Balanced Coverage Of Climate Crisis (scam) Undermines Science Or Something

By William Teach July 23, 2022 – 7:15 am

First of all, what balanced coverage? Second, where is this balanced coverage they’re talking about? Third of all, science doesn’t care about balance, it cares about facts. And what we’re seeing is not science

False balance in news coverage of climate change makes it harder to address the crisis

Green Climate Thought PoliceWhat does media coverage of climate change have in common with coverage of COVID-19? Each has been an example of the media practice of “bothsidesism,” whereby journalists strive to present both sides of an issue, even in cases where most credible sources fall on one side.

Bothsidesism — also referred to as false balance reporting — can damage the public’s ability to distinguish fact from fiction and lead audiences to doubt the scientific consensus on pressing societal challenges like climate change, a new Northwestern University study has found.

“The devastating heat wave in Europe this week is a reminder that we need to take urgent action to slow human-caused warming, but the media is still giving air to the opinions of people who do not believe there is cause for alarm, which makes the problem seem less dire than it actually is,” said David Rapp, a psychologist and professor at Northwestern’s School of Education and Social Policy (SESP) who coauthored the research.

The argument that climate change is not man made has been incontrovertibly disproven by science again and again, yet many Americans believe that the global crisis is either not real, not of our making, or both, in part because the news media has given climate change deniers a platform in the name of balanced reporting, according to the researchers.

This is not journalism, it’s unhinged belief in a cult. Notice that they almost never actually show that the current warm period is mostly/solely caused by Mankind? Also notice, as I’ve mentioned ad nauseum, that they people who say they believe in this malarkey rarely practice what they preach.

In the study, the researchers found that false-balance reporting can make people doubt the scientific consensus on issues like climate change, sometimes making them wonder if an issue is even worth taking seriously.

In other words, how dare anyone give a contrarian viewpoint! And those who do must be shut down. Consensus is not science.

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Good News: Wuhan Flu Will Be With Us Forever, Says White House

By William Teach July 23, 2022 – 7:00 am

If that’s the case, perhaps the Executive Branch could do their f’ing job and figure out where it came from, exactly, and tell the Citizens, rather than protecting China

COVID-19 ‘is going to be with us forever,’ White House says

White House pandemic response coordinator Dr. Ashish Jha delivered a grim message on Friday about the ever-evolving coronavirus pathogen that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates has infected more than 140 million Americans, including President Biden.

“This virus is going to be with us forever,” Jha said during a press briefing otherwise devoted to an update on the president’s health. “It’s really, really important that people build up their immunity against this virus,” he added, emphasizing that vaccination is the best means of doing so.

It was a bracing reminder that any hopes of fully eradicating the coronavirus are long gone. And while many Americans have sought a return to normal life, the coronavirus continues to cause economic and social disruptions.

Uh huh

Video of Biden Saying Vaccinations Prevent COVID Resurfaces After Infection

Biden Brain SuckerVideo of President Joe Biden assuring Americans exactly one year ago that they would not get COVID-19 if they are vaccinated resurfaced Thursday after the commander in chief tested positive for the novel coronavirus. (snip)

Critics of the president and skeptics of the vaccine quickly resurfaced previous remarks he made claiming that those who are vaccinated will not get COVID-19. Exactly one year ago on July 21, 2021, during a CNN Town Hall, Biden asserted: “You’re not going to get COVID if you have these vaccinations.”

“It was one year ago today that Biden said this quote: ‘You’re not going to get covid if you have these vaccinations,'” Greg Price, a right-wing digital strategist, tweeted, sharing a clip of Biden at the Town Hall.

Political commentator and OutKick founder Clay Travis tweeted the video as well. “Last July Joe Biden on @cnn ‘You’re not going to get covid if you have these vaccinations.’ Biden has now had FOUR covid shots and still got it,” Travis wrote.

As Snopes noted on this, Brandon vastly overstated the effectiveness of the COVID shots. Even back in July of last year we were learning about lots of breakthrough cases and that the vax was more about keeping your from getting the real bad Wuhan flu symptoms. It would usually mean your symptoms wouldn’t be that bad.

