Inslee Bites The Dust

Since launching his campaign in March, Washington Governor Jay Inslee drew accolades from tree-hugging radicals and fellow Democrat presidential candidates who publicly supported the buck-toothed, big-boobed Bronx Bolshevik bartender’s Green New Deal for his ambitious plans to combat climate change.

Though likely Democrat voters have named the climate crisis among their top issues, Inslee and his proposals never garnered support on the campaign trail.

On Monday, Inslee’s campaign celebrated his amassing of 130,000 separate donors, surpassing a threshold set by the DNC to qualify for the third televised debate in September. But he was never close to the DNC’s other threshold — 2% support in early polls. He didn’t reach the mark in any poll and his polling average hovered just barely above zero.

On Wednesday morning, Inslee released the sixth plank of his comprehensive plan to combat climate change and transform the national economy. Just 12 hours later, he announced he was done on MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow show.  He said during the interview it had become clear to him he had no path to his party’s nomination.

"It's become clear that I'm not going to be carrying the ball.  I'm not going to be the president, so I'm withdrawing tonight from the race."

Inslee also said, “There are other avenues for me to be very effective at pushing the climate change message.”

Sure, you can, Jay.  It’s so easy a caveman can do it.  Why don’t you give Al Gore a ringy-dingy?  You can become ManBearPig, Jr. and become a trillionaire with a carbon footprint the size of Godzilla’s.

Gore’s home in the toney Belle Meade section of Music City, TN  guzzles more electricity in one year than the average American family uses in 21 years. Twenty-one YEARS.

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Weren’t You Wrong? Over To You Al.

Al Gore AKA ManbearPig has been harping on global warming (pardon me) climate change since at least the late 1980s, but it wasn’t until 2006 he discovered a way to become massively wealthy by making movies about it and investing in government-subsidized green energy.

Many predictions made by scientists and other climate change alarmists like Gore have failed to come true. For example, in 2007 Gore predicted that the summer Arctic ice in the North Pole would completely disappear by 2013 due to global warming caused by carbon dioxide emissions.  Didn’t happen.  

He also claimed Mt. Kilimanjaro in Africa would lose it’s snowpack by 2016. But that also hasn’t happened—not even close.

The climate hypocrite once told CNN’s Jake Tapper, “I don't have a private jet. And what carbon emissions come from my trips on Southwest Airlines are offset. I live a carbon-free lifestyle, to the maximum extent possible."  Somebody throw a bullshit flag.

How does ManBearPig explain the rather large amounts of electricity he uses to power his 10,000-plus-square-foot home? A new analysis by the National Center for Public Policy Research found that Gore's Tennessee home "guzzles more electricity in one year than the average American family uses in 21 years."

In one month, the report found, Gore's home consumed more electricity than the average family uses in 34 months and the electricity used just to heat Gore's swimming pool would power six homes for a year.

It’s bitter cold in parts of the US, but climate scientist Dr. Michael Mann explains that’s exactly what we should expect from the climate crisis. https://t.co/6UfJ9Xxpq6

— Al Gore (@algore) January 4, 2018

So let me get this straight, This cold is from climate change, Previous cold shots werent, Previous cold shots like 83-84 this period colder. So what these guys want us to believe is the cold is from climate change, but climate change made it come up short of previous cold shots https://t.co/JHRqdh6vIR

— Joe Bastardi (@BigJoeBastardi) January 5, 2018

CNN Has Yet Another Meltdown

ABC reported, “Bitter cold temperatures are sweeping through the Midwest and Northeast as New York City braces for its coldest New Year's Eve since the 1960s.”

CNN declared, “Forget the tux and the little black dress for New Year's Eve. This year you may want to bust out your parka and a hat with earflaps.”

AccuWeather insisted, “While a powerful nor'easter is not anticipated, a storm will bring enough snow to make roads slippery and coat the landscape in parts of the Northeast with fresh snow before New Year's Eve. A storm from Montana producing feet of snow will race eastward in the frigid air now entrenched in the northeastern United States.”

I’m not really trying to replace your local meteorological man/woman/sisgender/inter-sexed person.  These gender-pronouned beings are the professionals and President Trump has sent them into a tizzy.

In the East, it could be the COLDEST New Year’s Eve on record. Perhaps we could use a little bit of that good old Global Warming that our Country, but not other countries, was going to pay TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS to protect against. Bundle up!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 29, 2017

Every time the President says “squirrel” every news outlet with thin-skinned Trumpaphobic reporters scurries up the nearest tree in hot pursuit.  They have a zero sense of humor.

