Climate Today: Forcing Everyone Into Megacities, Stop Complaining About Being Forced To Give Up Meat

By William Teach April 28, 2021 – 3:00 pm

Megacities. I think I’ve seen this in some movies. Logan’s Run, Judge Dredd, a few others. Things don’t look very good, eh?

How megacities could lead the fight against climate change

In 2050, 2.5 billion more people will live in cities than do today. As the world grows more urbanized, many cities are becoming more populous while also trying to reduce carbon emissions and blunt the impacts of climate change.

In the coming decades, cities will be engines of economic growth. But they must also play a key role in confronting climate change; the world’s 100 most populous cities are responsible for roughly one-fifth of global carbon emissions.

Some of the world’s biggest cities—called megacities—are rising to this challenge. However, these urban areas vary greatly in how efficient they are and how much they will grow. Seeing how they stack up can help us identify where our greatest opportunities are to reduce emissions.

Sounds great! I wonder why the Warmists in these crime ridden, filthy, decaying cities aren’t giving up their own fossil fueled travel, AC and heating, taking short showers, etc and so on now?

Beefing over beef is a distraction the climate movement can’t afford

Lately, it seems like forgoing red meat has become an unfortunate proxy for environmental credentials. Epicurious, for example, just announced that it will no longer publish articles or recipes with beef in a decision it calls, “not anti-beef but rather pro-planet.” And then there are headlines like “Why do some green activists eat meat?”

Meat-eating, meanwhile, has become a sort of symbol for climate denial. There are Twitter wars swirling around whether Biden’s climate ambitions will infringe on Americans’ right to eat burgers (his actual climate proposals would not).

But diet shouldn’t be a political scorecard for how down you are for the planet. Shaming people over what they eat — particularly for girls, immigrants, and people who don’t fit the unfairly skinny box of beauty standards — is nothing new. We don’t need to add one more minefield.

And we dive down into the whole putting people in boxes bit.

Focusing heavily on individual responsibility to save the planet can also be a big distraction from the actual systemic change needed to tackle the global climate crisis. What’s more, it can alienate people who do care about climate change but might not have as many options when it comes to what they eat.

They do realize that systemic change will force changes on individuals, right?

Anyhow, no one is shaming them: they’re being laughed at for wanting Everyone Else to be forced to give up meat which most Warmists won’t do.

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If All You See…

By William Teach April 28, 2021 – 1:00 pm

…is an evil fossil fueled vehicle, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Free North Carolina, with a post on the 2020 Census results giving an edge to Republicans.

Morgan Fairchild, folks! Who started out in the 70’s.

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CDC, CNN Super Excited To Tell Vaccinated People What They Can And Can’t Do

By William Teach April 28, 2021 – 10:30 am

It almost makes get vaccinated worthless

15 of the safest activities for the fully vaccinated — with and without face masks

Are you one of the growing numbers of Americans who are fully vaccinated?

If so, you can now get more of your pre-Covid life back, according to new guidelines released Tuesday by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (snip)

Being outdoors has always been the safest place from the novel coronavirus — even masked and at 6 feet of social distance — because the chance of transmission is far lower outside.

“Outdoor visits and activities pose minimal risk to fully vaccinated people themselves or to those around them,” the CDC said.

Outdoor activities pose almost no threat. There were very few occurrences where there was a mass outbreak since this whole thing started. Sure never happened with all those freakouts by the media over kids at spring break, nor all those BLM/Antifa riots. So, what can you do?

  • Exercise outdoors alone or with members of your household
  • Attend a small, outdoor gathering with fully vaccinated family and friends
  • Attend a small, outdoor gathering with fully vaccinated and unvaccinated people
  • Dine at an outdoor restaurant with friends from multiple households

In fact, the first two outdoor activities listed above are so safe that even unvaccinated people can do them without being masked, the CDC said. Why? It’s the motion of the ocean of air.

In other words, most of the rules for masking and being outside were mule fritters. In all fairness, we didn’t necessarily know all this a year ago when people were Very Concerned, and rightly so, about COVID. But, will governors relax the rules?

But, then

There’s only one outdoor activity listed on the CDC guidelines that requires a mask.

If you attend a “crowded, outdoor event, like a live performance, parade, or sports event” you should be masked even if you’re fully vaccinated.

Why do you have to mask at a “crowded, outdoor event” but it’s OK to get together unmasked with friends from multiple households or those who are not vaccinated? It has to do with the number of people you are likely to encounter, said CNN Medical Analyst Dr. Leana Wen.

