Pentagon declares climate change a ‘national security issue’ (The Hill)

“You Can’t Fix Stupid”… Biden Pauses New Oil & Gas Leasing on Federal Lands and Waters

Joy Reid Suggests That Ignoring Climate Change Might Provoke An Alien Attack

The Climate Crisis Is Worse Than You Can Imagine. Here’s What Happens If You Try

Earth used to be cooler than we thought, which changes our math on global warming

Are EVs Good For The Environment? …Mostly Not

NYT Climate Action Book Review: “How to Blow Up a Pipeline”

Endangered Cloud Forests, Clouds and Climate Change

Meet The Team Shaking Up Climate Models

The Chart That Explains Larry Fink’s True “Green” Agenda

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As one American university after another suspended research ties with Huawei for its alleged ties to Chinese espionage, MIT Media Lab founder Nicholas Negroponte offered a full-throttle defense of the company.

“Don’t ban Huawei,” read a May 2019 column published under Negroponte’s name. “The U.S. should collaborate with leading technology companies and their research labs, rather than banning them.”

Study Shows Arctic Sea Ice Reached Lowest Point On Modern Record… In The 1940s, Not Today!

Biden Senior Director for Environmental Justice Blames “Systemic Racism” for Climate Change

Sun-Loving Bacteria May Be Accelerating Glacial Melting  (Wired ‘Science’)

Study Suggests Earth Is Losing Ice Faster Today Than 30 Years Ago  Mostly to people who are inclined to believe that sort of thing.

Attenborough’s cliff-dying walrus convinced elite Davos influencers of a global climate emergency

Carboncounter – Cars evaluted against climate targets

Earth is losing ice faster today than in the mid-1990s, study suggests  Mostly to people who are inclined to believe that sort of thing.

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Scott Alexander, formerly of Slate Star Codex (before he was doxxed by the New York Times).

Victor Davis Hanson.

So we are beginning a great reprogramming of America. The construction of Trump and all of his supporters as abettors, terrorists, seditionists, and traitors is certainly proving useful. After the Capitol conundrum, we have seen over the past two weeks a coordinated and synchronized effort by Amazon, Twitter, and Google to destroy Parler, a small conservative-friendly rival to their social media and internet monopolies. More of such humanitarian taking care of business will follow—all as preemption for the most leftwing agenda in a half-century now rolling out.

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Serious Big Brother was never coming to America kicking and screaming in a suit and in a mile-long tie, but rather eagerly welcomed in with jeans and sneakers without socks. The First Amendment could always survive a crude, inebriated Joe McCarthy, but not so easily a social justice ex-barista, doing vanity selfies about diversity, egged on by the “progressive” media, while saving the planet, and “reining” in a hurtful, racist media.

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At the time the Ehrlichs were publishing their dark prophecies, the world was at its peak of population growth, which at that point was increasing at a rate of 2.1% a year. Since then, the global population has ballooned from 3.5 billion to 7.67 billion.

But growth has slowed – and considerably. As women’s empowerment advances, and access to contraception improves, birthrates around the world are stuttering and stalling, and in many countries now there are fewer than 2.1 children per woman – the minimum level required to maintain a stable population.

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Scott Wilmot has a great post up about Joe Biden’s endless promotion of abortion rights; not surprising for a Democrat, of course. But Joe Biden describes himself as a devout Catholic, which appears to stick in Scott’s craw, just a bit. Now, my first thought is that perhaps when Mr. Biden describes himself as a devout Catholic, perhaps he is lying. Such behavior would not be completely new for Mr. Biden. But no! No less reputable a source than The New York Times ran an article yesterday (cited by Scott himself in the comment section of the thread I linked to above) with the following lead on Twitter: “President Biden is perhaps the most religiously observant commander in chief in half a century. A different, more liberal Christianity grounds his life and his policies.”

Has The New York Times forgotten Bill Clinton? Every time another woman accused him of sexual assault, one could find him in the front pew of a church somewhere, with his glasses on the end of his nose in a nice, grandfatherly way, reading his Bible. The New York Times itself often used such photo-ops irrefutable demonstrations of his Christian beliefs as evidence that Mr. Clinton was an ethical man. Does The New York Times now think that was all a bunch of hooey?

The team shaking up climate models

Our infrastructure is being built based on past climate data

We do indeed.

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At least in Arizona, some Republicans remember which side they’re on.

A Million Young People Wearing Synthetic Fabrics Demand More Climate Action

I want one.

