HotCold Take: Maui Sued Oil In 2020 Over Fire Risks Or Something

By William Teach August 18, 2023 – 5:39 pm

The Warmists at the NY Times think they’re on to Something Big

Maui Sued Big Oil in 2020, Citing Fire Risks and More

The words were strikingly prescient: Because of climate change, lush and verdant Maui was facing wildfires of “increased frequency, intensity and destructive force.”

They appeared in a 2020 lawsuit filed by Maui County seeking damages from Exxon, Chevron, and other giant oil and gas companies, accusing them of a “coordinated, multifront effort to conceal and deny their own knowledge” that the burning of fossil fuels would heat the planet to dangerous extremes.

Now, after wildfires driven by conditions linked to climate change have devastated the Hawaiian island, the lawsuit carries renewed heft.

I’m pretty sure darned sure that fossil fuels and anthropogenic climate change had nothing to do with there being lots and lots of invasive grasses which were basically creating a tinder box. Nor were they responsible for the denial of water to attempt to control the blaze. Nor the failure to use sirens, etc and so on

Ryan Meyers, senior vice president and general counsel at the American Petroleum Institute, an oil industry lobby group, called the Maui wildfires a tragedy but stressed that their immediate cause was still under investigation.

He called the litigation brought by Maui part of a “coordinated campaign to wage meritless lawsuits against our industry” and “nothing more than a distraction from important issues and an enormous waste of taxpayer resources.”

Maui is among more than two dozen states and municipalities, including Honolulu, which is about 100 miles from Maui, that are suing fossil fuel companies for climate damages.

Hawaii would be nothing without fossil fuels. Their economy is utterly dependent on tourism and the military, and almost no one would want to take a sailing ship to Hawaii, especially since Hawaii depends on fossil fueled shipments of foods and goods. They grow very little, except for personal consumption. The sugar industry is barely afloat. What does Hawaii produce? In small amounts, things like honey, pineapples, coffee, and macadamia nuts, but, how do they do that in 2023 without fossil fueled ships? How do tourists come without fossil fueled airplanes? Do tourists want to travel on foot or in cars? Do they want to take an expensive vacation when the power is intermittent? What powers all those highrise hotels? What powers the ships that bring in the fish for tourists to eat?

Without fossil fuels, Maui would be a stuck in the 16th Century. No one would visit. Why bother? Taking a 2,000+ mile trip on a sailboat? It’d be funny as hell if Exxon and the rest closed all their stores, stopped selling their products on the islands.

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If All You See…

By William Teach August 18, 2023 – 1:00 pm

…is lots of horrible, world killing concrete, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Chicks On The Right, with a post on another attempt to erase women.

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MSNBC Says The Quiet Part Out Loud: “This is an indictment of the people who voted for Trump”

By William Teach August 18, 2023 – 10:30 am

You should be on notice that if you voted for Trump in 2020, and support him now, you could be looking at harassment from Government, perhaps criminal prosecution

This is what’s at stake with the Georgia Trump indictment

A former president of the United States has now been criminally indicted for a fourth time. Less than a decade ago, we would have assumed a sentence like that would be found only in a work of fiction. Never in the history of our country has a former president faced one, let alone four, criminal indictments.  (snip)

Here is the first thing you need to know about the 2020 presidential election results in Georgia: Trump lost. Here is the second and last thing you need to know: Trump did everything he could, including, allegedly, engaging in criminal behavior to cheat that outcome.

So, everyone, including lots and lots of employees of MSNBC, should be prosecuted for their believe in the Russia Russia Russia hoax, trying to cheat the outcome?

This is about more than just another criminal case against Trump. This is an indictment of the people who voted for Trump despite plenty of evidence that he was unfit for office; the people who tried to help him undermine our elections; and of the people who failed to realize how close we came to every guardrail breaking down. Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis charged 18 other individuals alongside the president, using Georgia’s Racketeer Influenced Corruption Organizations (RICO) Act.

This is saying to you Americans “vote the way we tell you or face the consequences. If we can come after a former president this hardcore, we could come after you, and you stand no chance.”

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Your Neighbor’s Fault: Global Boiling May End Ireland’s Fishing Industry

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

It’s always something with these cultists, and, if you had badgered your neighbor more perhaps they would have stopped using fossil fuels and harassed government officials to enact more taxes and citizen controls

Fears grow that climate change could put an end to fishing in Ireland

When he left school, Darragh McGuinness knew his vocation: to join a fishing crew. But with the Atlantic warming up, the 23-year-old Irishman now fears the job that has sustained his family for generations could disappear.

