Because You Ate A Burger 167 Million Homes Could Be Wiped Out By Climate Emergency

By William Teach June 9, 2021 – 3:00 pm

We’ll also blame your great great grandparents for daring to innovate and move prosperity forward with the industrial revolution

Climate change: 167 million homes could be wiped out by 2040, warns charity

The world could lose 8.4 million homes a year between now and 2040, if extreme weather events continue to increase at current rates, new analysis has warned.

That would total 167 million homes, which is the equivalent of every home in the UK being wiped out six times over, according to new data published by disaster relief charity ShelterBox.

It estimates that during the three days of this week’s G7 summit in Cornwall, 69,000 homes could be lost to extreme weather globally, which would be the same as a quarter of all families in Cornwall being forced to flee. (snip)

Professor Andrew Collins at Northumbria University, who helped draw up the data, said it should “be taken extremely seriously now rather than any later”, since the estimates of the loss of homes is based on extrapolation from real data already accumulated.

“As the current state of climatic impacts already reveals, and as experienced by billions of people all over the world through the current pandemic, to ignore the warnings in the data complete with its uncertainties is to walk ill-prepared into catastrophic loss and damage,” he said.

So, what’s the consequences to ShelterBox when they are proven wrong? Anything? What about for Sky News and others who gleefully print this bit of cult propaganda, which uses “extrapolated” data? And seems to be blaming every single weather event that occurs. Things that have been happening for thousands and millions of years are now Your Fault for refusing to give up your fossil fuels and modern lifestyle.

Hey, perhaps don’t build a house in a place that could be prone to flooding, wildfires, hurricanes, tornadoes, etc. Things that have been happening longer than humanity.

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If All You See…

By William Teach June 9, 2021 – 1:00 pm

…is a fish that is surely smaller because of the climate emergency, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Bunkerville, with a post on Clueless Kamala debuting her schtick on illegal immigration.

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China Seems Upset At America First Technology Bill

By William Teach June 9, 2021 – 10:30 am

Hey, remember the days when Democrats said that America First policies were racist, xenophobic, evil, and so forth?

China denounces US bill aimed at boosting competitiveness

China Votes BidenBeijing has denounced a U.S. bill aimed at boosting U.S. technology to improve American competitiveness, calling it a thinly veiled attack on China’s political system and an attempt to hinder its development.

The Foreign Affairs Committee of China’s ceremonial legislature, the National People’s Congress, issued a scathing statement on Wednesday expressing its “strong dissatisfaction and resolute opposition” to the U.S. Innovation and Competition Act.” The bill passed with overwhelming bipartisan support in the Senate on Tuesday.

“This bill seeks to exaggerate and spread the so-called ‘China threat’ to maintain global American hegemony, using human rights and religion as excuses to interfere in China’s domestic politics, and deprive China of its legitimate development rights,” the statement said.

Oh, hey, remember when Democrats were saying that anything negative about China was racist?

The statement also attacked provisions of the bill expressing support for Taiwan, the self-governing island democracy that China claims as its own territory; references to Hong Kong, where Beijing is accused of rolling back democracy; and criticism of Chinese policy in the northwestern territory of Xinjiang, the site of mass detentions of minority Muslim groups.

It’s almost like China wrote this story for the Associated Press? Anyhow, nice to see Congress showing support for Taiwan. Republicans have, now Democrats are.

The 68-32 Senate vote demonstrated how confronting China is a rate issue that can unite both parties in Congress at a time of intense partisan division.

But Senators have sought to call attention to China’s growing influence without stoking anti-Asian rhetoric at a time of rising hate crimes against Asian Americans.

Almost all those hate crimes have occurred in Democrat run cities by Democrat Party voters.

The centerpiece of the bill is a $50 billion emergency allotment to the Commerce Department to support semiconductor development and manufacturing through research and incentive programs previously authorized by Congress. The bill’s overall cost would increase spending by about $250 billion, with most of the outlays in the first five years.

