Climate Champion China Ramping Up Government Funding for Fossil Fuel

CIA, Climate, And Conspiracy: More Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #378

Scientists Identify How Many Trees to Plant and Where to Stop Climate Crisis

Activist biologist filled with eco-anxiety shares unfounded fear of polar bear catastrophe

Water Behaving Badly

Martin Armstrong: No Evidence Of Human-Induced Climate Change

Forbes: Global Warming to Blame But Definitely Not Linked to Early Snow in the Rockies

Washington at war: Dems aim for speedy impeachment push as Trump threatens whistleblower

Pelosi Suggests Losing The House Might Be Worth The Price If Trump Is Impeached

NBC’s ‘Meet The Press’ Falsely Links Trump’s ‘Favor’ Term To Biden Investigation Request

Senate GOP Should Subpoena Congressman Adam Schiff

Politico Impeachment Story Goes Full Laughable Drama Queen

Avengers Director Joss Whedon: Twitter Must Ban Trump

ABC’s Abrams Claims ‘Anything in Theory Can Be Impeachable’  In theory.

Sixth-Grade Girl Admits To Fabricating Hate Attack That Media Linked To Mike Pence’s Wife, School Says

Progressives Slam CNN For ‘Whitewashing’ Impeachment, Failing To Credit ‘Squad’

Former Sen. Jeff Flake Torn On Impeachment, Urges GOP To Dump Trump For 2020  Never was a politician so aptly named.

MSNBC’s Melvin: Only ‘Wackos’ Believe ‘Nonsense’ About Bidens  CNN and MSNBC must have a secret factory where they produce semi-Negroes for on the air.

Another Hate Hoax: Karen Pence, Christian School Slimed Over Fake ‘Racist’ Attack

Hillary Clinton: Trump Has a “Guilty Conscience” Over Beating Me in 2016 and That’s Why He’s “Obsessed With Me”  The only person obsessed with Hillary is Hillary.

Former Reddit CEO Wants Trump Banned From Twitter They recognize that it’s a mighty tool in his hands.

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Well, we’re in for a major showdown now between the NCAA and California. We’re about to see a standoff unlike we’ve seen before because the NCAA has already said it’ll ban schools in the state from competing if players get paid.

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Unexplained is why we need a plastic alternative for fish skin and scales.  Perhaps the fish were badly burned,.

Babylon Bee.

You can never be too careful.

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Well, that’s what happens when Democrats run your state.

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Hammer tech.

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On July 7, a young man from China crossed the border into Hong Kong, found the nearest KFC, and locked himself in the bathroom. He took out a pen and a paper sign, trembling at the thought of how his life was about to change. “I come from the mainland,” he wrote. “Thank you, Hongkongers! Don’t give up, fight for freedom!” Then he joined the protesters marching from Tsim Sha Tsui to West Kowloon, and held up his sign. When he returned to China the police arrested him, stripped him naked, forced him to sing “There is no new China without the Communist Party,” and held him in a room with forty other prisoners. They threatened to beat him to death for betraying the Chinese “race.”

‘SNL’ has Baldwin’s Trump making phone calls to talk impeachment  Does anybody still watch that show?

Democrats decide on rapid timetable for Trump impeachment inquiry  Before people get too bored.

Krugman: Either Trump Goes to Jail, or ‘Thousands of Journalists’ in ‘Prison Camps’  I pick “B”.

CNN’s Jake Tapper Gripes: Unlike Nixon, Trump ‘Has Fox News’ and Die-Hard Websites  There’s a reason for that.

John Kasich Surprises CNN’s Alisyn Camerota by Pouring Cold Water on Impeachment

Impeachment Mania!

ABC Claims New Poll Shows Impeach Support ‘Climbing’, They Didn’t Ask That

‘I’m Defending The Truth’: CNN Panel Blows Up Over Trump’s Ukraine Call

‘Illegitimate President’: Hillary Clinton Supports Impeachment, Won’t ‘Accept’ Trump Remaining In Office

CBS’s Pauley Tees Up ‘Gutsy Woman’ Hillary to Call for Trump’s Impeachment

Rep. Schiff: Trump Thinks He Has A ‘God-Given Right To Shakedown Foreign Leaders’

Robert De Niro Drops F-Bombs Over Backlash For Speaking Out Against Trump  He must really think he is a mobster.

Biden Campaign Demands TV Networks Stop Booking Rudy Giuliani

How Many Times do Useless Climate Models have to be Killed before they Die?

The “climate doom” timeline

Climate activist Greta Thunberg proclaimed “Successor of Christ” by Church of Sweden  Funny, she doesn’t look Jewish.