Canada is Warming at Only 1/2 the Rate of Climate Model Simulations  Guess The Science isn’t all that’s it’s cracked up to be.

Another New Study Says Warming And CO2-Induced Greening Leads To COOLING Of Land Surface Temperatures

Climate change: US emissions in 2020 in biggest fall since WWII

Not so’s you’d notice….

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Greene said Biden’s alleged involvement with Ukraine while serving as vice president constituted enough grounds to levy the charges.

“President Joe Biden is unfit to hold the office of the Presidency. His pattern of abuse of power as President Obama’s Vice President is lengthy and disturbing,” Greene said in a statement. “President Biden has demonstrated that he will do whatever it takes to bail out his son, Hunter, and line his family’s pockets with cash from corrupt foreign energy companies.”

“President Biden is even on tape admitting to a quid pro quo with the Ukrainian government threatening to withhold $1,000,000,000 in foreign aid if they did not do his bidding. President Biden residing in the White House is a threat to national security and he must be immediately impeached.”

Baltimore Seeking Millions for Damage Allegedly Caused by Climate Change

Can We Save the Planet, Live Comfortably, and Have Children Too?  Apparently not.

Biden Suspends Federal Oil and Gas Permits, Because Climate Change

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Aero Precision, one of the nation’s leading firearm parts and accessories manufacturers, warned Tacoma, Wash., city officials their proposed punitive gun and ammunition tax would have consequences. Officials passed the proposed increases and instituted the taxes and fees.

Aero Precision answered back. The company and its 800 employees announced plans to expand and grow their manufacturing base in nearby Lakewood, Wash. Instead of investing in more jobs, more infrastructure, and more taxes paid to the City of Tacoma, Aero is literally sending their business elsewhere.

Head ’em up, move ’em out.

They’d be still better off in Texas. Hint, hint.

Scott Johnson at PowerLine.

The inauguration put several crises vividly on display. Among them I would count a crisis of rhetoric and a crisis of doggerel. I found the rhetoric of Biden’s speech almost unbelievably flat, but the content was worse. Beneath a veneer of calls for unity he carried on a campaign of smashmouth politics. As Heather Mac Donald puts it, “It’s an odd way to seek national unity: call a significant portion of the American public white supremacists, racists, and nativists. Welcome to the Biden presidency.”

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People are always coming up with these schemes and none of them ever make it to reality.

‘The science is real’: Coastal experts hope Biden will partner to combat sea level rise  (USA Today)

Germany Weighs Electricity Rationing Scheme To Stabilize Its Now Shaky Green Power Grid

Energy vs. Social Justice Trade-Off

Study: Global Warming will Impact Children’s Nutrition

The Rise of the Eco-Greenshirts

Biden Will Sign Multiple Climate Change Orders On Wednesday, Reversing Trump Policies

As I did with my student loans.

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Funny how that happens.

The Keystone Eco-Cops

The Rational Climate e-Book

Surprise! Chinese Coal Output has Risen to 2015 Levels, Undermining Climate Pledges

UCI researchers: Climate change will alter the position of the Earth’s tropical rain belt

Study Finds Most Americans Support Making Wall Around Capitol Permanent To Keep Politicians In  Babylon Bee.

Glenn Greenwald.

The last two weeks have ushered in a wave of new domestic police powers and rhetoric in the name of fighting “terrorism” that are carbon copies of many of the worst excesses of the first War on Terror that began nearly twenty years ago. This trend shows no sign of receding as we move farther from the January 6 Capitol riot. The opposite is true: it is intensifying.

We have witnessed an orgy of censorship from Silicon Valley monopolies with calls for far more aggressive speech policing, a visibly militarized Washington, D.C. featuring a non-ironically named “Green Zone,” vows from the incoming president and his key allies for a new anti-domestic terrorism bill, and frequent accusations of “sedition,” “treason,” and “terrorism” against members of Congress and citizens. This is all driven by a radical expansion of the meaning of “incitement to violence.” It is accompanied by viral-on-social-media pleas that one work with the FBI to turn in one’s fellow citizens (See Something, Say Something!) and demands for a new system of domestic surveillance.

Direct action! That’s the ticket!

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Ankara has imposed advertising bans on Twitter, Periscope and Pinterest after they failed to appoint local representatives in Turkey under a new social media law, according to decisions published on Tuesday.

When it comes to authoritarianism, the tech moguls are amateurs.

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I only see one Blue state on that list.

Audacious Epigone.

