Climate Changed Killed Off The Mammoth, Which Is Bad News For Humans Or Something

By William Teach October 21, 2021 – 3:00 pm

They’re rock bottom certain that a warming world may might possibly we feel killed off the Mammoths

Climate Change Wiped Out the Mammoth, New DNA Study Shows
A decade-long study of environmental DNA indicates that glacial melt may have doomed the hairy animals.

Does the study say it or not? Because that “may” is rather iffy

Humans are very rarely the good guys in extinction narratives, given our proclivity for pushing species to the brink of extinction, and often over it. But we’re almost certainly absolved of guilt in the case of the woolly mammoth, according to an international team of scientists who spent the past 10 years sifting through traces of mammoth urine, feces, and skin cells in the ground to figure out what truly caused the species’ extinction.

“The most recent Ice Age—called the Pleistocene—ended 12,000 years ago when the glaciers began to melt and the roaming range of the herds of mammoths decreased,” Yucheng Wang, a geogeneticist at the University of Cambridge and lead author of a new paper of the team’s results, said in a St. John’s College press release.

“We zoomed into the intricate detail of the environmental DNA and mapped out the population spread of these mammals and show how it becomes smaller and smaller and their genetic diversity gets smaller and smaller too, which made it even harder for them to survive,” Wang added.

Woolly mammoths (Mammuthus primigenius) were a charismatic species of mammoth, hairy cousins of elephants that are not to be confused with the contemporaneous mastodon. Though a holdout population of mammoths survived on Russia’s Wrangel Island until about 4,000 years ago, around the same time Stonehenge was nearing completion, all other mammoths were long gone by then.

How much did the end of the glacial age contribute to the extinction of the Mammoth?  Especially when there were several subspecies scattered around the Northern Hemisphere? Maybe most, maybe some. The big question here is “what caused the end of the last glacial age and a warming world?” Because, really, that’s where Gizmodo and the study is going with this

“The change happened so quickly that they could not adapt and evolve to survive,” said Eske Willerslev, a geogeneticist at the University of Cambridge and co-author of the paper, in the same release. “This is a stark lesson from history and shows how unpredictable climate change is—once something is lost, there is no going back.”

Aaaaand, this is meant to imply that a tiny increase in the globe’s temperature since the Little Ice Age ended in 1850 means utter doom, and this is your fault.

Inaction on climate change imperils millions of lives, doctors say

Climate change is set to become the “defining narrative of human health,” a top medical journal warned Wednesday – triggering food shortages, deadly disasters and disease outbreaks that would dwarf the toll of the coronavirus. But aggressive efforts to curb greenhouse gas emissions from human activities could avert millions of unnecessary deaths, according to the analysis from more than 100 doctors and health experts.

In its annual “Countdown on health and climate change,” the Lancet provides a sobering assessment of the dangers posed by a warming planet. More than a dozen measures of humanity’s exposure to health-threatening weather extremes have climbed since last year’s report.

This is the same organization which came up with utter bullshit statistical study on civilian deaths in Iraq from the 2003 war. Anyhow, when are the doctors going to give up their luxury vehicles and homes and go carbon neutral?

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If All You See…

By William Teach October 21, 2021 – 1:00 pm

…is an horrible plastic traffic cone used on horrible streets made for fossil fueled vehicles, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is The Right Scoop, with a post on a DC Comics artist quitting and blasting over leftism and ruining characters.

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Washington Post: You Spoiled Americans Need To Stop Complaining About Supply Shortages

By William Teach October 21, 2021 – 11:01 am

Does the Washington Post and opinion writer Micheline Maynard think this really helps their case in protecting Let’s Go Brandon? Especially when those in the news media really didn’t suffer much through COVID

Opinion: Don’t rant about short-staffed stores and supply chain woes

Across the country, Americans’ expectations of speedy service and easy access to consumer products have been crushed like a Styrofoam container in a trash compactor. Time for some new, more realistic expectations.

Fast food is less fast. A huge flotilla of container ships is stuck offshore in California, waiting to unload. Shelves normally stocked with Halloween candy this time of year are empty, as I saw the other day at a Target here in Ann Arbor, Mich.

The issue has become so troublesome — with alarming economic and political ramifications — that the White House is stepping in, urging unions, port operators and big consumer-goods companies to work around the clock (if they aren’t already) to unclog supply pipelines.

