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More Bad News For The Eco-Radicals

By on September 1st, 2022

https://issuesinsights.com/2022/09/01/more-bad-news-for-the-eco-radicals/

For the first time in more than 80 years, the Atlantic Ocean hasn’t produced a named storm between July 3 and Aug. 31. So the Climatistas will have to celebrate Labor Day this year for its Marxist roots rather than the weather destruction they’re constantly rooting for so they can blame it on man.

The Atlantic’s failure to form a tempest is a rarity. It “has had no #hurricanes yet this year,” Colorado State University meteorologist Philip Klotzbach tweeted Thursday. 2022’s calm spell happens to be only the seventh time since 1950 that the Atlantic “has gone through August without a #hurricane. Other years are: 1967, 1984, 1988, 2001, 2002, 2013.”

In a separate tweet, Klotzbach acknowledged something that Democrats, the know-it-all media, and the agenda-driven extremists will likely never admit: “Forecasting the weather and climate keeps you humble!”

The Atlantic storms will eventually arrive. And the alarmists will blame them on human greenhouse gas emissions. It’s the blueprint. But for now, their taste for disaster has to go unsated as their narrative fails again.

Of course this is merely a single point of reality. There are others.

For instance, Arctic ice is at a decade-high level. Wasn’t supposed to disappear altogether by now due to our miserable fossil fuel addiction?

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Democrats Are the Party of the Overclass From student loans to Covid restrictions, the left seeks to make the wealthy wealthier. By Batya Ungar-Sargon

By on September 1st, 2022

https://www.wsj.com/articles/democrats-party-overclass-student-loans-working-vaccines-grocery-hourly-college-debt-university-progressives-elite-morals-virtue-11661961896?mod=opinion_lead_pos10

President Biden’s student-loan forgiveness plan will mostly benefit the elites. The majority of those loans are held by college graduates, who on average make $1 million more in their lives than people who don’t have a degree. How did progressives—who claim to care about the poor and working class, about fairness and equity—end up pushing a bailout for the wealthy at working people’s expense?

Well, consider who progressives are—the whitest and most highly educated members of the Democratic coalition. They’re advancing their own economic interests, and there’s nothing wrong with that. But they’re doing it under a false pretense, casting it as a moral battle for the indigent.

It isn’t the only example. Consider the push for open borders. Progressives cast it in moral terms, as a way of helping needy and oppressed foreigners. In truth, open borders benefit consumers at the expense of Americans who work in industries undercut by importing new laborers. To add insult to injury, they label you racist if you object.

The green agenda fits the pattern too. Progressives zip around in Teslas, a symbol of both affluence and virtue, while union members in the energy sector lose their jobs. Progressives push to release mentally ill drug addicts into working-class communities where they prey on vulnerable people of color—while they themselves live in nice neighborhoods with astronomical rents, polishing their halos.

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A Tiny Park Becomes a Sacrifice to the Climate-Change Gods ‘Resiliency,’ according to green activists, requires cutting down trees and tearing up grass in lower Manhattan. By Jon Pepper

By on September 1st, 2022

https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-tiny-park-sacfrifice-climate-gods-wagner-battery-park-city-new-york-sea-level-crisis-manhattan-trees-nature-destruction-11661974838?mod=opinion_lead_pos7

New York

The bulldozers will come for downtown Manhattan’s Robert F. Wagner Park as soon as next week. In the name of climate change “resiliency,” local authorities have ordered the 3.5-acre park overlooking the Statue of Liberty to be razed and raised, lest it flood from “rising seas” or “storm surges” projected several decades down the road.

Contractors hired by the state-appointed Battery Park City Authority will bring in chain saws for the park’s 112 mature trees. They’ll use shovels to rip up grass where local children now play. They’ll use jackhammers and pickaxes on the park’s benches, walkways and pavilion. Two years and $221 million later, the Authority assures us, there’ll be a new park, albeit with less green space, more commercial space from which to extract rents, and new and improved trees. (They’ll resist salt water, supposedly.)

All this effort will be made for a park that suffered no serious damage during 2012’s superstorm Sandy, the worst storm in New York’s history. Battery Park City was the only neighborhood in Manhattan south of 39th Street that kept its lights on during and after the storm.

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Biden Misidentifies the Crime Culprit President Biden does political damage control amid rising urban disorder.

By on September 1st, 2022

https://www.wsj.com/articles/joe-biden-misidentifies-the-crime-culprit-democrats-pennsylvania-defund-the-police-11661983065?mod=opinion_lead_pos3

President Biden is stumping for Democrats in Pennsylvania this week, and law and order was his theme Tuesday in Wilkes-Barre. He was joined by Rep. Matt Cartwright, who is in a tight race to keep his House seat, and gubernatorial candidate Josh Shapiro. Democrats are worried about public anxiety over rising crime, and they should be.

Statewide, murders and non-negligent manslaughters increased 46% last year compared to 2019, according to Pennsylvania’s Uniform Crime Reporting System. Pittsburgh recorded 53 homicides last year, a 43% increase over 2019. Nonfatal shootings there were up 25% in 2021 compared to two years prior.

Earlier this year Pew reported that only 44% of Philadelphia residents said they felt safe in their neighborhood at night, while 65% said they’d heard gunshots near their homes in the past year. Some 362 people have been slain in the City of Brotherly Love so far this year, compared to 226 in the first eight months of 2019.

Mr. Biden was at pains Tuesday to neutralize the perception that Democrats want to defund the police. “When it comes to public safety in this nation, the answer is not defund the police. It’s fund the police. Fund the police.” That’s a welcome line, but remember that in 2020 such sentiments were heresy in the Democratic Party.

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