World Economic Forum Has Climate Friendly Gift Ideas For Christmas

By William Teach December 14, 2022 – 7:00 am

Obviously, the uber-rich and/or powerful folks in the WEF won’t be buying these. The ideas are simply for the peasants

6 sustainable gift ideas for the holiday period

During the holiday season that clusters around Christmas, people in nations across the globe give one another gifts and, whether countries have a Christian tradition or not, it’s become ever more commercial.

But as concern about the state of the planet grows, should we rethink the presents we give?

No.

So how can you get value for money and value for the planet when you go shopping for holiday season gifts?

Here are some more sustainable gift ideas to mark the festive season from the World Economic Forum’s innovation crowdsourcing hub UpLink.

  1. Vegan leather and clothes from 100% plant material
  2. Sustainable, responsibly sourced products from the Amazon (yeah, it doesn’t use fossil fuels to travel around the world, right?)
  3. Sustainable seaweed products (gross)
  4. Planting trees in Africa (the Cult has been pushing this for decades. How’s that working?)
  5. Helping restore the world’s coral reefs (in other words, give money while doing nothing)
  6. Push back the desert in the Sahel, Africa (things change)

Meanwhile, the WEF folks will be buying expensive luxury vehicles for their family members and taking long fossil fueled private jet flights to exotic vacations spots. Meanwhile

Christmas Cards – consumerist waste or meaningful tradition? – Ellen Jones, BHASVIC

Year upon year, I, among many others, enjoy a festive hour of carols whilst writing my annual pile of well-wishes. Not only does it serve as the perfect opportunity to evaluate your relationships – does that cousin you don’t remember meeting really make the cut? – but as a thoughtful, affordable way to tell someone you’re thinking of them at Christmastime. However, when the impending doom of climate change is upon us, how much help will these cheerful messages be?

Every single Christmas card you send is estimated to emit 140kg of carbon dioxide during production. Furthermore, 1 billion of these cards are likely to end in landfill after a few jolly weeks on the mantlepiece. The few wasted after I spelt names wrong are certainly coming back to haunt me now. Stepping away from the message of Christmas, it seems that producing masses of greenhouse gases and 1 billion wasted cards is nothing more than a nicely-wrapped example of consumerist habits fuelling the climate crisis.

Yet, for many, Christmas cards are more than that. It’s a way to keep in touch with old friends, share an annual photo of your children, and show your family you care. Receiving cards reminds people to call on a loved one, or perhaps just frantically try to recall if that was the person they knocked off the list or not! Whatever you feel about it, sending Christmas cards is a tradition many hold close to their hearts, and an opportunity to send a message a gift can’t quite convey.

But, taking into account, the permanent damage these festive fiends are causing for our planet, will you be sending Christmas cards this year? Perhaps the rising cost of living has already made the choice for you, or the upcoming postal strikes, as it has for many. And I’m sure some are glad of the excuse!

The Grinches are working hard this year.

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COVID Forever: Health “Experts” Say It’s Time To Wear A Mask Again

By William Teach December 14, 2022 – 6:45 am

Typically, these are the same people who this pronouncement while not wearing a mask. And, if they were really experts, they’d understand that viruses are small enough to get through even N95 masks

It’s Time to Wear a Mask Again, Health Experts Say

Masks are back, and, this time, they’re not just for COVID-19. A “tripledemic” of the coronavirus, influenza and respiratory syncytial virus, known as RSV, sweeping through the United States has prompted several cities and counties, including New York City and Los Angeles County, to encourage people to wear a mask in indoor public spaces once again.

Nationwide, COVID-19 case rates and hospitalizations have spiked by 56% and 24%, respectively, over the past two weeks. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that there have already been 13 million illnesses and 7,300 deaths from flu this season, and those numbers are expected to rise in the coming months. (Over the past decade, annual flu deaths have ranged from 12,000 to 52,000 people, with the peak in January and February.) And while RSV finally appears to be on the decline, infection rates are still high across much of the country.

