Washington Post Discovers The Urban Heat Island Effect

By William Teach July 27, 2023 – 7:00 am

Meh, this is still probably all your fault

Where the most U.S. residents bake because of concrete and lack of trees

All U.S. cities experience some level of “heat island effect,” in which heat reflects off hard surfaces, intensifying the impact of the hottest days. But as climate change intensifies, nine U.S. cities are special islands unto themselves, according to an analysis released Wednesday that coincides with a heat wave enveloping much of the nation.

The nine — New York, Houston, Los Angeles, Dallas, Chicago, San Antonio, San Diego, Phoenix and Detroit — each have more than 1 million residents enduring temperature increases of 8 degrees or more, because of the heat island effect. That’s according to Climate Central, a nonprofit science and news organization, which has sought to create a broad snapshot of the largest urban populations at risk.

“Anyone who steps out on a sunny sidewalk can feel the difference from when they are in their yard,” Jen Brady, Climate Central senior data analyst, said in an interview. “Obviously, in the city there’s fewer trees, fewer yards and more sunny sidewalks. Those places are going to be warmer. What we’ve tried to do with this analysis is quantify it.”

Forty-one million residents among all nine cities experience the temperature boost, some up to 10 degrees or more, exposing them to higher risks of heat-related illness and more expensive cooling costs, the study found. Climate Central’s analysis did not include demographic data, Brady said, but other organizations such as the D.C. Policy Center have conducted research showing that lower-income communities face disproportionate impact from the heat island effect, partly because their neighborhoods often lack trees.

It’s certainly factual that the Earth has warmed since around 1850, when the Little Ice Age ended. And, surely, some of it is caused globally by the release of greenhouse gases by Mankind. Yet, a goodly chunk of the warming, and perceived warming, goes to land use (you can’t cover up tons of land with pavement, concrete, and buildings without an effect) and the Urban Heat Island effect. And when that extra heat is measured along with the true warming it elevates what the real warming actually is.

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Anheuser-Busch Looks To Lay Off About 2% Of Workforce

By William Teach July 27, 2023 – 6:45 am

It’s actually not a lot of direct employees, but, this will surely effect those who work with AB. First, though, let’s jump back about a week

(The Street) Anheuser-Busch Chief Executive Michel Doukeris has been in damage-control mode since the company decided to partner with the transgender social-media influencer Dylan Mulvaney. That deal — which was not a major promotion — blew up in the company’s face, leading to boycotts of its products. (snip)

Doukeris has basically admitted that the mistake his company made was doing something that made its product political. Past ads for Budweiser products generally leaned on Americana, sports, and the “fratty” humor that Heinerscheid wanted to get away from. (snip)

One challenge is what you call the misinformation and confusion that still exists. We will need to continue to clarify the fact that this was one can, one influencer, one post, and not a campaign and repeat this message for some time,” he said.

See, y’all are just confused about Bud Light giving a special can to a wacko who demeans actual women with his “girlhood act”, but, he’s missing how the marketing directer smeared the consumer base, and he and the rest have just continued digging that hole. Apologizing now is way too late. They just don’t get it. So

Anheuser-Busch to lay off employees after Bud Light loses spot as top-selling beer to Modelo in May

Beer maker Anheuser-Busch said Wednesday that it will lay off positions across its US corporate staff.

In a statement, an Anheuser-Busch spokesperson said the restructuring “will simplify and reduce layers within its organization.” The layoffs will not include frontline staff such as “brewery and warehouse staff, drivers, and field sales, among others.”

The job eliminations represent “less than 2%” of the Anheuser-Bush US employee population, the statement said. The company’s website says that it employs “more than 19,000 employees nationwide.” Two percent of that figure would number about 380 positions.

“Today we took the very difficult but necessary decision to eliminate a number of positions across our corporate organization,” said Anheuser-Busch CEO Brendan Whitworth. “While we never take these decisions lightly, we want to ensure that our organization continues to be set for future long-term success.”

It’s a shame that those folks are being laid off, you hate to see it, as well as all those others, like distributors, who are being affected, but, this was a self inflicted wound, and they keep inflicting it.