Not really helpful if Democrats won’t let us mine the necessary metals on American soil. It’s also the federal government getting too involved in private business.

Other parts of the bill spell out national security concerns and target money-laundering schemes or cyberattacks by entities on behalf of the Chinese government. There are also “buy America” provisions for infrastructure projects in the U.S.

Wait, that’s racist!

It’s unclear whether the measure will find support in the Democratic-led House, where the Science Committee is expected to soon consider that chamber’s version.

So, Democrats do not want to support America over China? Huh.

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Martin Heinrich (D-NM), Wants To Force You Out Of Your Fossil Fueled Vehicle, Change Your Life

By William Teach June 9, 2021 – 7:14 am

The original headline of this opinion piece was “To Fight Climate Change, Replace Fossil Fuels At Home And Work”, which was probably considered a little too scary even for NY Times readers. And would lead to inconvenient questions like “has Senator Heinrich given up his own use of fossil fuels at home and work? How about the rest of his elected climate cult Comrades?”

Your Next Car and Clothes Dryer Could Help Save Our Planet

Our future depends on our acting now to confront the climate crisis by enacting policies to convert our economy from fossil fuels to clean energy. By making this switch, we will also create millions of new jobs, save American households money on their energy bills and protect lives by improving the air we breathe in our homes and workplaces.

To get there, we need to begin by electrifying large parts of our economy and changing the supply of all that electricity from polluting fuels to clean energy. We must start with our homes and vehicles because, according to research from Rewiring America, a nonprofit organization focused on the widespread electrification of the U.S. economy, 42 percent of all of our energy-related carbon emissions come from the machines we have in our households and our cars. To keep global warming at livable temperatures, we need to replace existing machines that use fossil fuels with clean electric substitutes when they reach the end of life.

Deep decarbonization analyses, such as a recent report by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, conclude that working to electrify our vehicles, homes and businesses is a critical part of achieving economywide net-zero emissions by 2050.

The jobs thing again, which barely seem to materialize. And, perhaps you will save one energy bills. But that won’t be for a while, as the cost to replace the vehicles and appliances will be expensive to start with. Has Martin done this in his own life?

Rewiring America offers one blueprint for this transition that underscores its enormous scope — and the benefits that will result. The group has calculated that we must replace or install one billion machines. More than half of those would replace the ones we now have in our homes that burn fossil fuels — including our space-heating machines like furnaces, water heaters, cars, and clothes dryers. What if we build those electric appliances in America? That’s a lot of manufacturing.

That’s a lot of manufacturing, yes. Who’s going to do it? China? America doesn’t make most of this stuff anymore, sadly. It would cost thousands to replace my natural gas heating and gas fireplace: how long would it take to recoup that money in electric bill savings? Oh, wait, gas is actually cheaper than electricity.

The other close to half a billion machines are the infrastructure we must install to generate and distribute that electricity — breaker boxes, batteries, rooftop solar systems and vehicle chargers. To power those billion machines, we will need to greatly increase the amount of electricity we produce, and do so cleanly.

Where’s it coming from? Perhaps if we build lots of nuclear power plants, won’t happen with wind and solar.

We need to get started today. And that requires three things. First, we need to invest in upgrading the breaker boxes in American homes so that they can take higher-capacity electrified appliances. These new breaker boxes will help to manage the load on a decarbonized grid. Second, we need to bring down the upfront costs of electrified appliances through rebates, incentives and low-cost financing to encourage consumers to buy them. Fossil-driven machines may be cheaper initially, but operating electrical machines will be cheaper far into the future, and their price will come down with economies of scale.

More government handouts with what is actually the People’s money. And borrowing. Lots of borrowing. From China?

Last, we need to help organize very fragmented local markets, train workers, reduce regulations that make electrification and distributed generation more expensive, and encourage business models that make it easy and intuitive for homeowners to replace and install their share of these one billion machines.

So, government control over the “local markets”? And the economy? What has Martin done in his own life?

