Bummer: Climate Cash For Shipping Push Not Going Well

By William Teach April 5, 2025 – 7:15 am

Why does it always seem to be that cult is looking to take money from Other People? Along with taking their freedom and life choices

Hopes fade for climate cash from carbon price on shipping

Government negotiators at the International Maritime Organization (IMO) are likely to agree next week to put a price on at least some shipping emissions, with most of the money going to subsidise clean fuels and help ports and workers adjust to their use, sources close to the talks told Climate Home.

The negotiations in London run until April 11 – and nothing has yet been finally agreed. But governments are discussing the details of a proposal put forward by the talks’ Norwegian chair Sveinung Oftedal in an attempt to reach a compromise on the first such system for a global sector.

The proposal says that revenues raised for the new IMO Net Zero Fund should be spent within the shipping sector and its fuel supply chain.

It specifies that the money should be allocated to green fuels and the infrastructure and workers needed to transition to them, to protecting the maritime industry from climate change, and to addressing negative impacts from a carbon price on shipping emissions, such as food inflation caused by rising shipping costs.

Well, most of those “green fuels” do not exist in any sort of amount that would allow shipping to continue. Not these these cultists care.

Climate campaigners – and some countries, particularly small island and African nations – had hoped that at least some of the revenue would be spent on climate action in developing countries outside the shipping sector, on things like solar panels, drought-resistant seeds and rebuilding roads destroyed by floods.

Last week, Kenyan climate envoy Ali Mohamed wrote in a piece for Climate Home that the money raised should “transcend the maritime sector” and support “broader climate projects” including in landlocked states.

But some other developing countries do not want this money – much of which will be paid by shipowners in their nations – to replace the climate finance that rich governments are supposed to provide under the UN climate convention.

In other words, it’s a scam to redistribute money that wasn’t earned. Same old same old.

Shipowners will have to pay if they don’t reduce emissions by a certain percentage by set years.

The chair’s proposal is to use the targets agreed for global shipping in 2023 – a 20% reduction in emissions by 2030 and 70% by 2040.

If a ship does not meet these targets, it will have to buy a permit known as a “remedial unit” from the IMO’s Net Zero Fund. This is likely to be several hundreds of dollars per tonne of carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e) emitted above the agreed level.

And guess who is going to pay for this? Anyone?

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NC Court Requires Over 60K Votes To Be Proven Real In Supreme Court Election

By William Teach April 5, 2025 – 7:00 am

This has made Democrats, including WRAL, very unhappy

Republican Jefferson Griffin wins NC appeals court challenge in case contesting 65K ballots

Thousands of North Carolina voters could soon have their 2024 ballots thrown out, the state Court of Appeals ruled Friday in a case that could flip to Republicans another seat on the North Carolina Supreme Court months after the November election.

If the ruling stands, the State Board of Elections would be required to ask more than 60,000 voters to provide proof of their identity. Anyone who doesn’t respond will have their ballot thrown out — an outcome that could tilt the narrow race for the high-court seat in favor of the Republican candidate, Jefferson Griffin, who challenged the ballots.

The 2-1 ruling, which came down along party lines, also identified several hundred voters who it said should have their ballots thrown out no matter what, based on a new interpretation of the state constitution.

Griffin, who is a judge on the Court of Appeals, challenged Democratic incumbent Supreme Court Justice Allison Riggs for her seat on the high court in the 2024 election. Recounts showed that Riggs received 734 more votes than Griffin. But the winner of the race hasn’t been made official, while Griffin challenges the voters’ registration and the validity of their ballots.

The biggest group of the more than 60,000 voters Griffin is challenging are those who he says lack identifying information in a state database that’s supposed to collect the driver’s license number or Social Security number of voters when they register.

In other words, thees are people who, at least for the moment, cannot prove they are who they are.

(CBS17) “North Carolina Democrats WILL fight this decision. But make no mistake, the statewide court of appeals bench has cowered to political pressure and corruption from their own party. The NCGOP and RNC are trying to steal an election and test the waters for future election denial,” said Anderson Clayton, Chair of the NC Democratic Party, on Twitter.

“This decision ultimately will be appealed to the North Carolina Supreme Court now. Where Republicans maintain a 5-2 majority. (And since Justice Riggs recused herself, it’s a 5-1 majority.) NC voters will see just how corrupt the State Supreme Court when they rule on this case,” her tweet said.

