Joe Manchin To Soon See His Permitting Deal Crash And Burn

By William Teach August 15, 2022 – 10:30 am

In order to get the utterly misnamed Inflation Reduction Act, which was really just Build Back Better version 4, passed with the support of Joe Manchin, Chuck Schumer promised him permitting reform. I wonder how that will work

Democrat calls for stand-alone vote on permitting deal, saying he doesn’t feel ‘obligation’ to vote for it

Rep. Raúl Grijalva (D-Ariz.) told The Hill on Friday that he will push for the permitting deal between Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) and Democratic leadership to be a standalone vote — rather than attached to another vehicle that may incentivize more of his colleagues to vote for it.

Grijalva said that he and a handful of colleagues planned to make a request on Friday that the vote — on an agreement he fears will weaken environmental standards — be a standalone.

He said he hopes the reforms are not attached to must-pass legislation such as a continuing resolution, which keeps the government funded temporarily in the absence of an appropriations bill.

“We’re going to start early to urge a separate vote,” said Grijalva, chairman of the House Natural Resources Committee and former co-chairman of the Congressional Progressive Caucus.

Why a separate vote? Because Democrats do not want permitting reform for oil, gas, and, to a small degree coal, to happen. They do not want to streamline permits. They do not want new permits. They don’t want existing permits to have a chance. They won’t give up their own use of fossil fuels, of course. If they have a separate vote they can kill it off, rather than seeing it jammed up in some other legislation. So, the chances of Manchin getting what he wanted in order to get his vote for the IRA are low. How many Democrats will vote for it in the House? Will there be enough? How about the Senate? Can it get the votes? If so, will Biden sign it? Heck, Democrats might slow walk it and let the clock run out.

He acknowledged that there is a deal between Manchin and Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) to advance the permitting reform deal, but said he doesn’t feel an “obligation” to uphold a deal that he did not help negotiate.

“I don’t feel an obligation … to support the deal,” Grijalva said. “I didn’t shake hands, I wasn’t part of the negotiations.”

When Manchin and Schumer announced they had reached a deal on the climate and tax legislation, they also agreed to take up reforms to the environmental reviews that are required in order to permit energy or other construction projects.

Good job, Joe. You sold out. Should have demanded the permitting be in the IRA, though, it might not have passed reconciliation. And even if passed, it doesn’t mean that the courts and the federal bureaucrats will allow streamlined permitting, as this Salon piece points out. Especially for the Mountain Valley Pipeline

While many of these permitting reforms stand to benefit both fossil fuel producers and clean energy providers, one provision stood out for its clear benefit to a group of oil and gas companies. The summary includes a requirement to “complete the Mountain Valley Pipeline,” a 303-mile pipeline that delivers natural gas from northwestern West Virginia — Manchin’s home state — to southern Virginia.

But whether Congressional intervention can help the pipeline cross the finish line is unclear. The one-page summary requires “relevant agencies to take all necessary actions to permit the construction and operation of the Mountain Valley pipeline” and “give the D.C. Circuit jurisdiction over any further litigation.” (A change in venue may help the pipeline developers who have been repeatedly rebuffed in the Fourth Circuit court.)

It’ll probably never happen. A separate vote in the Senate a week ago was shot down, with only Republicans and Manchin supporting it. You sold out West Virginia and the middle and working classes for nothing, Joe.

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Experts Predict Flooding Doom For California Coming Sometime

By William Teach August 15, 2022 – 7:15 am

Of all the articles I’ve perused on this little bit of doomsaying, I’ve yet to see one which gives a timeframe

Experts warn California of a disaster ‘larger than any in world history.’ It’s not an earthquake.

Megadrought may be the main weather concern across the West right now amid the constant threat of wildfires and earthquakes. But a new study warns another crisis is looming in California: “Megafloods.”

Climate change is increasing the risk of floods that could submerge cities and displace millions of people across the state, according to a study released Friday.

It says that an extreme monthlong storm could bring feet of rain – in some places, more than 100 inches – to hundreds of miles of California. Similarly unrelenting storms have happened in the past, before the region became home to tens of millions of people.

Now, each degree of global warming is dramatically increasing the odds and size of the next megaflood, the study says.