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State Of Washington Offers A Free Joint To Get The COVID Vaccine

By William Teach June 9, 2021 – 6:56 am

This is getting kind of crazy, the way so many states are attempting to bribe people to get the COVID vaccine. What about hooking up those of us who got the vaccine before the bribes started? Of course, really, the bribes are, at best, wooing a few who are on the fence. Most had already planned to get the shot

Washington State allows for free marijuana joints with Covid-19 vaccine.

As part of its strategy to vaccinate more of its population, Washington State will allow adults to claim a free marijuana joint when they receive a Covid-19 vaccination shot.

The state’s liquor and cannabis board announced on Monday that the promotion, called “Joints for Jabs,” was effective immediately and would run through July 12.

The board said it would allow participating marijuana retailers to provide customers who are 21 or older with a prerolled joint at their stores when they received their first or second dose at an active vaccine clinic. The promotion applies only to joints, not to other products like edibles.

So far in Washington, 58 percent of people have received at least one dose, and 49 percent are fully vaccinated, according to a New York Times database.

Washington is not the only state to offer a cannabis promotion. An Arizona dispensary recently announced a similar campaign, providing free marijuana joints or gummy edibles to Arizonans 21 and older who receive a vaccination.

Washington’s liquor and cannabis board recently allowed for a free beer, wine or cocktail to residents with proof of vaccination.

Who’s paying for this? Are the stores compensated for giving out free drugs? You know, ones that are actually illegal by federal law? BTW, how do marijuana stores file federal tax returns when their business is illegal by federal law? Anyhow, the Government is attempting to get people drugged up after taking vaccine. Is it only me that finds this weird and inappropriate? Completely without a sense of propriety? Meanwhile

Can Jill Biden help move the needle on vaccination rates?

I’m thinking the answer is no, but, the Washington Post is squeeing, and would never treat Melania Trump with this respect

Vaccination rates fall off, imperiling Biden’s July Fourth goal

The ‘last mile’ of delivering coronavirus shots has become a marathon, with health officials showing up at stores, parks and factories to entice people who might not otherwise get immunized.

So, they’re in nag mode now. But, wait, what’s this

New York’s Vaccine Passport Could Cost Taxpayers $17 Million

New York officials introduced the Excelsior Pass app earlier this year as the country’s first government-issued vaccine passport, designed to help jump-start the state’s economy.

But newly obtained documents show that the state may have larger plans for the app and that the cost to taxpayers may be much higher than originally stated.

The state’s three-year contract with I.B.M. — obtained by an advocacy group and shared with The New York Times — to develop and run the pass establishes the groundwork for a future where at least 10 million people in the state would have an Excelsior Pass. It would provide them with a QR code that would not only verify their vaccination status but could also include other personal details like proof of age, driver’s license and other health records. (snip)

But Eric Piscini, the vice president of emerging business networks at I.B.M., said in a recent interview that the state was considering broader uses. He said discussions were underway to expand the pass into a broader digital wallet that could store driver’s license information, other health information and more. He also said that other states and foreign governments were exploring ways to integrate the Excelsior Pass into their own verification systems, as New York seeks to include records from other states in its system.

NY wants to expand it to basically all New York residents, it is going to cost a lot more than they stated, and it is going to contain a lot more private information. And no one is sure about the security of the app. Is it any wonder that Texas Governor Greg Abbott banned them?

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Doom Today: Climate Crisis Could Threaten Apples Or Something

By William Teach June 8, 2021 – 3:00 pm

This is so horrible. No more apple pies. No more apples fritters. No more apple donuts. No more Apple Cinnamon Cheerios. No more apple sauce. No more apples in pig’s mouths

Michigan apple growers see threat of climate change crisis through spread of fire blight

Patrick and Sara McGuire have been growing apples since they were married 25 years ago. Their 150 acres in Ellsworth in northern Michigan— dubbed Royal Farms — are a mix of sweet apples and the bitter varieties suited for making hard cider.