And, maybe enough of the people will respond and Riggs will still win. But, Democrats are very unhappy when anyone challenges their shadiness. Obviously, the Raleigh News and Observer editorial board is already out with their whining

In a stunning decision that changes the rules of an election after that election has occurred, the court ruled that the vast majority of the votes in question must be recounted and verified, and voters will be given 15 days to “cure” their ballots by providing documentation to verify their identities.

The ruling creates a dangerous precedent for overturning an election result that the loser simply doesn’t like.

I don’t remember the N&O saying the same when Al Gore was trying to overturn the 2000 election, or the Democrats were trying to overturn the 2004 election in favor of John Kerry. Nor did they complain about all the shenanigans during the 2020 election.

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Energy Secretary Says Climate Cult Has Hurt Energy Development

By William Teach April 4, 2025 – 3:27 pm

Regardless of your opinion on global warming, whether it is mostly/solely caused by Mankind, mostly/solely natural, or some mix, the actions of the Warmists, who became a full fledged cult, have made a real mess of things

In Colorado, U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright says climate change alarmism has hurt energy development

The new Secretary of Energy Chris Wright returned to his home state Thursday to tour the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden, as the Trump administration continues to mull budget, staff and policy changes at the agency.

The department oversees a vast portfolio of national laboratories, maintains the country’s nuclear weapons stockpile and funds an innovation office to support new technology. The renewables laboratory in Golden has thousands of employees and has made key innovations in solar, wind and other clean-energy technologies meant to reduce planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions.

Wright praised the lab’s work during remarks to staff. But during remarks with reporters, Wright, the former head of the Denver-based fracking company now called Liberty Energy, said that calling climate change a crisis was a form of political theater that led to destructive policy choices.

“The biggest barrier in energy development the last few decades is people, for political reasons, calling climate change a crisis,” Wright said. He said climate alarmism led to policies that curtailed American infrastructure and may not actually reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

“So factories that would’ve been here in Colorado are instead in Texas or in Asia. You can say this is all for climate change,” Wright said. “But most of that is just nonsense. Honestly, it’s just nonsense.”

He’s right. The doomsaying began 35 years or so ago, and continued to increase exponentially, until they called it a crisis. They Demanded that the only energy could be “green”, but, immediately started trying to nix hydropower, because it requires dams. And the extreme enviros do not like dams, because they might block a little fish. And then they sue to stop solar and wind because they may mess up a turtle, and sue to stop transmission lines. And most do not want nuclear, except a few like Michael “Robust Debate” Mann. So, they stymie energy production. They could have worked to slowly eliminate coal (I’m not a big fan), while moving towards more natural gas and nuclear, while slowly working to make hydro, solar, and wind a reality, especially putting R&D into them to make them produce way more energy for the money. And more for homes, so that people were not reliant on the grid. But, no, they went batguano insane.

Colorado is not exactly the best state for wind and solar. First, you have to clearcut massive acres. Then you have to do with high winds, at which turbines cannot operate, and snow for solar. Companies are not fans of unreliable and expensive power.

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If All You See…

By William Teach April 4, 2025 – 1:00 pm

…is a dying field from carbon pollution that leads to serial killers, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Bunkerville, with a post wondering if the economy is a zero sum game.

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NY Times Seems To Be Rooting For The Houthis

By William Teach April 4, 2025 – 10:30 am

Does anyone remember the NY Times running a piece like this when Biden-Harris was attacking the Houthis?

U.S. Strikes in Yemen Burning Through Munitions With Limited Success

President Trump said this week that Iranian-backed Houthi militants in Yemen have been “decimated by the relentless strikes” that he ordered beginning on March 15.

But that’s not what Pentagon and military officials are privately telling Congress and allied countries.

In closed briefings in recent days, Pentagon officials have acknowledged that there has been only limited success in destroying the Houthis’ vast, largely underground arsenal of missiles, drones and launchers, according to congressional aides and allies.

The officials briefed on confidential damage assessments say the bombing is consistently heavier than strikes conducted by the Biden administration, and much bigger than what the Defense Department has publicly described.

But Houthi fighters, known for their resiliency, have reinforced many of their bunkers and other targeted sites, frustrating the Americans’ ability to disrupt the militia’s missile attacks against commercial ships in the Red Sea, according to three congressional and allied officials, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss operational matters.

And are those three officials telling the truth, since they most likely work for Democrats? Why does it seem that the Times is thrilled that there may only be limited success against the Houthis, instead of cheering for the US to hurt them so they stop attacking US, and other nation’s, ships?

