Steve Sailer.

I bet you didn’t know that Google and Facebook were controlled by fascists.

Revolutionary ‘Green’ Bricks Made From Recycled Plastic and Organic Waste

Climate Extremism is Dividing Democrats

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It is one of those stories mainstream media cannot resist. Someone who previously claimed to be a Republican, has not voted Republican since 2004 and/or worked for losing campaigns years ago voices their support for Joe Biden and the media pounces. Welcome to the D.C. swamp! For these so-called conservatives, policy no longer matters as they abandon every belief they previously claimed to hold dear just so they can either get paid as a consultant, get booked by liberal media outlets or keep their standing in the DC social scene.

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Seems about right.

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And who could blame them?

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #411

The Green New Deal dress rehearsal

“Magnetic sponge” MOF captures carbon with record energy efficiency

Climate change has degraded productivity of shelf sea food webs

20 Years On, Jurassic Park Author Michael Crichton is Still Right about Global Warming

Jonathan Turley.

We have often discussed how advocating for free speech often places us in troubling company. Those who are targeted for arrest are often the loudest and most obnoxious among us. Ace Burns is one of those people. Burns, 34, whose real name is Israel Burns,, is the self-proclaimed leader of the “FTP movement (which he defined in various ways including “Fire To Property”).

I guess being ‘woke’ protects you from the coronavirus. Who knew?

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If, of course, that’s what you want to do.

Tyler Cowen, a Real Economist at GMU.

That one surprised me, as indeed it did most other economists. What should I learn from this episode? After all, labor market adjustment was relatively slow coming out of the 2008 crisis.

My tentative hypothesis is that “matching” is more important than I had thought (and I already thought it was quite important, relative to other macro commentators). One feature of the current layoffs and rehirings is that the ties between workers and firms apparently were not so severed in the first place. For most sectors (cruise ships aside, etc.), no “rematches” were required, and so rehirings were accomplished very quickly. As demand (partially) returned, employers wanted at least some of the old workers back, and workers wanted their old employers back, and then it happened. “Figuring out where I belong” did not slow down the process very much.

New Study: Climate Impact Of Grazing Cattle Overestimated

How Virginia’s Green New Deal Will Add to Residents’ COVID-19 Costs

Consensus as Religion

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It’s easy to see why parents push coding on their children. What better way to prepare our kids for a future ruled by software than by training them how to build it? If everything is going to be automated, it’s much safer to be the one doing the automating. And if learning to code is good, then learning earlier is better. But while these products may teach kids specific coding languages, they actually have very little to do with the work of creating software.

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Coding is not the new literacy. While most parents are literate and know to read to their kids, most are not programmers and have no idea what kind of skills a programmer needs. Coding books for kids present coding as a set of problems with “correct” solutions. And if your children can just master the syntax, they’ll be able to make things quickly and easily. But that is not the way programming works. Programming is messy. Programming is a mix of creativity and determination. Being a developer is about more than syntax, and certain skills can only be taught to the very young.

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One of the many changes is the assumption about where and how work gets done. It used to be that work got done with your hands. And if something needed doing, you rolled up your sleeves and got to work.

Now the assumption is that the only place work gets done is at a computer. And if you’re NOT at your computer, work is most definitely not getting done.

The computer is a powerful machine, and it’s remarkable to think that the smartphone in your hands is more powerful than the computer that put humans on the moon.

But even with all the advances in technology, computers are still just tools.

Defund the Police… Because Climate Change

Claim: Global Warming will Increase the Threat of Weeds  Women and minorities hardest hit, etc. etc.

‘Collapse of civilisation is the most likely outcome’: top climate scientists  Still waiting for those rising sea levels.

Vice: Climate Change is Increasing Violent Conflict  Possibly because environmentalists are stirring up trouble.

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While you’re waiting for the riots to start.

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Let’s put Joe Biden in charge, that’ll fix ’em!

US Ranks 24th In World On Environmental Performance

Lancet, New England Journal retract Covid-19 studies, including one that raised safety concerns about malaria drugs

Reuters: Poor Nations insist the Rich should not use Covid-19 to Avoid Climate Cash Payouts

Scientists: May 2020 Was Warmest on Record  Assuming that they can actually tell what The Temperature really was, of course.

