Biden Plans Month Long Inflation Fight Or Something

By William Teach June 1, 2022 – 7:00 am

You can’t even say “welcome to the party, pal”, because this probably means the price of everything is going to skyrocket even more

Biden plots inflation fight with Fed chair as nation worries

Biden Brain SuckerFocused on relentlessly rising prices, President Joe Biden plotted inflation-fighting strategy Tuesday with the chairman of the Federal Reserve, with the fate of the economy and his own political prospects increasingly dependent on the actions of the government’s central bank.

Biden hoped to demonstrate to voters that he was attuned to their worries about higher gasoline, grocery and other prices whiles still insisting an independent Fed will act free from political pressure.

Like Biden, the Fed wants to slow inflation without knocking the U.S. economy into recession, a highly sensitive mission that is to include increasing benchmark interest rates this summer. The president said he would not attempt to direct that course as some previous presidents have tried.

“My plan to address inflation starts with simple proposition: Respect the Fed, respect the Fed’s independence,” Biden said.

That’s it? That’s the plan? After basically seeing an economy going south during his time in office, telling us inflation was temporary and transitory, yammering about pretty much anything else, that’s his plan?

Biden is running out of options on his own. His past attempts — oil releases from the strategic reserve, improving port operations and calls to investigate price gouging — have fallen short of satisfactory results. High prices have undermined his efforts to highlight the low 3.6% unemployment rate, leaving a growing sense of pessimism among Americans.

None of those really worked, and, let’s be honest, there are lots of things he has little control of. The root cause is China’s coronavirus. He can do little about the inability to get production up, but, he could at least tackle high gas prices by simply announcing pro-drilling policies.

It also represented something of a reversal by Biden as inflation weighs heavily on voters’ minds. The president asserted in April 2021 that he was “very fastidious about not talking” with the independent Fed and wanted to avoid being seen as “telling them what they should and shouldn’t do.”

Let’s also be honest: Biden wants to appear as if he cares, as if he is involved, as if he is Doing Something, but, he doesn’t care. He wants this to happen. He wants high energy prices to force people out of gas powered vehicles (while he drives around, and flys, in fossil fueled vehicles at taxpayer expense.)

“My predecessor demeaned the Fed, and past presidents have sought to influence its decisions inappropriately during periods of elevated inflation,” Biden said in an op-ed posted Monday by The Wall Street Journal.. “I won’t do this. I have appointed highly qualified people from both parties to lead that institution. I agree with their assessment that fighting inflation is our top economic challenge right now.”

The economy was rising from COVID while Trump was president, then crashed when Biden took office. Joe is apparently going to spend a month on this, which will be long on Blamestorming, short on taking responsibility, and you know he’ll push his silly legislation like Build Back Better (sic), and nothing will change. Oh, and he’ll take almost every weekend off.

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CNN Tries To Define “Assault Rifle”, Fails Miserably

By William Teach May 31, 2022 – 5:00 pm

It’s a lot easier for CNN to demonize firearms and scary looking rifles than to cover how bad Joe Biden’s economy is doing

Huh

So, literally the only difference between the top and bottom is the pistol grip in CNN’s world. Both can cause the exact same damage.

It also sounds exactly like a handgun. You know, like the security guards have in the lobby of CNN’s offices. If liberals want to run on gun grabbing, go for it. The campaigns of Republicans, along with the groups that run ads, need to not take the bait, and, instead, focus on economic issues.

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Hotcold Take: This Warm Period Is Totally Different From Other Warm Periods, Per Experts

By William Teach May 31, 2022 – 3:00 pm

I’m surprised it took this long for a big media outlet to trot this out

Fact check: Contemporary, human-driven warming has different ramifications than past warming

The claim: The Arctic was warmer 6,000 years ago and 90% of glaciers were smaller or absent

A recent blog post shared across social media platforms referenced a paper that reported evidence summer temperatures in the Arctic were warmer some 6,000 years ago, and called the existence of past warm periods an “inconvenient fact” for “climate alarmists.”

“New Study: Arctic Was Much Warmer 6000 Years Ago… 90% Of Glaciers, Ice Caps Smaller Than Present Or Absent,” reads the blog link in an April 11 Facebook post.

