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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The door handles on the Tesla Model S are being blamed for the death of a 48 year old man who was involved in a fiery crash earlier this year, according to Bloomberg. A police officer was unable to pull the man to safety from his burning vehicle.

Oman Awan was driving his leased Tesla in February when he lost control of the vehicle on a South Florida parkway and slammed into a palm tree. A police officer who responded to the scene was unable to open the doors to free Awan because the handles were retracted and bystanders were forced to watch “helplessly” as the car filled with smoke and flames, according to a wrongful death lawsuit filed in state court in Broward County.

Hammer tech.

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

Just remember that.

Absolutely nothing.

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The always hyperbolic presidential historian Jon Meacham made an appearance on MSNBC’s Hardball Tuesday, where he weighed in on President Trump’s description of his treatment throughout the impeachment inquiry as a “lynching.” After trashing President Trump as a racist, Meacham proceeded to trash the entire country as racist dating all the way back to its founding.

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Democratic California Governor Gavin Newsom threatened possible legal action against oil companies in a Tuesday tweet complaining about the high cost of gas in his state.

“CA drivers have paid an average of 30 cents more per gallon. There’s no identifiable evidence to justify that. I’m demanding an investigation. If oil companies are engaging in false advertising or price fixing — legal action should be taken,” Newsom tweeted.

Clueless in Sacramento.

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Of couree we all take our moral lessons in foreign policy from the Russians.

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Well, actually, they just stood outside and pouted, but still.

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With thanks to Debby Witt, a kindred soul.

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As you might expect, it did not go well.

I doubt that Maxine Waters could balance her own checkbook, much less grasp digital currencies.

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California may end a decades-old ban on members of the Communist Party working in its government, after the state Assembly approved a bill that would delete references to the party from its employment requirements.

Yeah, they already allow Democrats, so it’s kind of a dead letter.

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The pedestrian bridge that collapsed over a busy Miami street last year, killing six people, was doomed by a fatal design flaw, federal authorities concluded in a scathing review on Tuesday. The errors led to unusually severe cracking in the concrete that should have worried engineers and prompted the closure of the roadway below for safety.

Instead, Southwest Eighth Street, an eight-lane thoroughfare adjacent to Florida International University, remained open. The $14 million bridge, which was under construction by the university to connect students to the neighboring city of Sweetwater, fell on top of motorists waiting at a red light, crushing their cars under 950 tons of concrete and metal.

“The bridge was talking to them,” Robert L. Sumwalt, chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board, said with evident exasperation at a board meeting in Washington. “It wasn’t just talking — it was screaming that there was something definitely wrong with this bridge. Yet no one was listening.”

I know, let’s put these people in charge of our health care.

Steve Sailer.

In 2019, two books demanding more censorship have each devoted a chapter to portraying me as a historic villain.

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Both authors are convinced that I helped hijack something big, although they disagree about whether it was science or politics. (I’ve been busy, apparently.)

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Democrat Daniel J. Hunt (whose last name was surely a playground favorite) introduced “An Act regarding the use of offensive words,” which would fine individuals $150 for a first offense, while repeat offenders would face a $200 fine, up to six months’ imprisonment, or both.

Problems? What problems?

Cambridge civil rights attorney Harvey Silvergate says Hunt’s bill isn’t legal.

“If it’s challenged in court, it will take minutes for a judge to see through it,” said Silvergate. “It doesn’t have a prayer of surviving, so why should the Legislature even burden us — the citizens, the press and the courts — why would they burden us with this nonsense? Surely they must have more important things to do.”

More important than Democrat virtue-signaling? I think NOT.

UPDATE: Twitter Mentions Of State Rep. Who Wants To Outlaw The Word ‘Bitch’ Predictably Filled With People Calling Him A Bitch

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A petition currently circulating by a student group on campus called “Act On A Dream” aims to condemn the Harvard Crimson student newspaper for asking Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for comment on an article published in September relating to an event held on campus that called for abolishing ICE.

The latest assault on free speech.

Marion Davis, director of communications for the Massachusetts Immigrant and Refugee Advocacy Coalition, said “getting both sides isn’t always what is fair, especially when one side has already made its views well known through the megaphones of government.”

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Michal Solowow’s Synthos SA, the second-largest European maker of synthetic rubber, signed a memorandum with GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy to build a small 300-megawatt reactor next to the company’s factory in southern Poland, which could be completed as early as 2027. That’s six years earlier than the government expects to build its first plant in a plan to construct at least 6 gigawatts of nuclear and cut the nation’s reliance on coal for electricity generation.

NY Times Panics Over Trump’s Social Media Success

This MSNBC Clip Is Everything Ugly About Russia Smears

All The Times The Media Said Trump’s Presidency Was Toast

Trump: ‘Vicious’ Democrats ‘Stick Together,’ Don’t Have ‘The Mitt Romneys Of The World’ To Deal With  Exactly right. Democrats never forget which side they’re on.

