NY Law Looks To Criminalize Oil Industry Over Climate Doom

By William Teach May 18, 2023 – 7:15 am

At what point do fossil fuels companies simply say “enough. These lawsuits and harassment laws have gone too far, we’re no longer going to operate in this place”? Imagine most fossil fuels companies saying goodbye to the state of NY. How do people fill their motor vehicles? How about their kerosene and natural gas tanks? Generators? Lubrication for numerous machines? Fuel for airplanes? Fuel for all the police cars, fire engines, ambulances? Garbage trucks? Snow removal trucks? The governor’s limo, helicopter, and private plane? How many gas stations shut down, car dealerships, and so much more? This is what happens when a cult is trying to run government and pass laws without consideration of reality

Proposed New York law puts big oil on hook for climate change

New York state estimates already this year taxpayers are spending more than $800 million for projects related to climate change-caused damages and resiliency projects.

State Sen. Liz Krueger, a Democrat from Manhattan, sponsors legislation that would hold the world’s biggest oil and gas companies responsible for at least some of those costs moving forward.

“Somebody’s going to pay,” Krueger said. “The question is are the consumers going to pay or are we going to be able get some of it directly out of these enormous companies making fortunes on their continued efforts to destroy the planet?”

The bill establishing a Climate Change Superfund is modeled after the federal Toxic Superfund that collects from companies that pollute land and water. It would apply to companies responsible for at least one billion tons of greenhouse gas emissions between 2000 and 2018, roughly 30 companies total.

“Those companies are now making more money than they ever have in history,” Krueger said.

The legislation would require the companies to account for roughly $3 billion annually, proportional to their emissions, for 25 years totaling about $75 billion. New York Public Interest Research Group Executive Director Blair Horner said NYPIRG has contributed analysis that the cost will not be passed on to consumers.

In reality, the fossil fuels companies will simply pass on the increased costs to consumers. Those in government do not care, because the taxpayers will pick up the extra tab, meaning citizens will be getting hosed twice. But, then, citizens will move out of NY, reducing the taxable base.

Because the budget was a month late, advocates said time is a hurdle this session. However, they point out, because of continuing cost and the likelihood of litigation around what will be the first-of-its-kind legislation, it is important to pass the bill as soon as possible.

Perhaps the elected NY lawmakers should do the job and pass a budget, rather than farting around with climate cult legislation.

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Bidenconomy: Lots Of Medical Drug Shortages

By William Teach May 18, 2023 – 7:00 am

No worries, Joe is on the job! During the 30 hours a week he works

Drug Shortages Approach an All-Time High, Leading to Rationing

Thousands of patients are facing delays in getting treatments for cancer and other life-threatening diseases, with drug shortages in the United States approaching record levels.

Hospitals are scouring shelves for supplies of a drug that reverses lead poisoning and for a sterile fluid needed to stop the heart for bypass surgery. Some antibiotics are still scarce following the winter flu season when doctors and patients frantically chased medicines for ailments like strep throat. Even children’s Tylenol was hard to find.

Hundreds of drugs are on the list of medications in short supply in the United States, as officials grapple with an opaque and sometimes interrupted supply chain, quality and financial issues that are leading to manufacturing shutdowns.

Anyone who voted for Biden/against Trump, well, this is what you were voting for

The shortages are so acute that they are commanding the attention of the White House and Congress, which are examining the underlying causes of the faltering generic drug market, which accounts for about 90% of domestic prescriptions.

The Biden administration has assembled a team to find long-term solutions for shoring up the pharmaceutical supply chain, at a time when the United States remains heavily reliant on medicines and drug ingredients from India and China. And in recent weeks, generic drugmakers, supply-chain experts and patient advocates have appeared before lawmakers to discuss the problems.

Oh, thank goodness, they’ve put together a team! And people are testifying! That should solve the problem. Which everyone else saw coming back in 2021. In fairness, you can’t put the main blame on Biden, it goes to China and people like Fauci for screwing around with coronaviruses. But, secondary blame goes to the Biden admin, which never took their eyes off the ball, because they never had their eyes on the ball to start with

The White House team working on the broader issue of long-standing drug supply breakdowns includes national security, economic and health officials, according to James McKinney, a spokesperson for the Food and Drug Administration. Bloomberg reported earlier on the White House involvement.

