New York City, Which Survives On Fossil Fuels, Sues Fossil Fuels Companies

By William Teach April 23, 2021 – 7:57 am

So, just wondering when the City Of New York plans on giving up it’s own use of fossil fuels to run their operations. Police, fire, trash collection, street cleaning, schools, etc and so on. How about Mayor Bill de Blasio and his use of fossil fueled private jets?

New York City sues Exxon, BP, Shell in state court over climate change

New York City on Thursday sued three major oil companies and the top industry trade group in state court, arguing that the companies are misrepresenting themselves by selling fuels as “cleaner” and advertising themselves as leaders in fighting climate change.

The lawsuit comes after a federal appeals court this month rejected the city’s effort to hold five major oil companies liable to help pay the costs of harm caused by global warming.

The lawsuit said Exxon Mobil Corp, BP Plc, Royal Dutch Shell and industry group the American Petroleum Institute “have systematically and intentionally misled consumers” through fuel sales at branded stations as “cleaner” and “emissions-reducing” while not disclosing climate impacts.

“These lawsuits have no merit and do nothing to advance meaningful efforts that address climate change,” said Exxon spokesman Casey Norton.

NYC just won’t give up on trying shakedown lawsuits. They were blown out in the first one, so, why not try it a second time. Seriously, the three companies should refuse to sell their product to the city. Let’s see how they operate without it. The city itself wouldn’t operate without fossil fuels. All the cars, planes, trucks, and ships that bring people, products, and goods to and from the city. All the fossil fuels required to keep the city operational.

“The defendants in our lawsuit have spent millions to persuade consumers that they present a clean, green choice,” said New York City Corporation Counsel James Johnson. “But they don’t.”

No one thinks gasoline is a green option, at least from a real environmental point of view. And it should be interesting watching NYC attempt to argue their point in a court, which the companies will be happy to argue in. They don’t seem like they have any intention to pony up money for NYC. If someone was suing you, would you provide them your goods and services? And, if the people of NYC like these types of suits, why are they not giving up their own use of fossil fuels?

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Senate COVID19 Asian Hate Crime Bill Violates The 1st Amendment

By William Teach April 23, 2021 – 7:44 am

It really is not unusual for lawmakers to say “hey, let’s deal with this issue”, craft a bill, then just keep adding to it. For instance, here in NC years ago the police wanted those license plate covers that make them hard to read, especially at night, banned. They were, and the legislature added lots more to it to essentially ban any plate bracket. Is that what happened with this Senate bill? Or, is the violation of Free Speech intentional? And why in the heck did most of the GOP vote for it? Did they read it?

COVID-19 hate crimes bill to fight Asian American discrimination passes Senate

The Senate passed with overwhelming bipartisan support a hate crimes bill to address a drastic increase in violence and discrimination directed at Asian Americans during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The COVID-19 Hate Crimes Act cleared the chamber in a 94-1 vote Thursday. It would expedite the Justice Department’s review of hate crimes andwould designate an official at the department to oversee the effort.

It also would task the department with coordinating with local law enforcement groups and community-based organizations to facilitate and raise awareness about hate crime reporting,including establishing an online hate crime reporting system in multiple languages.

The legislation, which now heads to the Democratic-led House, is one of the few bills to pass this Senate with support from both Republicans and Democrats. Many Democrats expected a legislative fight, but Republicans signaled early their willingness to compromise on the legislation, and senators from both parties have been negotiating for weeks.

Did they bother reading it, or understand that the road to hell is paved with good intentions?

The expanded legislation, spearheaded by Sen. Mazie Hirono, D-Hawaii,underwent several bipartisan changes before its final passage.

Speaking from the Senate floor Thursday, Hirono said that by passing the bill “We will send a powerful message of solidarity to the AAPI community that the Senate won’t be a bystander as anti-Asian violence surges in our country.”

