British Intelligence Report Calls Wuhan Lab Leak “Feasible”

By William Teach June 1, 2021 – 6:45 am

Well, of course it’s feasible. It’s a lot more likely than someone eating a bat or something and creating a worldwide pandemic which spread as fast as gossip, spawning lots of variants in short order

UK intelligence reassesses COVID lab leak theory, now says its ‘feasible’

British intelligence services are now reportedly reassessing their position on the theory that COVID-19 leaked from a lab in China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology.

A Sunday report from the Sunday Times of London quotes British spies who initially dismissed the lab leak theory, but now say it is “feasible.”

“There might be pockets of evidence that take us one way, and evidence that takes us another way,” the paper quoted a source as saying. “The Chinese will lie either way. I don’t think we will ever know.”

The quote comes as both the United States and Britain are stepping up calls for the World Health Organization to take a deeper look into the possible origins of COVID-19, including a new visit to China, where the first human infections were detected.

Right, let’s let WHO investigate, because we all know they were tough on China this whole time, right? They certainly weren’t providing cover for China, right? Unfortunately, the rest of the article is behind a paywall, but British Intelligence is taking this seriously now.

WHO and Chinese experts issued a first report in March that laid out four hypotheses about how the pandemic might have emerged. The joint team said the most likely scenario was that the coronavirus jumped into people from bats via an intermediary animal, and the prospect that it erupted from a laboratory was deemed “extremely unlikely.”

Yup, let’s let WHO investigate. But, the source above is probably correct, the Chinese will lie, and we may never know, because they will never allow a true investigation, plus, by this point, the Wuhan lab is surely sanitized of anything related to COVID. Meanwhile

‘It’s the right thing to do’: WHO renames COVID variants with Greek letter names to avoid confusion, stigma

The World Health Organization has created a new system to name COVID-19 variants, getting away from place-based names that can be hard to pronounce, difficult to remember, and stigmatize a specific country.

The new system, which was announced Monday, is based on the letters of the Greek alphabet. The United Kingdom variant, called by scientists B.1.1.7, will now be Alpha. B.1.351, the South Africa variant, will now be Beta and the B.1.617.2 variant discovered in India will now be known as Delta.

When the 24 letters of the Greek alphabet are used up, WHO will announce another series.

“It’s the right thing to do,” said Dr. Monica Gandhi, an infectious disease expert at the University of California, San Francisco.

It may also make countries more open to reporting new variants if they’re not afraid of being forever associated with them in the mind of the public.

“As a result, people often resort to calling variants by the places where they are detected, which is stigmatizing and discriminatory,” WHO said.

How much of this is meant to protect China, rather than just silly Virtue Signaling and and such?

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Hotcold Take: Climate Cult Study Blames 37% Of Heat Deaths On You Eating Burgers

By William Teach May 31, 2021 – 3:00 pm

Must have been some serious work to go through every death that occurred between 1991 and 2018 (remember, there was also a big Pause between, charitably, 1998-2015)

Study blames climate change for 37 percent of heat deaths worldwide

More than one-third of the world’s heat deaths each year are due directly to global warming, according to the latest study to calculate the human cost of climate change.

But scientists say that’s only a sliver of climate’s overall toll — even more people die from other extreme weather amplified by global warming such as storms, flooding and drought — and the heat death numbers will grow exponentially with rising temperatures.

Dozens of researchers who looked at heat deaths in 732 cities around the globe from 1991 to 2018 calculated that 37 percent were caused by higher temperatures from human-caused warming, according to a study Monday in the journal Nature Climate Change.

That amounts to about 9,700 people a year from just those cities, but it is much more worldwide, the study’s lead author said.

Can they prove it is due to anthropogenic climate change, meaning a temperature rise from greenhouse gases? I’d certainly agree that land use and UHI can artificially increase localized temperatures in urban areas causing more stress on humans, but, come on, directly blaming a small rise in temperatures since 1850 for 37% of heat deaths? It’s a cult. But, here we go

Scientists used decades of mortality data in the 732 cities to plot curves detailing how each city’s death rate changes with temperature and how the heat-death curves vary from city to city. Some cities adapt to heat better than others because of air conditioning, cultural factors and environmental conditions, Vicedo-Cabrera said.

