If All You See…

By William Teach December 31, 2020 – 1:00 pm

…is an Evil gas fireplace causing big winter storms from carbon pollution, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Blazing Cat Fur, with a post on the year Big Tech became the ministry of truth.

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Did Nashville Bomber Believe Lizard People Run The World?

By William Teach December 31, 2020 – 10:30 am

My bet was on the homicidal lunatic believing in the “5G is evil” conspiracy theories, since it involved AT&T (potentially). How about this?

Nashville bomber linked to ‘lizard people’ myth, investigators say

As investigators search for a possible motive behind the Christmas Day suicide bombing that rocked downtown Nashville, injuring three people and destroying several buildings, new details have emerged about the peculiar beliefs of the suspected bomber.

NBC News reported Wednesday that investigators have obtained evidence that Anthony Quinn Warner, who died in the explosion, may have subscribed to a conspiracy theory that many of the world’s most powerful figures, from Barack Obama to the late Bob Hope are actually evil, lizard-like extraterrestrials in disguise. Officials told NBC News that investigators, who have been questioning friends and acquaintances and searching for clues of a possible motive for the bombing, have become aware of statements Warner made about the lizard people conspiracy theory — though it wasn’t immediately clear what those statements were. Authorities also reported that Warner made statements to others about hunting possible aliens during previous camping trips he took in his RV.

The so-called lizard people conspiracy theory has taken a back seat to some of the newer and more widely publicized baseless beliefs that have come to dominate the conspiracy landscape in recent years. But in 2013, a survey conducted by Public Policy Polling found that 12 million Americans believed that the country was run by lizard people in suits.

Oh, but, wait

In some ways, lizard people believers were a precursor to QAnon, the insidious pro-Trump conspiracy movement that has snowballed from the dark corners of the internet into mainstream social media feeds and even the halls of Congress over the last three years. Like QAnon, which was founded on the myth that President Trump is secretly working to dismantle a “deep state” cabal of satanic pedophiles, the lizard people theory holds that a secret network of blood-guzzling “global elites” have engineered tragedies from the Holocaust to 9/11. But it gets worse: The nefarious world leaders and Hollywood celebrities responsible for so much misery are not actually humans but shape-shifting reptilian creatures of alien descent.

Yeah, we had to get some Trump Derangement Syndrome included.

Federal investigators have reportedly been trying to determine whether Warner also believed in some of the more contemporary yet equally absurd conspiracy theories that have been circulating on the internet about 5G wireless communication networks. The Christmas morning explosion took place outside an AT&T building in Nashville, knocking out 911 service and disrupting AT&T service across the state. AT&T is one of the American telecommunication companies involved in rolling out 5G, the latest standard for broadband cellular networks, which is expected to dramatically increase data transfer speeds. [Verizon, which owns Yahoo News, is also a provider of 5G technology.]

I guess I wasn’t out of bounds when I was noting the 5G aspect late on Christmas day on blogs and such.

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We’re Saved: Massachusetts To Mandate All Vehicle Sales To Be EVs By 2035

By William Teach December 31, 2020 – 7:03 am

If this is so important, why not, say, 2022? If there are so many climate cultists in Mass., why are they not buying EVs in huge numbers right now?

Mass. to require all new cars sold to be electric by 2035 as part of climate-change measures

Governor Charlie Baker’s administration on Wednesday released a plan that will require the state to dramatically cut greenhouse-gas emissions in the next decade and beyond through a raft of changes, including by mandating that all new cars sold in the state be electric by 2035.

Among the changes the state plans over the next decade: retrofitting 1 million homes to use electricity for heating instead of gas and oil, cutting commuters’ driving miles by 15 percent, and dramatically increasing offshore wind power generation.

Where’s the electricity coming from to replace the gas and oil? Will they forcibly retrofit homes above the wishes of the home owners? How, exactly, will they make commuters reduce their miles? And, it will be interesting when politicians and rich folks jam up the works so that their views aren’t blighted.

The state’s new legally binding commitment to reduce the state’s carbon emissions to 45 percent below 1990 levels by 2030 is among the most ambitious of such pledges by governments in the United States and the rest of the world. Achieving that milestone would put the state on track to reach “net zero” fossil-fuel emissions by 2050, a goal announced this year by Baker’s administration.

It’s nice and all, but, most pledges to Do Something about Hotcoldwetdry have failed. Few keep their personal ones, few governments keep theirs. Let’s start with forcing the Gov’s office to become net zero right now.

The state strove to balance its ambitious goals with the need to maintain a thriving economy and prevent residents’ living costs from ballooning, Theoharides said. The changes will benefit Massachusetts residents by improving air quality — leading to savings in health costs up to $100 million per year by 2030 — and through the creation of thousands of high-quality local jobs, officials said.

