Hot Take: We Can Beat Bidenflation By Taking On ‘Climate Change’

OK, let’s run a scientific study. Warmists will be the experimental group, Skeptics the control group. Every Warmist needs to give up their use of fossil fueled travel, move into tiny homes, stop eating meat, handwash their clothes, pay to install heat pumps and solar, and only buy second hand clothes. Oh, and give up their money and freedom to government. Skeptics will continue to live a 21st Century lifestyle. Let’s see if this makes any difference

To fight inflation, we must fight climate change

Next week we receive the latest figures on inflation. No doubt the dramatic, almost overnight, shift in consumption from in-person services to remote-ordered goods are part of the problem. So are mangled supply chains, as key workers miss work due to the coronavirus, here and overseas. And Russia’s brutal invasion of Ukraine has impacted global food and energy supplies.

Largely ignored as an inflationary driver, however, has been climate change. Like the pandemic, climate change is a global problem manifesting itself in countless waysmany well-hidden. Unlike the pandemic, it will get worse, not better, for the foreseeable future.

If we wish to control inflation, we must address climate change now.

Sherman Potter Bull Cookies

There’s lots and lots of scaremongering and doomsaying throughout the piece, with lots and lots of links, like the above excerpt. And the only solutions provided? Get rid of fossil fuels and go to renewables. I’m sure that David A. Super, a professor of law at Georgetown Law, doesn’t want to really give up his own big carbon lifestyle. Anyhow, it just goes to show that the climate cult will attempt to hijack any issue and put it under their banner.

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If All You See…

…is a jungle that will soon disappear from too much carbon pollution, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is 90Ninety Miles From Tyranny, with a post on the 90 Miles Mystery Box. What’s in it?

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White House Doom Mongers On Fall/Winter Chinese Coronavirus Infections

They could be right, they could be wrong. I know of a bunch of people right now who’ve gotten COVID, possibly the latest variant going around, which also seems to evade boosters. The question now becomes “does the Let’s Go Brandon admin attempt to use this for their benefit, and will they attempt to reinstall masking and vaccine mandates?”

Here’s what the White House’s grim coronavirus warning means for you

“You don’t make the timeline, the virus makes the timeline.”

That was Dr. Anthony Fauci’s message for an anxious nation when the novel coronavirus first began to spread across the US. More than two years later, his words have new relevance in the face of a disturbing warning from the White House.

CNN’s Kaitlan Collins reportsThe Biden administration is issuing a new warning that the US could potentially see 100 million Covid-19 infections this fall and winter, as officials publicly stress the need for more funding from Congress to prepare the nation.

The projection of 100 million potential infections is an estimate based on a range of outside models that are being closely tracked by the administration and would include both the fall and winter, a senior administration official told CNN. Officials say this estimate is based on an underlying assumption of no additional resources or extra mitigation measures being taken, including new Covid-19 funding from Congress, or dramatic new variants.

So, if you don’t allow Government to implement restrictions, this is All Your Fault. And you need to give them a lot of money to fight this in the future, string free cash. The rest of the piece is an interview with  Dr. Syra Madad, an epidemiologist at NYC Health + Hospitals, actually not that bad. Here’s one I’ve been sitting on for a few days

Point: There’s No Evidence That Masks Work

Joe Biden proclaimed, “Wearing masks is not a political statement, it is a scientific imperative.” He was wrong. There is little evidence supporting generalized use of masks.

A pre-COVID systemic review of interventions to combat the spread of respiratory viral diseases by the highly regarded Cochrane Library found that medical/surgical mask wearing makes little or no difference to the outcome of influenza or influenza-like illnesses compared to not wearing a mask.

A recent review of the literature reported two randomized controlled clinical trials of the effectiveness of masking in COVID-19. One failed to demonstrate a statistically significant benefit. The second found small, marginally statistically significant reductions in viral transmission for surgical masks but not for cloth masks. Thirteen of 14 tests assessing mask-wearing in non-COVID respiratory infections failed to find a statistically significant benefit for masks.

In other words, unless you did wear an N95 or KN95 mask, there was almost no benefit, which is why we saw huge spikes from Delta and Omicron. The Powers That Be forgot to continue the initial, important, wise messaging: don’t touch, keep your distance, wash your hands, don’t touch your face.

Early in the pandemic, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the World Health Organization, British health authorities, and the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control all refrained from recommending widespread mask usage, often discouraging it. Dr. Anthony Fauci emailed in February 2020 that the typical mask “is not really effective in keeping out virus, which is small enough to pass through the material.” In a March 8 interview on “60 Minutes” he said that “there’s no reason to be walking around with a mask.”

