Climate Cult Fail: Wind Farm Being Dismantled To Expand Coal Mine

By William Teach October 28, 2022 – 7:00 am

Germans, and German politicians, are realizing that Wind just cannot provide them with the power they need to heat their homes this winter. Unfortunately, they have to look towards coal, which I am not a fan of, as I’ve stated numerous times. But, trying to get natural gas at this time wouldn’t work, they need power now

Wind farm in Germany is being dismantled to expand coal mine

A wind farm in Germany is being dismantled to expand the Garzweiler lignite mine. One of eight turbines installed at the location in 2001 has already been removed. Nevertheless, the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia said it would phase out coal by 2030, as did RWE, the company that owns the mine.

Wind turbines near the Garzweiler open pit mine in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, run by German energy giant RWE, is being removed to make way for more lignite exploitation. (snip)

The court in the German town of Münster ruled this year in favor of expanding the mine. Climate activists opposed to the plans called the decision cynical and hypocritical.

The court found that no alternative surface mines would meet the necessary demand for lignite. Security of supply is currently the priority while “climate protection remains one of the key challenges of our time,” RWE pointed out and declared it seeks to support both, the article adds.

Wind just cannot provide the power for the heating that’s necessary. Maybe one day. But, if the climate activists love it so much, let them put turbines up in their back yards, see if that provides the heat for the winter.

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Bummer: Schumer Tells Biden That Georgia Is Going Down

By William Teach October 28, 2022 – 6:45 am

What a shame. Of course, did Biden actually understand Chuck?

Schumer caught on hot mic telling Biden that Georgia’s Senate race ‘going downhill’ for Dems

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer was overheard Thursday telling President Biden that the potentially pivotal race for U.S. Senate in Georgia appeared to be “going downhill” for Democrats.

“The state where we’re going downhill is Georgia,” Schumer said in a candid conversation on a New York airfield tarmac with the president, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul and Sen. Kirsten Gilibrand, D-N.Y., that was filmed by the Washington Post. “It’s hard to believe that they will go for Herschel Walker.”

According an aggregate polling average compiled by the website FiveThirtyEight, Georgia’s incumbent Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock currently holds a slight 1.7% point lead over Walker, the Republican nominee. The trend line in recent polls, however, shows Walker ahead in recent surveys, despite allegations brought by two women that Walker, who has been outspoken during the campaign about his opposition to abortion, paid for them to get undergo the procedure.

According to Real Clear Politics, Walker is up by .6 and rising. And RCP is a bit more trustworthy that 538. Most likely, Walker will win by a lot more, because people are concerned with the economy, with the cost of food on the table, energy for their cars and homes, and clothes for the kids.

Then there’s this chump

Beasley never says what poll this is from. Perhaps it’s the Media Matters or Daily Kos poll? While she’s gained ground, she’s never led, and the RCP average is Budd by 4.5. So, he’ll probably win by 7.

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Your Fault: Earth Is At Code Red From Hotcoldwetdry

By William Teach October 27, 2022 – 3:00 pm

How dare you!

The Scientist’s Warning: Climate Change Has Pushed Earth To ‘Code Red’

An international team led by Oregon State University researchers says in a report published today that the Earth’s vital signs have reached “code red” and that “humanity is unequivocally facing a climate emergency.”

In the special report, “World Scientists’ Warning of a Climate Emergency 2022,” the authors note that 16 of 35 planetary vital signs they use to track climate change are at record extremes. The report’s authors share new data illustrating the increasing frequency of extreme heat events and heat-related deaths, rising global tree cover loss because of fires, and a greater prevalence of insects and diseases, thriving in the warming climate. Food insecurity and malnutrition caused by droughts and other climate-related extreme events in developing countries are increasing the number of climate refugees. (snip)

“As we can see by the annual surges in climate disasters, we are now in the midst of a major climate crisis, with far worse to come if we keep doing things the way we’ve been doing them,” Wolf said.

Code red, people! We need to stop doing the things we’re doing! Well, you have to be forced to do things differently, not the climate cultists, who won’t do those things voluntarily

(BBC) There is “no credible pathway” to keep the rise in global temperatures below the key threshold of 1.5C, according to a bleak new UN assessment.

Scientists believe that going beyond 1.5C would see dangerous impacts for people all over the world.

The report says that since COP26 last year, governments carbon cutting plans have been “woefully inadequate”.

Only an urgent transformation of society will avoid disaster, the study says.

