…is bright sunshine burning up the Earth, you might just be a Warmist
The blog of the day is Flopping Aces, with a post on the special prosecutor for Hunter Biden.
Doubleshot below the fold, check out Geller Report, with a post on LA schools having sex clubs for children.
Read: If All You See… »
Let’s say you’re trying to enter the grounds of the White House illegally by climbing over the fence, and you fall off of it and hurt yourself: is this your fault or would you sue? If you sued, would the lawsuit be dismissed because you were trying to enter illegally? Heck, you would have been arrested and in trouble. Fences and walls are up for a reason. They are meant to keep people out of places they shouldn’t be. Hence why Biden is having a fence put around his beach house, why Pelosi has a wall around her house, and so many other illegal aliens supporting Democrats have them around their own homes
CBP sued by family of migrant who died after falling from border wall
The family of a man who died after falling from a border wall near the Otay Mesa Port of Entry has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the federal government.
Joel Reyes Muñoz’s wife filed the lawsuit, saying her husband’s death remains a mystery.
On Jan. 12, 2022, in his third border crossing attempt, Muñoz fell from the 30-foot wall between Tijuana and San Diego, but according to the lawsuit, he would have survived if Border Patrol had provided him with medical attention instead of deporting him. The lawyer says an hour passed between his fall and his death.
“That was his purpose, to go to the United States and be able to help his children because he wanted them to continue studying,” Leticia Durán Martínez told Telemundo 20.
His third attempt at entering the United States illegally over a 30 foot wall. This is on him, but, I’m sure the suit was filed in a friendly court.
Only 20% of Mexicans were hospitalized in 2022 as a result of their attempted border crossing and suffered injuries unrelated to the wall. About 80% suffered more serious injuries when falling from the border fence.
Don’t climb it. It’s not hard to understand. Democrats, and some squishy Republicans, have enabled and driven this behavior with their support of illegal immigration.
Migrants take the U.S. to court over its glitchy asylum app
It has been more than half a century since U.S. immigration laws were written to enshrine the right to apply for asylum at any port of entry to the country. But a new lawsuit argues that today, the right to seek safe haven from persecution is only accessible to people who show up at America’s doorstep with a working smartphone in hand.
Since May, migrants on the Mexico side of the U.S.-Mexico border who are hoping to apply for asylum have been required to make their asylum appointments through a mobile phone app operated by U.S. Customs and Border Patrol, known as CBP One. The new system has effectively oriented the first — and for many, the most urgent — stage of the asylum process around a digital tool that is, by many accounts, glitchy and unreliable.
On July 27, immigrants’ rights groups filed a class action lawsuit against the Biden administration over its use of the app, setting the stage for a legal showdown over the government’s decision to shift the first stage of the asylum application process into the realm of automation.
Good grief. Biden tried to do illegals a solid by making it easier to apply, meaning they will get to come to the U.S. and hang for years while waiting for their day in court (and disappear when they are denied asylum, like 90% are), and they sue? How about they just stay home? Maybe the U.S. should start using all this money to take care of Americans.
Read: Guy Trying To Enter U.S. Illegally Sues CBP After Falling From Wall »
Remember this
Washington Post owner and private jet-flying climate hypocrite Jeff Bezos announced plans to give most of his net worth to battling climate change in a fawning interview with CNN Business. https://t.co/bRaGAlQWsF
— Climate Dispatch (@ccdeditor) November 15, 2022
And now for something completely different
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos buys home in Miami’s ‘billionaire bunker.’ Tom Brady will be his neighbor
Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon, is buying an estate on an exclusive man-made barrier island in Miami known as “Billionaire Bunker,” where he will be neighbors with a growing list of celebrities including Tom Brady, Ivanka Trump and her husband, Jared Kushner.
Bezos, 59, is paying $68 million for the three-bedroom, waterfront home, which sits on 2.8 acres (1.1 hectares), Fortune magazine and Bloomberg reported. The Amazon founder stepped down as CEO in 2021 to devote more time to philanthropy and other projects.
Guillermo Olmedillo, the village manager of Indian Creek Village, told The Associated Press he has no information about the purchase. The village has a country club and its own police force.
Let’s look at the elevation data
I guess he’s not particularly concerned with sea rise from ‘climate change’, eh?
Read: Jeff Bezos Purchase Expensive House In Super Flooding Miami Area »
It’s CNN Business, so, maybe they’re more free to tell the truth?
US inflation means families are spending $709 more per month than two years ago
US inflation has had a snowballing effect on family budgets.
The typical American household spent $709 more in July than they did two years ago to buy the same goods and services, according to Moody’s Analytics.
That figure underscores the cumulative impact high inflation has had on consumer finances — even as price growth has cooled considerably in recent months.
“Price growth”. If I’m raising your cost of a product 20 cents every month for 2 years, and only raising it 5 cents a month now, it’s still going up after going up a lot
“High inflation of the past 2+ years has done lots of economic damage,” Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody’s Analytics, wrote in a post on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter.
