Surprise: 17 Deaths On Mt. Everest Blamed On ‘Climate Change’

By William Teach May 30, 2023 – 3:00 pm

So, how does one climb Mt. Everest? Well, lots and lots of training. Then a long fossil fueled flight to Nepal. Most will take a fossil fueled flight from Kathmandu to Lukla, then start trekking. It requires a lot of goods and products and material support. Maybe Nepal should just ban people from climbing their mountains

Climate change to blame for up to 17 deaths on Mount Everest, experts say

Experts say this is likely to be one of the deadliest years on record on Mount Everest, with variable weather caused by climate change being blamed as one of the main reasons for the deaths of up to 17 people.

A total of 12 people have now been confirmed dead during Everest expeditions this season and another five are missing, presumed dead, as no contact has been made for at least five days in all cases, according to the Himalayan Database, which tracks mountain fatalities.

The figure was confirmed by Yuba Raj Khatiwada, the director of Nepal’s tourism department. “Altogether this year we lost 17 people on the mountain this season,” he said. “The main cause is the changing in the weather. This season the weather conditions were not favourable, it was very variable. Climate change is having a big impact in the mountains.”

It would make this year one of the worst on record for deaths on Everest, matched only by the events of 2014 when 17 died, most of whom were local sherpas killed in an avalanche. On average, between five and 10 people die on Everest every year but recent years have seen a spike.

It could be that there are more trying to climb, and more who are not qualified, people who are trying to do something post-COVID.

Among those who lost their lives climbing Everest this year were Jason Kennison, a 40-year-old mechanic from Australia who had overcome spinal injuries to climb to the top but could not make it back down, a Canadian doctor, Pieter Swart, and three Nepalese sherpas who died in an avalanche in April.

Sorry, but, Kennison was probably not ready. Avalanches happen. It’s a mountain, weather changes, and there are earthquakes, including lots of tiny ones.

The Nepal government has been criticised for issuing 479 permits this year, the highest number ever. At £12,000 each, they are a major income generator for the small cash-strapped country, and the government has been reluctant to scale back numbers.

More permits, more dead.

Experts and celebrated mountaineers have warned that Everest, which tops 8,848 metres, is now seen as a “tourist destination” and a playground for the thrill-seeking rich, even those with little experience of climbing at high altitude, who are willing to pay upwards of £48,000 to be guided to the summit.

Alan Arnette, a mountaineer who climbed Everest in 2011 and now writes regularly on conditions, said this year had been “chaos”. “The root cause of the high number of deaths lies with inexperienced clients who push themselves too hard and do not turn back soon enough,” he said.

So, not climate doom? Huh

There had also been concerns that the increased human activity at Everest base camp, which is located on the Khumbu glacier, is making it unstable and unsafe, exacerbating dangerous conditions already created by global warming. According to a recent survey, Everest’s glaciers have lost 2,000 years of ice in just the past 30 years.

Warming happens. Now you put way too many people in the area, leaving lots and lots of trash and adding heat to the area, well, it’s not the climate apocalypse.

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If All You See…

By William Teach May 30, 2023 – 12:58 pm

…is a damp looking day from too much carbon pollution, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Geller Report, with a post on how much money Woke companies are losing.

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Florida Furry Convention Goes 18+ Due To Law About Exposing Children

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

Hmm, seems like others have learned that it’s not a good idea to expose children to adult performances. Of course, we haven’t really heard about furries grooming kids, though, there have been some cases where young wackos think they’re animals

(Fox News) An upcoming “furry” convention in Florida will restrict its attendees to adults over 18 in response to Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis’ law prohibiting children from attending “adult live entertainment.”

Megaplex, an Orlando-based convention dedicated to “people who enjoy dressing up as or making art of anthropomorphized creatures,” originally released a statement regarding their decision on Wednesday.

“Many have raised concerns about recent changes in Florida legislation. After reviewing Florida SB 1438 it has been decided that for legal reasons and protection of our attendees, our venue, and the overall convention, Megaplex 2023 attendees must be 18 years of age at the time of registration pickup,” the statement read.

The Protection of Children Act (SB 1438) specifically prohibits a person from “knowingly admitting a child to an adult live performance.” An adult live performance is defined as “any show, exhibition, or other presentation in front of a live audience which, in whole or in part, depicts or simulates nudity, sexual conduct, sexual excitement, or specific sexual activities.”

Or, they could do away with stuff that is meant for adults. Obviously, they’re getting ahead of this. Would law enforcement actually take action?

