…is a tropical tree that will soon grow in Siberia, you might just be a Warmist
The blog of the day is The American Conservative, with a post on the National Air And Space Museum kicking out a bunch of Catholic high school kids for wearing beanies with pro-life messages.
Read: If All You See… »
Nothing better than paying federal employees to sit around at home and “work” rather than having them come back to the office and be supervised to sort of work, right?
205 Democrats vote against bill forcing federal workers to return to the office as COVID winds down
Nearly every House Democrat on Wednesday voted against a Republican bill requiring federal agencies to end their COVID-era telework policies and force federal workers to return to their offices.
Two hundred five Democrats voted against the Stopping Home Office Work’s Unproductive Problems Act, or the SHOW UP Act, and just three Democrats voted for it. The bill, which passed 221-206, would require federal agencies to return to the telework policies that were in place before the pandemic hit, and also require them to conduct an assessment of how nearly three years of telework affected the government’s productivity.
House Oversight and Accountability Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., said the legislation is needed because the liberal telework policy that has existed for nearly three years has eroded government service.
“Federal agencies are falling short of their missions,” Comer said on the House floor. “They are not carrying out their duties. They are failing the American people.”
“They have waited for months for their tax returns from the IRS,” he added. “They have waited for months for the Social Security administration to answer their questions and provide their benefits. Our veterans have even waited for months to get their medical records from the National Archives.”
You know the federal unions are fighting to keep their workers from coming back in, so, Democrats will back those unions.
Democrats rejected that argument and said telework has made the federal government more efficient.
“We strongly oppose this bill, which is an assault on all the progress we have made over the last several years in telework policy,” said Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., the top Democrat on the Oversight and Accountability Committee.
Most private companies returned to the office long ago. It’s high time that federal workers do so. The question now, can Republicans get a few Democrats to flip over and vote for the bill in the Senate?
Read: Democrats Vote Against Federal Employees Returning To Work »
Would you people just accept that you need to listen to your bettors and allow them to run your life already. Because this is all about Science
Society isn’t changing fast enough to stop climate change: study
A new report has found that significant social change is needed to halt catastrophic climate change — and society isn’t changing fast enough.
Keeping global warming below 1.5 degrees Celsius — the goal set in the Paris Agreement — is implausible for social reasons, not technical ones, according to the Hamburg Climate Outlook, published Wednesday. The annual publication from Germany’s University of Hamburg includes data from over 140 countries. (snip)
Instead, Marotzke and Engels’ study found that consumption patterns and corporate responses — as well as the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and the Russian invasion of Ukraine — slowed the elimination of carbon fuels and their replacement with zero-emission alternatives.
Instead, Marotzke and Engels’ study found that consumption patterns and corporate responses — as well as the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and the Russian invasion of Ukraine — slowed the elimination of carbon fuels and their replacement with zero-emission alternatives. (snip)
In that publication, two climate scientists using machine learning concluded that the world would breach the internationally agreed-upon goal of 1.5 degrees Celsius warming by 2033 to 2035.
Yeah, this is the silly AI study – basically still a computer model – and the authors decided to add their own little cult spin, meaning government has to force you to change your behavior.
The view of these scientists was essentially in line with the University of Hamburg’s findings: that attitudes and consumption habits, not technical factors, are the main engines pushing global society down its current path toward severe climate disruption.
It’s so strange that Warmists mostly refuse to voluntarily change their own behavior, isn’t it?
Read: Climate Cult’s Upset Society Isn’t Changing Fast Enough »
This should be fun
Republicans Are Set to Launch Biden Probe Hours After State of the Union
Hours after Joe Biden delivers his State of the Union Address to Congress, House Republicans will launch their promised investigation into alleged Biden family “influence peddling,” effectively nullifying any message of unity the president may deliver.
Wait, the Credentialed Media think Biden will have a message of unity? He may mention it, but, then he will attack Republicans. Like last time
Expected to testify at the Feb. 8 hearing are several former Twitter Inc. officials who Republicans believe were involved in efforts to restrict access to a 2020 New York Post article about business activities and other contents of a laptop purportedly owned by Hunter Biden, the president’s son, a person familiar said.
House Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer, in a recent interview, accused the Biden family of selling “access for profit around the world to the detriment of American interests.” The Kentucky Republican has previously said the Biden administration and Big Tech have worked together to “hide information about the Biden family’s suspicious business schemes and Joe Biden’s involvement.”