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If All You See…

By William Teach July 22, 2022 – 1:00 pm

…is a cloudy, steamy day caused by carbon pollution, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is The Daley Gator, with a post on Woke not working in corporate America.

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Baby Formula Shortage Still A Disaster Under Biden’s “Leadership”

By William Teach July 22, 2022 – 10:30 am

Now, just imagine this was occurring under President Trump: it would be pretty big news across all the Credentialed Media outlets, blasting him for failing to fix the problem. Instead, under Let’s Go Brandon, it’s a small story, barely mentioned, and mostly minimized

US formula shortage persists and will ‘take a while to fix’

The nationwide baby formula shortage that federal leaders once said would be fixed within weeks has dragged on for months, despite tons of imports and key steps forward in domestic production.

“Federal leaders”? How would CNN write that if Trump were still around?

The nationwide baby formula shortage that Donald Trump once said would be fixed within weeks has dragged on for months, despite tons of imports and key steps forward in domestic production, imperiling the health of babies, causing outcry from parents. House leader Nancy Pelosi stated that “Trump has utterly failed American parents.” Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez proclaimed “he should resign.”

Right?

Over the past two months, the Biden administration has announced more than a dozen missions to bring formula into the US through Operation Fly Formula. The announcements total more than 4 million pounds of formula — and the latest one says that enough to make about 61 million 8-ounce bottle equivalents will be delivered by the end of this week.

That’s the only mention of “Biden”, and not even specifically the Chump in Chief specifically

More than 20% of formula products — powder, ready-to-drink and liquid — have been out of stock for the past six weeks, according to data released Wednesday by market research firm Information Resources Inc. Before the recall, about 10% of infant formula products were typically out of stock.

Wait, it’s worse?

Families despair as America’s baby formula shortage again gets WORSE: Biden announces his 17th international delivery as out-of-stock numbers rise to highest level this year

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But, despite the rash of flights the administration has announced, U.S. stores are still struggling to stock baby formula on their shelves.

Formula availability dropped to its lowest level so far this year, with about 30% of products out of stock for the week ended July 3, according to the market-research firm IRI.

And the number jumps to 30% for close to right now.

Baby formula shortage getting worse despite Biden airlifts

The ongoing shortage of baby formula across the United States has become more acute in recent weeks, despite the Biden administration flying in millions of bottles worth of formula from across the world over the past two months.

According to the market research firm IRI, 28.3% of powdered baby formula products were out of stock at US stores for the week ending July 10 — a higher percentage than the 23.7% reported out of stock for the week ending May 22, when the shortage dominated headlines.

The most recent availability figure was a slight improvement from the previous week, when the out-of-stock percentage stood at 29.5%, the highest figure so far this year. By contrast, the normal out-of-stock range prior to the COVID-19 pandemic hovered between 5% and 7%.

OK, slightly better. But, a 1.2% improvement is nothing to crow about

(Breitbart) Rep Kat Cammack (R-Fla) stated, [relevant remarks begin around 1:46:45] “[T]his was back in April and May, and it’s now July. And just last week, a bill comes to the floor and it actually removes the tariffs for importing formula. Why does it take so long for us to actually take action, or the Biden FDA, which was responsible for this shortage in the first place? Because don’t forget, it was the Biden FDA that shut down the nation’s largest manufacturer of baby formula without any plan to backfill the supplies and no plan to get this factory back online. And so, I think it’s pretty ridiculous that, despite the fact that we’ve had national outrage, that there has been legislation that has been passed, that we are literally flying in cargo planes of baby formula, having passed legislation to ease the labeling issues, that there’s still a shortage. And it’s not because of supply and demand. We didn’t just all of a sudden randomly start having more babies. It’s because the Biden administration can’t get out of its own way. They are so terrible at absolutely everything that they still, to this day, cannot get something that they broke just back to functioning. So, this is a real problem, and elections have consequences.”

Way to go, Brandon! I’m sure he’s working hard at the beach every weekend.