Nevertheless, the CDC in April 2020 began recommending mask wearing, including cloth masks. A CDC Science Brief relied on observational masking studies where the evidence suggested benefit, while highlighting the limitations rather than outcomes of studies that suggested the absence of benefit or even harm.

So, why’d they push people to wear masks that really do not work? I’ll let you work that one out

Endorsing cloth masks was disconcerting since an RCT of hospital workers showed far higher infection rates with cloth masks than medical masks.

For one thing, those masks do not get washed very often, much less daily. People wore them because they were forced. How soon till government attempts more mask mandates if the current variant starts infecting a lot of people?

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Climate Cult Attempts To Blame High Food Prices On Climate Crisis (scam)

Oh, sure, part of it is the war in Ukraine and the Wuhan flu aftermath, but, mostly it’s you driving a fossil fueled vehicle

As Conflict and Climate Change Bite, Are High Food Prices Here to Stay?

climate cowFood prices around the world have soared to record levels this year as the Russia-Ukraine war slashes key exports of wheat and fertilizer from those countries, at the same time as droughts, floods and heat fueled by climate change claim more harvests.

Wheat prices hit a 14-year peak in March, and maize prices reached the highest ever recorded, the International Panel of Experts on Sustainable Food Systems (IPES) said in a report released on Friday.

That has made basic staples more expensive – or harder to find – for families in many countries, especially the poorest.

Climate change, widespread poverty and conflicts are now combining to create “endemic and widespread” risks to global food security – which means higher food prices may be the new normal, unless action is taken to curb the threats, IPES noted.

It suggests not only cutting emissions swiftly to limit climate change but also tackling commodity speculation, giving debt relief, cutting reliance on chemical fertilizers, reshaping trade and shoring up national grain reserves.

See? Those other things are happening, but, that whole 1.5F increase in global temperatures since 1850 is the apocalypse.

Since the last food price crises of 2007-2008 and 2011-2012, “governments have failed to curb excessive speculation and ensure transparency of food stocks and commodity markets,” said Jennifer Clapp, a professor specialized in food security at Canada’s University of Waterloo.

Oops. The war has disrupted a pretty big chunk of global wheat supplies, but, the U.S. is doing just fine. We grow more than enough for ourselves, along with other products. Perhaps having basic food stuffs traded as commodities isn’t the brightest idea. Regardless, it damned sure isn’t ‘climate change.’

Meanwhile, the Let’s Go Brandon admin is going to make appliances and air costs more expensive, which will increase the price of other goods

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NY Times Nothing Has Done More For Women In The Workplace Than Unfettered Abortion

Most 1st world nations have some restrictions on abortion. Most do not allow late term abortion except for actual, real medical emergencies. Most are reasonable, it’s barely an issue in most 1st World nations. Here in the U.S., though, the Democratic Party has made abortion their Number One Belief, to the point where they will tell average Dem voters that they cannot be a Democrat if they aren’t sufficiently pious in push abortion with zero restrictions. If they aren’t celebrating abortion. And the will say, and do, anything to protect it, hence this nutty NY Times piece

How Roe Shaped the World of Work for Women
Many factors drove women into the work force in greater numbers in the 1970s. Scholars argue that abortion access was an important one.

When Barbara Schwartz looks back at her younger days working as a Broadway stagehand, she remembers the electricity of it: the harried dancers slipping into their costumes backstage, the props people shoving past with flashlights between their teeth.

She was able to throw herself into that high-pressure career, she said, because of a choice she made in 1976. She got an abortion at a clinic she found in the Yellow Pages. It was three years after the Roe v. Wade ruling established the constitutional right to an abortion; to Ms. Schwartz, the world seemed full of new professional opportunities for women. She got a credit card in her own name, became one of the first women to make it into the local stagehand union and joined the throngs backstage at shows including “Cats” and “Miss Saigon.”

Perhaps she should have a little smarter and responsible with her sexual activities.

To women like Ms. Jelatis, who entered adulthood in the early 1970s, the world of work and opportunity was changing rapidly. Women’s labor force participation went from about 43 percent in 1970 to 57.4 percent in 2019. Many different factors drove women into the work force in greater numbers in those years, but scholars argue that abortion access was an important one.

“There’s no question that legal abortion makes it possible for women in all classes and races to have some control over their economic lives and ability to work outside the home,” said Rosalind Petchesky, a retired professor of political science at Hunter College, whose research was cited in the Supreme Court’s 1992 ruling in the case Planned Parenthood v. Casey, which reaffirmed Roe.