Transformation, eh? Care to explain what that means, exactly? Of course not, they really do not want you to know what the Elites have planned

Meanwhile

GM says it’s ready to power all its US facilities with renewable energy by 2025

General Motors is on track to secure 100 percent of the electricity it needs to power all of its US facilities with renewable energy by 2025. On Wednesday, the automaker announced it recently finalized the sourcing agreements it needs to make that feat a reality. The announcement puts GM on track to meet the most recent renewable energy target it set for itself late last year. Previously, the company had planned to power all of its US facilities with renewables by 2030. GM claims its accelerated transition will allow it to avoid producing an estimated 1 million metric tons of carbon emissions between 2025 and 2030.

As of today, GM’s energy portfolio includes sourcing agreements with 16 renewable energy plants across 10 states. The company is also working on increasing the efficiency of its factories and offices, as well as building out its on-site power generation capabilities.

Good luck. I wonder Engadget, or anyone else who published this, will follow up in 2025 and see how GM is doing? If they’re even getting close, it will mean higher prices for their vehicles, and the employees not getting the heat and AC necessary. Also, fewer vehicles, because they won’t be able to run the plants at night. Oh, and you can bet they’ll move more plants to Mexico.

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If All You See…

By William Teach October 27, 2022 – 1:00 pm

…is an evil gas powered stove, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is American Greatness, with a post on a judge overturning NYC’s vax mandate (it’s about time), telling the city they must rehire terminated employees and give them back pay.

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Elitist Seattle City Council Member Is Mad Police Doing Little Over Poop Attacks

By William Teach October 27, 2022 – 10:30 am

This is Kshama Sawant

(KIRO) Seattle City Councilmember Kshama Sawant revealed her proposal on Thursday for defunding the police department’s budget by an estimated $85 million, effective next month.

“Seattle’s movement is demanding that Seattle Police Department be defunded by at least 50%,” she said.

She backed defunding the police, BLM/Antifa riots, cashless bail, raising the threshold for theft cost, which leads to constant theft at stores now, and pretty much every hard left Socialist endeavor. And now?

Indian American lawmaker slams Seattle police for lack of probe on feces attacks

An Indian American lawmaker is calling out the Seattle Police Department for purportedly failing to investigate her report about an unidentified man who allegedly threw plastic bags filled with human excrement onto her property.

Kshama Sawant, a 49-year-old member of the Socialist Alternative party and the Seattle City Council since 2014, reported the incident after the suspect repeatedly threw the bags of feces in her yard starting this month – an attack she believes is potentially “politically motivated,” according to reports.

Sawant’s husband claimed to have reported the man to the police after the fourth incident on Oct. 8. Instead of launching an investigation, they reportedly told him, “What do you expect us to do?”

Citing a local TV station, The Siasat Daily reported that Seattle police also did not put a police detail outside Sawant’s home for protection.

Protection? From some bags of poop? Looks simply like peaceably protesting and petitioning for redress of grievance. Why would she need protection, when she wants the same taken from the citizens of Seattle?

“As a socialist City Council member who has participated in Black Lives Matter protests, I am being told that my case of six threatening incidents involving human excrement doesn’t merit even a serious investigation, let alone protection,” the City Council member, who is also an activist and an organizer, wrote to Mayor Bruce Harrell, Seattle Police Chief Adrian Diaz and the City Council.

No, it doesn’t. If she doesn’t want all those thefts from grocery, jewelry, and drug stores investigated, why should she get one? The police have better things to do than help out the elitist Socialist who hates them.

“[That] seems quite odd considering that hospital labs do tests on human fecal matter all the time,” Sawant said. “Most concerning is the very high likelihood that this extreme and hostile behavior is politically motivated. And could turn into more serious and dangerous harassment.”

You mean like the large number of homeless who harass citizens all the time, poop in the streets and in people’s yards? Why should you be different?

On Thursday, the police department released new details regarding the attack on Sawant’s home, including a few pictures of the suspect whom they described as an Asian man standing at around 5 feet and 4 inches tall.

“The department takes incidents involving public officials seriously, and investigators have canvassed for evidence, gathered information from witnesses and reviewed everything collected thus far,” the Seattle Police Department wrote. “At this time, the department has not found any evidence this case would meet the city or state standards for hate crime laws, but SPD will follow available leads should new information arise.”

They did the minimum necessary, because, unless he gets caught or someone turns him in, they aren’t going to spend a lot of time on this, especially when the police department is short on officers. But, this is what Sawant wanted, so, she can suck it up. Put some cameras out there, like the rest of us would. Besides, it’s just property damage, right?

Just super easy to identify him, right?

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Bummer: Doom Emmissions To Rise By 10.6% By 2030

By William Teach October 27, 2022 – 7:00 am

If every Warmist would just carbon neutral, giving up their own use of fossil fuels, making their own clothes, growing their own food, living in a tiny home, etc and so on, we could stop this, right?

Actions to limit climate change and avert disaster are falling far short, U.N. report says

When government representatives of nearly every nation in the world meet in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, on Nov. 6 to attend the next United Nations Climate Change Conference, also known as COP27, they will be gathering under a cloud.