Most of that increase in spending is driven by housing costs, which have surged, Zandi told CNN in an email on Friday. He added that families are also spending more at the grocery store; on buying, maintaining and insuring vehicles and on recreational services like cable.
Even though prices have soared, real earnings, which adjust for inflation, are stuck at late 2019 levels.
“Real earnings remain below what they would have been if not for the pandemic and the Russian war, which is weighing on the collective psyche,” Zandi told CNN in an email on Friday.
WTF does the Ukraine-Russia conflict have to do with this? Does anyone think it is causing people to not make as much? Possibly one of the dumbest things I’ve read today. Maybe this month.
Looking at just the last year, Zandi calculates that the typical household spent $202 more this July than they did a year ago to buy the same goods and services.
That’s significant, but it’s still below the peak of $536 for this year-over-year metric — a record hit back June 2022, when gas prices spiked above $5 a gallon for the first time.
But, how much more were they paying in July 2022 vs 2021 vs 2020 vs 2019? $500 or so?
And not one mention of Joe Biden. Imagine this was happening under Trump: he would named in almost every single paragraph.
Read: CNN Notices How Bidenflation Is Crushing Family Finances »
Obviously, a 1.5F increase in the global temperature since 1850 has made things super dangerous
The temperature the human body cannot survive
Scientists have identified the maximum mix of heat and humidity a human body can survive.
Even a healthy young person will die after enduring six hours of 35-degree Celsius (95 Fahrenheit) warmth when coupled with 100 percent humidity, but new research shows that threshold could be significantly lower.
At this point sweat — the body’s main tool for bringing down its core temperature — no longer evaporates off the skin, eventually leading to heatstroke, organ failure and death.
This critical limit, which occurs at 35 degrees of what is known “wet bulb temperature”, has only been breached around a dozen times, mostly in South Asia and the Persian Gulf, Colin Raymond of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory told AFP.
None of those instances lasted more than two hours, meaning there have never been any “mass mortality events” linked to this limit of human survival, said Raymond, who led a major study on the subject.
So, it doesn’t happen often or long, at least during the Modern Warm Period. We have no way of knowing about it during the previous Holocene warm periods. But, good news, things are actually much, much worse
But extreme heat does not need to be anywhere near that level to kill people, and everyone has a different threshold depending on their age, health and other social and economic factors, experts say.
Surely they’ll tell us what that temperature is, right?
The theorised human survival limit of 35C wet bulb temperature represents 35C of dry heat as well as 100 percent humidity — or 46C at 50 percent humidity.
To test this limit, researchers at Pennsylvania State University in the United States measured the core temperatures of young, healthy people inside a heat chamber.
They found that participants reached their “critical environmental limit” — when their body could not stop their core temperature from continuing to rise — at 30.6C wet bulb temperature, well below the previously theorised 35C.
The team estimated that it would take between five to seven hours before such conditions would reach “really, really dangerous core temperatures,” Daniel Vecellio, who worked on the research, told AFP.
OK, then get your ass inside. It’s the 21st Century, we have measures to deal with this. Also, we’re doomed at 87F. Also, notice the use of estimated and theorized. They didn’t actually run through the testing. Further, the whole line about “everyone has a different threshold.” It’s all about the scaremongering. And the sweet, sweet, government cash for the study.
Certainly not the hottest July in the US:
July 2023 (1.71°F warmer than the 1991-2000 average) was cooler than July 2006 (2.24°F warmer), July 2012 (2.112°F warmer) and July 2022 (2.077°F warmer).
If every emission warms the planet, then why was July 2023 0.53°F cooler than… pic.twitter.com/ewtAKg3ath
— Steve Milloy (@JunkScience) August 3, 2023
Read: Doom Today: This Is The Temperature Humans Cannot Survive »
…is a rising sea because Other People drive fossil fueled vehicles, you might just be a Warmist
The blog of the day is Dissecting Leftism, with a post not feeling well. Hang in there, JR!
Read: If All You See… »
There are still people invested in continuing COVID-19 as a big thing. Most people have abandoned the COVID cult at this point. Not many wear masks (and half of those are wearing them improperly and/or wearing a mask that makes zero difference) anymore, though I do enjoy the tweets about
Tonight, I tested positive for COVID-19. I have no symptoms and I will continue to isolate. I’m grateful to be both vaccinated and boosted
— Reda (@RedaMor_) August 6, 2023
Isn’t the whole point about getting vaxxed and boosted to not get Wuhan flu? Because there are lots and lots of tweets like this. And along comes the NY Times (also available at Yahoo News)
Don’t Get Your Next COVID Booster Quite Yet
An uptick in COVID-19 cases and the fast-approaching new school year have many people wondering when they should get their next booster. The short answer, according to experts: not quite yet — you will be a lot better off if you wait another month or two.
In June, an advisory panel to the Food and Drug Administration recommended that the next COVID vaccine formulation target the omicron XBB.1.5 variant.