Trump fights back

Sharyl Attkisson: ‘Truth Is a Casualty’ in the Media’s War on Trump

Joe Scarborough: Trump Base Secretly Supports Impeachment  I have yet to see any evidence that Scarborough knows squat about Trump’s base or what they support.

MSNBC Excited By New Dem Talking Points on Impeachment

‘Find Me A Better Analogy’: Beto O’Rourke Compares Trump To Hitler

Why Do They Hate Him So?   Victor Davis Hanson

John Kerry Implies To Amy Schumer Republicans Are Privately Telling Him Trump’s ‘Off Balance’  And if you believe that one, he’l tell you another one.

Dem Lawmakers Demand Trump Apologize For Using The Word Lynching

Democrats Compared Clinton’s Impeachment To Lynching, Now Say Trump’s Racist For Doing The Same

Why Don’t You Want To Get Arrested To Save The Environment?

More Junk Science From the AAAS of A: Bird Apocalypse Edition

Ozone hole shrinks to smallest size on record, and it’s not related to global warming

Climate Alarmism in the News is not News

House Democrats Keep Anti-Exxon Climate Crusade Alive As NY’s AG Ratchets Up Pressure On Oil Producers

University dumps professor who found polar bears thriving despite climate change

“Stop The Lies”: Mural Of Greta Thunberg Defaced In Canada

Offshore Wind Getting Crushed by Carbon Capture

Newly Painted Greta Thunberg Mural Defaced: ‘Stop The Lies! This Is Oil Country!’

Word of the week: Ecotistical

Explaining Natural Gas Flaring to the New York Times’ Explanatory Reporters

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The tools you need to be hip & trendy.

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I guess these people just can’t read, or perhaps they believe that they can just wish the First Amendment away.

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Apparently there are still a few sensible Canadians left.

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Black Privilege comes a cropper.

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It is a measure of how far our culture had degenerated that even the loons to do this stuff have some hope that this might actually happen.

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Hint: No.

North of the border, Justin Trudeau’s Liberal party will form a new government despite being a minority that captured not even one-third of the nation’s votes (33.1 percent). Conservative leader Andrew Scheer must concede defeat despite his party having won 34.4 per cent of the vote, or 240,000 votes more than Trudeau.

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The New York Times devoted three full pages of valuable Sunday Review real estate (the full front page and two full inside pages) to a left-wing, ageist, anti-Trump voter lament disguised as a call for the political empowerment of youth via a lowering of the voting age: “They’ve Got The Whole World In Their Hands.” “Old people have the money and the power. Young people have been left out. But for how long?”

As long as the rich old powerful people choose. That’s the way the world works, popular mythology to the contrary notwithstanding. The New York Times, as the propaganda wing of the Coastal Crust, has to tell these bedtime stories constantly in hope that they will be believed.

It’s written by Astra Taylor, a Puffin Foundation/Economic Hardship Reporting Project fellow.

I am not making this up.

ZMan looks behind the curtain.

The one universal quality of left-wing politics that is true in every time and place is the need for an external enemy. It is onto this enemy the movement focuses its attention, making it a rallying point and a rallying cry. Ideally, the enemy is mysterious, maybe even a bit supernatural. A supernatural enemy supports the idea of the movement being in a decisive battle for the future of humanity. An important element of left-wing politics is a sense of urgency. There’s no time to wait, as the final battle is at hand.

Orwell, of course, understood this well and created two the great left-wing bogeymen in English literature. Emmanuel Goldstein is the “enemy of the people” during the two minutes of hate at the beginning of the novel 1984. In Animal Farm, Snowball is the blame for all the farm’s troubles, after he disappear. In both cases, the bogeyman is a traitor, who willingly turned on the cause. In both cases, the bogeyman is mysteriously absent, thus can be amplified as an almost supernatural villain.

Progressivism is a classic millenarian cult that seeks to bring about Heaven on Earth and Perfection for humanity.

It is the desperate need for bogeymen that must be the focus of any successful dissident movement, because it is the spirit of the ruling class. The reason the Left advertises those lists of “hate symbols” is to encourage stupid people to adopt them as some form of rebellion. Again, the Left needs enemies to exist, so when none exist, it manufactures them. As the saying goes, the demand for Nazis long ago exhausted the supply, so the business of the Left is in creating new Nazis to meet demand.

With thanks to Bluebird of Bitterness. (No, I don’t know where she finds this stuff.)

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A generation ago, the immediate question when the lights went out was whether a fuse had blown or lightning had struck. But today, when a blackout strikes, time stops, plans fall apart, and fears fill the sudden void.

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“Late adolescents and college students love themselves more today than ever before,” Dr. DeWall, a psychologist at the University of Kentucky, says. His study covered song lyrics from 1980 to 2007 and controlled for genre to prevent the results from being skewed by the growing popularity of, say, rap and hip-hop.

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The reason big new things sneak by incumbents is that the next big thing always starts out being dismissed as a “toy.” This is one of the main insights of Clay Christensen’s “disruptive technology” theory. This theory starts with the observation that technologies tend to get better at a faster rate than users’ needs increase. From this simple insight follows all kinds of interesting conclusions about how markets and products change over time.