American consumers, their expectations pampered and catered to for decades, are not accustomed to inconvenience.

How dare you pampered consumers expect things to appear to be getting back to normal!! Yes, most foresaw there would be problems, and there are problems around the world. We did expect that they would start getting better, not worse, because demand is not above.

Customers’ persistent whine, “Why don’t they just hire more people?,” sounds feeble in this era of the Great Resignation, especially in industries, such as food service, with reputations for being tough places to work.

Rather than living constantly on the verge of throwing a fit, and risking taking it out on overwhelmed servers, struggling shop owners or late-arriving delivery people, we’d do ourselves a favor by consciously lowering expectations.

Yes, it would be too much to expect to be able to get my cheese bagels or white fish at the supermarket when I go in to get them, and they are out at least half the time. As The Right Scoop notes

Notice how the author doesn’t put any blame on Biden for this, instead casting the Biden White House in the role of simply trying to solve the problem and telling Americans that they’re the ones who need to adjust their spoiled expectations.

And highlights a tweet from Joe Concha, where he writes “This absolutely would have been published if the same crisis occurred under the previous administration, right? Silly, greedy citizens. Your expectations are too high.” Yes, how would this be portrayed in the press if Trump were still president? Yeah, we all know they would be Blaming him, blasting him, demanding to know what he is going to do. Back to the WP

The other day I found myself carrying home a loaf of bread in my bare hands because the bakery had run out of bags. Back when we didn’t know how good we had it — circa 2019 — I might have been annoyed by the inconvenience. Now I was just glad the bakery was still in business.

Yes, because it totally makes sense that we can’t get bags to put bread in. I can understand the cars, TVs, laptops, big ticket items and such. Bags? We just didn’t know how good we had it!

American consumers might have been spoiled, but generations of them have also dealt with shortages of some kind — gasoline in the 1970s, food rationing in the 1940s, housing in the 1920s when cities such as Detroit were booming. Now it’s our turn to make adjustments.

Bread bags are luxuries now.

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Sunrise Movement Cancels Protest Rally Appearance Over Inclusion Of Jews

By William Teach October 21, 2021 – 9:07 am

Funny how they keep telling us that Democrats don’t hate Jews, they just have a problem with Israel, but, keep proving they hate and won’t tolerate Jews. If Islamist groups wanted to march with Sunrise I’d bet there would be no problem.

Climate Activist Org Cancels Appearance at DC Statehood Rally over Jewish Groups’ Participation

The Washington, D.C., chapter of climate-activist organization Sunrise movement canceled its speaking appearance at a rally for D.C. statehood and federal voting legislation over Zionist Jewish groups’ participation in the event.

Sunrise DC cited the Jewish Council on Public Affairs, the National Council of Jewish Women, and the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism as groups that support Zionism and the State of Israel in its withdrawal letter.

“Given our commitment to racial justice, self-governance, and indigenous sovereignty, we oppose Zionism and any state that enforces its ideology,” the statement read.

The organization then accused Israel, which it called a “colonial project,” of illegally occupying Palestine and engaging in “violent oppressive tactics that go against the values we advocate for as a hub.” Sunrise DC then claimed that Israel treats minorities such as Palestinians and black and brown Jewish-Israelis as second-class citizens as well as disenfranchises them from civil society and government.

“We also believe that the fight for statehood and sovereignty are incompatible with Zionism and the political erasure of Palestinians that the ideology calls for,” the statement added.

You can no longer see the tweet from Sunrise DC, as they made their twitter feed protected. Shocker, eh? Others caught, saved it, and posted photos of it, though

They won’t say a bad word about Syria, Egypt, Afghanistan, China, Cuba, North Korea, Venezuela or Iran, among others. Nor a bad word about Palestinians launching suicide attacks against Israeli civilians. But, Israel? Yeah, because they hate Jews.

Of course they won’t, because so many Democrats hate Jews. AOC, Tlaib, Omar, and so many more. But, remember, this is all about science and getting everyone to demand Government do something about ‘climate change’.

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Let’s Go Brandon “Backs Down” On $600 Bank Transaction Line, Raises To $10,000

By William Teach October 21, 2021 – 8:49 am

That will make all the difference in the world, right?

Biden admin backs down on tracking bank accounts with over $600 annual transactions

The Biden administration on Tuesday backed down on a controversial proposal to direct the IRS to collect additional data on every bank account that sees more than $600 in annual transactions, after widespread criticism from Republican lawmakers and banking industry representatives, who said the tax enforcement strategy represented a breach of privacy by the federal government.

