The goal of the Democratic Party is to use open borders and the welfare state to do to the whole country what it has been doing to California. This gives an idea of what that would mean for gas prices:

California is set to lose two major oil refineries, bringing the total decline in refining capacity to 21% in three years.

The refineries are closing because Gavin Newsom et al. oppose energy production on the grounds that it offends the climate according to their ideology.

California’s gas prices are already much higher than in neighboring states, with a gallon of gas creeping up to $5/gallon, as much as nearly $2 a gallon more than in cheaper states. The national average price, according to AAA, is $3.15/gallon.

This is largely due to taxes. Where you have single-party rule by the Party of Big Government, you have excessive taxation.

Due to those refinery closures, prices may rise by as much as 75%.

That would mean $8.43 per gallon. No doubt liberals regard this as a small price to pay to signal their virtuous obeisance to the weather gods — although it is doubtful that even liberals believe this will have any perceptible effect on the weather.

But why complain about $8.43/gallon? One study found that driving an EV is the equivalent of paying $17.22/gallon. EVs are slated to become mandatory in the erstwhile Golden State.

On a tip from WDS 2.0.

Forget Russia. Forget even communist China and Islamomaniacal Iran. If one country is a threat to the others, it could be once-great Britain under rule by leftist kooks who are pressing forward with experiments to dim sunlight through geoengineering:

Outdoor field trials which could include injecting aerosols into the atmosphere, or brightening clouds to reflect sunshine, are being considered by scientists as a way to prevent runaway climate change.

The only thing running away is the imagination of moonbats.

As so often in life, the problem is not the problem; the problem is that people think it’s a problem — although whether these people really believe in the global warming hoax is doubtful. Leftists pretend the weather is a perpetual crisis so as to justify seizing our property, lowering our standard of living, and regulating us into a straitjacket.

Plots of the sort Dr. Evil might hatch don’t come cheap:

Aria, the Government’s advanced research and invention funding agency, has set aside £50 million for projects, which will be announced in the coming weeks.

There will be zero benefit to British taxpayers — but potential harm to the entire planet.

The Experts believe that pollution over shipping routes made clouds brighter and therefore more reflective, resulting in dimmer sunlight. They even say that international regulations to reduce sulfur dioxide emissions caused an increase in global warming.

More unintended consequences can be expected if ideologically driven fanatics deliberately tamper with the atmosphere to fix something that isn’t broken.

On a tip from KirklesWorth. Hat tip: Breitbart.

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.

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.

As the global warming hoax peters out, whipping dupes into a state of hysteria becomes ever more of a challenge for propagandists. One has been reduced to applying intersectionality by appealing to liberal reverence for the long-lost societies of pre-Columbian savages.

Global warming allegedly attacked a pyramid at Ihuatzio, an archaeological site in Mexico:

On the night of July 29, the 15-meter-high (roughly 50-foot-high) square monument located in the state of Michoacán suddenly slumped under the pressure of incessant rain, its south wall crumbling into a pile of rubble.

Rain, like the absence of rain, is caused by wicked whites not having submitted to poverty and tyranny in the name of the global warming hoax.

The pyramid was first occupied 1,100 years ago by indigenous Nahuatl-speaking groups. Later, it became the headquarters of the P’urhépechas people…

All that time, there was no weather. But then we started driving around in SUVs.

The Experts at Mexico’s National Institute of Anthropology and History confirm that “extreme weather” is to blame for the pyramid finally collapsing. Otherwise, it might have stood forever.

In case the reader doesn’t get it that this is our fault:

Extreme weather and rising seas, driven by human-caused climate change, are proving to be a serious nuisance for important sites of bygone cultures.

A representative of the Oppressed tugs at the heart stings:

According to Tariakuiri Alvarez, who identifies as a living member of the P’urhépecha tribe, his ancestors would have interpreted the crumbling of the pyramid at Ihuatzio as a “bad omen”.

Señor Alvarez also identifies as a guy with a long memory:

In a Facebook post Alvarez said that before the arrival of foreign conquerors in Mexico, something similar happened, and it was because the gods were “displeased”.

What could this presage that would be as awful as Columbus arriving to lift the Western Hemisphere out of Stone Age savagery? If we don’t start taking leftist climate ideology seriously, we might just find out!

