Climahypocrite Sheldon Whitehouse Climate Climate Crisis (scam) Could Crash Financial System

By William Teach May 1, 2024 – 3:00 pm

Obviously, no one at The Hill, which published this, bothered to push back or demand actual proof

Sen. Whitehouse: Climate change could crash the financial system

The Hill reported earlier this month on how opaque decisions within the insurance industry were laying the groundwork for where Americans will live as the planet heats.

But the risk goes beyond that, many experts warn: The complex interrelationships between insurance, mortgage lending and the broader financial system have made climate change “an emerging risk to financial stability,” according to the 2023 report by the Financial Stability Oversight Committee.

Once upon a time, er, experts warn

Senate Budget Committee Chair Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) has been a principal voice warning of the financial risks spilling over as climate change impacts the insurance industry.

Sen. Whitehouse sat down with The Hill to discuss why he worries climate change poses risk to the global financial system and the role of the Senate in addressing it.

Would this be the same Whitehouse who takes numerous fossil fueled flights monthly between Rhode Island and D.C., rather than taking the train, which is easily accessed from R.I.?

Q: Some experts warn about the potential of Great Recession-style systemic risk from climate insurance — but others argue that, however serious that risk might be, it’s fundamentally a regional issue, restricted to places like Florida. Which side of that do you come down on?

Whitehouse: There are very significant indicators and it’s going to be big, national, and even global. A number of studies show a very high risk to the world economy from calamities — and insurance is at the heart of that.

The Florida insurance market is more or less circling the drain right now in the way in which Freddie Mac’s chief economist predicted: that with the danger of sea level rise and coastal storm activity, coastal properties become increasingly expensive to insure and then they become uninsurable.

Of, the problem here is that the media and all sorts of hysterics have warned and scaremongered to the point that the insurance companies aren’t looking at actual data, which is then combined with the skyrocketing costs of homes and repairs.

Q: For the Senate Budget Committee — what legislative intervention could help defray some of that risk? 

Whitehouse: I mean, obviously, solving the climate problem would put a huge amount of this risk out under better control.

In other words, the federal government controlling the economy.

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If All You See…

By William Teach May 1, 2024 – 1:00 pm

…is an Evil 1%er pool made of terrible carbon polluting concrete, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Pacific Pundit, with a post on Biden looking to import Gazans, who, of course, supported terrorist Hamas.

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Sanctuary City Chicago Upset Over All The Illegal Aliens Being Criminal

By William Teach May 1, 2024 – 10:30 am

But, this is what they wanted by naming themselves a sanctuary city, right?

Sanctuary city police arrest over 1K migrants from this country as residents rage against Dem leaders

A Democrat-run city’s police have reportedly made more than 1,000 arrests of Venezuelan nationals in the first three months of 2024 amid a massive outrage over additional money to feed and shelter migrants.

There were 609 arrests for driving/traffic offenses, nine violent felonies, 75 violent misdemeanors and 313 other offenses listed as non-violent, with nine others listed as unknown or not listed, according to analysis of Chicago crime and arrest data by The Chicago Tribune.

The data is limited to adults arrested by Chicago police and does not include juveniles or anyone arrested by another agency. The arrest data also does not say when those Venezuelan nationals arrived or their immigration status. The Tribune found that Venezuelans are less likely to be accused of violent crimes, including homicides.

The report comes as there are continued signs of agitation and anger at the migrant influx and the response by local government officials to it.

The Chicago City Council recently voted 30-18 to approve a request made by Mayor Brandon Johnson for an additional $70 million in order to help deal with the ongoing migrant crisis. That money is on top of a $150 million assigned to migrant care in the budget already. According to Johnson’s office, the city has at its peak been dealing with more than 2,000 migrants coming in a week. Nearly 40,000 have arrived since August 2022.