It’s always interesting that every story around this time of year that mentions a COP fails to say “why are so many Warmists taking fossil fueled trips?” Perhaps we should start with ending these things, just doing them virtually

A new report from the U.N. finds that the pledges made to limit greenhouse gas emissions and avert the worst consequences of climate change are falling far short of their goal.

Only 24 of the 193 countries that signed on to a 2021 agreement reached at COP26 in Glasgow, Scotland, to “revisit and strengthen” their commitments this year have done so, the report concluded. A year ago, the world was on track for emissions to increase 13.7% from 2010 levels by 2030, according to an estimate in the 2021 NDC (nationally determined contributions) synthesis report from the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change. According to the NDC synthesis report released Wednesday, emissions will rise by 10.6% by 2030.

So, that’s good, right? 10.6 is less than 13.7

With less than two weeks to go before the next round of negotiations, the world’s nations remain far off the trajectory that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has said is necessary to avert catastrophic climate change: a 50% cut in emissions by 2030.

What’s the carbon footprint of all the people traveling to COP27? How about all the ‘climate change’ believing politicians and celebs and such? What if they all cut their travel using fossil fuels to zero?

The IPCC has found that limiting warming to 2.2 degrees Fahrenheit is necessary to prevent devastating effects of climate change that will usher in a series of dangerous feedback loops, such as massive rainforest dieback and glacial melting, resulting in even warmer temperatures. But the pledges made in Glasgow would only limit warming — which has already reached 1.1°C (2°F) — to 2.2°C if all the latest pledges are fulfilled and 2.7°C based on the current policies actually in place, according to the U.N. The latest synthesis report shows little improvement, as it finds the current national plans put the world on track for 2.1°C to 2.9°C warming by 2100.

What if this doesn’t happen? Who’s held responsible for this fearmongering?

For a small island nation like Barbados, the warming estimates in the new U.N. assessment present an existential threat.

“Two degrees is a death sentence,” the country’s prime minister, Mia Mottley, said in Glasgow.

Nope, not a doomsday cult at all.

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Arizona Governor Doubles Down On Shipping Containers At Border

By William Teach October 27, 2022 – 6:45 am

Biden already whined once at Arizona Gov Ducey once, telling him to remove the containers …. hey, when’s the last time Brandon or Kamala visited the actual border? … will he do it again?

Arizona governor puts more containers along Mexican border

The state of Arizona has begun installing shipping containers along another section of the U.S.-Mexico border to fill gaps that aren’t covered by a border wall.

The move announced by Republican Gov. Doug Ducey on Monday to install stacks of containers in Cochise County in south-eastern Arizona came two weeks after federal officials told him to remove containers he had placed along the border in southwestern Arizona.

Ducey sued in federal court on Friday, asking a court to allow the state to keep more than 100 double-stacked containers topped with razor wire in place near the community of Yuma, which sits near the California border. It also mentions U.S. Forest Service land where the new containers are being placed hundreds of miles (kilometers) to the east.

The containers near Yuma were placed in August to fill gaps in the border wall as Ducey ratcheted up political posturing against what he called the inaction of the Biden Administration in stopping migrants from entering the state from Mexico.

The new section of shipping containers is aimed at a 10-mile (16-kilometer) section of the border. Ducey said it would take more than 2,700 of the 60-foot-long (18-meter-long) shipping containers to fill the gap.

They aren’t foolproof, but, better than an open border, especially when Brandon and his Democrat Comrades keep essentially inviting people to just come to the U.S., promising money, housing, clothing, medical attention, and citizenship. Most border walls wouldn’t be necessary if every illegal would simply be deported, and any who want asylum would have to apply outside the U.S.

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Election Blowout Would Force Big Changes For Democrats Or Something

By William Teach October 26, 2022 – 3:00 pm

What kind of changes could you expect from a Red Wave?

Election Day rout would force big changes on Democrats

Democrats will call for big changes in their party if they lose control of Congress next month, which looks increasingly likely as polls show voters are worried about the economy and trust Republicans more than Democrats to handle inflation.

Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) is expected to retire if Democrats lose control of the House, which political handicappers say is very likely.

If Democrats lose big, it will ramp up pressure on House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) and Majority Whip James Clyburn (D-S.C.) to step down as well, say Democratic lawmakers and aides.

Many rank-and-file House Democrats view the top three leaders as “a package deal,” in the words of one Democratic lawmaker who requested anonymity.

Would that happen? Possibly. But, what would getting rid of the old guard mean after getting blown out?

If Republicans pick up 30 or more House seats and win control of the Senate by a comfortable margin, it will also fuel Democratic calls for President Biden not to run for reelection, according to political analysts and activists.