Crazy pipe dreams of climate cultists who won’t change their own lives but want to force Other People to change theirs.

Massachusetts currently has about 30,000 electric vehicles on the roads, a number which may include hybrid vehicles, officials said. They set the goal of increasing that number to 750,000 by 2035, when all new “light-duty” vehicles, or passenger cars, sold will be mandated to be zero-emissions, meaning either electric or hydrogen fuel-cell cars, which also run on electricity.

Not “may include”, it does include. And the majority of those 30k will be standard hybrids, gas engines with electric battery assist. And a smattering of plugin hybrids. And then a few rich folks with Teslas. If this is so darned important, why is the Gov not switching to one now, along with all the people in his office?

And, why can’t these people just mind their own damned business?

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We Can Reduce The Spread Of COVID By 30% By Closing One Place Or Something

By William Teach December 31, 2020 – 6:45 am

It’s such a simple thing, you know. Can you guess what that place is?

Closing This One Place Could Reduce the Spread of COVID by 30 Percent

When it comes to reducing the number of new COVID cases, there are many ways individuals can help limit the virus’ spread, like wearing a mask, practicing social distancing, and washing hands both thoroughly and often, just to name a few. However, new research reveals that there’s one public health measure that can drastically reduce the rate of COVID growth—and all it takes is shutting down a single spot. Read on to discover how experts say we could be significantly lowering COVID numbers, and for the latest expert-backed news about the virus, Dr. Fauci Just Gave This Warning About Stopping COVID Entirely.

According to a Dec. 2020 study published in the journal PLOS One, there’s one COVID control measure that’s proven more effective than any other when it comes to slowing the spread of the virus: closing down workplaces. While there are clear economic ramifications associated with doing so—and it’s not feasible for workers in every industry to perform their jobs remotely—the study’s authors found that workplace closings implemented at the highest applicable policy level could reduce viral spread by an estimated average of 32.5 percentage points.

See? It is simple. We’ll just close workplaces. We’ll essentially just close the economy. Man, if only we had tried this back early on, you know? Oh, they want to close even more? How about we start with making the news media and politicians non-essential workers, see how they feel?

The research also found that restrictions on internal movement, stay-at-home requirements, public information campaigns, and school closings were the next most effective means of limiting the spread of COVID.

How’s that worked so far? Nations with much more restrictive movement orders, like Italy, Germany, and the UK, are floundering. Public information nagging? Perhaps they should spend more time on social distancing, washing hands, and not touching your face like early on, instead of mask naggings. Schools? OK, then let’s reduce the education funding since they don’t need the buildings anymore.

It feels like so many of these articles are about being informative, they’re about telling Other People that they should Comply.

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Climate Cultists Still Wishing For Lockdown Or Something

By William Teach December 30, 2020 – 3:00 pm

Of course, they want Lockdown for everyone else, not themselves

Could Covid lockdown have helped save the planet?

When lockdown began, climate scientists were horrified at the unfolding tragedy, but also intrigued to observe what they called an “inadvertent experiment” on a global scale. To what extent, they asked, would the Earth system respond to the steepest slowdown in human activity since the second world war?

Almost one year on from the first reported Covid case, the short answer is: not enough. In fact, experts say the pandemic may have made some environmental problems worse, though there is still a narrow window of opportunity for something good to come from something bad if governments use their economic stimulus packages to promote a green recovery.

During the northern hemisphere spring, when restrictions were at their strictest, the human footprint softened to a level not seen in decades. Flights halved, road traffic in the UK fell by more than 70%. Industrial emissions in China, the world’s biggest source of carbon, were down about 18% between early February and mid-March – a cut of 250m tonnes. Car use in the United States declined by 40%. So light was humankind’s touch on the Earth that seismologists were able to detect lower vibrations from “cultural noise” than before the pandemic.

They say not enough, but, look what happened. Think they don’t want to do more? Plus all their Statist “green recovery” idiocy?

Meanwhile

2020 was meant to be the year of climate action. Instead, it crowned a wasted decade

2020 was supposed to be the watershed moment for action on climate change, the year the world woke up to the challenge and started taking it seriously. Instead, it has symbolically topped a decade of wasted climate promises.

Inspired by a wave of climate activism, national leaders were expected to come up with new, more ambitious plans for how to cut emissions over the next decade.

The coronavirus pandemic has derailed those plans, giving some governments a new excuse to stall. But Covid-19 definitely hasn’t stopped climate change.

This pandemic with all those who got sick, died, lost their jobs, lost their businesses, etc, is just so damned inconvenient for the climate cultists, eh?

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If All You See…

By William Teach December 30, 2020 – 1:00 pm

…is a grape orchard which will be decimated by climate change, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is A View From The Beach, with a post on some Russiagate.

