Does Greta Thunberg’s Lifestyle Equal Climate Denial? One Climate Scientist Seems To Suggest So.

Greta Thunberg takes flak for returning to Europe on ‘plastic yacht’

Don’t Believe in Climate Change? You Jew-Hater!

170 Years of Earth Surface Temperature Data Show No Evidence of Significant Warming

Al Jazeera: Climate change exposes children to lifelong harm  I guess it turns them into little pockets of White Privilege, like Greta.

‘Climatism’ and the Apocalypse

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I’ll bet you didn’t know that.

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There is a growing feeling, among those who have the responsibility of managing large economies, that the discipline of economics is no longer fit for purpose. It is beginning to look like a science designed to solve problems that no longer exist.

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At a debate at Princeton. Of course, the Princeton daily shitpaper called both men “racists,” because competition to work in the dying media is fierce and Princeton students are smart enough to know what appeals to potential employers.

Hazony makes the point that the public has rebelled against Bret Stephens’ philosophy. Stephens would call his world-view “anti-nationalist.” Hazony would call it “imperialist,” because the point of his book seems to be that the opposite of nationalism is imperialism. There is no such thing as a sprawling transnational democracy; it will simply become a corrupt empire where all real power is held by an ostensible elite ensconced in the capital city.

Mazie Hirono Says Climate Change Is ‘A Religion And Not A Science’

Nasty Democrat Blob Mazie Hirono: You Must Believe in the Cult of Global Warming Like It’s a Religion, Not a Science

Climate Fury: “They don’t need the ravings of some pure, enlightened and woke capital city greenies”

Don’t Call Me a Pessimist on Climate Change. I Am a Realist

How should Billionaires Spend their Money to Solve Climate Change?  Ice cubes are $1.99 a bag at 7-11….

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My “cable TV’ service, like my “phone service”, is just piggy-backed on my Internet service. The additional charge is negligible.

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You would think that would be a no-brainer, but you’d be wrong.

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

I’ll always remember the day a Paris cheesemonger told me there is actually a right way to cut up each type of cheese. I looked at him, incredulous. “It’s about making sure everyone has the same experience,” he explained as he cut a wheel of cheese into wedges.

I’ll bet you didn’t know that.

Up until that point, I’d been perfectly happy with the uneven slices and misshapen hunks of cheese I normally cut when I make a cheese board. However, right then and there I realized I had been committing a number of sins against cheese.

I’m not sure but I think this qualifies as a First World Problem.

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A fate worse than death.

Ocasio-Cortez Rails Against Climate Skeptics, Tells Rally Goers To Directly ‘Combat White Supremacy  I guess Global Warming is all about White Supremacy. Who knew?

Tucker, Guest Rip ‘Schizophrenic’ Leftists Who Say They Care About The Environment, Yet Want To Import ‘Climate Migrants’

How Scientists Got Climate Change So Wrong

Humans have 1 in 14,000 chances of going extinct next year – more than getting struck by lightning

Claim: Making Fun of Climate Doomsday Helps Reach More People

1 Meter of Sea Level Rise Now “Inevitable”… Eventually  I keep waiting ….

What Blackouts? Californian Climate Fanatics Demand All Electric Homes

101 ways to live sustainably  And, more importantly, feel morally virtuous.

These maps show how many people will lose their homes to rising seas—and it’s worse than we thought  I keep waiting….

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Just can’t scrape up any sympathy.

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Although not, I think, az much as Republicans would be disgusted by John McCain.

The Fossil Fuel Dilemma

Review launched into onshore impact of offshore wind farms

German solar and wind are triple the cost of French nuclear, last half as long

Extinction Rebellion Calls African Oil Leaders “Climate Criminals”

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While there’s disagreement around how different types of sugars affect our health, the irony is we might be better off thinking about it less.

11,000 Scientists? Just Kidding

Robert Redford Calls for Reversal of Climate ‘Damage’ Caused by Trump

One of the world’s thickest mountain glaciers is melting because of global warming  They think.

Texas State Geologist Scott Tinker on Solving Climate Change and Energy Poverty

How Climate Activist Arnold Schwarzenegger Became Box Office Poison

How Bad Science & Horrific Journalism Misrepresent Wildfires and Climate

‘Greta’ Uber Alles?

Audacious Epigone keeps track.

Through the first four debates of the 2020 Democrat primary election cycle, candidates have mentioned the middle class an average of 5.3 times. Through the first six debates of 2016, candidates mentioned the middle class an average of 12.5 times. Rhetorical attention paid to the middle class has been cut by more than half on the Democrat side over the last four years, this in spite of the 2020 debates being longer than the 2016 debates were.