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Every now and then a piece of good writing manages to creep into National Review. I guess Rich Lowry has to sleep sometime.

Sometimes whataboutism is healthy. At an awards ceremony this weekend, Hillary Clinton said that Donald Trump had “turned American diplomacy into a cheap extortion racket.”

I’m trying to imagine a worse person to deliver this message. The Clinton Foundation excepted millions of dollars from foreign governments just when Hilary Clinton was secretary of state under Obama. Kuwait, Qatar, Oman, Australia, Norway, and the Dominican Republic all gave.

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The Democrat brownshirts in New York cinch their regime tighter and tighter.

Look for more people fleeing to freedom.

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The Crust, of which the Bidens are fully-inducted members, specialize in no-show jobs for their progeny. (Wait until Obama’s daughters hit the workforce — they will get similar sinecures in places like nonprofit organizations or media or political lobbying firms.)

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In his new book, Proof!: How the World Became Geometrical, historian Amir Alexander advances an audacious claim: that Euclidean geometry profoundly influenced not just the history of mathematics, but also broader sociopolitical reality. In prose that makes his passion for the material both clear and catching, he describes how Euclid’s Elements present a vision of a perfectly rational order, but one that was viewed as purely theoretical: There was no place for geometrical ideals in messy reality. In the 1400s, Leon Battista Alberti, an Italian polymath, upended that understanding, countering that the world was, in fact, fundamentally geometrical. Other thinkers, from Copernicus to Galileo, followed. And, as Alexander argues, this sea change had profound implications: If the world was geometrical—not only rational, but also hierarchical and permanent—then that was the divinely ordained social order, too. Euclidean geometry, that is, was used to justify monarchy.

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Hammertech.

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A fascinating look at a top-flight hedge fund entrepreneur and his family viewed from the perspective of how he got his kids into top-flight colleges.

Most interesting fact: “Shaw is one of the country’s top donors to the Democratic Party.”  Rich people aren’t stupid; they know that aligning with Democrats yields more clout than Republicans, and they’e all about clout.

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“It is important for us to consider how our policies can help reduce hate and violence through any vehicle,” Rep. Danny K. Davis insisted. “Any mechanism, any apparatus, any way that we possibly can.”

The mechanism and apparatus being considered was unconstitutional viewpoint discrimination.

The Oversight Subcommittee of the House Ways and Means Committee was holding a hearing on How the Tax Code Subsidizes Hate. Its theme was removing tax-exempt status from groups it didn’t like.

Climate change on Cape Cod: At the edge of a warming world

Greta’s Handlers

Greta Thunberg To Poor Countries: Drop Dead

Drug Inquiry: Fear of Climate Change is Destroying the Lives of Young People

2019 Arctic Sea Ice Minimum Tied for Second Lowest on Record

NYT: “How the Climate Kids Are Short-Circuiting Right-Wing Media”

On Maher Show, Barney Frank Calls Trump ‘Accessory to Murder’ of Ukrainians by Russia

Thousands join Greta Thunberg in Canada climate strikes

Speech of Harrison Ford: “If We Don’t Protect Nature We Can’t Protect Ourselves”  Ever notice how Ford now looks like a homeless guy?

Climate Change Protesters Snarl DC Traffic in a ‘Fight for My Future’  Apparently it is the conventional wisdom that pissing people off by interfering with their daily lives is the way to win their support for your cause. I scratch my head….

The Tragedy of Greta Thunberg

MSNBC’s Jansing Accuses Trump of Attacking Biden’s ‘Only Remaining Child’

America on Trial: Democrats Intend to Impeach Not Just Trump, But the Deplorable Country That Voted Him Into Office

The phases of Trump’s coming impeachment proceedings

First House Republican backs impeachment inquiry

NBC Anchor’s ‘Powerful Monologue’ Demanding Truth… After Skipping Schiff’s False ‘Parody’

Nicolle Wallace: Romney Will Swing Swing Voters to Support Impeachment The damage a RINO can do….

While House Democrats Push To Impeach Trump, 2020 Candidates Focus Sights On Kavanaugh

Trump raises $13million after Pelosi announces impeachment inquiry

With Impeachment Shiny Object, Media Admit Mueller Was a Flop

Bill Maher: If It Was Don Jr.’s Ukraine Connection And Not Hunter Biden ‘It Would Be All Rachel Maddow Was Talking About’

Ari Fleischer: Trump Only Deserved A ‘Five-Yard Penalty’ For Ukraine Call

Paul Krugman Makes A Prediction: Journalists Will Be Imprisoned Or Trump Ends Up In Jail  Every time Paul Krugman opens his mough, he reduces the respect that accrues to winning a Nobel prize.

