…is terrible carbon pollution infused beer, you might just be a Warmist
The blog of the day is Jo Nova, with a post on EV fires post-Ian.
Doubleshot below the fold, check out Real Climate Science, with a post on hurricane misinformation at the NY Times.
Read: If All You See… »
Of course, this means that the mass stabbing has mostly disappeared from the news or not mentioned
Las Vegas stabbing suspect is in US illegally, has criminal record in California: source
The suspect accused of killing two people and injuring six others during a stabbing rampage on the Las Vegas Strip is in the U.S. illegally, sources told Fox News.
Yoni Barrios, 32, is a Guatemalan national in the U.S. illegally with a criminal record in California, a source with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said.
Barrios allegedly stabbed eight people — a mix of tourists and residents — just after 11:40 a.m. local time on the sidewalk near the Wynn Las Vegas hotel, police said. Two people — Las Vegas residents Brent Allan Hallett, 47, and Maris Mareen DiGiovanni, 30 — died, officials said.
Here illegally, and has committed crimes in California, yet, was not deported? If you were a foreign national who applied for citizenship, was accepted, came over, were living your life, and committed a crime, your attempt at citizenship would be ended and you would be told to leave the U.S. If you’re here illegally, well, no problem at all! Especially if you’re in a deep Democratic Party run state.
So, of course, the Associated Press article fails to mention that Barrios is here illegally. The Washington Post article, found using his name now that we know it, is simply the AP article. The New York Times has zero articles on him. ABC News fails to mention he’s here illegally. Nor does the CBS News article. ABC News uses the AP article. LA Times fails to mention his illegal alien status. Even a bunch of Las Vegas news outlets fail to mention his immigration status.
Meanwhile
‘State of emergency’: Adams says NYC migrant influx to cost city $1B
Mayor Eric Adams declared a state of emergency Friday over the ongoing flood of migrants into the Big Apple — warning that they’re pushing the city’s shelter population to an all-time high and will cost taxpayers $1 billion for housing and social services.
“This is unsustainable,” Adams said.
“New York City is doing all we can but we are reaching the outer limit of our ability to help.”
But in a live speech and a Q&A session with reporters at City Hall, Adams continued putting the blame on everyone but himself and Gotham’s well-deserved reputation as a generous “sanctuary city” for illegal immigrants.
Instead, he took shots at Republican governors for relocating migrants from the southern border region to Democratic enclaves in the northern US.
Man, it’s a real shame when you get what you wish for, eh?
And here’s local Raleigh outlet WRAL gaslighting
Documented Dreamers: Apex student dreams of serving in US Army, but faces deportation
Imagine spending your childhood and most of your life growing up in North Carolina – only to suddenly find out that at age 21 you could be deported to a country you don’t even remember. This is the reality for over 200,000 Documented Dreamers, including some students at North Carolina State University.
Dreamers are children who are legally brought in the United States on their parents Visas, but eventually age out at age 21. Now, local immigrant students are scrambling to find a way to stay in the United States by calling on lawmakers to expand protections.
Some of these local students grew up in Raleigh and have spent their entire lives in North Carolina. For them, this country is all they know. They are now navigating an unclear path to full citizenship so they can stay in the place they call home.
Yeah, not really. Some few may have come with their parents on visas, and then the parents blew off the visas and stayed in violation of U.S. immigration law. Most were brought illegally over the border by their parents or someone else. If they want to blame someone for being deported when they become an adult, blame their parents. Nor are they all from Mexico and Central America. Some are from India, as mentioned. The whole idea is to create sympathy. I’ll tell you what: we’ll give some of you permanent resident status, with no right to vote and you cannot use government services like food stamps, welfare, or similar, and your parents have to go immediately and not return.
Read: Las Vegas Stabber Illegally Present In United States, Has Criminal Record »
What do you get for starting $47,000?
One YouTuber learned the hard way that towing a heavy load is more complicated with an electric truck than a gasoline-powered one.
In a recent video on his Hoovie’s Garage channel, Tyler Hoover put the towing capability of his Ford F-150 Lightning to the test — and he called the experience a “complete and total disaster.” The saga illustrates one of the challenges to owning a battery-powered truck: towing range.