(Yahoo Finance) The CEO of Anheuser-Busch InBev (NYSE:BUD), the multinational brewing company behind Bud Light, is reportedly planning to go on a tour this summer to listen to consumers. But “Shark Tank” star Kevin O’Leary, also known as Mr. Wonderful, doesn’t believe it will turn things around.

“I don’t think that’s going to work,” O’Leary said in a recent interview with Fox Business. “He’s going to get an earful, there’s no question about it. The problem with that tour and that idea is it keeps it as a frontline press item.” (snip)

“Beer is a commodity, the only difference is brand, so you really have to protect your brand every way you can,” he said.

“If you don’t understand who’s buying your brand and you enrage them, which seems to be what happened here, you don’t know the outcome. And now we can measure it — 25% market share.”

That part about keeping it on the frontline is important. Bud Light should have just chilled, forget the advertising, forget about trying to woo the customers back, just go dark. No stupid grunting commercials or anything. Just let the whole issue die down and hope it blows over. A listening tour is exactly the wrong thing to do.

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This Summer Is What Climate (cult) Scientists Have Been Complaining About

By William Teach July 26, 2023 – 3:00 pm

See, they totally told you, and it is all your fault

This summer is what climate change looks like, scientists say

The blistering heat threatening lives and fueling wildfires across Southern Europe and North America this July would have been “virtually impossible” without man-made global warming, scientists said on Tuesday.

Their findings come as the planet’s ocean and land temperatures hit new records in recent weeks, with waters around Florida and the Mediterranean coast surpassing 30 degrees Celsius and parts of the Northern Hemisphere baking in heat of 45C or more.

Scientists have long warned climate change would make heat waves hotter, longer and more frequent. Tuesday’s study found that this month’s extreme temperatures are no longer an outlier now that humans have warmed the Earth by about 1.2C above pre-industrial levels.

Even a broken clock is right twice a day, as the saying goes. The climate cult fearmongers have been making doomy prognostications for decades, and virtually all of them have failed to materialize. But, now, you have a hot summer, mostly driven by El Nino (which they are trying to downplay), so, they are now saying “look, we were right all the time! Just because we gave a time frame of 100 years for this to happen is meaningless.” Nor do they mention that it is a pretty deep winter in the Southern Hemisphere.

In fact, “it could well be that this is what will be a cool summer in the future unless we rapidly stop burning fossil fuels,” said study co-author Friederike Otto, a climate scientist at Imperial College London. “This is not the new normal. As long as we keep burning fossil fuels, we will see more and more of these extremes.”

And there you go, more doomsaying. They cannot help themselves.

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If All You See…

By William Teach July 26, 2023 – 1:00 pm

…is the need to live in the mountains to avoid sea rise, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Not A Lot Of People Know That, with a post wondering if ‘climate change’ is behind Greece’s wildfires.

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Judge Says Biden’s Asylum Policy Is Illegal

By William Teach July 26, 2023 – 10:30 am

It’s the only policy Biden has that is somewhat responsible, so, of course a Leftist judge has ruled against it

Judge knocks down Biden’s asylum policy as illegal border crossings dip

illegal alien DemocratA federal judge Tuesday blocked the Biden administration’s new regulation restricting asylum-seekers, one that contributed to a severe drop in crossings at the U.S.-Mexico border over the past few months.

U.S. District Judge Jon Tigar, an Obama appointee in Oakland, Calif., knocked down the restrictions as “arbitrary and capricious,” while staying his ruling for 14 days to give the Biden administration an opportunity to appeal. Tigar also halted a similar measure — the Trump administration’s so-called transit ban — a few years ago, joking during last week’s hearing that he heard “2023 was going to be a big year for sequels.”

The judge’s 35-page ruling marks the latest legal hurdle facing the Biden administration’s immigration policy, which has faced multiple challenges from both ends of the political spectrum. Tigar’s decision jeopardizes the administration’s strictest deterrence measure to date and comes as illegal border crossings have plunged to their lowest level since President Joe Biden’s first full month in office.

Tigar detailed a series of legal faults with the Biden asylum rule, including its basis on outdated or inaccurate assumptions and that it was made available for public comment during an abbreviated 33-day window. The judge raised particular concern about the administration’s effort to require most asylum applicants to present themselves at established ports of entry, rather than claiming asylum after crossing between border posts.