Instead, the administration and Senate Democrats are proposing to raise the threshold to accounts with more than $10,000 in annual transactions, and any income received through a paycheck from which federal taxes are automatically deducted will not be subject to the reporting. Recipients of federal benefits like unemployment and Social Security would also be exempt.

The IRS would collect the total sum of deposits and withdrawals from bank accounts with more than $10,000 in non-payroll income. Information on individual transactions would not be collected.

The changes were announced Tuesday by the Treasury Department.

“In response to considerations about scope, it [Congress] has crafted a new approach to include an exemption for wage and salary earners and federal program beneficiaries. Under this revised approach, such earners can be completely carved out of the reporting structure. This is a well-reasoned modification: for American workers and retirees, the IRS already has information on wage and salary income and the federal benefits they receive,” a Treasury Department fact sheet on the changes said.

That’s totally gonna catch all those bigwig rich folks cheating on their taxes, right? Oh, wait, most of them simply have very good accountants which allows them to take advantage of all the benefits of the tax code as passed by the federal Legislative branch and signed into law by Presidents. This is what Democrats, who vote “yes” for these laws and sign the bills into law, call loopholes. Perhaps many of these things are not what was intended, but, then, they should read and understand the implications of what they’re voting “yes” for. Perhaps slimming down the tax code, a simple flat tax, would be better?

In reality, this will catch almost no one who is “rich”, which in Dem World is those in the $400k and up earnings bracket. It might not even catch most. If implemented, will the IRS track the data and publish it to let us know if this spying scheme worked? Because it is spying, and asking banks to assist in spying on most Americans. The difference, for most citizens, between $600 and $10,000 is negligible.

My monthly mortgage total is $600. Car lease $250. Electricity about $125. Water/sewer around $60. Cell service $100. That’s already $13,620, and doesn’t include cable bill, food, gas, the small hit for natural gas, clothes, shoes, sundries, contacts stuff, and general purchases. If your rent/mortgage is $833 a month or more, you’ve hit that $10k line. If this was all about single transaction, like is required for cash purchases/deposits, it might be understandable. Not acceptable, but, understandable. But, everything says this is not

The fact sheet says, “Imagine a taxpayer who reports $10,000 of income; but has $10 million of flows in and out of their bank account. Having this summary information will help flag for the IRS when high-income people under-report their income (and under-pay their tax obligations). This will help the IRS target its enforcement activities on those who are actually evading their tax obligations—decreasing costly and burdensome audits for the vast majority of taxpayers who pay what they owe.”

Yes, but, it will mean banks have to report your private financial data to the IRS. It won’t say what you purchase, just the overall cash flow.

(Fox News) “Well, if you deposit or withdraw more than $10,000 over a year, the Biden Administration wants the IRS to be able to spy on you,” (Senator Joni) Ernst’s remarks continue. “To put this number into perspective, if you rent an apartment in Iowa, the average annual cost to do so is just above $10,000 per year.”

And they’ll be doing this without benefit of a warrant. This is a clear violation of the 4th Amendment. It is not a reasonable search. Certainly not a blanket requirement for reporting, and you can bet if Democrats pass this or Joe’s admin creates a rule it will end up in court within a week, and is tailor made for a Supreme Court ruling.

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Survey Says: 58% Find Biden Incapable Of Doing Job Of POTUS

By William Teach October 20, 2021 – 7:50 pm

This is too delicious to wait for Thursday morning

Nolte: 58% Say Joe Biden Not Mentally or Physically Capable of Being President

A stunning 58 percent of voters say His Fraudulency Joe Biden is not up to the job of being president.

Rasmussen Reports surveyed 1,000 likely voters and asked, “How confident are you that Joe Biden is physically and mentally up to the job of being President of the United States?”

A full 50 percent said they are “not at all confident,” while another eight percent said “not very confident.”

In fact, only 27 percent said they were “very confident” Biden was up to the job of being president, while 14 percent said “somewhat confident.”

Basically, only 41 percent of voters believe Biden has what it takes mentally and physically to be president.