I can understand why Mitch McConnell wants this, as his wife is Asian. For Chuck Schumer, well, most of the crimes we’ve seen against Asians occur in Democratic Party run areas.

One addition to the bill from Sens. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., and Jerry Moran, R-Kan., would establish grants to aid local and state governments to encourage more training on hate crimes for law enforcement, establish hate crime hotlines and allow for a “rehabilitation” effort for perpetrators of hate crimes.

And this is where it starts getting a little hinky. The revised legislation shows, all the way at the end, that anyone who commits a “hate crime” can be forced by the court to take “educational classes or community service directly related to the community harmed by the defendant’s offense.” Anyone else think that sounds a bit like forced re-education? Then there’s this as written for the original release of the bill from Congresscritter Grace Meng, the House sponsor of the bill

“The ongoing anti-Asian hate crimes and incidents, especially against our elderly Asian Americans, is absolutely horrific. I am honored to introduce the COVID-19 Hate Crimes Act with Senator Hirono to address this disgusting pattern of hate,” said Congresswoman Meng. “Before this pandemic started, I urged everyone—including elected officials—to not blame Asian Americans for the virus. My words were not heeded. The former president and his Congressional Republican enablers trafficked racist, bigoted terms to describe COVID-19. In doing so, their language stoked people’s fears and created an atmosphere of intolerance and violence, which persists even today. Since the beginning of the pandemic there has been nearly 3,000 reported incidents of physical, verbal, and online attacks against Asian Americans. Even in my own district in Queens, New York, Asian Americans have been attacked. To combat those acts, we need DOJ to prioritize addressing these heinous acts by designating a point person for these COVID-19 related hate crimes; make it easier for victims to report crimes committed against them; and expand public education campaigns to address COVID-19 hate crimes and incidents. This must end and it is why we are working to ensure our justice system has the people and resources to effectively account for and mitigate anti-Asian hate crimes. I look forward to this bill becoming law.”

“We’ve seen the horrifying consequences of racist language as AAPI communities across our country experience hate crimes and violence related to the pandemic,” said Senator Hirono. “The COVID-19 Hate Crimes Act addresses the surge in violence against AAPI communities by dedicating an official at the Department of Justice to expeditiously review hate crimes reported to law enforcement. The bill also provides resources for communities to come together and fight intolerance and hate. This is no less than victims deserve.”

This positions language as violence, and looks to restrict language. One of the things the bill would do is

Issue guidance describing best practices to mitigate racially discriminatory language in describing the COVID–19 pandemic, in coordination with the Secretary of Health and Human Services and the COVID–19 Health Equity Task Force and community-based organizations.

In other words, they will let you know what words you can and can’t say. Which is interesting in that most of this occurs, again, in Democratic run areas. And a violation of the 1st Amendment.

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High Flying John Kerry Says Even Going Net Zero Won’t Stop Climate Crisis (scam)

By William Teach April 22, 2021 – 3:00 pm

Because science, you know

John Kerry Says U.S., China Could Go to Zero Emissions and Still Not Solve Climate Crisis

John Kerry climateJohn Kerry, President Joe Biden’s special envoy for climate, said Wednesday that one of the only ways to curb the climate crisis is an all-hands-on-deck global response when it comes to lowering emissions.

“The United States could go to zero tomorrow—I mean we can’t but if you’re figuratively speaking could go to zero—we’d still have a problem. The world would still have a problem,” Kerry told Washington Post columnist Jonathan Capehart.

He continued, “If China went to zero tomorrow with the United States, we’d still have a problem. So every country has to come to the table. This is the single biggest multilateral, global negotiation that the world has ever needed.”

I’m getting the feeling this isn’t really about anthropogenic climate change, not sure why.

Of course, we all know that China won’t do a damned thing, but, they already have their authoritarianism in place.

Meanwhile

As Tom Nelson likes to say, this really isn’t about climate change/science, is it.

