Climate Today: Buses, Kids Travel To COP27, Climate Contagion

By William Teach October 28, 2022 – 3:00 pm

Have fun, kiddies, and thank your benevolant leaders when the buses are either way too cold or way too hot, because they can’t spare the energy

More kids to ride in ‘clean’ school buses, mostly electric

Kamala Climate ClownNearly 400 school districts spanning all 50 states and Washington, D.C., along with several tribes and U.S. territories, are receiving roughly $1 billion in grants to purchase about 2,500 “clean” school buses under a new federal program.

The Biden administration is making the grants available as part of a wider effort to accelerate the transition to zero-emission vehicles and reduce air pollution near schools and communities.

Vice President Kamala Harris and Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Michael Regan announced the grant awards Wednesday in Seattle. The new, mostly electric school buses will reduce greenhouse gas emissions, save money and better protect children’s health, they said.

Hmm, so, Kamala took a long fossil fueled flight to announce this? Did she then drive from the airport to the press conference in an electric bus, or a large fossil fueled convoy? BTW

…compared to a new electric school bus, which typically runs between $350,000 and $400,000. Traditional diesel school buses are usually in the $125,000 to $150,000 range.

Sounds cost effective, especially when they’re stuck in the snow. Were the kids treated to Kamala’s cackle/inappropriate laughter?

Colorado College Students to Travel to COP 27 to Discuss Climate Change

This November, 10 Colorado College students will travel to Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, to participate in the 27th Conference of Parties (COP) on climate change. The students will be accompanied by Professor Sarah Hautzinger and Mindfulness Fellow Myra Jackson.

Nothing says “we believe in climate doom” like taking a long fossil fueled flight, eh?

Treat the Climate Change Contagion

After a slow start, hurricane season is here: A flurry of named storms formed within days during September. Fiona devastated Puerto Rico, and less than two weeks later, Ian battered the west coast of Florida before it and its remnants moved up and hit the Eastern Seaboard.

Extreme weather events like Ian and Fiona have become more intense because of climate change. That reality has implications for those of us in health care. We have a duty to protect and advance the health of our patients. Climate change is killing them, and we must change the way we practice medicine in response.

We can start by screening our patients for the impact of climate change as if it were a new vital sign.

You mean people can be affected by the weather? Is this new?

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If All You See…

By William Teach October 28, 2022 – 1:00 pm

…is a perfect spot for wind turbines, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Common Cents Blog, with a post telling Republicans to fly those American flags.

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Musk Buying Twitter Is A Danger To Free Speech Or Something

By William Teach October 28, 2022 – 10:30 am

Media folks and those who love to censor people for Wrongthink have been apoplectic over Elon Musk buying Twitter. They do not want you to have your say if it conflicts with Modern Socialist dogma. And now

AP sources: Musk in control of Twitter, ousts top executives

Elon Musk has taken control of Twitter and ousted the CEO, chief financial officer and the company’s top lawyer, two people familiar with the deal said Thursday night.

The people wouldn’t say if all the paperwork for the deal, originally valued at $44 billion, had been signed or if the deal has closed. But they said Musk is in charge of the social media platform and has fired CEO Parag Agrawal, CFO Ned Segal and Chief Legal Counsel Vijaya Gadde. Neither person wanted to be identified because of the sensitive nature of the deal.

How will it all work out? That’s the big question. Will there be less advertising in tweets and more of a pay model? How about the big one, which how it censors users, suspends them, and bans them. Some people deserve it, such as those who threaten and dox. Others, it’s been for saying things Twitter mods and unhinged leftists do not like. I had my original account “permanently suspended” for that, and have been suspended twice for tweeting Wrongthink. Same with so many other Conservatives. But, see, letting you have your say is (LA Times paywalled version here)

Op-Ed: How Elon Musk’s plans for Twitter could threaten free speech

As he prepares to take over Twitter, Elon Musk has said that, in the name of upholding free speech, he will dial back safeguards on the platform that are there to protect against disinformation. This would be a mistake, and not just because disinformation has fueled a crisis of faith in democracy and impeded pandemic response at the cost of hundreds of thousands of lives.

Disinformation, though largely protected by the 1st Amendment against government control, can also imperil free speech itself. If Musk is serious about fostering open discourse, he needs to account for the dangers that disinformation poses to expression as he takes over one of the world’s most influential online platforms.

So Democrats like Eric Swalwall, along with other Democrats, who said they had evidence that Trump colluded with Russia should be banned? Who decides what’s misinformation/disinformation? There are still 9/11 Truthers on Twitter.

When arenas for public discourse are flooded with disinformation, free speech begins to shed its value. If audiences lose their grip on what is true and what is false, they can become primed to distrust everything and it becomes impossible to persuade people, even with the most compelling argument or evidence. If platforms are riddled with propaganda and political falsehoods aimed to skew election results, prospects for genuine discourse on matters of public policy or local affairs evaporate. If the search for reliable information yields nothing but a morass of comingled facts and falsehoods, people eventually stop searching.

Then Democrats like Katie Hobbs should be banned for blaming Kari Lake for the break in at the Hobbs office. It’s a seriously deranged attempt to censor people, but, we shouldn’t expect anything different from the Democratic Party run media. If it was their folks being censored, they’d be all against it.

The 1st Amendment prevents the government from suppressing most forms of disinformation because the Supreme Court has recognized that if permitted to regulate such speech, authorities would not be able to resist the temptation to use that power in self-serving ways, to silence critics and repress dissent.

Uh, no. The 1st Amendment says that “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.” The only ones authorized at the federal level to pass laws is the Congress, and they are 100% forbidden to stop your speech.

But the 1st Amendment doesn’t apply to social media companies since it only constrains the power of government. Online platforms can, for the most part, decide whether to suppress speech. But with platforms such as Twitter, Facebook and Google so widely used, the place of free speech as an underpinning of society is at stake in their choices. Moreover, in a world powered by algorithms, speech moves differently than it did in an era of printed pamphlets and town meetings. Studies have shown that, on Twitter, disinformation travels faster and farther than truth.

If it looks like BS, I’ll look it up, just like with 9/11 Trutherism and ‘climate change’.

If Musk is serious about enhancing Twitter’s potential as a vehicle for free speech, he should focus on how to make the platform a hospitable place for dialogue, truth-seeking, citizen’s engagement — things at the heart of why free speech matters. Some of the steps he reportedly contemplates, including giving users more control over what they see on the platform, could help. So could improving Twitter’s system for appealing the removal of tweets and disabling of accounts, clearer communications about which rules posts are found to violate and why, and greater transparency to allow researchers to study the platform and determine whether and how political biases may infect content moderation.

But if Musk follows through on his promise to create open season for disinformation on Twitter he will risk destroying free speech in one of our global villages in the name of trying to save it.

If Democrats are too weak minded to do their own research, that’s on them. And they’re the ones who lie the most. Anything they do not like they label disinformation/misinformation. If I say something like “it’s probably not a good idea to let people (transgenders) with a higher rate of suicidal thoughts and suicidal attempts around military grade weapons”, is that misinformation or fact? Yes, we can ban bots with bullshit, and, I bet Musk allows that to continue. Censoring and banning simply for an opinion that Leftists do not like? Not so much. It’s nothing new: this is why they wanted Fox News shut down, why they wanted Rush, Hannity, and Beck, among others, off the radio. Why they wanted Net Neutrality.

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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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