In just three weeks, the Pentagon has used $200 million worth of munitions, in addition to the immense operational and personnel costs to deploy two aircraft carriers, additional B-2 bombers and fighter jets, as well as Patriot and THAAD air defenses to the Middle East, the officials said.

The total cost could be well over $1 billion by next week, and the Pentagon might soon need to request supplemental funds from Congress, one U.S. official said.

So many precision munitions are being used, especially advanced long-range ones, that some Pentagon contingency planners are growing concerned about overall Navy stocks and implications for any situation in which the United States would have to ward off an attempted invasion of Taiwan by China.

Suddenly the Times is concerned about stockpiles, after cheering as Biden sent tons of weapons to Ukraine with limited success? Oh, brother.

But, wait, what’s this deeper into the article, where a goodly chunk of people will have already stopped reading because of the 30 second or 3 paragraphs rule?

A senior Pentagon official late Thursday pushed back on the assessments described by the congressional and allied officials.

The senior official, also speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss operational matters, said the airstrikes had exceeded their goal in the campaign’s initial phase, disrupting senior Houthi leaders’ ability to communicate, limiting the group’s response to a handful of ineffective counter strikes, and setting the conditions for subsequent phases, which he declined to discuss. “We’re on track,” the official said.

So, someone in the actual know says the strikes are working. Huh. And much deeper

Mr. Trump said this week that U.S. strikes would continue until the Houthis “are no longer a threat to Freedom of Navigation.” He warned “the real pain is yet to come” if they did not stop.

On March 15, Mr. Trump also singled out Iran’s rulers.

“To Iran: Support for the Houthi terrorists must end IMMEDIATELY!” he wrote. “Do NOT threaten the American People, their President, who has received one of the largest mandates in Presidential History, or Worldwide shipping lanes. If you do, BEWARE, because America will hold you fully accountable.”

How’s that working out?

Iran abandons Houthis under relentless US bombardment

Iran has ordered military personnel to leave Yemen, abandoning its Houthi allies as the US escalates an air strike campaign against the rebel group.

A senior Iranian official said the move aimed to avoid direct confrontation with the US if an Iranian soldier was killed.

The official said Iran was also scaling back its strategy of supporting a network of regional proxies to focus on the direct threats from the US instead.

Tehran’s primary concern, the source said, was “Trump and how to deal with him”.

Weird the Times forgot to mention this.

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Global Boiling To Make People 40% Poorer By 2100 Or Something

By William Teach April 4, 2025 – 7:00 am

I’d ask who gets fired and loses their reputation when this doesn’t happen, but, the whole idea here is to make a scary prognostication so far in the future that no one will remember it

The real cost of climate change: Global warming could make the average person 40% poorer by 2100, scientists warn

Sherman Potter Bull CookiesThe cost of climate change will be almost four times higher than we thought, a new study has warned.

Scientists from the University of South Wales warn that just 4°C (7.2°F) of warming will make the average person 40 per cent poorer by 2100.

And it’s particularly bad news for Britons, who will be 46.5 per cent poorer, according to the researchers.

Even if global warming is capped at just 2°C (3.6°F), the researchers found that global GDP per person – a measure of economic output – will fall by 16 per cent.

That is a huge increase from more conservative estimates, which suggested 2°C (3.6°F) of warming would lead to a 1.4 per cent decrease in GDP.

Oh, so now we’re doing 4C? They kinda blew right past 1.5, 2, and 3 for this bid of fearmongering

The reason these costs are so much higher than earlier predictions is that the researchers have taken the impact of global weather into account for the first time.

Lead author Dr Timothy Neal says: ‘Because these damages haven’t been taken into account, prior economic models have inadvertently concluded that even severe climate change wasn’t a big problem for the economy – and it’s had profound implications for climate policy.’

Yeah yeah yeah. They’re always looking for some way to doomsay in order to increase the power of the government via the climate cult. And no credentialed media outlet will actually require these climate cult scientists to prove what they are saying. There is zero journalistic skepticism.

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ZOMG, Congressional Republicans Look To Reign In Trump On Tariffs

By William Teach April 4, 2025 – 6:45 am

Orange Man Bad!

Republicans weigh using the power of Congress to rein in Trump on tariffs

The fallout from President Donald Trump’s aggressive new tariffs has spurred Congress into action, with a growing number of Republicans joining Democrats to express interest in using their power to restrain him.