Though Bernie Sanders gets criticized for saying the same thing every time he’s in a televised debate, his rhetorical shift on this has been remarkable. In the 2016 cycle, he mentioned the middle class 30 times in the first four debates he was in. In his first for debates in the 2020 cycle, he has only mentioned the middle class one single time.

Byron York.

One notable and little-reported conclusion emerging from the House Democratic impeachment proceedings is a consensus among some foreign policy professionals that President Trump’s Ukraine policy has been an improvement over President Barack Obama’s.

The World’s Thickest Mountain Glacier Is Finally Melting, and Climate Change Is 100% to Blame  Women and minorities hardest hit.

NY Times’s Cave Takes Side of Climate Cult ‘Extinction Rebellion,’ Disrupting Ordinary Life

On the 1998 Apparent Step-Up in UAH Land-minus-Ocean Lower Tropospheric Temperatures

Simulated sunlight reveals how 98% of plastics at sea go missing each year

It can make more sense to build new renewable capacity than run old coal plants  Or maybe not.

Arctic critters are sneezing on each other like never before  Women and minorities hardest hit.

Meet the Doomers: Climate Worriers so Extreme Other Radicals Avoid Them

Jane Fonda: Teenage Activist Greta Thunberg ‘Inspired Me’ to Protest Climate Change  Yeah, she was getting all the good press.

Lettuce Pray: Climate Change, Neo-Paganism, and the End of the World

“The World Could Look Like This”: Weather Channel Unveils Global Warming Apocalypse Propaganda  They keep promising it but it never arrives.

Rich Residents Build Defenses Against Rising Seas; Poor Ones Leave

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Law enforcement agencies around the country have for the past few years eagerly latched onto consumer-facing DNA sites as a rich repository of information to help them close cases. Many of those sites have been allowing users to adopt privacy settings and restricting what data they allow police to access, but a first-of-its-kind search warrant may blow those users’ data banks wide open.

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I don’t even have to say anything.

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Wouldn’t it be wonderful if there was a “reboot” button for an entire state? Because the truth is that if an entire state ever needed to completely start over it is the state of California. At this point it has become the epicenter for just about everything that is wrong with America, and each year it just keeps coming up with new ways to become an even worse cesspool of social decay and depravity. Millions of people have already left the state, and millions more are thinking of leaving. One recent survey found that 47 percent of all Californians are thinking about moving out of the state in the next five years, and a different survey discovered that 53 percent of those currently living in the state would like to leave. If about half the people in your state are seriously considering leaving, it is safe to say that things have gone horribly wrong. But instead of changing course, those running California continue taking the state down a very self-destructive path.

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Yale students, if they’re still anything like they were when I graduated a few short years ago, likely aren’t overly concerned with the college admissions scandal that dominated the news this past spring, even as Lifetime releases its TV-movie based on the events and Felicity Huffman walks free after having served her eleven days in jail. Instead, Yale students will be focused on their classes, fulfilling their language requirements, agonizing as early as November about their plans for the following summer, and scrambling to join the various clubs that, like so many activities on campuses, require a surprisingly vigorous application process. For the newly arrived freshmen, who are, by now, probably starting to feel a bit more at home on campus, there is also probably still that lingering sense in the back of their heads that they made it: that they were admitted from the record 36,829 who applied for a spot in the class of 2023 to a school considered among the most prestigious in the world.

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Soon to be a major motion picture.

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Vice President Mike Pence deserves praise for not only remembering the national horror but also personally showing up and speaking out at Fort Hood, Texas, the scene of the Nov. 5, 2009, terrorist massacre that killed 13 American soldiers and citizens.

It has been a decade since that terrorist attack on U.S. soil by a self-identified Islamic terrorist and American traitor. Ten years on and only a damnable trickle of mainstream media bother to reflect on this horror. In terms of mainstream printers, TV images and internet pixels, this savage outrage has been … briefly mentioned, barely touched.

For the record, the terrorist who perpetrated the massacre is still alive, on death row in the Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, military prison.

More than 11,000 scientists from around the world declare a ‘climate emergency’

GPS – An Unconventional Tidal Gauge  If you don’t like the data you find, find some data you like.

Johan Norberg’s Message to St. Greta

HuffPost: Cancel Thanksgiving to Save the Planet

Extinction Rebellion protesters set for million pound pay out as they plot general election disruption, after High Court rules ban illegal

Green New Deal Dems Toss Their Support Behind Report Pushing To Fast-Track Population Control

Lettuce Pray: Climate Change, Neo-Paganism, And The End Of The World

Georgetown: How a Texan Town’s Green Energy Dream Turned into a Nightmare

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

MSNBC Connects Fires to ‘Climate Denial,’ Obama-Era Rollbacks

Claim: Climate Change will Break the Housing Market

U.S. Starts withdrawal from Paris Climate Accord.

