Scientific American: Even Believers Must be Compelled to Live Low Carbon Lifestyles

Awkward: BBC Crew Flew to Interview Climate Brat Greta Thunberg  Cue finger wag.

Climate alarmist banks go carbon-colonialist

The Guardian: “Climate Denial was Defeated in 2019”

French cheeses at risk of falling foul of global warming as cows lack fresh grass

‘Former Trump Voter’ Spotlighted In Democratic Ad Campaign Caught Lying; Didn’t Actually Vote In 2016

Cohen: How Impeachment Is Escalating The New US-Russian Cold War

On NPR, David Brooks Says Democrats Are ‘Crazy’ to Think Trump Can Win in 2020

Four-Star U.S. Army General Slams Trump’s Behavior in Navy SEAL Controversy

Trump attacks whistleblower in tweetstorm full of rants and conspiracies  CNN.

NBC Reporter on MSNBC: ‘Cruel’ & ‘Disturbing’ That Mexico Keeps Illegals Out of U.S.

CNN’s Wajahat Ali: GOP Will Popularize ‘White Supremacist Conspiracy Theories’ in 2020

‘They Had A Weak Case’: Steve Scalise Rips House Democrats’ Impeachment Effort

Twitter Scrubs Viral Trump Retweet Of Alleged Hoaxblower’s Name; Blames Glitch Before Banning User  Bias? What bias?

Science Under Attack: How Trump Is Sidelining Researchers and Their Work  Scientific researchers have an inalienable right to have the taxpayers fund their research (and careers), and Trump (the swine) is standing in the way. Burn the witch!

Chuck Todd Cites Letter That Compares Supporting Trump To Believing In ‘Fairy Tales’ Like ‘Noah’s Ark’

Chuck Todd Finds All the Disinformation In ‘Ecosystem Problem’ on the Right

CBS Reporter Says Trump’s Record With Minorities Is One ‘Any President After 3 Years Would Want To Claim’

New York City Mayor Bill De Blasio Blames Anti-Semitic Attacks On Hate ‘Emanating From Washington’ Yeah, New York haz to import hate from Washington because they don’t have any of their own.

Desperately Seeking Regretful Trump Voters

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historic motion has been passed in Spain by the city council in León demanding the separation of the province from the region of Castilla y León, which was formed in 1983 shortly after Spain returned to democracy after the death of General Franco.

“We’ve never felt ourselves to be part of Castilla y León. It’s a fictitious region; León has nothing to do with Castile,” said the Leonese mayor, José Antonio Díez.

After Friday’s vote in León city hall, several other towns across the province followed suit, demanding that what they consider a historic region comprising León, Salamanca and Zamora split away from Castilla y León.

And the seams start coming apart.

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While it is a truism that in many respects some form of taxation is needed to provide necessities to a society, in practice many government and social detriments arise as either a consequence to or are derivative of tax policy. I’ve found for myself that fostering a personal goal of avoiding specific taxation or in many cases excessive taxation generally comports with a greater advocacy of morality in several beneficial forms.

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Fire is extremely versatile: it’s hard to say which of its functions were most valued by our ancestors. Therefore, if we measure the energy use of a household fire and compare it to modern technology, we should not compare it to the energy use of a heating system or a cooking stove alone, but to the energy use of the entire household.

Sometimes the old ways are best.

Steve Sailer.

Steve loves pointing out when supposed adults in the ‘mainstream press’ think and write like adolescents. In most cases it is enough merely to quote what they say, from which any rational adult can sniff out the problems.

Audacious Epigone reports.

Though I have no illusions about where Stephens stands, his column is a tremendous conversation starter. As such, it was immediately subject to relentless attack in corporate and social media. The contemporary meaning of “conversation” is not a form of interactive communication. It is instead a novel blend of the traditional definitions of the words “monologue”, “lecture”, and “sermon”.

Your electric car and vegetarian diet are pointless virtue signaling in the fight against climate change

Climate Change Protesters’ Traffic Tie-Ups Are No Way to Win Friends or Influence People

FT: Low Interest Rates are an Opportunity to Spend Big on Renewable Energy

Report Hyped By Climate Alarmists Warned: Millions Dead, Nuclear War, & Sunken Major Cities By 2020

What Can You See, Indicating Sea Levels are Rising?