After the GOP-led Senate delivered a rare rebuke to Trump on Wednesday by voting to undo his tariffs on Canada, lawmakers in both chambers are weighing additional steps to rein him in. Senators are eyeing other mechanisms to rescind Trump’s existing tariffs while limiting his ability to impose new ones. And Democrats in the House are exploring ways to force a vote to revoke Canadian tariffs, putting out feelers to attract support from Republicans.

It was literally “Four Republicans — Sens. Susan Collins of Maine; Rand Paul and Mitch McConnell of Kentucky; and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska — joined all 47 Democrats in supporting it.” Paul was the surprise, the other three were not. Not a really a rebuke.

The resolution, authored by Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., is not expected to go anywhere in the House. Still, it represented a significant break in the party from Trump the day he announced a new set of sweeping tariffs, which the White House billed as “Liberation Day,” and after the president publicly pressured the four GOP senators on the issue.

“If these tariffs go into effect, it will be so harmful,” Collins said in a speech on the Senate floor ahead of the vote. “And as price hikes always do, they will hurt those the most who can afford them the least.”

Collins ticked through industry workers in Maine who would be particularly affected by a trade war, such as lobstermen, blueberry growers and potato farmers.

Should they not be supporting American workers first, and telling countries like Canada to remove their tariffs on imported American goods? Who are Democrats rooting for? Americans or foreigners? America or other nations?

I still maintain most of the tariffs could have waited while they negotiated with some countries, like Canada, Mexico, European, and some others. And it is an interesting notion to consider whether the president should have the authority to impose tariffs or this should be in the hands of Congress.

(NBC News) Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, a Trump ally who is third in line to the presidency, introduced a bill with Sen. Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., on Thursday that would reassert Congress’ authority and slap restrictions on the president’s power to levy tariffs.

The legislation, called the Trade Review Act of 2025, would require the president to notify Congress of new tariffs within 48 hours of imposition, while providing his reasons and an analysis of the impacts on American consumers and businesses. Then Congress would have 60 days to approve it. If it does not, the tariffs would expire after that period.

“For too long, Congress has delegated its clear authority to regulate interstate and foreign commerce to the executive branch,” Grassley said in a statement. “Building on my previous efforts as Finance Committee Chairman, I’m joining Senator Cantwell to introduce the bipartisan Trade Review Act of 2025 to reassert Congress’ constitutional role and ensure Congress has a voice in trade policy.”

But, unless Congress removes all tariff power from the Executive Branch they’ve still delegated authority.

And the question here is, if it passes, will Congress allow tariffs? You know most, if not all, of the Democrats will vote against trying to help American workers and businesses in favor of foreigners.

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UK Guardian Super Worried That Climate Crisis Will Destroy Capitalism

By William Teach April 3, 2025 – 3:07 pm

Which is hilarious, since the UK Guardian has been pretty much Modern Socialist and against capitalism (except where it makes the UK Guardian money) for at least 40 years, but, at least they’re honest in their leftist leanings. Anyhow, yeah, the climate crisis is trying to destroy capitalism, since most the climate cultists are socialists who want to destroy it

Climate crisis on track to destroy capitalism, warns top insurer

The climate crisis is on track to destroy capitalism, a top insurer has warned, with the vast cost of extreme weather impacts leaving the financial sector unable to operate.

The world is fast approaching temperature levels where insurers will no longer be able to offer cover for many climate risks, said Günther Thallinger, on the board of Allianz SE, one of the world’s biggest insurance companies. He said that without insurance, which is already being pulled in some places, many other financial services become unviable, from mortgages to investments.

Horse hockey

Global carbon emissions are still rising and current policies will result in a rise in global temperature between 2.2C and 3.4C above pre-industrial levels. The damage at 3C will be so great that governments will be unable to provide financial bailouts and it will be impossible to adapt to many climate impacts, said Thallinger, who is also the chair of the German company’s investment board and was previously CEO of Allianz Investment Management.

Yeah, well, we’re nowhere near that, and won’t be anywhere near that anytime soon. If at all

The core business of the insurance industry is risk management and it has long taken the dangers of global heating very seriously. In recent reports, Aviva said extreme weather damages for the decade to 2023 hit $2tn, while GallagherRE said the figure was $400bn in 2024. Zurich said it was “essential” to hit net zero by 2050.

