Short version: "We really, REALLY

should not have shut down those reactors.  And should have built a couple more."
Admitting you're the idiots who've trashed your energy sector in the Holy Name of Green is hard to do.  And the actual Greens won't care, and will fight getting that capacity back tooth & nail.

The question is if they can defeat them before the lights go out.

Larry Correia brought up something my daughter told me

'Anybody else find it funny that after decades of regular people getting screamed at by environmentalists about how we shouldn't drive cars, eat meat, or have air conditioning in order to SAVE THE PLANET all of a sudden those same bossy assholes are strangely supportive of some megacorporations building a bunch of AI data centers, each of which sucks up the power equivalent to a small country?
Weird how that shakes out.'  from Correia.

What daughter once told me:
Ever heard of 'Captain Planet'?  Supposed Savior of Mother Gaia, with a bunch of kids who helped him smash company owners and factories and whatever else.  Shit cartoon, it was pure indoctrination("We can't just make more efficient air conditioning, we need to get rid of it!")

I'd worked a late shift and was getting some sleep, she was watching tv and that thing came on.  She said I came stumbling out of the bedroom, with my eyes closed, changed channels, and went back to bed.

I have no memory of this, but I was glad I gave up a minutes precious sleep to turn that crap off.

Another mix this evening, starting with a pub owner who told a climate asshat

Then, having administered a flurry of rhetorical punches, the pub moved in to deliver the knockout blow: ‘Maybe call in some time and I’ll give you my carbon footprint up your hole.’
Which sounds like a fine idea.


England’s Chief Medical Officer testified before the (token and pointless) Covid Inquiry earlier today, claiming he feared the government “overdid it” when talking up the dangers of Covid. No kidding, Chrisyou dickhead(fixed it for them).


From a man who grew up in Venezuela, he thinks the gangs in Chicago are probably not prepared for the level of violence and cruelty they'll face if it does come to open fighting between them and Tren de Aragua and others.


And, in the latest from (formerly Great)Britain: Report a rape, go to jail.


There's more, but I'm out of time, so will try to get some of them tomorrow.

"It's to save Nature!"

A 2020 survey counted 4,700 trees on the project site. Since then, however, the size of the project has been reduced.

Hundreds of Joshua trees appeared to have been destroyed in the last week, but on some portions of the site the trees still stand, residents said. Neither the company nor government agencies would say how many trees have been cut down. Avantus, the developer, said fewer trees will be destroyed than the government approved.

Heavy equipment has not yet started leveling the land where the trees were felled to prepare for the solar panel installation.

Residents fear the earth-moving work will increase the threat of valley fever — a fungal respiratory infection that is transmitted in dust. A local group found the fungus that causes valley fever in samples of topsoil from the five parcels surrounding the towns where the solar panels will be built.
And, if you ignore the trees, how many critters are being killed, burrows- and the land for- trashed, and so on?

But GREEN!

So what Harris actually means by "I've changed my mind" is

"I won't ban fracking, I'll just ban drilling whenever and wherever possible."

Sounds like something the bastards would do.

That post on the Second City Cop site?

Know another factor that could very well help blow things up?

Through months of rioting, looting, arson, maiming, attempted murder and murder, a bunch of these idiot leftist politicians have trained the communists and greens to see that they can do pretty much anything and get away with it.

Now those politicians are terrified about what their little minions might do in Chicago.

Hell, the DNC took a perfectly viable Veep candidate and told him to get lost because he's Jewish and the Dems are that desperate for the terrorist and Jew-hating vote.  So they've also taught the Red-Green Alliance that they will cave to them in the hopes of getting their votes.

It'll be interesting to see
A: Just what all they'll be willing to promise in hopes of those votes, and
B: Just what the average voter out there will think of it.

The climate asshats vandalized Stonehenge

No volcanoes to sacrifice them to, but maybe they could throw them in a bog?

https://www.nationalreview.com/news/climate-activists-vandalize-stonehenge-with-spray-paint/?utm_source=email&utm_medium=breaking&utm_campaign=newstrack&utm_term=35768918

I must say, the ropes are too slack

 

and the beam's not high enough

When you show up to testify as an expert,

and you're really not.

As Irish puts it, call 911 and report this murder

Of course they do: they want everything else you have,

why not your pets?  After all, EVERYTHING hurts Gaia, so away with your critters!

These people hate humanity and anything that makes people happy.

The guards who didn't do their jobs need to be fired,

and if it turns out some brass hat ordered them not to stop the bastards, fire him, too. 

And the climate/race assholes need to be in cells.  Should have gone there as soon as the useless guards saw what they were going to do.

In which Colorado Democrats state "Screw the economy, and screw all those jobs,

We Are Saving Gaia!

I swear, these people have lost what brain cells they had.

If I remember right, when the Atlantic Conveyor stopped,

there were no cars SUVs, aircraft, nor millions of buffalo or cattle farting into the atmosphere; it was from a truly, unimaginably huge glacial outburst flood that put all that cold fresh water into the North Atlantic in a very short time.

And unless someone is hiding such a lake and ice dam, I do think that the catastrophists are, once again, full of shit.
The new study claims to have shown that AMOC is “on route to tipping”, a prospect that the authors say is “bad news for the climate system and humanity”.