Polar bears precipitated Netflix walrus deaths, new Attenborough TV special shows

Lawsuit Says Obama Entered Paris Climate Agreement Illegally, Cites Mysterious Legal Memo

Inconvenient Truth: Best Way To Help The Environment Is To Avoid Green “Eco-Friendly” Products

Liberal ‘Climate Mayors’ Are Proving Trump Right On Paris Climate Accord

Babylon Bee.

Local socialist millennial man Matthew Hatter lamented Monday that there are no concrete examples of socialism he can point to in order to have some kind of idea how it would turn out.

We feel his pain.

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Concur.

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Sounds as if somebody thinks we have too many Africans.

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Via Tyler Cowen we learn there’s a new paper from Duke’s Peter Arcidiacono — the economist who served as an expert witness for the plaintiffs in the recent lawsuit against Harvard. (I’ve written about Arcidiacono’s work before here and here.) In this one, Arcidiacono and his coauthors detail a rather bizarre pattern in the school’s admissions data.

Basically, starting about ten years ago — in the wake of some Supreme Court activity that mildly limited affirmative action — the school began seeking out lots more applications from black students, leading the black share of the applicant pool to grow from about 6 percent to about 10 percent. Some of this effort seems to have taken the form of recruitment letters sent out on the basis of test scores, with far lower cutoffs for members of underrepresented groups.

Yet the new applicants apparently had little prayer of getting in. “The share of admits who were African American remained unchanged,” the authors write. “At the same time, the average SAT score of African American applicants fell by 33 points (on an 800-point scale)” between 2008 and 2012, something that did not happen for other racial groups.

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They pretty much had to cave on this one. Once he buys the donuts they’re his to do with as he pleases; if he wants to re-sell them, he can.

Netflix Show: Penguins Are Gay and Climate Change Kills Them

Flood of Oil Is Coming, Complicating Efforts to Fight Global Warming

Time: China is Bankrolling Renewable Projects Around the World because they are Climate Leaders

The Giga And Terra Scam Of Offshore Wind Energy

Babylon Bee.

Archaeologists working near the ancient Fertile Crescent made a stunning discovery Friday morning: the AR-15 Cain used to kill Abel as recorded in the Bible.

Ace of Spades has fun with that.

Revisit? That implies that the media visited it before. It didn’t. It embargoed the story. NBC (culture of rape!) forbade a reporter from even talking about her interview with Juanita Broaddrick.

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This is an attempt by the Heritage Foundation to update the classic Sharon Statement formulated 60 years ago at Bill Buckley’s place in Sharon CT as a cornerstone document for the Young Americans for Freedom.

Across the years there have been many attempts, of which this is only the latest, to convert the conservative perspective into an ‘ism’, i.e. an ideology with a doctrine of faith, a political program, and a desired end-state toward which all adherents are supposed to work.

The problem with such attempts is that ‘conservatism’ isn’t an ideology, like socialism or fascism, but rather an aspect of ones personality, a way of looking at the world and its activities; hence any search for the ‘unchanging principles’ of ‘conservatism’ is doomed to failure, and such laundry-lists as these are anything but — they devolve into time-and-location-dependent opinions that certainly arise out of the reactions of conservative people to current events but cannot legitimately be termed ‘unchanging principles’.

So why do they thrive? Because conservatives, consciously or not, realize that ‘conservative principles’ are time-and-location-dependent and hence give rise to different appreciations of what is or is not ‘conservative at any particular time or place. Hence these ‘definitions’ are (a) a pre-emptive defense against criticism by other putative ‘conservatives’ that the defining group Aren’t Really Conservative and (b) a stick with which to beat other purportedly ‘conservative’ groups that the defining group think have strayed from the True Faith.

This has certainly happened historically — the defenestration of the John Birch Society and the Ayn Rand Objectivists from The Conservative Movement by Bill Buckley and the National Review crowd are famous examples.  Fringe groups are cut off from the desired core of True Believers because unbelievers might think that the Faithful are actually tainted by beliefs that might be derogatory. This is the basis of the impulse for everybody and his dog to call their enemies ‘Nazis’, which they rarely are but which is a useful tarbrush to use in modern political discourse. So, like the poor, definitions of what is or is not True Conservatism will always be with us.