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Well, for a start, we could quit calling it ‘science’.

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I wonder what would happen to all those stacks of containers in rough weather?

Frustrated California Governor Gavin Newsom Surveys Fire Zone, Rips “Ideological BS” Around Climate Change & “Absence Of National Leadership”

The Dirty Dozen Tests Of Global Warming Science

Jane Fonda on Climate Change: “Just get rid of us Homo sapiens ASAP and things will restore themselves.”  How about we get rid of Hanoi Jane instead?

Combating the Tyranny, Waste, and Economic Devastation of ‘Green’ Agenda With Free Enterprise

‘Party Of Science’ Leader Pelosi Mocked For “Mother Earth Is Angry” Comments

California Governor Blames Climate ‘Emergency’ for Huge Wildfires

Climate Change Financial Risk: Commodity Futures Trading Commission Edition

Climate Scientists Admit Clouds are Still a Big Unknown

State of Delaware Lies About Willie Soon (as a scientist)

Extinction Rebellion: Nuclear power ‘only option’ says former spokeswoman

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If Biden gets elected we’ll all be eating ramen. It’s best to be prepared.

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Within the space of one hour, Univision chose to omit mention of a protest (yet again), while giving the Democratic vice-presidential candidate celebrity treatment during a PR stint that included an ´unannounced´ visit to a Venezuelan restaurant in an effort to attract Latino voters.

As you can see from the following video that compares the Telemundo and Univision reports on Harris´ trip to South Florida, Telemundo anchor Jose Diaz-Balart did acknowledge that “outside, there were also protesters with pro President Trump posters.” What he did not say was that the group, from Latinos for Trump, was there on behalf of Cubans, Venezuelans and Nicaraguans who suffered the hardships of socialist and communist regimes.

All is not well in the coalition of the fringes.

ZMan peeks behind the curtain.

For generations now, the mass media has referred to itself as the echo chamber or the media echo chamber, at least with regards to politics. A favorite politician or pundit says something pithy or useful and the media repeats it verbatim until everyone is sick of hearing it. After the 2010 midterms, Barak Obama used the word “shellacked” as in his team was “shellacked”, and the media repeated it every hour for days as if it was wisdom sent down from the heavens.

This was an insight the Clinton crime syndicate figured out how to use to their advantage back in the 1990’s. They would come up with some slogan they wanted to get the media repeating. They would then have their mouth pieces repeat the line over and over in their media appearances. The media would get the hint and then start repeating the slogan over and over. What they essentially did is weaponize the natural conformity of the mass media and use it as a propaganda organ.

Steve Sailer looks into the nooks and crannies so you don’t have to.

Kamala Harris was born an anchor baby: neither of her parents were a United States citizen when she was born in California in 1964. It’s interesting to look at how the two main search engines respond to a search for this fact.

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I love the smell of conspiracy in the morning.

Earth barreling toward ‘Hothouse’ state not seen in 50 million years, epic new climate record shows

66 Million Years of Earth’s Climate History Uncovered – Puts Current Changes in Context

Hamburgers are hard on the planet. These cattle ranchers are trying to change that

The Arctic is burning like never before — and that’s bad news for climate change  Yeah, the smoke from the fires over the Arctic is suffocating.

A new island of hope rising from the Indian Ocean  I guess the hope is that the sea will actually rise as they are always predicting.

New York City residents document sea-level rise in coastal neighborhoods  I guess the only explanation for flooding is ‘sea-level rise’.  I’m still waiting for NYC to be under water.

Pelosi On Fires In California: ‘Mother Earth Is Angry’

The Conversation: “Faith and politics mix to drive evangelical Christians’ climate change denial”

How Green Energy Wrecked California

Save the Planet: Stop Riding Transit

Turtles:  Back to the Future!

ZMan’s weekly podcast.

