…is a wonderful big city full of like-minded climate believers, you might just be a Warmist
The blog of the day is Green Jihad, with a post on Disha Ravi (who I mentioned the other day) potentially facing life in prison for St. Greta’s silly mistake.
Read: If All You See… »
If you attempt to climb a wall and fall off, whose fault is that? You shouldn’t have been climbing the wall. If you climb a tree on someone else’s property and fall out of it, is that the fault of the tree or property owner or your own?
A pastor who runs shelters in Mexico at the US border, has accused American border patrol agents of sending injured migrants back without providing them medical support, calling it a “new low†for the country.
Pastor Rosalio Sosa, who runs a network of migrant shelters at US-Mexico border, told Dallas News a shelter in Palomas gets about seven injured migrants per week and the situation there looks like that of a “war zone,†with number of injured piling up.
“This has become a war zone, with war injuries and no resources,†Ms Sosa was quoted as saying in the report. “But governments need to know that deserts, rivers, walls are no match for hunger.â€
The “big, beautiful wall†built under former president Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign to stop the influx of illegal immigrants and drugs over the border is leading to crippling injuries to migrants attempting to cross the border amid worsening situation in the home country.
I understand that The Independent is a UK news outlet, but, could Shweta Sharma and their editor not have done a little research to realize that many parts of the border wall have been around for decades? That most of the border wall was already constructed. Under Trump, there were only about 5 miles of new construction, with around 300 miles being replacement and/or secondary walls. A lot was built under Bush 43, per actual federal law. But, hey, Trump Derangement Syndrome.
The migrants from Mexico, trying to flee the country amid political unrest and economic fallout, have alleged that they are being “dumped†back in “Mexico like garbage†without border security force providing them medical help, a claim that has been denied by the border patrol agency.
“Alleged.”
Pedro Gomez, who attempted to flee Guatemala in January, said his ankles were broken after falling from the wall and he had to crawl to the US border agent’s vehicle.
“I couldn’t even get up, so I crawled inside the migra [US Border patrol] vehicleâ€, Mr Gomez said, adding: “they dumped us in Mexico like garbage, a piece of trash.â€
Just wondering, did the Dallas News and Independent demand proof from Pastor Sosa and the illegals like Mr. Gomez?
In response to the migrants and pastor questioning the ill-treatment, the border patrol agency released a statement rejecting the claims. It said the agents regularly encountered injured migrants and administered medical aid to those hurt.
“We routinely encounter injured people on the border, most of which are individuals that have entered the country illegally. When it is apparent that someone is hurt we will administer first aid and request assistance as needed,†El Paso sector border patrol chief, Gloria Chavez, said in the statement.
We’ve been treating the idiots who fall off the wall (and get in trouble like dehydration as they cross deserts) for a long time, and it often leads to some judge or politician releasing the illegals into the nation while awaiting their hearing, which they more often do not show up for. But, hey, don’t want to get hurt? Don’t climb a big wall.
Read: Bummer: Illegals Falling From Wall Being Left In Mexico For Medical Care »
See, the power outages don’t really have anything to do with the wind turbines freezing and solar panels covered with snow and ice (and, let’s be honest, that’s only a portion), nope, it’s your fault for that big dinner you had for Valentine’s Day with evil meat
A Glimpse of America’s Future: Climate Change Means Trouble for Power Grids
Systems are designed to handle spikes in demand, but the wild and unpredictable weather linked to global warming will very likely push grids beyond their limits.
Couldn’t even make it past the subhead at the NY Times fable
Huge winter storms plunged large parts of the central and southern United States into an energy crisis this week, with frigid blasts of Arctic weather crippling electric grids and leaving millions of Americans without power amid dangerously cold temperatures.
The grid failures were most severe in Texas, where more than four million people woke up Tuesday morning to rolling blackouts. Separate regional grids in the Southwest and Midwest also faced serious strain. As of Tuesday afternoon, at least 23 people nationwide had died in the storm or its aftermath.
Analysts have begun to identify key factors behind the grid failures in Texas. Record-breaking cold weather spurred residents to crank up their electric heaters and pushed power demand beyond the worst-case scenarios that grid operators had planned for. At the same time, a large fraction of the state’s gas-fired power plants were knocked offline amid icy conditions, with some plants suffering fuel shortages as natural gas demand spiked. Many of Texas’ wind turbines also froze and stopped working.
The crisis sounded an alarm for power systems throughout the country. Electric grids can be engineered to handle a wide range of severe conditions — as long as grid operators can reliably predict the dangers ahead. But as climate change accelerates, many electric grids will face extreme weather events that go far beyond the historical conditions those systems were designed for, putting them at risk of catastrophic failure.
