31st October 2021
Climate activists boycott climate conference over vaccine inequality, despite warnings of impending doom The sea levels will rise unless everybody gets vaccinated.
To deal with the climate crisis, the world needs more democracy If the world had more democracy, there wouldn’t be a ‘climate crisis’.
Climate change reshaped Earth with extreme weather this year (Associated Press) I guess it’s, what’ pear-shaped now?
Glasgow idiocy: Climate change isn’t remotely the world’s No. 1 problem Although it might be in Glasgow, which is not exactly famous for its fresh air, beautiful buildings, and attractive scenery.
Climate Change Fueled Witch Hunts… Then and Now
Climate change: What’s it like living in a place where it’s 50C? More to the point, what’s it like being so stupid as to remain in a place where it’s 50C?
Private jets to COP26 in Glasgow emit more CO2 than Scots pump out in a year ‘Climate change’ is a problem — for you. (For me … not so much.)
G20 Leaders Offer Little New on Climate, UN Chief’s Hopes ‘Unfulfilled’
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31st October 2021
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Somehow, writers for left-wing publications (of which The Guardian is probably the poster child) seem to think that it’s still 1843 and we’re just waiting for Dickens to come along and rip the cunning facade off of the dystopia that is the modern world.
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30th October 2021
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27th October 2021
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25th October 2021
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23rd October 2021
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22nd October 2021
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21st October 2021
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20th October 2021
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19th October 2021
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18th October 2021
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18th October 2021
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I have now looked through all of the latest IPCC report. I say “looked through” because the report, including the Summary for Policymakers, is huge, just under four thousand pages. I looked over all of it, read only bits of particular interest to me.
One complication in writing about it is that the main report has, across every page in large light grey letters, “ACCEPTED VERSION SUBJECT TO FINAL EDITING,” and at the bottom of every page, “Do Not Cite, Quote or Distribute.” I will limit myself to describing what is in it and where but not actually quoting. The restriction is not present in the Summary for Policymakers, however.
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18th October 2021
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A mob last week rampaged through downtown Portland, Ore. Police were unable to control the crowd, however, because of restrictive measures passed this year by the Democratic state legislature.
A crowd of 100 people on Oct. 12 smashed windows and graffitied buildings, causing more than $500,000 in damage, police said. The violence followed a memorial to a Portland anarchist who in 2019 was hit by a car and killed.
Police made no arrests at the protest and did not directly intervene. Officers said their hands were tied by a state bill, passed in June, that in most situations restricts police from using crowd-control devices such as pepper spray and rubber bullets.
Did you hear anything about this in the “news”? I didn’t.
Time to leave.
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17th October 2021
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15th October 2021
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15th October 2021
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If we sat in a boardroom and tried to decide the kind of story that the liberal media are the most hostile to covering – hostile to the point of wishing it had never existed – it might be this: teenage boy describing himself as “gender fluid” accused of raping a girl in a high-school bathroom.
This is a story that any liberal media outlet would want to spike, censor, ignore, squelch, and bury six feet underground. It’s a vivid illustration of what liberals consider a false stereotype. They assume automatically, ideologically, this could never happen — that a sexual predator would proclaim himself gender-fluid and enter a bathroom or locker room to commit a sex crime.
It’s a right-wing “lie” that suddenly became real.
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14th October 2021
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14th October 2021
Steven Hayward at Power Line.
Katie Couric is out with a memoir from her Morning Show days that apparently dishes on everyone. I have no idea because I haven’t read it and I’m not going to. But the indispensable New York Post has a scandalous story today containing an excerpt from Couric about how she suppressed a comment by the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg about athletes kneeling for the National Anthem because it ran contrary to the left’s narrative.
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13th October 2021
This climate change contrarian gives us an important reminder about science in general (Washington Post)
What sea level rise will do to famous American sites, visualized (The Guardian) Welcome to Fantasyland. Still waiting for the seas to, you know, actually rise.
Our underwater future: What sea level rise will look like around the globe (CNN) Still waiting for New York to be under water. Still waiting for real estate in Malibu to get cheaper.
Scientists looked at more than 100,000 studies and found the world has a giant climate-crisis blind spot (CNN) Yeah, still can’t see this crisis actually happening.
UN Tells Greta Thunberg To Pound Sand Over Climate Complaint
Beijing Liberalizes Coal-Fired Power Prices To Combat Energy Crunch Don’t they know that we’re all going to be under water in a week or two, a month at the outside?
NASA Is Preparing for the Ravages of Climate Change
Sky News Doomsday Climate Report Flooded with Misleading Sea Rise Claims
Prince Charles Adds to His List of Climate Last Chances
The End of Green Dreams?
Intellectuals urge Germany to keep nuclear plants online There’s a switch.
Climate Clock Fear-mongers live countdown clocks.
Extreme heat is broiling people in developing cities – Science – AAAS
Here is The Hidden $150 Trillion Agenda Behind The “Crusade” Against Climate Change
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11th October 2021
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10th October 2021
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9th October 2021
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8th October 2021
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8th October 2021
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Whistleblowers pay a heavy price for standing up for truth, for humanity, for life. Haugen is simply shoring up one elite path of several to more deceit, more suffering, more death.