Last spring they put in a new crop of Honeycrisps, one of America’s favorite apples, only to discover an unwelcome visitor just a few weeks later: a bacterial menace known as fire blight.

“We actually removed about $10,000 worth of trees by hand,” Patrick McGuire said. “It might’ve been 25 percent of that lot.”

Fire blight is a bacterial pathogen that spreads easily during blooming season. It has the potential to kill not just individual trees but entire orchards. Though not a new problem for apple growers, it’s been looming larger as the climate crisis brings longer, warmer and rainier springs that expand the window for it to infect trees. (snip)

But it’s not just cider apples that are at risk. Increasingly, all apples as well as other fruit crops such as pears are in danger from such climate-induced afflictions.

ZOMG! This is so bad it was reprinted in the Seattle Times. What are we going to do? How did apples survive during previous Holocene warm periods, many of which were warmer? And it really is your fault. It might even be a crime!

David Attenborough calls climate change ‘a crime’ committed against the planet

Naturalist and “Planet Earth” narrator Sir David Attenborough says that his new Netflix film isn’t just a documentary — it’s a witness statement.

“A crime has been committed,” said Attenborough, 95, in a “60 Minutes” interview with Anderson Cooper on Sunday. “And it so happens that, I’m of such an age, that I was able to see it beginning.”

A crime against apples!

Attenborough said that he doesn’t relish being the harbinger of doom and gloom, however. “It isn’t that I enjoy saying, ‘Doom, doom, doom.’ On the contrary, I’d much rather enjoy, take thrill, excitement, pleasure, joy, joy, joy, joy. But if you’ve got any sense of responsibility, you can’t do that,” he said.

Yes, this harbinger of doom and gloom who uses lots and lots of fossil fuels to travel the world making his (mostly) great documentaries.

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If All You See…

By William Teach June 8, 2021 – 1:00 pm

…is a large room that uses too much energy to heat and cool it, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Blazing Cat Fur, with a post on a Supreme Court decision that illegal aliens do not have a right to a green card.

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MSNBC Seems Pretty Upset That Joe Manchin Is Putting His State First

By William Teach June 8, 2021 – 8:31 am

Prior to the 17th Amendment, which made senators directly elected instead of appointed by a state general assembly, senators did the business of the state as directed by the state general assembly. They weren’t there to represent their party, they weren’t there to represent, necessarily, the nation. They did the business of their state. That was their point. The House represented their districts (that doesn’t happen much anymore, either), the senators were essentially ambassadors to Washington for their state

Joe Manchin’s focus on West Virginia could doom voting rights
To placate his voters, Manchin doesn’t support H.R. 1 — but his Plan B for saving democracy can’t work.

crying democratI believe Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., when he says he believes in the institutions and traditions of the Senate. I believe him when he says he wants to find common ground with the Republicans he works with in the Senate chamber each day.

But I also believe Manchin operates with an eye firmly on West Virginia and its people, not the country as a whole. It’s an increasingly antiquated view that he brandishes in defense of an increasingly antiquated chamber. His myopia toward the needs of the United States versus his home state fuels his unwillingness to act in defense of democracy as we know it. As a result, Manchin’s love of a state born over 200 years ago during a struggle to preserve the Union could, in the end, be the Union’s ruin.

That’s not how Manchin sees it, though, as he explained Sunday in an op-ed announcing that he opposes the For the People Act. Manchin is the only member of the 50-senator Democratic caucus that is against the election overhaul bill, because, as he wrote, “partisan voting legislation will destroy the already weakening binds of our democracy.”

An “antiquated view.” Then who represents West Virginia? A little history/Political Theory 101 lesson: nations used to be called states. A visiting president, premier, etc, is called the “Chief Of State.” Most of the original 13 colonies were as big, at least in size, as the old world European nations. And were then called states. Bringing about a new term for countries: nation-states. U.S. states were meant to be mostly sovereign, with a limited federal government binding them all together. Los Federales were assigned specific duties, and everything else was reserved for the states and the People.