The Facebook post received more than 200 interactions. Versions of the blog were also shared on Reddit and Twitter, though the Twitter account was later suspended.

Yeah, that was No Tricks Zone which got the ban hammer for daring to post the truth.

But, see, the claim was “misleading”

But, the post is misleading. Paleoclimatologists, who study the earth’s climate history, have documented periods of warming and cooling. Warm summer temperatures in the period referenced in the paper –the early Holocene period – were caused by normal variation in the Earth’s orbit around the sun, whereas today’s warming trend is driven by human behavior. Thus, there are different long-term ramifications for the two different periods of warming, according to researchers.

See? The current warm period is totally different from all the other warm periods because shut up and stop being a denier.

Despite what the blog post implies, the existence of past warm periods does not contradict modern climate science, Laura Larocca, the study’s lead author and postdoctoral fellow at Northern Arizona University, told USA TODAY.

Of course it doesn’t, because this is a cult

In fact, one of the main goals of Larocca’s study was to place contemporary human-driven Arctic glacier retreat into a long-term context, she said.

In other words, to butter her bread by making claims that this is all your fault.

Larocca emphasized that Arctic summer temperatures due to human-driven global warming are projected to be even warmer by the end of this century than they were thousands of years ago.

That’s prognostication, not science.

Our rating: Missing context

Based on our research, we rate MISSING CONTEXT the claim that the Arctic was warmer 6,000 years ago and 90% of glaciers were smaller or absent. According to researchers, warm temperatures in the early Holocene period were caused by variation in Earth’s orbit around the sun, whereas today’s warming trend is driven by human behavior. Thus, the ramifications of the two periods of warming are different.

But of course. And if you read further in the screed, you’ll see they use only climate cult sources to substantiate their claim that this warm period is totally different. But, don’t call them a cult.

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If All You See…

By William Teach May 31, 2022 – 1:00 pm

…is a wonderful low carbon bike which Everyone Else should be forced to ride, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is The Daley Gator (which is back online, different URL), with a post on more things that should not be taught in school.

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Bummer: Unnamed Trump Policies Sent U.S. Climate Ranking Tumbling

By William Teach May 31, 2022 – 10:30 am

Whatever those policies were, the US economy was doing great, energy prices were low, gas prices were low, freedom was on the rise. Until we hit the Chinese coronavirus. How are things working now? (NY Times article, using the Yahoo version to avoid paywall)

Trump Policies Sent U.S. Tumbling in a Climate Ranking

For four years under President Donald Trump, the United States all but stopped trying to combat climate change at the federal level. Trump is no longer in office, but his presidency left the country far behind in a race that was already difficult to win.

A new report from researchers at Yale and Columbia universities shows that the United States’ environmental performance has tumbled in relation to other countries — a reflection of the fact that, while the United States squandered nearly half a decade, many of its peers moved deliberately.

And what were those policies? Nowhere in the cult screed are they mentioned. Why? I mean, I can name a few things off the top of my head, like pulling out of the Paris Climate Agreement, but, that didn’t happen till early November of 2020 officially. He enabled the exploration and drilling of petroleum and natural gas. Tried to roll back CAFE standards, though, really, car manufacturers didn’t roll back their own standards, since the production was already in place. He does get blamed for rolling back Obama’s Clean Power Plan, but, really, it was killed by the courts during the Obama admin. And de-emphasized the use of ‘climate change’ in every rule like Obama did.

So why not mention any of these?

But, underscoring the profound obstacles to cutting greenhouse gas emissions rapidly enough to prevent the worst effects of climate change, even that movement was insufficient. The report’s sobering bottom line is that, while almost every country has pledged by 2050 to reach net-zero emissions (the point where their activities no longer add greenhouse gases to the atmosphere), almost none are on track to do it.

The report, called the Environmental Performance Index, or EPI, found that, based on their trajectories from 2010 through 2019, only Denmark and Britain were on a sustainable path to eliminate emissions by midcentury.

