‘Climate Change’ Could Cost US Budget $2 Trillion A Year By 2100 Or Something

By William Teach April 4, 2022 – 4:15 pm

We can fix this with a tax, though. And you giving up your fossil fueled travel, along with freedom, liberty, and life choices

Climate change could cost U.S. budget $2 trln a year by end century -White House

Flood, fire, and drought fueled by climate change could take a massive bite out of the U.S. federal budget per year by the end of the century, the White House said in its first ever such assessment on Sunday.

The Office of Management and Budget assessment, tasked by President Joe Biden last May, found the upper range of climate change’s hit to the budget by the end of the century could total 7.1% annual revenue loss, equal to $2 trillion a year in today’s dollars.

“Climate change threatens communities and sectors across the country, including through floods, drought, extreme heat, wildfires, and hurricanes (affecting) the U.S. economy and the lives of everyday Americans,” Candace Vahlsing, an OMB climate and science official, and its chief economist Danny Yagan, said in a blog. “Future damages could dwarf current damages if greenhouse gas emissions continue unabated.”

The analysis file:///C:/Users/8003938/AppData/Local/Microsoft/Windows/INetCac he/Content.Outlook/T0DU0FIQ/OMB_Climate_Risk_Exposure_2022.pdf found that the federal government could spend an additional $25 billion to $128 billion annually on expenditures such as coastal disaster relief, flood, crop, and healthcare insurance, wildfire suppression and flooding at federal facilities.

Is anyone surprised that OMB found the exact outcome Brandon wanted?

The president’s “Build Back Better” bill, which contained hundreds of billions of dollars in funding to fight climate change and support clean energy, has been stalled in the narrowly-divided Senate by Republicans and West Virginia’s conservative Democrat Senator Joe Manchin, the founder and partial owner of a private coal brokerage.

Biden late last month submitted a $5.8 trillion budget plan to Congress with a focus on deficit reduction in an apparent overture to Manchin has said he could not vote for the bill because it would worsen deficits. Biden’s budget plan calls for nearly $45 billion to tackle climate change in fiscal year 2023, an increase of nearly 60% over fiscal year 2021.

OK, so, let’s say we do all this. Who’s held responsible if it makes zero or barely any difference?

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If All You See…

By William Teach April 4, 2022 – 1:00 pm

…is a wonderful low carbon form of transportation, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Legal Insurrection, with a post on how many Palestinians support violence against Israel and destroying the country.

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NY Times Scoop: Chinese Coronavirus Hit Those With Diabetes Hard

By William Teach April 4, 2022 – 10:30 am

You know which groups were hit hardest by COVID? Those 55 and up. Those in nursing homes (perhaps it wasn’t such a great idea to stuff seniors with COVID in nursing homes, eh, Gov Cuomo and a few others?). And those with pre-existing conditions, like diabetes

Covid and Diabetes, Colliding in a Public Health Train Wreck

(Starting out with a human interest story)

After older people and nursing home residents, perhaps no group has been harder hit by the pandemic than people with diabetes. Recent studies suggest that 30 to 40 percent of all coronavirus deaths in the United States have occurred among people with diabetes, a sobering figure that has been subsumed by other grim data from a public health disaster that is on track to claim a million American lives sometime this month.

People with diabetes are especially vulnerable to severe illness from Covid, partly because diabetes impairs the immune system but also because those with the disease often struggle with high blood pressure, obesity and other underlying medical conditions that can seriously worsen a coronavirus infection.

“It’s hard to overstate just how devastating the pandemic has been for Americans with diabetes,” said Dr. Giuseppina Imperatore, who oversees diabetes prevention and treatment at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Diabetes patients hospitalized with Covid spend more time in the I.C.U., are more likely to be intubated and are less likely to survive, according to several studies, one of which found that 20 percent of hospitalized coronavirus patients with diabetes died within a month of admission. Though researchers are still trying to understand the dynamics between the two diseases, most agree on one thing: Uncontrolled diabetes impairs the immune system and decreases a patient’s ability to withstand a coronavirus infection.

Um, we rather knew this at the beginning of Wuhan flu: that older folks and those with conditions like diabetes were in the most danger. So, what did government do? Lock everyone down. Create stay at home orders. Tell everyone what they can and cannot do, where they can and cannot go. If they are an essential or non-essential worker. To wear masks. That they can’t be out on the ocean on a paddleboard all alone. They can’t buy gardening supplies and seeds. They can’t be in their front yards. No gym. Can’t go to their vacation house out of the city. No matter your age or health. Everyone Will Comply.