Then researchers took observed temperatures and compared them with 10 computer models simulating a world without climate change. The difference is warming humans caused. By applying that scientifically accepted technique to the individualized heat-death curves for the 732 cities, the scientists calculated extra heat deaths from climate change.

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“People continue to ask for proof that climate change is already affecting our health. This attribution study directly answers that question using state-of-the-science epidemiological methods, and the amount of data the authors have amassed for analysis is impressive,” said Dr. Jonathan Patz, director of the Global Health Institute at the University of Wisconsin.

We’re still waiting for proof that it is due to carbon pollution. Correlation is not causation. All this presupposes, using junk computer models, is that a slight temperature increase, which doesn’t prove causation, leads to more deaths. What if we didn’t have fossil fuels and such? Would the climate be the same? Multiple Holocene warm periods were warmer. Now do the deaths from cold weather.

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If All You See…

By William Teach May 31, 2021 – 1:00 pm

…is an area flooded from too much carbon pollution, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Real Climate Science, with a post on adjusting data to match theory.

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Mayor Pete Admits Masking On Airplanes Isn’t About Science

By William Teach May 31, 2021 – 10:30 am

Let’s be honest, most of us know that mask do little to nothing in stopping a virus, which is smaller than the weave in masks. It won’t stop a cold, the flu, or WuhanFlu. At best, it might help a tiny bit, especially in terms of spreading it, and perhaps from you not being able to touch your face directly. So, what was the point? Remember, the original guidance from the CDC was that if you were sick or felt sick to wear a mask (better yet, stay home), and wasn’t changed till May 31st. A year ago

Buttigieg confronted on science for face mask mandates on airplanes — he admits it’s a ‘matter of respect’

surprise surprise surpriseTransportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg admitted Sunday that continued face mask requirements on public transportation under the jurisdiction of federal regulators is a “matter of respect” — not science.

Just last month, the Transportation Security Administration extended face mask requirements “across all transportation networks throughout the United States, including at airports, onboard commercial aircraft, on over-the-road buses, and on commuter bus and rail systems through September 13.”

The requirement went into effect on Feb. 1, less than two weeks after President Joe Biden’s inauguration.

Despite proponents of pandemic-related restrictions arguing protective measures are necessary because science supports them, Buttigieg said Sunday that continued restrictions on transportation is not a matter of science at all.

During an interview on ABC’s “This Week,” host Martha Raddatz questioned Buttigieg why federal transportation guidelines deviate from CDC recommendations.

Buttigieg claimed “the differences have to do with the physical space” and alleged restrictions are “driven by public health considerations,” but said that, ultimately, continuing to wear a face mask and follow pandemic-related restrictions the CDC says are no longer necessary for fully vaccinated Americans is about “respect.”

“It’s a matter of safety but it’s also a matter of respect,” Buttigieg said. “And as we get back and as we’re so thankful to get back to the skies, to get back on the road, to get back to loved ones, let’s make sure we are doing it in a way that we can all be proud of.”

Huh. Remember, the CDC has stated that airplanes were pretty safe, and you had little chance of catching Bat Soup Virus, to the point that the planes were packed for the Christmas travel season, blowing off even social distancing rules (which was rather disconcerting, I will say). It’s actually one of the problems with everyone masking up: people felt entitled to enter the social distancing space, getting too close to people. They felt empowered. Just give me space. Which you do not get on airplanes, right? What respect is Pete talking about? Maybe bad breath? How many issues were created because masks which don’t work create on airplanes? How many are they still causing because the flight crews are just trying to follow the federal rules? Which Joe Biden doesn’t follow.

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Hotcoldwetdry: Study Claims Satellite Measurements Too Low Because Models Run Hotter

By William Teach May 31, 2021 – 7:12 am

See, if the data doesn’t agree with the climate cult computer models, science says you change the models data, right? That’s the way the Scientific Method works, if you put forth a hypothesis, test it, analyze the data, and if the data doesn’t conform to the hypothesis, you change the data, right?