Namibia and Botswana appeared to be on track with caveats: They had stronger records than their peers in sub-Saharan Africa, but their emissions were minimal to begin with, and the researchers did not characterize their progress as sustainable because it was not clear that current policies would suffice as their economies develop.

The 176 other nations in the report were poised to fall short of net-zero goals, some by large margins. China, India, the United States and Russia were on track to account for more than half of global emissions in 2050. But even countries like Germany that have enacted more comprehensive climate policies are not doing enough.

Ah, so the majority of nations, who haven’t left the Paris agreement, aren’t close, despite having all the rules and regs and restrictions and such that the climate cult wants in place. Stuff that limits their economies. Stuff that restricts citizens freedom and life choices, and takes more money out of their pockets. The NY Times just needed to start with some Trump Derangement Syndrome, as he’s still living rent free in their heads.

“We think this report’s going to be a wake-up call to a wide range of countries, a number of whom might have imagined themselves to be doing what they needed to do and not many of whom really are,” said Daniel C. Esty, the director of the Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy, which produces the EPI every two years.

Yeah, that’s what they say every year since the Kyoto Protocol, and almost every country failed on their pledges every year. And, the same is happening with Paris.

The 2022 edition of the index, provided to The New York Times before its release Wednesday, scored 180 countries on 40 indicators related to climate, environmental health and ecosystem vitality. The individual metrics were wide-ranging, including tree-cover loss, wastewater treatment, fine-particulate-matter pollution and lead exposure.

I wonder how many will have nothing to do with anthropogenic climate change? Oh, and what is the NY Times doing to reduce its own carbon footprint? They never tell us.

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Climate Doom: Siberia And Hummingbirds

By William Teach May 31, 2022 – 7:15 am

All because you refuse to stop taking fossil fueled travel and buy a bike

Siberian tundra ‘could disappear by 2050’ due to climate change

The Siberian tundra could have vanished entirely by the middle of this century, researchers have warned.

Temperatures in the Arctic are soaring due to climate change, and larch forests are steadily marching north into the territory of the tundra.

Researchers at the Alfred Wegener Institute in Germany ran computer simulations and found that even if climate change measures are taken, just 30% of the Siberian tundra – home to unique animals and plants – will survive by 2050.

In other scenarios, the Siberian tundra will vanish entirely. The study was released in the journal eLife. (snip)

“In the course of our study, we simulated this process for the tundra in northeast Russia.

“The central question that concerned us was: which emissions path does humanity have to follow in order to preserve the tundra as a refuge for flora and fauna, as well its role for the cultures of indigenous peoples and their traditional ties to the environment?”

Computer models. Did they even travel around Siberia taking measurements? This is what they call science these days.

Hummingbirds May Struggle To Go Any Further Uphill To Evade Climate Change

Any animal ascending a mountain experiences a double whammy of difficulties: the air gets thinner while it also becomes colder, which is particularly problematic for creatures striving to keep warm when less oxygen is available. For tiny animals with the highest-octane lives, such as hovering hummingbirds, the challenges of migrating to higher levels to evade climate change may be too much, but no one knew whether these incredible aviators may have more gas in the tank to keep them flying at higher altitudes.

As Anna’s hummingbirds (Calypte anna) are comfortable up to elevations of ~2,800 m (~9200 feet), Austin Spence from the University of Connecticut, USA, and Morgan Tingley from the University of California, Los Angeles, USA, were curious to find out how hummingbirds that originated from close to sea level and those that live at the loftier end of the range would cope when transported well above their natural habitat to an altitude of 3,800m (12,500 feet). They published their discovery in the Journal of Experimental Biology that the birds struggle to hover and suffer a 37% drop in their metabolic rate at that height – in addition to becoming torpid for most of the night to conserve energy – making it unlikely that they can relocate to higher altitudes.

So, they took the hummingbirds way, way above their normal height range, and are shocked! that they have trouble. And this is all your fault.

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Comrade Trudeau Looks To Freeze All Handgun Purchases In Canada

By William Teach May 31, 2022 – 7:00 am

What’s the difference between the Canadian premiere and the ruler of Cuba?