Hoover charged up his Lightning to 200 miles (almost all of its 230-mile range) and set out for a trip to his mechanic 32 miles away to pick up a 1930 Ford Model A and tow it home. As soon as Hoover set out pulling an empty trailer, the Lightning’s range started “dropping like a stone.”
In the end, the 64-mile journey sucked up 150 miles of range from the Lightning’s battery.
“The truck towing 3,500 pounds can’t even go 100 miles,” he said. “That is ridiculously stupid. This truck can’t do normal truck things.”
Yes, it is very stupid
To be sure, Hoover’s test wasn’t exactly scientific. In a follow-up video, he conceded that his trailer and boxy 1930 Ford weren’t especially aerodynamic.
Still, the clip highlights an important point: Extra weight and drag can deal a significant blow to an electric vehicle’s range, which can make towing with them tricky. Gas trucks lose efficiency when towing too, but with them it’s easy to pull over and fuel up. Running low on energy in an EV means stopping for 45 minutes at a fast-charging station.
Car buyers aren’t looking for scientific: they want their vehicles to do what they’re supposed to do in real life, not in perfect scenarios of testing.
Also very stupid?
Proposition 30 has voters deciding on a tax for zero-emission vehicles. What you need to know
On its face, Proposition 30 is simple enough: Raise taxes on the richest Californians. Pull in $30 billion to $90 billion over the next 20 years. Use 80% of the money to subsidize electric vehicles and charging stations, and 20% for wildfire suppression and prevention.
The fight for votes has prompted plenty of sloganeering and a gusher of spending.
Supporters say Proposition 30 is essential to address climate change. Opponents say it’s not.
Opponents say higher taxes will chase wealthy, job-producing people from the state. Supporters say the rich can afford it, and there’s no proof high-income earners are fleeing the state.
You know it won’t work, because these schemes never work. Whatever happened to all the money from cap and trade? “Erratic and unpredictable.” How about from marijuana? It created a huge black market, and the inflowing tax is about half of expected. Businesses have, in fact, left. But, you do you, California. Every experiment needs an experimental group.
Fortunately, the NY Times is there to try and protect the defund the police nuts (for which many have their own private security)
Some Democrats Embrace the Police as the GOP’s Crime Attacks Bite
In one of the more unusual television advertisements of this year’s midterm election campaigns, Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., accuses Democrats of wanting to defund police departments.
“Violent crime is surging in Louisiana,” he says in the ad. “Woke leaders blame the police.” (note: it’s a completely uncompetitive race, he’ll win easily) (snip)
Given Kennedy’s comfortable lead over Chambers in the polls, the “crackhead” line appears meant to drive headlines about Democrats in general, rather than slam his specific opponent. And the ad is just a cruder version of attacks Republicans have leveled against Democrats across the country, regardless of their actual positions. Often — but not always — the candidates being targeted are Black, as Chambers is. But either way, the racial subtext of the criticism is impossible to ignore.
Oh, good, the raaaaace card has been played
Robbing ads of context
In Florida, for instance, Sen. Marco Rubio has portrayed his Democratic opponent, Rep. Val Demings, a 65-year-old former police chief of Orlando, as a dangerous “radical” who is soft on crime.
Like Chambers, Demings is Black — but, unlike him, she hails from the moderate wing of the Democratic Party. She was one of 207 House Democrats who recently voted for the Invest to Protect Act, a bipartisan bill to increase funding for local police departments.
One Rubio ad, titled “Blame America,” takes remarks by Demings out of context to claim that she “praised defunding the police.”
It’s not out of context, she praised defunding the police in Minneapolis, and was for defunding before she was against. And the piece tries to add more racial components, as ads are going against black candidates, who, get this, are anti-cop. And then there’s John Fetterman, who is white and is as extremist as the lunatic DAs in places like LA and San Francisco. Of course, the article fails to dig in and publish the information, which isn’t hard to find, and just publishes Fetterman saying it’s a lie.
The “defund the police” movement started with Democrats and remains their platform. It’s one of the fundamental reasons that crime is rampant in many parts of the country. They’ve gone soft on crime. No cash bail, catch and release and catch and release, sometimes dozens of times. And these cop hatred and soft on criminals policies have caused quite a few police to leave those forces, and cannot be replaced. At the end of the day, Republicans aren’t painting anything: these are facts.