Satellites May Have Underestimated Global Warming in the Lower Atmosphere Over the Last 40 Years

May have. Did they or did they not? Are they “suggesting”? Have them maybe might possibly our cult tells us to question them?

New research by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) climate scientists and collaborators shows that satellite measurements of the temperature of the troposphere (the lowest region of the atmosphere) may have underestimated global warming over the last 40 years.

The research appears in the Journal of Climate.

The team studied four different properties of tropical climate change. Each property is a ratio between trends in two “complementary” variables. Complementary variables — like tropical temperature and moisture — are expected to show correlated behavior. This correlated behavior is governed by basic, well-understood physical processes.

The first three properties considered by the team involved relationships between tropical temperature and tropical water vapor (WV). WV trends were compared with trends in sea surface temperature (SST), lower tropospheric temperature (TLT) and mid- to upper tropospheric temperature (TMT). The fourth property was the ratio between TMT and SST trends. All four ratios are tightly constrained in climate model simulations, despite model differences in climate sensitivity, external forcings and natural variability. In contrast, each ratio exhibits a large range when calculated with observations. Model trend ratios between WV and temperature were closest to observed ratios when the latter are calculated with datasets exhibiting larger tropical warming of the ocean surface and troposphere.

For the TMT/SST ratio, model-data consistency depended on the combination of observations used to estimate TMT and SST trends. Observational datasets with larger warming of the tropical ocean surface yielded TMT/SST ratios that were in better agreement with model results.

See, it’s not that the models should agree with the data, and, if not, the models should be changed, it’s that the data should agree with the models, and, if not, well, we just need to find new data. Because Science!

“Such comparisons across complementary measurements can shed light on the credibility of different datasets,” according to LLNL’s Stephen Po-Chedley, who contributed to this study. “This work shows that careful intercomparison of different geophysical fields may help us determine historical changes in climate with greater precision.”

If climate model expectations of these relationships between tropical temperature and moisture are realistic, the findings reflect either a systematic low bias in satellite tropospheric temperature trends or an overestimate of the observed atmospheric moistening signal.

So, see, since the datasets of direct observations of actual temperatures and such do not conform with the models, which have shown to be way out of line with the actual data, the data must be wrong. Remember when Dr. Roy Spencer showed that 95% of the models were wrong?

They’ve been changing the data, adjusting it for a long time now, and this is just a more blatant way of saying that the data is wrong, as it doesn’t agree with the preconceived notion that we’re doomed from ‘climate change’.

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ABC News: It’s Donald Trump’s Fault We Were Contrarian On Wuhan Lab Leak

By William Teach May 31, 2021 – 6:51 am

The very definition of Trump Derangement Syndrome

ABC’s chief White House reporter: A lot of reporters have ‘egg on their face’ over Wuhan lab-leak theory

ABC News’ Chief White House Correspondent Jonathan Karl admitted that many reporters were wrong to dismiss former President Trump’s assertion that the coronavirus originated from a laboratory.

Karl was asked on ABC’s “This Week,” by guest host Martha Raddatz on why it matters that the lab-leak theory was initially met with dismissal or skepticism.

“Yes, I think a lot of people have egg on their face. This was an idea that was first put forward by Mike Pompeo, secretary of state, Donald Trump, and look some things may be true even if Donald Trump said them,” Karl said. “Because Trump was saying so much else, that was just out of control, and because he was, you know, making a frankly racist appeal talking about kung-flu, and the China virus, he said flatly this came from that lab, and it was widely dismissed… but now serious people are saying it needs a serious inquiry.”

Karl’s comments echoed what other reporters have said. While many reporters have admitted to making a mistake by dismissing the lab-leak theory as conspiracy, some are placing blame at Trump as to why they didn’t believe the story at first. They assert that Trump and his administration were untruthful on other matters so they dismissed his lab-leak claims.

New York Times writer David Leonhardt said it was a “mistake” for liberals and reporters to dismiss claims just because they came from Trump and Republicans like Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark.

So, because Orange Man Bad they dropped all pretense of journalism.