Should each state not be represented by their senators? That is their job, not to represent their party nor even the nation first. The wants of California are not the wants of West Virginia.

“If I can’t go home and explain it, I can’t vote for it,'” Manchin wrote. “And I cannot explain strictly partisan election reform or blowing up the Senate rules to expedite one party’s agenda.” Nor does he even really try. His essay doesn’t delve into the details of the For the People Act — there’s no “why” that even explains the parts that he’s against. He’s content to list its faults as being a “more than 800-page bill” that “has garnered zero Republican support.”

This has made MSDNC’s Hayes Brown very upset. Triggered, you might say. You’ve surely seen how Democrats and their pet media have been attacking Manchin as of late, because he refuses to Comply with the hardcore Leftist agenda. In this case, a takeover of all voting by the federal government, which I’m pretty sure violates the Constitution, and wanting to get rid of the filibuster. Joe surely realizes that Democrats will not always control the Senate.

Interestingly, we get this from the NY Post

Get this: a Democrat who puts nation’s needs before his party’s obsessions

At least one Democrat is putting the nation’s interests over his party’s obsessions: Sen. Joe Manchin (W.Va.) went on record this weekend opposing the Dems’ top-priority legislation, the so-called “For the People Act.”

It passed the House as H.R.1 without a single Republican vote, and as S.1 faces the same united GOP opposition. It’s a naked bid to federalize nearly all election rules, in blatant violation of the Constitution.

It would strike down most voter-ID requirements and block states from purging ineligible voters, force automatic voter-registration, impose new campaign-finance rules and even deny states their rights to run their own redistricting. (snip)

Preserving the filibuster dooms not only S.1, but much of the rest of Biden’s much-hyped agenda. Maybe Manchin’s wake-up call will inspire the rest of his party to stop focusing on wild fantasies and get to work on measures that can command bipartisan support in a Congress that Democrats barely control.

Quit concentrating on offering red meat for partisans and put effort into bills that serve the nation’s actual needs.

Joe knows that the people of West Virginia are against these things, and that he would be voted out if he supported this stuff. If what’s best for West Virginia is best for the nation, that’s what Joe will do.

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Senator Whitehouse Upset Chance To Force Climate Crisis (scam) Legislation Through Is Fading Fast

By William Teach June 8, 2021 – 7:55 am

It’s been demonstrated time and time again, with poll after poll, that Doing Something about the “climate emergency” is popular in theory, but not in practice. Most Americans are not interested in actually paying much money out of their own pockets. They aren’t really that interested in practice to be forced onto buses, trains, nor electric vehicles and out of their fossil fueled vehicles. They aren’t interested in reality over keeping their AC higher and their heating lower. So, when it comes to actually passing big, intrusive, national policies on ‘climate change’, interest is waning. It’s kinda like being excited for a party, then, when the day arrives, you realize you really do not want to go and don’t actually like these people

“I’m now officially very anxious”: Key Senate Dem sounds alarm over fading climate hopes

Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), one of Capitol Hill’s most vocal members on climate change, went public on Monday about his fear that chances to enact major legislation on the topic are slipping away.

Why it matters: His tweets reflect wider angst on the left that large clean energy and climate investments will be jettisoned in infrastructure negotiations between the White House and Congress.

Driving the news: “I’m now officially very anxious about climate legislation,” Whitehouse tweeted.

  • “Climate has fallen out of the infrastructure discussion, as it took its bipartisanship detour. It may not return. So then what?,” he tweeted.
  • “I don’t see the preparatory work for a close Senate climate vote taking place in the administration. Why not marshal business support?,” Whitehouse added.
  • He also expressed concern about “quarreling” among groups and activists, while claiming that corporate American is “AWOL” and “all the major corporate trade associations suck.”