Something I wanted to talk about in the show, but I got long winded on other stuff, so I had to skip it, is something I talked about with a friend this week. That is, why is it that so many people have gone crazy all at once? There’s always been partisanship and fierce debates between liberals and normal people. People have always had heated debates about current events. Today, we have lots of people who seem to live in an alternative reality from the rest of us.

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A recent blog post by investor and stand-up comedian James Altucher (mentioned here) arguing that New York is dead forever attracted the hostility of many New Yorkers. Fellow comedian Jerry Seinfeld wrote a New York Times op-ed calling Altucher a “whimpering putz.” Mayor De Blasio, naturally, agrees with Seinfeld.

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With all due respect to these people, they missed Altucher’s point. New York as a city will survive. But New York as an ideal, a place that builds wealth and fulfills dreams like nowhere else in America, will not. Not to put too many words in Altucher’s mouth, what is really dead is the idea that New York City or Manhattan densities are necessary have a healthy economy and diverse culture.

Altucher pointed out that the pandemic has taught high-income people that they don’t need to deal with the congestion, high costs of living, homeless people, crime, and other stresses of the densest city in America. The things that made New York attractive are disappearing: lots of restaurants are permanently closed; lots of entertainment businesses promise to reopen next year, but no one knows if they will.

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If time was measured in news cycles, it has been roughly 17.765329 years since professional football has graced our screens. But, defying all of the odds, and media narratives, the NFL season returned for its first game of the season Thursday night.

The game itself was surprisingly high quality, considering the lack of a pre-season due to COVID-19. Reigning Super Bowl Champions, the Kansas City Chiefs, took the field against a traditionally high-powered Houston Texans team.

That was not what caught the eyes of most people who tuned in, however.

The NFL has the same problem as the NBA: Most of their audience, and certainly the more profitable part, are white, while their ‘equipment’ are mostly black.

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Guess he won’t do that again.

Antarctica’s colossal Thwaites Glacier is melting fast — and scientists may have discovered why  No doubt Trump has something to do with it.

Nobel prize-winning economics of climate change is misleading and dangerous – here’s why

Animal Populations Fell by 68% in 50 Years and It’s Getting Worse

Obama: California’s Wildfires Are An Example Of How Climate Change Is ‘Changing Our Communities’  ‘Climate change’ is apparently the NewSpeak term for ‘stupid Democrat government’.

The Guardian Celebrates the Rapid Greening of Climate Activist Europe

Dems Unveil 2021 Agenda to Tackle Climate Change as Wildfires Rage on West Coast  I guess their ides is ’cause more of it’.

Claim: Historical climate fluctuations in Central Europe overestimated due to tree ring analysis

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Which they are, of course, so long as they obey the law in getting here.

Trump, of course, contrary to DemLegHump Media lies, doesn’t oppose immigration, merely illegal immigration.

Victor Davis Hanson.

Almost daily, Greek and Turkish aircraft and ships fight mock battles over disputed oil and gas rights in the eastern Mediterranean.

Since the loss of much of the Christian Balkans to the Ottomans in the 15th century, Greece and what would later become modern Turkey have been rivals, outright enemies and often at war.

Mutual NATO membership and shared Cold War fears of Soviet Russia did not stop the two from almost going to war after the Turkish invasion of Cyprus in 1974.

Still, the current escalation seems weird. Most territorial claims and disputes over borders were settled almost a century ago, and the two countries have had mass population exchanges.

Why, then, does the divide still run so deep?

Victor Davis Hanson.

There are some stunning indications that the supposedly satanic racist Donald Trump could be polling in some surveys around a 35-40 approval rate among Latinos and 20–30 percent among African Americans. Other polls are more equivocal but suggest an unexpected Trump surge among minority voters.

If those polls are accurate and predict November voting patterns, then Joe Biden could lose the popular vote as well as the key swing states by larger margins than Hillary Clinton’s Electoral College losses in 2016.