The Rolling Stone blasted the news from Megaplex, attacking DeSantis for “sucking the pleasure” out of “joys” like the furry convention.

“Florida Gov. and GOP presidential nominee Ron DeSantis has successfully sucked the pleasure out of many of life’s little joys, from drag brunches to Disney adult TikTok. And thanks to the passage of SB 1438, or the Protection of Children Act, DeSantis may now be bringing the ax down on furries,” senior writer E.J. Dickson wrote.

Yes, nothing more joyful than exposing children to adult acts that depict or simulates nudity, sexual conduct, sexual excitement, or specific sexual activities, right? Of course, Rolling Stone, which went all in on the gender confused fad, is not worried about furries, but, the gender wackos.

“Many furries are marginalized in some way: In addition to many identifying as LGBTQ, a sizeable percentage of furries are also neurodivergent. As a result, they tend to view the community as a safe haven of sorts. Over the past few years, children have increasingly been gravitating toward the fandom for this reason, as Rolling Stone has previously reported,” she wrote.

Dickson continued, “The rise of furry influencers on platforms like TikTok has led to the fandom becoming increasingly popular among young people, with the Pittsburgh-based conference Anthrocon reporting that 16 percent of its attendees in 2019 were under the age of 19.”

Perhaps we shouldn’t be going along with children suffering mental illness and acting out in this manner. Instead, we should be seeking proper mental health therapy. Being a furry, though, is certainly less damaging than pretending to be the opposite sex and taking all those drugs and cutting off genitals and breasts and such.

Why must these wackos push this on children, especially ones too young to know?

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Fixit Culture Is Now Linked To Climate Crisis (scam)

By William Teach May 30, 2023 – 7:15 am

Now, there are some points here. Things like the right to repair, and not disposing of so many products which end up in landfills, which is an environmental issue. But, the climate cult likes to link everything to their cult

Fixit culture is on the rise, but repair legislation faces resistance

Americans are responsible for throwing out more stuff than any other nation in the world. According to the Public Interest Research Group, people in this country generate more than 12% of the planet’s trash, though we represent only 4% of the global population.

“We keep going at this pace and we’ll reach the heat death of the earth in a few hundred years,” said Adam Savage, the leader and host of Tested, a popular YouTube channel and website aimed at makers, and an outspoken advocate for repairing the things we own rather than trashing them. “So time is of the essence.”

Throwing things away comes with an environmental cost. Manufacturing processes and decomposing products in landfills emit significant levels of climate warming pollution. Some materials, like plastic, never decompose. Savage said it’s time human beings reminded themselves that throwaway culture is a relatively new phenomenon. It started about a hundred years ago with the rise of mass manufacturing.

They also have a slight point there, namely that landfills are an issue with releasing methane, which is a much more potent greenhouse gas than CO2, though it doesn’t last as long in the atmosphere. I’ve long stated that mankind is responsible for a small portion of anthropogenic global warming, and landfills are part of that. But, seriously, do we need to make everything about ‘climate change doom? Seriously, heat death of the Earth because of throwing out products?

“We have been repairers and restorers for millennia longer than we’ve been profligate thrower outer of things,” Savage said, as he worked on mending the hulking wood-and-metal-shaping lathe that occupies a corner of the professional tinkerer’s cavernous workshop.

It’s a lot easier to repair a horse drawn cart than your coffee maker, fridge, TV, etc. Sadly, products aren’t made to last as long as they used to.

Nevertheless, the appetite for fixing things is on the rise. From patching jeans to replacing phone screens, U.S. consumers are showing an increased interest in prolonging the life of the things they own, rather than getting rid of them.

Unfortunately, it’s often less expensive to replace than repair, or, in other cases, not that much more expensive to replace. If a new coffee maker costs $30, and $25 to repair (can you even find someone to repair it? Does anyone fix TVs anymore?), do you repair the old one or replace?

This points to a shift in how Americans are defining what it means to be a responsible shopper as global consumption continues to contribute to climate change.

Sigh. But, yes, I would like products to last like they used to. I’ve had the same washer and dryer since 1994. The same JVC receiver since about 1988. I recently took a tube TV from about 1989 to the dump. It still worked fine. Nobody wanted it. An acoustic guitar since the early 80’s. But, I have an electric that would cost a lot to fix, as the locking wammy bar is toast, and electronics are not great. Great guitar, but, is it worth it? Or, just get a new one? The neck is still perfect.