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Did you know that The Science now says that coronavirus is not contagious in protests of 100 people, but is extremely contagious in non-protest outdoor gatherings of 12?

You didn’t?

LOL, what a deporable Science-Hater you are.

ZMan does his weekly podcast.

In a week of left-wing riots, it seemed logical to do a show on the left-wing riots, so that’s what we have this week. There is so much material here that I could probably do ten hours and not cover everything. What we are seeing is the orchestrated suicide of the country by the ruling class. This is a not a revolution from above, so much a suicide from above. The new world these people imagine is less plausible than what libertarians imagine or even what anarchist imagine.

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The thing is, this system cannot survive a month without the cops. Take the cops off the streets and the mob consumes the beautiful people neighborhoods. The usual suspect will be swallowing their jewelry and racing to the borders. All of the petty tyrants that have been pushing us around for the last two months over the ridiculous virus panic will be swinging from lamp posts. Not only will the mob lay waste to the people in charge, the normal people quietly seething will be suddenly unconstrained.

If you don’t subscribe, you really ought to.

Charlie Cooke lays it out.

Defending their lives and their property as they see fit is exactly what those who have been abandoned by the authorities are doing in droves.

‘Only the cops need guns” simply could not live forever alongside, “The cops are racist and will kill you.” And so, at long last, the two circles of the Venn Diagram have filed for an amicable divorce. In the end, the differences proved irreconcilable.

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Gotta love Australians.

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A professor said it, so it must be true!

Alarmist queen Hayhoe takedown by Friends of Science

Hump Day Hilarity – How Science vs. Climate Science works

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That explains a lot.

(Hey, tenure doesn’t grow on trees….)

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Thieves who made off with iPhones from Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) retail locations in New York, Los Angeles, Minneapolis, Washington and Philadelphia quickly learned that they were loaded with special security software.

On-screen messages displayed: “This device has been disabled and is being tracked. Local authorities will be alerted.”

Heh. We have the technology….

UPDATE: Don’t buy a looted iPhone, it will never work

Steve Sailer.

White elites are currently fantasizing that they can use the People of Color mob of young looters to overthrow Trump, somewhat like in Georgia in 2003 and Ukraine in 2014.

Serious people in Washington and New York take seriously warnings from abroad that the American Empire can endure four years of Trump, but not eight. Granted, the traditional, Constitutional way of bringing about regime change is to wait for the November election.

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With myriad fragments and an extraordinary past, the Dead Sea scrolls are quite a puzzle. Now experts say ancient DNA has helped them piece together which fragments come from the same scrolls, as well as which texts may have travelled a distance, and how widespread the writings were.

Al Jazeera.

As you ready yourself to attempt to hijack the work of radicals, to go undercover dressed in our clothes and slip into the crowd pretending that you were always there and that you are us, know that we see you. Even now, as you are preparing your watered-down Black Lives Matter syllabi and your “Hope and the Black Spring in the Time of Corona” book manuscripts, which are by now ready for press, filled as they are with the same dimly lit, unimaginative pablum about “improving race relations”, feel-good “anti-racism”, and “ways to move forward”. We see you. We know why you have come.

Yannick Giovanni Marshall is a Jogger who is Mad As Hell And Not Going To Take It Any More.

Measuring climate change

Climate change has setnetters worried about Alaska’s sockeye

Why Our Intuition About Sea-Level Rise Is Wrong

Claim: George Floyd Protests Are Linked to Climate Change

UAH Global Temperature Update for May 2020: +0.54 deg. C  Women and minorities hardest hit.

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Blacks commit around 70 percent of black-white interracial homicides. I take it that, as a statistical matter, the “expected” number is 50 percent for all forms of black-white interracial violent crime.

Is the vastly disproportionate number of violent crimes by blacks against whites explained by black racism? Not necessarily. It might be the product of the disproportionate propensity of blacks to commit violent crimes against anyone. But the explanation must be racism, criminality, or both.