So, this isn’t exactly a revelation. The only thing really new is the exact numbers.

Like the pandemic, which has had an outsize toll on communities of color, the burden of diabetes falls more heavily on Latino and Black Americans, highlighting systemic failures in health care delivery that have also made the coronavirus far deadlier for the poor, said Nadia Islam, a medical sociologist at NYU Langone Health. “It’s not that diabetes itself makes Covid inherently worse but rather uncontrolled diabetes, which is really a proxy for other markers of disadvantage,” she said…..

Of course they had to drag raaaaacism into this.

…Compounding the concerns, some studies suggest that a coronavirus infection can heighten the risk of developing type 2 diabetes, a disease that is largely preventable through a healthy diet and exercise.

So, let’s shut down the gyms, limit the ability to be outside exercising, and so much of the food production so people can eat healthy, right?

Over the past two years, doctors have also reported a sharp rise in young people being diagnosed with type 2 diabetes, an increase that many believe is tied to the drastic spike in childhood obesity during the pandemic. “We’ve seen kids coming in so sick and dehydrated that they sometimes require I.C.U. care,” said Dr. Daniel Hsia, a diabetes specialist at the Pennington Medical Research Center at Louisiana State University.

Keeping the kids locked up inside helped, right, authoritarian politicians and bureaucrats? Perhaps schools, when they reopened, should have spent more time on physical fitness than social justice BS. Speaking of kids

Pandemic has delayed social skills of young children, says Ofsted chief

An increasing number of young children have been left unable to understand facial expressions after having fewer opportunities to develop their social and emotional skills during the pandemic, the education watchdog for England has said.

Amanda Spielman, Ofsted’s chief inspector, said the worst affected were the most vulnerable children, with those living in smaller homes without gardens typically spending more time on screens during successive lockdowns, which also resulted in delays in learning to walk and crawl.

Something that people against the extreme COVID measures said would happen.

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There Could Possibly Be Hundreds Of Underwater Cities Around The World

By William Teach April 4, 2022 – 7:15 am

Well, this could be very interesting

There Might Be Hundreds of ‘Atlantis’ Around the World

In the 14th century, a small port near Holderness, England, vanished into the sea. The town, Ravenser Odd, had been ravaged by two floods: the first overwhelmed the town’s abbey, leaving the streets full of human remains. The second, according to eyewitnesses, caused a “towering wall of water” to surround the village and swallow it. The residents fled, and Ravenser Odd was never heard of again. Now, scientists from the University of Hull have a plan to uncover “Yorkshire’s Atlantis.”

Daniel Parsons, a professor in sedimentology, was on a family beach trip when he first heard about the town. He told The Guardian that while talking to historian Phil Mathison, he learned that local fishermen scouting for lobsters had seen disturbances on the surface of the water at low tide. This initial conversation sparked Parson’s interest in the sunken town and its location. As a geoscientist he was just the person to try to find it.

Parsons’ idea is to use high-resolution sonar systems—which he usually utilizes to study the movement of sediment—to locate the town. Last year’s excavation surveyed about 10 hectares off Spurn Point. It was unsuccessful, but Parsons believes that their next expedition will produce results: “Given the stories we’ve had from the folks on the lobster vessels,” he said, “I’m pretty confident we will find something [next time].”

There’s all sorts of interesting things under the seas. Like Pavlopetri, reportedly the oldest sunken city, off the coast of Greece. You have cities sunken in the Caribbean. Lots more in the Mediterranean, off the coast of Egypt, and even a stone circle, similar to Stonehenge, off the coast of Scotland. I do find this all pretty cool, but, there’s something else to this story

Parsons has good reason to feel confident about his chances of locating the once prosperous town. Comparable studies of towns destroyed by weather-induced coastal erosion in the Bay of Naples reveal that towns aren’t simply washed away; they leave evidence of their presence on the seabed. For Parsons, who heads the University of Hull’s Energy and Environment Institute, this is a prime opportunity to learn from the past. He told Mark Brown, “I think it is a fantastic way to start conversations with people on the impacts of climate change long into the future by using these stories from the past.”