Biden has denied any knowledge of his son’s business dealings. Comer’s critics consider the investigation political revenge reminiscent of the GOP’s Benghazi probe that was targeted at injuring Hillary Clinton politically ahead of her 2016 presidential bid.
Like the utterly fake Russia collusion investigations? Except, there’s actual some proof that Biden was influence peddling with his coked up son.
This hearing next Wednesday will specifically jump right into a topic that has been a conservative sore point — alleged social media collusion to suppress information tied to Hunter Biden’s purportedly abandoned laptop, a damaged MacBook Pro, dropped off at a Delaware repair shop and never recovered.
Can’t wait for the media to either ignore it or protect Biden. 30 years ago reporters would have been investigating it themselves, looking for a Pulitzer.
Read: LOL: GOP House To Investigate Biden Right After State Of The Union »
If these businesses had any cajones, they’d be asking what the lawmakers in the People’s Republik of California are doing in their own lives
California lawmakers want corporations to ‘put their money where their mouth is’ on climate change
Some California state lawmakers want corporations to be held accountable when it comes to the state’s clean air goals and efforts to reduce the effects of climate change.
A group of Democratic state senators resurrected three bills that fell short last legislative session they say would improve transparency, standardize disclosures, align public investments with climate goals and raise the bar on corporate action to address the climate crisis.
“Making sure our state and businesses community are putting our money where all of our mouths are, which is in a direction of climate action,” said State Sen. Scott Wiener, a Democrat from San Francisco.Wiener reintroduced a measure that would require corporations that make more than $1 billion in revenue and that do business in California to start publicly disclosing their carbon emissions by 2026, including supply chain information, which lawmakers note make up the majority of a corporation’s emissions.
State Sen. Lena Gonzalez, a Democrat from Long Beach, reintroduced a measure to divest money from the state teachers’ and state public employees’ retirement systems away from the fossil fuels industry. Gonzalez said that amounts to about $11 billion dollars.
And what did these California climate cult Democrats, along with the others, do? Switch to EVs? Pay for solar panels for their homes? Downsize their homes? No more fossil fueled flights? Etc?
The California Chamber of Commerce opposed the bills last session.
“The private sector is committed to working to reduce factors that impact climate change,” said CalChamber President and CEO Jennifer Barrera. “However, it is critical that as policies are contemplated, there is an emphasis on balancing unnecessary costs and regulatory hurdles against measurable benefits. We look forward to working with policymakers to enact meaningful policies that protect jobs, encourage innovation and maintain growth.”
See? Rather than calling BS, daring these POC lawmakers to practice what they preach, they give a squishy response. It simply emboldens the Warmists to keep pushing. Speaking of the Chamber
EXCLUSIVE: Chamber Of Commerce Pledges Lawsuit Over ‘Outrageous’ Environmental Rule
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce will sue the Securities and Exchange Commission if it goes forward with a rule requiring companies to speculate about how climate change could impact their business models.
Some members of Congress and outside groups have trained heavy fire on the trade organization, long a fixture in GOP circles, over perceived support for left-wing social issues. Others have expressed frustration with the Chamber’s endorsement of over two dozen Democrats in the 2020 election cycle. Despite these objections, the business group remains in agreement with the GOP on a host of regulatory and legal issues, U.S. Chamber of Commerce Executive Vice President and Chief Policy Officer Neil Bradley told the Daily Caller in a recent interview.
Most notably, Bradley pledged to sue the SEC over the climate disclosure rule, should it ultimately go into effect.
The rule would nothing to mitigate anthropogenic climate change, but, it would give the government a lot more control and power over private companies, eh?
Read: Climahypocrite POC Lawmakers Want Businesses To Put Their Money Where Their Mouths Are (By Force) »
…is hazy air from an oversatured atmosphere from carbon pollution, you might just be a Warmist
The blog of the day is neo-neocon, with a post on expensive eggs.
Read: If All You See… »
Well, this should make the field interesting
South Carolina’s Nikki Haley to launch 2024 presidential campaign, joining Trump in nomination hunt
Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, who served as ambassador to the United Nations during former President Donald Trump’s administration, will join Trump in the race for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination.