See, power outages never happened before ‘climate change’. Or, is it global warming, as in the subhead? This is all what a cult says. The article keeps going with the cult talk, let’s see what the climahysterics at the LA Times have to say
Texas blackouts show the power grid isn’t ready for climate change
…
More than 4 million homes and businesses saw their electricity shut off as a powerful cold snap sent temperatures into the single digits, driving up demand for heating while simultaneously freezing much of the energy infrastructure that would normally keep people warm. Rolling blackouts began in the wee hours of Monday morning and continued into Tuesday evening. (snip)
But for all the differences between the events in Texas and California’s more limited rolling blackouts last year, there’s a common lesson: Extreme weather events are becoming more frequent and more severe as the climate crisis worsens. And the U.S. power grid is not prepared to handle the hotter heat storms, more frigid cold snaps and stronger hurricanes of a changing planet.
California’s blackouts were mostly due to a lack of available power due to an over-reliance on solar and wind while doing away with nuclear, natural gas, and coal. But, this is the kind of ghoulish behavior to expect from a cult. Weather can always affect the grid, until such time as pretty much everything is buried, but, there will still be choke points. The lines in my community are all buried, but, if some idiot driving around a corner too fast loses control and hits a pole with a control transformer, up the road, it snaps our power. If there’s a cascade failure in a substation several mile from where I live from a hurricane, it can cause power outages all over. These doomsday cult jerks are using the suffering of people, and even deaths, to perpetuate their cult beliefs.
Most of the country’s power comes from coal, oil and natural gas — the very fuels driving climate change. The grid of the future will need to be powered primarily by zero-carbon electricity sources, such as solar and wind — and rebuilding the grid from top to bottom, without further disrupting energy supplies, will be a delicate balancing act.
The solar panels covered with snow and ice and turbines frozen solid? Turbines that only work with the wind between 5 and 30 miles an hour? Solar panels which can be broken by hail? And don’t work at night? Or when it is overcast and rainy? I triple dog dare the LA Times to run their business solely on solar and wind.
Read: Hotcold Take: All The Winter Storm Power Outages Are Linked To ‘Climate Change’ »
Joe’s townhall went just like you’d expect, with him getting all softballs
CNN skips asking about Cuomo nursing home scandal, TJ Ducklo fiasco at Biden Wisconsin town hall
CNN didn’t exactly challenge President Biden during Tuesday night’s town hall in Milwaukee, avoiding uncomfortable subjects for the administration or other Democrats.
While much of the program was focused on Biden’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic going forward, CNN anchor Anderson Cooper grilled the president on whether he agreed with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif, that Senate Republicans who voted to acquit former President Trump in his impeachment trial were “cowards” and whether he would allow his Department of Justice to investigate his predecessor. (snip)
Cooper did, however, dedicatee the last several minutes of the town hall to ask Biden “what’s it like” to live in the White House.”
“Was it different than you expected it to be in some ways?” he asked at one point.
And during one part about COVID? (video at link)
Biden: We Didn’t Have the Vaccine When We Came into Office
President Joe Biden said during a CNN town hall on Tuesday that when he came into office, they “didn’t have†the coronavirus vaccine.
Biden made the statement despite health care workers receiving the first doses in mid-December 2020, well over a month before he was sworn in.
Biden said, “There’s just not all of a sudden 600 million doses are going to appear. What’s going to happen is it’s going to continue to increase as we move along, and we’ll have reached 400 million by the end of May and 600 million by the end of July. The biggest thing, though, as you remember, when you and I— I shouldn’t say it that way as you remember— when you and I talked last we talked about, it’s one thing to have the vaccine, which we didn’t have when we came into office, but a vaccinator. How do you get the vaccine into someone’s arm?â€
Well, I think you use medical needles. You know, like you find all over Democratic Party run cities like San Francisco, except, we use them to deliver the vaccine developed under President Trump’s Operation Warp Speed, which Joe and the rest of the Dems said would never happen. Seriously, this guy has made some whopper gaffes in the past, this just seems delusional. Like he has a mental degradation issue.
CNN on January 11, 2021: pic.twitter.com/W2nhTj6x1Q
— Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) February 17, 2021
Perhaps he meant to say before he was elected, but, that really doesn’t put to bed his obvious mental decline, because he’d surely backtrack. But, the vaccines were announced just before election day.