The CDC officially advises wearing a mask on a county-by-county basis depending on community COVID-19 levels, which take into account virus-related hospital admissions, bed capacity and case rates. However, in an interview with NPR last week, Dr. Rochelle Walensky, the CDC director, said, “You don’t need to wait for CDC’s recommendation, certainly, to wear a mask.”

This Walensky?

Huh. No mask.

Dr. Helen Chu, an associate professor of allergy and infectious diseases at UW Medicine in Seattle, went a step further, recommending everyone wear a mask while infection and hospitalization rates are so high. “I think it’s a good time to mask,” she said. “Given where we are right now with hospitals being at very close to capacity, especially in pediatric hospitals with RSV and with flu, I think that anything that you can do to slow down community transmission is going to be helpful.”

There is strong evidence that masks help to reduce the transmission of several respiratory viruses. One paper published in 2020 by researchers in Hong Kong showed that people sick with either COVID-19 or the flu breathed out fewer viral particles when they were wearing a surgical mask. (Masks were found not to be as effective for the rhinovirus, though, which causes the common cold.) A study of COVID-19 policies in Boston-area schools found that removing a mask mandate in 2022 was tied to nearly 12,000 additional cases among students and staff.

And there are lots of studies that show masks have little to no effect in stopping COVID, the flu, or colds. And, the forced masking policies do not work. Of course, this is just a “recommendation”, which quickly turns into government mandates.

Let’s not forget, just as many people died once all the mask mandates were implemented as without, and more died during 2021 that 2020, even with the mask mandates and Wuhan flu vaccines.

The pro-mask compliance nuts also lost any good will with their over-the-top mandates, such as forcing people to wear a mask while inside and not near anyone else. Trying to push 2, and even three masks. Pushing people to wear an N95, then an N95 and a cloth mask under it. But, it was perfectly fine to take the mask off while eating, right? And perfectly fine for all the big wigs to not wear them.

None of this is actually about health: it’s about power and compliance.

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If All You See…

By William Teach December 13, 2022 – 1:00 pm

…is an area devoid of glaciers due to climate destruction, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Bookworm Room, with a post on the highly suspect timing of SBF’s arrest.

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Scientists Super Enthused Over Nuclear Fusion, Drag Climate Cult Beliefs Into Concern

By William Teach December 13, 2022 – 10:30 am

The potential for nuclear fusion is pretty cool, and would solve a lot of energy problems if they can make it work. It’s purely in entry level research mode, but, of course

Scientists hail nuclear fusion breakthrough but caution that climate change remains a crisis

The U.S. Department of Energy is set to announce Tuesday that researchers have produced a nuclear fusion reaction that creates a net energy gain, an important breakthrough in the search for a clean, affordable and potentially unlimited source of energy.

According to the Financial Times, which first reported the news on Sunday, the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, a federal research facility in Livermore, Calif., achieved net energy gain in an experiment during the last two weeks. The lab uses a process called inertial confinement fusion, in which a pellet of hydrogen plasma is bombarded by the world’s biggest laser. The process is highly energy-intensive, but in recent experiments it produced 120% as much energy as it consumed.

Scientists expressed excitement about the development, which several countries have pursued since the 1950s and have invested billions of dollars researching.

But, this is hyper-Warmist Ben Adler writing, and no matter the subject, the Cult of Climastrology must interject itself

The theoretical benefits of fusion reactions are enormous, as they create no conventional air pollution or planet-warming carbon dioxide. And unlike traditional nuclear reactors, which split atoms through a much less powerful process known as fission, fusion does not create long-lasting radioactive waste.

“The importance of this news cannot be overstated,” Leah Stokes, an environmental policy expert at the University of California, Santa Barbara, wrote on Twitter.

Yet applying the technology at commercial scale will be more difficult than performing a laboratory experiment, experts say.