How much? Because we’ve only seen a minor 1.5F increase in global temperatures since 1850. What’s the timeframe for this flooding?

In fact, the study found that climate change makes such catastrophic flooding twice as likely to occur.

As compared to when? What happened during the previous Holocene warm periods? How about during the cool periods

Long before climate change, California’s Great Flood of 1862 stretched up to 300 miles long and 60 miles across. According to the study, a similar flood now would displace 5 million to 10 million people, cut off the state’s major freeways for perhaps weeks or months with massive economic damage, and submerge major Central Valley cities as well as parts of Los Angeles.

So, what caused it in 1862, not long after the Little Ice Age ended?

The researchers used new high-resolution weather models and existing climate models to compare two extreme scenarios, according to UCLA: one that would occur about once a century in the historical climate of recent decades and another in the projected climate of 2081-2100.

And there we go, computer models with extreme doom built in.

“Parts of cities such as Sacramento, Stockton, Fresno and Los Angeles would be under water even with today’s extensive collection of reservoirs, levees and bypasses. It is estimated that it would be a $1 trillion disaster, larger than any in world history,” according to the statement.

Not seeing the downside.

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CBS News Finally Lets Us Know Inflation Reduction Act Probably Won’t Reduce Inflation

By William Teach August 15, 2022 – 7:00 am

Man, if only we had a news media which did their job before massive, citizen behavior changing, IRS enforcement and tax increasing, energy killing legislation is passed

One thing the Inflation Reduction Act may not do: Lower inflation

The Inflation Reduction Act is aimed at tackling a host of problems, from climate change to catching tax cheats, but there’s one issue it may not solve: reducing inflation.

That’s the conclusion of the Penn Wharton Budget Model, a group of economists and data scientists at University of Pennsylvania who analyze public policies to predict their economic and fiscal impacts. Its analysis, published Friday, comes as inflation remains near a 40-year high, crimping the budgets of consumers and businesses alike.

The Inflation Reduction Act would invest nearly $400 billion in energy security and climate change proposals, aimed at reducing carbon emissions by approximately 40% by 2030. It also would allow Medicare to negotiate with drugmakers on prescription prices, and would limit out-of-pocket drug expenses for seniors to $2,000 annually. The bill also directs $80 billion in funding to the IRS, aimed at helping the underfunded agency hire more auditors and beef up its customer service and technology.

Yeah, see, that’s the problem, all anyone, from the Credentialed Media to those who voted for it (and most didn’t read it), can talk about are things that have nothing to do with inflation reduction

But the impact on inflation “is statistically indistinguishable from zero,” the Penn Wharton Budget Model said on Friday.

The article could pretty much end right there. That’s really all you need to know.

The legislation, which passed the House of Representatives on Friday and is headed to President Biden’s desk to be signed into law, has wide-ranging goals yet does little to directly tackle the underlying causes of inflationary pressures pushing up the cost of everything from food to housing, the economists predict. Still, the bill could help some Americans lower their health care costs, through its provisions for seniors’ prescriptions and another item that would lower what consumers pay for some Affordable Care Act plans.

In other words, the bill had nothing to do with reducing inflation. It didn’t even try. Not even some lip service.

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If All You See…

By William Teach August 14, 2022 – 3:10 pm

…is an Evil drink full of carbon pollution, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is bluebird of bitterness, with a post on Sunday funnies.

It’s drinking week!

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Sorta Blogless Patriotic Pinup

By William Teach August 14, 2022 – 9:39 am

Patriotic Pinup Peter Driben

Happy Sunday! Another gorgeous day in the Once And Future Nation Of America. The Sun is shining, the birds are singing, and the Dodgers are even further ahead of the Padres, even after the big Soto trade. This pinup is by Peter Driben, with a wee bit of help.