Well, gee wiz, perhaps the 81 million who voted (“voted”?) for Let’s Go Brandon should have considered who Biden is, how he was hiding, gaffe prone, etc, before simply casting a vote against Trump because he’s a big meany. Too many look at personality, rather than ability and results, treating politics as a personality contest. Come on, how many politicians, even the ones you really like, would you trust to feed your pets?

Rasmussen also asked, “Is Joe Biden doing the job of president, or are others making decisions behind the scenes?”

Only 38 percent believe Biden is making decisions, while a clear majority of 53 percent say others are making decisions for him.

The bloom usually takes a bit longer to come off the rose. Biden has only been in office for 9 months as of today. Nolte goes on to make a pretty good observation

One of the basic rules of politics is that you put an end to negative speculation by meeting it head-on. If the criticism says you can’t or won’t or are incapable of doing that, you go out and show the world you are doing that.

Instead, Joe is hiding, doing super scripted events, refusing to take questions from the usually friendly press, spending most weekends at home in Delaware or at Camp David, not even going out and doing anything. He barely has anything on his calendar daily. Good grief, he doesn’t even typically get his daily brief till 930am. Presidents usually get those much earlier in the morning, not long after waking up.

He traveled to Avoca, Pennsylvania, late this afternoon, 325pm, for a 530 “speech”. He held no talks with reporters on AF1. He’ll take no questions when he arrives back at the WH just after 8pm. Everything is in a completely controlled environment. The fake sound stages for things like a COVID booster shot. He can barely speak from the teleprompter

https://twitter.com/Breaking911/status/1450945454598934532

Huh? Even if we think “gaffe”, which is utterly normal for Joe, on saying VP instead of Senator, does he know the timeline? His wife was killed in 1972.

But, hey, y’all who voted for him, no complaining. You got what you wanted, right?

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Reportedly, Teslas Are Being Charged With Diesel Generators For COP26

By William Teach October 20, 2021 – 3:00 pm

True? Not true? If you’ve been watching the Cult of Climastrology for a while, you know that this is mostly like real, because they like to give appearances, but, really, do not care beyond that, because they are Elites

UN Climate Change Conference Reportedly Using Diesel Generators To Charge Teslas Being Used As Shuttles

electric vehicleWe’re not sure we can think of a better analogue for the lunacy behind the climate change hysteria that what is reportedly going on in Glasgow.

As many people know, the Conference of the Parties (COP) Climate Change Conference, hosted by the UK in partnership with Italy, is taking place in Glasgow from October 31 to November 12.

One blogger from Brighton wrote this week that attendees from the conference will be staying at Gleneagles Hotel.

He wrote that there’s 20 Teslas at the hotel to shuttle people back and forth to and from the convention, which is about 75km.

Then, the kicker. Since the hotel only has one Tesla charging station, diesel generators were contracted to help recharge the Teslas overnight. (snip)

Maybe since we’re gathered to talk about the negative effect on the climate, we could at least start by finding a carbon neutral way to shuttle yourself back and forth to the event.

It’s almost like these meetings aren’t really about climate change after all…

The same people will be taking lots of fossil fueled flights, including on private jets. And those staying at the Gleneagles are the upper echelons, as it is a 5 star luxury resort. Three championship golf courses, spa, the only restaurant in Scotland with 2 Michelin stars, and, at the moment, going for around $577 a night.

Meanwhile

PANERA MAKES A BOLD CLIMATE-CHANGE PLEDGE

Panera Bread is doubling down on its commitment to the environment.

The fast casual on Tuesday said it has set a goal of becoming “climate positive” by 2050. That means Panera would remove more carbon from the atmosphere than it emits.

The chain said it will set regular, smaller goals to meet between now and then, with several short-term targets to achieve by 2025. They include increasing the sales percentage of Panera’s carbon-friendly “Cool Food Meals,” transitioning to 100% reusable, recyclable and compostable packaging and using green, renewable electricity for at least half of its company-owned restaurants.

What about all those deliveries in fossil fueled trucks? All the people coming to get the food in their fossil fueled vehicles? How about home deliveries? What this really means is a price increase, and Panera really not doing all that much. Climavirtue signaling is easier, which is what most companies do.

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If All You See…

By William Teach October 20, 2021 – 1:00 pm

…is horrible heat snow because Other People refuse to stop driving fossil fueled vehicles, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Victory Girls Blog, with a post on Rachel Levine getting 4 stars for being gender confused.