“It’s a huge problem,” McGuinness said from the cockpit of the Atlantic Challenge, moored in the port of Killybegs in north-west Ireland. “This could put an end to fishing, in Ireland at least”.

The sharp rise in temperatures in the North Atlantic this summer has increased the pressure on a sector already in difficulty.

It has heightened fears of a change in fish migrations, which would push certain species northwards towards colder waters. The blow could be fatal. (snip)

Climate change is having a “dramatic effect” on stocks of white fish, such as cod, which prefer cold waters, adds Sean O’Donoghue, director of the Killybegs Fishermen’s Organisation.

He fears it is “a matter of time” before the so-called pelagic fish, such as mackerel, blue whiting and herring, move north: “If the water continues to warm up, we could end up with very few fish”.

Things happen during a Holocene warm period. And then the climate will flip and cool. That’s the nature of the Earth. Did fish only hang at the poles during the hot periods? Were they nowhere else? Things will be fine, people, chill.

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Did You Get Wuhan Flu? It Could Have Been Due To Which Arm You Got it in

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

Yes, yes, the Powers That Be are still trying to keep Bat Soup Virus going, though, most people are ignoring it. Few are wearing masks, no one is talking about getting a COVID shot (except Government), but, hey, the arm matters!

Left or right arm: Choosing where to get vaccinated matters, study suggests. Here’s why

When you roll up your sleeve to get routine vaccinations, do you prefer a jab in your right or left arm? New data suggests the choice you make matters.

Researchers in Germany found people who got all their shots in one arm had a stronger immune response than those who distributed shots between both arms, according to a study published last week in eBioMedicine, a peer-reviewed journal from The Lancet Discovery Science.

In the observational study, authors analyzed immune responses from about 300 people who never had COVID-19 and received two doses of Pfizer-BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine between March and September 2021.

Study participants were randomized to receive both doses in one arm or the second dose in the opposite arm. Two weeks after receiving the shots, researchers discovered certain immune cells – commonly known as “killer T cells” – were detected in 67% of people who received both injections in the same arm versus only 43% of those who got them in different arms.

People may respond better to sequential shots in the same arm because the vaccines are targeting the same lymph nodes, making them more active in producing immune cells to fight off infections, study authors suggest. While researchers detected a difference in these cells, they didn’t see a similar trend in spiked protein antibodies.

Huh. That’s interesting. I usually get the flu shot in my left arm, since I’m right handed…..hey, wait a second, what was that about the best being 67% for the killer T cells”? Is that saying that, at best, the Wuhan Flu vaccine could stop 67% of COVID? Weren’t we told that Pfizer was around 95% initially, meaning there was only a 5% chance of people getting COVID? This might explain a lot (though not all) as to why more people got COVID, and more died, despite all the vaccines and forced masking. They really didn’t work, and people felt more free to be close to other people and engage in risky behavior. That was always one of my problems with masking: people felt free to get close to other people, to touch them.

That, and since COVID19 was surely created in a laboratory it spun off variants left and right, and the vaccines weren’t really effective. It’s like getting the flu shot: professionals tailor the shots to be effective against what they think will be the most common variants during a period of time. But, maybe you catch a different one.

(Washington Post) Health officials are unveiling a new arsenal of vaccines to protect vulnerable Americans and exhausted health-care workers from an expected wave of covid, flu and RSV as the fall respiratory virus season begins.

An updated covid booster should be available by late September. Flu shots are arriving at doctors’ offices. And for the first time, infants and seniors could be immunized against respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), a persistent foe that public health officials had few ways to prevent.

But effectively deploying these shields is challenging and confusing.

For the first, no one cares. For the flu and RSV, yes, people care. And, what’s so confusing? The best thing to do would be to stop all the doomy government advertising, leave it up to the doctors. The flu shot was rarely advertised, but, people still got it. It’s easy. I’ll go to CVS or Walgreens (I guess that’s difficult on Democrat run cities where rampant crime is causing them to close down) in October or so, walk in, get the shot, go home.

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Hotcoldwetdry, Natural Disasters, Racial Inequality, Argle Garble

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

When people ask why I say this is not about science, but, pure cult based politics, I ask if they’ve actually read articles about ‘climate change’. How many actually show the science? How many avoid mentioning actual data? How many do something like this?

Climate Change Worsens Natural Disasters Alongside Racial Inequality

Another summer, another stark reminder of the reality of climate change. Wildfires on Maui caused widespread destruction and the highest death toll in more than 140 years. The southern US buckled under a brutal and historic heat wave. Flash floods inundated Vermont and other northern states. And, hurricane season has only begun, potentially fueled by record high ocean temperatures in the Gulf of Mexico. Nature sends almost daily reminders that climate change is real and that it takes a severe toll on people, their livelihoods and their lives.