“While we don’t have details yet, this could be an important step because fusion has potential as low-carbon generation with much less radioactive pollution than from conventional nuclear energy,” Matthew McKinzie, a nuclear physicist with the Natural Resources Defense Council, told Yahoo News in an email. “But we shouldn’t kid ourselves: Fusion as a source of electricity is a really, really hard problem, and it’s not yet clear how much of a breakthrough this is. One thing I am certain of is that we have to apply all the ready technology that we have today to the climate problem. We cannot wait decades for a source of power that isn’t yet proven to work.”

All your science revolves around climate apocalypse

On Monday, some scientists voiced skepticism about the announcement, suggesting that it may be overhyped by a credulous media. Peter Gleick, the climatologist who founded the Pacific Institute, noted that the cost of fusion is currently dramatically higher than clean alternatives such as wind and solar.

Sigh. Of course, if fusion does become feasible, the Warmists will probably work hard to block it, for Reasons, just like with regular nuclear energy. Oh, and how extreme-enviros look to stop solar, wind, geothermal, and dams.

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Who’s Up For Climate (scam) Christmas Cards?

By William Teach December 13, 2022 – 7:15 am

The cult must hijack and infest everything, you know

Climate change theme for first minister’s Christmas card

A drawing by a Glasgow schoolgirl which calls for action on climate change has been selected for the first minister’s official Christmas card.

Nine-year-old Evita Ye’s design features a colourful snow globe and the words: “The future is in our hands”.

It reflects campaigning the children at Sunnyside Primary in Craigend have been doing on the climate crisis.

Nicola Sturgeon unveiled the design at Sunnyside, where she met P5 pupil Evita to congratulate her.

The children were tasked with creating a festive design that centres around the school’s campaigning for climate action.

Sunnyside has created and run many successful climate campaigns and recently started the Running Out of Time relay.

So, basically the school is indoctrinating the kiddies on climate doom, and using Christmas to further their cult. Pretty nice scam. So, hey, when will Sturgeon be giving up her own use of fossil fuels? When will the school make sure no child is dropped off or picked up at school using fossil fuels? And make sure none are used for heating?

Elsewhere

Gingerbread houses brace for climate change at Boston architecture exhibition

What happens when you give heaps of sugar to a bunch of architects (and a few civilians) and ask them to solve climate change? You get the Boston Society for Architecture’s annual gingerbread competition, and a lot of whimsical creations — from a gingerbread brownstone perched on Toblerone pylons, to a frosted duck boat rescuing Boston landmarks from rising seas.

“We have everything from silly and creative ones, such as the duck boat over there with the city landmarks kind of toppling off it, to more realistic ones,” said Maia Erslev, gallery manager at the Boston Society for Architecture (BSA), who’s running the show. “There’s been lots of creativity there.”

Erslev came up with the theme of  “climate-ready Boston” — or “climate ginger-ready Boston,” as they like to say — for this year’s competition. It’s a topic on everyone’s mind, Erslev said, and it aligns with the BSA’s work.

Sigh. Can’t they just do a pleasant reason for the season style?

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MSNBC Pro-Illegals Upset Over Bipartisan DACA Bill

By William Teach December 13, 2022 – 7:00 am

Too be perfectly honest, I do not want it passed either. Most of the so-called Dreamers do not deserve easy citizenship

Why the Senate’s latest immigration fix is DOA

It’s the end of the year, and Congress is scrambling to get as much done as possible in the lame-duck session. While there are plenty of must-pass pieces of legislation to finish, two senators are trying to whip up support for something that has been impossible in the last decade: immigration reform.

There are pieces in the proposal from Sens. Kyrsten Sinema, I-Ariz., and Thom Tillis, R-N.C., that make sense, and on the surface, it’s an example of the kind of bipartisan problem-solving that the Senate all too often eschews these days. It perfectly fits into the Sinema brand of legislation. But once you take a look under the hood, you can see this framework is already in danger of collapsing. Its joints are ill-fitting, and its structure is unsound.