Here’s China Joe

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If All You See…

By William Teach April 22, 2021 – 1:00 pm

…is an area drying out and collapsing from climate crisis, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Blazing Cat Fur, with a post on 7 reasons why Dems are obsessed with race.

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Pushing Police Hatred: WRAL Says Over 100 Killed By Police During Chauvin Trial

By William Teach April 22, 2021 – 10:30 am

This serves no purpose other than to make people hate the police, even as they unintentionally tell the truth on some shootings

More than 100 people killed by police across US during three weeks of Chauvin trial

A hang-up phone call to 911 prompted Person County Sheriff’s deputies to dispatch to a home in Hurdle Mills on April 2. When they arrived, police came upon a hostage situation underway, according to law enforcement members. Shots were exchanged, and 58-year-old Jackie Cameron Capps Jr. was shot dead.

That incident in central North Carolina is one of dozens that have happened since the beginning of Derek Chauvin’s trial on March 29.

“One case – that’s one too many,” said Dr. Hunter Boehme, a criminologist and assistant professor at North Carolina Central University.

I don’t want to be shot? Let the hostage go. Don’t shoot at police. What did Dr. Boehme want to happen? The guy get away with the hostage? Kill the hostage? The police have no blame in this.

In the 22 days between the start of the trial of the former Minneapolis police officer and his conviction, 103 people were shot and killed by law enforcement, according to the Gun Violence Archive.

Maybe I’ll peruse it, but, I know what I’ll find: almost every single incident involved a criminal, probably not complying with the lawful demands of law enforcement officers. Getting violent. Fighting back. (Noon update: I’ve gone through a lot of the incidents, and most involve criminals being criminal and forcing the officer to shoot them. Many the perp had a firearm and raised it at officers, and even fired it. Some are actually suicides).

Chauvin is the first white police officer in Minnesota convicted of killing a Black citizen. Officers are often cleared of wrongdoing because the use of force is found to be justified. Data shows only 1.1% of police involved in these killings will ever be charged with murder or manslaughter.

That’s because the majority are lawful. Police do not want to do this. They are usually forced into the situation. Because people are breaking the law and being threatening.

“Community policing – we have to strive for it,” said Boehme. “We have to develop better relationships. But all those efforts can really go awash when a video [like the] George Floyd [one] emerges.”

Hey, let’s pull the police out of all these neighborhoods, see what happens. Oh, right, the same people will complain when the police they hate are not there to stop their neighbors from shooting each other.

He is currently working to implement a grassroots community police relationship model. The idea is that citizens are in charge and police work in the background instead of residents bringing up program ideas and police implementing them.

I’ll say it: crime skyrockets in black neighborhoods vs that of white, Asian, and Latino ones. Stop blaming the police because they come on 911 calls for criminal complaints.

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China Joe Releases His Climate Apocalypse Targets For U.S.

By William Teach April 22, 2021 – 7:15 am

Obviously, these only apply to you peons, not the Elites like Joe

The U.S. Has a New Climate Goal. How Does It Stack Up Globally?

The United States officially has a new goal for fighting climate change over the next decade. So how ambitious is it?

President Biden announced Thursday that America would aim to cut its greenhouse gas emissions 50 percent to 52 percent below 2005 levels by 2030. That’s one of the more aggressive near-term targets among wealthy industrialized nations, although the cuts are arguably not quite as large as what the European Union and Britain have already promised.

That’s an interesting take from the NY Times, since it looks like the article was published prior to the White Green House announcing the targets, especially since the Time really has no more detail than the GHG cuts. Here’s the actual release

FACT SHEET: President Biden Sets 2030 Greenhouse Gas Pollution Reduction Target Aimed at Creating Good-Paying Union Jobs and Securing U.S. Leadership on Clean Energy Technologies

Today, President Biden will announce a new target for the United States to achieve a 50-52 percent reduction from 2005 levels in economy-wide net greenhouse gas pollution in 2030 – building on progress to-date and by positioning American workers and industry to tackle the climate crisis.