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And who could blame them/

Plenty of room in Texas, y’all. (Leave your California attitudes behind, though.)

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For those who haven’t been paying attention (for which I do not blame you), Jeong is an ethnic-Korean activist whose claim to fame is unapologetic anti-white racism.

UPDATE: “Dumba$$ F**king White-Men”-Hating NYTimes Editor Has Left Board

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Brattleboro is a small town (about 12k people) in Vermont, one of the whitest states in the U.S. There are only about 5,000 Africans in the entire state, so there’s a good chance that a significant portion of the African population in the state consists of college students at Dartmouth and other educational institutions that need African students for affirmative action purposes.

I suspect that one does not travel to Vermont if one prefers living around black people. There was a time, of course, when there were a lot of black farmers — they were called ‘sharecroppers’ and they did not have enviable lives.

ZMan unpacks a fashionable political fetish.

There is a slow shift going on with the definition of racism. The first part of those common definitions now says something like “the belief that all members of each race possess characteristics or abilities specific to that race.” In other words, the moral codes that define racism now include an assertion of fact. That is, race does not exist. After all, to say that people have shared traits that define them as a people is what is considered the primary definition of racism. To be a racist is to acknowledge race.

Racism is well on its way to becoming a form of magic. The racist mind is now one that perceives things that are not real, like sub-Saharan Africans having dark skin. The epicanthic fold not only cannot exist, noticing it suggests the person seeing it is possessed by the demon of racism. There really is no other way to interpret the emerging definition of racism. In order to resolve the conflict between the definition and nature, they must introduce some supernatural element.

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Experts said the breakthrough – which spots changes in the genes, as disease develops – could be used to improve screening for cancer, allowing treatment much sooner, when it is more likely to succeed.

Crucially, 99.4 per cent cases identified as cancer were correctly spotted – meaning just 0.6 per cent of cases were misdiagnoses of healthy patients.

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I am very familiar with transcripts of presidential phone calls since I edited and processed dozens of them when I worked for the NSC. I also know a lot about intelligence whistleblowers from my time with the CIA.

My suspicions grew this morning when I saw the declassified whistleblowing complaint. It appears to be written by a law professor and includes legal references and detailed footnotes. It also has an unusual legalistic reference on how this complaint should be classified.

From my experience, such an extremely polished whistleblowing complaint is unheard of. This document looks as if this leaker had outside help, possibly from congressional members or staff.

Steve Sailer.

Do you think that when Admiral Hyman Rickover was a cadet at the Naval Academy he had learn the names for various knots? Or was every knot back then some kind of noose like they are today?

I don’t recognize the knot from the tiny picture but it certainly isn’t a noose.

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Three years ago, California passed one of the strongest laws in the country to outlaw surprise medical billing. That legislation made sure that when patients went to a hospital covered by their insurance, doctors couldn’t later ambush them with unexpected bills.

Daily Show’s Noah Thrilled by ‘Fantastic, Tremendous’ Impeachment

On ‘Morning Joe,’ Chris Matthews Exults: ‘They’ve Got Him!’

Their Turn: ABC, CBS LIE About ‘Favor’ Trump Asked of Ukraine Pres.

MSNBC Guests: Conservative Media, Partisanship Keep GOP from Impeaching Trump

Jesse Watters Forces Juan Williams To ‘Give Up’ When He Pulls Out ‘Mutual Legal Assistance’ Treaty With Ukraine

Four days that pitched America into an impeachment nightmare

Impeach Adam Schiff

PBS, NPR Interview Schiff, Fail to Ask About His False ‘Parody’ of Trump

Trump Slams “Fraud” Adam Schiff For Reading Fabricated “Mafia” Version Of Ukraine Transcript

Trump Calls On Adam Schiff To Resign After Fabricated Transcript Reading

The New Yorker To Ring In October With A Cover Featuring Trump And Giuliani Murdering Uncle Sam

Amy Klobuchar Claims Trump Is ‘Basically Threatening The Execution’ Of The Whistleblower

CBS Host Can’t Handle Trump Lawyer’s Ridicule of Fake Transcript

Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz Explains Why There’s No ‘Possible Criminal Conduct’ In Trump-Ukraine Story

House Democrats Subpoena Mike Pompeo, Threaten Obstruction Charges

On CNN, Rather and Donaldson Declare ‘Mob’-Like Trump Is ‘Out-Nixoning Nixon’

