Nations Are Seeking Ways To Force Their Citizens To Pay For Climate Beliefs Of Elites

By William Teach November 19, 2024 – 4:36 pm

Obviously, the elites flying on their expensive private jets to climate conferences aren’t going to pay

Nations are seeking ways to raise the big money needed to tackle climate change

Just as a simple lever can move heavy objects, rich nations are hoping another kind of leverage — the financial sort — can help them come up with the money that poorer nations need to cope with climate change.

It involves a complex package of grants, loans and private investment, and it’s becoming the major currency at annual United Nations climate talks known as COP29.

But poorer nations worry they’ll get the short end of the lever: not much money and plenty of debt.

Meanwhile, half a world away in Brazil, leaders of the 20 most powerful economies issued a statement that among other things gave support to strong financial aid for climate for poor nations and the use of leverage financial mechanisms. That was cheered by climate analysts and advocates.

Money is the key issue in Baku, where negotiators are working on a new amount of cash for developing nations to transition to clean energy, adapt to climate change and deal with weather disasters. It’ll replace the current goal of $100 billion annually — a goal set in 2009.

Let’s be honest: most of this money never makes it to the citizens of 3rd world shitholes developing nations: it ends up in the pockets of the rich, the politicians, the bureaucrats, and the well connected. Are these dirt poor citizens seeing any of the supposed benefits?

In these negotiations, rich potential donor nations have been reluctant to offer a starting figure to negotiate from. So Rafiyev said the conference presidency is putting the pressure on them, telling “the developed countries that the figure should be fair and ambitious, corresponding to the needs and priorities of the world.”

For all the money that’s been dumped into these developing nations they are still developing. None of it has really helped. Now it’s just money with no strings attached, because successful nations apparently owe these poor countries the money. Pretty nice scam, eh?

Analysts and activists said they were also worried because the G20 statement did not repeat the call for a transition away from fossil fuels, a hard-fought concession at last year’s climate talks.

Most of these 3rd world nations and 2nd world island nations would collapse back further without fossil fuels. Without fossil fuels tourism ends. Without it any exports and imports end. Have fun.

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If All You See…

By William Teach November 19, 2024 – 1:00 pm

…is a horrible suburban lawn sucking down water and causing the temperature to spike, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Real Climate Science, with a post on 21st Century toddlers discussing the climate (scam).

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Vulnerable Democrats Who Cozied Up To Trump And Won Give Advice To Party

By William Teach November 19, 2024 – 10:30 am

But, do they really think most of the wackadoodle Democrats will listen?

Vulnerable Democrats who won say party must follow their path

House Democratic front-liners have a message for leadership as the party grapples with what went wrong in this year’s elections: Follow our example.

While Democrats were generally wiped out on Election Day — losing the White House and Senate, and failing to flip control of the House — vulnerable Democrats in the lower chamber were a rare bright spot for the party.

Those lawmakers proved highly successful in keeping their seats in tough battleground districts, even in some places where President-elect Trump won by comfortable margins.

As Democratic leaders conduct an election postmortem, the front-liners are urging colleagues to take a page from their playbook, which features a heavy focus on kitchen-table economics while largely avoiding the culture-war battles that were a drag on the party on Nov. 5.

Oh, most are not going to stay away from the Crazy, especially when they are in utterly safe districts.

For Pappas, that meant an outsized focus on two economic concerns facing working-class families: unaffordable housing and the high cost of child care. Both are pressing problems not only in his district, he said, but all across the country. If Democrats want to appeal to more voters, he argued, they have to focus on the pocket-book anxieties that keep them up at night.

“In my district, abortion rights is still a top-testing issue, and people are deeply concerned about the direction of that,” he said. “But I think overall the economic anxiety needs to be front and center in terms of our agenda.”

Of course, the problem there is that Democrats tend to have the wrong answers on the economy, as we saw with Kamala’s “plan”. The fake price gouging may play well with the moonbat base, but, real people know it’s mule fritters. Real people know that the promise to build millions of homes is BS, considering how few EV chargers the government built and how no homes were connected to the Internet despite billions allocated.

“We hammered affordability just over and over and over — obsessively talked about lowering costs — and I outperformed Harris by 11 points in one of the toughest districts in the country,” [Rep Pat Ryan (D-NY)] continued. “So it’s all nothing new here.”

In other words, he sounded like Trump and Republicans. The question now is, how will he vote? In accordance with his campaign, or with the far left Democrats? How will the rest vote?

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Shell Beats Climate Cult In Dutch Appeals Court Case

By William Teach November 19, 2024 – 7:15 am

It’s easier to win when the climate cult finds friendly judges than when a real world court hears the case

Shell wins appeal in Dutch court after three-year battle against green groups

Climate activists won against Shell in 2021 when a Dutch court commanded the oil giant to reduce its carbon emissions by 45 percent by the end of 2030. Three years later, Shell managed to win its appeal against this ruling. In the court’s view, Shell doesn’t have a “social standard of care” to curtail emissions, the BBC reports.