Let’s have a look at the author’s bio:

Carly Cassella is a Senior Journalist at ScienceAlert. … In her years at ScienceAlert, Carly has written extensively on topics such as evolution, the brain, climate change, microplastics, viruses, and poop.

Considering the crap the liberal establish pays her to dish out for the gullible, her interest in poop should be at the top of her résumé.

On a tip from Mike B.

Because moonbattery is a totalitarian ideology, there is to be no escape from it anywhere — not even in a barber’s chair.

From Ireland:

‘A Brush With Climate’ is inspired by a movement that started in Sydney, Australia when a salon owner looked to see how to use their renowned conversational skills to get chats going about solutions to the climate crisis.

Step #1 would be to convince the gullible that there is a climate crisis. From there, climate evangelists can move on to duping people into believing that surrendering our freedom and standard of living will somehow resolve it.

University College Cork is overseeing the project and Dr Maria Kirrane of the university’s office of sustainability said the idea was to tap into places where chat flowed naturally.

Nothing could be less natural than indoctrination, whether imposed by Ivy Tower moonbats or by a cadre of barbers.

Crows Kirrane:

“The relationship between client and hairdresser is a deeply personal and trusting one.”

The climate wants this trust betrayed.

Guess who pays to convert barbers into leftist proselytizers?

The Brush With Climate scheme is being supported by a €63,000 grant from the Research Ireland Discover Programme funded by the Department of Education.

Yet again, taxpayers are forced to finance useless moonbattery.

On a tip from Htos1av.

One way we know there is a climate crisis requiring massive expansion of Big Government is that according to the government,

Antarctica is losing ice mass (melting) at an average rate of about 150 billion tons per year … adding to sea level rise.

Then we read this:

Sensational new discoveries arising from long-forgotten early aerial photographs indicate that ice has remained stable and even grown slightly since the 1930s over a 2,000 km stretch of East Antarctica. In a recent paper published in Nature Communications, researchers from the University of Copenhagen came to their conclusions by tracking glacial movement in an area with as much ice as the Greenland ice sheet.

This Antarctic news is not terribly surprising:

What warming there has been, on the west side, is directly on top of a large number of volcanoes. A recent paper from Singh and Polvani found that Antarctica sea ice “has modestly expanded, a finding that seems to confirm the work on the ice shelf increases between 2009-2019. Warming has been “nearly non-existent” over 70 years, state Singh and Polvani.

Climate fluctuation has been politicized to advance the expansion of government at the expense of the individual. No advocate of government growth can be taken at face value on this issue, naturally including the government itself.

On a tip from Horatio Bunce.

The term “climate justice” strikes the normal ear as woke duckspeak, if not moonbattery sarcastically pushed to the point of parody. That’s because normal people are uninitiated in the credenda of progressivism. “Climate justice” has a meaning, but it is only comprehensible through advanced indoctrination. For that, we have institutions like the University of Sussex:

The BA in Climate Justice, Sustainability and Development, which will begin in 2026, will equip students with a unique blend of expertise in climate politics, activism, and environmental human rights. This will be combined with the practical green skills – the know-how and abilities needed to work in ways that help protect the environment – needed to drive real-world change.

It’s nice to know educrats have their feet firmly planted on the ground and will offer “practical green skills” so that graduates can impose their will on climate fluctuation.

Kidding aside, the practical application of such a degree is to secure a career as a bureaucrat. Sussex grads can be thankful they don’t have DOGE over there.

Barks Geert De Neve, Head of the School of Global Studies at Sussex:

“This course … will provide a unique opportunity for students to combine their passion for tackling the climate crisis with the skills and knowledge required to lead in the fight for sustainability and justice. It reflects Sussex’s long-standing commitment to educating students who can drive positive global impact.”

They will have no impact on the climate, which will fluctuate regardless of the fashionable left-wing poses they strike. But as future bureaucrats, they can aspire to impact the future by deepening Europe’s economic malaise through ever more punitive regulation of the energy sector.

Even without spending years of time and tens of thousands of pounds, Sussex is willing to provide a hint regarding what “climate justice” means:

Climate justice, the focus of this course, addresses social equity, historical responsibility, and economic shifts in climate change. Emerging from civil society movements in the 2000s, it now shapes debates in the UK Parliament and UN. It is crucial for policymakers, NGOs, activists, and businesses.