How about reconsidering their destructive left wing agenda?

“You may see a replica of what occurred in the Republican Party after the 2012 election with the so-called inquest. That would be kind of a deep dive into the reasons why the party suffered so badly and probably a cause for generational change, which will certainly redound to the detriment of President Biden running again,” Baker said.

What conclusions would an inquest draw? That they should moderate, or go even further towards the AOC/Tlaib/super leftist side?

Some Democratic strategists say the party needs to better address the hot-button issues of crime and illegal immigration, which Republican candidates have used to bludgeon their Democratic opponents this year.

“It’s more than the economy,” said Jim Kessler, executive vice president for policy at Third Way, a centrist Democratic think tank, and a former adviser to Schumer.

“I do think if we have a bad Election Day, we need to look at [how] voters view us on crime and immigration, first and foremost,” he added. “This is a place where Democrats had self-inflicted wounds. Defund the police, abolish ICE [Immigration and Customs Enforcement], that is a minority view among Democrats, but it was allowed to stay out there and fester.”

I think we all know how this will turn out: the more moderate, non-wackadoodle strategist, like a James Carville, will be blown off the hardcore wackjobs will take over and start pushing things even further out, wanting even more big government, more spending, more soft on crime, more transgender insanity, more screwing with the children, etc and so on. They’d triple down. It’s who they are.

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If All You See…

By William Teach October 26, 2022 – 1:00 pm

…is horrible heat snow because Other People refuse to pay carbon taxes, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is A View From The Beach, with a post revenge being a dish best served cold.

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Climahypocrites Of The Day: Ann Arbor Mayor Christopher Taylor, COP27 Attendees Whining About Coke

By William Teach October 26, 2022 – 10:30 am

This is a perfect example of what I’ve been saying since the early 2000’s, and one of the reasons I switched from anthropogenic global warming believer to Skeptic, namely, that those pushing this the hardest, the ones trying to use government authority on citizens, are climahypocrites

Michigan mayor installs gas line in home after pushing for citywide electrification

The mayor of Ann Arbor, Michigan, installed a new gas line and gas-powered fireplace in his home despite his push for the city to phase out fossil fuel usage and boost electrification.

City permits show Christopher Taylor, a Democrat who has served as mayor of the city since 2014, installed the gas line to hook up to his new fireplace earlier this year, MLive reported. Taylor has been a strong proponent of climate policies, including the so-called A2Zero carbon neutrality plan that calls on residents to buy electric vehicles, install solar panels and rely less on fossil fuels.

“Ann Arbor is not just a basic place. And so, it’s our pleasure to. And our drive to focus on affordability and equity and, you know, a moral imperative to take community climate action and sustainability,” Taylor told local radio station WEMU in August.

“I’ve knocked thousands of doors and talked to thousands of people, and people understand that we are in a climate crisis. They know that we can’t solve it alone. But they also know that it is our moral imperative to do our part.”

Ann Arbor’s government adopted the A2Zero plan in June 2020. Among its provisions, the plan asks residents to voluntarily electrify their homes, cutting off natural gas reliance.

See, he wants you to not only not install natural gas lines and appliances, he actually wants you to replace your gas appliances. Yet, you see what he did. It’s the norm with the ‘climate change’ big wigs.

COP27’s Coke sponsorship leaves bad taste with green groups

This year’s United Nations climate summit is brought to you by Coke.

Soft drink giant Coca-Cola Co.’s sponsorship of the flagship U.N. climate conference, known as COP27, sparked an online backlash and highlighted broader concerns about corporate lobbying and influence.

The COP27 negotiations aimed at limiting global temperature increases are set to kick off next month in the Red Sea resort town of Sharm el-Sheikh. The Egyptian organizers cited Coca-Cola’s efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and key focus on climate when they announced the sponsorship deal in September, which triggered immediate outrage on social media.

Activists slammed the company for its outsized role contributing to plastic pollution and pointed to the deal as an example of corporate “greenwash” — exaggerating climate credentials to mask polluting behaviors. An online petition calling for Coke to be removed as a sponsor has garnered more than 228,000 signatures, while hundreds of civil society groups signed an open letter demanding polluting companies be banned from bankrolling or being involved in climate talks.

How many of these Warmists complaining about Coke will take long, fossil fueled flights to the exotic vacation spot of Sharm el-Sheikh to attend COP27?

Critics say corporate involvement goes against the spirit of the meetings, where tens of thousands of delegates from around the world gather to hammer out global agreements on combating climate change to stop the earth from warming to dangerous levels. This year, the focus is on how to implement promises made at previous conferences, according to the Egyptian presidency.

How many of them will be drinking out out plastic bottles of water, tea, and soda? How many will fly in on private jets? How many will be using vast amounts of energy?

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