Multiple sources confirm to Fox News Digital that Haley will formally declare her candidacy for the White House at an event in Charleston, South Carolina, on Feb. 15, with an invitation soon going out to her supporters. News of Haley’s announcement was first reported by the Post and Courier newspaper in South Carolina.
Political pundits have long viewed Haley as a potential GOP presidential contender, as she crisscrossed the country the past two years through her political group Stand for America, helping fellow Republicans running in the 2022 elections. Haley’s travels brought her numerous times to Iowa, New Hampshire, and Nevada, which hold the first, second and fourth contests in the Republican presidential nominating calendar. Haley’s home state of South Carolina votes third in the GOP primary schedule.
She will be a good candidate. She’s pretty conservative on her positions. Abortion nuts rate her a 0%. The NRA rates her 100%. Very much pro-business. Is against illegal immigration. She’s pro-environment but against the climate crisis scam. I’m sure the Bulwark, Lincoln Project, and other Never Trump groups/people will come out against her for serving under Trump, meaning she’s a great candidate.
Speaking with reporters aboard his plane on Saturday as he flew from a campaign speech in New Hampshire to a leadership kickoff in South Carolina, Trump said that Haley had called him to discuss running for the White House.
“Go by your heart if you want to run,” Trump said he told Haley. And he said he told her she “should do it.”
But then he appeared to take a dig at Haley, noting that she had previously “publicly” said she wouldn’t seek the White House in 2024 if Trump ran again.
So, yeah, now she’s going to have to deal with Trump’s attacks. Which is a problem, because, as I’ve said, if he doesn’t win the GOP primaries he’s going to burn everyone else down.
Oh, and
(Breitbart) Former Gov. Larry Hogan (R-MD) said Tuesday on FNC’s “Your World” that he was seriously considering running for president in 2024.
On the 2024 presidential election, anchor Neil Cavuto said, “There’s talk that you will be among those candidates. Is that true?”
Hogan said, “I’m certainly giving it serious consideration. We’ve been really successful 30 miles outside of Washington, where everything appears to be broken and nothing but dysfunction. I got them to cut taxing eight years in a row, and I had the biggest economic turnaround in America. But we’re taking a close look at it.”
He’d still be better than Biden or any Democrat, but, he’s also really squishy as a Conservative. He was popular in a squishy state like Maryland, but, he loved him some COVID lockdowns and restrictions, and, being a staunch, unhinged Never Trumper, that’s a decent sized number of Republicans who would not vote for him if he won the primaries. Which, he won’t. But, hey, who thought Trump would win in 2016? Or Romney in 2012? Boring John Kerry in 2004?
I’m not going to bother describing the vast amounts of fossil fuels Biden used to travel to NYC. You know all the planes and SUVs and limos and such. I will mention that Biden and his Comrades are working to get the world into WWIII with their support of Ukraine, which could lead to nuclear war
Biden calls global warming bigger threat to humanity than nuclear war during NYC speech
President Biden gave Manhattan donors an update on his thoughts about nuclear war Tuesday, saying that he currently views global warming as a greater threat — less than four months after he casually told a different set of New York City donors that the world was close to nuclear “Armageddon.”
“[Global warming] is the single most existential threat to humanity we have ever faced, including nuclear weapons,” Biden told a small group of supporters on the Upper East Side after headlining a rail infrastructure event nearby.
It’s unclear if the 80-year-old commander-in-chief elaborated on his reasoning. Reporters were only allowed to see part of Biden’s remarks, and video of the private event was not immediately available. (snip)
Despite warning of dire threats from global warming, Biden regularly takes fuel-guzzling helicopters to spend the weekend at his Delaware homes, where he’s passed nearly a quarter of his presidency. Some of his predecessors, such as former President Barack Obama, would stay at the White House on weekends, sparing the expense — and emissions — of multiple motorcades and flights.
Yes he does. A lot. And virtually no reporter will ask him why he’s fearmongering in this manner while use enormous amounts of fossil fuels.
On my watch, the great American road trip is going to be fully electrified.
And now, through a tax credit, you can get up to $7,500 on a new electric vehicle. pic.twitter.com/n3iZ9etL4A
— President Biden (@POTUS) January 30, 2023
Just like none will ask why Biden is pimping EVs and trying to force the peasants into them while traveling in a low MPG fossil fueled limo with around 18 fossil fueled SUVs in his motorcades. And that Hummer is around $110K, Every middle class person can afford that, right?