Officials have been debating possible measures like tax incentives for generic drugmakers and greater transparency around generic drug quality. The current incentives favor drugmakers with the lowest prices, which includes those that might cut corners — leading to disruptive plant shutdowns if the FDA demands a fix. (Some shortages, like those of weight-loss drugs, are the result of sky-high demand, while others have been attributed to overprescribing, including for antibiotics, or a lack of investment in potential alternatives.)

So, just a lot of yapping and political posturing. You can really look back to the lines being shut down in 2020, and even into 2021, due to COVID, and they just aren’t able to catch up, much less over-produce.

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Doom: World Might Maybe Possibly Break 1.5C Threshold By 2027

By William Teach May 17, 2023 – 3:00 pm

This is probably all your fault. Or, maybe not

World likely to breach 1.5C climate threshold by 2027, scientists warn

The world is almost certain to experience new record temperatures in the next five years, and temperatures are likely to rise by more than 1.5C above pre-industrial levels, scientists have warned.

The breaching of the crucial 1.5C threshold, which scientists have warned could have dire consequences, should be only temporary, according to research from the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO).

However, it would represent a marked acceleration of human impacts on the global climate system, and send the world into “uncharted territory”, the UN agency warned.

Why would it be temporary? We’ll maybe get to that

Global average surface temperatures have never before breached the 1.5C threshold. The highest average in previous years was 1.28C above pre-industrial levels.

Never? It was certainly warmer during multiple Holocene warm periods than it is today

The report, published on Wednesday, found there was a 66% likelihood of exceeding the 1.5C threshold in at least one year between 2023 and 2027.

New record temperatures have been set in many areas around the world in the heatwaves of the past year, but those highs may only be the beginning, according to the report, as climate breakdown and the impact of a developing El Niño weather system combine to create heatwaves across the globe.

So, it could maybe might happen for a brief period because of the utterly and completely natural El Nino. The cult is using this as an excuse. Really, if we’re talking an increase of 1.4F to 1.5F since 1850, that would mean there has to be a rise of 1.2F to 1.3F sometime over the next 4 years to hit the 1.5C threshold. So, almost double what has occurred in the last 173 years over the next 4.

Obviously, this has the cult doomers in the media and UN out, with headlines like

‘Sounding the alarm’: World on track to breach a critical warming threshold in the next five years

And

The world is about to experience its hottest year yet and may likely surpass 1.5C of warming, UN warns: “There’s no return”

What if it doesn’t? What if that magical 1.5C isn’t broken? Who comes forth to say “my bad! I was completely wrong”? Who in the media apologizes for their scaremongering, for failing to be cynical journalists? Who in the United Nations says “I guess we do not need to take all your money and freedom to solve this problem, because we are obviously wrong”?

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If All You See…

By William Teach May 17, 2023 – 1:00 pm

…is a horrible cloudless sky making it too hot, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is A View From The Beach, with a post on the wind industry admitting they might just be killing whales.

As a sidebar, I do kinda laugh, because what you see in so many of these photos is doing the hair and makeup just right, getting the clothes just right, the pose just right, and realizing this is first thing in the morning as the sun comes up. Look at the shadows in photos.

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Biden Vetoes Bipartisan Bill Requiring Tariffs On Chinese Solar Panels

By William Teach May 17, 2023 – 10:30 am

Has anyone in Congress considered investigating Biden’s links to China and Chinese companies to see why he’s so excited to exempt them from tariffs?

Biden vetoes bipartisan bill protecting US solar panel makers from Chinese competition

China Votes BidenPresident Biden vetoed a bipartisan resolution Tuesday that would have reversed his executive action last year ordering the Department of Commerce not to enforce tariffs on Chinese solar panel manufacturers for two years.

Biden explained that the legislation — which recently passed the House and Senate with Democratic support — “bets against American innovation.” Last year, Biden implemented the 24-month moratorium on the enforcement of solar panel anti-circumvention tariffs designed to protect U.S. companies, a move the White House said would facilitate investment in domestic solar panel production capabilities.

“Passage of this resolution bets against American innovation,” Biden said in a statement Tuesday. “It would undermine these efforts and create deep uncertainty for American businesses and workers in the solar industry. Therefore, I am vetoing this resolution.”

How is allowing Chinese companies, back by and even owned by the Chinese government, dumping underpriced solar panels in the U.S. good for American companies? Especially when those companies have attempted to circumvent the tariffs by intentionally routing them through other countries? Biden failed to explain that.

“I am disappointed that President Biden vetoed this important legislation,” Kildee said Tuesday. “Failing to stand up to those who engage in unfair trade practices hurts American workers and manufacturers. Our workers and businesses will never be able to compete globally unless we hold those who violate U.S. trade laws accountable.”

