The ice used to protect them. Now their island is crumbling into the sea.  Washington Post.

Rising seas are a much bigger danger than experts thought  Washington Post.

Shocking New Maps Show How Sea Level Rise Will Destroy Coastal Cities By 2050 Forbes.

Extended Forecasts are Not Reliable

Delingpole interview on the success of polar bear conservation & failed survival models

The Snow will all have gone from Australia by 2050 – Really?  I don’t think ‘snow’ when I think Australia.

Climate change sparks ‘hunger crisis’ from Angola to South Sudan  More likely corruption and kleptocracy.

Left Fears Twitter’s Ad Ban Will Remove ‘Climate Change’ Ads  Wouldn’t that be a shame.

Andrew Cuomo: ‘We Didn’t Have Hurricanes’ Before Climate Change  Are we sure Fredo is the dumb brother?

Watch As MSNBC Hosts Let Gov. Cuomo Claim Tornadoes Didn’t Exist Before Climate Change

Expensive Climate Policies Sparked Chile Riots and #COP25 climate conference cancellation

Extinction Rebellion protester cleared of criminal damage after arguing her home was under threat from climate change

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Concur. I have never understood the disgust with which the Cool Kids have treated Comic Sans.

It’s a typeface. Like any typeface, it has its uses. Such uses are a matter of personal taste.

I’d much rather save my ire for people who put colored text on a black background, or who use lightweight microscopic sans serif fonts on a web page. Now THEY need to go to jail.

Ace of Spades is incredulous.

I’ll take Things That Do Not Appear in Jake Tapper’s Twitter Timeline for $600, Alex.

Escape from model land

Global Warming Fraud Off Global Cooling Fraud Back On

New York’s Anti-Trump AG Is Preparing To Grill Rex Tillerson About Exxon’s Supposed Climate Sins

ECB Official: Can Use Portfolio To Combat Climate Change  

The “Oil Age” is doing just fine, Bloomberg New Energy Finance notwithstanding

Record Low Temps, Up To 50 Degrees Below Normal, Threaten To Wreck Rest Of Harvest Season  Gotta love that Global Warming.

BOO! Halloween climate scare: featuring @ClimateofGavin and @GretaThunberg

Here’s How Poor Land Management Is Leading to Bigger California Fires

The Tragedy of GlobalEcoGuy, Climate Change Planetary Saviour

Farmers sue German government over climate change failures

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While trying to receive holy communion at South Carolina’s St. Anthony Catholic Church, former Vice President and 2020 hopeful Joe Biden was denied by the church’s reverend, citing Biden’s support for abortion. The liberal media were once floored by Biden’s support for the Hyde Amendment but welcomed his buckle to political pressure and their radical demands. So, it’s no wonder ABC, CBS, and NBC ignored the religious rebuke of Biden

End of Discussion: MSNBC Declares CA Wildfires Caused by Climate Change, Nothing Else

Mother Nature, Not Global Warming, is Causing the Wildfires in California

L A Times blames state’s fires & blackouts on nebulous “climate change” – hides Democrats huge failures

California’s Man-made Power Outages

Climate Scientist in Hot Water over Climate Drought Link Statements

California Faces 72 Hours Of Hell As “Devil Winds” Turn Current Wildfires Into Unstoppable Infernos

New elevation data triple sea-level vulnerability rise estimates  Looking forward to it.

NBC & CBS Scare Viewers With Climate Panic: Millions Will Be Underwater!  Yeah, but they’re all in the Turd World, so who cares?

Climate change scientists say rising seas will flood three times more people than previously thought  Sure, I believe that.

Babylon Bee.

Deprived of luxuries like power and freedom, more and more Californians are being forced to run extension cords over to their neighbors in adjacent states.

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Officials who run former President Ronald Reagan’s library in California use goats to eat dried brush and grass around the building that often act as accelerates for the state’s ferocious wildfires.

Nearly 300 goats mauled their way through the dry grasses around the Simi Valley library, the Los Angeles Times noted in a report Wednesday. The report laid out the efforts firefighters are taking to prevent the so-called Easy Fire from torching the 40th U.S. president’s monument.

Sometimes the old ways are best.

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The Grayzone editor Max Blumenthal has been arrested on false charges after reporting on Venezuelan opposition violence outside the DC embassy. He describes the manufactured case as part of a wider campaign of political persecution.

Max Blumenthal is Sidney Blumenthal’s kid and a certified proglodyte hack, so read it with that in mind.

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Oh, ya think?

That works more often than you might think.

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And about time, too.

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Kanye found the Red Pill somewhere.

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Father Robert E. Morey of Saint Anthony Catholic Church confirmed Monday afternoon that he had denied the presidential candidate Holy Communion because of his stance on abortion. Biden, a lifelong Catholic, had attended the church’s 9 a.m. Mass.

This is huge. I cannot recall another instance of this happening in the modern (last 60 years) Catholic church.

Next: Pseudo-Catholics Pelosi and Cuomo?