Outdated carbon credits from old wind and solar farms are threatening climate change efforts

Trump Baby Blimp To Be Showcased At Museum As Part Of Protest Collection  Can’t get much more childish than that.

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Republican Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley will have his book “The Tyranny of Big Tech” published by the conservative publisher Regnery after Simon & Schuster canceled their deal with him after the pro-Trump riot on Jan. 6 at the U.S. Capitol.

Ought to have gone to them first. He’ll know better next time.

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Used to be, the major difference between Republicans and Democrats was that Democrats never forgot which side they were on. Maybe Republicans are waking up.

Just imagine. What would we have to talk about?

Unfortunately not.

Left stranded: US military sonar linked to whale beachings in Pacific, say scientists (The Guardian) Linked!

Polar bears can come ashore any time of year and cause trouble: a timely reminder

This Tuesday, Jan. 19: Dr. Roy Spencer’s Friends of Science Society Livestream Talk: ‘Why There Is No Climate Emergency’

The Ocean Warming Enigma

What Global Warming? 148 New (2020) Scientific Papers Affirm Recent Non-Warming, A Degrees-Warmer Past

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If this were a normal January, free from the specter of COVID-19, Davos would be bracing itself for an invasion by several thousand of the world’s most self-important people: pompous politicians, slick CEOs and — worst of all — freeloading journalists. Normally this pretty Alpine town is the venue for the World Economic Forum in the last week in January, but this year that annual schmoozefest is safely confined to the internet. ‘Key global leaders will share their views on the state of the world in 2021,’ forewarns the WEF website but, for the first time in the WEF’s 50-year history, they’ll be doing it remotely. Due to the pandemic, Davos rests in peace.

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On the heels of Forbes magazine editor Randall Lane threatening companies that hire Trump officials, we now have that periodical politically cleansing its own website of an article critical of their beloved social media monopolist that also engages in cracking down on free speech. Such was the case on Monday when Forbes deleted an article by frequent contributor, Jim Collins, that dared to strongly criticize Twitter which is now obviously a prohibited activity.

Collins pulled no punches in his strong criticism of Twitter as you can see just from reading the title of his article, “Twitter Is The Worst Company On Planet Earth. Here’s How To Bet Against The Stock—and Deactivate Your Account.” Since Forbes apparently found this to be heretical towards its increasingly woke attitude, the article was soon deleted and all that remains on the page is this message: “This page is no longer active. We regret any inconvenience.”

John Hinderaker at PowerLine.

Democrats are making extraordinary efforts to suppress all discussion of whether Joe Biden actually won the 2020 presidential election. In fact, they go even farther: they want to suppress all discussion of the extent to which voter fraud occurred. That naturally makes me want to write about voter fraud, and who really won the election.

First, this question: why are the Democrats so hysterical in their insistence that fraud not be mentioned? One reason is obvious. Joe Biden will take office under a cloud, since close to half of all Americans doubt that he really won the election. The Democrats want to stamp out such doubts to preserve Biden’s authority as president.

But there is a second reason that may be more important. The Democrats want the lax voting procedures that prevailed in 2020 to continue in the future. They know that efforts will be made in many states to improve ballot integrity, and they want those efforts to fail. By rendering all discussion of voter fraud out of bounds, they hope to forestall reforms that would make it harder for them to cheat, or enable cheating, in the future.

Paul Ehrlich… Again?

2020 Was the One of the Hottest Years on Record  And yet I feel completely cool. How do you account for that?

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The publisher of The Bulwark and executive director for one of NeverTrumper Bill Kristol’s get-rid-of-Trump campaigns is a donor to President-elect Joe Biden. Kristol’s Republican Accountability Project (RAP) is working to protect anti-Trump Republicans in Congress. It is guarding those who “vote to impeach, remove, and disqualify President Trump” by warding off primary challenges, according to the campaign’s webpage. RAP announced that it would also be looking to punish more than 100 GOP members who objected to certification of the Electoral College. Specifically, RAP would do this by “standing up primary challenges” to Republicans who didn’t toe the line and “promote Republicans in open contests who do not align themselves with Trump’s MAGA ethos,” according to Politico. The campaign had “pledged to amass $50 million” in its efforts to defend pro-impeachment Republicans. But it turns out that RAP Executive Director, Bulwark publisher and “Never Trump Republican” Sarah Longwell isn’t just anti-Trump. She’s pro-Biden.

One of the chief benefits of the Trump era is The Rectification of Names. The RINOs are revealing that they are actually proglodytes after all in a Clever Plastic Disguise.