Read: Dementia Joe Claims There Was No Vaccine When He Came Into Office »
Yet another case that Warmists have to drag ‘climate change’ into everything, and everything into their scam
Philly’s plan to fight climate change has a glaring absence on demolitions and cultural heritage
Philadelphia released its citywide plan to tackle climate change in mid-January, but with a glaring absence: it doesn’t address the massive waste of materials and energy caused by building demolition.
If the City wants to take climate action seriously, it should adopt a demolition review period along with deconstruction requirements. Changing our approach to buildings up for demolition will stem the loss of cultural heritage and reduce environmental waste while moving the city closer to its sustainability goals.
Philadelphia’s current trajectory is unsustainable, both culturally and environmentally. We need policies that recognize the value of our cultural heritage and the embodied energy it contains. Implementing demolition review and deconstruction requirements would encourage adaptive reuse, reduce carbon emissions associated with demolition and construction, and encourage the salvage and reuse of valuable building materials, moving us closer to a circular economy.
Huh what? What does all this have to do together? Unless this really isn’t about science?
Recent cases, like the rowhouse at 1513 Christian, covered by Inquirer architecture critic Inga Saffron, illustrate the need for demo review. There is also the pending loss of two commercial properties: at 140 S. 11th Street the former Palamida’s Costume Shop, run by a well-known costumer and important to Philly’s LGBTQ history, and at 1105 Walnut Street the Augustin House and Catering Establishment, an antebellum-era African-American catering business. All can, and likely will be, demolished.
There is no question the three occupied, fully functional, structurally sound buildings mentioned above might qualify for historic designation. A review might also increase the possibility for a compromise, such as an overbuild (building atop the old structure) or façadectomy (preserving the building’s facade after demolishing the rest).
If the city doesn’t like it they can purchase the building from the private owner. Simple enough, right?
Salvage and recycling are critical because building materials contain significant amounts of “embodied carbon†or “embodied energy,†which refer to the amount of carbon emissions produced during their extraction, refinement, fabrication, and transportation. Existing buildings represent a massive, underappreciated store of embodied energy, often of materials that simply could not or would not be economically possible to produce today. Demolition itself requires immense amounts of energy, and new building materials also represent significant amounts of embodied carbon. The bottom line is, demolishing existing buildings simply to reconstruct another of a similar size is terribly unsustainable.
In other words, climate cultists want governmental control of Other People’s property. Go figure.
Read: Philly’s Demolition Plans Are A Problem For ‘Climate Change’ Or Something »
…is an evil carbon pollution infused beer causing areas to flood, you might just be a Warmist
The blog of the day is Datechguy’s Blog, with a post wonder what John Weaver and Andrew Cuomo have in common.
Doubleshot below the fold, since I uploaded the above photo yesterday then forgot to actually make a post, so, check out Flopping Aces, with a post on Biden’s notion of following the science.
Read: If All You See… »
Why can’t the nudists just stay 6 feet apart? This is part of the “things I didn’t expect to read on Yahoo News but should have” experience
Nudist Mexican Paradise Zipolite Is Great Business for Tourism, but Bad For COVID
What to do when winter hits your country and COVID pandemic restrictions forces you to stay home? The right answer should be stay home, but thousands of U.S. and Canadian tourists flocked to Mexico’s nudist beach of Zipolite to leave something more than their dollars behind.
Zipolite, on the Pacific coast, has along with Tulum and Cancun become one of the most popular tourist destinations even though Mexico has now the third highest COVID mortality rate in the world.
During the first days of 2021, Zipolite welcomed thousands of foreign tourists looking to escape strict pandemic measures in their countries.
“We were just dealing with too much. Lockdown affected us a lot, and specially my daughter because we live in a small apartment, with no possibilities of going out somewhere. I feel we really needed to go out,†said George Barrera, a 35-year-old Texan who traveled with his family to Zipolite during the last days of January.
Zipolite sits in the San Pedro Pochutla municipality in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca.
If people want to take the risk, that’s their choice, is it not? Kinda icked out at that guy flying to a nudist area with his daughter, but, really, people are allowed to go nude, most of them don’t.
Jane Cusak, 40, from Toronto, Canada, said she traveled with her dog expecting some restrictions on her arrival in Zipolite, but was surprised how relaxed it was.
“I was planning for Tulum, but read online that it’s now packed of tourists so I decided Zipolite, looking to get away from the city and enjoy a tranquil beach, not too crowded. I really was amazed at how relaxed the pandemic measures are down hereâ€, she said.
All we need is keep your distance, wash your hand, don’t touch your face.