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The new project, the Google News Initiative North American Innovation Challenge, announced 34 news projects to be funded on Oct. 25. Twenty-nine of these projects were located in the states, while the other four were in Canada. One of the projects was unlisted. The first name on the list for the U.S., The Dallas Morning News, ran editorials announcing its endorsement of Hillary Clinton in 2016 and Beto O’Rourke for Senate in 2018.

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Typically, the projects were city daily papers or newsletters that promoted Democrats over Republicans.

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Researchers think they have, for the first time, discovered the ‘cradle of humanity’ where the first modern humans evolved before spreading across the globe.

They are believed to have flourished in the prehistoric Makgadikgadi–Okavango wetland, just to the south of the Zambezi River.

A study of DNA records and migration patterns has proven, scientists say, that the genetic root of all modern humans comes from that region 200,000 years ago.

The Real Climate Crisis Is Not Global Warming, It Is Cooling, And It May Have Already Started

How Lord Monckton’s Conundrum can be used to calculate maximum climate sensitivity to CO2

Climate Stalinism

Claim: Climate Change is Killing People in Somalia  How can they tell?

European Commission report hypes EU’s globally irrelevant, costly & unsustainable lower emissions schemes

Is it climate socialism – or eco-fascism?

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NBC tries to make this self-serving coward the hero here, unappreciated by people who just aren’t smart enough to understand how good he is.

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I have no confidence that anything I write here will persuade readers to increase or decrease their average tip. To me, the range of answers raises a larger question: Why are we still crowdfunding worker salaries when tippers so clearly do not know what the hell they’re doing?

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People in many of the world’s most advanced nations — including the United States, the euro area and Japan — are holding more of it than ever.

In the U.S., for example, currency in circulation stood at an estimated $1.76 trillion as of late September, according to the Federal Reserve. That’s about 8.2% of gross domestic product, up from just 5.6% before the 2008 financial crisis and close to the highest level in at least 36 years.?

If people need less cash to pay for stuff, why do they want to hold so much of it? The answer, it seems, is that they’re turning to currency as a store of value.

Of course, the $100 bill is also the most frequently counterfeited.  Just sayin’.

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Fantasy worlds are defined by limits: much is unknown in these worlds, and the unknown either resists being known, or it is left in peace. These are fabled lands that no one has visited and lost empires known only through inscrutable ruins. Withholding an America-like landmass seems to be part of that. We live in an age of information overload and complete transparency, and fantasy worlds offer the succor of not knowing. Or of knowing only at great effort and consequence. One thing that is true for so many fantasy continents I’ve looked at: you can’t circumnavigate them. It isn’t all there for you to gawk at, for you to possess it whole. You are never a tourist in them. Exploring one part of a world commits you to never being able to explore others. The part that you choose defines you as a particular kind of person.

The Campaign Cartographer people have a tool called Fractal Terrains which will allow you to create an infinite number of imaginary worlds with the press of a button.  Unfortunately, their tools only work on Windows — an understandable constraint considering that they’re out to make money, but a disappointment nevertheless.

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America did have a mostly free and independent press until the rise of broadcasting in the 1920s. Within a few years, a small group of Republicans, progressives and corporate interests successfully nationalized the airwaves with restrictive licensing that blocked competition, rewarded insiders and squelched dissent.

Over the next few decades, the increasingly powerful medium of radio and then television drowned out the previously broad spectrum of information and ideas—with often three or more diverse choices of daily newspapers in many U.S. cities—and turned free speech into carefully rationed federal broadcasting privileges, their anointed urban newspaper monopolies and a few approved magazines.

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Sometimes the old ways are best.

Freeberg has a list.

It’s been quite a week. I can’t spare a sufficient block of time to get it all captured, but it has not been lost on me that all of the significant events have to do with a socially accepted set of observations going in one direction, while the truth lies in the opposite direction. We as human beings can do this. We possess an ability, unique within the animal kingdom, to lie to ourselves. I did manage to make a list. It isn’t short. It makes me wonder if we’re becoming so estranged from truth and so anesthetized to even the most blatant attempts to deceive us, we may be losing the whole distinction between truth and falsehood.

Greta Thunberg Warns Vancouver: ‘Change Is Coming — Whether You Like It Or Not’

A short comment on statistical versus mathematical modelling

Does the Climate System Have a Preferred Average State? Chaos and the Forcing-Feedback Paradigm

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uman-like robots, which have the ability to accrue abilities, skills and knowledge the same way humans do, will in future be able to perform and take over every task that can be done by human beings.

I must confess that I’d much rather deal with a robot than with an illiterate, innumerate, inarticulate, unintelligible Person of Color. Heck, I’d even pay for the privilege.

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Russian scientists tracking migrating eagles ran out of money after some of the birds flew to Iran and Pakistan and their SMS transmitters drew huge data roaming charges.

After learning of the team’s dilemma, Russian mobile phone operator Megafon offered to cancel the debt and put the project on a special, cheaper tariff.

