Bummer: GOP Going After The Stupid Climate Disclosure Rules

By William Teach September 15, 2022 – 3:00 pm

This makes climate cultists very upset. They’re gung-ho to force Other People to do things. I bet the uber-left wing climate cultist leaning UK Guardian would pitch a hissy fit if the UK government forced them to pony up all sorts of disclosures that cost them a lot of money

Republicans planning legal assault on climate disclosure rules for public companies

Republican officials and corporate lobby groups are teeing up a multi-pronged legal assault on the Biden administration’s effort to help investors hold public corporations accountable for their carbon emissions and other climate change risks.

The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) proposed new climate disclosure rules in March that would require public companies to report the climate-related impact and risks to their businesses.

The regulator has since received more than 14,500 comments. Submissions from 24 Republican state attorneys general and some of the country’s most powerful industry associations suggest that these groups are preparing a series of legal challenges after the regulation is finalized, which could happen as soon as next month.

“I would expect a litigation challenge to be brought immediately once the final rule is released,” Jill E Fisch, a business law professor at the University of Pennsylvania, told the Guardian. “They probably have their complaints already drafted, and they’re ready to file.”

Are the investor clamoring for these disclosures, or just activists and climate cult politicians?

Some opponents claim that requiring companies to publish climate-related information infringes on their right to free speech. Others (often the same ones) say that the rule exceeds the SEC’s legal authority.

Yes to both, but, mostly to exceeding SEC authority

In West Virginia v EPA, the supreme court endorsed a relatively novel legal notion – the so-called “major questions doctrine” – to halt an EPA effort to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from power plants. As the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists explained, “Under this doctrine, when a regulation crosses a certain threshold of being ‘major’ – a line which remains poorly defined – the court rejects the regulation unless it has been clearly authorized by Congress.”

This is a massive rule not explicitly authorized by the Legislative Branch, but, the climate cultists do not care, they’ll keep pushing.

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If All You See…

By William Teach September 15, 2022 – 1:00 pm

…is an angry sea from too much carbon pollution, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Moonbattery, with a post on the FBI going after Mike Lindell.

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Sen. Warren Admits Inflation Reduction Act Won’t Bring Down Energy Prices For A Long Time

By William Teach September 15, 2022 – 10:30 am

She had her talking points down, as she didn’t refer to it as a climate bill, like so many did after its passage

Warren: Inflation Act Doesn’t Lower Utility Costs for Years, But That’s Where ‘Everybody’ ‘Would Like to See Those Prices Come Down’

On Wednesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports,” Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) stated that the Inflation Reduction Act is “partly about bringing down utility costs, and it’s partly about bringing down healthcare costs.” But admitted it only does so in the long run and stated that “long-term is where, I think, everybody in America would like to see those prices come down.”

Host Andrea Mitchell said, “[T]he Inflation Reduction Act, so named, doesn’t really reduce inflation. It brings the deficit down, less than one might have hoped because of Manchin and Sinema taking things out on the tax piece of it.”

Warren responded, “It absolutely brings the deficit down. And remember, if you think that the problem that causes inflation is too much money floating around in the economy, then it absolutely attacks that directly. But what it does that I think we have to remember about inflation is it attacks costs directly where families live. So, the Inflation Reduction Act is partly about bringing down utility costs, and it’s partly about bringing down healthcare costs.”

Unfortunately, Mitchell missed the opportunity to ask “how? How will the IRA bring down utility costs?” The answer would have probably been along the lines of building more wind farms and solar farms while cutting off natural gas and coal, replacing reliable, dependable, and affordable energy with expensive and hit-or-miss energy. If Warren even answered rather than deflected

Mitchell then pointed out that both of those are “long-term” and don’t “kick in until ’25 or so.”

Warren responded, “But long-term is where, I think, everybody in America would like to see those prices come down. This is literally the first time that big pharma has lost in a battle to be able to keep raising prices forever and ever. And Democrats — again, Democrats have a real plan to bring down prices, while Republicans just stand by and scream.”

Mitchell failed to ask “how” on that, too. What will cause energy prices to come down, and, if they do, how will we know that the IRA had anything to do with it 3 years from now? Just the electric vehicle stuff will cause utility prices to rise as more use electricity to charge their cars. Most upper middle class and rich folks, of course, since the middle and working classes won’t be switching to too expensive vehicles.

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Brandon To Go After Industrial Products Manufacturers For Carbon Pollution Or Something

By William Teach September 15, 2022 – 7:00 am

This Brandon?