Mozambique Is Racing to Adapt to Climate Change. The Weather Is Winning

The Other McCain has the scoop.

Remember the deadly Dec. 10 attack just across the river in Jersey City, which was connected to the Black Hebrew Israelites cult. This followed months of reports of anti-Semitic harassment in New York perpetrated by black teenagers. Because the suspects were “people of color” (POC), these hate crimes were an embarrassment to the Left, which wants to blame Trump for increasing anti-Semitism. This is why the national news media, which goes into 24/7 coverage mode over any “hate crime” that can be blamed on right-wingers, politely ignored the increasing reports of black hoodlums harassing Jews in New York City. The progressive SJW backlash against De Blasio’s announcement was predictable.

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That’s what happens when your state is run by Democrats.

The Nation: Warming Is Reason to Question Private Homeownership  As if they ever needed a reason.

Experts Warn Global Outrage Levels May Reach Point Of No Return In 2020  Babylon Bee.

Another year, and still no increase in severe U.S. tornadoes

Ace of Spades has the scoop.

The New York Times is full of people who think that they ought to be able to do your thinking for you.

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Just keepin’ track….

ZMan looks at some disturbing trends.

The use of costumes as a form of self-ghettoization is not exclusive to the super-orthodox Jews. Black American cults have used the uniform as a form of separation from the main. The Black Panthers are the most obvious example. The Nation of Islam and their bow ties are another. The Black Hebrew Israelites, who have been in the news of late, dress in white robes and white head dresses. The point of these outfits is both recognition and separation. They are not us.

Now, the article itself is reasonable about the harassment of these super-orthodox Jews in Brooklyn. The media likes to say it is due to white nationalism or the rise of the KKK or something, but that’s insane nonsense. The real issue, one the writer alludes to in his piece, is the local blacks and now the imported Muslims. Blacks have never liked Jews in general and they really don’t like the ones in funny outfits. They see these people as just another gang, one they can easily push around.

Then there are the imported Muslims. Since 9/11, the United States has responded to the threat of Islamic terrorism by scouring the earth for Muslims of every sort to import into the country. The theory is that by importing tens of millions of Muslims from places the American military has bombed for decades, the miasma that is causing Muslims to commit terrorism will dissipate. It’s lunacy, but the result is places like New York City suddenly have a new class of weird foreigner.

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Some rich people are more equal than others.

UPDATE: Ocasio-Cortez Says Refusing To Be Funded By Billionaires Is ‘Having Standards’ — She Took The Max From Steyer In 2018

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Scientists tested airplane sewage from five different German airports and discovered it contained a significantly higher abundance and diversity of antibiotic-resistant microbes, compared to sewage tested at a nearby wastewater plant and even nearby hospitals, according to research published in the journal Environmental Science and Technology.

Slow news week.

Petition: Stop Target Plastic Bags From ‘Choking the Earth’

Former Archbishop of Canterbury warns climate change is the ‘largest challenge’ ever faced by humanity  I guess Hitler, Stalin, and Mao don’t count.

Wet Years, Dry Years

Democrats Seek To Outlaw Suburban, Single-Family House Zoning, Calling It Racist And Bad For The Environment

A vet’s hellish diary of climate change

Ace of Spades travels into some odd corners of the zeitgeist.

Blue ticks are shocked that Christians aren’t sobbing and rending garments in their churches over liberal magazine Christianity Today (the Christianity Today?) calling for Trump’s removal from office.

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Also evidence of the Cognitive Elite’s cerebral supremacy: John Harwood, selected by the media as an impartial questioner for a Republican debate (and who secretly solicited questions from the Democrat National Committee to ask Trump), says that the media is too biased in favor of Republicans….

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In my opinion, a trial is unnecessary. The House articles, on their face, are defective. Both fail to meet the constitutional threshold of “high crimes and misdemeanors.” This would negate a trial but does not give the president any formal “acquittal,” after a trial on the merits of the articles, which would prove the president’s innocence. While this would be true in a traditional criminal judicial proceeding, it is not the case in a political trial. No matter how the Senate deals with the articles of impeachment, Democrats and Republicans will put their own political spin on the outcome. Since the House articles of impeachment were voted strictly on party lines, and the country is so divided on the whole impeachment process, in my opinion, a trial is less important.

