History and the Limits of the Climate Consensus - The American Conservative

Acknowledging the science of global warming does not require accepting that it is immune to criticism. - Philip Jenkins

• Some periods in particular, especially the years around 1680 and 1740, stand out as uniquely stressful. Extreme cold led to crop failures and revolts, social crises and apocalyptic movements, high mortality and epidemics, but it also spawned religious revivals and experimentation. 

If you write history without taking account of such extreme conditions, you are missing a lot of the story...we must acknowledge that the climate has changed quite radically through the millennia, and that equally is beyond dispute...

• The issue today is identifying and assessing the human role in accelerating that process...

See for instance the recent Papal encyclical Laudato Si, with its much-quoted statement that

Climate change is a global problem with grave implications: environmental, social, economic, political and for the distribution of goods. It represents one of the principal challenges facing humanity in our day.

Well, not exactly. 

• “Climate change” is a fact and a reality, rather like the movement of tectonic plates, or indeed like evolution...

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History for January 22

History for January 22 - On-This-Day.com 

Joseph Wambaugh 1936

• 1771 - The Falkland Islands were ceded to Britain by Spain.
• 1903 - The Hay-Herrán Treaty was signed by United States Secretary of State John M. Hay and Colombian Chargé Dr. Tomás Herrán. The treaty granted the United States rights to the land proposed for the Panama Canal.
• 1917 - U.S. President Wilson pleaded for an end to war in Europe, calling for "peace without victory." America entered the war the following April.
• 1973 - The U.S. Supreme Court struck down state laws that had been restricting abortions during the first six months of pregnancy. The case (Roe vs. Wade) legalized abortion.
• 1998 - Theodore Kaczynski pled guilty to federal charges for his role as the Unabomber. He agreed to life in prison without parole.
• 2002 - Amazon.com announced that it had posted its first net profit in the fourth quarter (quarter ending December 31, 2001).
• 2002 - Kmart Corp. filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy making it the largest retailer in history to seek legal protection from its creditors.

'Anarchists': More major hotels cancel reservations of ICE agents as protesters now 'threatening American citizens' * WorldNetDaily * by Joe Kovacs

'Anarchists': More major hotels cancel reservations of ICE agents as protesters now 'threatening American citizens' * WorldNetDaily * by Joe Kovacs: 

He said it's not just federal agents being targeted at hotels: "These anarchists are starting to go out in the streets and they are threatening American citizens." "They go after the vehicles of anyone they think that is even associated with ICE and sometimes American citizens wake up to find their vehicle tires slashed, damaged and/or vandalized."

The way we were-----Lenin before the Russian Revolution

Cambridge University was once a centre for scientific research, but Islam is changing that.

What Does Katie Get? - John Kass

What Does Katie Get? - John Kass - John Kass

One year ago, young and beautiful Katie Abraham was in a car with her college friends, waiting at a red light in Urbana, Illinois.
Julio Cucul Bol, a 29-year-old citizen of Guatemala—and in the United States illegally having adopted fake Mexican identity—was driving drunk behind her.

• He was coming up on Katie’s car at speeds approaching 80 miles an hour. 
• Then the crash. Abraham, 20 was killed. Also killed was 21-year-old Chloe Polzin of Deerfield...

And what have we seen since?
Chaos as the left, once again, uses force to impose its will on Americans...

A Modest Proposal From Tom Homan

Every liberal I know (or see online) believes that all the chaos here in Minneapolis and other Blue cities is the fault of Trump and Tom Homan. - David Strom
At the very least, they believe that ICE should tone down its tactics and everything would be just fine, as it was before they tried to deport illegal aliens.
If the feds hadn't invaded, peace would reign in the valley, or something...
But what liberals seem to miss is something Mayor Frey referred to in that clip from his appearance on Fox News: the chaos only happens in sanctuary cities and states.
Why?

'Place your left hand on the Quran': Foreign-born lieutenant governor does not swear in on Bible | Blaze Media

'Place your left hand on the Quran': Foreign-born lieutenant governor does not swear in on Bible | Blaze Media: 

The new lieutenant governor of Virginia was born in Hyderabad, India. In one of the clearest examples of elections having consequences in recent times, Virginia's new lieutenant governor's swearing-in ceremony made history for its unorthodox changes.