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In And Out Burger Closed In San Francisco For Refusing To Be COVID Police

By William Teach October 20, 2021 – 10:30 am

More: They call themselves “anti-Fascists” yet want more authoritarian government

Now, I can understand being mask police during forced masking, at least in cases where there are penalties on companies that fail to enforce masking, as getting caught by the government mask Gestapo could cause a lot of issues for companies. Who wants to be fined? Who wants to be shut down? Many companies just went with the flow to avoid the problems. But, asking people to put on mask, or put them on properly, can be uncomfortable. And create fights. Asking people to prove their vaccination status is even more uncomfortable, and getting into people’s business. We don’t ask if they have had a flu shot, right? This is a giant step way too far, but, unsurprising in San Francisco

San Francisco Closes In-N-Out After Company Defies Vaccine Mandates

California fast food giant, In-N-Out Burger, earned itself a public flogging in the left-wing haven of San Francisco after the company refused to comply with the city’s vaccine mandate.

According to KRON4, the San Francisco Department of Public Health shut down the city’s In-N-Out Burger restaurant near Fisherman’s Wharf because “employees were not properly checking for customers’ vaccination documentation.”

The shutdown occurred on Thursday, October 14. The restaurant has since reopened but only for drive-thru dining. San Francisco issued a strict vaccine mandate this past August, dictating that “all restaurants, bars, clubs, gyms and large indoor events” must “obtain proof of vaccination from patrons and employees to protect against the coronavirus.”

Why would this even be necessary? Aren’t Democratic Party voters compliant? Don’t they now love the vaccine since Joe is president? Aren’t they all getting them?

In a statement, In-N-Out Chief Legal & Business Officer Arnie Wensinger said that the company “fiercely” disagrees with government mandates that force businesses to discriminate:

We refuse to become the vaccination police for any government. It is unreasonable, invasive, and unsafe to force our restaurant associates to segregate customers into those who may be served and those who may not, whether based on the documentation they carry, or any other reason.

“We fiercely disagree with any government dictate that forces a private company to discriminate against customers who choose to patronize their business,” he added.

In-N-Out had seen pressure from the city government for weeks, since a few whiny whiners had snitched, instead of just going on about their business. Someone in the article comments had a great point

You comply because you want it to end. Because you continue to comply….it will never end. Do not comply.

Exactly. Most complied with the first mask mandate. Heck, I was the mask police at work, first because I didn’t want Government coming in and causing problems (interestingly, government did nothing that I heard of around here), second, because some people just wanted to be a pain. They can wait outside. It annoyed me greatly that Planet Fitness wouldn’t tell people to wear their masks properly. I did not want them shut down. This time? I won’t wear it if they aren’t forcing it.

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Climate Cult Fail: Fossil Fuels Production Set To Soar

By William Teach October 20, 2021 – 8:27 am

There would be no need for production to soar if Warmists gave up their own use of fossil fuels, right?

Climate change: Fossil fuel production set to soar over next decade

Plans by governments to extract fossil fuels up to 2030 are incompatible with keeping global temperatures to safe levels, says the UN.

The UNEP production gap report says countries will drill or mine more than double the levels needed to keep the 1.5C threshold alive.

Oil and gas recovery is set to rise sharply with only a modest decrease in coal.

There has been little change since the first report was published in 2019.

With the COP26 climate conference just over a week away, there is already a huge focus on the carbon-cutting ambitions of the biggest emitters.

But despite the flurry of net zero emission goals and the increased pledges of many countries, some of the biggest oil, gas and coal producers have not set out plans for the rapid reductions in fossil fuels that scientists say are necessary to limit temperatures in coming years. (snip)

The report profiles 15 major production countries including Australia, Russia, Saudi Arabia, the US and UK.

Most governments continue to provide significant policy support for fossil fuel production, the authors say.

“The research is clear: global coal, oil, and gas production must start declining immediately and steeply to be consistent with limiting long-term warming to 1.5C,” says Ploy Achakulwisut, a lead author on the report from the Stockholm Environment Institute.

It’s always interesting when Warmists are quoted like this, with a few more further in the article, yet, the reporter(s) fails to ask if the individuals, along with their entities, have given up their own use of fossil fuels. Governments wouldn’t have to “provide support”, which is climate cult code for “not restricting and banning” in most cases, if citizens had no interest in them. They wouldn’t need to provide support if they weren’t highly efficient and low cost. Hence why many European nations are turning back to coal to provide the necessary power.

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