Yeah, yeah. This is how they’re trying to continue the control.

The following indoor activities are all considered low risk for fully vaccinated people, the CDC said, but only if you mask up properly.

“Precautions should still be taken as transmission risk in these settings is higher and likely increases with the number of unvaccinated people present. Thus, fully vaccinated people engaging in indoor social activities in public settings should continue to wear a well-fitted mask.”

So, basically everything inside requires a mask, even for those of us who are vaccinated. Piss off. No, seriously, the CDC says specifically “Take precautions in indoor public settings like wearing a well-fitted mask”. If I’m with people who’ve been vaccinated or have the antibodies, why?

They also provide a massive graphic, as seen above, (in giant form here) of what you can and cannot do.

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John Kerry Won’t Let Pesky Things Like China’s Human Rights Get In The Way Of Solving Climate Crisis (scam)

By William Teach April 28, 2021 – 7:51 am

Stuff like that is just very inconvenient for Kerry and the rest of the Cult of Climastrology, and should be ignored, much like Hillary Clinton did while Secretary of State for Obama

(Foreign Policy) FP: Let’s talk about China. This administration has been fairly tough on China. It has accused China of conducting a genocide against the Uyghurs; it has engaged Taiwan; it is reinvigorating the so-called Quad, a group of countries that includes the United States, India, Australia, and Japan. But amid all of this, the Biden White House also really needs China as a partner in fighting climate change. How do you partition this one issue—climate change—from all the other arenas of competition?

JK: Well, I think historically, Ravi, powerful nations that have differences have always been able, almost always been able, to do that. Obviously, North Korea may be an exception for the moment, but usually we’ve been able to come together and be able to try to negotiate and resolve certain differences. The example of that is [former U.S. President] Ronald Reagan in the Soviet Union. He consistently called it the evil empire. He told them to tear down the wall. He was a great advocate for freedom and for democracy. And ultimately, he met with [then-President Mikhail] Gorbachev in Reykjavik, and they came to an agreement that it really didn’t make a lot of sense to have 50,000 warheads pointing at each other on a hair trigger and to be living with that day-to-day danger.

These are the things that make a difference. And right now, climate is enough of an imperative for all of our countries. China doesn’t benefit by not having America as a partner in dealing with climate. And the United States doesn’t benefit from not having China as a partner in climate. So we’re just disciplined. We have differences on economic rules, on cyber. We have other differences on human rights, geostrategic interests, but those differences do not have to get in the way of something that is as critical as dealing with climate. And China made that decision. When I was in China the other day, we negotiated back and forth in good faith. We didn’t have to insult each other or shout at each other. We had a serious, tough conversation, but we managed to find a place and a way to be able to agree and move forward. And I think that opens the door or window to other possibilities in those other arenas. My sense is the Chinese know that there is a benefit to both of us being able to resolve the climate crisis because our citizens are deeply affected by our failure to do so.

Yeah, who cares about all the human rights violations and such from China. I’m sure all the people living in China will be glad for this. These climate cultists are really so invested in the cult that they just do not care about anything that gets in the way of their cult.

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Unity: China Joe To Offer Progressive Wish List With “Families Plan”

By William Teach April 28, 2021 – 7:40 am

Now, imagine that Donald Trump had run on unity and bipartisanship, and then dumped that on day one, and continued to get less and less bipartisan as the days went on. But, people are dumb, people are sheep, and they preferred a lunatic leftist over mean tweets

Biden to propose $1.8 trillion ‘families plan’ with paid leave, child care, universal pre-K, free community college

President Joe Biden will propose a sweeping $1.8 trillion plan Wednesday for national paid family leave, universal pre-kindergarten, free community college and subsidized child care in what would be a dramatic federal expansion of the social safety net for families and children.

Biden is set to formally introduce his American Families Plan at his first address before a joint session of Congress Wednesday night. It’s the second piece of his “Build Back Better” economic agenda following the release of a $2.3 trillion infrastructure and jobs plan released earlier this month.

Billed as “generational investments in our future” to out-compete China and transform the U.S. economy, the families plan includes $1 trillion in spending over the next 10 years, according to senior administration officials who agreed to discuss the specifics on the condition of anonymity. It also has an additional $800 billion in targeted tax credits for the middle class.

The proposal to Congress would be paid for through a crackdown on taxloopholes used by high-income tax-filers. It would also nearly double the capital gains tax from a 20% rate to 39.6% for households making more than $1 million, among other changes.