What is happening in Ye Olde Blogosphere? The Fine 15

  1. Common Cents Blog covers Arizona deciding to build their own border wall
  2. Geller Report notes JK Rowling getting death threats from Islamists
  3. Jihad Watch covers an Islamic woman storming a cockpit screaming Allahu Akbar
  4. Legal Insurrection discusses Germany cutting heating supplies
  5. Moonbattery highlights turning Joan Of Arc non-binary
  6. Outside The Beltway discusses the IRA not reducing inflation
  7. Pacific Pundit wonders if the Russia hoax Crossfire Hurricane documents were the FBI target
  8. The First Street Journal discusses the government being here to help
  9. The Last Refuge covers Democrats already reneging on Manchin’s energy development
  10. The Lid highlights most Americans worried about Biden’s mental health
  11. The O.K. Corral covers a moron nearly leaping to his death
  12. The Right Scoop notes how many documents Obama took and never got raided
  13. This ain’t Hell… discusses the FBI report on the Alec Baldwin shooting
  14. Weasel Zippers laughs at leftist yammering about Trump being indicted
  15. And last, but, not least, No Tricks Zone highlights how the Arctic sea ice is doing

As always, the full set of pinups can be seen in the Patriotic Pinup category, or over at my Gallery page (nope, that’s gone, the newest Apache killed access, and the program hasn’t been upgraded since 2014). While we are on pinups, since it is that time of year, have you gotten your Pinups for Vets calendar yet? And don’t forget to check out what I declare to be our War on Women Rule 5 and linky luv posts and things that interest me. I’ve also mostly alphabetized them, makes it easier scrolling the feedreader

Don’t forget to check out all the other great material all the linked blogs have!

Anyone else have a link or hotty-fest going on? Let me know so I can add you to the list. And do you have a favorite blog you can recommend be added to the feedreader?

Two great sites for getting news links are Liberty Daily and Whatafinger.

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Young Climate Cultists Demand More After Passage Of “Historic” IRA Bill

By William Teach August 14, 2022 – 7:53 am

It’s always interesting that any bill or executive order from Democrats is “historic”, eh? Is the Inflation Reduction Act historic because it has virtually nothing to do with inflation reduction, and, instead, is mostly about climate scam measures, increasing the size of the IRS, and taxes which will hit the working and middle classes? It hasn’t even been signed by Let’s Go Brandon (who’s on vacation again) and the youths want more (paywalled NY Times piece here)

As Historic Climate Bill Heads to Biden’s Desk, Young Activists Demand More

For the septuagenarian lawmakers who wrote the historic climate bill that Congress passed Friday, and the 79-year-old president who is about to sign it into law, the measure represents a “once-in-a-generation” victory.

But younger Democrats and climate activists crave more. They look at the bill as a down payment, and they worry a complacent electorate will believe Washington has at last solved climate change — when in fact scientists warn it has only taken the first necessary steps.

“This bill is not the bill that my generation deserves and needs to fully avert climate catastrophe, but it is the one that we can pass, given how much power we have at this moment,” said Varshini Prakash, 29, who co-founded the Sunrise Movement, a youth-led climate activism group.

Prakash became aware of climate doom at the age of 11 when a tsunami from the 2004 Indonesian earthquake, which, of course has zero to do with any sort of climate change, so, she’s working off false info

Christina Tzintzun Ramirez, 40, president of NextGen America, which is focused on young voter participation, said it was not lost on her that the climate deal was crafted largely by older men and included some concessions to the fossil fuel industry.

“We are very clear that it took so long because our Congress and Senate doesn’t look like the American people,” said Ramirez, whose group is working to elect more young progressives committed to attacking global warming. “The climate crisis is going to unfold on the majority of young people. Most of these congressional representatives will be dead by the time we face the consequences of their inaction.”

She’s as far left as AOC, and doesn’t seemed to have restricted her own use of fossil fuels, traveling around quite a bit. She’s also 40, so, not exactly a “youth”. Anyhow, the article doesn’t offer any ideas from these “youths” or their Progressive (nice Fascism) groups, but, the uber-Warmist NY Times writes offer

To reach his 2030 goal, Biden would still have to impose new regulations on emissions from power plants, vehicle tailpipes and methane leaks from oil and gas wells. State and local governments would have to set new standards to compel the rapid adoption of electric cars, wind- and solar-powered electricity, and energy-efficient buildings to make up the last percentage points.

For the far heavier lift — essentially eliminating the nation’s fossil fuel emissions in the next two decades — Congress would need to enact even more ambitious legislation than the historic bill just passed by a razor-thin majority, experts said.