Science is not mentioned because this is a BA, not a BS, despite being comprised entirely of BS. Climate justice has nothing to do with science; it is a means of imposing left-wing globalism.

On a tip from Steve T.

The Environmental Protection Agency ranks among the most malignant of the bloated and largely pernicious agencies comprising the Deep State. It attacks our freedom and standard of living by pretending that carbon dioxide — which plants need to grow and which is an inevitable product of literally all human activity — is a pollutant because like water vapor it might influence the temperature. But the jig may be up — as the taxpayer-subsidized leftists at Associated Press fretfully report:

EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin called for a rewrite of the agency’s finding that determined planet-warming greenhouse gases endanger public health and welfare…

The 2009 finding under the Clean Air Act is the legal underpinning of a host of climate regulations for motor vehicles, power plants and other pollution sources.

This finding was inflicted by the Obama Administration while implementing its policy of managed decline.

Zeldin’ recommendation comes in response to a Trump executive order.

The order, issued on Trump’s first day in office, directed the EPA to submit a report “on the legality and continuing applicability” of the endangerment finding.

Steve Milloy weighs in:

“If you pull this (finding) out, everything EPA does on climate goes away,’’ Milloy told the AP.

Zeldin reported plans to eliminate around 65% of EPA bureaucrats. The appropriately reduced workforce should dedicate itself to protecting the environment rather than imposing leftism via the Trojan horse of the global warming hoax.

On a tip from Chuck A.

The point of Bill Nye is that his dorkiness allows him to advocate pure evil in a way that some find unthreatening — even as he calls for Caucasians to be punished for reproducing:

Whether it is abortion in the name of feminism, nonprocreative sex in the name of LGBTism, or straightforward penalties for reproducing in the name of the global warming hoax, the common denominator is that leftists hate us and do not want us to exist in the future.

On a tip from Wiggins.

Stacey Abrams could be the quintessential Democrat. The sleazy romance novelist burned a Georgia flag on the steps of the state capitol and afterward childishly claimed to be the state’s governor despite thankfully losing to Brian Kemp. Since then…

…she has spent her time screeching irresponsible and inflammatory racial rhetoric, demanding “reparations” for blacks, praising divisive identity politics, commanding Biden to choose a black VP (preferably herself), participating in a racist town hall event featuring professional Caucasian-haters like Nikole Hannah-Jones and Ibram X. Kendi, accusing the cop who shot Rayshard Brooks in self-defense of murder, denouncing America for the imaginary sin of “systemic racism,” outrageously comparing mild election integrity measures to Jim Crow laws, leaning on Major League Baseball to move the All-Star Game out of Atlanta to punish her own state for passing such measures, et cetera.

So thoroughly does Abrams despise the sanctity of innocent human life that she pretends fetal heartbeats are a conspiracy and has proposed killing babies to mitigate inflation.

Abrams achieves an intersectional trifecta by being not only a black woman but morbidly obese. Fellow moonbats like Gretchen Whitmer burn votive candles to her in worship. Lame Star Trek retreads envision her as President of United Earth.

Abrams has ridden racist rhetoric to riches. As noted back in 2021,

Like most anticapitalist demagogues, particularly the race-baiting type, she knows how to acquire the big money.

Given this background, no one will be surprised that she has participated in the leftist looting spree DOGE is uncovering.

Just before Biden left office, his EPA moved $20 billion outside the agency in an apparent attempt to avoid scrutiny. DOGE has discovered $2 billion of it went to the obscure nonprofit Power Forward Communities as reported by the Washington Free Beacon:

Power Forward Communities was established in October 2023 as a coalition of groups led by Rewiring America, a left-wing group that advocates for electrification policies and a transition away from fossil fuel dependence. Abrams, who serves as Rewiring America’s senior counsel, said at the time that she was “thrilled” to be part of the Power Forward Communities coalition. “This is how we expand access to clean energy—by prioritizing housing, equity and resilience,” she wrote in an X post.

As Obama pioneered and Democrats threw into overdrive with the obscene “Inflation Reduction Act,” the global warming hoax is exploited as a pretext to transfer money from taxpayers to well-connected moonbats via government waste. Power Forward Communities supposedly prevents the climate from being an existential crisis by replacing politically disfavored gas-powered appliances.