Climate change is about the long-term changing of our climate -- and increasing unpredictability in it. Not about a cold spell. https://t.co/mbqtOpp0xS

— Chris Cillizza (@CillizzaCNN) December 29, 2017

A reminder that President Trump’s tweets are to be treated as official White House statements... so the official White House position is that global warming could be a good thing. https://t.co/HPkt8kQmXY

— Dan Merica (@danmericaCNN) December 29, 2017

When the alien archaeologists study the ruins of human civilization, this will take a prominent place in their notebooks https://t.co/6eutLWiVcn

— David Frum (@davidfrum) December 29, 2017

UPDATE:  I noticed Ace over at Ace of Spades HQ opined, “CNN is immune to the freezing cold because only their hate keeps them warm.  Well, just two things:  their hate, their permanent, quivering outrage.  Just three things then:  their hate, their permanent, quivering outrage and their pink pussy hats.  Okay, just four things keep them warm:  their hate, their permanent, quivering outrage, their pink pussy hates and rousing recitations of poetry by #SassyJimAcosta.

Someone who goes by the handle “JackStraw” commented, “On a happy note, Anderson Cooper will be freezing his nut sack off on New Year’s Eve doing a show nobody will watch.” 

Out Of Scientific Ideas, Hawking Desperate For Attention

Seems every year there’s a host of folks who like seeing into the future, or at least the future of the coming year. Newsweek posted an article the day after Christmas highlighting the predictions of Stephen Hawking.  Hawking has done groundbreaking work in physics and cosmology.

In September 2010, Hawking spoke against the idea that God could have created the universe in his book The Grand Design.  Hawking previously argued that belief in a Creator could be compatible with modern scientific theories. His new work, however, concluded that the Big Bang was the inevitable consequence of the laws of physics and nothing more. "Because there is a law such as gravity, the universe can and will create itself from nothing. Spontaneous creation is the reason there is something rather than nothing, why the universe exists, why we exist."

If you’re hopeful 2018 will be better than 2017 Hawking has come to piss on your parade.  In May he predicted humans have 100 years left on Earth.  Climate change, overdue asteroid strikes, epidemics and population growth, he says, are to blame for the doomsday clock.

To avoid extinction, Hawking insists humans must become a multi-planetary species.

In July he told the BBC that humanity is at a tipping point where global warming will convert Earth into a Venus-like planet with temperatures of 250º Celsius and sulfuric rain.  Just last month the wheelchair-bound egghead declared, "By the year 2600, the world’s population would be standing shoulder to shoulder, and the electricity consumption would make the Earth glow red-hot.”  He’s also frightened of robots apparently. “If people design computer viruses, someone will design AI that improves and replicates itself,” Hawking told Wired.

If you ask me, Hawking is impatient for a kind of disaster which hasn't happened yet.  He has absolutely no idea how the universe was created. He can't. He wasn't there.

His claim God did not create the universe is galling.  There’s no sign he’s been punished for his irreligion.  Nope, no sign at all.

I have decided to learn how to swim. It is not going well.

I am Lego Stephen Hawking. I am drowning. pic.twitter.com/IQ2Vz2RoRP

— Lego Stephen Hawking (@legohawking) September 30, 2013

A Big, Fat “Up Your Nose With A Rubber Hose”

President-elect Donald Trump conducted interviews in Manhattan’s Trump Tower Monday which included a long talk with Al Gore.  He wanted to thank the blubbery climate change activist for inventing the Internet.

After the meeting Gore told the assembled press poodles, “I had a lengthy and very productive session with the president-elect.  It was a sincere search for areas of common ground. I had a meeting beforehand with Ivanka Trump. The bulk of the time was with the president-elect, Donald Trump. I found it an extremely interesting conversation, and to be continued, and I’m just going to leave it at that.”

The concept of global warming was created by and for the Chinese in order to make U.S. manufacturing non-competitive.

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 6, 2012

Exclusive look at Al Gore's #climatechange presentation to Donald Trump. pic.twitter.com/CCmZgetj0i

— Amy Lutz (@amylutz4) December 5, 2016

Did anyone happen to notice if there was a “KICK ME” sign stuck to ManBearPig’s back when he left Trump Tower?

Via The New York Times—President-elect Donald J. Trump has selected Scott Pruitt, the Oklahoma attorney general and a close ally of the fossil fuel industry, to run the Environmental Protection Agency, signaling Mr. Trump’s determination to dismantle President Obama’s efforts to counter climate change—and much of the EPA itself.