“almost daily reminders.” That’s something a cult would say. Oh, and hurricane season started in June. And it is truly despicable that the climate cult is using the deaths of 111 people (and sure to go much higher) to push your unhinged cult beliefs

The burden of climate change and the associated natural disasters that have become more common and more severe is unevenly felt. Black and Latino families, for example, are much more likely to be displaced by natural disasters – hurricanes, floods, fires, tornadoes and other events such as extreme cold or heat — than white families. And, when they have to leave their home, the impact from that displacement is much more severe for Black and Latino families as well as many families of other and multiple races than for white families. There is no doubt that climate change exacerbates existing racial and ethnic inequalities.

Good grief. There we have it, adding racial grievance, race baiting, into the mix. It’s an interesting take, because these race pimps are essentially saying that Blacks and Latinos are unable to take care of themselves, which seems a rather racist point of view, eh? And the screed writer, Christian Weller, is very, very white. But, this is what white Liberals do, create racial strife for their own nefarious purposes, and merge the climate cult with everything. It is purely cult-based politics, not science.

I wonder if the kiddies took fossil fueled trips to high-toned and fancy too-doo Martha’s Vineyard like Kamala last Saturday, fundraising as a tragedy occurred in Hawaii, while Biden was also taking the weekend off at the beach?

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If All You See…

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

…are trees dying from too much carbon pollution, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Bunkerville, with a post on Arizona’s Democrat governor wanting to prosecute Trump for daring to question the election.

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NC General Assembly Overrides Cooper Vetoes, Including On Parental Rights And Banning Trans Surgeries For Kids

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

Obviously, this has made the moonbats very upset. How dare the GOP have that kind of majority! The voters must be horrible (but, it’s fine in places like California, which has a a super-majority of Democrats who can do whatever they want)

NC Legislature overrides 6 governor vetoes, putting measures into law

The North Carolina Legislature voted to successfully override six vetoes by Gov. Roy Cooper on Wednesday afternoon, putting the measures into law.

One of those was Senate Bill 49, the Parents’ Bill of Rights.

After the Senate voted to override, the House later overrode the veto of SB 49, enacting the Parents’ Bill of Rights into law.

“This legislation (SB 49) codifies the rights of parents and guardians to guarantee their direct involvement in their child’s education,” said Rep. Brian Biggs, R-Randolph, on the House floor during the override debate. “This bill brings much-needed transparency and openness to our schools.”

Why are Democrats so against parental rights? Republicans should make sure to run on this in 2024, noting that Democrats are against parents having rights and being involved.

Two of those bills focus on charter school regulations, a third on building code procedures, and two on transgender issues. (snip)

House Bill 574, the Fairness in Women’s Sports Act, mandates athletes in middle school, high school, and college to play with their sex assigned at birth. That’s aimed almost exclusively at preventing biological males from participating in girls’ sports activities. (snip)

Another bill that drew attention was House Bill 808, which would ban most so-called gender-transition surgical procedures for children.

HB 808 prohibits gender transition surgeries and puberty blockers for minors.

Obviously, the brain-damaged and grooming wackjobs are upset about this, being so hell-bent on destroying the lives of children, rather than allowing kids to wait till they are adults and can make their own informed decisions. I’m still unclear why Democrats are so pushy about creating “trans” kids and wanting to mutilate their bodies. What political purpose does this serve?

How about gender confused boys in women’s sports? Why are Democrats so gung-ho to replace women with males in sports?

North Carolina lawmakers override veto on bill limiting LGBTQ instruction in early grades

North Carolina’s Senate and House voted minutes apart Wednesday to override Gov. Roy Cooper’s veto of a bill limiting LGBTQ+ instruction in the early grades, immediately making it law.

The law, which is expected to face a legal challenge, requires public school teachers in most circumstances to alert parents before they call a student by a different name or pronoun. It also bans instruction about gender identity and sexuality in K-4 classrooms, which critics have previously likened to a Florida law opponents call “Don’t Say Gay.”

That’s what a lot of national articles look like, with the groomers apoplectic that parents would have rights over their children and be required to be notified. Likewise, stopping schools from teaching adult sexuality, and it bans straight sexuality as well, to young children.