In its only press release to date, Power Forward Communities said that, in addition to induction stoves, it would use the $2 billion received from the EPA to help install heat pumps, heat pump water heaters, solar panels, home battery systems, EV chargers, and weatherization upgrades.

Observes Daniel Turner, executive director of energy advocacy group Power the Future,

“For an organization that has no experience in this, that was literally just established, and had $100 in the bank to receive a $2 billion grant—it doesn’t just fly in the face of common sense, it’s out and out fraud.”

The long list of partners on the Power Forward Communities website confirms that it is not about controlling the weather through home appliances; it is about leftist politics. Thus the $2 billion gift from the Swamp.

On tips from Wiggins and WDS 2.0.

Pop bubblehead Sheryl Crow loves the oppressed climate so much, she has insisted we use only one square of toilet paper per restroom visit, implying we should go around with unclean behinds so as to reduce our carbon footprint. But she does not love it enough to continue virtue signaling with a Tesla now that the company’s CEO is associated with exposing Democrat waste, fraud, and abuse.

Via Breitbart:

Crow has sold her Tesla vehicle and donated the proceeds to National Public Radio (NPR) — all in protest of Elon Musk.

The pernicious left-wing tripe we are forced to finance on the propaganda platform NPR is “under threat by President Musk,” according to Crow, who is clueless in most regards but is well versed in Democrat talking points.

The war on waste waged by Musk’s DOGE really could pose a threat to NPR, which lied to us regarding the Hunter laptop story, thereby helping the disastrous Joe Biden into the White House. Musk has even called it out specifically, drawing attention to CEO and President Katherine Maher's stated hostility to truth:

Sheryl Crow can drive whatever car she regards as most politically correct. But there is no reason we should be compelled to pay monsters like Maher to lie to us.

On a tip from WDS 2.0.

Super Sunday is a suitable time to reflect on how global warming is affecting the NFL — according to Time, which reports that 4 months ago the temperature reached 98° on the day of a game, compelling a team to wear white pants “to reflect more heat away.” From the story:

The league’s Kansas City Chiefs and Philadelphia Eagles won’t face anything like that punishment during this Sunday’s Super Bowl, which will take place in New Orleans, where the forecast high for game day is 75°F. And, in any case, the game will be played in an indoor stadium. Either way, there is no escaping the fact that the world is steadily—and dangerously—heating up.

We are told once again that the climate slightly fluctuating like it always has represents an “existential crisis.”

Moonbats only know one song: moonbattery. So they keep singing it, even as it becomes increasingly obvious that no one wants to hear it anymore.

When Trump was asked how he feels about Time running a cover story alleging that Democrats’ bugbear Elon Musk is actually running the White House, he expressed surprise that the liberal establishment platform is still in business:

Time dinosaurs missed a scoop; they should have broken the story themselves that they have not yet lumbered all the way to the tarpits.

On a tip from Franco.

The weather gods worshiped by moonbats are not kind deities. They want us in pain. So their legislative priests have declared anesthesia offensive to the climate.

Jason Rantz reports from Washington State:

Senate Bill 5236 orders the Department of Ecology to commission a study of anesthetic gases, including desflurane, isoflurane, sevoflurane, halothane and nitrous oxide because they are recognized as potent greenhouse gases contributing to climate change. The study must determine the extent to which the gases are used in Washington, provide an estimate of the emissions from anesthesia, and recommend measures to either reduce or completely eliminate emissions from these gases.

The contribution of anesthetics to supposedly deleterious greenhouse gas emissions is negligible.

Even if you completely banned anesthesia in Washington, giving a wooden stick or leather strap to bite on during surgery or downing shots of moonshine while having wisdom teeth removed, there would be no impact on climate change.

On the other hand, forcing people to suffer on behalf of their ideology fills Democrats with a euphoric sense of power. That’s why they go out of their way to make our lives less pleasant.

Imagine a whole party of ideologues so deranged as to believe that using anesthesia to alleviate pain during medical procedures should be restricted on behalf of the weather. Then imagine how bad things are likely to get with these malevolent lunatics in control.

On tips from DCGere and Straight Shootr.