What If They Held An Offshore Windfarm Permit Auction And No One Came?

By William Teach September 1, 2023 – 7:15 am

We keep being told that companies are super excited to invest in “renewables”. So then why

First offshore wind auction in Gulf of Mexico attracts one winning bid

The Biden administration’s first-ever auction of offshore wind development rights in the Gulf of Mexico ended with a single $5.6-million winning bid on Tuesday, reflecting meager demand for the clean energy source in a region known for its oil and gas production.

Germany’s RWE won rights to 102,480 acres (41,472 hectares) off Louisiana for $5.6 million, while the other two lease areas on offer off Texas received no bids, according to results posted on the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management website.

RWE’s awarded site is 44 miles off the coast of Louisiana and has water depths of 10-25 meters. The company said that the lease area has the potential to host up to 2 GW of new capacity, enough to power over 350,000 US homes with clean energy. The project is expected to be in operation by the mid-2030s, contingent upon permitting timelines.

RWE said the Louisiana lease was attractive because the state has strong existing coastal port and supply chain infrastructure and a goal to install 5 gigawatts of offshore wind capacity by 2035. Texas does not have an offshore wind target.

And not even a U.S. based company. Few really see any reward on investment

But the overall result only represents a fraction of the billions of dollars of bids secured in an offshore wind lease sale off New York and New Jersey in February 2022, according to a Reuters analysis. Those states have passed laws that require utilities to buy power from offshore wind projects – mandates considered critical for a technology that is estimated to produce electricity at twice the cost of a natural gas plant.

Yeah, because they are forced to do it and will see some incredible government cash subsidies for it.

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NY Times Is Very Concerned Over All Deaths Of Migrants Democrats Invited

By William Teach September 1, 2023 – 7:00 am

The Times just can’t quite make the connection that it is reckless and dangerous to entice people to make long treks from as far away as northern South America, as well as nations around the world, all to cross the US southern border and Demand asylum, which most will not obtain

Scorching Heat Is Contributing to Migrant Deaths

On patrol in the harsh brush along the border in South Texas, Deputy Don White of the Brooks County Sheriff’s Office paused to study some empty water jugs, torn clothing and several indistinct footprints, looking for signs of migrants who might have been lost in the scorching heat.

Through the long summer, temperatures have lingered for days at a time at 100 degrees or higher. The heat has been stifling for many Texans, but deadly for some of those making their way through the hot, barren shrub land where migrants travel to avoid detection from Border Patrol agents.

Fewer people are crossing from Mexico this year compared with last year, but already there have been more than 500 deaths in 2023 — confirmed by the discovery of bodies or partial remains by Deputy White and others like him as they conduct their grim patrols. In 2022, among the deadliest in recent years, there were 853 confirmed deaths.

Tracking migrant deaths is an imperfect science. Many drown trying to cross the Rio Grande; others succumb to sweltering desert conditions or a lack of water, with their deaths ultimately attributed to dehydration, heat stroke or hypothermia. The unrelenting heat this summer in Texas, combined with suffocating humidity, has contributed to many of the fatalities, local and federal officials said. (snip)

Since 1998, at least 7,805 people have died trying to cross the border with Mexico and more than 3,527 remain missing, according to the Colibrí Center for Human Rights, an advocacy organization that reports on missing migrants and conducts DNA searches to identify remains.

It’s a long piece on missing and dead illegals/migrants, which, surprisingly doesn’t jump into global boiling, but, the Times fails to make that connection that the Democratic Party, along with some Idiot Republicans, have been enticing all those people to come to the US illegally, since the Reagan years, but, especially since the late Clinton years. When you’re promising them free everything and all they have to do is come to the US, well, they’re going to do it, no matter how dangerous it is. No matter if they are going to die or be trafficked.

It’s hot in the summer. It’s already dangerous enough traveling thousands of miles through 2nd and 3rd world areas. The deaths of all these people is in the hands of Democrats, including the NY Times which never considers that their support of unfettered illegal immigration is murderous.

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Warmist Wonders If It’s OK To Have A Kid At The End Of The World

By William Teach August 31, 2023 – 3:00 pm

Does this constant fear-mongering work? Is it attracting people outside of the climate cult, the basic Warmist?

Having a Kid at the End of the World

From the moment I had a sense of the world, I had a sense that it was finite and we were destroying it. I learned about acid rain sometime during third grade. The idea of flesh-burning precipitation, coupled with a hole in the ozone layer that was going to destroy the planet and all of my favorite animals, used to make me itchy with stress. I remember begging my parents, who had very little disposable income, to become paying members of the World Wildlife Fund to save the whales. I talked about chlorofluorocarbons like I was a paid expert, afraid of stepping out into a storm for fear of melting. I was convinced the world was ending, and none of us, my friends and I, would live to see adulthood because of it.