Bradley A. Blakeman was a deputy assistant to President George W. Bush from 2001 to 2004. A principal of the 1600 Group, a strategic communications firm, he is an adjunct professor of public policy and international affairs at Georgetown University and a contributor to Fox News and Fox Business.

3 degrees C?

Were the predictions we made about climate change 20 years ago accurate? Here’s a look USA Today.

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And about time, too.

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Ahh, it’s that time again: reportedly the most wonderful time of the year. You’re back home, no longer in your drafty dorm room eating lukewarm ramen out of a microwaved Tupperware bowl. You’re with your family. You’re surrounded by sleigh bells, carolers, a warm and glowing Christmas tree, gifts on Christmas day.

Well, forget about all that. That’s all a bunch of cultural hegemony and male patrio-fascism. Christmas is not a good thing. Christmas is not Woke. It must be cancelled and forever banished to the dust-bin of history, along with other hegemonic colonial hatefests such as Thanksgiving and Valentine’s Day.

Australian PM Responds To Greta Thunberg: “We’ll Do What We Think Is Right For Australia”

The scramble for sand is destroying the Mekong

Eco-builders are clutching at straws

Urban Transit Is an Energy Hog

How the U.S. betrayed the Marshall Islands, kindling the next nuclear disaster

Climate Nags are Trying to Ruin Christmas

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From the vantage point of Positive Evolutionary Psychology, many problems of society today result from a large-scale lack of understanding of evolutionary principles and how they relate to all facets of the human experience. Obesity in the modern world is the result of the food industry not seeing how mismatched modern processed foods are from the ancestral foods that our ancestors evolved to eat, for example (see Cordain et al., 2005; Wolf, 2010).

In “Historic” Ruling, Dutch Supreme Court Says Government Must Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions By 25%

Norway Names Controversial Climate Change Skeptic As New Oil Minister

Your Christmas tree is lit, but how hard does it hit the environment?  Popular ‘Science’.

“I don’t want to die!” Climate Exploitation of Children  Never take seriously anybody whose hair has been dyed an unnatural color. Narcissistic personality disorder is the least of their problems.

Why I Am So Critical of Climate ‘Science’?

Democrats Seek To Outlaw Suburban, Single-Family House Zoning, Calling It Racist And Bad For The Environment

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I have a little list….

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Heh. This has been perhaps Trump’s greatest accomplishment.

ZMan.

Dumb ideas are a feature of democracy. The main reason for this is the majority of people trusted with a vote are average or below average. Democracy works on the assumption that people work in series. Connect enough of them, no matter their intellectual capacity, and you get enough brain power. In reality, people work in parallel, so the more you connect, the faster dumb ideas flow through society. Democracy is the form of government with the lowest resistance to dumb ideas.

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California was once depicted as an American promised land where people could escape to. Now an increasing number of residents are escaping from it. Now, according to the Times, fewer children are being born, more of the older population are dying, immigration levels are decreasing and an alarming number of people are opting to leave the state due to skyrocketing taxes and increasing social chaos in urban areas due to rampant homelessness.

Here’s Some Good News on Climate Change: Worst-Case Scenario Looks Unrealistic

Our World is a Work in Progress

Australia’s PM Scott Morrison plays down climate link to bushfire crisis as he visits firefighters

Polar bear cubs play on the thin ice that supposedly threatens them with extinction

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/visualizing-uk-elections-massive-generation-gap

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West Africa’s monetary union has agreed with France to rename its CFA franc the Eco and cut some of the financial links with Paris that have underpinned the region’s common currency since its creation after the Second World War.

Loserthink – Word-thinking.

Friday Funny – sea level rise is “set to flood UN headquarters as soon as 2100” – another self-immolation by Zoë Schlanger  That’ll leave quite a ring along the Atlantic coast….