Read: Democrats Seem Upset That GOP Is Hitting Them With Being Soft On Crime »
What’s the carbon footprint of a helicopter flight to the airport, a jumbo jet to Egypt, along with the backup jumbo jet and fighter jet protection? Then a roughly 18 car motorcade in big limos and SUVs?
Biden will attend COP27 — the U.N’s climate change summit — in Egypt
President Biden will travel to Egypt to attend this year’s United Nations Climate Change Conference, known as COP27, according to two people familiar with his plans who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss a trip that is not yet public.
Biden’s planned attendance at the climate conference will give a boost to the gathering, which had been at risk of delivering little concrete action amid disputes over ambition and funding.
The developing world has been asking for sharply more assistance from the rich nations that are responsible for the bulk of global warming over history. But those industrialized nations have been reluctant to make any promises.
Now Biden, who also attended last year’s conference in Scotland, will have a chance to showcase the progress his administration has made in the past year – and to cajole other countries to make similar efforts. Climate advocates say the Inflation Reduction Act will help deliver a boost to green industries that can outlast the Biden administration, helping to bypass some of the climate whiplash that comes from sharply different visions toward global warming from Democrats and Republicans.
It won’t do jack or shit for inflation. At least in terms of reducing it. If Biden really cared, he’d zoom call in
The trip to Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, will be the first leg of a multination trip for Biden that is expected to include stops in Cambodia and Indonesia for major global summits, including the G20.
That’s a hell of a carbon footprint, eh? Of course, Biden’s working hard to start a nuclear war
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Of course, Joe’s people have walked it back. The norm. Just like Joe going missing almost every weekend.
Read: Good News: Brandon To Take Massive Fossil Fueled Trip To Next Climate Scam Conference »
…is a sky full of carbon pollution, you might just be a Warmist
The blog of the day is neo-neocon, with a post on Biden looking to make friends with Venezuela.
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Cancel culture hasn’t disappeared: it’s just not making the news as much with all the other bad news. This one is rather ironic
Texas Wesleyan Cancels Play After Students Say Use of Slur Is Harmful
Texas Wesleyan University halted its production of “Down in Mississippi,” a play about registering voters in the 1960s, after criticism from students who said racist epithets in the script could contribute to a hostile, unwelcoming environment. Its author said he was using that language to represent the reality of the period.
The play by Carlyle Brown, a Black playwright based in Minneapolis, focuses on the efforts of a movement that led to passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which outlawed racial discrimination and protected Black voters. The plot, which is set during the Freedom Summer campaign, centers on three student activists as they travel from New York City to the South to register Black voters.
In telling that story, the playwright included a scene in which a white character used a racial slur, repeatedly, to refer to Black people, opening up a controversy on campus that also spotlighted a larger rift in American society over discussions of race and the portrayal of the struggles of people of color in media and the arts.
That’s right, this was written by a Black playwright, who was trying to capture the spirit of the time, the language of the time, the interactions of the time, to give it authenticity. Leftists will often say that art should be provocative, like when they’re burning the American flag or putting Jesus in a urine jar. Leftists will often use negative epithets towards whites. Blacks will use those same epithets constantly in their music, videos, and interactions. Here’s the kicker
Two students who were not part of the production, and were described as a Latinx woman and a Black woman, heard about the scene through word-of-mouth and submitted bias reports to the university’s administration Sept. 23, said Chatashia Brown, the university’s assistant director for student diversity and inclusion programs.
So, they weren’t even part of it and hadn’t heard it? Huh. BTW, most Latinos find Latinx to be offensive. Cancel the NY Times for using the word.
Their complaints prompted administrators of the university, in Fort Worth, Texas, to host a “listening session” Sept. 29, which had been previously scheduled as the opening night of the play. Students, actors and members of the university’s faculty and staff joined the open forum, as did Carlyle Brown.
Black students said that the explicit language in the play would further aggravate problems on a campus that they said did not cater to the needs of its significant population of students of color. As of fall 2021, 58% of students at Texas Wesleyan identified as Asian, Black, Latino or biracial.
“They wanted to kind of come in and be able to see the story and understand its impact without being triggered by it,” Chatashia Brown said.
They hear and use the words themselves. It’s just a play. A representation of the time. SJWs can’t abide by people Offending them.
The students who expressed their concerns said that the repetition of the racial slur, spoken about a dozen times in the play, would have caught them off guard and negatively affected their mental health. They worried that the play could lead other students who are not Black to feel more comfortable repeating the slur.