Yes, some unhinged supporters of killing babies do believe so much in abortion on demand that they think it made a difference. And will defend it along these line. And, while it might have played a small part, the important ones are different

(Brookings Institute) Between the 1930s and mid-1970s, women’s participation in the economy continued to rise, with the gains primarily owing to an increase in work among married women. By 1970, 50 percent of single women and 40 percent of married women were participating in the labor force. Several factors contributed to this rise. First, with the advent of mass high school education, graduation rates rose substantially. At the same time, new technologies contributed to an increased demand for clerical workers, and these jobs were increasingly taken on by women. Moreover, because these jobs tended to be cleaner and safer, the stigma attached to work for a married woman diminished. And while there were still marriage bars that forced women out of the labor force, these formal barriers were gradually removed over the period following World War II. (snip)

By the 1970s, a dramatic change in women’s work lives was under way. In the period after World War II, many women had not expected that they would spend as much of their adult lives working as turned out to be the case. By contrast, in the 1970s young women more commonly expected that they would spend a substantial portion of their lives in the labor force, and they prepared for it, increasing their educational attainment and taking courses and college majors that better equipped them for careers as opposed to just jobs.

These changes in attitudes and expectations were supported by other changes under way in society. Workplace protections were enhanced through the passage of the Pregnancy Discrimination Act in 1978 and the recognition of sexual harassment in the workplace. Access to birth control increased, which allowed married couples greater control over the size of their families and young women the ability to delay marriage and to plan children around their educational and work choices. And in 1974, women gained, for the first time, the right to apply for credit in their own name without a male co-signer.

The piece is written by Janet Yellen. Yes, that Janet Yellen. Contraception was certainly a factor in the 70’s

(HuffPost) A big part of this is our own culture, which hasn’t changed very dramatically, according to Norma Carr-Ruffino, an expert on women in management who has taught at San Francisco State University’s College of Business. She has also authored multiple books on women and diversity in the workplace. “The culture is important and it affects corporate culture,” she said. She noted that the change in terms of women’s participation in the workplace began in the 1970s when a single-income household could no longer support a comfortable, middle-class lifestyle.

Those aren’t exactly right wing sources. In fact, most articles I’ve found speak of the same exact things. Women becoming more educated, stretching beyond the typical menial, secretary, and educator type jobs, and needing to work to make ends meet.

Contraception and wise life choices are a good thing. Abortion is not contraception, and should be done simply because people were irresponsible. Taken properly, birth control pills are 99% effective. Show some self control. Yes, yes, I know other bad things happen, but, most cases are simply irresponsible sexual behavior.

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If All You See…

…are flowers which soon die out because ‘climate change’ is killing all the bees, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is The Lid, with a post on a detailed analysis of Biden’s Ministry of Truth.

It’s tight jeans week!

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Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup – Happy Mother’s Day

Patriotic Pinup Art Frahm

Happy Sunday! Another gorgeous day in the Once and Future Nation of America. The Sun is shining, the birds are singing, and did you call your mother? This pinup is by Art Frahm, with a wee bit of help.

What is happening in Ye Olde Blogosphere? The Fine 15

  1. Green Jihad notes Biden still trying gas price denial
  2. Greenie Watch covers the new DOJ Office Of Environmental Justice
  3. No Tricks Zone highlights a stagnation of global surface temperatures
  4. Watts Up With That? notes International Socialists trying to cancel St. Greta
  5. American Greatness notes our politicized DOJ threatening Oath Keepers with life in jail
  6. American Power discusses the Disinformation governance board
  7. Blazing Cat Fur highlights Ontario libs looking to add COVID vaccines to required list
  8. Common Cents Blog covers the Husbands Of Target
  9. Dissecting Leftism explains why some get Wuhan Flu and others don’t
  10. Earl Of Taint notes the conflict of interest for the White House’s new press secretary
  11. Geller Report covers the NY Times’ obsessive demonization of Israel
  12. Gen Z Conservative highlights leftist media panicking over Elon Musk and Twitter
  13. Jihad Watch exposes yet another honor killing
  14. Legal Insurrection covers how many illegals are being released in Florida
  15. And last, but not least, Moonbattery explains how moonbats celebrate Mother’s Day

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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People Who Understand Foreign Policy Say The Brandon Admin Needs To Shut Up Over Ukraine Operations

Remember back when Obama picked Brandon to be his vice president, thanks in part to Joe supposedly being a foreign policy expert? That didn’t work out so well, especially with Russia taking Crimea. Now that Brandon is president, well, now we have Russia trying to take Ukraine, as you well know, and the admin is desperately looking for some wins, so, they keep yammering about things that need to stay quiet

Ex-spies and diplomats say the Biden administration needs to ‘shut-up’ after NYT report about US intelligence helping Ukraine kill Russian generals

Former US officials and diplomats in recent days have sharply criticized the Biden administration over a New York Times report based on conversations with senior officials that said US intelligence was helping Ukraine kill Russian generals.

