New York Ban on Natural Gas Upheld

Thanks to the blessed results of last November’s election, the rest of the country can breathe a sigh of relief. But deep blue states like New York remain stuck on tyrannical moonbattery. An impending ban on natural gas connections in new buildings has been upheld in court:

U.S. District Judge Glenn Suddaby of the Northern District of New York said the state’s prohibition on new gas infrastructure does not conflict with the federal Energy Policy and Conservation Act, rejecting preemption claims by opponents who sued to block the requirements from going into effect next year. …

The ruling stems from a 2023 lawsuit by a coalition of business groups and unions challenging New York’s regulations The groups argued the restrictions – set to go into effect Jan. 1 – are preempted by federal law and will hurt business revenues and profits, jeopardize jobs and hiring and training programs, and hamper development of the fossil fuel industry’s workforce.

They will also hamstring chefs and send the cost of heating homes through the stratosphere. But in the moonbat religion, clean and abundant natural gas is haram.

On a tip from Wiggins.

Liberals Scheme to Blot Out Sun, Poison Dental Floss

Moneyed moonbats push their deranged malevolence to cartoonish extremes. Outside of an Austin Powers movie, who would be villainous enough to try to blot out the sun?

The details outlined in funding requests, emails, texts and other records obtained by POLITICO’s E&E News raise new questions about a secretive billionaire-backed initiative that oversaw last year’s brief solar geoengineering experiment on the San Francisco Bay.

The scheme entailed blocking the sun’s life-sustaining rays by spraying massive amounts of salt water into the air.

Last year’s experiment, led by the University of Washington and intended to run for months, lasted about 20 minutes before being shut down by Alameda city officials who objected that nobody had told them about it beforehand.

That initial test was only meant to be a prequel. Even before it began, the researchers were talking with donors and consultants about conducting a 3,900-square-mile cloud-creation test…

The records offer no indication of whether the researchers or their billionaire backers have since abandoned the larger project.

The insanity at Alameda was explicitly hidden from journalists.

Among the rich donors is scary-eyed Rachel Pritzker, of the same limousine leftist clan that spawned Illinois Governor JB Pritzker.

Another deep-pocketed fan of solar geoengineering is evil dork Bill Gates, whose other interests including funding alternative means of subjecting us to vaccines — although there seems to be no credible evidence that Gates was involved in the scheme to vax us with tainted dental floss.

The deleterious side effects of the experimental Covid vax will not be fully known for years. This has left people understandably wary of vaccines, which are especially suspect considering that if people like Bill Gates are involved, the actual purpose of the next “vaccine” could be population reduction on behalf of the supposedly endangered climate — the same pretext as for blotting out the sun.

On tips from Tlabia Majora.

Ecomoonbattery and Mental Illness: A Vicious Circle

Round and round spins the vicious circle. Those with psychiatric problems are prone to liberalism. Climate gullibility is particularly correlated with mental illness. Liberals’ erroneous and often hysterical beliefs exacerbate their neurotic state of mind, making them still more susceptible to moonbattery.

AP reports on behalf of the climate cult:

Anxiety, grief, anger, fear, helplessness. The emotional toll of climate change is broad-ranging, especially for young people.

This is because the younger people are, the more likely they are to take liberal B.S. seriously.

Activists, climate psychologists and others in the fight against climate change have a range of ways to build resilience and help manage emotions.

Like most liberal solutions to problems caused by liberals, they are likely to make the problem worse:

Feeling isolated? Find ways to connect with like-minded people and help nature, said climate psychologist Laura Robinson in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Ecomoonbat circle jerks are unlikely to help climate kooks achieve a reasonable perspective.

More advice:

Work locally to convince more residents to give up grass lawns… Help establish new green spaces, join projects to protect water, develop wildlife corridors, or decrease pesticide use to save frogs, insects and birds.

Protecting put-upon insects helps moonbats tormented by neurosis to take solace in their self-righteousness. But it won’t make them any less crazy.

On a tip from Barry A.

Experts Discover We Don’t Want to Eat Bugs

The Guardian touts a new study excreted by the Experts asserting that we ought to eat insects instead of food:

Farming and eating insects has been touted in recent years as a greener alternative to eating traditional meat due to the heavy environmental toll of raising livestock, which is a leading driver of deforestation, responsible for more than half of global water pollution, and may cause more than a third of all greenhouse gases that can be allowed if the world is to avoid disastrous climate change, the new research finds.

However, researchers at NPJ Sustainable Agriculture have made the remarkable discovery that people don’t want to eat bugs because the concept is disgusting.

Laments The Guardian:

Few governments have made any significant moves to curb meat consumption, despite its enormous impact upon the environment, fearing political backlash.

For the time being, social engineers will keep wasting money on unpalatable food alternatives and nagging us that we are offending the climate by eating a normal human diet. When we continue to laugh at them, they will inevitably resort to force, as leftists always do.

On a tip from Steve T.

