Santa Monica Institutes Mask Snitching

By William Teach November 6, 2021 – 5:05 pm

This should start proliferating across liberal cities

Meanwhile

New Vaccine Science Shows Mandates Are Unwise

New scientific findings in the prestigious Lancet Infectious Diseases journal blow a hole in the argument that workers need to get vaccinated to protect those around them. The findings prove the foolishness of forcing police and other public employees to get jabbed or lose their pay. And President Joe Biden should retract his order to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration to compel large employers to mandate vaccines.

The journal reported Thursday that COVID-19 vaccines have “minimal” impact on preventing transmission of the delta strain. Delta is the COVID strain currently causing over 99% of U.S. cases.

Vaccines protect the people getting the shots from serious illness, but they don’t stop the delta variant from spreading to others.

Don’t get me wrong. Americans should choose to get vaccinated. The key word is “choose.” Though shots are no guarantee against getting infected and spreading it to others, they provide significant protection (90% or more) against hospitalization and death. I’m triple jabbed.

Me too.

Most vaccines — against polio, smallpox, measles and other diseases — prevent infection and spread. But not COVID-19 vaccines. Now that the battle is against the delta variant, they’ve become disease-tamers rather than infection preventers.

I’m good with protecting myself, hopefully, from getting very sick. If other people do not want to, That’s Not My Problem.

Maine Gov. Janet Mills says, “just as vaccination defeated smallpox and vaccination defeated polio, vaccination is the way to defeat COVID-19.” Sorry, Governor, but you don’t know what you’re talking about.

Just as politicians don’t read the bills before voting on them, they don’t keep up with science but still want to tell the rest of us what to do.

The groundbreaking findings in Lancet show that fully vaccinated people who came down with COVID infected others in their household at the same rate (about 25%) as unvaccinated people did (about 23%). The vaccinated had just as much viral load in their upper respiratory tract, making them just as contagious. “Our findings show that vaccination alone is not enough to prevent people from being infected with the delta variant and spreading it,” study co-author Ajit Lalvani said.

Don’t want the vaccine, want to take the chance? That’s your decision. I think it’s a bad decision, but, I’m not here to run your life, just mine.

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HotCold Take: Volcanoes Are Irrelevant To Today’s Climate Change

By William Teach November 6, 2021 – 3:00 pm

Don’t question them, they are Scientists! Just comply, Comrade

Volcanoes have little to no effect on the current climate change, scientists say

Scientists say volcanoes impact global warming on a non-human scale — meaning the change is too slow to observe in one’s lifetime.

Billions of years ago when earth was a boiling cauldron of volcanoes and exploding gases, huge amounts of carbon dioxide were released, trapping heat as land masses formed.

However, today the effect of volcanic emissions on the environment pales in comparison to that of human activity. In fact, recent large volcanic eruptions have been shown to have a significant cooling effect, at least temporarily, on the atmosphere.

“In 1991 Mount Pinatubo caused about a 1.3 degrees Fahrenheit cooling. Also, an eruption in the 1700s in Iceland released a significant amount of sulfur dioxide and caused global cooling,” said Caroline Tisdale, a volcano researcher at the University of Hawai?i at M?noa.

But, see, now, despite volcanoes does things like warming up the Atlantic Ocean via the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, this is All Your Fault. And, it gets better

While volcanoes have little to no long-term effects on today’s climate change, human-emitted carbon dioxide can impact volcanoes.

Kenneth Rubin, a professor of volcanology and geochemistry at UH M?noa, says climate change can have an effect on the amount of gas volcanoes emit.

“Every year, even when they’re not erupting, volcanoes emit a lot of gases into the atmosphere. And those gases come from two sources. One of them is deep in the Earth, and the other one is primarily from water,” he said.

“Climate change has already induced changes in groundwater around the globe. That ultimately affects the amount of gases emitted by volcanoes when they’re not erupting. When they’re erupting, the gas that comes out is primarily this deeper gas that is probably not affected by climate,” Rubin said.

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If All You See…

By William Teach November 6, 2021 – 1:00 pm

…is a cloudless sky from too much carbon pollution, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Moonbattery, with a post on protesters defying COVID mandates in NYC.

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America Has Too Much Milk Or Something

By William Teach November 6, 2021 – 10:30 am

You ever read something on the Internet and just go “oh, f**k off”? This is one of those, from the fevered moonbat mind of Meredith Lee at Politico

Got milk? Yes, actually, U.S. has too much.

Yes, food prices are up. But no, average U.S. milk prices aren’t skyrocketing — they’ve basically stayed the same since January.