The team had started crowdfunding on social media to pay off the bills.

First World problem.

The Birthplace of Flying Shame and Greta Thunberg Warms to Nuclear Energy

Police Chief: Climate Protestors are Forcing the Diversion of Crime Investigation Resources

No More Cooking With Gas: Environmental Activists Going After the Appliances Consumers Love

“Apocalypse Near” – Pentagon Warns Climate Change Could Cause US Military Collapse Within 20 Years

National Trust to use ‘augmented reality’ headsets to show how climate change will destroy their properties unless climate change is addressed

Tiny beetle named after climate activist Greta Thunberg   Annoying far beyond its size.

PG&E Crashes To All Time Low Over Fears It Will Be Blamed For Latest California Inferno

‘Artificial leaf’ successfully produces clean gas

Schumer Announces Plan To Nix Virtually Every Gas Powered Vehicle In The Country

Naomi Oreskes Accuses Climate Scientists of Fitting In with the Consensus

Climate change has turned permafrost into a carbon emitter

California Faces “Biggest Blackout Ever” As 2.5 Million PG&E Customers May Have No Power For Days

Halloween Climate Scare #7: Syrians Are Fleeing Due to Climate Change

Babylon Bee.

n an inspiring story from the world of professional cycling, a motorcyclist who identifies as a bicyclist has crushed all the regular bicyclists, setting an unbelievable world record.

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Think of it as evolution in action.

I shot the deer and the deer won;
I shot the deer and the … deer won.

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But you have to bear in mind that Trump has accomplished ABSOLUTELY NOTHING during his term in office.

Just remember that.

Absolutely nothing.

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Last year something weird happened. I started to notice every other cold recruiter email opener has the word “impressed” in it. Obviously at first I was flattered that strangers were impressed by my experience. But then everyone started using this exact word in the same way and it started to feel really bizarre and fake.

Believing what a recruiter says is the first mistake.

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Most Americans now take it for granted that universal education is a good thing, including in particular “higher education.” To be sure, only about a quarter of American adults have a bachelor’s degree, but even so, it’s commonly thought that the more of us who go to college, the better. A citizenry, after all, needs to be educated and informed, able to debate the important issues of the day, as opposed to just asserting their biases—the natural, and frequently vulgar, instinct of mankind.

Yet it is trite but true that all life is trade-offs, so it’s worth contemplating whether fulfilling the university mission, and maintaining academic standards, are compatible with the presence of a massive number of persons of average and of below-average intelligence in academia. There is also an important gender issue here: Men and women are different; those differences are not just social constructs; and as university bureaucracies increasingly are dominated by women, it seems clear that, as in the cases of the family and the workplace, the gender equality experiment is hardly an unmixed good in academia.

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Today we’re seeing clear evidence of genetic differences between classes: causal differences. People with higher socioeconomic status have ( on average) higher EA polygenic scores. Higher scores for cognitive ability, as well. This is of course what every IQ test has shown for many decades.

It’s driving regional migration in the UK: people with higher scores in depressed areas (like mining towns) are leaving for London, leaving those towns even more depressed.

There is ongoing decline in those polygenic scores, as observed in other studies and as predicted by demographers and science-fiction writers many years ago.

Actually, ‘conundrum’ would be a better term than ‘dilemma’.

Steve Sailer.

A big chunk of American society has gone nuts over “gender” ideology, which wouldn’t be so bad if they weren’t trying to do terrible things to children.

How will Funding Climate Science Help Prevent Coral Bleaching?

Climate Change May Cause Poorly Maintained Bridges to Collapse  Or they may collapse anyway.

She Would Have Stood a Better Chance Against Polar Bears

NASA May Have Faked Climate Data Says Retired Top UK Govt. Scientist

How more organic farming could worsen global warming

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How about that GREAT government-provided health care? Don’t you wish we had a system like that in the U.S.?

Feel the Bern….

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Not a parody, so far as I can tell.

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You pretty much know that the leftist hive of Teen Vogue would exclude conservatives in its survey of youth politics when the synopsis of each young person from 16 to 24 featured is prefaced by the sentient being’s preferred pronouns. Preferred pronouns, of course, are one of the easy symbols to recognize that any such article would act as if conservative or Republican youth would be considered to be creatures from another world thus not even within the Teen Vogue realm of being considered for attention.

Steve Sailer.

And just wait until the public realizes that this brouhaha is about the President delaying foreign aid payments to Ukraine. There’s nothing more sacred in the eyes of American voters than our national duty to pay foreign aid promptly.

Who Are the “Experts” on Climate Change?

Gregory et al 2019: Unsound claims about bias in climate feedback and climate sensitivity estimation

The Price Tag of London’s ‘Extinction’ Climate Protest

Antarctic ice cliffs may not contribute to sea-level rise as much as predicted

For Halloween: 10 days of Climate Scares -Debunked

Climate Change Will Cost Us Even More Than We Think

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With thanks to Debby Witt, a kindred soul.