“The Court concludes that the Rule is contrary to law because it presumes ineligible for asylum noncitizens who enter between ports of entry, using a manner of entry that Congress expressly intended should not affect access to asylum,” Tigar wrote.

The judge may be correct, because Congress writes a lot of dumb laws, and also writes a lot of laws without any idea what the effect will be because they do not read it, do not analyze it, and so many are just way too big. The Biden DOJ says they will appeal and defend the asylum rule. Will they defend it hard? Or, was this just Joe throwing something out there to appear to be Doing Something, possibly knowing that a judge would rule against it, considering that the same judge ruled against it under Trump?

Biden’s “asylum ban,” released in May and set to expire in two years, bars some migrants from applying for humanitarian protection if they cross the border illegally or fail to first apply for safe harbor while crossing through another country on the way to the U.S. The rule is not applied to certain migrants, including unaccompanied children, asylum-seekers who enter at a legal port of entry or those fleeing “imminent” harm.

It really should apply to every single “migrant”. And not applying it to those certain “migrants” just emboldens them to show up in mass and send their children on a long, dangerous trek. What’s the chance of Congress passing a simple law stating “all those seeking asylum must apply outside the U.S., not at the border or if already in the U.S.”?

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Bummer: Commerce Secretary, Who’s Also A Warmist, Forced To Flee From Climate Protesters

By William Teach July 26, 2023 – 7:00 am

It’s a real shame when the more extreme cultists come after those who think they are climate cult leaders

Angry climate change protestors force Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo to flee talk at the Wilson Center

Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo was escorted out of a D.C. event that was interrupted by rowdy climate change protestors on Tuesday.

Raimondo was speaking at a Wilson Center event entitled “A Conversation on the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework” on Tuesday afternoon. She was onstage with economist Sadek Wahba when protestors barged in.

“We have to be present. And so for the five years before President Biden took office, the United States was not present economically in these regions,” Raimondo said to Wahba. “We didn’t even, you know, have a framework for engagement, I would say…”

Environmental protestors promptly interrupted the event and began chanting “We need clean air, not another billionaire” and “End fossil fuels, Gina” while the dumbfounded speakers looked on.

Footage shows Raimondo laughing and saying something to Wahba during the awkward interruption. The protestors wore t-shirts that read “END FOSSIL FUELS” and linked arms with each other.

The demonstrators obstinately chanted “Clean air, not another billionaire” for around three minutes. They were confronted by security guards before Raimondo was eventually taken off the stage.

Raimondo has done things like

So, it’s not like she’s not a fellow climate cult traveler. She just learned that the climate cult leaders enabled a bunch of complete wackos and it’s coming back to bite them in the butts.

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Is McCarthy Getting Squishy On Impeachment Inquiry?

By William Teach July 26, 2023 – 6:45 am

Or is he just measuring his words?

McCarthy edges back from the brink of a Biden impeachment inquiry

Kevin McCarthy edged back from the brink of an impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden on Tuesday, less than a day after suggesting his party was close to announcing one.

The speaker set off a Washington kerfuffle Monday night when he told Fox News’ Sean Hannity that he believed the House GOP’s investigations into Hunter Biden’s business dealings were “rising to the level of [an] impeachment inquiry,” presumably into his father.

But during lengthy Tuesday question-and-answer sessions with reporters, McCarthy said his televised remarks were not meant as an announcement of any new steps. Instead, the California Republican clarified that the myriad of allegations he is seeing from Republicans’ investigations “could” eventually merit an impeachment inquiry.

“I wasn’t announcing it,” McCarthy said of his Fox News comments. “I simply said that the actions that I’m seeing by this administration — withholding the agencies from being able to work with us, that would rise to the level of an impeachment inquiry.”

“We … still have a number of investigations going forward now. The committees are working in good faith. They’re finding new information all the time,” McCarthy added.

He later took to Twitter with a similar dialing back of the tone he took on Fox, writing: “If evidence continues to rise to the level of an impeachment inquiry, House Republicans will act.”

