These Are The ‘Greenest’ Countries In The World

Why Africa Hasn’t Kickstarted Its Renewable Energy Boom

The Tide Is High–and Getting Higher  (Wired ‘Science’)

Learning About The AMO

Humans Have Destroyed Or Degraded Two-Thirds Of The World’s Rainforests, Study Claims

12 States Sue Biden Administration Over Climate Policies, ‘Massive Expansion’ Of Regulations

No Mention Of CO2: New Study Shows African Climate Variability Strongly Linked To Natural Cycles

What is bendable concrete, and how can it help fight climate change? (The Hill) It’s not enough that it’s ‘bendable concrete’, the important part is that it ‘fights climate change’.

Canceling the AMO

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An excellent introduction to the writing of Jordan Peterson, whom you all ought to study.

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It is a testament to Elon Musk’s genius that it transcends how fantastically immature he is.

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Dead cow and spuds are the foundation of all true civilization.

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“While a mass exodus from California clearly didn’t happen in 2020, the pandemic did change some historical patterns. For example, fewer people moved into the state to replace those who left,” Natalie Holmes, research fellow at the California Policy Lab, said in a statement. “At the county level, however, San Francisco is experiencing a unique and dramatic exodus, which is causing 50% or 100% increases in Bay Area in-migration for some counties in the Sierras.”

UPDATE: Bay Area drug kingpins lured low-level dealers, promising cheap rent (2020)

Greenpeace Eco-Warriors ‘Greenwash’ Boeing 777 At Paris Airport 

Guardian Promotes “Global Lockdown” Every Two Years To Combat Climate Change

Biden’s New CEQ Climate Hire Wants to Make Climate Action Affordable

Audacious Epigone.

Steven Hayward at PowerLine.

It is now leftist orthodoxy that any disparities you can measure between groups are evidence of racism and white supremacy, and that “equity” requires equal outcomes, not equal rights. One reason today’s race-mongers say it is no longer legitimate to treat people as individuals can be grasped by comparing these two news stories from earlier this week involving the educational outcomes of two black teen boys, one in Baltimore, and one in Atlanta.

Oregon climate activist wants to ban diesel fuel  They’d ban fire and the wheel if they could.

Global Warming is Causing More Severe Winters

Bloomberg: “600% Gain in Carbon Prices Vital to Rein in Global Warming”

The New Pause lengthens by another month to 5 years 7 months

Gas stoves are bad for the environment—but what if the power goes out?  Popular ‘Science’ plays around with the Narrative.

“Earth’s Oxygen is Rapidly Running Out…” We’re Doomed!

Friday Funny: The Folly of Mann

Oakland bans the use of combustion engine-powered leaf blowers and trimmers

Glenn Harlan Reynolds (“Instapundit”).

In America, class warfare is often disguised as culture war, and culture war is often cloaked by talk of race. But underneath it all, the class warfare is still there. Whether accidentally or intentionally, America’s upper classes seem to wind up harming the working class and small businesses, always in the name of some high-minded cause.

 

Jonathan Chait.

Glenn Greenwald’s long intellectual journey from center left to far left to, well, somewhere is a subject of fascination in elite circles. Greenwald comes out of a tradition of progressive journalism that focused primarily on attacking liberals and the Democratic Party from the left. Like many progressives, he latched on to Bernie Sanders’s two presidential campaigns as a righteous crusade to liberate the Democratic Party from the nefarious grip of its corporate, neoliberal masters.

After that, things got weird.

If Tucker Carlson is a ‘true socialist’, then I’m more comfortable with socialism than I ever expected to be.

The slowing down of ocean currents could have a devastating effect on our climate (CNN)

What Lies Ahead? The Grand Solar Minimum

Claim: Gender assumptions harm progress on climate adaption and resilience

Steyn Files New Motion in Perpetual Mann Case

Biden Virtue Signaling on Keystone XL Pipeline Can Actually Harm Environment

Where’s the Beach? New York Times Publishes Data-Free Story About Miami’s ‘Rising Seas’

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“Get woke, go broke”, is a conservative meme about the cost of political correctness that has it the wrong way around. Brands don’t go broke because they get woke, they go woke because they’re going broke, and don’t know how to stop the slow but steady collapse of their business.