During the last days of January, Oaxaca reached an all-time high record of infections with more than 22,000 cases in a single day, according to the Johns Hopkins University Center for Systems Science and Engineering (JHU CSSE).
But, that was not correlated with nudists going to the beach.
“If you still doubt on how safe Zipolite is during the pandemic, let me tell you, you have nothing to worry about, our beach is such a safe place that our deputy health minister, Hugo Lopez-Gatell Ramirez enjoyed it,†stated the publication shared by Pineda.
Zipolite or “the new Tulum†as some call it, is a sunny Mexican paradise worth waiting for, to enjoy naked and maskless once things finally get better.
As Coronado puts it: “Zipolite will be here forever, the virus won’t.â€
And the nudism probably helps. The big question is, why do news outlets expect free citizens to put up with the draconian, authoritarian dictates from mostly leftist government officials which didn’t work, really didn’t make a difference?
Also, I thought an article about nudist beaches in the time of COVID would be a bit more fun. Oh, well.
Read: Bummer: A Mexican Nudist Paradise Is Great For Business But Bad For COVID »
Ten plus years ago the climate cult was telling us that ‘climate change’ would mean the end of snow and that we’d all be experiencing mild winters. Now, since that prognostication has, as with all their prognostications, failed to materialize (of course, they’ll say this will all happen In The Future), they’re scrambling for reasons to continue perpetuating their cultish beliefs. Hence, the notion that snow, ice, and big cold spells are because you ate a cheeseburger with a carbon pollution infused beer. This piece is by John Schwartz at the NY Times, reprinted at Raleigh news WRAL
Climate Change May Be Why Frigid Weather Has Slid So Far South, Experts Say
The notion that the global phenomenon of a hotter planet could be sending a shocking cold wave into the southern United States might seem nonsensical. And every cold snap can be counted on to elicit quips and stunts from those who deny the science of climate change.
Yeah, it is nonsensical. Weather happens. And it isn’t because of you taking a fossil fueled trip to go skiing.
But the weather patterns that send freezing air from the polar vortex plunging all the way to the Gulf Coast could, like other forms of extreme weather, be linked to global warming — which is why climate scientist Katharine Hayhoe prefers the phrase “global weirding.â€
Hayhoe, who yammers on about wanting to have discussions with Skeptics while refusing to have discussions and blocking them on social media, while also saying she’s doing this for her religion, is probably not the best to listen to.
Winter storms are influenced by many factors, including the natural variability that affects all weather systems. The planet’s warming could be part of that icy blend, even while climate change is making winters milder overall.
The warming is primarily natural, but, why is it separated from “climate change”? Are they not the same? Oh, right, cult.
There is research suggesting that Arctic warming is weakening the jet stream, allowing the cold air to escape to the south, especially when a blast of additional warming strikes the stratosphere and deforms the vortex. The result can be episodes of plunging temperatures, even in places that rarely get nipped by frost.
Strangely, not one bit of research is cited. This is all the ravings of a cult.
Of course, bitter cold from the polar vortex has long been a part of the North American weather picture. Amy Butler, a research scientist at the NOAA Chemical Sciences Laboratory, has said that she has yet to find any long-term trend in polar vortex disruptions, which “occur naturally even in the absence of climate change.â€
So, Ms. Butler is basically saying that the whole talking point from the climate cult is mule fritters.
But Judah Cohen, director of seasonal forecasting at Atmospheric and Environmental Research, a company that provides information to clients about weather and climate-related risk, has identified general trends in winter storms. He was an author of a paper last year in the journal Nature Climate Change that found a sharp increase in Northeast winter storms over the decade from 2008 to 2018.
“Severe winter weather is much more frequent when the Arctic is warmest,†Cohen said, adding, “It’s not in spite of climate change but related to climate change.â€
Even if true, it doesn’t prove causation mostly/solely from Mankind’s carbon footprint. Also, what about all the big snows and cold snaps during the mid-1940’s to about 1978, when temps were slowly going down, to the point some were wondering if a new ice age was approaching? If the Arctic was colder shouldn’t that have meant less snow and cold, per cult “science?” Meh, these are cultists protecting their Beliefs.
Read: Climate Cult Continues Pushing Notion That Bad Winter Weather Is Your Fault »
I’m still waiting for Joe to put forth a bipartisan agenda and push for all that healing and unity. How about you? Because this isn’t any of those, and is also a Quixotic quest. It wasn’t going to happen before, it’s not going to happen now. But, it will get Dementia Joe a Gun Salesmen of the Year award
Biden calls on Congress to ban assault weapons
On the third anniversary of the Parkland school shooting, President Joe Biden called on Congress to pass stricter gun laws, including banning assault weapons. In a statement from the White House, Mr. Biden on Sunday asked Congress to pass laws requiring background checks on all gun sales, banning assault weapons and high-capacity magazines, and eliminating immunity for gun manufacturers.