The best part of the proposal would include a pathway to citizenship for the roughly 2 million “Dreamers” who arrived in the U.S. as undocumented children. Democrats have been pursuing such a path for citizenship for the better part of a decade, even more so after the Trump administration nearly axed the Obama-era fix known as Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals.

But those Dreamers’ citizenship would come at a cost: an additional $25 billion for border security. NBC News reports that the funding would go toward “higher salaries for border patrol agents, and increased staffing and other resources for border patrol and border protection.”

MSNBC is really telling you what most Democrats think: fuck the border. Just give free citizenship to people brought to the country illegally, making them good little Democratic Party voters. And Republicans are idiots, because even if they get border security measures in the bill, Biden won’t implement them.

The proposal would boost the strained asylum process with much-needed investments in more asylum officers, immigration lawyers and the immigration court system, which has been teetering on the edge of collapse. It would also create “regional processing centers” along the border to ease the bottleneck at ports of entry.

It wouldn’t be if Democrats didn’t create the incentives for people to just stream into the U.S. from around the world and demand asylum, for which few actually qualify. And, of course, Democrats want to get rid of Title 42 and anything that requires people to apply for asylum outside the U.S., with those determinations coming with them somewhere other than U.S. territory.

By themselves, the 21 Democrats who signed that letter could tank the Sinema-Tillis framework in the House. But their opposition wouldn’t even come into play unless Republicans in the House and the Senate alike supported it in the first place. And that seems like a long shot — at best. Sinema and Tillis are reportedly hoping to get enough support in the coming days to include the provision in the must-pass omnibus spending bill that will keep the government open. Even if the proposal makes it into that bill, I predict that we’ll see a mutiny on both sides to strip it out.

Something like this should not be anything but a standalone bill. Just pass a damned clean budget. The question here though, is, will enough Republicans get squishy? That link in the 2nd paragraph of the excerpt goes to the Washington Post (you can read it by opening it then adding cache: right before the https://. It would look like cache:https://wash…..) and notes

  • Some form of path to citizenship for 2 million dreamers.
  • A large boost in resources to speed up the processing of asylum seekers, including new processing centers and more asylum officers and judges.
  • More resources to expedite the removal of migrants who don’t qualify for asylum.
  • A continuation of the Title 42 covid-health-rule restriction on migrants applying for asylum, until the new processing centers are operational, with the aim of a one-year cutoff.
  • More funding for border officers.

Thom Tillis’ SUCCEED Act, introduced with James Lankford (R-OK) is not that bad, and does not go easy on the “Dreamers”. It doesn’t force them to pay lots of money like all those who did it correctly. It also fails to deal with the notion of what to do with the people who brought them illegally, as I noted back in 2017

Here’s a recommendation: Congress puts DACA into law, but allows 4 year renewals, rather than 2 years, in order to decrease burden on federal agencies. Just like with people who are applying for citizenship, any serious crimes can be cause to cancel an illegals legal status and deport them. And, yes, even DUIs may be considered cause, just like with those applying for citizenship. After 12 years, they can go through the same process as those applying for citizenship in order to attempt to earn full citizenship.

BUT, if we aren’t going to lay the “sins” of the parent(s) on the children, we are going to lay them on the parent(s). In order to obtain DACA status, the parent(s) must self deport, and provide proof at an immigration checkpoint as they leave. They are not allowed back in the United States for 2 years, and then only for a short visit. If they are caught residing in the U.S., or attempting to enter the country illegally, the children will have their DACA status ended and will be deported. After 12 years, they would be allowed to apply for temporary resident status, conditioned on speaking English and having good moral character. This seems fair. The parents broke our laws.

If you don’t agree with punishing the parents, then you’re simply using DACA to create a backdoor amnesty for all.