It’s at a 3 year high, rising 26%. I notice it, because I buy regular milk and chocolate milk at the grocery store a lot.

That’s because the U.S. overall has an oversupply of milk, and it’s gotten worse over the past few decades as smaller farms have shuttered and larger farms have bought up their livestock and increasingly dominated the industry.

It’s been a problem that policymakers have been struggling to confront for years. And it’s not clear that Washington, D.C., will address this issue because other food prices have been rising much more as a result of the pandemic-induced supply chain breakdowns. The Biden administration has pledged to address antitrust issues in industries ranging from technology to meatpacking. But so far, the dairy sector hasn’t been the focus yet in part because consumers aren’t seeing significantly higher prices as a result of consolidation.

Why would lawmakers address it? What business is it of government, particularly the federal government?

A CNN report this week triggered a brief social media spectacle after it featured a family saying retail milk prices skyrocketed (up 79 cents a gallon over just a few weeks for that couple in the Dallas area who were interviewed and said their family consumes 12 gallons a week). In fact, the average price of milk nationally has largely stayed steady throughout the year, according to the Agriculture Department.

This is all because liberals when pure Barking Moonbat on that family. And rising consumer pricing is easy to illustrate with food products like milk, which most are familiar with. Especially parents.

Overall, the U.S. has been making more milk than it can use. “The availability and supply of milk is not a concern, it’s a concern about moving that milk to where it’s needed,” said Matt Herrick of the International Dairy Foods Association, one of the largest dairy lobby groups in the U.S.

In other words, the broken supply chain under Let’s Go Brandon. And speaking of supply chains

So, a complete backfire. Anyhow, is it any wonder that the Liberal Elites deride the concerns of average Americans? Here’s one more

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When It Comes To Doing Something About ‘Climate Change’, NIMBY Joins In

By William Teach November 6, 2021 – 7:28 am

This is the current Axios headline

The obstacles to building our way out of climate change

If you check the URL, it mentions NIMBY (not in my backyard), and hover the tab and you’ll see Resistance to development might be the biggest block to climate action. People do not want this stuff in their backyard, and they do not want the negative effects in their lives

Averting catastrophic climate change — while ensuring economic growth for the world — will require renewable energy and carbon removal projects on a massive scale.

https://twitter.com/mrj880/status/1456712692408983555

That’s sarcasm, and probably a bit too much for 2021. Give it about 5 years, and it’ll be an easy spoof with the doomsday cult of climastrology.

Driving the news: On Friday at the UN climate summit in Glasgow, the U.S. Department of Energy announced it will launch a major research effort to bring the cost of carbon removal below $100 a ton by 2030.

  • That’s good news for the climate, as the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has calculated the world may ultimately need to remove 100 billion to 1 trillion tons of CO2 by the end of the century to keep temperature rise below 1.5°C.
  • But beyond the scientific challenge of vastly reducing the cost of effective carbon removal — which is currently as much as $2,000 per ton — achieving it on a massive scale would require building out an entirely new kind of energy infrastructure.

So, the DOE wants to cut that cost by 50% by 2030? How? And how much will this cost U.S. taxpayers? And, why are they using the unscientific word “carbon”?

13% of the world — almost 1 billion people — still lacks any real, reliable access to electricity. The average person in the Democratic Republic of the Congo uses just over 100 kWh, more than 100 times less than the average American or Canadian.

Sure seems like California is dealing with unreliable energy, to the point they are trying to use more natural gas for a cold winter. Anyhow, these 1st world cultists would like to deny the same energy use to those icky black and brown people.

The catch: The development required for net-zero carbon is increasingly meeting local resistance on the ground, including from people who identify as environmentalists.

  • On Tuesday, people in Maine voted against a $1 billion, 145-mile energy transmission project that would bring clean Canadian hydropower to New England, on the grounds it would disrupt the state’s woodlands.
  • That vote came a few months after plans for what would have been the U.S.’s largest solar plant — providing enough daytime electricity to power 500,000 homes — were scrapped because of complaints the 14-square-mile project would damage the Nevada desert.
  • Expanding offshore wind development is a key part of the White House’s climate plans, but actually building it has repeatedly run into local resistance.
  • Making it easier and cheaper to live in dense urban areas is an immediate way to shrink carbon footprints, but NIMBY movements (“Not In My Backyard”) and regulations have helped keep the most productive U.S. cities from sufficiently expanding housing supply.

People do not want this stuff around them, and the extreme enviros, and regular people, will block it

“You’re creating whole new supply chains that don’t exist, and you’re trying to do it in a very fast time,” says Daniel Yergin, author of “The New Map: Energy, Climate and the Clash of Nations. “That means transitioning from Big Oil to Big Shovel.”