So, Washington-speak, or, getting squishy? Is he trying to set up a 2024 impeachment hearing and vote? Lord knows there’s way more information on Biden’s criminal actions than there ever was on Trump. All these GOP insiders must have seen this over the years and decades. But, is McCarthy reading some tea leaves from the GOP squishes? Only a few Democrats voted against impeaching Trump both times: what’s the chance that at least 10-15 Republicans vote against impeaching Biden? Heck, will they vote against an actual inquiry? There are just too many in the GOP who do not understand that politics is a dirty, nasty game with a veneer of civility, and that Democrats dropped all civility during the Bush years, and have only gotten worse.

What it looks like McCarty is attempting to do is put together a ton of different issues, like border security, bribery, extortion, double dealing, violating the Constitution, and more, when he should just focus on 1 or 2 issues, especially Biden’s graft and shady deals. McCarthy wants to make it too complicated, and, sure, there are not enough votes in the Senate, but, if the simple case is rock solid, you never know.

Meanwhile, some people are whining over Grassley releasing a *checks notes* unclassified document on Biden’s shading dealings

(The Hill) Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) is in the political spotlight as Democrats and critics attack him for releasing a lightly-redacted document detailing unfounded allegations of Biden family corruption and bribery and conservatives praise his move in the name of transparency.

The eight-term senator has had a storied career, particularly on investigative matters, where he has long been considered a champion of whistleblower protections.

But critics say his decision late last week to release the tip to the FBI, memorialized in an FD-1023 form, put a chink in that armor. The FBI admonished Grassley and other senators for releasing the form, saying it “risks the safety” of the confidential source, who claims the Bidens “pushed” a Ukrainian oligarch to pay them $10 million.

Blah blah blah, that’s what these critics are worried about, not Biden’s criminal activity.

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Climate Doom Today: Atlantic Ocean Current Might Maybe Possibly Collapse In Two Years

By William Teach July 25, 2023 – 2:52 pm

You do know this is your fault, right? If only you had simply Complied. Anyhow, the talking points have gone out

Atlantic Ocean current could collapse soon. How you may endure dramatic weather changes.

Now this could be something to really worry about.

The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) – a large system of ocean currents that carry warm water from the tropics into the North Atlantic – could collapse by the middle of the century, or possibly any time from 2025 onward, because of human-caused climate change, a study published Tuesday suggests.

Such a collapse could trigger rapid weather and climate changes in the U.S., Europe and elsewhere. If it were to happen, it could bring about an ice age in Europe and sea-level rise in cities such as Boston and New York, as well as more potent storms and hurricanes along the East Coast.

Wait, what? The last time this happened it brought on the Little Ice Age, and sea levels went down. That’s what happens during cooling periods. As far as storms and hurricanes, there really is no data on the effects of a long term cooling period. We do know that hurricane activity was pretty bad during the slight cooling between the 1950’s and late 1970’s.

Earlier studies about the AMOC collapse drew comparisons to the scientifically inaccurate 2004 disaster movie “The Day After Tomorrow,” which used such an ocean current shutdown as the premise of the film.

If you’re using a movie as reference, you’re not playing with science.

“We estimate a collapse of the AMOC to occur around mid-century under the current scenario of future emissions,” the study authors write. (snip)

Using new statistical tools and ocean temperature data from the past 150 years, researchers calculated that the AMOC will stop – with 95% certainty – between 2025 and 2095. “Using new and improved statistical tools, we’ve made calculations that provide a more robust estimate of when a collapse is most likely to occur, something we had not been able to do before,” said study co-author Susanne Ditlevsen, a professor at the University of Copenhagen.

That’s a pretty wide range, hence why the URL for the USA Today article says “atlantic-current-collapse-possible-in-two-years-study-suggests”, which means they changed the headline at some point to not be too alarmist, unlike that Daily Beast one. The New Scientist also pushes as soon as 2025. The Washington Post one is amusing in they a “sign” has been seen, as if this was Madame Zelda at the carnival….oh, right, that’s exactly how their “science” works.

Who pays the price when this doesn’t happen? Of course, eventually it will. That’s the nature of the natural forces on the Earth. I wonder if the “scientists” are seeing that the Earth will soon flip to a cooling period, and want to Blame it on Mankind.