Canada already bans 1,500 types of “assault” rifles, and now

(CBC) New gun control legislation the federal government tabled today includes a national freeze on the purchase, sale, importation and transfer of handguns in Canada.

The government also is pledging to start buying back thousands of banned assault-style weapons before the end of the year.

While the proposal falls short of a full ban on handguns, it would effectively limit their number in Canada.

“In other words, we’re capping the market for handguns,” Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told a press conference Monday.

And the next step will be to ban ownership if handguns in Canada, you know, the place where they cracked down on a peaceful protest against the government, and locked down their own citizens over COVID? The one who won’t let unvaccinated citizens travel or leave the country?

They include taking away firearms licences from those involved in domestic violence or criminal harassment, increasing criminal penalties for smuggling and trafficking of firearms, and a “red flag” law which would require people deemed a threat to themselves or others to turn in their firearms to law enforcement.

Canada has prosecuted many people for saying Mean Things, so, they can apply the red flag laws to those people

“We recognize that the vast majority of gun owners use them safely, and in accordance with the law,” Trudeau said.

“But other than using firearms for sport shooting and for hunting, there is no reason anyone in Canada should need guns in their everyday lives.”

So says an authoritarian government.

(Breitbart) As President Biden spoke to reporters on Memorial Day he criticized “high caliber weapons” and claimed that a 9mm bullet “blows the lung out of the body.”

Biden made this statement while telling reporters about a Senate briefing he had received regarding gunshot wounds.

He said, “The 22 caliber bullet will lodge in the lungs and we can get it out,” Biden said. “A 9 mm bullet blows the lung out of the body.”

Will he and his Democrats Comrades next try and attempt to do away with certain calibers? Of course, the criminals would still have them.

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Eco-Fascists Targeting New Targets

By William Teach May 30, 2022 – 3:00 pm

Remember, though, this is perfectly normal because the World Is About To End

‘Eco-fascist’ violence targets old scapegoats for new fears

Mass shooting suspects, including the man arrested for the recent Buffalo, N.Y., grocery store massacre, are increasingly invoking the so-called eco-fascist movement, which launders racist and anti-immigrant conspiracy theories through the lens of environmentalism.

The Buffalo suspect, who has been charged with the murder of 10 predominantly Black shoppers at a grocery store, identified as an eco-fascist. Similar sentiments can be found in the writings of shooters in New Zealand and El Paso, Texas, who targeted Muslims and Latinos, respectively.

As the climate crisis intensifies and leads to increased migration and political instability, experts say the problem is likely to get worse.

In practice, the term refers to “a kind of political ideology that combines fascism with some kind of environmental or ecological focus,” said Matthew Lyons, author of “Insurgent Supremacists: The U.S. Far Right’s Challenge to State and Empire” and co-author with Chip Berlet of “Right-Wing Populism in America.”

Typically, Lyons said, this equates to scapegoating groups like immigrants and nonwhites for the climate crisis, environmental degradation and the depletion of natural resources.

It’s not “the Right” which is doing this…I mean, technically, it is, since Progressivism is not actually far left, but, far right on the political scale, in the Authoritarian model, but, we still call them “The Left”…it is the far left. This is also an attempt to explain away why these mass murderers share so much in common with Progressives

Eco-fascism is at heart simply a rebranding of a much older “murderous political strategy,” said Cassie Miller, a senior research analyst at the Southern Poverty Law Center, and uses environmental concerns as a sort of Trojan horse for extremist ideas.

“This is a movement that is looking for any avenue that it can get recruits or to enter larger political conversations,” she said. “And the language of environmentalism, especially at a time of climate disaster, is a very clear way to do that.”

I’m sure that somehow this is all your fault, you know.

Later in the 20th century, Ted Kaczynski, who killed three people and injured 23 more with a series of bombings, wrote a manifesto decrying the Industrial Revolution and calling for a return to nature; however, he also railed against feminists, gay rights activists and animal welfare advocates in the same document.

Although Kaczynski also blasts conservative politics in his writings, in recent years, far-right spaces online have semi-ironically celebrated Kaczynski as “Uncle Ted.”