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Santa and the polar bears reflected a Coke that was marketed to children. But fewer parents are comfortable with their children living off soda. That’s why one survey found that the number of children drinking over 3 cans of soda a day fell from 10% to 3.3%. The drop in soda consumption, once again, was heaviest among younger and wealthier urban white lefties.

The economic consequences of young white wealthy lefties dropping soda wasn’t just a sales issue. Wokes are a politically narcissistic demographic that legislates its tastes into law, pursuing the legalization of drugs, and bans on soda. Both drug legalization and soda bans were, as usual, done in the name of oppressed minorities, but had little impact on them.

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Get woke, go broke.

James Cook University Walks Back Extreme Global Warming Coral Extinction Claims

Earth’s Oxygen-Rich Atmosphere Will Last Only Another Billion Years Yet another reason to panic?

California City Bans New Gas Stations, Says No More Pumps

United Nations Demands an End to Silicon Solar Panels and Wind Turbines  It’s not easy being green.

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The United States should issue letters of marque to fight Chinese aggression at sea.

I like it. It has texture, and scope.

Sarah Hoyt is just about fed up.

Years ago, when I blogged more regularly at Classical Values than here, the blog had a post on the current war on things that work.

What things? Well….. everything: from pirex apparently no longer being made with the stuff that made it actually more or less high-temp impervious, hard to break, etc; to dishwashers that take forever to wash, where dishes must be put into already washed and which, even so, often manage a great redistribution of grease and grit all over the dishes;to toilets that are “low flush” and thus use more water than ever because you have to flush them about five times, and still they won’t work; to cars–

Never mind. it would be easier to describe the things the left has left alone, instead of going after them like Don Quixote tilting against the last functioning windmill in the land, the one needed to grind wheat for his bread. To my knowledge they have yet to interfere with– wait, wait, let me think about it…. Um…. Okay, they haven’t yet dictated that every morning I must get dressed by first putting my pants on, and then putting on my underwear. However, rest assured this is probably around the corner, and just a matter of them getting a bee in their bonnect about some virtue signaling they can do relating to “the order in which humans get dressed.”

Mike Pence.

Under the Constitution, elections are governed at the state level. And each state is required to appoint presidential electors “in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct.”

Many of the most troubling voting irregularities took place in states that set aside laws enacted by state legislatures in favor of sweeping changes ordered by governors, secretaries of state, and courts.

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This is why Texas is flourishing, and California is tanking.

There have been a lot of complaints, but I don’t see any movement to recall Greg Abbott.

A Texas city had a bold new climate plan – until a gas company got involved (The Guardian)

Why ‘Social Cost of Carbon’ Is Most Useless Number You’ve Never Heard of

CBS Cheers Biden as on the ‘Side’ of Workers in Union Battle  Forget all those union jobs he killed by cancelling the Keystone pipeline.

House Democratic Lawmakers Introduce Wide-ranging Climate Bill

Historical UK Sea Levels

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Of course, to a writer for The Atlantic, this would be a disaster.

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If you are like most economists—until a couple of years ago, it was virtually all economists—you are not greatly troubled by this story, which is, with some variation, the consensus long-arc view of economic history. The machinery of innovation, after all, is now more organized and sophisticated than it has ever been, human intelligence is more efficiently marshaled by spreading education and expanding global connectedness, and the examples of the Internet, and perhaps artificial intelligence, suggest that progress continues to be rapid.

But if you are prone to a more radical sense of what is possible, you might begin to follow a different line of thought. If nothing like the first and second industrial revolutions had ever happened before, what is to say that anything similar will happen again? Then, perhaps, the global economic slump that we have endured since 2008 might not merely be the consequence of the burst housing bubble, or financial entanglement and overreach, or the coming generational trauma of the retiring baby boomers, but instead a glimpse at a far broader change, the slow expiration of a historically singular event. Perhaps our fitful post-crisis recovery is no aberration. This line of thinking would make you an acolyte of a 72-year-old economist at Northwestern named Robert Gordon, and you would probably share his view that it would be crazy to expect something on the scale of the second industrial revolution to ever take place again.