Mr. Pruitt, a Republican, has been a key architect of the legal battle against Mr. Obama’s climate change policies, actions that fit with the president-elect’s comments during the campaign. Mr. Trump has criticized the established science of human-caused global warming as a hoax, vowed to “cancel” the Paris accord committing nearly every nation to taking action to fight climate change, and attacked Mr. Obama’s signature global warming policy, the Clean Power Plan, as a “war on coal.”

Thanks for stopping by Al.

Obama Declares Alaska's Pavlof Volcano Number One Global Threat

Declares Global Virgin Shortage Number Two Threat

Gruntington Post [Anchorage, AK] - Under pressure from climate scientists to use the might and power of the White House to act against the erupting Pavlof volcano in Alaska, which is sending millions of tons of ash and greenhouse gases into the upper atmosphere, President Obama made a few calls and took out his pen and declared the eruption the current "Number One Global Threat." He further gave a sternly worded speech at the Griffith Observatory near where he was playing golf in Pasadena, CA, about how the climate catastrophe caused by this one event would threaten "all of mankind," but most especially "people of color, women, gays, muslims and Cubans." Climate scientists squealed in delight.

Later, at a White House press briefing, where he arrived in Air Force One after taking a brief detour to Rio de Janeiro "for a Coke," President Obama was asked repeatedly if he had taken any concrete action against the volcano and its deadly climate effects.

"Well, you know, I've got a lot on my plate. And my staff has taken action to locate a few virgins to help placate the volcano gods. But there are complications in Alaska. Where I'm from, in Hawaii, you dealt with Pele, god of fire. But this volcano is in the Aleutians. So, do you shoot for the Russian ethnic fire gods? Or the Inuits? And have you ever tried to find an actual virgin in Washington DC? It ain't easy. I might have to use Kerry."

ManBearPig And The 10-Year Countdown To A Planetary Emergency

PARIS—Following the opulent climate change conference (COP21), Al Gore AKA ManBearPig issued the following statement:

“Today, the nations of the world concluded a bold and historic agreement, clearly demonstrating that the global community is speaking with one voice to solve the climate crisis. Years from now, our grandchildren will reflect on humanity’s moral courage to solve the climate crisis and they will look to December 12, 2015, as the day when the community of nations finally made the decision to act.”

Man-made climate change—most especially the notion that global temperatures can be turned on and off by tiny alterations in the quantities of the trace gas carbon dioxide—is nothing more than a green fantasy being used as an excuse for a money making scam by corporate shysters, a wealth redistribution scheme by the Third World, and as a power grab by one world government freaks.

“Global warming” and the subsequent term “climate change” our betters on the Left now insist we use to refer to the weather is one of the most egregious political and scientific hoaxes in history.  Judith Curry, former Chair of the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at the Georgia Institute of Technology lost her faith in the alarmist establishment when they were caught red-handed conspiring to withhold scientific information from their peers in what would come to be called the Climategate email scandal.

Sallie Baliunas, an astrophysicist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, was savagely disparaged by her peers for questioning so-called “consensus” climate science.

Caleb Rossiter, a left-leaning statistician at American University, spoke out against the alarmists when he discovered that their statistics were junk and that the measures being introduced to “combat” climate change were harming the world’s poorest.  His fellowship at the US Institute for Policy Studies was subsequently terminated.

“In a time of universal deceit, truth-telling is a revolutionary act.” — George Orwell

Now, before you zone out and your eyes glaze over, just know that the point of this story is to warn you, via Anthony Watts at WattsUpWithThat?, that ManBearPig’s clarion call that we were all going to be roasted alive in his proclamation 10 years ago isn’t going to happen.

So climate change deniers take heart.  As Anthony cleverly quips, “Gaia seems to be a ‘Gore denier’. How inconvenient.”

Cloudy With A Chance Of Boko Haram

Remember the soaring rhetoric of the 2008 Democratic nominee who promised, “Generations from now we will be able to look back and tell our children that this was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal?”

At his commencement address to the United States Coast Guard Academy, The World’s Most Dangerous Community Organizer inadvertently admitted to those graduates that he overpromised that entire pabulum declaring, “The planet is getting warmer,” and lectured them on “the urgent need to combat and adapt to climate change.”

“Now, I know there are still some folks back in Washington who refuse to admit that climate change is real,” he insisted.  “Denying it or refusing to deal with it endangers our national security.  It undermines the readiness of our forces.  It is a dereliction of duty.”

He laughably linked extreme weather to the rise of Boko Haram and the outbreak of war in Syria.  He recited a litany of weather disasters he claimed were caused by climate change and geopolitical unrest.