“Today, as we mourn with the Parkland community, we mourn for all who have lost loved ones to gun violence,” Mr. Biden said.
The White House didn’t provide more details about Mr. Biden’s plan.
Plan? What plan? Biden was simply attempting to patronize the 2nd Amendment hating portion of his base
Their organization, March for Our Lives, has been pushing Mr. Biden to appoint a gun czar who would serve in a Cabinet-adjacent position. According to a statement sent to CNN in December, the group asked that a National Director of Gun Violence Prevention “reflect the understanding that gun violence is a public health crisis, and disproportionately affects our most vulnerable populations.”
Mr. Biden promised on the campaign trail to take action on guns within his first 100 days in office. Last week, gun control groups Everytown for Gun Safety, Moms Demand Action and Students Demand Action said they met with members of the Biden administration. Both Everytown and Moms Demand said they have released roadmaps for how the Biden administration can take action on gun violence.
Let’s say Biden gets three of the four things mentioned: scary looking weapon ban, background checks for that super small amount of transactions which do not occur via a federally licensed firearms dealer, and banning high capacity magazines (because 10 is safe and 11 is not). Would this in any way stop the shootings in Democratic Party run areas like Chicago? No. For one thing, most shootings are not committed with rifles.
As for eliminating immunity, well, none of this will pass Congress. And, if the Democrat controlled House attempts to introduce legislation it will whip up voters against them in 2022. In the Senate, at a minimum you’d have Joe Manchin against all of this. Even if passed, it’s not going to stop all the shootings in Democrat run areas in the least. Guns from around the world would just be run across the porous borders that Joe doesn’t want controlled. It would just put more American businesses out of business and make it harder for law abiding citizens to purchase a firearm to protect themselves and their loved ones.
China Joe and the gun grabbers haven’t consider where law enforcement, the military, and other government authorities will get their firearms if they put American gun makers out of business. All that money would be put in the hands of foreign companies, and, since there have been reports that this removal of immunity would apply to ammunition makers, that’s a lot of money flowing to non-American companies.
Read: #Unity: China Joe Calls For Lots And Lots Of Gun Control »
But, see, they say it will totally lift the economy in the future! Well, the stock market. Not necessarily your pocketbook
Going Green May Hurt at First — But Fighting Climate Change Will Boost the S&P 500
Here’s where stocks will benefit most from climate change policies under President Biden, according to Bank of America.
Battling climate change will cost the U.S. as it moves toward a green economy — but the transition is crucial and will pay off for stocks and long-term growth, according to Bank of America Corp.
Climate change policies are mostly positive for the S&P 500 index, particularly in the long-run, Bank of America economists and equity and quantitative strategists said in a research report dated February 11. Corporate profits should rise as U.S. public and private sectors catch up to Europe in the fight against rising global temperatures, they predicted, benefiting the stock market.
Transitioning to a green economy will bring about innovation while addressing financial stability concerns linked to extreme weather events — such as droughts, wildfire, hurricanes, and coastal flooding — caused by a warming planet, according to the report. And while climate policies may weaken near-term growth, Bank of America expects the policies will ultimately lead to “significant positive†developments.
“A sharp tightening of carbon emission policies through taxes and regulations can come with a cost to the economy,†the bank’s economists and strategists said. “But it will also likely come with greater investment in green infrastructure, which is a net positive, all else equal.â€
Well, that is weird, because climate cultists keep telling us that implementing all these climate cult measures won’t hurt the economy at all. In fact, they say it would lift it. They never said it would harm it quite a bit before supposedly lifting it up.
BOA also says warmth will cause lots of issues if we don’t Do Something
They said a one degree increase in the daily average temperature above 15 degrees Celsius (59 degrees Fahrenheit) reduces productivity by 1.7 percent. The current path of rising temperatures may slash global GDP by as much as 25 percent by 2100, according to Bank of America’s research, which cited work done by consultants at the Group of Thirty.
Well, that’s interesting, since prosperity tends to occur during Holocene warm periods, not so much during the cool ones. And, despite the slight rise in temperatures since 1850, the world has seen some serious gross. But, this is about fearmongering. So, give up your money and freedom and choice to government, y’all! It’s for Your Own Good.
Read: Surprise: Bank Of America Says Going Green Could Hurt The Economy »
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