Pfizer, Moderna and Novavax are now working to update, test and mass-produce their vaccines, which will then need to be officially authorized by the FDA. Experts estimate that shots will be available to the public by late September or early October.
Did anyone else read “mass-produce” as “mass-profit”?
There are two main reasons to hold out for the updated vaccine. First, it will be a better match for the variants that are currently circulating.
The second reason to wait a month or two for the new vaccine is that it will increase the odds that your defenses against the virus will be strongest when cases are expected to peak, historically between December and February. Antibodies wane over time, and protection is highest during the first three months after an infection or vaccination.
In other words, the power of the “vaccine” doesn’t last long. But, we’ll still be seeing social media post about people being “grateful to be vaxxed and boosted” as they catch COVID
COVID-19 is ‘heating up all around’ this summer. Should we be wearing masks again?
The uptick in coronavirus transmission this summer has not brought major alarm from health experts.
But it is raising questions about whether the risks are high enough to go back to safety measures that many have abandoned.
Most people have stopped wearing masks and aren’t likely to follow suggestions to return to that practice all the time again.
Would those be the safety measures that really made no difference, as COVID cases and deaths surged in 2021 despite all the vaccines, forced masking, forced staying home, and all the other crazy. Even in the People’s Republik Of California (it’s an LA Times article) the Comrades have mostly abandoned masks. Heck, even those mass stealing from drug stores do not bother. People have moved on.
Read: NY Times Says To Hold Off On Your 9th Wuhan Flu Booster Shot »
Realistically, it matters not whether the current warm period is mostly/solely caused by Mankind or mostly/solely caused by nature. It’s the responses from the climate cult are the issue
Scientist admits the ‘overwhelming consensus’ on the climate change crisis is ‘manufactured’
We are told climate change is a crisis, and that there is an “overwhelming scientific consensus.”
“It’s a manufactured consensus,” climate scientist Judith Curry tells me.
She says scientists have an incentive to exaggerate risk to pursue “fame and fortune.”
She knows about that because she once spread alarm about climate change.
The media loved her when she published a study that seemed to show a dramatic increase in hurricane intensity.
And when there were criticisms of her work, she did research and realized that the science was a bit off, and that all the other Warmists, including the politicians and media didn’t care, they just wanted the fear.
Then the Climategate scandal taught her that other climate researchers weren’t so open-minded.
Alarmist scientists’ aggressive attempts to hide data suggesting climate change is not a crisis were revealed in leaked emails.
“Ugly things,” says Curry.
“Avoiding Freedom of Information Act requests. Trying to get journal editors fired.”
It made Curry realize that there is a “climate-change industry” set up to reward alarmism.
It’s a good article based on the discussion with Curry, and, perhaps you’ve noticed that she gets barely any airplay for years now? Because she is attempting to do science, not be a cult activist, so, no one in the cult will listen. Scientists are corrupted
Then she answers her own question: “Promote the alarming papers! Don’t even send the other ones out for review. If you wanted to advance in your career, like be at a prestigious university and get a big salary, have big laboratory space, get lots of grant funding, be director of an institute, there was clearly one path to go.”
Look, even if the warming is mostly caused by Mankind, why is everything linked to it, and why is it always Doom? I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, it’s a way for people to give up their money and freedom.
If Curry thought she was blackballed (greenballed?) before, wait till they get a load of this interview.
Read: Warmist Judith Curry Admits ‘Climate Change’ Is A Manufactured Crisis »
Let’s ship a bunch to places like Beverly Hills, Martha’s Vineyard, and Rehoboth Beach, to go with places like Chicago, Portland, LA, SCNY, Boston, etc
Joe Biden’s Deputies Create Border Loophole for Millions of ‘Stateless’ Migrants
President Joe Biden’s pro-migration border chief is opening a new loophole for millions of foreigners who say they are “stateless.”
“All over the world, people who are stateless live with fear and uncertainty … With this historic step, stateless individuals will be given the opportunity to apply for [U.S.] immigration protections and benefits,” said Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.
Mayorkas’s statement said that there are “approximately 218,000 people residing in the United States who are potentially at risk of statelessness”
But the Department of State reported, “At the end of 2021, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees … counted 4.3 million stateless persons worldwide but estimated that the actual number may be over 10 million due to underreporting.”
Much like the changes to the asylum laws, this will entice people from all over the world to stream to the United States and declare that they are “stateless”, and, Democrats being Democrats (and some squishy pro-unfettered migration Republicans) they’ll accept this with barely an argument, and demand that these folks be given money, housing, healthcare, jobs, etc, oh, and citizenship so they vote Democrat. Democrats do not care about these people, they only care that they vote Democrat.
Read: Brandon Regime Finds Another To Let In More “Migrants” »
New White House funding request:
$24 billion for Ukraine
$4 billion for US border/fentanyl/immigrationThoughts? https://t.co/ndsn4KiV4n
— Bill Melugin (@BillMelugin_) August 10, 2023
Shows you where his priorities are, and it’s not the U.S.
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