Climate Hysteria Is Damaging Children

Mont Blanc glacier could collapse at any moment  ‘could’

New IPCC report on ocean warming cites a flawed and retracted paper

Special NY Times Editorial Takes Greta Thunberg’s Side: ‘Climate Kids and Right-Wing Media’

Here Are The Climate Alarmist Predicting The Apocalypse

Climate Bully Plays The Race Card At #ShutDownDC

Team Trump’s Unconvincing Ukraine Spin  Jonah Goldberg

Ukraine Transcript Confirms Trump Asked Zelensky to ‘Look Into’ Biden, Prosecutor  Jack Crowe

The Trump–Ukraine Transcript Contains Evidence of a Quid Pro Quo  David French

Excuses, Excuses  Ramesh Ponnuru

The Impeachment Train  Yuval Levin

Pakistan trained al-Qaeda, says Imran Khan

Hate Speech, “Islamophobia”, and Undefined Terms

The Moroccan Mafia Claims Another Victim in the Netherlands

Next For Turkey? Nuclear Weapons!

NJ Man Scouted Landmarks For Potential Hezballah Terror Attacks

Thomas Cook customers ‘held hostage’ in Tunisian resort amid fears the company’s collapse could turn resorts into ‘refugee camps’

Iran ‘assures’ FIFA that women are allowed to attend World Cup qualifier after suicide of woman arrested for entering stadium

The Growth of Salafism in the Netherlands

A Half-Decade Late, NY Post Admits ISIS Is Run By NATO Member Turkey

ISIS Tweets Propaganda Faster Than Twitter Can Ban Them

Afghan forces raid ‘killed at least 35 wedding guests’

Dutch Senior Citizen Dies After Being Beaten by Culture-Enriching Bike Thieves

Iran Proxies Escalating? Overnight Rocket Attack Hits US Embassy Compound In Baghdad

Pakistan Threatened India With Nuclear War And No One Noticed

Afghan election risks spiraling out of control, warns Gulbuddin Hekmatyar

Qandeel Baloch: Pakistan social media star’s brother gets life for her ‘honour’ murder

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Do Us a Favor”: The Forty-eight Hours That Sealed Trump’s Impeachment

House Democrats Reach Major Milestone In Impeachment Push

Devin Nunes: ‘Russia Hoax’ Has ‘Transformed Into The Ukrainian Hoax’

Democratic Rep. Warns That All His Party Has Coming Is ‘A Failed Impeachment’

ABC, NBC: Congress Can ‘Read Between the Lines’ to Impeach Trump  I.e. make it all up.

Democrats ‘Careening from Impeachment Theory to Impeachment Theory’

Jesse Watters Says Democrats Want To Impeach Trump ‘For Exposing Biden’s Corruption’

‘President Isn’t Telling the Truth’: Nicolle Wallace Cuts Away from Press Conference

If Liberals Have Truth On Their Side, Why Do They Lie About Trump?

Public Opposes Impeachment, Warns New York Times

Rep. Schiff Fabricates What Trump Said In Ukraine Telephone Call Transcript

Schiff Clarifies His Fabricated Account Of Ukraine Transcript By Calling It ‘Parody’

Suspicions Grow That “Whistleblower Complaint” Is a Put-Up Job Orchestrated by Adam Schiff

Why the Impeachment Frenzy May Only Strengthen Trump  Victor Davis Hanson.

Rashida Tlaib Leads Crowd In Profanity-Laced Impeachment Chant  How classy.

Understanding The Impeachment Charade  Tucker Carlson.

Can going nuclear combat climate change?

Dozens of Failed Climate Predictions Stretch 80 Years Back

Steven Novella’s Junk Science About Climate Change Acceleration

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Environmentalists love their trains. Apparently, the cutting edge of 19th-century technology is the solution to our transportation problems. The City of Austin recently spent about $150 million on a commuter rail system. This expenditure has reduced traffic congestion approximately 0 percent. If you stand next to I-35 during rush hour, more people will pass you in one minute than ride the train all day. A while ago, I was stopped at a railroad crossing for one of these trains. When it went by, I could see that there were fewer people in the train than cars stopped for it. It was only for a short time, no longer than a long traffic light. Still, that means that a couple of dozen cars were idling so 20 people could ride the train. If you multiply that by every railroad crossing in the city, that means that more gas is being wasted and more CO² being generated by the idling vehicles than if those twenty people had driven their cars.

Babylon Bee.

It had to happen.

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I’m pretty sure this isn’t a parody.

I’d like somebody to explain how having non-white skin somehow makes a person a better architect.