See? They’re going to attempt to blame Republicans for this, and like minded small government Classical Liberals around the world. Which shifts the blame off the real culprit, a doomsday cult.

Meanwhile, Real Climate Science links to this

(India Times) Art lovers and museum visitors to the Louvre were shocked recently after a man dressed as an old woman tried vandalising the Mona Lisa. The person jumped out of a wheelchair and reportedly smeared cake over the iconic painting.

A clip showing visitors taking photos of the cake-covered painting has now been widely circulated on social media. Fortunately, the cake didn’t touch the real artwork. It was only smeared over the glass that protects the famous piece by Leonardo da Vinci.

Definitely MAGA, right?

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If All You See…

By William Teach May 30, 2022 – 1:00 pm

…is a fossil fueled fighter jet, needed because ‘climate change’ causes war, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Bunkerville, with a post on a Memorial Day remembrance.

Doubleshot below the fold, check out Chicks On the Right, with a post on How Our Fractured Societal Priorities May Have Influenced The Police Response In Uvalde.

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There Could Be A Major Shift In Economic Activity Coming, Affecting Inflation

By William Teach May 30, 2022 – 10:30 am

Many economists are positioning this as a good thing. And, at the end of the day, the economy will rise above all other issues

More signs that a major shift in the economic narrative could be underway

There’s more evidence that the economic narrative could be undergoing a major shift.

For months, we’ve been living in an economy in which strong demand has been met with lagging supply, causing inflation inflation to surge. We now appear to be shifting to a phase where demand growth is cooling and supply chains are easing, which should cause inflation to come down.

According to Census Bureau data released Wednesday, orders for nondefense capital goods excluding aircraft — a.k.a. core capex or business investment — climbed 0.3% to a record $73.1 billion in April.

While the 0.3% growth rate represents a deceleration from the 1.1% rate in March, it’s the kind of slowing that’s welcome news for folks like the Federal Reserve, which is actively working to cool economic growth in its effort to bring down inflation.

“That is consistent with our view that economic activity is bending rather than breaking under the impact of higher rates,” Michael Pearce, senior U.S. economist for Capital Economics, said in a note on Wednesday.

Here’s the thing: the demand was normal, the supply chain was way down. The supply chain is not exactly getting better. Automobiles sure aren’t. Toyota recently announced a 100K worldwide care production decrease, primarily blaming the chip shortage. Anyone redesigning for 2023 will remove many things that use chips, such as XM radio, or combine multiple features per chip, which could potentially overload a chip. What you often see on the shelf is it. There’s no extra in the backroom. Supply chains are slimmed down, which is why you may not find the products you used to find. You want furniture? It could be months. Heavy machinery? Could be a year.

If demand growth is cooling, that means people are just not buying things they would normally buy, to match the lower supply availability. This may, in fact, help inflation, but, it will mean lower spending by consumers, who are already stretched from the rise in costs. Will this mean a reduction in costs? Probably not. At least not soon. Because gas and diesel are still rising. Interest rates are up (fortunately not as high as expected).

“Growth has slowed since peaking in March, most notably in the service sector, as pent up demand following the reopening of the economy after the Omicron wave shows signs of waning,” Chris Williamson, chief business economist at S&P Global Market Intelligence, wrote on Wednesday.

Yeah, the time when you couldn’t get stuff done to your house. But, you want body work on your car? You could wait at least a month. Everywhere. People can still wait weeks for a physical therapist, months to get into the dentist, and so on.

News of a slowdown is not exactly the kind of thing that warrants a celebratory tone. But it’s exactly the kind of thing that should help bring inflation down.

More pain.

“Many have touted March as the peak in inflation and are looking for inflation to cool from here,” Grant Thornton Chief Economist Diane Swonk said on Friday.. “We are not as convinced given the risks we still face due to the war in Ukraine and lockdowns in China. Either way, it is important to note that any cooling we see will have a high floor. Both the overall and core PCE indices remain well above the Federal Reserve’s 2% target.”

Indeed, inflation has a long way to go to get to 2% from 4.9%.

The best way would be an increase in the availability of products to match the spending. But, this is the Biden Economy, hence, we need below normal spending to match below normal availability.

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