There are more expensive things in the way of storms, which always happen. No one really worried about hurricanes in Florida until the mid-1900’s. While you had people living there, the boom didn’t start till the 1920’s, but, it took awhile before people were truly creating massive cities and suburban areas. There are more and more dwellings and business buildings in Tornado Alley. Go figure. More and more on the coasts, and they are more and more expensive. If you’re putting more in what has always been a risk area and making it all more expensive then it’s going to cause insurers a headache. It won’t kill capitalism. Of course, that’s what the cult wants to happen. They want the government in charge of everything.

Construction has messed with how the water flows, for instance. Roads, buildings, this and that. Trying to control where streams and rivers flow. All those levees and such that were implemented to control Mississippi River flooding actually made flooding worse elsewhere on the river. Of course you get flooding in New Orleans, since so much is at or below sea level. But, they keep building. All these buildings and roads in fire prone areas that the government refuses to help mitigate the fire risks. Anyhow, the cult would love to see the government in charge of the economy.

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If All You See…

By William Teach April 3, 2025 – 1:00 pm

…is a field perfect for a lot of wind turbines, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is 357 Magnum, with a post victim selection failure.

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Bummer: NC State Students Have Visas Cancelled, Head Home

By William Teach April 3, 2025 – 10:30 am

WRAL (and a few other Raleigh area news outlets) is pretty mad about this, but, does absolutely no investigation to see if this was warrented

Two NC State students have student visas terminated, head back to Saudi Arabia

There are more than 6,000 international students at NC State from 120 different countries, many of them on visas, however two students had their lives turned upside down last week, and were forced to rush to get a flight back home, thousands of miles away.

6k out of a total of 38K students? Why couldn’t most of those spots go to North Carolinians? Oh, right, money. Out of state tuition.

“My roommate came out of his room with a shocked distraught look on his face,” said NC State Senior Philip Vasto.

Then Vasto said his roommate started to panic.

“He just got of the phone with the school and the school told him the state department revoked his visa but didn’t provide a reason whatsoever,” Vasto said.

Saleh Al Gurad packed up in a day, and flew back to Saudi Arabia at the advice of his family, and attorneys. He just got to the U.S. and started studying at NC state 5 months ago.

“If he remained here he could be subject to detainment by ICE,” Vasto said.

I’m not finding any social media for him, but, I suspect he was involved in one of the pro-Hamas protests that occurred in Raleigh where they were, at a minimum, yapping about “from the river to the sea”, a call to destroy Israel and kill Jews. Or broke laws

Several statements have been made following the announcement of the two students having their student visa revoked including NC State’s Muslim Students Association.

In the statement posted on Instagram, the organization pointed out the two students were both studying international engineering.

“We are deeply saddened and outraged by the recent forced departure of two NC State students whose student visas were unjustly terminated,” the statement read in part.

Yes, this is the same MSA which is essentially a Muslim Brotherhood front group, designed to push the hardcore Islamist view without the violence, getting people to comply.

Congresswoman Deborah Ross also released a statement following the two students having their visas revoked in a post on X.

“With no explanation, the Trump admin revoked the visas of 2 NC State students & hundreds of other students around the country. Immigration enforcement actions should be focused on criminals – not young people with visas who are trying to get an education.”

Of course she did. Still no comment on several instances of her supporters vandalizing Teslas in the Triangle.

The State Dept gave this statement

Due to privacy considerations, and visa confidentiality, we generally will not comment on Department actions with respect to specific cases. The United States has zero tolerance for non-citizens who violate U.S. laws. Those who break the law, including students, may face visa refusal, visa revocation, and/or deportation. The Department of State will continue to work closely with the Department of Homeland Security to administer and enforce U.S. visas and immigration laws. Every prospective traveler to the United States undergoes extensive interagency security vetting. All visa applicants, no matter the visa type and where they are located, are continuously vetted. Security vetting runs from the time of each application, through adjudication of the visa, and afterwards during the validity period of every issued visa, to ensure the individual remains eligible to travel to the United States.

So, they either were involved with the protests or they broke laws. And breaking laws ends with a revoked visa.

(Raleigh N&O) Juliette Majid, a doctoral student in chemistry and a member of the NC State chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine, told The News & Observer she was not aware of either student being involved with the organization, which has been active in organizing pro-Palestinian protests. Still, the group is concerned about two fellow university students having their visas revoked.

Just because they weren’t directly involved didn’t mean they didn’t participate in calling for death protests. Or, breaking laws. But, hey, perhaps the State Dept should look at Majid and the other members.

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