Read: Biden Takes Massive Fossil Fueled Trip To Say ‘Climate Change’ More Dangerous Than Nuclear War »
It’s too bad the judge didn’t ask the simple question “If guns are so bad, why are employees of the state of New Jersey not disarming, especially those who have fully automatic guns?”
Court blocks New Jersey law that allows state to sue gun industry
A federal judge on Tuesday blocked a New Jersey law authorizing the state’s attorney general to sue gun manufacturers and sellers for endangering public safety, finding it ran afoul of a federal law protecting the gun industry from such claims.
The preliminary order by U.S. District Judge Zahid Quraishi in Trenton, New Jersey, means the law cannot be enforced while the judge considers a legal challenge by the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF), a gun industry group. It comes a day after a different judge struck down parts of a separate gun control measure in the state.
“NSSF wholeheartedly welcomes this decision,” said Mark Oliva, a spokesperson for the group.
A spokesperson for New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy said the governor was disappointed and confident the order would be reversed on appeal.
Probably not. Would the State sue knife manufacturers for stabbings? How about bat manufacturers if someone was beaten with a bat? Sue Ford because a drunk driver killed someone? Manufacturers aren’t responsible when someone uses a product illegally. How about suing makers of unhealthy foods for heart attacks and other medical issues?
The now-blocked law, passed last June in the wake of a U.S. Supreme Court ruling expanding gun rights, allows the state attorney general to bring lawsuits accusing gun manufactures and sellers of creating a “public nuisance” that endangers health and safety – for example, through dangerous marketing or failing to prevent illegal trafficking.
Quraishi found that it was in “direct conflict” with the federal Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act of 2005 (PLCAA), which shields gun makers and sellers from being sued over crimes committed with guns they legally sold.
The law was passed simply to sue to cause gun makers and sellers to no longer due business in the state of NJ, meaning that law abiding citizens would have no lawful method of acquiring firearms for protect, hunting, or sporting, while criminals would feel free to arm up.
Read: Bummer: Federal Court Stops NJ From Suing Gun Industry »
Up till now, water was always a low priority of the Cult of Climastrology, though, it was a big part of the Progressive (nice Fascism) movement, because, controlling your water is controlling your life, hence why you had Obama trotting out the Waters of the US rule, and now Biden giving it a whirl. Have a pond on your property that may flood once in a blue moon so that runoff goes elsewhere? Los Federales then control your property. The climate cult has finally determined that controlling water is a great way to control you. And if you think I’m over-blowing this, you haven’t been paying attention to what the climate crisis (scam) is all about
How Water Finally Became a Climate Change Priority
Last year, the world watched as punishing heat and drought killed people in Asia and sub-Saharan Africa, and floods destroyed parts of Pakistan and the Philippines. This year, we’ve seen torrential rain drowning sections of coastal California. These events underscore the devastating role water can play in a changing climate, something I have been studying for the last two decades.
Between all these events I attended my first COP—the United Nations’ major climate change conference. My expectations here were mixed; in conversations with members of the water networks with whom I work, it was evident that we would have a lot of work to do to make it a more critical component of the climate negotiations process. Yet, to my joy and surprise, COP27 did just that—policy makers and advocates focused on, for likely the first time, the interactions between climate change and water. The international agreement (called the COP cover decision) that came out of the days of negotiations prioritized the need to focus on “water systems” and “water-related ecosystems in delivering climate adaptation benefits.” This agreement solidified the idea that water is a valuable resource that can help society become more resilient to the impacts of climate change.
This was a huge win. Talks at COP27 also reinforced the need for international cooperation to support countries and communities as they build water security—creating a reliable system in which society has enough clean water (not too much, not too little).
And who is in charge? Government, of course. Government that has no regard for you peasants. You elect them and they dictate your lives.
Water is complicated and simple at the same time. In the end, it’s about too much, too little, too poor quality in a particular place and time. A united voice for water accomplished something groundbreaking in November. We finally convinced the global political stage that the climate crisis is a water crisis. The real work starts now.
And what is the real work? Empowering government to control your water.
Read: Climate Cult Has Determined That Water Is A Climate Priority »
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