Sheldon has been tweeting for a long time about Hotcoldwetdry, yet, I’ve yet to see any about him taking the train from Rhode Island rather than a fossil fueled flight. He never mentions anything he’s done in his own life to make his carbon footprint zero. Nor does he push his elected Comrades to modify their own lives. It’s all about forcing the peons to change their lives and give up their money, because none of their extreme climate cult garbage in the so-called infrastructure bill will harm the rich folks like Sheldon. They won’t be bothered by skyrocketing power prices, leading to a skyrocketing cost of living, via the increase in unreliable “renewable” energy while doing away with coal (again, I’m not a fan of coal) and natural gas. Plus, all those ugly solar and wind farms will not be located near the rich folks, spoiling their views.

Plus, the climate cult parts of the infrastructure bill are more about “climate justice”, meaning payoffs to minority voting blocks. Blaming white people. Forcing people who can’t afford an EV out of their fossil fueled vehicles. And so much more cult stuff. No one really wants all this in theory. Except those getting the payoffs.

What they’re saying: “The President is engaged in good faith with both parties in Congress to deliver historic infrastructure investments that will drive economic growth, produce the clean technologies of the future and create good paying jobs,” a White House official tells Axios.

Just like all those jobs at Solyndra that vanished, and the environmental mess left behind?

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Bummer: Upscale Biden Voting Neighborhood In Scottsdale Upset Over ICE Leaving Lots Of Illegals

By William Teach June 8, 2021 – 7:34 am

There are consequences to one’s vote. They could be good, bad, or neutral. If you voted for China Joe/Kamala, this is what you get

Upscale Residents Protest as Biden Converts Scottsdale Hotel into ICE Detention Center

The precinct for Scottsdale’s Homewood Suites voted for Joe Biden, 51% to 47%. Today, this upscale Arizona neighborhood regrets its decision.

Two hundred residents protested Saturday after ICE took over the recently closed hotel to house more than 1,200 illegal immigrants. No public input was requested, not even from the Scottsdale Police Department, which was notified of the decision a day before migrants were transferred.

Government usually detains the undocumented in poorer neighborhoods where they’re more easily ignored by the media. But this zip code has nearly three times the state’s median income, making it harder to hide the ongoing border crisis.

“Over the Memorial Day Weekend, we were notified about the hotel and the illegals that were moved in under the cover of darkness without any kind of consultation from the local community,” protestor Lisa Seger said.

Angry neighbors soon learned their city government has no legal authority to override ICE’s decision. The facility is closed to the public and local journalists were denied entry.

This is what you get when you vote for a Democrat, especially one who was radicalized even more when served as vice president into supporting all things illegal immigration. If you fell for his and the media’s “Joe’s a moderate” talk, you’re a fool, especially when he picks an extremist like Kamala Harris as a running mate. You had to know that his administration would be extremely soft on illegal aliens, though, in fairness, you might not have expected the administration to go this soft this fast.

When the border is protected and the problem unseen, it’s easy to support lax enforcement and vague promises of “compassion.” Last fall, the Biden sticker on your Tesla earned approving nods from neighbors and you rest assured that you were on the side of the angels. Nine months later, you’re on a 108-degree sidewalk screaming “NIMBY!” and wondering why Democrats smirk as they drive by.

In all fairness, a lot of those protesting, perhaps a majority, are probably Trump voters. You have to think, though, that the China Joe voters in this very rich neighborhood are upset that the fruits of their activism/voting are mad about Those People being in their neighborhood.

(Fox10 Phoenix) Families who are seeking asylum moved into the hotel-turned-detention center on Saturday, May 29, a day after the city of Scottsdale was notified by ICE.

The city of Scottsdale said they have no authority to prevent the hotel from being rented for these families.

All illegals say they are asylum seekers: they’ve been trained to do so. How many of these foreign nationals were detained at the border then brought into the nation, rather than making them go through the process outside the U.S.? Second, it should be concerning that the federal government can just come in and pull this stunt in a city with little notification, no input, nothing.

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