“Shut up about it,” John Sipher, a former CIA officer who served in Russia, said in a tweet on the Times report.

Michael McFaul, a former US ambassador to Russia, in a tweet responding to Sipher said, “Exactly. No one should be talking to press about such things.”

Striking a similar tone, former US diplomat Aaron David Miller tweeted that the “whole shift in tone” following Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin’s visit to Ukraine is “worrisome.”

“Weakening Russia; winning; and now stories @NYT about killing Russian generals. Why can’t we just shut up?” Miller said.

Because the Let’s Go Brandon admin wants to brag, regardless of how idiotic it is. Supporting Ukraine, which has little strategic relevance for the U.S. is one thing: trying to turn this into a proxy war is another. Which could lead to a direct war between the U.S., NATO, and Russia. Does anyone truly know what’s going through Putin’s mind? We know little is going on in Joe’s mind.

The intel-sharing reports by the NYT and NBC News suggested, without specifying, that the US shared intelligence so precise — such as high-resolution images or transmissions made by radars or radios — that the Ukrainian military could use it to plan strikes. The NYT reported that the “White House finds some value in warning Russia that Ukraine has the weight of the United States and NATO behind it,” but the Pentagon insisted that it doesn’t provide the location of Russian generals to Ukraine and has no role in Ukrainian decisions about where to strike.

You keep things like this quiet. You don’t tell Russia what we’re doing.

On the heels of the bombshell Times story, a separate report from NBC News said that US intelligence also helped Ukraine sink the Moskva — a guided missile cruiser and the flagship of Russia’s Black Sea fleet.

Richard Haass, a veteran diplomat and president of the Council on Foreign Relations, in a tweet responding to reports on the Moskva said he couldn’t “fathom why US officials are discussing US helping Ukraine sink Russian ships or kill its generals.”

He says it allows Russia to say they are the victim. It also gives Russia a reason to expand his war. Of course, Team Brandon denies that they are helping Ukraine in this manner, but, then says they didn’t release the info on purpose, they were leaks. So, if they were leaks, they were, in fact, providing the intelligence and helping. Helping is great. Stop yammering about it. Don’t poke the bear. We do not need retaliation from Russia, possibly leading to WWIII.

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Home Offices Are Next Climate Cult Target

The Chinese coronavirus and authoritarian government officials pushed people into doing their jobs from home. Now the Cult of Climastrology is upset with this

Companies confront a new climate challenge: home offices

Tech and financial companies leading efforts to cut climate changing emissions are finding a new challenge from remote work: the CO2 spewing out of home offices.

A few companies have begun counting what happens when employees boot up computers at home, turn up gas furnaces and ignore the world’s most energy-efficient corporate campuses. It turns out that home setups popularized by the pandemic are eroding some of the climate benefit of abandoned commutes.

“Emissions didn’t go away,” said Amanda von Almen, head of emissions reduction at Salesforce.com Inc. “They just shifted to another area.”

Perhaps they shouldn’t have been shutting everything down, as so many studies have shown

While there are benefits to the climate from millions of employees not commuting when they work from home, the findings underscore that remote work is not a simple solution to cutting corporate emissions.

“Remote working has not delivered the environmental benefits that some people expected,” said Steve Sorrell, professor of energy policy at University of Sussex. “But they should probably have paid more attention to the decades of work in this area that suggest that environmental impacts may be less than expected.”

Bummer.

Climate experts say those solutions scratch the surface: After pouring billions of dollars into traditional offices decked with rooftop solar, bathed in natural lighting and equipped with water recycling, employers transitioning to hybrid work need clear plans to make every location just as green.

Or, they climate cult nags can mind their own f’ing business, and companies should maximize profit for their shareholders rather than acting as climate cult businesses

One roadblock to counting home office emissions is that there is no standard on how or what to count. Microsoft Corp, trying to solve the problem itself, concluded that remote staff work eight hours a day using a laptop, two monitors and three lightbulbs.

Hey, you nuts wanted people working from home rather than at the office, and now you want to dictate what our home offices look like? Piss off, cult nutjobs.

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If All You See…

…is a drying world creating a desert that meets the rising seas, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Irons In The Fire, with a post on the mess in Ukraine.

Doubleshot below the fold, check out Jihad Watch, with a post on why the Biden admin keeps using fake White House sets.

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