Progressives (nice Fascists) would love getting people’s children early, right? Will Universal Pre-K be mandatory? What will be the standards for subsidized child care? Who pays for the national paid family leave? The Government (there are several paragraphs as to how this works in the article). Know what else will happen? Massive fraud. Free community college? Why would they go when Democrats will repay their regular college tuition. I might approve of free community college if they acquired a degree that has actual value on the market.

If he thinks he’ll be able to pay for it with tax hikes, good luck. Those making more than a $1 million will simply find ways to shelter it, and, it will mean less investment here in the U.S. Tax loopholes? How are they loopholes when Congress has written them into law? They’re features, not bugs. And they’ll just find ways to do other things.

Biden is proposing $200 billion to make free prekindergarten available to all three- and four-year-olds regardless of their families’ incomes. This would be made primarily through “partnerships” with states, but the federal government would seek to work directly with preschools in states that don’t participate.

And once the federal government starts getting involved in pre-k, essentially running it, this will simply expand more and more. Can someone point out in the Constitution where this is a duty/responsibility assigned to the federal government?

The plan takes steps to make college more affordable for students of color.

It sets aside $85 billion for Pell grants that would provide $1,400 in additional assistance to low-income college students; $62 billion for a grant program aimed at improving college completion for low-income students; and $46 billion for historically black colleges and universities. The latter includes at least two years of subsidized tuition for students enrolled in four-year HBCUs from families earning less than $125,000 a year.

So, once again, Democrats think that students of color are too dumb and poor to be able to pay for college without the helpful hand of government. Yet, no one is calling this out as racism.

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Question On Buying A New Laptop

By William Teach April 27, 2021 – 5:08 pm

Perhaps one of y’all might have some insight. My laptop has always kinda sucked. The Ryzen 5 was supposed to be fast, but, it’s never performed that well. Even playing old Duke Nukem 3D was a chore, worse than my older Samsung with a slower processor and just 4GB ram (HD died on it). Now, my HP might have a serious software issue, wouldn’t load, and the repair mode just keeps spinning. There are 4 laptops I’m interested in

I’m probably leaning towards the top two. The Lenovo is nice that it has 12GB ram (cannot add more, soldered on), supposedly a 2.3GHZ base clock speed, and 512SSD. Good user reviews, only 3.5 expert. Would have to order, would take around 9 days.

The Dell has 16GB ram, but, I’ve seen some things that say the actual base clock is 1.0GHZ. Also, slower ram. $629.99, might be able to get one in person.

Now, the HP has a very fast Ryzen 5, supposedly base clock of 3.0ghz. 8gb ram (fast ram, can add up to 32), just 256GB SSD. But, a slot for more. Might be able to take the HD from my old laptop and use it for just storage. The keyboard backlight is green. I think I can deal with it. $699, would have to order, would take about 9 days.

The ASUS has a Ryzen 7, though, clock speed is around 2.5GHZ. 8gb ram, can’t figure out how fast, nor whether it is expandable, which is a concern. Fingerprint reader. 512GB SSD. $648 on sale, can have it in a few days, and Amazon offers pretty good 4 year protect for just $127.

All have backlit keyboards. Not a big deal for a desktop keyboard, I really like for laptop, with those lower keys. I really need to pull the trigger sometime tomorrow. Any thoughts? While I’m good with computers, there is just so much darned info. When I was helping a coworker 2 months ago, I showed him that the Intel I5 has 22 different configurations, and you really need to watch that base speed. But, haven’t bought one for me in almost 5 years, and I cannot actually touch any of these first.

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Who’s Up For Redistributing Wealth For Climate Crisis (scam)?

By William Teach April 27, 2021 – 3:00 pm

It’s almost like this has nothing to do with science and everything to do with Progressive politics

Poor communities will likely need to be compensated as a result of climate change policies, study says

Lawmakers and scientists must come together to make sure policies aimed at mitigating climate change do not increase global poverty, according to a new study.

Why must they? Are people no longer allowed to have their own political beliefs? I don’t want a Muslim or Jew be forced to become a Christian, nor any combination of forcing. And, I don’t want to be forced to join the Cult of Climastrology. If they’re so adamant about Doing Something, let them modify their own behavior.

While the impacts of climate change are widely considered to disproportionately affect people living below the poverty line the most, climate change policies, in their efforts to stop the Earth’s temperatures from warming even more, could inadvertently increase the financial burden on the poor, researchers say in study published in Nature Communications on Tuesday.