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Your Fault: Hotcoldwet Dry And Land Use Could Make Flooding Worse

By William Teach July 22, 2022 – 7:15 am

In other words, most land use, but, the climate cult will never not blame anthropogenic climate change

Climate change and land-use changes increase likelihood of flood events

The German government estimates the total losses resulting from the disastrous floods in July 2021 at 32 billion euros. In two studies, one of which is currently available in Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, researchers at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) have investigated how precipitation, evaporation processes, water flow, and runoff led to this flooding. To improve future preparedness for such extreme events, they advise that risk assessments take greater account of the landscape and river courses, how they change, and how sediments are transported. In addition, projections show an increase in the spatial extent and frequency of such extreme events, as well as higher amounts of precipitation.

The July 2021 flood was one of the five worst and costliest natural disasters in Europe in the past 50 years. More than 180 people lost their lives, and well over 10,000 buildings were damaged. Critical infrastructure, e.g. electrical grids, water supply networks, bridges, rail lines and roads, was partially or completely destroyed. The total extent of the flooding in the Eifel region on July 14 and 15, 2021, surprised even the experts. A combination of several factors contributed to this disaster. “We investigated how precipitation, evaporation processes, water flow, and runoff led to this flooding,” says Dr. Susanna Mohr, General Manager of the Center for Disaster Management and Risk Reduction Technology (CEDIM) at KIT, who led the interdisciplinary team from several KIT institutes that compiled the study.

The Burchardi Flood of 1634 killed 8k-15k. That was during the Little Ice Age. In 1342, the St. Mary Magdalene’s flood killed 6,000. Darned fossil fueled carriages.

The estimated amount of water that flowed through the Ahr River in the 2021 flood was comparable to that of the historic floods of 1804 and 1910, but the measured water levels were considerably higher at several locations in 2021. “We saw that the kind of debris—the material transported by the flowing water—changed significantly. Along with eroded sediment and existing deadwood, anthropogenic materials—those made by people—played a crucial role,” says Mohr.

“For example, cars and trucks, trailers, trash containers and construction materials piled up around bridges, which caused additional bottlenecks and exacerbated the effects of the flood.” To improve future preparedness for such extreme events, Mohr advises that flood risk management take the landscape, infrastructure and buildings into account, along with river courses and their changes and potential sediment transport, when performing hazard assessments.

Darned CO2 putting all that stuff in the way.

The KIT researchers have also simulated the flood event under various climate conditions. “The intensity of such precipitation events increases by about seven percent with each degree of warming. The simulations show that the amount of precipitation is already eleven percent higher than under pre-industrial conditions,” says Dr. Patrick Ludwig, who heads the regional climate modeling working group at IMK-TRO. “So we have to expect a further increase in precipitation as global warming progresses.”

And can they link this to man-caused warming, as opposed to natural?

But Ludwig warns that this will not be the only future problem. “Our projections show that such extreme events will cover greater areas, last longer and occur more often,” he says.

And then we get the prognostication. So, not science.

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NC AG Josh Stein Refuses To Enforce NC Law On 20 Week Abortion Ban

By William Teach July 22, 2022 – 7:00 am

If Stein doesn’t feel like enforcing a law passed by the duly elected General Assembly and signed into law by the duly elected governor, then he should resign. But, Democrat always seem to think they do not have to enforce laws they do not like

NC attorney general won’t move to enforce state’s 20-week abortion ban

North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein said Thursday that he won’t work to enforce the state’s 20-week abortion ban, defying Republican lawmakers who have pressed him to do so as part of a long-running court case.

The state has a decades-old law banning abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy, with exceptions for medical emergencies. But that hasn’t been enforced because of a federal court injunction barring the state from doing so.

With the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision last month to overturn the landmark Roe v. Wade abortion case, the 20-week law is widely expected to go into effect. But there’s a procedure to follow first, and it would normally include the attorney general asking the court to reconsider the injunction.