Let’s see: he took Marine 1 to Andrews on Tuesday, jumped on a fossil fueled jumbo jet, taxied, took off, landed, parked, jumped in a large fossil fueled convoy. Voted. Then did it in reverse. Most likely with the backup jumbo jet and several fighter jets. Would have been better to just take the helicopter.

Oh, and flew back and forth to Detroit Wednesday to tour the auto show, where, per his schedule, “The President delivers remarks highlighting the electric vehicle manufacturing boom in America.” Bet he didn’t show up in an EV convoy. Nor take one over to a reception for the DNC. And

Biden administration seeks to lower industrial greenhouse gas emissions — and that won’t be easy

With the passage last month of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), the federal government has taken its first major steps towards reducing greenhouse emissions from cars, houses and power plants by incentivizing the purchase of electric vehicles, solar panels, electric heat pumps and other existing technologies.

But after transportation and electricity generation, the next largest source of carbon dioxide emissions is the manufacture and refining of industrial products like iron and packaged foods. These processes all rely on the burning of fossil fuels in order to facilitate chemical reactions, emitting massive amounts of greenhouse gases as a result.

Collectively, industry accounts for 24% of annual U.S. emissions, according to the Environmental Protection Agency, compared to 25% for electric power and 27% for transportation, and lowering those emissions will be especially hard. Cutting fossil fuels out of industry is a more complicated task than switching to electric cars or replacing coal-fired power plants with wind farms, as it requires changing the way everything from plastics to cement are made.

Gee, that won’t cause prices to spike at all, right? The article delves more into what they’re going after, what they’ll be told to do by the Brandon admin, and it all means your cost of living will go up and products will be less available. Be funny if all these manufacturers decided to withhold their products and services from the U.S. government. Pretty sure the security fencing around his Rehoboth Beach house will require metal and concrete. Be a real shame if the manufacturers said “sorry, can’t supply it.”

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Hot Take: Illinois Governor Signs Disaster Declaration Over Bused Illegals

By William Teach September 15, 2022 – 6:45 am

He didn’t seem particularly concerned enough over blacks shooting each other in the streets of Chicago, nor all the crime in the city, but, a few illegals shipped to Chicago? Well

Governor signs disaster declaration, calls up National Guard to assist with migrants bused from Texas

Gov. J.B. Pritzker is signing a disaster proclamation to secure resources for the asylum-seekers bused to Illinois from Texas and has deployed 75 National Guard members to assist with the logistics of receiving the migrants, he announced Wednesday.

Speaking at a news conference, Pritzker again criticized his Texas counterpart, Gov. Greg Abbott, for failing to coordinate or communicate with Illinois and Chicago officials and derided his actions as a “stunt.”

”I’m not going to mince words here: The governor of Texas is forcing on New York and (Washington) D.C. and Chicago and potentially other places a needlessly last minute and complex process that is a heartless display of politics over people,” Pritzker said. “Why not give reasonable notice? Why send these folks only to blue cities or blue states? Why isn’t Abbott sending refugees to Mississippi or Oklahoma or Idaho? This is about politics for him.”

The border towns do not really receive notice when the illegals stream in, right? Nor when the Biden admin forces Customs And Border Patrol to release the illegals and open the gates, right? Or, when the Biden admin flies illegals to small cities around the nation in the dead of night, right? Or when Chicago sent a bunch of those illegals to a small city outside Chicago, right?

Pritzker said the migrants are in the country legally as asylum-seekers and that many trekked for months to make it to the U.S. border to escape oppression and persecution. But upon arrival, Pritzker said, they were herded into buses and dumped in the “dead of night” at Chicago’s Union Station.

And almost none of them will qualify for asylum. Why should small towns in Texas and Arizona have to deal with these folks and not the cities that call themselves sanctuaries? Seems like these pro-illegal folks are pretty upset that they have to now deal with the consequences of their pro-illegal beliefs

Meanwhile, Pritzker said that the Illinois attorney general and Chicago city attorneys, among other agencies, are investigating whether there is “criminal liability” for Abbott’s actions.

Oh, is Abbott responsible for failing to secure the border? Isn’t that the job of the federal government, per the Constitution and federal law?

Lightfoot said since Aug. 31, when the first busload of asylum-seekers arrived, about 500 migrants have arrived in Chicago. She expects that number to grow.

Chicago has to deal with about 500, there’s been around 130,000 Venezuelans alone who’ve crossed the border this fiscal year. El Paso is dealing with around 1,000 migrants of all nationalities a day and hundreds of releases a day. That’s one city. Chicago can suck it.

And more:

2 migrant buses arrive outside Vice President Kamala Harris’ Naval Observatory residence in DC

Two migrant buses from Del Rio, Texas, arrived near Vice President Kamala Harris’ residence at the Naval Observatory in Washington, D.C., Thursday morning.