These people. Many of the cities were put underwater due to earthquakes and volcanic activity. Look at where so many reside. There’s lots of plate tectonics in the Med, Caribbean, and India, among others. Others because the seas actually rise about 6-8 inches per year over the last 8,000 years.

Anyhow, moving beyond that bit of Climatourettes, if the idea of all the sunken cities interests you, read the rest of the piece, which moves on from the stupid cult stuff, and is rather interesting.

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There’s A Wee Bit Of A Problem With Lost Federales Decriminalizing Marijuana

By William Teach April 4, 2022 – 7:00 am

All the legalize marijuana advocates out there might be in for a rude surprise (again, I couldn’t care less one way or the other about it being legal)

The real problem with U.S. marijuana regulation ‘not from federal illegality,’ WeedMaps CEO says

The House voted to decriminalize marijuana and remove it from the list of banned controlled substances at the federal level on Friday. Now the Marijuana Opportunity Reinvestment and Expungement (MORE) Act will move to the Senate, where it is unlikely to attain the 60 votes needed to pass.

And while the passage of the MORE Act would certainly expand cannabis markets in the U.S., Weedmaps CEO Chris Beals thinks that a bigger obstacle lies in the 37 states where the substance is already legal for adult use.

“The single biggest issue facing legalized cannabis markets… is that there’s just not enough licenses,” Beals told Yahoo Finance Live (video above), adding that consumers are still choosing the illicit market over the legal one “by a four-to-one ratio.”

As a result, “a lot of the harm that’s being inflicted is not from the federal illegality,” Beals said, “It’s from states not issuing enough licenses because the biggest correlating factor to these high illicit market rates is you have to drive too far or there’s not enough robust competition on pricing or product selection.”

Did you get that? This whole thing is really based on needing states giving out licenses to vendors, and increasing those numbers and having lots and lots of vendors, rather than all the illegal growers. And even federal licenses. Why? I usually hate using Wikipedia, but, it’s put succinctly

  • Creates cannabis tax and grant programs funded by a 5% tax on cannabis products (excluding prescription medications derived from cannabis)
  • Community Reinvestment Grant Program providing services for “individuals most adversely impacted by the War on Drugs“, including job training, health education, mentoring, literacy programs, and substance use treatment programs
  • Cannabis Opportunity Program providing funds for eligible states to make loans to assist small businesses in the cannabis industry that are owned and controlled by socially and economically disadvantaged individuals
  • An Equitable Licensing Grant Program providing funds for eligible states to develop and implement equitable cannabis licensing programs that “minimize barriers to cannabis licensing and employment for individuals most adversely impacted by the War on Drugs

It’s all about the money. States already have their own tax and fee programs in place, and keep raising them, hence why there’s a pretty active black market. Now, the feds want in on the sales. I mean, I don’t blame them, but, how many products have a federal sales tax? There are some, like tobacco, airline tickets, and alcohol, for which the feds made a cool $100 billion.

Sure, there’s some element of Democrats trying to give a boon to their base, but, that’s a sidebar: it’s mostly about the money. Most of their base will have zero idea. It’s rather cynical.

BTW, if states do not want to decriminalize it, they don’t have to. Same with states who will keep it legal for medical only.

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Biden Invokes Defense Production Act For EV Battery Mining

By William Teach April 3, 2022 – 5:30 pm

Brandon is fine with mining for the materials for EV batteries, which actually often leaves a nice environmental mess, to be able to build vehicles which the average American won’t be able to afford, but, not OK with drilling for oil and natural gas

Biden invokes Defense Production Act for EV battery materials: How it impacts automakers

President Joe Biden said Thursday he will invoke the Defense Production Act to boost domestic mining and production of key minerals used in electric vehicles, a big move to help the Detroit automakers transition to EVs.

It was part of a broader announcement addressing gasoline prices.

The move means that battery materials will be added to the list of items covered by the 1950 act, which former President Harry Truman invoked to make steel for the Korean War and which President Donald Trump called on to boost mask production amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

“We need to end our long-term reliance on China and other countries to supply the inputs” used in U.S. electric vehicles, Biden said.

By invoking the Defense Production Act to provide incentives for companies to mine and process more minerals for EVs, it will help the U.S. tackle climate change and it will lead to the creation of new jobs.