And who runs that new supply chain? The government, right? And we all know what a wiz bang job they do. And then they have control over, at a minimum, everything regarding your energy use.

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House Passes Non-Infrastructure Infrastructure Bill, $1.75 Reconciliation Passes Rule

By William Teach November 6, 2021 – 7:07 am

The infrastructure bill, which is only around 10% infrastructure, passed because of squishy Republicans

House passes bipartisan $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill after progressives drop opposition

House lawmakers passed President Biden’s $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill late Friday night, securing a key victory for his administration and breaking a weeks-long deadlock between moderates and progressives that threatened to derail the legislation. The vote was 228-206, with 13 GOP lawmakers crossing party lines to join Democrats in voting in favor of the legislation.

The bill, which provides funding for physical infrastructure projects such as roads, bridges, water pipes and broadband internet, will now advance to President Biden’s desk for final approval. Senators already voted 69-30 to approve the legislation in August.

“The Squad,” a group of high-profile progressive lawmakers, were the only six Democrats to vote against the bill. The group includes Reps. Ilhan Omar, Cori Bush, Jamaal Bowman, Rashida Tlaib, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Ayanna Pressley.

Without those 13, it doesn’t pass, and many Republicans promised payback, mostly in the form of primarying these people. And, because it has already passed the Senate, it now goes to Dementia Joe’s desk for signature.

House Advances $1.75 Trillion Build Back Better Act

The House passed the rule providing for the consideration of the $1.75 trillion Build Back Better Act, President Joe Biden’s signature legislation, late Friday night.

The House passed H. Res. 774, the resolution that provides the rule for the consideration of the $1.75 trillion Build Back Better Act.

The resolution passed 221-213, featuring all Democrats in favor of the bill and Republicans unanimously against the resolution. (snip)

Leftists and moderates struck an accord late Friday night.

Moderates pledged to vote to pass the Build Back Better Act after they see a Congressional Budget (CBO) score the week of November 15. Subsequently, progressives voted to pass the bipartisan bill Friday night.

And what happens when the CBO score comes back and is awful? Do the moderates continue their support of it? What if the House Parliamentarian rules against it? We know most Democrats will ignore public sentiment and polling, but, what of the moderates in the House who are in close call districts? What of moderate Dems in the Senate up for re-election in 2022? Since it will be several weeks, Republicans can pound it, describing all the taxes it will cost the middle and lower classes, all the rising costs of living. And all the amnesty. And, as Steve Scalise said

“Then you go down the line. There’s more, unfortunately. Let’s look at, we’ll comb through, IRS agents! How many of us have our phones ringing off the hooks with people calling, saying, ‘Please add 87,000 more IRS agents to the rolls’? Not one of us has probably gotten that call. Yet, they put it in the bill. They call this ‘infrastructure.’ They call this ‘equity.’ Whatever they want to call it, it’s an army of IRS agents that are going to come for your bank account.

Anyone calling their Representatives and Senators for this? Scalise ripped through the reconciliation bill, worth a read.

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HotCold Take: COP26 Mess Up Shines Light On Impact Of Climate Change On Disabled

By William Teach November 5, 2021 – 3:00 pm

This is a serious HotCold Take: linking a serious blunder into something about the whole

COP26 incident shines light on impact of climate change on disabled

An Israeli cabinet minister’s inability to access the COP26 climate summit in her wheelchair has fueled criticism that the conference is part of the problem on many of the inequalities it was meant to address.

Karine Elharrar, Israel’s Energy Minister, uses a wheelchair due to muscular dystrophy and was unable to access an entrance at the summit Monday.

“It’s sad that the United Nations, which promotes accessibility for people with disabilities, in 2021 doesn’t worry about accessibility at its own events,” Elharrar tweeted.

Now, I saw this the other day, and the first thing that came to my mind was “aren’t there laws in the UK that require handicap access?”, because there are a lot of nations which do not have the disability laws that the U.S. does. And, yes, in fact, they do. So, why weren’t they in place for COP26?

But, see, this is a doomsday cult with Climarettes (they have to involve climate doom in everything), so,

While Elharrar was able to attend the conference on Tuesday, and has accepted British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s apology, the incident illustrated a recurring concern at the summit: that even as the conference seeks to address the impact of climate change on vulnerable communities, it risks boxing out those very people.

Lisa Dale, a faculty affiliate with Columbia University’s Center for Resilient Cities and Landscapes, said the episode “eerily mimics” the implication of climate disasters for disabled people.