Between 75 and 100 people who were picked up in Eagle Pass, Texas, were sent by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott. The group includes migrants from Venezuela, Uruguay, Colombia and Mexico. Multiple migrants, asked by Fox News Digital, said they think the border is open, contrary to what Harris said Sunday during an interview.

And

Massachusetts Dems react after DeSantis transports migrants into ritzy Martha’s Vineyard: ‘Evil and inhumane’

Lawmakers in Massachusetts were tasked with caring for dozens of migrants Wednesday after Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis sent two planes full of migrants to Martha’s Vineyard, a ritzy island located in Dukes County.

On Wednesday, Democratic lawmakers voiced their criticism online after they were forced to act swiftly to provide them shelter, food, blankets and other necessities to the 50 migrants who now reside in their state.

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Bummer: World Leaders Being Told No Private Jets And SUVs For Queen’s State Funeral

By William Teach September 14, 2022 – 3:00 pm

Such a real shame when the people who tells us there’s a crisis have to act like it’s a crisis, if only for a day or two

Biden on a bus? Brits say president, other world leaders to be escorted to queen’s funeral in coaches

Ditch the armored limo. Leave the presidential chopper at home.

President Joe Biden and other dignitaries who plan to attend Queen Elizabeth II’s state funeral have been advised by the British government not to take private transportation to London next week and told they will be escorted to the service in buses.

Official planning documents obtained by Politico urge presidents, monarchs and other heads of state to take commercial aircraft to London and wait for their ride to Westminster Abbey, where the solemn ceremony will be held Sept. 19.

How many will actually not take their big private jets and limos? I guess we’ll see

Biden on a bus? That won’t happen, said former U.S. officials who have been involved in presidential planning and security.

“I can’t imagine any circumstances where the USSS (Secret Service) would agree to any of that,” said Anita McBride, who was assistant to President George W. Bush and chief of staff to first lady Laura Bush.

The Secret Service declined to comment on the president’s travel arrangements or security measures that will be put in place for his trip.

An unconfirmed report published in The Times of London said Biden would be given special dispensation and would be allowed to take the presidential limo to the funeral, while other world leaders would have to share the bus.

Yeah, I don’t see him doing this, either. Because he’s special. He wants to force you into an EV, bus, and/or train. Or scooter. Or walk. That’s not for him though. Nor probably for most of the world leaders who advocate to Do Something about ‘climate change’. They’re too special to do what they are making the plebes do.

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If All You See…

By William Teach September 14, 2022 – 1:00 pm

…are wet rocks from climate fueled extra high king tides, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Maggie’s Farm, with a post on why Progressives undermine civilization.

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White House Unable To Answer How The IRA Will Reduce Inflation For Citizens

By William Teach September 14, 2022 – 10:30 am

Even after a month, where Brandon just celebrated a month since the bill was passed…

President Joe Biden celebrated the passage of the “Inflation Reduction Act” by hosting an event at the White House Tuesday, the same day the Bureau of Labor Statistics released a report showing inflation had continued to rise in August, causing markets to plummet. (snip)

The Bureau of Labor Statistics report, released Tuesday, showed that the Consumer Price Index (CPI), a key measure of inflation, increased by 8.3 percent in August when compared to the same month last year and increased 0.1 percent from July.

Many economists had predicted inflation would decline slightly in August. Markets nosedived on the news, with the Dow falling 1,250 points — the most since June of 2020.

Consumer wallets are also getting hit hard at the grocery store. The food index had the largest 12-month increase since May of 1979, rising 11.4 percent over the last year, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics report.

…the White House cannot say what the IRA will do

Karine Jean-Pierre stumbles when pressed on so-called Inflation Reduction Act: ‘Is it fair?’

Joe Biden Ice Cream AfghanistanWhite House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre floundered when pressed on what the so-called Inflation Reduction Act will do for Americans in the short term Tuesday.

Reporters pressed Jean-Pierre during a White House press briefing, pointing out that the measures in the IRA aren’t expected to impact most Americans until later in the decade. Jean-Pierre listed a handful of programs subsidizing some purchases but did not point to examples of how the bill would cut inflation.

“What exactly would the inflation Reduction Act do to reduce inflation in the short term?” a reporter asked.

“Look, experts economists have said themselves that … the Inflation Reduction Act would be beneficial to let three hundred the extra three hundred billion dollars in deficit,” Jean-Pierre responded. “That is really important as we have right now $1.7 billion in deficit reduction under this administration. It would help lower that even more, which is incredibly important.”