Well, fortunately they aren’t all sorts of uber-violent, at least the adults, right? Except for the violent felonies and misdemeanors. Nice that they’re making the streets dangerous, eh? Where are they getting the money for vehicles? They can’t legally obtain auto insurance. But, hey, this is what Democrats wanted, right? Oh, right, they wanted it for elsewhere.

Also, I wonder how many non-Venezuelans were arrested?

Meanwhile, in Ireland

Irish police dismantle Dublin’s migrant ‘tent city’

Irish police dismantled about 200 tents housing asylum seekers in Dublin early on Wednesday, tackling what has become a focal point for heated debate around migration.

Ireland is struggling to accommodate record numbers of refugees while facing a housing shortage, and a so-called tent city had sprung up near government buildings in the capital’s central Mount Street area over the last year.

While the young men who lived in small tents in the city were largely left alone, there have been protests in smaller communities against migrants living in hotels and hostels. Violence erupted in Dublin in November, led by far-right activists.

The government said later on Wednesday that the camped-out asylum seekers had been moved to sites south of Dublin with weather-proof tents, showers, food and security.

Prime Minister Simon Harris said, ahead of the move, that it was important they did not return. “We do not live in a country where makeshift shantytowns are allowed to just develop,” he said.

Well, that’s weird. The Progressive politicians let the illegals in to Ireland, but, are upset when they post up in Dublin, and move them away from being seen by the citizens.

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Bummer: Climate Cult NY Won’t Meet Their Climate Cult Goals

By William Teach May 1, 2024 – 7:15 am

This is so weird. It’s almost like all the New Yorkers who voted for the politicians who forced this on the the peasants aren’t practicing their beliefs, in the same way as the politicians aren’t

NY won’t meet climate change goals under ‘asinine’ green energy law, business rep claims

New York’s “asinine” climate change law demanding a dramatic increase in green energy has set unattainable goals — and could trigger soaring electrical costs for consumers, a top state business advocate claims.

“It is very clear that  New York will not meet the goals that are required under the statute when it comes to climate change,” Paul Zuber, senior vice president at the NYS Business Council, said during an interview on WABC 77 radio’s “The Cats Roundtable” program.

Without modifications, the law will just drive more residents and businesses out of New York because of skyrocketing energy costs to build the transmission lines for renewal projects, Zuber argued.

Well, hey, all those climate cult voting New Yorkers, mostly Democrats, are just fine with paying higher energy costs, which will increase the cost of almost everything else, right?

New York is betting too heavily on wind and solar instead of a more diverse energy portfolio to juice the state that includes nuclear energy and natural gas, Zuber said.

“It especially doesn’t work when you do what many of the environmentalists want — having only wind and have only solar… When you look at it that way, it is a joke,” he said.

“The cost for the average consumer when they’re paying their electric bill is going to skyrocket because utilities have to build transition lines lines to these renewable projects, which costs money, and that cost is passed on to the taxpayer.”

I’m confident that the Democrats in the NY general assembly will pass a law which limits how much can be passed on to the consumer. Maybe allow nothing to be passed on. It would be fascinating to see the consequences of this.

“This climate change law has the potential to murder upstate manufacturing,” said Ken Girardin, the Empire Center’s research director, who published a recent study claiming state projections undercount the true costs of complying with the statute.

Hochul’s office defended her administration’s implementation of the climate change law and claimed that nearly 60% of the state’s power generation mix is now coming from clean energy sources including hydropower, wind and solar.

Well, heck, she has her fortune, so, she’s not worried about more businesses packing up and leaving, leaving a lot of people out of a job, and lots of tax money going goodbye.

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Middle School Girls Protest Boy Competing Against Them. School Blocks Girls From Competing

By William Teach May 1, 2024 – 7:00 am

It wasn’t that long ago when were were hearing “protect all women”

Middle schoolers who protested trans athlete’s participation are banned from future competitions

Five West Virginia middle schoolers who protested a transgender athlete’s participation in a track and field competition have been barred from future meets — prompting the state attorney general to ask the US Supreme Court to weigh in on transgender student-athlete bans for a second time.