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Up To 1.5 Billion Masks Could End Up In The Sea This Year

By William Teach December 30, 2020 – 10:30 am

If you’ve read this blog for a while, you know I may not be a believer that climate change is mostly/solely caused by Mankind (and, heck, even if it is, it’s being used as an excuse to institute Statism around the world), but, I do believe in the environment. It’s bad enough have masks (and gloves) all over the place, because people are too lazy to properly dispose of them. Well generously refer to them as “assholes”. And now

Report: Over 1.5 Billion Masks to Pollute Ocean This Year

Over one billion of the 52 billion masks produced in 2020 will pollute the world’s oceans, warns a report published by an environmental group out of Hong Kong.

OceansAsia said the masks will both contaminate oceans with plastic and harm already vulnerable marine wildlife.

“Single-use face masks are made from a variety of meltblown plastics and are difficult to recycle due to both composition and risk of contamination and infection,” OceansAsia’s report states. “These masks enter our oceans when they are littered or otherwise improperly discarded, when waste management systems are inadequate or non-existent, or when these systems become overwhelmed due to increased volumes of waste.”

The report estimates nearly 7,000 tons of plastic could pollute the ocean and may take roughly 450 years to break down.

It’s a dual problem. The masks aren’t properly disposed of and they do not break down correctly. And, really, you know lots of those blue mask people buy are ending up in the oceans and other waterways.

The report also highlights various animals that have died due to masks. In September, a penguin was found dead on a Brazilian beach with a mask wrapped up inside its stomach, according to a local marine conservation organization, Instituto Argonauta.

“The consequences of the large number of people who frequented the beaches of the North Coast of São Paulo on the extended holiday of September 7 may have cost the life of a Magellan penguin, whose cause of death is linked to a mask that was found inside his stomach,” read a statement from the non-profit.

It’s just one example, and probably limited, but, the plastic and other pollution in the oceans is bad enough. The report recommends wearing cloth mask (which, of course, really do not stop diseases, but, make people feel better). I’ve seen lots of those cheap ones you get at the convenience store lying in the roads and parking lots, too.

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New York Times Has Some Climate Cult Resolutions From Warmists

By William Teach December 30, 2020 – 8:11 am

I’m still waiting for the NY Times to abandon using fossil fuels to gather, create, and distribute their version of the news, particularly the paper editions. And turn the heat down to 60 during the cold weather. And only use solar and wind for their giant building

New Year’s Resolutions for the Planet

  • I finally want to join a climate action group. Lisa Burghardt, Germany
  • I plan on planting 50 trees in my childhood home in Croix-Des-Bouquets, Haiti, this coming year. Josette Teneus, Massachusetts
  • My next vehicle purchase will be an electric car. Jamie Wertz, Virginia

Those are three that start out this piece. I’m wondering if Josetta plans on taking a fossil fueled trip to Haiti to plant them, or just paying Someone Else to do the work? And seriously, is joining a group actually Doing Something?

In December, we asked the readers of our newsletter Climate Fwd: and our Twitter followers what they were planning on doing differently in 2021. We got some amazing responses. If you’re thinking of making a “green” New Year’s resolution, here are a few ideas, collected from those replies.

Get involved in your community.

Self-improvement is a classic theme of New Year’s resolutions. But to improve the planet, collective action is important. And the best thing you can do is get involved. At the national and state level, that means voting, for starters. And locally, it means helping to make changes in your community: in schools, in local groups or at the town hall.

And people wrote

  • My goal this year is to WRITE MY LEGISLATORS!!! This is an important year to help influence policy.
  • Engage with local educators and support curricula that broaden awareness of climate change and its mitigation.
  • Writing letters for the Sierra Club to support climate change legislation and candidates who are committed to working on climate change.
  • Spread awareness to everyone I meet about the harmful effects of animal products on our climate, which requires collective change starting from us.

So, not doing a damned thing to change your own life?

Travel differently. (Or just less.)

Transportation is a big part of nearly everyone’s carbon footprint, whether it’s the daily commute or that vacation flight. Personal and commercial transportation is the United States’ biggest contributor to greenhouse gases, at about 28 percent of the total.

Says the company which uses lots of fossil fuels and has a, get this, travel section.

  • Exploring the options of traveling by ship to replace planes.
  • I bought myself a bike light on Black Friday so I can bike and walk more often.
  • I resolve not to travel, by air, for pleasure only, in the coming years.

Buying the bike is nice, but, like the other three it is only a pledge, not really an action. “Exploring”. “In the coming years.” So, not right now.

There are two more sections, one on electricity and little things at home, and no one is offering to really do anything substantial, and no one is saying they are doing these things now. Surprise?