So, don’t go see it. If a few words offend them like that, they are too soft to be in adult society. Further, as many have noted, this kind of idiocy reduces the notion of real mental health issues.
The playwright said that his intentions were for the performance to be historically accurate. To him, the past shouldn’t be sanitized — and he said that the racial slur was used provocatively, for audience members to feel the impact it has had in real life. The scene portrays one of the play’s three students, who is white, showing the Black student how he would be treated on their journey. Training sessions like the one portrayed were common at the time and were intended to help people understand the severity of the behavior they could face.
So you have an activist being cancelled by other SJWs. And, the school simply cancelled the play. Period.
Read: Friendly Fire: Texas College Cancels Play After Bias Reports »
We’ve heard this for well over a decade, if not two. And all it takes is a massive amount of government funding, because the private sector won’t really commit their own money to that extent
The Climate Economy Is About to Explode
Late last month, analysts at the investment bank Credit Suisse published a research note about America’s new climate law that went nearly unnoticed. The Inflation Reduction Act, the bank argued, is even more important than has been recognized so far: The IRA will “will have a profound effect across industries in the next decade and beyond” and could ultimately shape the direction of the American economy, the bank said. The report shows how even after the bonanza of climate-bill coverage earlier this year, we’re still only beginning to understand how the law works and what it might mean for the economy.
Wait, so, they passed this massive bill, which has nothing to do with reducing inflation, and they really didn’t know what it would do? That’s…..disturbing. And a dereliction of duty by the Congress
But that estimate is wrong, the bank claims. In fact, so many people and businesses will use those tax credits that the IRA’s total spending is likely to be more than $800 billion, double what the CBO projects. And because federal spending tends to catalyze private investment, that could send total climate spending across the economy to roughly $1.7 trillion over the next 10 years. That’s significantly more money flowing into green-energy industries than the CBO projected, though it’s unclear if that additional money will lead to more carbon reductions than earlier analyses have projected.
Second, the U.S. is “poised to become the world’s leading energy provider,” according to the bank. America is already the world’s largest producer of oil and natural gas. The IRA could further enhance its advantage in all forms of energy production, giving it a “competitive advantage in low-cost clean electricity and hydrogen production, infrastructure, geologic storage, and human capital,” the report states. By 2029, U.S. solar and wind could be the cheapest in the world at less than $5 per megawatt-hour, the bank projects; it will also become competitive in hydrogen, carbon capture and storage, and wind turbines. (The law will help America’s battery industry, but the bank doesn’t see the U.S. becoming the world’s biggest battery producer, given that China already has such a dominant advantage.)
Do you think China will allow the U.S. to overtake them? Or, will they simply start dumping even more onto the market and well below cost rates, like they’ve been doing? If any of that federal money dries up, U.S. companies will significantly reduce their investments. If they thought they’d make a lot of money they’d be investing it now, without all the federal kickbacks.
Finally, those of us who have long worked in climate change—and here I include myself, who started covering this topic in 2015—should have some excitement and even humility about this deluge of new talent. Even setting its arduous politics aside, managing climate change is a legitimately difficult technical and cultural problem—it’s going to require as many attentive and enthusiastic brains as possible, and the path to decarbonizing always required an infusion of new workers, investment, and good will. If you don’t yet work in the industry, but have always cared about climate change as an issue, well, this is your moment to get involved. These companies are going to need engineers, yes, but also programmers, accountants, marketers, HR staff, general counsels—there is space for everyone now.
The fight against climate change is going to change more in the next four years than it has in the past 40. The great story of our lives is just beginning. Welcome aboard.
What’s weird is they do not want to invest their own money, nor change their own lives to match their beliefs.
Read: The Climate (scam) Economy Is About To Explode Or Something »
It’s just the latest in a long line of deflections from a mayor of a declared sanctuary city which doesn’t actually want to take the illegals
Adams accuses Abbott of undermining Black mayor-led cities by busing migrants to NYC, DC and Chicago
New York City Mayor Eric Adams, when pressed on plans to build an emergency shelter for asylum seekers in the sanctuary city, suggested in an on-air interview Wednesday that Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott is trying to undermine cities with Black mayors by busing migrants to the Big Apple, Washington, D.C., and Chicago.