In those cases, she told The Hill, “wealthier able-bodied households are more likely to evacuate, find safety, and bounce back afterward. Poorer or disabled individuals will be hit much harder by the same weather event.”

“This is the very definition of vulnerability, a key component of how we understand risk,” she added.

Got that? They truly messed up at COP26, violated UK law, in fact, so, the Warmists will make this about everything climate cult

“It’s of course unfortunate that [Elharrar] was left out… and it’s right that attention’s being paid to it, but what’s really more of an issue is the way people with disabilities have been left out of the climate change agenda and dialogue,” said Michael Stein, executive director of the Harvard Law School Project on Disability.

So, wait, the Elites have blown off the disabled? Huh.

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If All You See…

By William Teach November 5, 2021 – 1:00 pm

…is the flag of a Bad carbon polluting nation, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Legal Insurrection, with a post on Progressives raging at white women over the Virginia loss.

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Even The NY Times Editorial Board Thinks Democrats Are Denying Political Reality

By William Teach November 5, 2021 – 10:30 am

The NY Times editorial board doesn’t actually think Democrats will listen, do they? It won’t happen as a political party overall. There will be some who will listen and understand

Democrats Deny Political Reality at Their Own Peril

Tuesday’s election result trend lines were a political nightmare for the Democratic Party, and no Democrat who cares about winning elections in 2022 and the presidential race in 2024 should see them as anything less.

Familiar takeaways like “wake-up call” and “warning shot” don’t do justice here because the danger of ignoring those trends is too great. What would do justice, and what is badly needed, is an honest conversation in the Democratic Party about how to return to the moderate policies and values that fueled the blue-wave victories in 2018 and won Joe Biden the presidency in 2020.

Except, 2018 saw lots of nutters, like Alexandria O’Casio-Cortez, elected, and Biden “won” because he was Anybody But Trump. Regardless, the NYTEB makes a good point about returning to moderation, which would look more like the Clinton admin, which, no matter what you say about Bill Clinton personally, understood how to read the nation’s mood, and to pivot and back off when necessary. But, that’s where this whole thing breaks down

Given the stakes for the country, from urgent climate and social spending needs to the future of democracy, Americans badly need a rolling conversation today and in the coming weeks and months about how moderate voters of all affiliations can coalesce behind and guide the only party right now that shows an interest in governing and preserving democratic norms.

Do they think these things, which require dictatorial and authoritarian government, are moderate? Yes, they do, and this kind of yammering emboldens the Democrats to not take away the right lessons from the election. Including that paragraph blows the EB’s narrative

Bill Clinton’s mantra from 1992 of “it’s the economy, stupid” is rarely out of vogue, and it certainly isn’t now. But Democrats, looking left on so many priorities and so much messaging, have lost sight of what can unite the largest number of Americans. A national Democratic Party that talks up progressive policies at the expense of bipartisan ideas, and that dwells on Donald Trump at the expense of forward-looking ideas, is at risk of becoming a marginal Democratic Party appealing only to the left.

Pushing ‘climate change’ and a Nanny State won’t help the economy. Democrats have pretty much abandoned all bipartisan ideas.

Many in the president’s party point to Tuesday as proof that congressional Democrats need to stop their left-center squabbling and clock some legislative wins ASAP by passing both the bipartisan infrastructure bill and a robust version of the Build Back Better plan, the larger social spending and environmental proposal. They believe this will give their candidates concrete achievements to run on next year and help re-energize their base.

But Tuesday’s results are a sign that significant parts of the electorate are feeling leery of a sharp leftward push in the party, including on priorities like Build Back Better, which have some strong provisions and some discretionary ones driving up the price tag. The concerns of more centrist Americans about a rush to spend taxpayer money, a rush to grow the government, should not be dismissed.

The lesson the Democrat leadership, along with the crazy Progressive base, is that they need to jam through their agenda before the 2022 mid-terms. They know that, even if they do lose the House and Senate in 2022, Republicans can do nothing to get rid of the Crazy the Democrats pass, not with Joe in the White House. Clinton might have gone along with killing the Crazy off. Not Joe. And, even if they keep Congress and get a Republican to win in 2024, it might be too late to kill some stuff off, and Senate Democrats will then use that filibuster they’ve been raging about.

Jesse Waters said

“Right now, AOC is in this little Queens bubble, the Met Gala bubble, the Washington, D.C., social media bubble,” he said. “She doesn’t have a clue what the rest of the country wants. [Sen.] Manchin knows, Manchin can read the room, so Manchin wants to give us what we want, and AOC is not going to let us have it.”