To zero out emissions by 2050, Congress would have to take on the politically difficult burden of taxing, penalizing, banning or phasing out the coal, oil and gas pollution that is driving global warming.

Climate cultists can give up their own use of fossil fuels voluntarily, right?

Rep. Pramila Jayapal of Washington, 56, who leads the House progressive caucus, said in addition to deeper cuts in emissions, young and racially diverse climate advocates want new provisions that also protect low-income neighborhoods and communities of color, which are disproportionately affected by climate impacts.

“They’re really talking about it from this integrated perspective of jobs, justice and decarbonization,” she said.

OK, let’s put all sorts of restriction in Democrat run cities, see how they like it. And when does Jayapal stop taking fossil fueled flights and car trips? She can buy an EV and drive from Seattle, or take the train.

Celinda Lake, a Democratic strategist, said she believes the political support for a carbon tax could grow, particularly as millennial and Generation Z voters enter office.

Let’s start by putting one on all the Gen Z and Millennials, see how they feel about it.

Rhiana Gunn-Wright, 32, director of climate policy at the Roosevelt Institute, a liberal think tank, and an architect of the Green New Deal, said she is worried a sense of complacency will settle in after passage of the climate bill.

“Over the next seven or eight years, there will still, unfortunately, be extreme weather events, and we still need to keep pointing out the cause of those: carbon emissions. And from where? Fossil fuels,” she said.

Over the next 7 to 8 billion years, a point at which real scientists think our Sun will die, there will be extreme weather events. If Gunn-Wright is so concerned, she should advocate for all the Warmists to give up their own use of fossil fuels. Practice what you preach. It is interesting that everything these climate cult groups push all require Government force and will hurt the working and middle classes, while almost none of the activists mention the measures they’ve taken in their own lives.

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Bummer: Stupid Cat Videos Are Killing The Planet

By William Teach August 13, 2022 – 3:19 pm

The hyper-cultists are a bunch of miserable people. Who probably watch the same videos. Possibly to make themselves more upset, which makes them happy, which makes them mad

Stop watching ‘stupid cat videos” right now if you want to save the planet

Cat videos may not be the first thing that comes to mind when contemplating climate change, but its something researchers warn could have a serious environmental impact.

“We do have to stop watching these stupid cat videos if we’re serious about saving the planet,” Emma Mohr-McClune, service director at GlobalData, said in a new podcast.

Okay, it’s not the cat videos themselves that are the real culprit behind climate change. Instead, McClune explains that videos of kittens discovering that they have four paws are a symptom of something worse: telecommunication companies’ insistence that consumers consume more and more stuff.

She made the comments during a wider discussion about how telecoms are attempting to achieve their environmental, social and governance (ESG) targets. ESG encompasses areas ranging between climate change and human rights to risk management and treating workers fairly.

These people must be fun at parties, eh?

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If All You See…

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

…is a sea that will soon rise up dozens of feet, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Chicks On The Right, with a post on Boston hospital pushing surgical options for the gender confused.

Just as a sidebar, these kinds of photos amuse me, because you know the person got up very early, did the makeup and hair, adjusted the clothes just right, have the props, just for the photo. Look at the angle of the light. It’s very early in the a.m.

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Herr Fauci Seems Upset That Americans Are Unhappy With Forced Masking

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

Dictators in waiting gotta dictator in waiting

Fauci vents about Americans’ opposition to forced masking: ‘It’s almost inexplicable’

Dr. Anthony Fauci complained during a talk Tuesday evening that many Americans see forced masking policies as a violation of their liberties.

During the talk, Fauci, who is President Biden’s chief medical adviser and the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, expressed concern about Americans’ aversion to both forced masking and receiving the COVID-19 vaccine. He characterized individuals’ concerns with such policies as “inexplicable.”

“When you tell people they need to mask in an indoor congregate setting when you’re in a zone that has a high dynamic of infection — that is looked upon by a lot of people, not everybody, as an encroachment on your freedom,” Fauci remarked during the event hosted by the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center campus in Seattle.

Because masks are not theater, you know

So much that he’s not wearing a mask indoors when he himself was telling people to wear a mask indoors. How many times did we see Fauci not wear a mask? He’d show up with it on then take it off, much like Biden and Biden’s staff

Wearing it and uncovering your mouth makes a mask worthless, right? There are plenty of shots from that same meeting where he’s not wearing it at all while speaking, because COVID19 is not a threat while you have the podium, you know.