“It will also save your family money,” Biden said, citing studies that indicate a typical driver will save about $80 a month by not having to pay for fuel.

First, Brandon is correct that the U.S. needs to produce our own materials, instead of depending on China and other nations. We should be doing that with oil and natural gas.

Second, technically you would save money by not having to pay for gas, it’s just that you’ll pay a heck of a lot more for the vehicle, so, those savings will be way, way wiped out.

Third, you can bet that the enviroweenies will sue, protest, blockade, have sit ins, etc, to stop the mining of the metals. Because that’s what they do.

Bailo agreed that Biden’s move will likely create jobs as more mining companies spring up. It will also bring down the cost of shipping, but compared with the cost of raw materials, logistics expenses are “a drop in the bucket.”

That means the sticker price on EVs won’t go down for car buyers in the near term.

“It makes sense on paper to control the supply chain, but it doesn’t mean it’ll help the consumer,” said Joe McCabe, CEO of auto industry advisory firm AutoForecast Solutions. “It’s going to help lower the manufacturing costs, which will help the profit margins of the electric vehicle manufacturers. But we’re still trying to convince a consumer to spend $50,000 and much more on electric vehicles.”

Doesn’t matter: the enviroweenies will get a friendly judge to block this, and it’ll be tied up in litigation for years.

*Info on Biden’s fossil fueled limo, which would be accompanied by around 18 other fossil fueled vehicles.

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If All You See…

By William Teach April 3, 2022 – 1:00 pm

…is a river that will soon! rise up over the banks and flood the city from ‘climate change’, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Moonbattery, with a post on a sucker punch.

It’s leather and latex week!

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Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup

By William Teach April 3, 2022 – 9:44 am

Patriotic Pinup Pearl Frush

Happy Sunday! Another fantastic day in the Once And Future Nation Of America. The Sun is shining, the birds are singing, and Opening Day is just 4 days away. This pinup is by Pearl Frush, with a wee bit of help.

Also, this is year 17 of doing the Sunday pinup post, having started in 2005.

What is happening in Ye Olde Blogosphere? The Fine 15

  1. The First Street Journal discusses the freedom to tell the truth
  2. The Last Refuge covers Biden telling illegals to come on May 23rd
  3. The Lid discusses how special Opening Day is
  4. The O.K. Corral covers Britain having an explosive problem
  5. The Other McCain notes Russian troops retreating from Kyiv
  6. The Right Scoop highlights Sarah Palin running for Congress
  7. Weasel Zippers is not impressed by Palin running for Congress
  8. Real Clear Science covers the UK’s imaginary energy
  9. Jo Nova explains how wind power is working in Australia
  10. Green Jihad covers Biden’s energy secretary using Ukraine to push “clean energy”
  11. 357 Magnum notes Progressive utopia of NYC having a problem with hate
  12. American Elephants discusses the cheap labor pipeline of illegals
  13. Chicks On The Right covers Woke Disney getting bad news from parents
  14. Cold Fury highlights the Green deceit
  15. And last, but, not least, Dissecting Leftism cover Australian doctors forced to follow government health decrees

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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#Unity: Biden Wants AG Garland To Prosecute Trump

By William Teach April 3, 2022 – 8:30 am

This would bring American together, right? No? It would further divide Americans? Wow. It would set a heck of a precedent for the next Republican president to send their Justice Department after Biden, Kamala, and all the other Democrats involved in accused wrongdoing. It would be a good distraction from Biden’s terrible economy and foreign policy failures, though

Garland Faces Growing Pressure as Jan. 6 Investigation Widens
The inquiry is a test for President Biden and Attorney General Merrick B. Garland, who both came into office promising to restore the Justice Department’s independence.

Biden, serving under Obama, helped destroy the DOJ’s independence. It’s now known as a hardcore leftist organization, especially after the whole fake Russia Russia Russia thing

Immediately after Merrick B. Garland was sworn in as attorney general in March of last year, he summoned top Justice Department officials and the F.B.I. director to his office. He wanted a detailed briefing on the case that will, in all likelihood, come to define his legacy: the Jan. 6 assault on the Capitol.

Even though hundreds of people had already been charged, Mr. Garland asked to go over the indictments in detail, according to two people familiar with the meeting. What were the charges? What evidence did they have? How had they built such a sprawling investigation, involving all 50 states, so fast? What was the plan now?