If the study is saying “must come together,” it’s not about science, it’s about politics and Belief.

Researchers believe that climate policies should be combined with compensation policies to share the costs of climate change in a “fair way,” according to the study.

Let them spend their own money.

The model suggested by the authors of the study involves a progressive redistribution of national carbon pricing revenues that could compensate the poor for the additional financial burden as well as potentially lead to about reduction of people living in poverty by about 6 million.

The study also recommends international climate finance transfers as well, since the domestic revenues in places like sub-Saharan Africa are not sufficient enough to compensate for the climate policies in those places.

Surprise?

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If All You See…

By William Teach April 27, 2021 – 1:00 pm

…is

The blog of the day is American Greatness, with a post on John Kerry tipping off Iran on Israeli covert operations.

Double shot, since we’re featuring Cheryl Ladd and Farrah Fawcett, check out Common Cents Blog, with a post on a UFO almost colliding with Space X.

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Progressive Tolerance: Simon & Schuster Employees Demand Company Cut Ties With Trump Admin Authors

By William Teach April 27, 2021 – 10:30 am

Remember who Liberals would tell us that they are uber-tolerant? That we must respect all points of view? That all voices are valued? That we should listen to different voices? Well, yeah, of course that was a smoke screen for their Progressive (nice Fascism) beliefs

216 employees demand Simon & Schuster cut ties with Trump administration authors

216 Simon & Schuster employees and over 3,500 outside supporters submitted a petition on Monday to senior executives asking the company to stop publishing books from figures linked to the Trump administration, the Wall Street Journal reports.

Driving the news: The petition demands the company sever ties with former Vice President Mike Pence, who signed a two-book deal ahead of a possible 2024 presidential campaign.

The 216 employees represent roughly 14% of the company’s workforce. Prominent Black writers, including award-winning author Jesmyn Ward, were among the outside supporters.

What they’re saying: “When S&S chose to sign Mike Pence, we broke the public’s trust in our editorial process, and blatantly contradicted previous public claims in support of Black and other lives made vulnerable by structural oppression,” the petition says, according to the Journal.

So, Wrongthink at a company who’s entire point of existence is to publish books, especially ones that will make money. They publish books with different views, fiction and non-fiction. That’s what a book publisher does. If the employees aren’t down with this, they can find other jobs. Instead, they want to force their narrow, Fascist views on everyone.

I read a lot of books. Mostly fiction. Love some zombies, horror, and science fiction. And I’ll see books that I have no interest in, that I think are on subjects I don’t like, yet, I don’t call for them to be banned. Not published. Liberals do want them banned.

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Epicurious Will No Longer Publish Recipes With Beef To Stop The Climate Emergency Or Something

By William Teach April 27, 2021 – 7:58 am

Epicurious is one of the biggest online magazines about food. It is highly respected, including by restaurants. They’ve been featured on Hell’s Kitchen many times. So, of course they have to climasignal

Epicurious stops publication of beef recipes

Epicurious announced Monday it has stopped publishing recipes featuring beef.

The food publication cited a rise in beef consumption and its role as “one of the world’s worst climate offenders” for making the shift.

“It might not feel like much, but cutting out just a single ingredient—beef—can have an outsize impact on making a person’s cooking more environmentally friendly,” Epicurious Senior Editor Maggie Hoffman and former Digital Director David Tamarkin explained in an article published Monday. “Beef won’t appear in new Epicurious recipes, articles, or newsletters. It will not show up on our homepage. It will be absent from our Instagram feed.”

Global livestock accounts for nearly 15% of total global greenhouse gas emissions, according to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.

Epicurious slowed beef recipe content in the fall of 2019, and published them “only a small handful of times” since then, the editors said in a separate post. Beef recipes that were published in 2019 and before are still on the site. For every recipe Epicurious didn’t publish, they put out a vegetarian recipe instead.

The publication argued its readers are interested in content that isn’t beef-related. (snip)

The editors noted the shift wasn’t due to a specific vendetta against cows or the people who eat them. Instead, they said it was “solely about sustainability.” The decision was thought of as “not anti-beef but rather pro-planet,” they added.

Just silly. Completely silly. Will they no longer review restaurants that serve beef? Will the employees, especially the bigwigs who run the show, give up their own use of fossil fuels and go vegan? Will the company only use servers run by “clean, green energy”? It really is just climavirtue signaling by people who aren’t doing anything in their own lives. But, hey, if they want to do this, fine, there are plenty of places to get recipes.

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