Too Much CO2 Has an Unnerving Effect on The World’s Trees, New Study Finds

Sceptical covid-19 research and sceptical polar bear science: is there a difference?

Part of the heat is coming from beneath our feet

Roker Hails Climate Hysteria of Left-Wing Loon Jane Fonda

AFR: We Must Reduce CO2 Emissions to Prevent Bats Passing new Coronavirus Diseases to Humans  And if you believe that one, they’ll tell you another one.

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Funny how Spencer’s endorsement of Biden doesn’t get the 24/7 coverage that, say, an endorsement of Trump would have. Wonder why that is.

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What could be scarier than a Democrat politician? (Nobody has enough money left to buy treats.)

ZMan gives you a leg up.

So, you have decided that you will lead a revolution and overthrow the government, but you don’t know the first thing about overthrowing the government. Lucky for you, Washington & Lee University is offering a three credit course titled, “How to Overthrow the State.” In that class you will learn how previous revolutionaries managed to overthrow the state, how they dealt with the aftermath and how they rewrote history in order to justify their rule.

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Michael Anton remarked in our podcast last Saturday that he hasn’t seen any hispanics in the videos of protests and riots going on around the country, and I’ve been remarking that out here in California, we’re hearing nothing but crickets from the hispanic community about the whole “Defund the Police” and Black Lives Matter protests. It’s almost as though hispanics may be wondering why Democrats are talking exclusively about black interests, and don’t buy the whole intersectionality/”people of color” boilerplate, still less the trendy academic term “Latinx” that surveys shows 98 percent of actual hispanics don’t use and don’t like.

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The salon owner accused of “setting up” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., is thanking supporters who have contributed $300,000 to a crowdfunding account set up to help move her business after she received threats.

Plenty of room in Texas. You could go to Austin; it would feel like you never left California.

Meet Five ‘Extinct’ Species That Have Returned to Life

Advanced New Spacecraft Will Monitor Sea Level Rise and Atmospheric Temperature With Extreme Precision

Bill McKibben Talks Up the Alleged Climate Change Extreme Weather Link

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I agree.

ZMan takes a look.

One of the lessons of 2020 is that the near future is every bit as unpredictable as the past, perhaps more so. Six months ago, no one would have predicted a replay of the disastrous Black Lives Matter stuff from the Left. Similarly, few would have predicted that the Democrat Party would have installed a dementia patient as their candidate, after he had been rejected by their voters. Therefore, trying to look out from here to predict how all of this will unfold is no easy thing.

We can, however, look at the possibilities. The future may be unpredictable, but the range of options is not unlimited. We can further limit the scope by eliminating things like meteor strikes and accidental nuclear exchanges. Just sticking to the political, there are a number of ways the current situation can go. The first step in narrowing that list further is to consider what the Left will do over the next six months. The one thing that is clear is the Soros wing is driving events now.

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A decade ago, researcher and scholar Joseph Henrich, together with psychologists Steven Heine and Ara Norenzayan, published a landmark paper in Behavioral and Brain Sciences titled, “The weirdest people in the world?”1 No, the target of the label “weird” were not the Araweté horticulturalists of lowland South America, where mothers-to-be seek sex with multiple men in the belief that semen from multiple fathers is needed to form the fetus.2 Nor were they the M?ori of New Zealand, who have been known to collect and preserve the heads of enemy chiefs they killed in battle as trophies of war, (the mokomokai.) The target of the weird label was Western people. More specifically, Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic, or WEIRD.

WEIRD was not meant as a pejorative, but as an apt description of this group of psychologically peculiar people, who are distinct from the majority of humanity both now and throughout human history.

John Hinderaker of PowerLine.

I noted here that U.S. Civil Rights Commissioner Peter Kirsanow has written to the Mayor of the City of Seattle, suggesting that “critical race theory” or “white privilege” training that the city recently imposed on its employees likely violates Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits employment discrimination based on race. Paul added that the Department of Justice has also sought information about the same training sessions from Seattle, on the same ground. Seattle’s “white privilege” training was no different from what many companies and units of government have inflicted on their employees, and if it was illegal–as I think it was–the illegality is widespread.