And the SUCCEED Act fails to stop these Dreamers from bringing in all their relatives. Though, it could take 15 years before the kiddies could apply for naturalization. There’s zero chance most Democrats will go for this.

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Your Fault: Golf May Not Survive The 21st Century

By William Teach December 12, 2022 – 4:25 pm

All because you refuse to recycle, go vegan, plant your own garden, handwash and line dry your clothes, and give up your autonomy and freedom to Government

Why Golf Might Not Survive the 21st Century
Water shortages exacerbated by human activity and climate change mean golf will need to adapt to new standards—or perish.

The sport of golf today evokes images of lavish country clubs and pristine greens which often alter and dominate environments that can’t sustain them. But the game’s history predates land-moving bulldozers, industrialized irrigation, even sprinklers and lawn mowers. Golf can trace its origins back to the late Middle Ages, when it was a stick-and-ball game played in the rolling hills of Scotland. Birds and insects flew nearby and ate native plants, which grew freely on the greens. (snip)

Nowadays, golf is a favorite boogeyman of the environmental movement, seen as a symbol of water-wasting opulence enjoyed primarily by the wealthy. Golf courses in drought-parched areas in the American Southwest and southern Europe have been targeted with municipal water cuts—and, at times, accused of evading them. In August, Extinction Rebellion climate activists descended upon the Vieille-Toulouse golf club and the Garonne des Sept Deniers golf course in southern France, filling their holes with cement and tearing up greens to protest their water use as the region suffered a historic drought. While dozens of villages faced water shortages, golfers enjoyed a privilege “worthy of another world,” they said.

Golf doesn’t use as much water as hydro-villains like industrialized agriculture, but it certainly gulps down far more than its fair share. Golf courses use more than 2 billion gallons of water per day for irrigation, or about 0.5 percent of the total water withdrawn in the U.S., according to figures published by the United States Golf Association (USGA). While water usage varies heavily by region, up to half of all golf courses in Arizona have exceeded their yearly water allotments over the past two decades, despite shortages of the Colorado River water the state relies upon, the Arizona Republic reported in July. Many Arizona courses hit with water cuts have vigorously fought back.

Holy cow, this is a long piece whining about the use of water on golf course, which is really one of sustainability, not climate doom. And they never really get to supporting the headline and subhead. Just another typical case of doom-mongering from climate cultists. It doesn’t matter if it is true, it doesn’t matter if it really has nothing to do with ‘climate change’, it’s all about freaking people out with a headline, since most people won’t read beyond.

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If All You See…

By William Teach December 12, 2022 – 1:00 pm

…is a horrible carbon pollution infused beer, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is A View From The Beach, with a post on the Monday morning stimulus.

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Illinois Looks To Pass Assault Weapons Ban, Taking Them From People Who Already Possess

By William Teach December 12, 2022 – 10:30 am

This will absolutely nothing to stop the “gun violence” in Democratic Party run cities like Chicago. It will just disarm law abiding citizens. And force law abiding citizens to give up their legally purchased “assault rifles”

Illinois Democrats want to act with ‘urgency’ on proposal banning assault weapons

Illinois lawmakers are considering legislation that would ban the sale and ownership of assault-style weapons —joining states such as California and New York that have enacted similar bans.

First introduced during the final week of the veto session by House firearm safety and reform working group chairman Rep. Bob Morgan, D-Deerfield, House Bill 5855 would outlaw the manufacture, possession, delivery, selling, and purchasing of assault weapons, .50 caliber rifles, and .50 caliber cartridges. The proposal comes as firearm homicides increased by 35% from 2019 to 2020 nationwide, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

On Monday, the bill will be heard during a House judiciary criminal committee meeting. Hundreds of supporters and opponents have signed up for the meeting scheduled for 11 a.m. in Chicago.