The 2021 ruling was noteworthy, as it was the first time a court made a private company obey the 2015 Paris Agreement in addition to Dutch law. However, the appeals court judge said that while Shell had an obligation to reduce emissions, a 45 percent cut could not be established as there is no universally accepted amount. Shell’s statement says it’s planning to reduce its products’ carbon intensity by a comparatively paltry 15 to 20 percent by 2030 compared to a 2016 baseline.

The 2021 ruling would only be effective in the Netherlands as well. Shell wouldn’t have been legally obligated to follow the lower court’s ruling for its operations outside Dutch territory. Now even that small gain is off the table for now.

The activists, who are largely associated with Milieudefensie (the Dutch branch of Friends of the Earth), issued a statement promising to continue the fight against climate change. “Large polluters are powerful. But united, we as people have the power to change them,” said Donald Pols, Director of Milieudefensie. They’re now trying to take the case to the Supreme Court, but getting a final verdict will likely take years.

Too bad the court didn’t ask the plaintiffs if they have given up their own use of fossil fuels and made their own lives carbon neutral.

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Trump Says He’ll Use Military To Deal With Illegals

By William Teach November 19, 2024 – 7:00 am

Obviously, like everything Trump does, the Democrats and their pet media are losing their minds

Trump confirms he will deploy the military for mass deportation plan

Donald Trump confirmed Monday that he plans to declare a national emergency and use the military for the mass deportations of immigrants in the country illegally.

Trump posted “TRUE!!!” in response to conservative activist Tom Fitton, who wrote in his own Truth Social post about the incoming administration’s preparation to use the military for deportation efforts.

As the president-elect plans to begin the process of deporting immigrants in the U.S. illegally in his first 100 days, Trump’s team is working to craft executive orders that can withstand legal challenges from immigration advocates to avoid a defeat like the one his 2017 Muslim ban faced. They are also expected to end a visa-free parole process for immigrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela. But Trump will also face logistical challenges, like expanding the capacity of detention centers and tackling the immigration court backlog.

Homan doubled down on Trump’s deportation plans during a Fox News interview Monday, saying that Trump “is committed to [do] whatever he can to get us the money we need” to carry out their plans.

“We’re going to take handcuffs off ICE, we will do the job and secure the country and protect the American communities and arrest the bad guys first,” Homan said.

Well, good. The Trump admin can take those who would in no way be eligible for for asylum and deport the crap out of them. Murderers, rapists, thieves, criminals, gang members. No need to put them in a detention center, just boot them. Anyone who is causing problems are considered a danger to the U.S. and are not eligible for asylum. Anyone who has previously been deported is not eligible. If they failed to apply within 1 year of being in the U.S. they are ineligible, and the burden of proof and doing the paperwork and such is on the applicant.

You know, people like this

…She says they got the flight, then Ibarra’s brother picked them up from ATL airport and drove them to Athens, GA, where prosecutors say he murdered Riley this year.

Ibarra is a member of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua, and, if the Biden-Harris administration had taken the time to verify who he was Laken Riley would still be alive.

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Bummer: Trump’s 2nd Term Will Decimate US Climate (scam) Agenda

By William Teach November 18, 2024 – 3:00 pm

I damned sure hope so

Trump’s second term will devastate the US climate agenda

One of the best things about America is that everyone is entitled to their own opinions. However, what happens when an incoming leader has an opinion so ill-informed that it threatens national security, economic stability, millions of new jobs, public health and the safety of virtually every American?

We’re about to find out, because voters have elected Donald Trump as the next president.

How dare you stupid voters ignore your betters!

Five months ago, 78 percent of Americans polled by the University of Chicago said climate change is real, including 62 percent of Republicans. More than eight in 10 said they had experienced an extreme climate event. Of those, 68 percent said it was an important issue in the election, and 53 percent wanted the next president to reduce global warming emissions.

But by Nov. 5, those priorities had been eclipsed by other issues — perhaps the worry that Haitian migrants were eating family pets in Ohio.

Now, the man about to take charge of the world’s biggest carbon-fuel producer and second-biggest source of carbon emissions thinks climate change is a “hoax” and climate scientists are “alarmists.”

It’s easy to say you care in theory (of course, I say that climate change, really, global warming is happening, just not that it is mostly/solely caused by Mankind), but, in practice that care dies when stacked against real issues.

If people want to do something, as I always say, let them do something in their own lives, rather than getting government to force compliance. I’ve delved into this so many times I don’t feel like repeating myself. Go spend your own money on climate cult stuff. Oh, and this opinion piece was by “William S. Becker is executive director of the Presidential Climate Action Project and a former senior official at the U.S. Department of Energy.” So, he has a vested interest in keeping the government spending money and forcing citizens to comply.

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If All You See…

By William Teach November 18, 2024 – 1:00 pm

…is an inner city flooded by carbon pollution driven Bad Weather, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Pacific Pundit, with a post on NFL players doing the Trump dance and the left losing it.