His absurd obsession is doubtless the reason he missed the threat of ISIS and he wields the subject as a distraction to dodge the “setbacks” of recent days.  He is not only an incompetent president he is an epically stupid weatherman.

That’s not a warm front amassing in the “caliphate”; it’s a horde of marauding fiends and those who have had their heads chopped off didn’t die due to a little drizzle.

The Man Who Would Be President Butthurt Because Global Cooling Proves We’ll Never Be Out Of Party Ice

Only six years ago, the BBC reported that the Arctic would be ice-free in summer by 2013, citing a scientist in the US who claimed this was a ‘conservative’ forecast.

His predictions now appear to be gravely flawed.  Billions of dollars have been diverted to implement “green” measures.

What has happened, instead, is that the Arctic ice cap has grown at a tremendous rate, by almost a million square miles. In other words, it has grown by a whopping 60%, due to constantly repeating periodic ocean cycles.

Wes Pruden, writing for The Washington Times writes, "On the contrary, what frustrates Al Gore and the snake-oil industry is that the skeptics can no longer be shut out of the conversation.”

We can expect the climate crisis industry to grow increasingly shrill, and increasingly hostile toward anyone who questions their authority,” Kenneth P. Green, a former member of the U.N. panel, predicted three years ago.

Another former panelist, Dr. Kimimori Itoh, a Japanese physical chemist, calls the phenomenon “the worst scientific scandal in history.  When people come to know what the truth is, they will feel deceived by science and scientists.”

Next thing you know, scientists will announce that Betty White is carrying Methuselah’s baby.

Meanwhile, polar bears living along the Arctic Ice Cap have been overheard howling with laughter at Algore.  Truth truly is inconvenient.

Linked at The Pirate's Cove.

ZOMG! The Planet Is Going To Boil Over

The Insufferable Airhorn took a week-long trip to sub-Saharan Africa.  He visited South Africa, Senegal and Tanzania.

According to NationsOnline.org, two of the nations he jet-setted to are classified as third world countries. The Human Development Index (HDI) ranks Tanzania at 152 where the life expectancy at birth is 58.2 years and the Gross National Income per capita (converted to international dollars) is $1328.  Then there’s Senegal.  Senegal is ranked at 155.  The life expectancy at birth is 59.3 years and the GNI is $1708.

He lectured the people of Africa at a town hall event in Johannesburg this past Saturday on just who should and should not benefit from the Industrial Revolution.  Most of the people in sub-Saharan Africa are locked in poverty and despair.  For them, the Insufferable Airhorn’s hubris must have been astounding.

In his speech his said:

“Ultimately, if you think about all the youth that everybody has mentioned here in Africa, if everybody is raising living standards to the point where everybody has got a car and everybody has got air conditioning, and everybody has got a big house, well, the planet will boil over—unless we find new ways of producing energy.”

The First Family was accompanied by hundreds of Secret Service agents and staff, military cargo planes brought along 56 vehicles including fourteen limousines and three trucks loaded with bulletproof glass to cover the windows of the hotels where His Imperiousness stayed. Fighter jets flew in the air space above the first family to provide round the clock protection—an entourage surpassing that of the Queen of England.

When the Errand Boy Sent By Grocery Clerks winged his way to Copenhagen to beg the IOC to let Chicago host the Olympics, The Washington Examiner did a bit of calculating to determine the carbon footprint of that trip.

They determined that the fuel used by Air Force One (a Boeing 747) per hour is 3,378 gallons.  The trip lasted 14.6 hours for a total consumption of 47,503 gallons.  That means that the carbon emissions for that flight, one way, was 1,031 tons of CO² and represents a total warming effect of 2,785 tons of CO^2.  Multiply that by two because the president always travels with two Air Force One planes.

Using that same formula, Mr. “The-Planet-Is-Going-To-Boil-Over” flew a distance of 8,068 miles to Johannesburg, a trip that takes 16 hours and 45 minutes, consumes 57,426 gallons of fuel and emitted 211,247 tons of CO².  Don’t forget to multiply that by two.  That’s just one leg of the trip and that’s one helluva carbon footprint.

Now, I know this president, like all the others before him, must travel around the world but I don’t think the taxpayers should be on the hook for $100 million to show his ignorance or his remarkable hubris to tell the people of Africa not to improve things too rapidly or the horrible boiling over will begin or lie that raising their standard of living means the standards of Europe, the West and the rest of the world must come down.

Is he saying that Africa must be a pesthole third world continent without power for the good of the rest of us?

That’s some kind of stupid socialism you got there buddy.  Some kind of stupid.