Daniel Leong was among the crowd attending one such event at the San Francisco Public Library. The San Francisco resident has brought two bikes along for the volunteer bike repairers to repair. His wife’s has a flat tire; his son’s, malfunctioning brakes.

“We don’t know much about repairing bikes,” said Leong. “We just ride every so often.”

A basic bike tune-up in San Francisco can cost well over $100. Leong said he’s a fan of fixit days because the service is free. But it’s about more than the unbeatable price.

Yeah, well, if you’re trashing a bike because you can’t take it to someplace like a bike shop, or Dick’s sporting goods, you’re a moron. That’s not really fixit culture. It’s easy. Of course, the climate cult wants all you peasants out of your cars and onto bikes. I repair a lot of stuff myself, from plumbing to toilets to this and that where I can. Electronics? I do not have the parts. If a laptop goes toast, less expensive to replace.

Anyhow, the climate cult stuff ends in the previous excerpt, and is an interesting read.

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Washington Post Is Gobsmacked That Red States Are Doing Much Better On Job Creation

By William Teach May 30, 2023 – 7:00 am

It couldn’t possibly be that Blue states are very anti-business and create lots of impediments to companies employing people? That Blue state businesses are taking their jobs and moving to Red states? (you can see all the charts at the direct WP link)

Why are red states hiring so much faster than blue states?

We ranked the 50 states by their hiring rates and were swiftly struck by a trend so clear that – if it holds up – should be front-page news: Republican-leaning states are hiring faster than blue states.

Of the 17 fastest-hiring states, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, 14 voted for Trump in 2020. The top two Biden-voting states, Georgia and Nevada, are probably best classified as purple (Biden-blue Delaware is the other). The 10 slowest-hiring states all went for Biden.

Have we all missed a hidden red-state resurgence? For every politician who loves to talk about job creation, there are several economists who love to remind us that politics don’t have much influence on the economy. A political split this stark is as rare as a 17-pound potato, and at least as newsworthy.

That said, there are some plausible explanations in this case. Many of the fastest-hiring states – Alaska, Wyoming, Montana and Kentucky – have unusually low tax rates and lean on extractive industries such as mining or petroleum. We’ve seen firsthand the economic boom that gas and pipelines can bring to struggling regions.

Certain outspoken workers in those places often tell reporters that regulation-happy Democrats in Washington are stifling business. And they may be right. Until the booms go bust and the environmental bill comes due, hiring and pay often soar as the gas industry expands.

It must have required a lot of Pepto Bismal to publish this, eh?

But when we delved deeper, confusion seized our synapses. First, we found this isn’t just a matter of pandemic policies or a Trump-era triumph. This set of states has been hiring faster for the entire decade for which we have data.

And now we get into the “let’s find a way to make it seem as if red states aren’t actually better” mode

More perplexingly, we found that faster hiring hasn’t translated to faster job growth. When we ran the payroll numbers, the typical red state wasn’t adding jobs any faster than the typical blue one.

See? Reasons. They have Reasons. But, consider that Blue states just lost 5 House seats, and the outward migration from California and NY continues. Washington and Oregon are starting to see a big trend away. It’s not just people blowing out of Portland and Seattle to the outskirts. The WP can spin it all they want, they can yammer about lower wages in Red states, less unions, etc, but, Red states have much more attractive hiring standards, a lower cost of living, and are more business friendly.

Now we’re kicking the question to you: What else might explain the relationship?

Loony lefty policies.

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Arnold Really Wants To Change The Name Of ‘Climate Change’

By William Teach May 29, 2023 – 4:18 pm

Hasn’t the climate cult already changed it multiple times? This from a guy with a massive carbon footprint. Seriously, how much in the way of fossil fuels was used to make his new Netflix show FUBAR? All the planes, autos, and helicopters?

Arnold Schwarzenegger Wants to ‘Rephrase’ Climate Change: ‘No One Gives a S–t About That’

Arnold Schwarzenegger wants a rebrand on climate change, arguing that reframing the climate crisis towards pollution might make a stronger draw for people to mobilize for the planet.

“As long as they keep talking about global climate change, they are not gonna go anywhere, because no one gives a s–t about that,” Schwarzenegger told CBS News. “So my thing is, let’s go and rephrase this and communicate differently about it and really tell people we’re talking about pollution. Pollution creates climate change, and pollution kills.”

Except, CO2 is not a pollutant, it’s a trace gas necessary for life on Earth. And, come on, the Cult of Climastrology has already been yammering on about “carbon pollution” for at least a decade.