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We Need To Discuss Cocaine, Eels, And The Climate Crisis (scam)

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

This is what a cult looks like: a perfectly reasonable article on the issue of cocaine in the waters causing issues with wildlife, ala cocaine bear, and then they had to drag ‘climate change’ into it because it’s required these days

Eels, Cocaine and Climate Change

This summer many media outlets smelled blood in the water and went on a feeding frenzy, publishing sensationalized reports about sharks getting high on cocaine off the coast of Florida.

The story originated with a Discovery Channel “Shark Week” program, which posited that odd, manic shark behavior observed off the Florida Keys originated after the predators consumed bales of cocaine dropped in the water by smugglers.

Shark scientists quickly debunked this theory by pointing out that sharks would only be attracted to cocaine if it smelled like meat, and that cocaine has never been found in wild sharks’ systems.

But cocaine in the water — that’s something we should still be afraid of. Only it’s not coming from bales of drugs dropped from the sky. It’s coming from human urine, the same way antidepressants and other pharmaceuticals end up in our sewers and waterways. (snip)

Eels regularly swim in waterways where cocaine has been detected, like the Thames River in London. Previous studies have detected the drug in eels’ systems, but Capaldo and her team wanted to find out exactly what that meant. They exposed young eels to levels of cocaine equivalent to those found in the environment (20 ng/L?1) for 30-50 days. (All experiments were conducted under ethical guidelines for animal experimentation.)

So, they force-fed the eels cocaine? I just have to wonder, is cocaine still that big of a drug these days? I don’t keep up with drugs (and, while I’ve tried coke a few times decades ago, I never cared for it), but, I’d think things like the growth of THC, CBD, and Fentanyl, among others, would be more of a concern as people urinate.

Capaldo points out that pharmaceuticals and illicit drugs are just one threat to European eels; climate change poses a danger to all eel species across the world. But the two threats remain linked, as temperature fluctuations can cause chemical interactions to change and become more toxic.

“All these findings would suggest that climate change, and in particular the rise in temperatures, could pose a problem for eels’ survival,” she says.

They really just cannot help themselves

And the problem is only going to get worse. Cocaine production increased another 35% between 2021 and 2022, according to a recent United Nations report. Meanwhile a commentary published this July in the Journal of Addiction Medicine predicts that climate change — and its resulting human suffering — will worsen the opioid epidemic and increase abuse of fentanyl, cocaine, and other legal and illegal stimulants.

I guess cocaine has increased. But, the rest is just pure cult, linking drug abuse to Hotcoldwetdry.

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Illegal Alien Advocates Want Governor To Force NY Towns To Take Illegals

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

If NY’s governor wasn’t a wackjob illegal alien supporter her proper response would be to send them to the towns of the advocates

Hochul should force NY towns to take migrants, advocates’ letter says

Dozens of advocacy groups have joined in a letter to Gov. Kathy Hochul demanding the state force towns to accept migrants from New York City, pressuring the governor to take a more aggressive approach to the city’s deepening asylum seeker crisis.

Hochul should take executive action overruling county-level orders meant to block the movement of migrants, according to the Monday letter, which was led by the Coalition for the Homeless and the Legal Aid Society.

The groups said in the letter that Hochul should deploy executive powers to “invalidate executive orders in counties that have refused to accept new arrivals” or “alternatively, have the State intervene in pending cases to overturn the obstructive executive orders.”

The letter also asked Hochul to personally pressure mayors and county executives to accept migrants; to help coordinate relocation efforts; and to identify more state-run spaces to house people.

First off, shouldn’t the towns and counties which vote overwhelmingly Democrat, and especially those which are sanctuary areas…

Albany
Columbia County
Franklin County
Ithaca
Nassau County
New York City
Onondaga County
St. Lawrence County
Westchester County

…be more than willing to take on the illegal aliens/migrants, feed them, house them, give the healthcare and money and clothes and stuff, rather than wanting to shift the burden to non-sanctuary areas? Why isn’t the city of Albany, the capitol of NY, taking on a whole bunch?

The sort of executive action urged by the groups could swiftly invite lawsuits. The state is already a party to a flurry of legal proceedings around the treatment of migrants and the city’s efforts to bus arrivals upstate.

Yes, lawsuits would be coming fast. For one thing, that would be taxation without representation. Remember, these same types of “advocates” constantly yammer on about “defending Democracy.” I guess their version is be forcing people to accept things. Are any of these advocates inviting the illegals into their own homes? Are these groups, some of which are not even based in the state of New York, offering to provide aid themselves? Is the Riverside Edgecombe Neighborhood Association, Syracuse Tenants Association, Saratoga Immigration Coalition, Hudson/Catskill Housing Coalition, and the others hooking the illegals up?

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