Morgan’s legislation lists more than 100 weapons that would be banned, including the AR-15 rifle which was used to kill seven people and injure 48 others during a Fourth of July parade in Highland Park. The bill also increases the age for most Illinoisans to carry a firearm from 18 to 21.

The Protect Illinois Communities Act has more than 25 co-sponsors as of Friday and is expected to be a priority for the Illinois General Assembly when lawmakers return in January for the lame-duck session or early in the regular session.

The State Journal-Register, an Illinois paper, minimizes that part about possession. Patch goes a little deeper

House Bill 5855 defines “assault weapons” and bans various semiautomatic rifles, pistols and shotguns, magazines that hold more than 10 rounds, .50 caliber firearms and switches that are designed to increase a gun’s rate of fire.

If approved, the bill would immediately forbid the sale of assault-style weapons. People who already own such weapons would have to register them between 80 and 300 days after the act takes effect and pay a $25 fee.

After that, the registered owner may transfer the weapon to an heir, a resident of another state who will keep it out of state or a licensed gun dealer.

Does that 80-300 days mean what you think? Yes, yes it does

(WSILTV) The proposed legislation, HB 5855 or the “Protect Illinois Communities Act,” would not only ban the future sale of assault weapons, but also high capacity-magazines.

It would also raise the minimum age to purchase or own a weapon.

Supporters of the proposed law concede Highland Park’s ban on assault weapons did not prevent that mass shooting, but believe a state-wide ban could still stop similar shootings.

The bill makes it illegal to manufacture, delivery, sell or purchase any assault weapon in the state. You also wouldn’t be allowed to possess that weapon 300 days after the final passage of the legislation.

You could leave it out of state, but, you may not possess your legally purchased rifle within the state. And, yes, 2nd Amendment groups are already lining up to sue if it passes and the governor signs it. We can expect all the criminals and thugs and gangs to give up their “assault rifles” and magazines which hold more than 10, right?

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Oh, Noes: ‘Climate Change’ Coming For Canadian Christmas Trees

By William Teach December 12, 2022 – 7:00 am

It begins. The Credentialed News media members who are also part of the climate cult are starting to do their yearly Christmas season linking with climate doom

Climate change affecting Christmas trees in B.C. and beyond: expert

The effects of climate change are taking a toll on Christmas tree farms in British Columbia and beyond, with one forestry expert saying the sector that’s already shrinking and shifting will need to adapt in the coming years.

The trees take eight to 12 years to reach the size most people are looking for, and young seedlings are particularly vulnerable to climate risks, said Richard Hamelin, head of the forest conservation sciences department at the University of B.C.

Much of the province has experienced prolonged drought and extreme heat over the last two summers, and the seedlings have shallow root systems that don’t reach beyond the very dry layers of soil near the surface, Hamelin explained.

Those same shallow roots meant swaths of seedlings were swamped or washed away during extensive flooding fuelled by so-called atmospheric rivers of rain throughout southwestern B.C. in November 2021, Hamelin said in an interview.

See, the climate is supposed to stay exactly the same all the time.

“Just like humans, when we are stressed or when we’re more tired, we’re more susceptible to diseases,” said Hamelin. “Well, trees are the same way. So all this added stress from all this heat and flooding make the trees more susceptible to pests and pathogens.”

Trees have gone through cool periods and warm periods, drought and flood, cold and warm. It’s always the same bit of scaremongering, and this time of year has them dragging Christmas into the mix.

Meanwhile, we’re at the point of

How to talk about climate change with ‘that’ uncle at Christmas

That’s rather early, isn’t it?

Stop Leaving Christmas Lights Turned On 24/7

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You’ve probably been told time and time again the importance of conserving energy, but you might be wondering why it’s so important.

First, reducing your energy usage by turning off your lights is an excellent way to reduce your carbon footprint. Electricity generation is one of the biggest sources of carbon emissions that contribute to climate change. By turning off your lights when you aren’t using them, you can do your part to reduce carbon emissions and therefore help the environment.

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