Having recently hosted the Austrian World Summit, a conference that aims to decrease the impact of climate change that the former California governor has hosted for eight years, Schwarzenegger has focused his “crusade” against the climate crisis for this chapter of his life.

“I’m on a mission to go and reduce greenhouse gases worldwide, because I’m into having a healthy body and a healthy Earth,” Schwarzenegger said. “That’s what I’m fighting for, and that’s my crusade.”

During this year’s Austrian World Summit that took place earlier this month at Vienna’s Hofburg Palace, Schwarzenegger reiterated his call to action to boost sustainability in an effort to tamper down greenhouse gases.

I’ll bet not one reporter asked Arnold how he travelled to Austria. Anyhow, what does he want to call it? He never says.

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If All You See…

By William Teach May 29, 2023 – 1:00 pm

…is the wonderful flag of the United States and remember all the men and women who defend the nation with their lives, you might just be a patriot

The blog of the day is Don Surber, with a post on the media protecting Satanists.

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Gender Confused In Tennessee Live In Fear From New Law Or Something

By William Teach May 29, 2023 – 10:30 am

Once again, they’re really telling us what they do in their acts: perform in a sexually adult manner, which is entirely inappropriate for children to witness. Minors cannot go to strip clubs, bars, or adult “bookstores”, and, as we kept seeing in video, the trans performers were no different

Tennessee Law Sows Fear Among Drag Performers Before Pride Month

Renae Green-Bean had started taking precautions in public even before the Tennessee legislature approved a law in March limiting where “adult cabaret” can be performed.

Green-Bean had watched the uptick in legislation restricting LGBTQ rights and worried that restaurant nights with her wife, children or grandchildren, or her preference for masculine attire and closely cropped hair, would invite harassment. So she could not help but worry that the new law would make her feel less safe pursuing her creative outlet: throwing on a bedazzled jacket several nights a week and transforming into El Rey, a drag king.

If a federal judge allows the law to take effect in the coming weeks, it will ban what it defines as adult cabaret performances, including by “male or female impersonators,” on public property or anywhere children could view them. It will not stop the shows that Green-Bean, 46, puts on at an adults-only club in Clarksville and other clubs near the Kentucky border.

“Adults-only.” Would it be acceptable to have a women wearing the clothes she wears during her stripper routine perform for kids? Or one of those Chippendales? Would parents be OK with them reading sexually explicit material to children? No. And none really try. They leave the kids alone. Why is it that the gender confused intentionally target children?

Still, she and other performers said, being seen in drag anywhere in public feels far riskier now. The law and others like it come as far-right activists have increasingly targeted drag shows across the country, with members of the Proud Boys and other protesters, sometimes heavily armed, appearing at the shows and at library story hours when drag performers read books to children.

“There is a scare factor,” Green-Bean said of the law, “because they’ve given people the right to be hateful.”

No one really cares if a guy is wandering around in women’s clothes: they care when they’re wearing not much and dancing sexually in front of children. Just let kids be kids and stop pushing your adult agenda on them

Despite that growing visibility in mainstream culture, many people supporting anti-drag bills — which have been debated in more than a dozen states this year — consider drag performances too mature for young people or in direct conflict with deep religious values and maintain that they need to draw the line.

The most vocal critics of drag have characterized it as invariably sexual. But as audiences have broadened, many drag artists say they have adapted their performances, making them appropriate for drag brunches and public events like Pride parades when children might be present.

Did they do away with adult material, actions, clothes, etc? Then they won’t violate the law. They’re literally telling us that their performances were wrong for children.

Testifying in favor of Tennessee’s measure this year, Adam Dooley, pastor of the Englewood Baptist Church in Jackson, said that while adults “have every right” to see a drag performance, “they do not have a right to insist that children be present, and frankly, I question whether there is some sinister motive that would drive the demand for children to be present.”

Opponents of the law and others like it say that they echo a decades-old anti-LGBTQ smear by suggesting that performers prey on children.

They have been preying on children. They want children to attend, they want specific programs for children, and this whole thing exploded as a fad. A dangerous one, which has long lasting effects on children. The right of adults to see this is protected. And children are being protected from being exploited and groomed.

Meanwhile

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Scientists Finding 5,000 Sea Species Is A Bad Sign

By William Teach May 29, 2023 – 7:00 am

How could it be bad? Leaving it to the Washington Post (free at Yahoo)

Scientists detected 5,000 sea creatures nobody knew existed. It’s a warning.