Yes, AOC is clueless, as are many of her Comrades. But, if if they weren’t, they don’t care. Their lesson says to jam stuff through. The question now becomes “will more than just Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema block the Dems agenda in the Senate?” What about Sen. Mark Kelly, D-Ariz., and Sen. Maggie Hassan, D-N.H.? They’re both up for re-election in 2022. And Senator Jon Tester, D-Mont, Chris Coons, D-Del., Tom Carper, D-Del., and Angus King, I-Maine?  What about moderate Dems in the House? There are still some, who just tend to mostly vote party first, but, might rethink that.

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We Can Beat The Climate Crisis (scam) If We Do One Thing Or Something

By William Teach November 5, 2021 – 8:28 am

It really is just super simple, folks

We Can Beat Climate Change If We Do One Thing Fast

Now, finally, much of the world has become convinced, first-hand, that global warming is not only real but heating up more rapidly than we expected, unleashing irreversible impacts. Many people feel despair and helplessness in the face of doomsday predictions already in evidence. And yet, I’m optimistic that we can solve this problem in time to keep our planet livable for future generations.

Otherwise, it’s not livable? It’s a doomsday cult

Squinting at the data, I see a way forward, but the urgency can’t be underestimated. The answer is actually quite simple and requires no miracle technology: we must electrify everything, fast. That means not just the supply-side sources of energy; we’ve got to electrify everything on the demand-side—the things we use in our households and small businesses every day, including cars, furnaces, stoves, water heaters, and dryers. I’m optimistic because over the last two decades the advances and cost reductions in electric vehicles, solar cells, batteries, heat pumps, and induction cooking mean that what we need can now be purchased at roughly price parity with the fossil fuelled incumbent.

But we are not yet at scale. In 2020 only half of the heating systems installed in the U.S. are electric. Only 2% of vehicle purchases were electric. We need a massive, World War Two Arsenal-of-Democracy-style mobilization to get these clean machines manufactured and into our homes and onto our roads. We need a similar effort on the supply side with wind turbines, solar farms, hydroelectric, geothermal and nuclear facilities to make the extra electricity.

Interesting. Most Warmists are 100% against nuclear power. Geothermal is not the best solution for America, and small units can be costly. Hydroelectric dams? Extreme enviros sue to not only stop them, but, to tear down existing ones. They often sue to stop solar and wind farm, along with the transmission lines. Where would we put all this?

And where would we put all the stuff the Government deems Bad? All the old gas stoves, hot water heaters, vehicles, and more?

People who are relying on governments to solve this problem don’t understand the power they have in their own hands and homes to fight global warming.

…in the U.S., 42% of our carbon emissions come from our homes and personal vehicles—our fossil-fuel-burning cars, stoves, heaters, water heaters, clothes dryers, barbecues, and other appliances. It jumps to 65% if we include the small businesses and offices and vehicle fleets of the commercial sector.

Wait, so they’re even going to Ban your gas barbecue? Is this the power the People have, to get government to be dictatorial?

None of this will be easy. In order to meet our climate goals, we will need a 100% adoption rate of electrified technology, starting with our homes. Said another way, we cannot achieve a 1.5 or even 2 degrees warming target unless every household in America is replacing every fossil fuel-burning machine as it is retired with an efficient, electric one within the decade. That doesn’t mean replacing everything in your home at once—which would cost the average homeowner in the U.S. about $70,000. But it does mean that our next car must be electric. Our next stove must be an induction stove (which cooks much more efficiently, with more precise temperature adjustments than a gas stove). Our water and space heaters have to be replaced with heat pumps, a wonderfully efficient technology. In order to make the switch, we will likely have to upgrade our breaker box so it’ll be ready when your water heater goes out and you need a new one tomorrow. This is true for single family homes and multi-family rentals. It is true for new construction. The planet does not care about house size, location or who lives inside. It needs the one billion new machines in our basements, kitchens, utility closets, garages and driveways to be electric, and powered by renewables, in order to heal.

“Must be replaced.” Who says? Why don’t these people mind their own f’ing business. And that doesn’t even account for the cost of an EV, but, then, most people won’t be able to afford one, unless they get a 10+ year loan.

On climate, it turns out that the household is where individual and collective action come together. I’m hopeful that individual property owners will take the concern they’ve spent on recycling, eating less meat, and driving less to make a far more significant impact on our carbon emissions by simply replacing their gas appliances with electric ones. And it is a moral imperative and just economic common sense for Washington to help them do so. It is time for us to all come together and mobilize to achieve the one way forward to save the planet.

Why don’t climate cultists do this on their own? Why is force of government required?

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