Alex Tabarrok, a Real Economist.

The post below, Police Union Privileges, from 2018 is worth revisiting. As I wrote in a follow-up, police union privileges are only one part of a system and reform requires system-thinking. Nevertheless, getting rid of these special privileges, including so-called qualified immunity and restoring the equal rule of law are good places to start. Need I also mention that police should not keep fines and forfeitures–the negative consequences of which I documented in To Serve and Collect, my paper with Makowsky and Stratmann.

Thousands of Species Are Fleeing to Earth’s Poles en Masse, And a Pattern’s Emerging

Anti-Trump Republican group attacks Trump on race in new ad

Wooden Turbine Towers Promise To Push Wind Industry To Greater Heights

Transnational UK Supreme Court Ruling May Open the Floodgates for Global Climate Change Lawsuits

Plastic’s Back! COVID Contamination Concerns Crush California’s “Green” New Deal

UNSW: “Is COVID-19 the dress rehearsal for climate change?”  As a politically-motivated panic? Could be….

TURNER: Models Can’t Accurately Predict Next Week’s Weather, So Why Should We Trust Them To Predict Climate Change?  Shut up, slave!

Annnnnnd…another Canadian polar bear subpopulation is increasing

ZMan has some suggestions.

Watching the events of the last few days, it is impossible for a sensible white person to not get angry. Blacks and now Antifa are running wild in the streets, looting and now killing people. Meanwhile, the cops stand around doing nothing, while the politicians stumble all over themselves trying to excuse what’s happening. Worse yet, they are now blaming white supremacists. It is, as the great man once said, enough to cause a normal man to hoist the black flag and start slitting throats.

The people responsible for this, of course, want you angry. Angry people lose focus and pin their anger on convenient targets. Angry people say and do things that make them easy to dismiss. No matter how much they think they are “owning the libs” right now, those angry BoomerCons on Facebook posting boogaloo rants are just playing a role laid out for them by the usual suspects. Their anger is confirmation to those leftists who define themselves in opposition to normal white people.

Instead, now is a good time to think about excluding from your life those anti-whites who you would like to punch in the face right now. Just as blacks need to be around whites, those anti-whites trying to explain why this nonsense is justified need to be around you and people like you. They need to see you unhappy in order to feel the closest thing to happy their dead souls can experience. If you really want to “own the libs” in your life right now, calmly and clearly disassociate yourself from them.

Hint: Yes.

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An excellent analysis of a key scene in The Two Towers, both in the books and on film.

I do this kind of thing all the time. My wife hasn’t complained yet.

Study: Integrating satellite and socioeconomic data to improve climate change policy

Destroying the environment to save it

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If all of the rioters got the coronavirus, I doubt that anyone would be seriously upset. I know I wouldn’t.  Perhaps the CDC ought to dispatch a brigade of academic Karens to quell the riots. That would be amusing.

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About fargin time.

UPDATE: The Communist Origins of the Antifa Extremist Group

Actually, I doubt that any three people in the AntiFa organization have the wit to be Communists.

UPDATE: Watch: Rioter Sets Himself On Fire Trying To Torch Building  Case in point.

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I remember that smell. Those were the days.

No asteroids needed: ancient mass extinction tied to ozone loss, warming climate

Humpbacks bounce back from near extinction to help fight climate change  I wonder whether they get free T-shirts.

People Drawn to Conspiracy Theories Share a Cluster of Psychological Features  Proponents of climate-change hysteria are fond of tagging their critics as ‘science-deniers’, ignoring how often their ‘science’ is demonstrated to be mythology. The latest trend is to shovel the non-woke into various psychological boxes, the way the old Soviet government did with dissidents. (They wouldn’t dream of doing that with LGBTQ+ people, of course.)

NYT Op-Ed: ‘Stop Eating Animals’ If You Care About Climate Change, Racial Justice and Working Poor

“Well, lads, there’s a man’s work ahead of us this day.”

Name the movie.

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And that’s really all it takes.

Both conservatives and liberals want a green energy future, but for different reasons