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(Fox News) Washington Post columnist Josh Rogin once again knocked the mainstream media for previously dismissing the theory that COVID-19 potentially originated from a Wuhan lab leak in China, tweeting on Saturday that journalists should “own up” when they “fail” their readers and encouraged them to “just report the facts.”

 “Most MSM [mainstream media] reporters didn’t ‘ignore’ the lab leak theory, they actively crapped all over it for over a year while pretending to be objective out of a toxic mix of confirmation bias, source bias (their scientist sources lied to them), group think, TDS [Trump Derangement Syndrome] and general incompetence,” Rogin, who was one of the very few journalists who previously reported on China’s role in the pandemic and raised questions about the origins of the virus, tweeted on Saturday.

He went on to say that, “Also, the lab leak theory didn’t change. It didn’t suddenly become credible. It didn’t jump from crazy to reasonable. The theory has always been the same. The people who got it wrong changed their minds. They are writing about themselves, with zero self awareness.”

The number one thing was TDS: they had to say the opposite of what Trump and anyone in his admin said. And, you had all those who wanted to take China’s side, because they are owned by companies like Disney, which are beholden to China. Former FDA commissioner Scott Gottlieb said that lab leaks occur here, in China, and all over all the time. And that “the last six known outbreaks of SARS-1 have been out of labs in China.” While most non-deranged people gave thought to COVID-19 coming from eating a bat or pangolin or something, the reality pointed towards coming from a lab pretty darned quick. The TDS infused media refused to even consider that.

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Researches “Find” Earliest Known Climate Crisis (scam) Driven War Victims Or Something

By William Teach May 30, 2021 – 5:55 pm

See, they found something interesting, and, so the Credentialed News would pay attention, and because these people are doomsday cultists, they had to drag ‘climate change’ into it

Earliest known war driven by climate change, researchers say

The 61 human skeletons unearthed in the Nile Valley in the 1960s in what is now Sudan have long been regarded as the earliest evidence of organized warfare between humans.

The remains uncovered at Jebel Sahaba, which are more than 13,000 years old, show injuries sustained as a result of brutal and intense violence — mainly puncture wounds from weapons such as spears and arrows.

However, a new study published in the journal Scientific Reports that reexamined the remains using the latest scientific methods suggests that the group were not killed in a one-off massacre as previously thought. More likely they were killed during sporadic and recurrent violence that took place over several years and was probably triggered by major climatic and environmental changes during the period.

The researchers from France and the United Kingdom found healed injuries on the skeletons that hadn’t been documented in previous studies on the remains — suggesting there were multiple raids, ambushes and skirmishes within these people’s lifetimes.

So, humans 13k years ago were violent? And it could not just be because people have always been violent, nope.

That said, the researchers believe that the conflict arose as rival groups that lived in the area competed for food and resources limited by dramatic changes in climate. Those changes took place between 11,000 and 20,000 years ago toward the end of a period known as the last glacial maximum, when ice sheets covered much of the Northern Hemisphere, disrupting the Earth’s climate.

See, this is all supposed to suggest Doom from a slight increase in average global temperatures, less than has occurred during previous Holocene warm periods. And is all your fault. What’s missing is what caused this dramatic change during the time period mentioned. What caused the last glaciation period to reverse? Meh, that’s immaterial to the Narrative.

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If All You See…

By William Teach May 30, 2021 – 1:00 pm

…are horrible extreme weather clouds from carbon pollution, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is IOTW Report, with a post wondering if a tree farts in the woods, does it make a sound?

It’s sundresses week!