Yet when I first started trying to have a kid eight years ago, I didn’t think about climate or the planet; I thought only about the desire for a baby, about what it would mean to me and my husband to bring that person into our world. But, in the years since and now expecting my third, it’s become harder not to look at my kids without being acutely aware of how smoky and scary and fucked everything is. (snip)

When I put this question out to people on Twitter and Instagram, the response was overwhelming. I got long emails from over 50 strangers, men and women who are scared, anxious, hopeful, optimistic, who have kids and fear for their future, who won’t have kids so they don’t have to, and who don’t know how they can possibly make a decision like this at a time like this.

My vote is for the lunatics to not have children, that way they are not bringing kids who will be turned into complete mental messes from the scary cult propaganda.

Meanwhile, more doom

‘Fragile and under threat’: Prosecco could disappear due to climate change, experts warn

Some of Europe’s favourite wines could be wiped out by climate change, experts have warned.

Climate change could wipe out Prosecco and other popular European wines, new research has warned.

Prosecco – a sparkling white wine produced in Italy’s mountainside vineyards – is one of the continent’s most beloved drinks.

But grape yields are dwindling, devastated by a deadly combination of extreme weather and soil degradation.

So, mostly poor agricultural practices. Got it.

Climate Classroom: “I tend to be very gentle” about Telling Kids they’re Going to Die?

Full quote: “I tend to be very gentle and very careful or I’m very focused on hope.”

Worth reading the whole thing.

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If All You See…

By William Teach August 31, 2023 – 1:00 pm

…is a mountainside collapsing from ‘climate change’, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Animal Magnetism, with a post on Hump Day News.

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UNC Youts Demand Politicians Do Something After Shooting

By William Teach August 31, 2023 – 10:30 am

It’s an interesting dynamic. After the kid went crazy and killed 5 people and wounded a few others in my neighborhood (several were shot/killed on a greenway about 100 yards away from my casa) there were few calls to change the law, because murder is illegal, he mostly used a knife and a hunting rifle, and no law would have stopped this, excepting banning all private ownership of guns. Of course, he could have then gotten one illegally

From the link

The anger and frustration on UNC-Chapel Hill’s campus was palpable Wednesday as hundreds of students demanded during a rally that lawmakers address gun violence across North Carolina and the rest of the country.

Holding up a large banner that read, “This is our reality,” students from different groups, including March For Our Lives and Students Demand Action, took turns talking about the fear and panic they and their friends felt on Monday as the entire university went on lockdown while police searched for an armed man.

“In a matter of seconds, we went from taking notes, walking in the quad, being at home, to being forced to run, barricade the doors; there’s nothing normal about returning to school tomorrow,” said Kyle Lumsden, a volunteer with UNC Students Demand Action. “There’s nothing normal about hearing from people, ‘Thoughts and prayers,’ and the continuous idea that we cannot prevent these tragedies.”

None of them were targeted. None of them were hurt, just the professor. We were freaked in our neighborhood for a short time, and it was a much more dangerous situation. We settled down quickly. It’s nice that the big donor financed groups showed up quickly to take advantage of a tragedy though, eh?

“Our entire lives, as a generation, we’ve been told to run, hide and fight,” said David Hogg, a survivor of the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, that claimed 17 lives in 2018.

Yup, he showed up to take advantage of the fear. And really offered no ideas

Democrats in the General Assembly have proposed creating a red flag law and adopting universal background checks. Republicans have touted this year’s elimination of the state’s permit law for buying handguns as a commonsense step to protect gun rights. It was the first bill the new GOP supermajority enacted over a veto from Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper.

Neither of those laws proposed by the Democrats would have stopped this. There are no reports about concern for the shooter. I’m not sure how he got the gun, because, if he is a foreign national, he’s forbidden to purchase/possess a handgun. All the GOP law did was make it so you did not need approval by the Sheriff’s departments in each county, most of whom simply said “sure, fine”, except in Dem run areas, which took up to 2 weeks for approval. Otherwise, you still must get a background check.

But, other than wanting the permit law repealed, they offer no ideas, the same as most of the NC General Assembly members I’ve read. Lots of them saying “do something” but failing to say what laws would have stopped this. And, of course, they never reply when you ask them what their legislative proposals are and how they would have stopped this.