West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey filed a lawsuit against the Harrison County Board of Education on the dissenting students’ behalf after they were blocked from upcoming meets following their protests at the April 18 shot put competition, West Virginia Watch reported.

Five girls from Lincoln Middle School stepped up to the circle for their turn before refusing to throw in the event, which was won by Becky Pepper-Jackson, a 13-year-old girl who takes puberty-blocking medication and estrogen hormone therapy.

While West Virginia law bans transgender girls from playing on girls’ sports teams, a recent federal appeals court ruled that the law couldn’t lawfully be applied to the eighth-grader.

How insane is this?

They won’t ban males with gender confusion, who, as we’ve seen, have harassed females, make them feel unsafe, waved their dangly bits at the women, including minors, and hurt them in competition, but, will ban females. Insane.

Meanwhile, it looks like the UK is continuing to come to their senses on the subject

(Telegraph) The NHS is to declare that sex is a matter of biology in a landmark shift against gender ideology.

Changes to the health service’s written constitution proposed by ministers will for the first time ban trans women from women-only wards, and give women the right to request a female doctor for intimate care.

The NHS constitution, a document that aims to set out the principles and values of the health service and legal rights for patients and staff, was last updated in 2015. It has to be updated at least every 10 years by the Secretary of State.

Campaigners for women’s rights welcomed the significant shift, which comes after years of wrangling and follows accusations that the health service had been captured by “gender ideology”.

Perhaps they’re finally listening to the majority of real women who do not want the trans madness.

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Bummer: Very Few Top Movies Mention Climate Doom

By William Teach April 30, 2024 – 3:00 pm

Well, why should they? What if they have nothing to do with global boiling? Are they supposed to just interject the cult for the heck of it? Just randomly have a character make a Speech?

Only 32 of the Top Movies in the Last Decade Say Climate Change Exists — Study

Last month, non-profit group Good Energy launched what it called a Bechdel Test for Climate Change, a simple set of criteria designed to determine if it was clear climate change was present in a film. The real Allison Bechdel even endorsed it.

Good Energy, in launching its “Climate Reality Check,” said just three movies nominated for Oscars this year passed the test’s two simple rules: “Climate change exists” and “a character knows it.” Now in a more extensive study, the group analyzed 250 of the top grossing movies between 2013 and 2022.

Global warming has been with us for a while now, but only 12.8 percent — 32 of the 250 films studied in that time span — even passed the first criteria saying that climate change exists. Only 24 films, or 9.6 percent, passed both criteria of the test.

Good Energy and researchers at Colby College’s Buck Lab for Climate and Environment picked 25 films from each year between 2013 and 2022, looking at the total number of IMDB ratings to determine the most popular. They only looked at fictional films, not documentaries, and they filtered out any that weren’t set in the modern day or the near future, which includes films set after the year 2006, before the year 2100, and ones that are actually set on Earth. So no, Westerns, period pieces, and intergalactic sci-fis are excluded from needing characters to be aware of climate change.

Better yet, why is this important? Why was it necessary to do this study? It pretty much shows that this is a doomsday cult.

In fact, only six of the 32 movies had three or more scenes in which climate change was mentioned. The winner with six scenes was “Happy Death Day” (2017), which because of a “Groundhog Day” style repeating day syndrome, the character has to hear over and over again from an activist about saving the environment. Bong Joon-Ho and Christopher Nolan were the only two filmmakers who had two movies that each passed one of the criteria, “Parasite” and “Snowpiercer” and “Tenet” and “Interstellar.”

I looked it up: they’re talking about the environment in Happy Death Day, not Hotcoldwetdry. Great movie, BTW. There’s a short list at the link with the movies that passed both cult criteria, and, really, a good chunk had nothing to do with it, like “Midsommar,” “Marriage Story,” “Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw,” “Pokemon: Detective Pikachu” in 2019. But, this is a cult.