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According to a report published Thursday by CNBC, Warren’s oppositional attitude toward Wall Street could leave her high and dry in what’s sure to be a costly and hotly-contested general election against President Donald Trump.

Rush Limbaugh discussed this in today’s show.

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Well, it’s certainly a good thing that they got rid of all the guns, isn’t it?

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Anything that makes it difficult for cars to get through makes it really tough for emergency vehicles.

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Graham Piro at the Washington Free Beacon found a fascinating nugget in the waning minutes of an hourlong Monday segment of the NPR talk show 1A. They’re doing a series of climate segments under the heading “No Plan B.” Host Joshua Johnson was speaking about how many Democratic voters strongly — we might say creepily — hope to see their opponents die off, so the Left can get what they want. These are the “compassionate” ones, the “open-minded” ones?

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Hammertech..

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Dianna Muller, who served in the Tulsa Police Department for 22 years and is the founder of gun advocacy group The DC Project, was among the witnesses at the House Judiciary Committee hearing. The session on an otherwise contentious issue flew largely under the radar amid the Trump-Ukraine controversy and Democrats’ impeachment push. But reflecting the gun control divide in the country — amid a spate of deadly mass shootings that prompted renewed calls for strict laws — Muller said that such a ban would force lawful gun owners to either give up their arms or become criminals.

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At first, no one claimed to know how 24 boulders lining sidewalks to crowd out homeless camps in a San Francisco neighborhood appeared recently, The San Francisco Chronicle reported.

But now some residents say they collected $2,000 to buy and place the boulders to deter homeless people — whom they accuse of selling drugs, setting fires and starting fights — from setting up tents on the sidewalk, KGO reported.

“Since the rocks, it has helped,” said neighbor Ernesto Jerez, KTVU reported.

A Line-By-Line Response to Greta Thunberg’s UN Speech

Nuclear energy too slow, too expensive to save climate

A Clean Kill of the Carbon Dioxide-Driven Climate Change Hypothesis?

We’re Killing the Oceans, and We’ll Pay Dearly for It

Climate for You: The Big Picture

Surprise! Climate Activists Declare UN New York Climate Conference a Failure

Mont Blanc glacier ‘close to collapse’, experts warn, as roads are closed and mountain refuges evacuated

Climate change now irreversible due to warming oceans, UN body warns  So maybe now they’ll shut up about it.

After Release of Ukraine Letter, Andrea Mitchell Compares Trump to Gangster ‘Godfather’

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: Ukraine Transcript Shows Trump Committed ‘An Outright Betrayal Of Our Country’  Guess she didn’t bother to read it.

Adam Schiff Accuses Trump Of ‘Mafia-Like Shakedown’ Of Ukrainian President  Guess he didn’t bother to read it either.

EU Could Be Spending More On Private Jet Travels For Climate Crusading Officials: Report

Will Making People Late For Work Save The Environment?

Aussie PM Trying to Please Everyone on Climate Change But that trick never works….

Hillary Clinton Endorses Push To Impeach President Trump  Wow, there’s a surprise.

Impeachment Failure Theater? Democrats Wonder What Nancy Pelosi’s Rhetoric Actually Accomplished

Protect Your Portfolio From Impeachment Volatility

Trump Fundraises With The Official Impeachment Defense Task Force

Will Impeachment Backfire on the Democrats?

ABC Declares Impeachment Announcement ‘Historic’, CBS/NBC Hold Back

MSNBC’s ‘Hardball’: Impeachment Is Chance to Save Constitution from Russian Stooge Trump

Fredo Cuomo Urges Congress to Put ‘High Crimes Over Hype’ and Impeach

Impeachment Odds Plummet As Trump Releases Ukraine Transcript

This Is How 21 Celebrities Reacted When They Found Out An Impeachment Inquiry Is Going To Happen…

Sunny Hostin, Joy Behar Excited for Impeachment: Will ‘Unify the Country’ Against Trump

Naga Munchetty breached BBC guidelines by calling Trump tweet ‘racist’

Walls Are Closing In: Trump At 53% Approval, Highest in Five Months

Mitt Romney ‘Deeply’ Troubled By Trump-Ukraine Transcript  RINO! RINO!

Deep State Treasoners’ Club: Former DIA Officer Who Spied for China and Tried to Recruit a Chinese Spy Network Was Animated by Trump Hatred

The Trump–Ukraine Transcript Contains Evidence of a Quid Pro Quo  National Review cuck David French jumps to parrot the lies of his left-wing masters.

Jim Acosta Yells Impeachment Question Following Trump Press Conference