Steve Sailer.

In 2020, the Peaceful Protesters have made a big leap upward in looting techniques. Instead of just ransacking the Korean-run liquor stores in their own neighborhood like during the 1992 Rodney King riot, looters have targeted rich people’s shopping districts such as Fifth Avenue in NYC and Santa Monica, CA.

From the Santa Monica Lookout, here’s one of the first news articles I’ve read on the new techniques employed by looters and how the cops are (finally) responding.

Massive mystery holes appear in Siberian tundra — and could be linked to climate change  Could be linked!

Attack on democracy: Priti Patel condemns Extinction Rebellion for printworks protes

Mini-Reactors To Complement Renewables For Carbon-Free Electricity Era 

Ocean carbon uptake widely underestimated

Hurricane Laura was the latest storm to strengthen fast, but is rapid intensification really becoming more common?

Climate Change Drove the American Mastodon to Extinction  Wired ‘Science’.

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In an interview with the New York Post posted Saturday, Noor bin Ladin — whose family spells their name differently than her terror lord uncle — said she thinks Trump is a better guardian than Joe Biden against foreign terrorists.

“ISIS proliferated under the Obama/Biden administration, leading to them coming to Europe,” bin Ladin, who lives in Switzerland, told the tabloid. “Trump has shown he protects America and us by extension from foreign threats by obliterating terrorists at the root and before they get a chance to strike.”

She says she’s been a Trump supporter since he announced his candidacy the first time around, and proudly dons his MAGA hat in public.

Watch the DemLegHump Media spin this as ‘Trump is supported by Muslim terrorists’.

How Fast Is the Climate Changing?: It’s a New World, Each and Every Day

Ugandan Activist: “Many people are not yet aware of the dangers of climate change”  Perhaps because they have more pressing things to worry about.

New mathematical method shows how climate change led to fall of ancient civilization  Or, if they didn’t, we’ll pretend that they did, backed up by a lot of graphs.

Friday Funny: Mann and Cook Get the Vapors

First polar bear alert report for Churchill an astonishing seven weeks later than last year

New John Cook 97% Consensus Climate Change Video

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Now that’s comedy.

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Let’s go back to cobblestones.

Sometimes the old ways are best.

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They may be crazy but they’re not stupid.

Yoda’s native language is obviously Latin.

Extinction Rebellion Lets the Veil Slip on their Political Agenda

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1 out of 400,000 doesn’t sound like a big deal to me. How many died in traffic accidents going to or from?

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How bad was it? It was so bad….

Once in a blue moon, Twitter actually targets the left. Twitter urged Democratic House candidate Elizabeth Hernandez to remove a tweet on September 1 that the platform claimed violated its policies.

Hernandez is running against Republican Rep. Kevin Brady in Texas’s 8th Congressional District. In the tweet that Twitter claimed violated its policies, Hernandez’s campaign account responded to a supporter who was bemoaning that some Texan relatives support President Donald Trump. The August 18 response allegedly stated, “Thank you! And remind all of your Trump supporting relatives to vote on Wednesday, November 4! (Since they’re Trump supporters, they might fall for it. Just saying….)” The response also included a laughing emoji.

I’m shocked, I tell you, shocked.

Severian expands upon a theme.

This is further to the Z Man’s excellent post on Their Summer of Discontent, so be sure to read that first.

The Progressive Whitopia he describes there — the eschaton they attempted to immanentize in currently-burning places like Portland, Seattle, San Francisco, etc. — can best be described as “college.” His description — “carefully curated hipster areas” — describes the environment of every college campus I’ve been to in the last two decades… and y’all, I’ve been to a lot of college campuses.

I linked to the ZMan post just a few articles ago.