And, good on the reporter for continuing to press the issue, because that is, as usual, a non-answer from Jean-Pierre

“Is it fair to suggest to people that somehow they’re going to see some inflation reduction right now while they’re hurting the most?” the reporter pressed.

“Well, that is actually not true,” Jean-Pierre said before listing several programs granting tax credits or rebates for installing things like home solar panels and energy-saving windows and doors.

So, if all you middle and working class would just spend a ton of money you don’t have to install solar panels and stuff, you’ll save money! Makes total sense. This is some serious Jimmy Carter wearing a sweater stuff, the Biden admin divorced from reality, and the GOP is blowing it by not bringing it up constantly.

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Climate Crisis (scam) Is Making People Angrier Online

By William Teach September 14, 2022 – 7:15 am

If only you would agree to give up your fossil fueled travel, pay lots of taxes and fees, and abdicate your freedom and life choices to government we could solve this

Climate Change Is Making People Angrier Online

Climate change is making us angrier online. A lot angrier.

Hateful comments spike on social media when temperatures rise above 30 degrees Celsius (86 Fahrenheit), researchers at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research have found.

“It’s an indicator of how well people can adapt to high temperatures,” said Annika Stechemesser, lead author of the study published in The Lancet Planetary Health earlier this month. “If temperatures go too hot or too cold, we found that there’s an increase in online hate speech, no matter the socioeconomic differences, religion or political beliefs.”

Global warming of about 1.1°C on average since pre-industrial times has unleashed all sorts of extreme weather events across the world. This summer, drought and a string of heat waves hit Europe, China and the US. For humans, heat is associated with psychiatric hospitalizations, increased rates of suicide and more domestic violence, according to research.

And aggressive behavior online has been linked to violence offline too. Incensed posts have led to more violence toward minorities, including mass shootings, lynchings and ethnic cleansing, according to the Council on Foreign Relations, a New York-based think tank.

LOL. Really. It could not possibly have anything to do with people just generally getting more crazy online, right? Funny how they never mention the lunatics who glue themselves to roads and trains and buses and such. Or, spike the tires of trucks. Or so much other climate cult lunacy. Seriously, these cultists will link everything to their doomsday cult beliefs.

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Biden Outlines Plan To Beat Cancer Or Something

By William Teach September 14, 2022 – 7:00 am

It’s definitely a worthy goal, let’s be clear, and it would be wonderful if there was an actual plan, but, like with most of his stuff, it’s more of a talking point

Biden outlines ambitious ‘moonshot’ effort to reduce cancer deaths in the U.S.

President Biden traveled to Boston on Monday to promote the cancer-fighting effort he first launched in February, with the goal of halving cancer death rates in the United States in the next 25 years.

“I give you my word as a Biden, this cancer moonshot is one of the reasons why I ran for president,” Biden said, describing it as part of his “unity agenda” of initiatives that even political opponents could support.

“Beating cancer is something we can do together,” the president said, noting that the disease does not discriminate between Republicans and Democrats.

So, what is he supposedly doing?

Ahead of the remarks, the White House announced a new biotechnology and biomanufacturing initiative, which is intended to galvanize sophisticated medical research and manufacturing in the United States. An accompanying executive order calls on federal agencies ranging from the Department of Agriculture to the Department of Homeland Security to focus on the effort.

The White House also appointed biomedical executive Dr. Renee Wegrzyn to lead the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health, an agency created by Biden earlier this year, to “push the limits of U.S. biomedical and health research and innovation.” Wegrzyn will be the agency’s first leader.

The White House notice on Biden’s cancer-related remarks says that the National Cancer Institute has begun a four-year study intended to allow for cancer detection via a simple blood test, without having to resort to more invasive procedures like colonoscopies or biopsies.

Yeah, that’s pretty much all that is offered in the article. That trial is a good thing, especially for internal cancers. It might have been more worthwhile to allocate a lot more money for this than for the idiotic climate change scam stuff and so much other wasteful spending in the last few partisan bills.

This is what the fact sheet says

New Goals for the Cancer Moonshot
Based on the progress made and the possibility before us, President Biden today set new national goals for the Cancer Moonshot:

  • Working together over the next 25 years, we will cut today’s age-adjusted death rate from cancer by at least 50 percent.
  • We will improve the experience of people and their families living with and surviving cancer.

Taken together, these actions will drive us toward ending cancer as we know it today.

25 years is a long time to cut it by just 50%. That’s not a moon shot. But, in fairness, the rest of the fact sheet does have some details and more planning than what we saw under Obama. So, if he can get the ball rolling, fantastic. If future presidents keep it going, awesome. But, how about, again, allocating the money for this rather than other stuff that is dumb?

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