Nature Where Moonbattery Prevails

Considering all their self-righteous bleating about the environment, you would think that letting liberals take control would at least leave us with unspoiled nature. But the wokest of moonbats have been running Oregon, and the forest looks like this:

Commentary from Kevin Dahlgren:

The land is owned by the state and has been managed by the county. Both notoriously radical. They have knowingly allowed hundreds of homeless to live in these woods for many years and have completely ignored the destruction.

Laments Troutdale, Oregon Mayor Randy Lauer:

“Despite their repeated attempts to gaslight the public, the destruction of our natural green spaces and the utter disregard for shared community lands on state and public property is undeniable.”

Lauer was not able to do anything about it. Others could, but they have different priorities.

A top priority for leftists of the sort who run Oregon and in particular Multnomah County (county seat: ultraleft Portland) is to turn as much of the country as they can into a homeless encampment. This Democrats do by encouraging irresponsibility, drug use, and mental illness, and by attacking economic productivity in the name of the environment.

On a tip from WDS 2.0.

Enviromoonbattery Applied to Beer

Any product can be greenwashed, including beer. The Boulevard Brewing Company is celebrating Earth Day all week with an event entitled “Brew & Renew”:

From zero-landfill facilities to pollinator-friendly programs and partnerships with Ripple Glass, the Kansas City-based brewery is offering immersive tours that highlight its commitment to environmental responsibility…

Ripple Glass recycles glass bottles.

By the end of the tour, participants should have a better understanding of sustainable brewing methods and how minor adjustments can have a significant environmental impact.

If you find the global climate satisfactory, thank Boulevard Brewing Co. But thank a Phoenix area brewer even more:

SanTan Brewing Company is on a mission to reduce its carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions for a cleaner Earth and better beer. To achieve this mission, SanTan has invested in an Earthly Labs System that recaptures the carbon dioxide that is naturally produced by the fermentation of its beers. The CO2 is then stored as a liquid and repurposed to carbonate SanTan beers. Additionally, SanTan has installed a nitrogen generator which will purify the ambient air and eliminate the use of CO2 for purging aluminum cans, kegs and tanks at its production facility.

Next, SanTan employees might be forced to wear special gasmasks that capture the harmless CO2 they exhale, similar to fart-capturing and burp-capturing devices moonbats want to impose on cows lest they make it be too warm outside.

In the olden days, beer was judged by its taste. But liberal virtue signaling is more important in these enlightened times. However, this sometimes results in unintended consequences, as when Bud Light lost $1.4 billion by putting the face of the gut-wrenchingly repulsive Dylan Mulvaney on their beer.

On a tip from Steve T.

DJs to Spin the Weather for Earth Night

Tomorrow is genocidal communist dictator Vladimir Lenin’s birthday. Now we know it as “Earth Day.” Stand by as moonbat propaganda is cranked up to 11. Earth Day is followed by Earth Night:

Organized by a small volunteer group called DJs for Climate Action, Earth Night is a global initiative that brings climate and environmental messages into dance halls, bars, clubs, and other nightlife venues.

Patrick Jeanty Jr., who was inspired by Kamelo Anthony to proclaim that he will murder Caucasians who “approach” him, is not the only DJ to spread the word of moonbattery. Fortunately, Earth Night objectives are more absurd than malevolent.

DJs for Climate Action plans to exert “global impact” on the weather with a special toolkit for local organizers:

It includes specific tips for sustainability, such as going plastic-free, booking local talent, featuring plant-based menus, and using renewable energy where possible.

Sounds planet-changing. In case it doesn’t work, those subjected to the propaganda will no doubt be encouraged to support government action reducing our freedom and standard of living in the name of the allegedly imperiled climate.

If you could use a good laugh, check out the solar-powered DJ booth from a 2019 Earth Night event in Paris. Ought to work great indoors at night.

On a tip from Mike B.

Nitrogen Is Bad Except When It Is Good

Holland is the world’s #2 agricultural exporter, but that may not last for long, because leftists have been shutting down farms as part of the environmentalist war on nitrogen, which comprises 78% of the air we breathe but like its fellow plant nutrient carbon dioxide is a pollutant according to woke ideology. However, nitrogen isn’t always bad.

From the enviromoonbat site The Cool Down:

A new study published in Nature Communications found that great whales — including humpbacks, grays, and right whales — are hauling thousands of tons of nitrogen from polar feeding zones to tropical waters every year, reported Popular Science. Along the way, they’re quietly fertilizing coral reefs and coastal ecosystems that would otherwise run low on essential nutrients. …

The research team estimates they release over 4,000 tons of nitrogen annually, mostly in the form of urea-rich urine. …

All of that liquid gold ends up in the ocean, where it fuels the growth of algae, plankton, and coral, especially in places that struggle with nutrient shortages.

Humpbacks migrating from Antarctica to Costa Rica leak urea the entire way, connecting ecosystems thousands of miles apart.

There would be even more liquid gold, if not for the cancer known as humanity:

Before commercial whaling slashed global populations, these cross-hemisphere nutrient flows may have been up to three times greater.

It all depends on the context. Nitrogen in the context of feeding human beings is bad. Nitrogen in the context of whales peeing in the pool is good.

On a tip from Mike B.