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Surprise: Washington Post Comes Out Against $2,000 Checks

By William Teach December 30, 2020 – 7:52 am

The Washington Post Editorial Board has finally chimed in on give Americans $2,000 checks, and their kneejerk Trump Derangement Syndrome leads them to coming out against Trump

Why increasing the stimulus checks from $600 to $2,000 is a bad idea

GIVEN HOW 2020 has gone, we probably should have known it would end with Congress and the president wasting their final days on one last bad idea: $2,000-per-person direct payments, supposedly to offset the hard economic times brought on by the coronavirus pandemic.

As we have previously pointed out, there was a case for including modest “checks” to the hardest-hit, low-income segment of the population. In the $908 billion stimulus it did pass, however, Congress went well beyond that, providing $600 payments that will send up to $3,000 for families of five earning as much as $150,000 — and at least a few dollars to those earning up to $210,000, before phasing out entirely. The bill does this while extending unemployment benefits a mere 11 weeks. In short, the measure short-shrifted the neediest and showered billions on people who suffered little or no lasting hardship from the pandemic. This, at a time when the economy has healed significantly and coronavirus vaccinations are underway — unlike the chaotic days of April, when Congress sent checks (of only $1,200) to help people cope with economic free fall.

Yet a just-passed House bill would compound all of those errors by increasing the $600 payment to $2,000, at a total cost of $464 billion. It would phase out completely only for families of five earning above $350,000. Much of this is going to be saved, not spent, since restaurants are closed and air travel limited. The resources would be far better spent, in terms of both economic equity and economic growth, on longer extension of unemployment benefits, aid to state and local governments, and vaccines.

See, “there was a case…” Coming from people who haven’t missed a paycheck this year, and whose business was never considered “non-essential.” And, consider, many who were considered essential still saw reduced hours and reduced income. Not the newspaper business. Everything went along as normal.  Most of the people on the WPEB are looking at six figure salaries.  Anyhow, lots more could be said about that, but, here it comes

But if the $2,000 payout is a bad idea, it is a bad idea whose time has come because of politics, not economics. President Trump deserves primary blame, by criticizing the initial $600 per-person version as too small and threatening to veto the stimulus bill. That created an opening for Democrats in Congress, who seek to exploit the proposal’s simplistic appeal to help their party’s two candidates in Georgia’s Jan. 5 Senate runoff.

See? It’s all Trump’s fault. It’s not like Trump wasn’t pushing $2,000 months and months ago. And it doesn’t even matter that Nancy Pelosi, Alexandria Ocasio-Cotez, and even China Joe Biden jumped on board now: Blame Trump. TDS. See, it doesn’t matter that Americans are hurting, Americans are out of work, Americans are seeing their businesses go away, that government is keeping things locked down, and that outlets like the Washington Post are advocating for all the lockdowns and restrictions. I’m betting a goodly chunk of the people in the direct sphere of the Washington Post, D.C, Alexandria, etc, would disagree with the WPEB’s take.

This was simply where Trump Derangement Syndrome takes them. They even go after the Progressive left, specifically Comrade Bernie Sanders, because of TDS, in the next paragraph, and support Mitch McConnell. TDS is a hell of a thing. What will they do when China Joe is president?

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We’re Saved: Cambridge Requires Climate Cult Stickers On Gas Pumps

By William Teach December 29, 2020 – 3:00 pm

This is Very Brave, you know. They are Doing Something! Spreading Awareness! I wonder if these stickers apply to the city owned gas pumps used by the police, fire department, mayor’s office, etc?

Cambridge becomes the 1st US city to require stickers warning the threat of climate change at gas pumps

Cambridge, Massachusetts, will require area gas pumps to post stickers warning of the harms of climate change, becoming the first US city to implement such a mandate, The Guardian reported.

The Guardian reported Friday Cambridge will require all gas pumps in the city to display bright, yellow stickers that say “burning gasoline, diesel, and ethanol has major consequences on human health and the environment including contributing to climate change.”

The stickers are intended to “remind drivers to think about climate change and hopefully consider non-polluting options,” a city spokesperson told the outlet.

Well, that should do it, right? Just wondering, how many of you pay attention to any stickers at the gas pumps? How about the electronic screens that are showing up on more and more? You don’t? Huh. Well, if the good (climate cult) people of Cambridge really care, they will stop driving their fossil fueled vehicles, right? Perhaps the city council should ban all gas stations in the city limits. This is just the same old spreading awareness that’s been going on since the 1980’s

A study published in Scientific Reports earlier this year showed that even if the public worked to stop all greenhouse gas emissions, the world will continue to face climate change and global warming, Business Insider’s Aylin Woodward previously reported.

Why does it have to be the public? Why doesn’t The Government give up their own use of fossil fuels? You can bet the mayor and members of the Cambridge city council won’t give up their own use.

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