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If All You See…

By William Teach April 30, 2024 – 1:00 pm

…is an area turning to desert from carbon pollution driven drought, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is The First Street Journal, with a post wondering why there are so few pro-Hamas protests in Conservative areas.

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“Advocates” Push To Make California Minimum Wage $20 For All

By William Teach April 30, 2024 – 10:30 am

This is hilarious, because the advocates think people are leaving California because they cannot afford to live there, so they need more money, but, raising the minimum wage makes things more expensive

Advocates gather at California Capitol to push for raising minimum wage

unintended consequencesAdvocates gathered at the California State Capitol on Monday, calling for a statewide minimum wage of at least $20/hr.

The group supports an assembly bill that calls for a study on raising the minimum wage.

“They’re leaving because the wage is not $20 an hour,” said Saru Jayaraman of One Fair Wage. “$20 an hour would be a way to keep them in California because they’d finally be able to afford to live.”

In April, the minimum wage for many fast food workers in California was raised.

Following the victory for fast food workers, advocates urge state lawmakers to consider comprehensive wage policy reform.

How’s that victory working out?

(ABC News) It’s been nearly one month since California raised the minimum wage at certain restaurants, which has put a spotlight on a course correction that many see as long overdue.

But for some — and not just fast food franchise owners — the newly raised bar for compensation also marks a pivotal point for restaurants to remain competitive in an already difficult post-pandemic landscape. The industry with famously thin margins is once again being pushed to make monetary and operational adjustments to stay afloat, all without compromising consumer expectations.

Some customers have already felt the pinch of costs being passed onto them, as recently reported by the Wall Street Journal, which restaurant owners and executives at chains like Chipotle and McDonald’s warned could come as a result of the state voting to increase the minimum from $16 to $20 an hour at restaurant chains with at least 60 locations nationwide.

So, it costs more to eat

(Washington Times) In response to recent minimum wage increases in California, fast food restaurants across the state are shifting to automation to get rid of wage-earning humans.

The move to making customers place orders at digital kiosks alleviates what owners say is the financial strain of rising labor costs after the minimum wage for the state’s fast food workers increased on April 1 from $16 to $20 per hour.

Harsh Ghai, a Burger King franchise owner who manages 140 outlets along the West Coast, is leading the transition to automation. He plans to introduce digital kiosks across all his restaurants within months — a drastic acceleration from his original timeline of five to 10 years.

So the minimum wage will be $0, because the jobs will dry up. People who have no real skills/work ethic will be unemployed with a lot fewer opportunities. Those who are looking for part time work will likewise find the opportunities diminished. And this is what will happen all across California if they pass $20 as the minimum wage. Which I think they should do. Because every experiment needs an experimental group, right? We should see what they outcomes are. Unfortunately, this will cause ripples across the country when it comes to certain product, like produce, since so much is grown in the People’s Republik of California.

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Your Fault: ‘Climate Change’ Could Be Messing With The Lifecycle Of Cicadas

By William Teach April 30, 2024 – 7:00 am

By this time, everyone knows that two different groups of cicadas are coming out of the ground, right? So, of course, the climate cult has to jump in

For cicadas, it’s safety in numbers. Is climate change throwing off their timing?

A cicada in sync with its brood is a cicada with a chance.

The insects’ synchronized emergence is an evolutionary strategy, scientists say. Birds, raccoons and other predators can eat only so many of them. So the more cicadas emerge together, the better the odds that more will live on to reproduce and pass along their genes.

“They have the safety-in-numbers strategy,” said Chris Simon, a professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of Connecticut who studies the insects. (snip)

This summer, the number of periodical cicadas is expected to be extra large, as two broods emerge at the same time. The last time these two emerged together was in 1803. Tens of billions of the insects are predicted to surface. Users of the Cicada Safari app, which is designed to report cicada sightings and help scientists track the insects, have tallied more than 1,000 sightings in Georgia and hundreds in North Carolina and Alabama.