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Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup

By William Teach May 30, 2021 – 9:52 am

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Happy Sunday! Another gorgeous day in America. Getting some needed rain, the mockingbirds are messing with the squirrels, and it’s time to remember all those who gave their lives to protect this nation. This pinup is by Gil Elvgren, with a wee bit of help

What is happening in Ye Olde Blogosphere? The Fine 15

  1. Victory Girls Blog covers Indigenous People’s Day taking a turn in Chicago
  2. The Other McCain notes Creepy Joe getting creepier
  3. The Lid discusses China Joe’s really bad tax plan
  4. The Last Tradition has an alternative take on January 6th
  5. The Last Refuge covers Krazy Kamala asking businesses to invest in Central America
  6. The First Street Journal notes that black lives really don’t matter in Dem run St. Louis
  7. Sultan Knish covers Joe releasing an al Qaeda member who tried to smuggle nuclear weapons in the US
  8. Raised On Hoecakes discusses being pasty
  9. Powerline highlights Krazy Kamala bombing with her Woke joke
  10. Patterico’s Pontifications is still going through the Washington Post’s piece on police shootings of black men
  11. Pacific Pundit covers Krazy Kamala’s bad tweet for the weekend
  12. Moonbattery highlights Warmists worried about tree farts
  13. Legal Insurrection discusses Biden giving money to Palestinians while Hamas props up a child carrying a rifle
  14. Jihad Watch covers a BLM founder calling to eliminate Israel
  15. And last, but not least, Geller Report News shows a Popeye’s reserving the right to refuse service to white people

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.

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?

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Wearing A Mask? Cafe Charges $5 Extra

By William Teach May 30, 2021 – 8:55 am

Yesterday I mentioned a promoter charging $999 for tickets to a punk concert for those who couldn’t prove vaccination. Today

California Cafe Charges Patrons $5 for Wearing Masks: ‘It’s Their Choice’

Patrons are free to say what they wish at a California cafe, but doing so while wearing a mask will cost them $5.

On Sunday, Fiddleheads Cafe in Mendocino put up a sign stating the fee for those who wear a mask while ordering, NBC News reported Friday.

In March, the establishment announced a 50 percent discount for people who threw their masks in the garbage, according to owner Chris Castleman.

“I don’t think $5 to charity is too much to ask from mask wearing customers who claim to care so much about the community they live in,” he told the outlet in an email.

The proceeds will be given to Project Sanctuary, a domestic abuse organization, for two weeks before another nonprofit is put into the rotation, according to Castleman.

“It’s about time that the proponents of these ineffective government measures start paying for the collateral damage they have collectively caused,” the owner continued.

As you can guess, the masked people were shocked and angry and Outraged, but, a few did pay the $5. The question is, is this necessary? I understand the point Castleman is making, but, look, some people feel more comfortable wearing the mask. I have a few coworkers that still do, one because they worry about catching it, even though vaccinated, causing problems for his kids as a single parent. I respect the choice. I doubt the masks make much of a difference, however, it’s an individual choice. Let them do their thing if it makes them feel safer. Of course, if they’re CovidVirtue Signaling, that’s a different story, like those voluntarily wearing a mask but leaving their mouth uncovered.

It is a private business, though, and Castleman can do this if he wants. But, he might start a trend where other businesses start doing this for those who don’t wear a mask. And, being California, I would not be surprised if Government comes to have a chat with him.

Speaking of choices, here’s a bad one

Demonstrators gather outside Nashville hat store that offered ‘not vaccinated’ yellow Star of David badges

The owner of a Nashville hat store is being accused of anti-Semitism after announcing the sale of yellow Star of David badges, similar to the ones Nazis forced Jews to wear during the Holocaust, which read “NOT VACCINATED.”

Nashville’s hatWRKS posted a photo on Instagram on Friday announcing the sale of a Star of David patch that says “NOT VACCINATED,” according to CNN affiliates WZTV and WSMV. The post has since been removed.

The caption on the post read: “patches are here!! they turned out great. $5ea. strong adhesive back …. we’ll be offering trucker caps soon.”

After the post was removed, another hatWRKS post from Friday said, “people are so outraged by my post? but are you outraged with the tyranny the world is experiencing? if you don’t understand what is happening, that is on you, not me.”

This was really in poor taste. What point was hatWRKS trying to make? Pro-vaccine? Anti-vaccine? You can make a guess either way, based on the info in the 2nd and 4th paragraphs. Whatever the reason, it was really dumb, and there are lots of protesters protesting, and Stetson, the maker of lots of western apparel, especially their hats, will no longer allow the shop to sell their products. That’s some serious cash.

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