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7th October 2021
The Demeanor of the Warmalarmer Witness
US Desperate For Coal Miners To Meet Soaring Global Demand
Oil Surges After Energy Department Says No Plan To Tap Oil Reserves Makes you wonder why we spent all that money on oil reserves in the first place, doesn’t it?
Claim: Government Policy Must Curb the Climate Excesses of the Rich
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7th October 2021
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6th October 2021
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5th October 2021
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5th October 2021
David Cole is delightfully dyspeptic today.
Sometime in the early 1990s a friend suggested that I watch a movie called The Handmaid’s Tale. I was vaguely aware of the book…I knew it was authored by some ugly old bat from Canada, and honestly you couldn’t have paid me enough to read it. But I have a fondness for dystopian sci-fi, and my friend was like, “The movie’s really good! Give it a try.”
As it was on cable and didn’t cost me anything, I figured, sure.
I’m going on memory here, but this is what I recall. Most of the world’s women have been rendered infertile by the Evils of Man, a theme incredibly common in dystopian sci-fi but that withered old bag probably thought she was the first to think of it. And the movie starts with women being processed to sort the barren from the birthing.
Margaret Atwood is to writing what Maya Angelou is to poetry, i.e. a cheap Politically Correct substitute for the Real Thing.
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4th October 2021
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3rd October 2021
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3rd October 2021
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2nd October 2021
Earth Is Dimming – It’s Due to Climate Change Climate change! Is there anything it cant’ do?
California faces water issues amid drought, climate change – Los Angeles Times (L.A. Times) Well, actually, it’s dim-witted government.
Aussie Treasurer: Climate Change is Not Just an Issue for Affluent Liberals
Heil Greta
German Wind Turbine Mysteriously Collapses One Day Before It Was Supposed To Officially Be Inaugurated Climate change! Is there anything it can’t do?
Here’s Why Climate Alarmists Are Ignoring All-Time Record Crop Production in India It’s India — who cares what backward brown people do? Certainly not the Crust.
Can Geoengineering Fix Climate Change? The New York Times seems to think so, and of course they’re always right.
The Controversial Quest to Make Cow Burps Less Noxious
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2nd October 2021
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Call it the liberal media “one word” game. All it takes is one word – one word ever so subtly and carefully placed in a news story. And with that the liberal media sets the liberal narrative about the topic of the moment.
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Here’s the liberal media word game at work, this time over in The Hill. The headline: “Manchin says reconciliation bill must include controversial Hyde Amendment”
Note the word game at play: The Hyde Amendment, four and a half decades on the books, passed overwhelmingly, is suddenly labeled “controversial.” All manner of conservative critics called out the game.
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1st October 2021
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29th September 2021
California “experts” hype sea level rise by 2050 50+ times greater than actual data shows.
More Than Half Of China’s Provinces Are Now ‘Rationing’ Electricity, Governors Demand More Coal Imports To Resolve Crisis
Poland’s Second Largest Electricity Consumer Is Turning To Nuclear Power
Met Office’s Fake Arctic Ice Claims Mislead Public
Yale-NUS Professor: Climate Lessons Need to “Demonstrate an Emotional Orientation” You have to love Big Brother.
‘Blah, blah, blah’: Greta Thunberg lambasts leaders over climate crisis (The Guardia) I guess Greta is missing the spotlight.
Greta Thunberg roasts world leaders for being ‘blah, blah, blah’ on climate action (CNN) I’m shocked, shocked that world leaders aren’t taking their climate-change marching orders from this white teenager.
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28th September 2021
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27th September 2021
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26th September 2021
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26th September 2021
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Donald Trump’s victory over Hillary Clinton in the 2016 election was a traumatic event for many women, especially the white ones with college educations, lucrative professional careers, and an unhealthy obsession with politics that fills a gaping void in their lives by reinforcing their feelings of moral supremacy over their fellow Americans.
Women like Jennifer Rubin, the prolific social media user and Washington Post opinion columnist who once accused former president Barack Obama of having more sympathy for “the Muslim World” than for his fellow Americans, but has since reinvented herself as “one of the most reliable defenders of the Biden administration,” according to Politico.
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25th September 2021
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25th September 2021
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Recall the blockbuster New York Post story in the end run up to the 2020 election? The major scoop that Hunter Biden had left a laptop at a repair shop – and the repairman found all kind of illicit doings (and pictures!) on the computer?
The story was not only hotly denied by the Biden campaign and — falsely — assailed as part of a Russian disinformation campaign, it was suppressed by its Big Tech allies and ignored by the Democrat’s liberal media buddies.
Now comes Politico, of all places, to confess that…well, um, ahhh…ok, yes. The Post story was in fact true. An amused Post editorial headlined: “The Hunter Biden laptop is confirmed?! Color us shocked!”
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24th September 2021
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23rd September 2021
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22nd September 2021
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22nd September 2021
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The left has found a scenario it thinks it can retail to defuse the invasion of the United States by Haitians and hundreds of thousands of others via our former southern border. They want us to believe that overwhelmed immigration enforcement authorities on horseback are whipping Haitians.
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20th September 2021
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I guess nuking Jews was just a hobby.
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