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Your Fault: Global Boiling Could Kill 1 Billion Poor People

By William Teach August 31, 2023 – 7:15 am

The climate cult is really ramping up the fear-mongering. But, we can solve this with a tax and your giving up your freedom!

Climate change could result in the deaths of 1 billion poor people

Sherman Potter Bull CookiesHuman-induced climate change could lead to the premature deaths of around one billion people in the next century, according to a study.

If global warming reaches or surpasses 2°C this century, it’s projected that predominantly wealthier people will be linked to the deaths of approximately 1 billion people with lower incomes, a situation that bears a resemblance to cases of involuntary or negligent manslaughter, a study published in the Future of Energy Policy says.

“If you take the scientific consensus of the 1,000-ton rule seriously and run the numbers, anthropogenic global warming equates to a billion premature dead bodies over the next century. Obviously, we have to act. And we have to act fast,” said one of the study writers, Joshua Pearce.

The “1,000-ton rule” suggests that about one early death might occur for every 1,000 tons of fossil carbon burned.

These people are shameless, and WKBW Buffalo, and all other outlets who ran this article, are completely derelict in their journalistic standards running this piece of doom. There’s zero chance of hitting 2C this century. Poor people are more likely to die from the climate cult policies being implemented by those same rich folks. Like this guy

https://twitter.com/ClownWorld_/status/1696975936409972752

This would be the same guy who takes a fossil fueled trip involving helicopters, jumbo jets, fighter jets, and low MPG limos and SUVs almost every weekend. He could drive an EV home in around 2 hours. Or, at least just take a helicopter.

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Experts Start To Push Masking Again

By William Teach August 31, 2023 – 7:00 am

They can piss right off

Should we wear masks again? Covid guidelines experts recommend

The uptick of Covid transmissions this summer has raised questions about whether or not certain safety measures such as wearing masks should be brought back.

Several companies and schools nationwide decided to reinstate Covid mask mandates in light of the rising hospitalisations including Morris Brown College in Atlanta, Lionsgate headquarters in Los Angeles, Kaiser Permanente across all California locations, and several hospitals in the state of New York. Workers and attendees at these locations are now required to wear masks upon entry.

“It is ticking up a little bit, but it’s not something that we need to raise any alarm bells over,” Dr David Dowdy, an infectious disease epidemiologist at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, told the Seattle Times. Although many health experts like Dr Dowdy don’t believe people have cause to worry, some have expressed their concerns.

While many people have forgone wearing masks, UC San Francisco infectious diseases expert, Dr Peter Chin-Hong, cautioned the Los Angeles Times that swearing off masks for good would put people at higher risk of contracting the virus, elaborating: “Right now, when things are heating up all around the country with Covid, you might want to think about [masking at] public transit and airports.”

No. Just no. People aren’t buying this stuff anymore. Well, most aren’t, there’s always a few. We all know masks do not work. Study after study shows this. If the Powers That Be try this again, most will refuse.

As new BA.2.86 COVID variant emerges, America lifts middle finger to the same old mandates

“We’re at an inflection point,” said CNN chief medical correspondent, Dr. Sanjay Gupta.

More and more public-health officials are dusting off their old face masks and encouraging Americans to do the same for the new BA.2.86 variant of COVID-19, he explained.

Hearing that, Meghan McCain went to social media and spoke for an entire nation: “Uh no, we ain’t starting this s— again.”

McCain isn’t some right-wing reactionary. She’s not QAnon. She’s not a wrapped-in-the-flag freedom marcher. On this issue she is very much mainstream.

Her point is that the COVID-19 endemic will be much different than the pandemic. Americans are a lot wiser now about this pathogen and the people who tried to manage it the last time around.

Yes, we are wiser. Most of us, anyhow. Virtually nothing they forced on the public made a damned but of difference.

Will the New COVID-19 Vaccine Work Against the BA.2.86 Variant?

Well, the others barely worked, so, should we expect better with this one?

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Climate Cultists Protest At Burning Man

By William Teach August 30, 2023 – 3:17 pm

Vox actually has a point about the Warmists having a point

Burning Man’s climate protesters have a point

climate cowSunday was not a fun day for the thousands of people on their way to Burning Man. In the days leading up to the bacchanal, traffic is typically a nightmare on the two-lane highway that leads to the barren former lake bed in the Black Rock Desert, a national conservation area that, for a week every year, becomes known as Black Rock City, population 80,000.