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A UK police force created a video which portrayed a white toddler being racist towards another toddler in kindergarten as part of “hate crime awareness week.”

Yes, really.

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There’s a certain kind of liberal who likes to tell conservatives what they should think about this or that matter in order to be true to conservatism. He has no counterpart on the other side of the political divide. I know of no conservative who gets off on telling liberals what they should think about anything. We tend to confine ourselves to pointing out liberal hypocrisy.

What explains this difference between liberals and conservatives? Perhaps it’s just that conservatives are less inclined to waste time telling people who don’t share our perspective what they should think. Maybe liberals are more sanctimonious than conservatives. It might have something to do with conservatives getting into heads of liberals more than the other way around.

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The Seattle Public Schools Ethnic Studies Advisory Committee (ESAC) released a rough draft of notes for its Math Ethnic Studies framework in late September, which attempts to connects math to a history of oppression.

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Because politics gets boring all the time.

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CRISPR, an extraordinarily powerful genome-editing tool invented in 2012, can still be clumsy. It sometimes changes genes it shouldn’t, and it edits by hacking through both strands of DNA’s double helix, leaving the cell to clean up the mess—shortcomings that limit its use in basic research and agriculture and pose safety risks in medicine. But a new entrant in the race to refine CRISPR promises to steer around some of its biggest faults. “It’s a huge step in the right direction,” chemist George Church, a CRISPR pioneer at Harvard University, says about the work, which appears online today in Nature.

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By sifting through pig faeces, scientists in Japan have discovered a new type of virus that could challenge the already complicated notions of how we categorise what viruses are, and what they can do.

Hey, tenure doesn’t grow on trees, you know.

Ace of Spades has the skinny.

I always had my suspicions about Canadians.

EU Official: “we can’t make any progress on climate change until Brexit is resolved”

The Guardian on Extinction Rebellion: “all I see is white faces”

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

Andrew Yang Wants a Thorium Reactor by 2027. Good Luck, Buddy

Climate change could kill the ski industry – so take the train to the Alps this winter  Hit the slopes before it’s too late.

The incredible collapsing ‘#ExxonKnew’ climate change lie

People Are Getting Very Sick of the “Extinction Rebellion” and Other Enviro-Antifa Groups

Steve Sailer.

There’s a fun example brewing in the State of Washington (won by Hillary 54-38) that demonstrates once again how the Democrats’ Coalition of the Margins requires constant drumming up of fear and loathing of the White Male Menace to keep their diverse coalition from being at each other’s throats. This time, blacks and Chinese are fighting over affirmative action in state college admissions.

A few points:

1. Trump did not “betray our allies the Kurds”. The Kurds are not our allies. We have no alliance with the Kurds. Kurd forces cooperate with American and other forces because we have a common enemy, just as American forces cooperate with Russian forces against common enemies, like ISIS, but the Kurds aren’t our allies any more than the Russians are our allies.
2. Kurdish forces worked hand-in-glove with the PKK, a harcdore communist terrorist organization that has been committing atrocities against Turkish civilians for as long as I’ve been alive. Needless to say, the Turks don’t like this, and I can’t say that I blame them.
3. Trump didn’t “pull our forces out of Syria.” He shifted 50 people from in the way of the Turkish operation to further west in Syria, troops that were in the way of the Turkish operation and were totally incapable of stopping said operation even if we’d wanted to.
4. We have no commitment to the Kurds beyond our commitment to everybody else in the Middle East to promote peace and discourage terrorism and atrocities.

So all this hot air from the Democrats( and their poodles Conservatism Inc.) is just more anti-Trump hot air.

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For the first time, a US Marine Corps F-35B squadron will deploy aboard the UKs new aircraft carrier on its maiden voyage in 2021, a milestone hailed as “unprecedented” — even among close allies.

“We’re not talking about interoperability anymore; we’re talking about proper integration to a level we’ve never seen,” British Fleet Commander Vice Adm. Jerry Kyd told me on the deck of the carrier as it launched and recovered aircraft during an exercise in the Atlantic.

The integration of Marines into the British carrier’s operations from Day One is “unprecedented,” he said. “It would be hard to think of another two countries on the planet who can do that right now.”

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A tree stump would be my choice.

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Tru dat.

Babylon Bee.

What’s the first thing you do when meeting someone new? Exchange pronouns, of course, to make sure you refer to each other accurately. But what if you didn’t have to do that?

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

With thanks to Debby Witt, a kindred soul.

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Looking sleazier and sleazier.

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Sometimes it is good to be the son of the Vice-President.

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Russia covered up the deadly nuclear reactor explosion in August during the salvage at sea of one of Vladimir Putin’s new superweapons, a nuclear-powered cruise missile called Skyfall, a senior State Department official disclosed.

The reactor exploded Aug. 8 off the coast of the northern Russian town of Nenoska, killing seven Russians on a barge in the White Sea as they were overseeing the recovery of a sunken Skyfall. The missile had been sitting on the seafloor for about year after a failed flight test, said State Department official Thomas G. DiNanno.