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If All You See…

By William Teach July 25, 2023 – 1:00 pm

…is a wonderful low carbon travel method, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Jo Nova, with a post on green policies in the UK shifting.

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Surprise: More Americans Think Political Violence Is Justified

By William Teach July 25, 2023 – 10:30 am

This must mostly be about Trump supporters, since it is in the UK Guardian, right?

‘Anger and radicalization’: rising number of Americans say political violence is justified

The June federal indictment of Donald Trump is “radicalizing” support for the use of force on behalf of the former president and current presidential candidate, according to the author of a recent survey about threats to democracy.

Meanwhile, on the other side of the aisle, support for violence to restore the federal right to an abortion has also increased over the last few months, researchers found, although there’s little indication that any organized groups support acting on this belief.

The Dangers to Democracy report indicates that a growing number of Americans support the use of political violence as the 2024 presidential campaign heats up and further indictments of Trump are likely imminent.

“The indictment is radicalizing support for Trump, but that’s not the only source of radicalization,” said Robert Pape, a University of Chicago professor who led the research. “You’re seeing growing anger and radicalization on the left as well.”

I like how it’s position as “oh, yeah, some democrats are supporting it, but, hey, those Trump folks!”

The number of Americans who believe the use of force is justified to restore Trump to the White House increased by roughly 6 million in the last few months to an estimated 18 million people, according to the survey conducted by the university in late June and shared exclusively with the Guardian.

Of those 18 million people, 68% believe that the 2020 election was stolen from Trump and 62% believe the prosecutions of Trump are intended to hurt his chances in 2024. An estimated 7% of Americans now believe violence could be necessary to restore Trump to the presidency, up from 4.5%, or 12 million people, in April.

Seven percent! That’s horrible!

The university’s Chicago Project on Security & Threats (CPost) research center has been conducting Dangers to Democracy surveys of American adults on political violence and attitudes towards democracy since shortly after the January 6 insurrection at the US Capitol.

The Chicago Project is a pretty darned left wing center, and should probably take a drive through parts of Chicago to see real violence. After a few more paragraphs on Trump

Democrats, however, expressed support for political violence for a different purpose. The survey found support for the use of force to coerce members of Congress to “do the right thing” grew from 9% in January to 17% – an estimated 44 million Americans – at the end of June, with the sharpest rise among Democrats. Support for violence to restore the federal right to an abortion also increased during this time.

Seventeen percent. Talk about burying the lede. That’s a whole heck of a lot more than 7%. But, not surprising. Democrats have always been willing to use violence for their political beliefs. We saw this in 2020 with all the BLM/Antifa riots. We saw this at so many protests prior to January 6th when Democrat supporters were present.

But, that’s all glossed over in favor of more discussion on Trump and his supporters. One would think that 17% would be a pretty important number.

The survey also found that nearly 90% of Trump’s most radical supporters believe the federal government is run by a “deep state” of immoral people.

I’m not sure about immoral people, but, those in the federal bureaucracy and high ranking positions are definitely leftists willing to use their government positions to push their leftist agendas. Something I’ve said for a long time is that Progressives had long term plans going back to the beginning of the 20th Century about capturing sectors. First, they captured the government bureaucracies. And they did that. There aren’t a whole heck of a lot of Republicans working in government, and the hardcore leftists force the non-hardcore leftists, Independents, and even Republican leaners to comply. Among the others that the Progressives captured were the entertainment industry, news industry, and unions (who started out willing to use violence), hence, they can push the hardcore agenda and whip leftists up to commit violence.

Then they went after the FBI and CIA, because they couldn’t abolish them, but, did not like things like the way they went after Communists. And the US military. They couldn’t kill off the military in the late 70’s, so, they slowly infiltrated the military, and now they support people with severe mental illness, the trans folks. They infiltrated the church, so many support things that are against the Bible, and have gone all SJW. They’ve made the environmental movement radical, and many of them and their climate cult folks are fine with political violence. They gather the sports and music folks, who live 1%er lives but are happy to push the government line. Push that government is great.

All these leftists are supporting political violence to support government tyranny.

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