And the next time will be in the 2200’s. BTW, 1803 was during the Little Ice Age.

What’s more, scientists say they’ve noticed some changes in the insects’ rhythms, which has led to hypotheses that rising temperatures may be rewiring the internal clocks of some periodical cicadas.

Gene Kritsky, an entomologist and cicada expert at Mount St. Joseph University in Ohio, said that as average temperatures have climbed higher because of global warming, the dates of emergence have shifted earlier in the calendar year.

“Cicadas are insects of the climate,” he said, adding, “They’re now emerging almost 10 days to two weeks earlier than they did in 1940.”

ZOMG, no!!!! Seriously, big woop. Things get warmer during a Holocene warm period.

Simon has a theory about how climate change may be playing a role: She thinks rising temperatures are lengthening the growing seasons of the plants that cicadas feed on, supercharging the insects’ development underground. That, in turn, may cause many more “stragglers” to emerge early. Eventually, she said, the entire population will adapt and shift timing.

Simon predicted that 17-year cicada broods will shift to become 13-year cicadas. And 13-year cicadas might emerge every nine years.

Will Simon put his/her job and reputation on the line with this prognostication? Anyhow, it’s just another case of the climate cult involving itself in every issue.

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Jewish Students Sue Columbia Over Anti-Jew Hatred

By William Teach April 30, 2024 – 6:45 am

Columbia has pretty much let this go on for weeks. It was easy to see, as the Jew haters were upfront with their beliefs, and the constant reports of Jewish students being harassed and attacked were real. Columbia was also promising to Do Something all Monday, yet, never did. They’re getting what they asked for

Jewish student files class action lawsuit against Columbia for failing to guarantee safety

A class action lawsuit against Columbia University was filed in federal court on Monday morning on behalf of a second-year Jewish student who alleges the school could not guarantee their safety.

“We support peaceful protests but when a sliver of them invites and engages in violence including saying all “Zionist’s” (read “Jews”) should be killed and calls for terrorists attacks on American soil, that has no place in our country,” Jay Edelson, the attorney representing the students, said in a post on X.

According to Edelson, the lawsuit alleges Columbia needs to enforce its policies and let students feel free to study, take finals and otherwise be students “without worrying they will be assaulted.

“We are proceeding on a breach of contract theory and are seeking immediate injunctive relief,” Edelson wrote on X.

And that’s where it’s going to go badly for Columbia, in that the school has refused to enforce it’s published code of conduct. As has been said, if “protesters” were doing this against blacks or LGBTs, the school would have shut it down and expelled any students involved and terminated employment for any employees.

The lawsuit says many individuals at Columbia are exercising their constitutionally protected right to protest and express their views about Israel, but there’s a subset of protestors who have gone beyond engaging in free speech and have “menacing goals” including committing acts of violence and intimidating and harassing Jewish students and faculty members.

Many are, even though they are dupes and morons, taking the side of Islamic extremists. Any wearing an Intifada keffiyeh are supporting Jew killers.

The lawsuit accuses the Gaza Solidarity Encampment of being the center of “round-the-clock” harassment of Jewish students who have been punched, shoved, spat upon, blocked from attending classes and moving freely about campus.

“These extreme demonstrators are not engaging in constitutionally protected free speech. Instead, they are openly inciting violence against Jewish students,” according to the lawsuit.

And all of this is easily provable with video and photos. We’ve seen massive banners and signs––with statements such as: “Death to the Jews”; “Long live Hamas”; “Globalize the Intifada2”; “there is only one solution, Intifada revolution” (invoking Hitler’s “final solution” of killing all Jews); “Hamas we love you.” Columbia will soon be paying quite a bit of money. And many pro-Hamas students and employees are going to have their faces splashed in the news.

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