However British scientists warned that the outcome had been “forced” by using unlikely variables, such as assuming large influxes of freshwater into the Atlantic.

Prof Jonathan Bamber, director of the Bristol Glaciology Centre at Bristol University, said: “They did this by imposing a huge freshwater forcing to the North Atlantic that is entirely unrealistic for even the most extreme warming scenario over the next century.

“Their freshwater forcing applied to the North Atlantic is equivalent to six cm/year of sea level rise by the end of the experiment, which is more than seen during the collapse of the ice sheet that covered North America during the last glaciation.”

Two more situations where older punishments come to mind

In France, 'climate protesters' try to damage the Mona Lisa.

In (formerly Great)Britain, the cops seem  more interested in there not being upset with a Protected Species than with actually catching the rest of the gang.

For the French, the whipping post for these clowns.

For the Brits, the same for the cops who seem more interested in 'don't upset the migrants' than in doing their damned job; for the murderers, there's got to be a suitable tree.  Or just build a gallows.

Before I start sorting, hooray for Texas!

Abbott added that, despite legal harassment from the White House, he will "continue to defend Texas' constitutional authority to secure the border and prevent the Biden Admin from destroying our property."

Following through on his pledge from earlier in the week, Texas officials continued deploying even more razor wire along the Texas-Mexico border in defiance of the Biden administration.


I'll throw in the current "It's cold because of Globular Climatey Change!" crap.  Which is bullshit, and driving the greens insane because so many people would rather use oil and gas to keep from freezing in the dark instead of relying on bird cuisinarts and solar panels in dark and often too- or not enough-windy day to stay warm.

And lastly, a cartoon

A couple of things to point to this morning

They need to fire a bunch of indoctrinators, and hire actual teachers.
Let’s dump the curriculum and teach Palestinian propaganda instead, said a group of Oakland (CA) teachers. They proposed an all-day “teach in.” Um, no, said district officials.

One early-elementary lesson proposed for the “teach in” encourages children to identify what they “will chant at a Palestine protest,” reports Jill Tucker in the San Francisco Chronicle. In an alphabet book titled P is for Palestine, the letter “I” represented “intifada,” which refers to armed uprisings by Palestinians against Israeli control of disputed land. (The book says the word means”rising up for what is right!”)
Note this:
“Only one third of students met or exceeded state English standards in Oakland Unified in 2023. One quarter met or exceeded math standards. Enrollment is declining.”
I repeat: fire all of them, and hire teachers.


Head of the climate summit says "I want to end fossil fuels, but  “please, help me, show me a roadmap for a phase-out of fossil fuels that will allow for sustainable socio-economic development, unless you want to take the world back into caves.”
And the climatistas melt down.  Again.

Germany is screwed.
And I'll bet the 'women's movement' types will make excuses for the rapists, just like they do for Hamas.

And I have to go do stuff now.

I have to wonder if the words of of of these idiots were

"You don't have the balls to pull that trigger!"
If they were, obviously they were wrong.

Speaking of control freaks and Stalin wannabes,

The World Economic Forum, the EU, and their asshat enablers in this country.
No. Both the EU and the Dutch government agree that cow burps are deemed the biggest driver of climate change.

And after the 2019 ruling, things escalated quickly.

Last year, the Dutch government decided that 30% of all livestock needs to be cut by 2030 in order to meet the climate goals.

And then the government decided that would mean at least 3000 farms needed to be shut down in the next few years.

If farmers refuse to sell their land to the state ‘’voluntarily’’ to the state now, they run the risk of being expropriated later.
And our own John Effing Kerry, the "Of course I fly on private planes, I am Important, peasant, stop bothering me about it" king, has been talking about doing it here, too.

Nobody who’s acting in good faith would come after one of the most hard working, respectable and lucrative sectors of our society.

Especially not when that sector puts food on our plates. Especially not in a time when we’re already dealing with food shortages all over the world.

So the question remains, why are they doing this?

The answer is: the attack on farming is part of a bigger agenda of total control and we in The Netherlands are simply the pilot country. We are the tester case.

The reality of the matter is that the Dutch state is committing a land grab. And the climate/netzero is being used as a pretext.
Yeah.  The question is how much starvation and death will they cause before it's stopped?

I spent a few hours outside,

including a half-hour or so prep, to do some stuff.  Drank a lot, and I still feel like I damn near overheated.  Can't handle these temps as well as I used to, even with the humidity way down.  So, while I sit here avoiding cleanup for a bit, I shall browse some news, which includes this idiocy from the Brit military*:
DEFENCE chiefs announced this week that British soldiers could soon be given electric bicycles so they can sneak up more quietly (and cheaply) than if they were in a tank.

Yes. But have you ever tried to ride a bicycle in soft sand? Or in a bog? It’s impossible.

So if stealth (and savings) are the main consideration, I have a better idea. Why not give them horses?
More at the link, including commentary on whiny bitches at corporations and banks.
*no doubt some idiot at the Pentagon has been waiting for encouragement to suggest this.


Holy crap, just like the Biden laptop was real, looks like the Biden diary was and is real.
Expect the Professional Journalists to continue trying to hide everything about it.


Ok, I need more to drink.  And to turn down the a/c a bit.  More later.

What did the leftists and enviroweenies use for power before coal?

Clean nuclear-generated electricity.