On Thursday, Stein said he wouldn’t do that. “The Department of Justice will not take action that would restrict women’s ability to make their own reproductive health care decisions,” Stein, a Democrat and expected candidate for governor in 2024, said in a news release. “Protecting that ability is more important than ever, as states across the nation are banning abortions in all instances, including rape and incest.”

Chapter 114 of NC law as passed by the General Assembly, which was given authority to create, among other things, the office of the Attorney General, requires the AG to enforce all NC laws. Huh. Might be looking at an impeachment proceeding the first time he blows off prosecution.

GOP lawmakers previously said that if Stein doesn’t act in the court case, they will. Speaker of the North Carolina House of Representatives  Tim Moore, in a statement Thursday, accused Stein of disregarding his oath to defend North Carolina laws and said Republican leaders are “exploring all options to defend the law and protect life in North Carolina.”

“Despite his faux outrage, Josh Stein knows full well that the 20-week ban on the books does not limit women’s freedom, but protects the unborn when they are capable of feeling pain in the womb,” Moore said.

Does the GA want to spend time impeaching Stein? That’s the question.

Although currently legal in North Carolina, abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy are rare. Nearly 70% of abortions performed on North Carolina residents in 2020 came before the eighth week, according to Department of Health and Human statistics. Roughly 48 abortions, or 0.2%, came after the 20-week mark that year, the statistics show.

Hmm, if most came by 8 weeks, why are the abortion on demand supporters so worked up by the 20 week ban?

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Brandon Unveils Climate (scam) Action

By William Teach July 21, 2022 – 4:29 pm

This was after taking a fossil fueled helicopter flight to the airport, jumping on a jumbo jet, which was followed by a backup jumbo jet and several fighter jets, then an 18+ fossil fueled convoy, then doing it in reverse back to D.C.

And, if he didn’t contract Wuhan Flu, he would have done the fossil fueled travel bit to Wilkes-Barr, Pa, then to Philadelphia, then New Castle, Delaware.

Biden unveils new executive actions to combat climate change

In the wake of a setback from his legislative agenda to combat climate change, President Biden on Wednesday announced a set of new actions to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

“Climate change poses an existential threat to the U.S. and the world,” Biden said at a former coal-fired power plant in Somerset, Mass. The Brayton Point plant is being renovated into a substation for the transmission of offshore wind power and a manufacturing plant for the underwater cables needed to bring offshore wind power to customers.

“Since Congress is not acting as it should,” Biden added, “in the coming days my administration will announce the executive actions we have developed.”

None of those actions include Joe cutting back on his own fossil fueled travel

To coincide with the speech, the White House released a fact sheet with two new measures to adapt to climate change. FEMA is announcing $2.3 billion in funding to “help communities increase resilience to heat waves, drought, wildfires, flood, hurricanes, and other hazards,” and the Department of Health and Human Services is issuing guidance to allow the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program to be used by local governments for home air-conditioning equipment, community cooling centers and more.

In other words, free money for low income voters to vote Democrat

The Biden administration simultaneously unveiled an effort to boost clean energy, as the Department of the Interior is proposing a 700,000-acre area for the development of offshore wind energy in the Gulf of Mexico.

That’s it? What happens when a hurricane destroys them?

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If All You See…

By William Teach July 21, 2022 – 1:00 pm

…are palm trees which will soon grow in northern areas like Canada and Alaska, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Victory Girls Blog, with a post on the J6 committee persisting

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Federal Court Let’s Georgia’s Fetal Heartbeat Law Take Effect

By William Teach July 21, 2022 – 10:30 am

This judge’s ruling surely won’t stop the abortion death merchants, especially those who are really enthused to make sure black women abort their babies at a percentage well above any other race. Hey, maybe the death merchants, such as Stacy Abrams, can explain what contraception does

Federal appeals court allows Georgia abortion law to take effect immediately

A federal appeals court overturned a lower court ruling and allowed Georgia’s restrictive 2019 abortion law to take effect immediately Wednesday. The decision was expected after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled last month that there is no constitutional right to an abortion.

The law, which had been barred from taking effect, bans most abortions once a “detectable human heartbeat” is present. Cardiac activity can be detected by ultrasound in cells within an embryo that will eventually become the heart as early as six weeks into a pregnancy, before many pregnancies are detected.