How Covid made work, and having a family, optional in modern Britain

EU is splintering - Don Surber

EU is splintering - Don Surber - Don Surber

• Svelte British soldiers march in Gay Pride parade.

Europe is headed for another civil war. They had two in the previous century..

• If Europe has a civil war, this time the Confederates are the good guys because like the North, they oppose slavery, this time by a communist bureaucracy in Brussels. 

Those who control the EU have no incentive to embrace this concept.
The frenemy countries want NATO to stand up to the United States...

Lunch video-----Douglas Murray On The Left's Insanity The Last Many Years

Noon-toon

 

'There will be charges': Harmeet Dhillon assures Glenn Beck church-stormers will face justice as Minnesota lets chaos reign | Blaze Media

'There will be charges': Harmeet Dhillon assures Glenn Beck church-stormers will face justice as Minnesota lets chaos reign | Blaze Media: 

Department of Justice Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon criticized Minnesota’s Democrat leadership for failing to enforce state law and arrest protesters who stormed into a local church over the weekend.

What happens when we realize that "equal protection under the law" is gone??!!

 

This democrat hatched scam is EVERYWHERE!-----Nigerian professor pleads guilty to stealing $1.4 million from Grand Rapids preschool nonprofit - The Midwesterner

A highly acclaimed Nigerian professor at Aquinas College is facing two decades in prison after she admitted to swindling more than $1 million from taxpayers and poor minority children in West Michigan. - Victor Skinner 

Nkechy Ezeh, founder and CEO of the Early Learning Neighborhood Collaborative, pleaded guilty last week to wire fraud and tax evasion in a scheme that forced the nonprofit to shut down after a dozen years preparing about 8,000 preschoolers for kindergarten in Kent County, Battle Creek and Kalamazoo, WOOD reports...
The case comes amid sprawling investigations into fraud in government funded child care programs in Minnesota, Ohio and other states...

"We should not be surprised..."

 

Exclusive | How radical Islamists and the far left united to 'fight America everywhere and all the time' | New York Post

Why are American progressives, who believe in gay rights and abortion, aligned with radical Islamists, who want a religious dictatorship? - Peter Schweizer 

• Because “the enemy of my enemy is my friend,” writes Peter Schweizer in his new book, “The Invisible Coup: How American Elites and Foreign Powers Use Immigration as a Weapon.” 
• In this exclusive excerpt, he explains that they are after the same thing: the destruction of Western society from within...

#1 This day 1964-----Bobby Vinton - There I've Said It Again

Mamdani Housing Czar: ‘White, Middle-Class Homeowners are a Huge Problem’

“Unless we can undermine the institution of homeownership and seek to provide stability in other ways,..- Mike LaChance
Cea Weaver, the ‘tenant advocate’ and housing czar of the Zohran Mamdani administration, was in the news a few weeks ago when it was first revealed that she believes in collectivized housing. 

Now we are learning more about what she believes.

• In the clip below, she describes white, middle-class homeowners as a problem...

Murica, baby!

 

'Driver's Licenses for All': Minnesota's Dangerous Surrender of the Rule of Law

'Driver's Licenses for All': Minnesota's Dangerous Surrender of the Rule of Law: 

When a state hands out official credentials to individuals who are in the country illegally, it is effectively laundering unlawful status into something that looks legitimate. Walz and his allies insisted this policy would make roads safe. That claim collapses under even minimal scrutiny.

The U.S. didn’t “suddenly” want Greenland.

It’s been defending it, negotiating it, and embedding there since the 1800s. - William Mielke

• 1867 – Andrew Johnson: explored buying Greenland & Iceland (right after Alaska).
• WWII – FDR: U.S. took over Greenland’s defense while Denmark was occupied.
• 1946 – Truman: offered $100M in gold to buy it.
• Cold War – Eisenhower → Kennedy: nonstop negotiations for bases, radar, missiles.
• Post–Cold War – Clinton/Bush/Obama: expanded Arctic security & missile defense.
• 2019 – Trump: said publicly what presidents discussed privately for 150+ years.

Greenland = Arctic power, shipping lanes, missiles, minerals.

• Trump didn’t invent it.
• He said the quiet part out loud.
• America First!

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