Russia’s First Floating Nuclear Power Plant Turns On, Set To Replace Coal’

How Artists And Scientists Are Tackling Miami’s Rising Sea Levels

STUDY: Villagers Built A Monster Wall 7,000 Years Ago To Beat Back Rising Sea Levels — It Didn’t Work  Well, then, I guess that settles it.

CNN’s Kasich Veers Left on Global Warming, Gun Control

Who Is Winning The Climate Wars? (2)

When will the Arctic see its first ice free summer?

German Green Party Urges Allowing 140 Million “Climate Refugees” To Migrate To West

FLASHBACK: Al Roker Decried ‘Sin’ of Not Fighting Climate Change

Sweden’s reindeer herders forced to adapt to climate change

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Voice of the Crust The New Yorker has, of course, nothing good to say about nationalism.

The Prime Minister’s Hindu-nationalist government has cast two hundred million Muslims as internal enemies.

Which, indeed, they are, as anybody who has been paying attention for the last fifty years knows, whether they will admit it or not. The problem is that one never knows from one minute to the next when some random Muslim will freak out and start killing people, and that makes all Muslims suspect, like it or not. Indians have been coping with random Muslim violence since 1947, and it comes as no surprise that they are getting tired of it, and are starting to take steps for their security disapproved of by the Great and the Good.

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This is a lament for the landline, a rhapsody for its dial tone, a hymn to the way it connected people. It’s the little things we miss. The landline was a focal point of the home, an antidote to atomization and loneliness, those scourges of our age.

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I got that microplane from the Williams-Sonoma catalog, by the way. True, I COULD have bought a microplane at your local Pathmark. They have a rack of them hanging above the Pop-Tart shelf for some reason. But why buy one there when I can support my local (international) mom-and-pop (publicly traded) store (merchandising oligarchy) instead? I’m no fool. I know what’s best for America, and what’s best for America is ignoring every horrible thing going on and, instead, assigning two entire months on the calendar to spoiling myself, cutting down precious wildlife, and indulging in retail spending practices so irresponsible that every accountant on the planet cries their eyes out at night just thinking about it all.

Apparently this is an annual tradition.

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In “Losing the Class,” Ian Marcus Corbin makes a vital point studiously and willfully ignored by those in charge of American society: an enormous generational gap is growing between the ideology of the ruling class and the inner thoughts of the younger generation. In his words, “our students are playing the game like good little Party members, but they don’t believe the doctrine.”

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Funny thing about that — not everbody seems to be down with the gun-grabber agenda.

UPDATE: New Zealand Gun Buyback Was An ‘Unmitigated Failure’

Politicized veganism

“The UN’s ‘Woke’ Climate Change Propaganda Is An Insult To Science”

Debate Moderator Pushes Relocating Whole Cities from Climate Change

Aussie Government ABC Urges Workers to Join Student Climate Strikes

Depression and suicide linked to air pollution in new global study

Wait, Plastic Can Be Good for the Environment?

Acidifying Oceans Could Eat Away at Sharks’ Skin and Teeth  ‘Could’

Liz Warren Nets Big Endorsement From Key Architect Behind Green New Deal

Climate change could cut fruit production by almost a third, study warns  ‘Could’

Dutch court orders government to increase climate change efforts to protect citizens

The Year Humanity Declared War on Microplastics  Wired ‘Science’.

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The principal reason that large cities have developed is that they provide large labor (and housing) markets. A labor market is also a housing market, since virtually all who work in the metropolitan area also live there. The metropolitan area is the one location where there is one-to-one balance between jobs and resident workers (see: Alain Bertaud, Order Without Design: How Markets Shape Cities). Labor markets are independent of jurisdictional boundaries (municipality, county, or state), except where international boundaries restrict freedom of labor movement.

Obviously, large labor markets require transportation that permits residents to reach the maximum of jobs in a reasonable period of time (such as 30 minutes, which has historical significance, indicated below). Researchers such as Remy Prud’homme, Chang-Won Lee, David Hartgen, Gregory Fields and Steve Polzin have shown that a metropolitan area is likely to have better economic performance and job creation if a larger number of jobs can be reached by the average worker in a specified period. With the relatively recent development of transportation access measures, the 30-minute one – way work trip (commute) has emerged as an important planning standard (referred to herein as “30-minute commutes”).