The Georgia law includes exceptions for rape and incest, as long as a police report is filed. It also allows for later abortions when the mother’s life is at risk or a serious medical condition renders a fetus unviable.

A three-judge panel of the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said that a U.S. Supreme Court ruling in a Mississippi case that overturned Roe v. Wade allows the law to take effect. Circuit Court Chief Judge William Pryor wrote that the ruling in that case “makes clear no right to abortion exists under the Constitution, so Georgia may prohibit them.”

The court further ruled that the law could take effect immediately. The ruling further enjoined that expanding the term “natural person” to an unborn baby was perfectly OK within Georgia law, which could have interesting applications for challenges to similar laws in other states

Andrea Young, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Georgia, which sued to challenge the law on behalf of Georgia abortion providers and an advocacy group, said the organization “will continue to fight for abortion rights for the women of Georgia with all of the tools at our disposal.”

Will they attempt to bring this to the Supreme Court? They’ll probably lose, if the Court even decides to take the case. Their only recourse is to attempt to win at the ballot box, both for the Senate and House of the Georgia general assembly and the governor’s mansion. This makes liberals very unhappy, because they expect things to be easy and everyone to simply comply.

The fight over abortion will be on the ballot this November in at least 5 states

(if trouble with paywall, try this)

The battle over the access to abortion will continue during this year’s midterm elections after the Supreme Court overturned the landmark Roe v. Wade decision last month. At least five states – California, Kansas, Kentucky, Montana and Vermont – will include ballot proposals on changing the state’s constitution over abortion rights.

And several other states are either gearing up to include an abortion initiative in 2023 or beyond.

In California and Vermont, voters will decide to enshrine access to abortion, while in Kentucky and Kansas, voters will decide against protecting access to abortion in the states’ charters.

In places like Arizona, a ballot measure to protect abortion access failed to meet the requirements for the November election. But activists in Michigan and Colorado are attempting to get an initiative included in the November election.

Obviously, California’s initiative has a darned good chance of succeeding. Vermont is a little closer in enshrining abortion. Kansas’ is also polling closely. In Montana

The Medical Care Requirements for Born-Alive Infants Measure will be on the ballot this November in Montana. The measure states that infants born alive at any stage are “legal persons” and are entitled to the protections of the law.

It also requires infants born after a cesarean section or an attempted abortion receive medical care.

While around 56% of those in Montana say they support abortion in theory, how will they vote in practice? If the Montana general assembly is smart, they’d pass a law similar to Mississippi, stopping abortions after 15 weeks.

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Who’s Up For Ford Laying Off 8K To Finance Their EV Initiative

By William Teach July 21, 2022 – 7:15 am

I’m sure the workers are thrilled to sacrifice for the great good of getting everyone into an EV, right?

Ford Plans to Lay Off 8,000 Workers to Help Finance Electric-Vehicle Initiative

Electric vehicle

Ford Motor Company plans to lay off as many as 8,ooo employees in the coming weeks to help finance its electric-vehicle initiative.

The cuts will affect the newly established Ford Blue unit that produces engines for gas-powered vehicles, as well as other salaried, operational positions throughout the company, people familiar with the development told Bloomberg.

Under the auspices of Chief Executive Officer Jim Farley, in March Ford diversified its automotive manufacturing into two distinct business projects: the “Model e” unit for EV development and “Ford Blue” for internal-combustion engines.

Some staff are likely to be let go this summer, and the layoffs may happen in stages, the people said. They are expected to target the U.S. sector of Ford, where 31,000 salaried workers are employed, Bloomberg noted. Declining to comment on the potential job cuts, Ford emphasized that it is committed to revolutionizing EVs, where many automakers believe the future of the car market is headed.

“As part of this, we have laid out clear targets to lower our cost structure to ensure we are lean and fully competitive with the best in the industry,” Chief Communications Officer Mark Truby said in a statement.

The climate cult agenda is wonderful, eh?

My bad, had GM in headline. Fixed

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