The announcement – made during the Leaders Summit on Climate that President Biden is holding to challenge the world on increased ambition in combatting climate change – is part of the President’s focus on building back better in a way that will create millions of good-paying, union jobs, ensure economic competitiveness, advance environmental justice, and improve the health and security of communities across America. (snip)

The United States is not waiting, the costs of delay are too great, and our nation is resolved to act now. Climate change poses an existential threat, but responding to this threat offers an opportunity to support good-paying, union jobs, strengthen America’s working communities, protect public health, and advance environmental justice. Creating jobs and tackling climate change go hand in hand – empowering the U.S. to build more resilient infrastructure, expand access to clean air and drinking water, spur American technological innovations, and create good-paying, union jobs along the way.

Unions are dying out in manufacturing, they seem to apply more to white collar jobs like teachers. Will this require that the jobs only be union jobs? Who’s paying them? Why does this seem more like a payoff to the unions who supported China Joe?

To develop the goal, the Administration analyzed how every sector of the economy can spur innovation, unleash new opportunities, drive competitiveness, and cut pollution. The target builds on leadership from mayors, county executives, governors, tribal leaders, businesses, faith groups, cultural institutions, health care organizations, investors, and communities who have worked together tirelessly to ensure sustained progress in reducing pollution in the United States.

All people who like to tell Other People how to live their lives in a way they do not themselves.

This target prioritizes American workers. Meeting the 2030 emissions target will create millions of good-paying, middle class, union jobs – line workers who will lay thousands of miles of transmission lines for a clean, modern, resilient grid; workers capping abandoned wells and reclaiming mines and stopping methane leaks; autoworkers building modern, efficient, electric vehicles and the charging infrastructure to support them; engineers and construction workers expanding carbon capture and green hydrogen to forge cleaner steel and cement; and farmers using cutting-edge tools to make American soil the next frontier of carbon innovation.

That’s the third time it mentions union workers (they’re mentioned a total of 8 times). Oh, there won’t be many jobs in the auto sector, because they will be replaced with even more robots, especially as no one is buying the electric vehicles. Which, if you’ll notice, Joe does not travel in.

Make it in America. We can bolster our domestic supply chains and position the U.S. to ship American-made, clean energy products — like EV batteries – around the world.

I thought making it in America was racist when Trump was in office? It’s not now?

Explored multiple pathways across the economy: The target is grounded in analysis that explored multiple pathways for each economic sector of the economy that produces CO2 and non-CO2 greenhouse gases: electricity, transportation, buildings, industry, and lands.

Yeah, they are looking to control the economy in full.

The United States has set a goal to reach 100 percent carbon pollution-free electricity by 2035, which can be achieved through multiple cost-effective pathways each resulting in meaningful emissions reductions in this decade. That means good-paying jobs deploying carbon pollution-free electricity generating resources, transmission, and energy storage and leveraging the carbon pollution-free energy potential of power plants retrofitted with carbon capture and existing nuclear, while ensuring those facilities meet robust and rigorous standards for worker, public, environmental safety and environmental justice.

That ain’t happening, not without lots of nuclear power, which Warmists/extreme-enviros are dead set against. Anyhow, how will China Joe lead the way by practicing what he preaches?

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Next Great Liberal Idea: Police Needing Supervisor Approval To Chase Perps On Foot

By William Teach April 22, 2021 – 6:53 am

Just another measure to handcuff the police from going after criminals

Chicago Police May Soon Need Supervisor Permission to Chase Suspects on Foot

unintended consequences“No one should die as the result of a foot chase,” Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot (D) said on Tuesday while announcing her consideration of a new policy requiring officers to obtain permission from supervisors before pursuing a suspect on foot.

FOX 32 reported:

Rewriting police policy on all foot chases has now become a hot topic at City Hall. Alderman Brian Hopkins says an official in the mayor’s office told him officers could soon be required prior to a foot chase to do what is now required before a vehicle chase: getting permission from higher ups.