“The president’s position, and today’s veto, fails to hold China accountable and hurts American workers,” the Democratic lawmaker continued. “Congress passed this bipartisan resolution with strong support from Republicans and Democrats. Now that the president has vetoed this bill, Congress should once again vote to override today’s veto without delay.”

Congress should be holding a vote today on this. China controls 80% of the market, and are selling them almost like loss-leaders: well below value, without expecting consumers to purchase other products at regular value. And many are just not that great of quality. American companies can’t compete with sub-priced trash being dumped. Who’s getting a payoff, Joe? Which family member is the payoff being routed through? It’s another slap in the face of the American worker. You can’t have innovation without investment money. He killed the incentive for investors to put money into American innovation and manufacturing. He favored China because he gets money from them.

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‘Climate Change’ Will Soon Hit Your Wallet Or Something

By William Teach May 17, 2023 – 7:00 am

Is this a case of the climate cult doing what they always do, involving their cult in any and every issue, or the cult, made up mostly of Democrat voters, attempting to blame-shift away from Biden and Democratic Party policies? Or both?

Climate Change Is About To Hit Your Wallet at the Grocery Store

Inflation can result from demand outpacing supply. Other times, increased labor costs force businesses to raise prices so they can pay their employees more.

But in certain sections of the grocery store, Mother Nature and her human antagonists are to blame for the sticker shock that many shoppers should prepare to endure.

“Increased temperatures and unpredictable weather patterns caused by climate change can result in more frequent and severe droughts, floods, and heat waves,” said Eran Mizrahi, an ingredient sourcing expert and CEO and co-founder of Ingredient Brothers. “Such extreme weather conditions can harm crops and reduce their yields, leading to shortages in the supply chain, which ultimately drive up prices for consumers. Furthermore, transportation and distribution channels become disrupted by extreme weather events, resulting in additional cost increases. The result creates a financial burden on households, especially those with limited resources.”

Weather has always been volatile. Things can always happen. That’s life on Earth. Was it the fault of fossil fueled vehicles when you had the big drought in the heartland back in the 1930s? Or, just that weather happens, things change, and sometimes they are bad? What about the big droughts and poor conditions during the Little Ice Age that led to the French Revolution, where it was difficult to grow crops, especially wheat? The big Irish potato famine, which occurred right as the Earth was flipping from a cool period to a warm period in the mid-1800s?

The Climate Crisis Is Crushing California and Its Farmers

Americans learned a new phrase from their meteorologists in recent months, and one that defines the extremes that now define California’s climate — “atmospheric river.” Devastating and extended droughts dried up reservoirs across the West and Southwest for much of the 2020s and threatened the very existence of the Colorado River that millions of Westerners depend on for water.

Then, in early 2023, atmospheric rivers transformed extreme drought into devastating floods and the largest snowpacks in 70 years. The water planners farmers depend on for guidance couldn’t make accurate predictions and the spring planting season was cold and wet.

California is a state that has always been prone to big flips in the decedal weather, and, really, the problems are magnified tremendously due to poor government. But, you know, there’s just eventually going to be shortages which will hit your wallets, so, give your money and freedom to government.

Meanwhile

NYC skyscrapers turning to carbon capture to lessen climate change

From the outside, the residential high-rise on Manhattan’s Upper West Side looks pretty much like any other luxury building: A doorman greets visitors in a spacious lobby adorned with tapestry and marble.

Yet just below in the basement is an unusual set of equipment that no other building in New York City — indeed few in the world — can claim. In an effort to drastically reduce the 30-story building’s emissions, the owners have installed a maze of twisting pipes and tanks that collect carbon dioxide from the massive, gas-fired boilers in the basement before it goes to the chimney and is released into the air.

The goal is to stop that climate-warming gas from entering the atmosphere. And there’s a dire need for reducing emissions from skyscrapers like these in such a vertical city. Buildings are by far the largest source of greenhouse gas emissions here, roughly two-thirds, according to the city buildings department.

Local Law 97 is creating these conditions, and affecting vast swaths of NYC buildings. Which means the cost of leasing, whether business or residential, will go up to pay for this, and you already have a lot of businesses leaving the city for a variety of reasons. So, good luck with that tax base.

