They claim that this violates equal protection under the law. That it denies due process. There’s about 60 legal pages on this. It’s cute, but, it’ll most likely die in court, like the others. There’s no constitutional right to a certain temperature. The lawyers should ask the kiddies what they think the correct temperature should be.

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Good News: First Computer Chip Plant Funded From CHIPS Law

By William Teach December 12, 2023 – 6:45 am

Wow, the Biden regime really hit the ground running with this!

Biden administration says New Hampshire computer chip plant the first to get funding from CHIPS law

The Biden administration announced the first of many coming federal investments in computer chip production, saying Monday that it would provide $35 million for BAE Systems to increase production at a New Hampshire factory making chips for military aircraft, including F-15 and F-35 jets.

This would be the initial allocation of incentives from last year’s bipartisan CHIPS and Science Act, which provides more than $52 billion to boost the development and manufacturing of semiconductors in the United States.

Oh, good. Only 16 months after the bipartisan law passed the first outlay is hitting the books. Seriously, I actually expected better. Back in September 2022 the idiots at the Commerce dept were talking about taking applications in February 2023, and I figured the money would start flowing by April. Nope. And, depending on the source, most say that the chip shortage has, as JP Morgan noted back in April

The chip shortage is all but over, according to J.P. Morgan Research. In fact, there may even be oversupply in the short term, though looking further ahead, some shortages could linger as certain types of chips remain more in demand than others.

There’s certainly a judicious use of chips in certain products. Auto makers have removed certain things that need chips, and slimmed down functions for others, such as the stereo systems. But, production of vehicles is way, way up, pretty much back to normal. There’s no problems getting computers, TVs, streaming devices, tablets, phones, etc and so on. It would be nice for the US to not have to rely on chips made in China or any hostile nation.

The Commerce Department’s choice of a military contractor instead of a conventional chip manufacturer reveals the national security focus of the law, as more and more weapons systems depend on advanced chips that could be decisive in both preventing and fighting wars.

“We can’t gamble with our national security by depending solely on one part of the world or even one country for crucial advanced technologies,” said Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo, who called the investments a “once-in-a-generation opportunity to advance our national and economic security and create a thriving, long-lasting domestic semiconductor manufacturing industry.”

There is that. But, I do have to wonder who in government is making some money off of putting the cash into a military contractor.

Biden also said the incentives his administration is providing have already led to more than $230 billion in planned investments in semiconductors and electronics.

The Democratic president has gone to a planned Intel factory in Ohio and a new Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. plant in Arizona, as well as touted investments by IBM while in New York. Biden has made these financial commitments part of his pitch to voters ahead of the 2024 elections, saying his policies have energized the U.S. economy.

But, they haven’t received the money from the CHIPS act, and, where’s this $230 billion coming from? It only authorized $52 billion.

BTW, BAE Systems is a British company. It’s good they’re making the chips in the US, but, could we not find an American company to do this?

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Bummer: Climate (scam) Draft Agreement Dumps Notion Of Phasing Out Fossil Fuels

By William Teach December 11, 2023 – 3:00 pm

Well, maybe they all thought “if we phase out fossil fuels how are we all going to travel to all the nice vacation spots for climate conferences?”

Climate summit draft agreement removes mention of fossil fuel phase-out

A new draft of the core agreement at the COP28 climate talks published Monday removed a call to phase out fossil fuels, the main driver of the climate crisis, in a watering down of earlier versions and an apparent concession to oil-producing nations which had opposed the measure.

The latest draft instead calls on countries to take actions to reduce planet-warming pollution, which could include reducing the consumption and production of oil, coals and gas. Many climate experts and observers have blasted the draft for its vague language and a lack of concrete timelines.

More than 100 countries came to the Dubai talks supporting language to phase out fossil fuels, and many are likely to voice their opposition to the latest draft in an upcoming plenary session. Others, such as Saudi Arabia, which have pushed against the inclusion of any reference to fossil fuels, may attempt to water the text down further still.

If the current draft does not get widespread support, negotiators may need to return to debate.

I suggest that any agreement start with blocking all climate conference attendees from using fossil fuels to travel to climate working vacations. Let’s leave that in place for 5 years. If they can survive with that, maybe then we can talk about phasing out fossil fuels.

Most likely, the cultists will manage to stick something along the longs of phase outs into a final agreement, and, this kind of garbage is why the GOP needs to get their sh*t together and make sure they take the Senate, House, and White House in 2024, so they can vote on these types of things, since it will surely be written in a way to avoid the necessity of the Senate having to vote on it. The Republicans in the Senate need to find a way to force a vote in January if the agreement does include a phaseout, put Democrats on the record, and then slam them when they take fossil fueled flights and vehicles.

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