Same DOJ has mostly ignored the attacks on federal property and employees from the BLM/Antifa riots.

The attorney general’s deliberative approach has come to frustrate Democratic allies of the White House and, at times, President Biden himself. As recently as late last year, Mr. Biden confided to his inner circle that he believed former President Donald J. Trump was a threat to democracy and should be prosecuted, according to two people familiar with his comments. And while the president has never communicated his frustrations directly to Mr. Garland, he has said privately that he wanted Mr. Garland to act less like a ponderous judge and more like a prosecutor who is willing to take decisive action over the events of Jan. 6.

Speaking to reporters on Friday, Mr. Garland said that he and the career prosecutors working on the case felt only the pressure “to do the right thing,” which meant that they “follow the facts and the law wherever they may lead.”

Still, Democrats’ increasingly urgent calls for the Justice Department to take more aggressive action highlight the tension between the frenetic demands of politics and the methodical pace of one of the biggest prosecutions in the department’s history.

Pudding brain wants to cause massive problems in the U.S., have people at each other’s throats. And it’s Constitutionally dubious whether a former president can even be prosecuted for actions while still in office. It does appear that Garland is resisting the calls from Brandon and all his Comrades in Congress and other Progressive people and groups.

“The Department of Justice must move swiftly,” Representative Elaine Luria, Democrat of Virginia and a member of the House committee investigating the riot, said this past week. She and others on the panel want the department to charge Trump allies with contempt for refusing to comply with the committee’s subpoenas.

A banana republic committee trying to drag the DOJ into their banana republic ways. It’s a witch-hunt for political purposes.

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Old And Busted: California Permanent Drought. New And Hot: California Extreme Rainfall

By William Teach April 2, 2022 – 3:00 pm

It’s always something with the Cult of Climastrology. They never seem to acknowledge the science that parts of the world flip in and out of certain climate conditions. Climate, of course, is the long term average of weather. Because of where California, Washington, and Oregon are, they’ll have periods of drought and periods of wet, mostly having to do with Pacific Ocean conditions, which flip, such as La Nina and El Nino. It wasn’t that long ago that the cultists were apoplectic over the California Permanent Drought, much like with Australia. Now Australia is seeing a lot more wet. California and the west coast?

Climate change may mean more extreme rain after wildfire in western US

Under severe warming scenarios, the risk is growing that areas of the western US will experience extreme rainfall within a year or so of being hit by a wildfire.

The risk of extreme rainfall in areas that have recently experienced wildfires may increase significantly by the end of the century in the western United States, if greenhouse gas emissions continue to rise unabated.

“In many places in the western US, we experience a lot of natural disasters,” says Samantha Stevenson at the University of California, Santa Barbara. “Some of the most important ones are wildfires, many of which have burned through California and other western states recently. We also have rainstorms that can lead to devastating floods. Climate change has been known to amplify both these things.”

Ah, so, they’re prognosticating that this will happen. Why? Because it will, based on the meteorological and geologic history of the west coast. This way, though, they can link it to Your Fault for refusing to purchase an unaffordable EV and switching to unreliable, expensive renewables. That’s what the whole “amplify” part is about, part of the whole “fingerprint” meme. Virtually every single one of those wildfires can be traced back to a human setting it, either intentionally or unintentionally. Warmists will say the fires were worse because of human caused global warming, rather than due to human idiocy in land use.

Stevenson and her colleagues decided to study how often these extreme rainfall events will occur following a wildfire over the coming decades. The team ran simulations of the climate in the western US, under the most extreme warming scenario – in which greenhouse gases continue to be emitted uncapped.

Study something that hasn’t occurred yet? With computer models, of course.

In an extreme warming scenario, the team found that by the end of this century, extreme rainfall events in California will be twice as likely to occur in the year following a wildfire than they were in the late 20th century. Such events will be eight times more likely to occur in the Pacific Northwest. For over 90 per cent of extreme wildfire events that will happen in this century in Colorado, California and the Pacific Northwest, the team’s model predicts that extreme rainfall events will occur at least three times within five years of the fire.

Will the team who wrote the paper pay the price if this doesn’t come to pass? Except, they know this is utterly normal weather behavior. It is all about trying to scare people into complying with the cult. Oh, and government grants.

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