“Of course that raises obvious problems,” Hopkins said. “In the time it would take to do that, the person you’re supposed to be chasing is actually long gone. The point would be moot then.”

Chicago Alderman Brian Hopkins and Lightfoot both acknowledged that such a policy change would incentivize suspected criminals to flee law enforcement on foot.

The New York Post noted, “Hopkins acknowledged the most obvious criticism that such a policy would likely attract: that a suspect on foot could be long gone in the time it would take an officer to get the required approval.”

Hopkins said, “We’re seeing more vehicles flee from police officers because word has gotten out that they’re probably not going to get permission to chase you,” he said.

That last refers to the Chicago policy requiring supervisor permission for a vehicle chase, which is never given, and, now, rarely asked for. If they do the same for foot chases, officers won’t bother asking for permission, because, first, they’ll most likely not get it, and second, by the time they ask and get an answer the criminal is already gone. Criminals will love this policy. And crime will climb even higher in the already high crime city of Chicago, which is actually not as bad as you think, because property crime isn’t as bad as you would think. Portland, Oregon, is actually worse. Expect Chicago to see a huge spike in property crime from this policy change.

Lightfoot’s announcement came days after the release of video capturing the police killing of 13-year-old Adam Toledo on March 29. Toledo was shot and killed by a Chicago police officer following a foot pursuit.

Yes, it was apparently bad to be chasing Adam when he’s out at 230am on a Monday morning, hanging with a 21 year old who’s a known associate of the Latin Kings, shooting off guns, then running.

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Surprise: China Shocks Warmists By Burning Record Coal

By William Teach April 21, 2021 – 3:00 pm

Hey, remember this?

The US and China issued a joint statement on Saturday after Kerry’s visit to Shanghai in which they “committed to cooperating” on the pressing issue of climate change. Li Shuo, a senior Greenpeace climate adviser, welcomed the statement, which he described as being “as positive as the politics would allow”. He said it sent an unequivocal message that the two countries were prepared to work together on the issue. “Before the meetings in Shanghai this was not a message that we could assume,” he said.

Kerry, Joe, and so many Warmists were ecstatic over this, as they were when China made a pledge to be Net Zero by 2060 in September. Flash forward to Tuesday

Record coal burning in China, post-COVID recovery will feed a rebound in global carbon emissions: IEA

Chinese coal consumption is poised to hit a record this year, according to a closely watched global tracking organization, a bump up that contradicts the view held by many climate change and energy experts that coal burning in the world’s second-biggest economy and largest polluter had peaked.

Overall, as the world economy claws back from COVID-19 and due to the expected 4% surge in Chinese coal demand, global carbon emissions will rebound in 2021, the International Energy Agency said Tuesday. (snip)

The data hits days ahead of a U.S.-led global climate-change conference and days after U.S. climate envoy John Kerry and his Chinese counterpart Xie Zhenhua agreed to cooperate to curb climate change with urgency.

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If All You See…

By William Teach April 21, 2021 – 1:00 pm

…is a horrible carbon pollution spewing beer, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is 357 Magnum, with a post on what the DHS is considering a domestic terrorist.

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BLM Activist: Cops Should Just Let Teens Fight Out With Knives, Mind Their Own Business

By William Teach April 21, 2021 – 12:17 pm

This one on Makiyah Bryant is such a scorching hot take that it deserved it’s own follow up post, rather than adding more to the earlier post (via Twitchy)

I can’t remember anyone having a knife fight in grade school, high school, or college. Regular fights, sure. In case Bree forgot, someone, reportedly perp with the knife, per her family, called 911. Should police now ignore these calls if those fighting are blacks?

Yes. Yes she is arguing that. And then she and the other Activists will complain that the police and government did nothing when blacks are stabbing each other. Did the life of the girl being attacked not matter?

 

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