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Maryland Gov Signs Several Anti-Gun Bills That Will Only Harm Law Abiding Citizens

By William Teach May 17, 2023 – 6:45 am

Nothing in this will cause any problems for criminals. It will just make it harder for law abiding citizens, including women, LGBT, and blacks, who have seen huge spikes in legal ownership over the past 10 years

Maryland governor signs gun-control bills tightening requirements

Maryland Gov. Wes Moore signed gun-control measures into law on Tuesday, and the National Rifle Association quickly filed a federal lawsuit against them.

The governor signed legislation approved by state lawmakers this year in response to a U.S. Supreme Court ruling.

The high court’s ruling in New York State Rifle and Pistol Association v. Bruen last year ended a requirement similar to a Maryland law for people to demonstrate a particular need to get a license to carry a concealed gun in public.

One of the measures Moore signed Tuesday removes the “good and substantial reason” language from Maryland law that the court found unconstitutional in the Bruen case. But the Maryland General Assembly, which is controlled by Democrats, also tightened gun laws to prevent someone from carrying a concealed handgun in certain areas.

I’m sure criminals will follow these laws

One of the bills signed by the governor generally prohibits a person from wearing, carrying or transporting a gun in an “area for children or vulnerable adults,” like a school or health care facility. The new law, which takes effect Oct. 1, also prohibits a person from carrying a firearm in a “government or public infrastructure area,” or a “special purpose area,” which is defined as a place licensed to sell alcohol, cannabis, a stadium, museum, racetrack or casino.

The law also prohibits a person carrying a firearm from entering someone’s home or property, unless the owner has given permission. There are exemptions for law enforcement, security guards and members of the military.

But, there is nothing about increasing penalties on criminals who use a gun in the commission of a crime, being able to stop-and-frisk, harsh penalties on people who unlawfully possess a firearm, and so forth. But, it does increase the number of hours required to get a permit, raises the age to 21, and increases the cost of getting a permit (for a Constitutional Right). It also strengthens their safe storage laws. It’s all about screwing with the law abiding, while ignoring the actual criminals.

And, yes, the NRA did immediately sue, and a few other gun rights groups apparently have lawsuits ready to go.

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Democrats Look To Protect Abortion From Hotcoldwetdry

By William Teach May 16, 2023 – 3:00 pm

Despite all the flowing idioms, wordsmithing, once you bring up the phrase “reproductive justice”, you know this is all about abortion

SEN. MARKEY, REP. UNDERWOOD ANNOUNCE LEGISLATION TO PROTECT PARENTAL AND INFANT HEALTH FROM CLIMATE CHANGE RISKS

Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Subcommittee on Primary Health and Retirement Security and chair of the Senate Environment and Public Works Subcommittee on Clean Air, Climate, and Nuclear Safety, and Representative Lauren Underwood (IL-14) today reintroduced the Protecting Moms and Babies Against Climate Change Act, legislation to address climate change risks to pregnant and postpartum people and their infants.

The Protecting Moms and Babies Against Climate Change Act—a pillar of the Black Maternal Health Momnibus Act to end racial and ethnic disparities in maternal health outcomes, led by Senator Cory Booker (D-N.J.) and Representative Underwood—would create a federal grant program to invest in community-based efforts to mitigate exposure to extreme heat, air pollution and other climate change risks that pose a threat to vulnerable pregnant and postpartum people and their infants. The legislation would also provide funding for health profession schools to ensure that the future health care workforce can adequately support maternal and infant health in light of increasing risks from climate change.

“Climate justice is a matter of reproductive justice,” said Senator Markey. “We must ensure families and health care providers have the resources and support they need to protect the health and wellbeing of all parents and babies across the country as they face extreme heat, air pollution and the worst of the climate crisis. I thank Representative Underwood for her continued partnership in our shared fight to equip health care providers with the latest information, tools and resources they need as the climate crisis and extreme weather disasters increasingly contribute to illness and deaths of pregnant people.”

“Climate change has a significant impact on reproductive justice and maternal health,” said Senator Booker. “As we strive to address the racial and ethnic disparities in maternal health outcomes, we must also invest in community-based programs and health professional schools, so we can mitigate the harmful impacts of climate change-related risks on vulnerable mothers and babies. I am proud to join my colleagues in introducing this bill that would ensure that health professionals and vulnerable mothers and families have the tools they need to navigate the climate crisis, so we can work towards a more just and resilient future for all.”

They do not care about babies: they are using this as stealth legislation to protect abortion at the federal level. And, of course, a bribe for women to vote Democrat with all the free money and stuff. Especially black women, of whom Democrats think are too stupid and incompetent to run their own lives without the Helping Hand Of Government. All made possible using climate doom as the platform. And nothing really in the document, or the legislation, actually provides rock solid scientific evidence that ‘climate change’ is causing problems.