In an interview with “Inside City Hall” With Errol Louis, Adams said he refused to “pit everyday New Yorkers against migrants, and I’m not going to take away resources that we have to really allocate for everyday New Yorkers.”
“This is a national problem, it needs a national response. And that is why we call on Washington to respond to this on a national level,” Adams said. “This differs from the everyday shelter system. This is a migrant crisis, and we must focus on that. Everyone that comes to this city — we are going to ensure that we fulfill our obligation of getting them housing. But this is a migrant humanitarian crisis that we are facing.”
It’s suddenly a crisis when sanctuary cities far from the Southern border who advocate for open borders have to deal with this slightly
“Yes. So true,” Adams responded. “And that was the fear that we had in the beginning when it first started with Governor Abbott that we knew that, unfortunately, that some people were going to use it as a playbook to send buses to both New York, Washington and to Chicago. Keep in mind, these are three cities where we have Black mayors.”
“This is undermining our economy and is undermining our attempt to recover in our cities — that we’re already dealing with crises from COVID to monkeypox to crime to housing,” he continued. “And I think it’s something that we need to be very clear on. These three cities were targeted, and I have a conversation this afternoon with the mayors of the other two cities.”
How about the small towns in Texas and Arizona that have to deal with way more, ones who have been let through being COVID positive, with other diseases, who are breaking into homes and businesses, overrunning those towns, creating a much bigger crisis?
The host asked directly, “You think these cities are being targeted, including New York, because they have Black mayors?”
“Well, I don’t know if it’s Black mayors or if it’s just going to northern cities, but something is wrong,” Adams said. “I mean, we have thousands of cities in this country. Why are we specifically targeting Washington, Chicago, and New York? There’s something wrong with that and I believe there needs to be a national response to give the assistance to these three important cities in our country.”
He’s not really saying it, but, he’s saying it after the question. Is Martha’s Vineyard run by a black mayor?
Read: Hot Take: NYC Mayor Adams Plays Raaaaacism Card On Texas Shipping Illegals To Cities Run By Blacks »
Does this help the mission in protecting the United States? No
The Air Force has released its first plan to reduce its carbon footprint and adapt to climate change
U.S. Air Force and Space Force officials released a climate action plan Wednesday that includes a goal of operating bases at net-zero emissions by 2046, an ambitious effort to rein in the sizable carbon footprint of the U.S. military’s air wing.
The plan, the first from the branches, also takes into account how the Air Force will need to adapt its operations to changing climate conditions, most notably within the infrastructure of its bases and where its energy comes from.
“Extreme weather and environmental conditions are already imposing high costs on Department of the Air Force installations and operational missions, while simultaneously posing new risks to our ability to train and operate effectively,” Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall said in the plan.
He recognized the Air Force as the largest emitter of greenhouse gases in the Defense Department. The overall carbon footprint of the U.S. military rivals that of some countries such as Denmark and Portugal, according to research from Boston University. Those gases are what drive global warming and contribute to the worsening effects of climate change, such as extreme weather events.
They actually think they’ll be able to operate their airplanes and such with zero emissions? Maybe if they stop flying them.
Some of that work has already begun. The Air Force has already broken ground on a rebuild of Tyndall Air Force Base on the coast of Florida that will be resilient to future storms and is set to cost around $5 billion when completed. By the end of 2024, leaders at every Air Force base must have the framework in place to assess each base’s climate challenges. The goal is to have resilience and renewable energy projects at the ready as more funding becomes available year over year.
Pouring money into this, while forgetting things like training and materials.
The plan also aims to include, within the next two years, climate considerations into the way it educates and trains Air Force and Space Force personnel.
Indoctrination. Which will supersede teaching them to do their job, ie, protecting the U.S.
The Air Force will also complete a pilot by the end of 2027 using microreactors, or small nuclear devices, that can provide energy for an entire base.
Now that would make sense, but, you know the climate cultists will stop this from ever happening. Regardless, this is just another way the Left is destroying the American military, making America more vulnerable, because they hate America.
In fairness, replacing all those fossil fuels would be great, as I’ve stated numerous times. Not from a CO2 point of view, but, all the other pollution that comes from fossil fuels. The smog. The smell. Leaking on the ground. But, whatever replaces it needs to actually be much better for the environment.
Read: U.S. Air Force Releases Plan To Tackle ‘Climate Change’ Or Something »
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