But this year, a small group of climate protesters parked a 28-foot trailer across the road, causing miles of gridlock. Seven Circles, a coalition of organizations that includes Extinction Rebellion and Rave Revolution, made some simple demands of the Burning Man Organization, which hosts the annual desert party: “Ban private jets, single-use plastics, unnecessary propane burning, and unlimited generator use per capita at the nine day event in Black Rock City, Nevada.” There were also calls for the organization to mobilize its members “to initiate systemic change.” But the ban on private jets — that seems pretty straightforward.

“Burning Man should aim to have the same type of political impact that Woodstock had on counterculture,” Mun Chong, an organizer with Extinction Rebellion, said in a statement. “If we are honest about system change, it needs to start at ‘home.’ Ban the lowest-hanging fruit immediately: private jets.”

The protesters, it deserves to be said, had a point: Burning Man is famously bad for the planet.

It is, it really is, and you can bet most of these young folks, as well as all the older performers who show up, Believe in global boiling

The many tens of thousands of people the event attracts must travel through some of the most remote parts of the country to a destination where there are few natural resources, where everything gets trucked in, and where vast structures are lit ablaze on the last night of the festival, pumping carbon-filled smoke into the atmosphere. But over 90 percent of the event’s carbon footprint comes not from the fires themselves but from travel to and from Black Rock City, according to a 2020 environmental sustainability report from the Burning Man Organization. Another 5 percent comes from gas- and diesel-burning generators that keep lights and air conditioners on during the festival.

So, why ban private planes? The vast majority are not flying private, but, commercial, as well as all the fossil fueled vehicles to get to and from the airport, along with those who simply take long, fossil fueled auto trips. How about all fast fashion the people buy to wear there once, then discard? All the wasted food? All the water and alcohol trucked in? Yet all these Warmists refuse to practice what they preach

There’s a long string of videos from that Tweet, but, I wonder, why is no one asking how the Warmists themselves traveled to Burning Man?

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If All You See…

By William Teach August 30, 2023 – 1:00 pm

…is horrible sugary soda causing obesity which is bad for global boiling, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is A View From The Beach, with a post on the Wednesday wetness.

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Republicans Rip Biden Over Using Alias For Official Government Emails

By William Teach August 30, 2023 – 10:30 am

They can rage all the want: what are they going to do about it?

Exclusive: GOP Lawmakers Rip Joe Biden for Using Email Alias to Conduct Family Business

Republican lawmakers expressed deep concern on Tuesday after reports surfaced of then-President Joe Biden using email aliases to conduct family business.

Joe Biden used the aliases — “Robert Peters,” “Robin Ware,” and “JRB Ware” — to share government information and discuss business with Hunter Biden and associates, according to the Southeastern Legal Foundation, which filed a lawsuit to compel the National Archives (NARA) to turn over the emails.

In one email sent to Joe Biden in 2016, “Robert L. Peters” received a message that cc’d Hunter Biden about Ukraine. The email includes an attachment with the vice president’s schedule, indicating that he had spoken by phone to then-Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko.

“There is more than enough evidence to open an inquiry into Biden Corruption LLC,” House Judiciary Committee member Harriet Hageman exclusively told Breitbart News. “Months ago, I made clear that an impeachment inquiry into the President should be opened and since then we’ve only seen more evidence to support it.”

There’s not one good reason for a government official, including the Vice President, to be using one alias, much less multiple ones, for government business.

The Archives repeatedly refused to provide the emails and records linked to Joe Biden’s aliases. The Southeastern Legal Foundation first filed the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to the Archives for Biden’s emails in 2021. Two years later, it renewed the request, but the Archives “failed to produce a single one of these emails,” the foundation said.

The Southeastern Legal Foundation Archives revealed Monday that the Archives acknowledged the emails and records exist after it filed a lawsuit to compel the agency to turn over the emails and records.

“Obama should allow NARA to release the 5,100 email messages and 200 pages of records,” Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) told Breitbart News. “I’ve been researching Joe Biden’s use of private emails since 2021. Three letters to the Biden White House have gone unanswered, and NARA provided the usual non-response response.”

Obama will never agree to this, unless he’s convinced that it is bad for Joe to be the 2024 candidate. What will the GOP do about the Archives? Why are these records being kept secret? They cannot be national security material. Do we no longer have an open government? Where is the Credentialed Media? In days past they would be smelling blood in the water and would be all over this. The use of an alias and/or non-governmental email account is, at best, a massive violation of federal government policy, and most likely a criminal violation of record keeping law.

GOP House Conference Chair Elise Stefanik (R-NY) also echoed Sen. Johnson’s concern. “The National Archives must immediately release these emails,” she said. “The American people have a right to know how compromised Joe Biden is.”

What are you going to do about it? Less talk, more action.

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