And said legislation is all about Executive agencies picking which groups get all the funding, it is utterly non-specific. Who wants to bet that Planned Parenthood is a big recipient? It’s all a big scam, just like ‘climate change’.

Speaking of abortion, the libs here in NC are freaking out over the 12 week abortion limit. It used to be 20 weeks. The governor is whining, but, refuses to say what week of restriction is acceptable. Of course, since most of the media are abortion fanatics, they won’t ask. But, I wonder

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If All You See…

By William Teach May 16, 2023 – 1:00 pm

…is a sea that is rising by dozens of feet, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is American Power, with a post on sad-posting on TikTok.

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Congress And Their Staffs Are Very Concerned Over Security

By William Teach May 16, 2023 – 10:30 am

Here’s what happened

(WTOP) A man armed with a baseball bat showed up at the Fairfax, Virginia, office of Rep. Gerry Connolly Monday morning, asked for the congressman and then attacked two staffers.

The U.S. Capitol Police identified the man as 49-year-old Xuan Kha Tran Pham, of Fairfax. He is facing charges of one count of aggravated malicious wounding and one count of malicious wounding.

They do not know what his motives one, but, apparently, he was known to local police. Reports say he had never been violent. But, the police knew who he was? For what? His father states he was schizophrenic and had dealt with mental illness since his late teens. He supposedly attacked a woman in her car with the bat three minutes earlier but 5 miles away from the office, which really doesn’t make sense. Anyhow, he damaged a bunch of the office, but, haven’t we been told by Democrats that it “is just property”?

Last month, U.S. Capitol Police Chief Tom Manger testified before lawmakers that the number of threats against members of Congress has increased roughly 400% over the past six years.

I don’t condone it, but, maybe Congress should consider doing their jobs better. Perhaps they should also forgo all their racebaiting, demonizing people who do not agree with them, crazy talk, authoritarian impulses.

Security fears flare anew in Congress after an attack on one of their own

Congressional staff and lawmakers are on edge, once again, in the aftermath of a violent Monday attack that targeted the district office of Virginia Democratic Rep. Gerry Connolly.

The incident, which sent a longtime Connolly aide and an intern to the hospital, has lent urgency to members’ continued concerns about their safety outside the Capitol’s heavily patrolled perimeter.

What is the perimeter patrolled with? What makes it safe?

Ahead of the slated Tuesday release of the House’s legislative-branch spending bill, which will lay out funding levels for Capitol Police and other security measures, lawmakers are again discussing what — if any — level of protection would make them feel truly safe.

The bill is expected to boost funding for the Capitol Police, in line with more than a decade of annual increases lawmakers have reliably delivered to the department. As threats and fears rise, lawmakers hope that a steady stream of cash can insulate them from growing threats.

What will the cash bring to the table to offer more protection?

Yet aides on both sides of the aisle described themselves as “freaked out” and “uneasy” after news of Monday’s attack spread and details emerged about the baseball bat wielding assailant asking for Connolly by name. The lawmaker himself said he was “mobbed on the floor by Republicans and Democrats who easily related to what happened to me.”

“We don’t have the kind of security we have up here at the Capitol, at the district level,” Connolly said in a Monday night interview. “Many of our offices are in malls or office buildings, and so you don’t have any kind of sophisticated protection or security screening. And so I think we’re going to have to really talk about that.”

It’s so strange that they want security for themselves and their staffs. On the grounds of the Capitol Building and at the Congressional office buildings they have quite a bit of, you guessed it, armed security. People who are carrying weapons with extended magazines and “assault rifles”, some of which are fully automatic. Things they want banned for ordinary citizens. And now they want, without saying it specifically, armed security for their offices. Because they are freaked out and uneasy.

“I am very, very concerned about the normalization of political violence, particularly by leaders who should know better,” Rep. Mary Gay Scanlon (D-Pa.) said in an interview on Monday night. “We should all be condemning political violence wherever it occurs.”

Democrats weren’t particularly concerned when Rep. Steve Scalise was shot along with four others, by an unhinged Democratic Party supporter. They laughed when Senator Rand Paul was attacked by a neighbor. And Democrats do not care about the rising levels of crime in their cities and states for the peasants. They want to take away their ability to protect themselves. But, when the Political Class is attacked, well, things have to change, right?

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