Anthony Fauci Did Not Wear a Mask in Private—Kellyanne Conway

Former White House counselor Kellyanne Conway has claimed that Dr. Anthony Fauci did not wear a mask amid the pandemic during private meetings but “like magic” would put one on if a photographer entered the room.

The claim from Conway is made in her new memoir, Here’s the Deal, excerpts of which were published by The Washington Poston Tuesday ahead of its release.

“No masks was standard fare in the White House Situation Room, where Dr. Fauci was more likely to wear ‘Dr. Fauci’ socks than a mask,” Conway said.

“Then, like magic, when D. Myles Cullen, the vice president’s photographer, came into the room, masks would suddenly appear.”

It’s all theater. One would have thought he would know that cloth and doctor masks made almost no difference. Yet, for most of the time he had on a cloth mask. For show.

Some schools of all grades are requiring masks, some are optional. With the nag parents who force their kids to wear a mask screeching that other kids are not being forced to wear them. Some teachers are apoplectic, such as at Temple, that students aren’t being forced to wear the worthless masks. It has become a cult. When you’re out in public, you can pretty much tell what party the person is in by them wearing a mask (and often wearing it wrong, with their nose exposed, and sometimes their mouth). If you feel that a mask protects you, wear it. Stop trying to tell the rest of us to wear one. Mind your own business.

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Your Fault: Hotcoldwetdry Making Diseases Worse

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

All you had to do was give up your fossil fueled vehicle and travel, agree to pay all sorts of taxes, and offer your freedom, liberty, and life choices to government and this wouldn’t be a problem

Climate change is making hundreds of diseases much worse

Climate change has exacerbated more than 200 infectious diseases and dozens of non-transmissible conditions, such as poisonous-snake bites, according to an analysis1. Climate hazards bring people and disease-causing organisms closer together, leading to a rise in cases. Global warming can also make some conditions more severe and affect how well people fight off infections.

Most studies on the associations between climate change and disease have focused on specific pathogens, transmission methods or the effects of one type of extreme weather. Camilo Mora, a data scientist at the University of Hawai?i at M?noa, and his colleagues scoured the literature for evidence of how ten climate-change-induced hazards — including surging temperatures, sea level rise and droughts — have affected all documented infectious diseases (see ‘Climate hazards exacerbate diseases’). These include infections spread or triggered by bacteria, viruses, animals, fungi and plants (see ‘Mode of transmission’). The study was published in Nature Climate Change on 8 August.

“Looking at basically all the climate effects and all the infectious pathogens in one paper is extremely ambitious,” says Josh Colston, an epidemiologist at the University of Virginia School of Medicine in Charlottesville. “They synthesize a tremendous amount of information very well.”

Doom!

Mora and his colleagues examined more than 77,000 research papers, reports and books for records of infectious diseases influenced by climatic hazards that had been made worse by greenhouse-gas emissions. More than 90% of the relevant papers had been published after 2000. Ultimately, the team found 830 publications containing 3,213 case examples.

The researchers discovered that climate change has aggravated 218, or 58%, of the 375 infectious diseases listed in the Global Infectious Diseases and Epidemiology Network (GIDEON), and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System. The total rises to 277 when including non-transmissible conditions, such as asthma and poisonous-snake or insect bites. The team also identified nine diseases that are diminished by climate change.

Hmm, so they just looked at other studies, and simply deemed that 58% are worse? How much worse? Can they prove this is different from previous Holocene warm periods? And most from 2000 and after? Seems rather un-scientific, but, this isn’t about science, it’s about scaring people into complying.

Ancient Arctic Anthrax Has Returned, as Climate Change Impacts Spread of Diseases

Climate change can make diseases stronger, or weaken humans and their ability to fight infections, researchers say. And another consequence of climate change, the melting Arctic permafrost, released ancient frozen bacteria that were frozen for thousands of years. Erik Franklin, professor at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, joins LX News.

The rest is simply a video, but, one has to wonder, do these cultists ever stop and think “hey, it was warm enough at one point for the anthrax to be around, then it got cold: why was it so warm?”

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