The essence of Progressivism is that progress in the modern world is inevitable — that’s the Right Side of History they keep nattering about — as long as we change enough stuff to allow progress to happen. Since progress is inevitable and progress requires change, then any change will ultimately produce progress, and it doesn’t really matter what change it is. Conservatives, on the other hand, see that history teaches us that change can be either good or bbad, so we have to be careful about what changes we make.

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The word ‘illegal’ doesn’t appear in the story. It doesn’t have to.

Steve Sailer.

The Hemingway-besotted economic historian has published a paper outlining his coming book.

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Nick Searcy had a message for former CIA Director John Brennan who said that he’s “increasingly embarrassed to be a white male these days.”

“That’s so weird, @JohnBrennan,” the 61-year-old actor tweeted Monday following Brennan’s comment that he was “embarrassed to be a white male.”

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Whether or not lockdowns are justifiable on public-health grounds, they certainly represent the greatest infringement on civil liberties in modern history. In the UK, lockdowns have contributed to the largest economic contraction in more than 300 years, as well as countless bankruptcies, and a dramatic rise in public borrowing.

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She looks pretty white to me.

Michael Mann: Russian Web Bots are Causing Climate Activists to Fight Each Other

REAL threats to threatened species

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“Texas thought it could go it alone,” Senator Schumer declared on the Lower East Side. “Now Texas is paying the price. I hope they learned a lesson.”

But Democrats never learn their lesson. And they’re never expected to learn.

In 2003, New York City’s power went out because of a mistake by an operator in Ohio as part of the second biggest blackout in history which took down the grid in eight states and in Canada.

To stop climate disaster, make ecocide an international crime. It’s the only way. (The Guardian)

“This Warm Winter, Austinites Can Look Out Their Windows And See Climate Change”

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ZMan does a review.

The American Conservative Union (CPAC) and America First (AFPAC) had their big annual events this weekend in Orlando Florida. Both were moved from Washington to Florida because of the Covid panic. Both are struggling to get their footing now that Trump has left office, so it makes sense for both groups to hold their event in the former president’s home state. That and Florida has become the last bastion of rational, conservative government, where the people remain free.

ZMan keeps an eye on this stuff, as many of us do not.

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An interesting read. Recommended.

“If you’re realling trying to take over a country, you leave the women at home.” — Scott Adams

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The exodus from the Left Coast proceeds apace.

UN Shames Australia for a Lack of Climate Ambition

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We keep hearing about the end of California. The cost of living, the homelessness, the public schools, the shoddy roads and bridges have prompted a decades-long exodus that has accelerated dramatically in the Age of the Pandemic. The progressive canard — but everyone wants to be here! — is a canard, and it’s being used to sidestep an uncomfortable truth that conservatives love to drone on about: in California, there is no political marketplace. Which is true. It’s not just that Democrats enjoy a monopoly. It’s that the state GOP, which used to produce presidents and statesmen, has morphed into a risible adumbration of its former self.

But lurking behind the headlines is the new vice president, who, until recently, was California’s junior senator and is now nicely positioned to win her party’s 2024 presidential nomination. The plight of California will be campaign fodder — because Kamala’s rise and her state’s decline feel like the same story.

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More than 30 bills on ranked-choice voting have been proposed in state legislatures across the country, according to Fair Vote, the nonprofit group that is promoting the system nationally.

Ranked-choice voting is a system that allows voters to rank a first, second, and third choice, or more. A voter casting a ranked-choice ballot, for example, might select three candidates in order of preference out of six candidates for a congressional seat.

Proponents say ranked-choice voting is a moderating force and superior because it means voters don’t have to settle for the lesser of two evils. Opponents say the system is problematic because it is confusing to voters and can lead to outcomes where the candidate winning the most votes loses the election.

The effort to promote ranked-choice voting largely has been financed by a liberal donor who is the daughter-in-law of media mogul Rupert Murdoch.

This is sometimes known as the Australian Ballot because elections in Australia use it a lot. It is also known as the ‘automatic run-off” system.

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The pageant argued that under the First Amendment it has rights to free association. The pageant argued that the pageant is meant for biological women and that allowing Green to participate would “undermine its vision” and that had the court ruled in favor of Green it would be undermining the pageants “message about empowering only biological women.”

Cue Woke shitstorm.