There are bright, gummy creatures that look like partially peeled bananas. Glassy, translucent sponges that cling to the seabed like chandeliers flipped upside down. Phantasmic octopuses named, appropriately, after Casper the Friendly Ghost.

And that’s just what’s been discovered so far in the ocean’s biggest hot spot for future deep-sea mining.

To manufacture electric vehicles, batteries and other key pieces of a low-carbon economy, we need a lot of metal. Countries and companies are increasingly looking to mine that copper, cobalt and other critical minerals from the seafloor.

A new analysis of the Clarion-Clipperton Zone, a vast mineral-rich area in the Pacific Ocean, estimates there are some 5,000 sea animals completely new to science there. The research published Thursday in the journal Current Biology is the latest sign that underwater extraction may come at a cost to a diverse array of life we are only beginning to understand.

“This study really highlights how off the charts this section of our planet and this section of our ocean is in terms of how much new life there is down there,” said Douglas McCauley, an ocean science professor at the University of California at Santa Barbara who was not involved in the study.

It also underscores a conundrum of so-called clean energy: Extracting the raw material needed to power the transition away from fossil fuels has its own environmental and human costs.

So, see, on one hand the same climate cult that works for places like the Washington Post demands that all you peasants drive electric vehicles, that you be forced into them and out of fossil fueled vehicles. On the other side of the coin they tell us how bad it is to do the things necessary to make the EVs. So, guess you’re walking!

It’s actually a very interesting article in terms of the potential life in the deep sea, leading to

That biodiversity has led over 700 marine science and policy experts to call for a pause on mining approvals “until sufficient and robust scientific information has been obtained.” Too little is known, they say, about how mining may hurt fisheries, release carbon stored in the seabed or put plumes of sediment into the water. Old underwater mining test sites show little sign of ecological recovery.

Say, you know we could opening up mining on land, right? In places like deserts, where we already know all that’s there, right? Anyhow, I’m getting the idea that clean green energy isn’t particularly environmentally friendly.

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NY Times Says Drivers Will Catch A Break This Memorial Day Weekend Or Something

By William Teach May 29, 2023 – 6:45 am

The Times wants you down on your knees thanking Biden and the Democrats (available at Yahoo without paywall)

Gasoline Prices, a Source of Pain Last Year, Have Come Way Down

Americans who fill up their cars this Memorial Day weekend will catch a break — at least compared with a year ago, when gasoline prices were soaring.

The national average price for regular gasoline is a full dollar a gallon lower than a year ago. Drivers paid over $4.60 in May 2022, and prices had reached $5 by the second week of June. This week, they paid just over $3.50 a gallon for regular gasoline, according to AAA, the motor club.

Many energy experts said they expected prices to stay around these levels for much of the summer, barring a major disruption to global oil supplies.

What was it in May 2021, as the Biden economy kicked in? $3.07, which is a bit higher than 2018 and 2019. 2020 was an aberration at $1.96. It was $2.40 when Trump left office. So, anyhow, you’re supposed to be thrilled that it is $3.50 now. Seriously, bow, peasants!

Because gasoline prices are posted on street corners on big colorful signs, they can have a powerful psychological impact on consumers, especially on middle- and lower-income people who tend to drive older, less fuel-efficient vehicles and spend a larger proportion of their income on energy than affluent people.

“Who wouldn’t be happy to save the money?” said Eddie White, 46, who uses his pickup truck to make deliveries and offer rides through Uber. Filling up at least once a day, White, who lives in the Houston area, said he was saving roughly $420 a week. He is using that money to pay for classes that will help him become an insurance adjuster.

“Save money.” So, if I double your costs, then give you a 30% break, you’ll be happy, right?

Prices spiked last year after Russia invaded Ukraine in February. Oil traders had expected Russian exports to fall because of the sanctions imposed on the country by the United States and its allies in response to the invasion.

Still pushing this garbage, eh? Yes, yes, the price of oil is set internationally, so, it can cause problems here in the U.S. even though we get virtually no oil from Russia. However, prices were already going up prior to the Russian invasion.

Patrick De Haan, the head of petroleum analysis for GasBuddy, a company that tracks gas prices, said he expected the national average price for regular gas to stay under $4 a gallon this summer. He estimated that consumers would spend $1.6 billion less than last year on gasoline over Memorial Day weekend. The Energy Department recently estimated that the average national price for gasoline this summer would be $3.40 a gallon, about 20% lower than last year.

But, that’s about $1.6 billion more than when Trump was president. Which also means food and goods are much more. Hooray!

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