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NY Times Has Wackiest Fact Check Regarding RFK, Jr And Fruit Loops

By William Teach November 18, 2024 – 10:30 am

I’m not a big fan of RFK, Jr. He is, in fact, kind of a crank and into conspiracy theories. Still, now that he supports Trump and was nominated to be HHS Secretary the Credentialed Media has now decided to do silly hit pieces

It’s an interesting piece with the title “Kennedy’s Vow to Take On Big Food Could Alienate His New G.O.P. Allies”

Boxes of brightly colored breakfast cereals, vivid orange Doritos and dazzling blue M&Ms may find themselves under attack in the new Trump administration.

In excoriating such grocery store staples and their mysterious ingredients, Robert F. Kennedy tapped into a zeitgeist of widening appeal for healthy foods to curb obesity and disease that helped propel President-elect Donald J. Trump to select him to oversee the country’s vast health agency.

“We are betraying our children by letting these industries poison them,” Mr. Kennedy said at a campaign rally on Nov. 2, to raucous applause.

Anyone else get the idea that this is a Bad Thing in NY Times World, simply because Trump supporting RFK, Jr. is saying it? A lot of the article is about “clean food”, without all the extra chemicals and dyes and such, leading to

Mr. Kennedy has singled out Froot Loops as an example of a product with too many ingredients. In an interview with MSNBC on Nov. 6, he questioned the overall ingredient count: “Why do we have Froot Loops in this country that have 18 or 19 ingredients and you go to Canada and it has two or three?” Mr. Kennedy asked.

He was wrong on the ingredient count, they are roughly the same. But the Canadian version does have natural colorings made from blueberries and carrots while the U.S. product contains red dye 40, yellow 5 and blue 1 as well as Butylated hydroxytoluene, or BHT, a lab-made chemical that is used “for freshness,” according to the ingredient label.

So, the Canadian version is much cleaner without all the chemicals, and we’re supposed to oppose RFK, Jr on this? This is full on Trump Derangement Syndrome

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Biden Takes Long Fossil Fueled Trip To Shore Up Climate Legacy In Amazon

By William Teach November 18, 2024 – 7:00 am

Joe is sure racking up the frequent flyer miles

Biden visits Amazon to shore up limited global climate record

Joe Biden will put a bow on his environmental legacy Sunday, becoming the first sitting U.S. president to visit the Amazon — a gesture of solidarity with global efforts to confront the looming catastrophe of climate change.

But while Biden will be remembered for making climate a core part of his political and economic agenda in America, his international record has less to show for it. (snip)

Biden will touch down for just a few hours in Manaus, one of Brazil’s largest cities situated along the confluence of the Negro and Amazon rivers. (Theodore Roosevelt made his mark on the region, but only after he left office.)

White House officials said Biden will meet with local and Indigenous leaders working to preserve the Amazon ecosystem. U.S. officials have previously met with Brazilian counterparts to support a multibillion-dollar effort to pay for forest protection.

His visit Sunday, sandwiched between global summits in Lima and Rio de Janeiro, comes as the nation and world prepares to move past Biden’s climate agenda.

Got that? He flew all the way to South America on a jumbo jet with a backup jumbo jet and fighter jets. He has his own limo and military helicopter. And did this between multiple cities. He used more fossil fuels than most Americans do all year long.

I wish he hadn’t made this about ‘climate change’, because environmentalism is important, and saving the Amazon shouldn’t solely be about the climate scam.

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WWIII Watch: Biden Gives Ukraine The Authorization To Strike Deep In Russia With US Missiles

By William Teach November 18, 2024 – 6:45 am

Now, certainly, if one nation attacks another the attacker should expect the attacked to fight back and even attack in the attackers borders. How well will it work, though, if Ukraine is using US missiles?

Biden authorizes Ukraine to use US-supplied long-range missiles for deeper strikes inside Russia

President Joe Biden has authorized Ukraine to use U.S.-supplied long-range missiles to strike deeper inside Russia, easing limitations on the weapons as Russia deploys thousands of North Korean troops to reinforce its war, according to a U.S. official and three other people familiar with the matter.

The decision allowing Kyiv to use the Army Tactical Missile System, or ATACMs, for attacks farther inside Russia comes as President Vladimir Putin positions North Korean troops along Ukraine’s northern border to try to reclaim hundreds of miles of territory seized by Ukrainian forces.

Biden’s move also follows the presidential election victory of Donald Trump, who has said he would bring about a swift end to the war and raised uncertainty about whether his administration would continue the United States’ vital military support for Ukraine. (big snip)

Biden had remained opposed, determined to hold the line against any escalation that he felt could draw the U.S. and other NATO members into direct conflict with nuclear-armed Russia.

So, what changed?

Worried about Russia’s response, however, the Biden administration repeatedly has delayed providing some specific advanced weapons sought by Ukraine, agreeing only under pressure from Kyiv, its supporters and in consultation with allies.

Almost no article that I’ve read really delves into the potential consequences of this. What will Putin do? Now, Ukraine doesn’t have a whole lot of the missiles, but, they require calibration and control by US satellites. Will US government assets be actually in control of these long range strikes? Yeah, it would be nice to boot Russia out of Ukraine, but, are we will to widen the war?

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