March 15, 2025

March 14, 2025

OPEN THREAD: Ring in the weekend.

Posted at 9:30 pm by Glenn Reynolds 1657

ANALYSIS: TRUE.

Posted at 9:07 pm by Glenn Reynolds 112

THE NOT-SO-FINAL COUNTDOWN: CBS Environmental Journo Slams Trump EPA: We Have ‘Less Than 10 Years’ to Save Planet.

During the “By the Way” segment on Friday’s CBS Mornings Plus, CBS environmental correspondent David Schechter decried the Trump Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under Administrator Lee Zeldin by giving away the game on the climate alarmists by reupping a line that’s been deployed for at least five decades, which is we have “less than ten years” to save Earth from climate change.

Co-host Adriana Diaz twice teased his appearance and spelled doom about what deregulation at the EPA would mean, ominously wondering “what” the “big changes at the EPA” “could cost you” as the “administration…mak[es] good on the President’s campaign promise to roll back climate protections.”

Flashback to CBS in 1972: CBS News’ Walter Cronkite Warns of Coming Ice Age (Video).

And Dan Rather in 1982:

Beyond CBS:

● President ‘has four years to save Earth.’

—The Grauniad, January 27, 2009.

● “A secret report, suppressed by US defence chiefs and obtained by The Observer, warns that major European cities will be sunk beneath rising seas as Britain is plunged into a ‘Siberian’ climate by 2020.”

—The Grauniad, February 21, 2004.

● Warming expert: Only decade left to act in time.

—NBC News, September 14, 2006.

● U.N. Predicts Disaster if Global Warming Not Checked:

A senior U.N. environmental official says entire nations could be wiped off the face of the Earth by rising sea levels if the global warming trend is not reversed by the year 2000.

Coastal flooding and crop failures would create an exodus of “eco- refugees,” threatening political chaos, said Noel Brown, director of the New York office of the U.N. Environment Program, or UNEP.

He said governments have a 10-year window of opportunity to solve the greenhouse effect before it goes beyond human control.

—AP, June 29, 1989.

And finally, this classic:

Found via Jim Treacher, who tweets, “Every 10 years, we only have 10 years left.“

Posted at 8:30 pm by Ed Driscoll 122

THE ADULTS ARE ADULTING:

Posted at 8:24 pm by Glenn Reynolds 154

SPACEX TO THE RESCUE NOW THAT THE BIDEN HOLD IS LIFTED: NASA, SpaceX launches mission to International Space Station to retrieve Suni Williams, Butch Wilmore. “NASA and SpaceX launched NASA’s Crew-10 astronauts to the International Space Station on Friday night in a mission that will also aim to return Starliner astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore. In a clear night sky, the launch went off as planned at 7:03 p.m. EDT after SpaceX ground teams on Thursday had resolved an air pocket issue in the hydraulics system for the clamp arm supporting the Falcon 9 rocket.”

Related:

Posted at 7:15 pm by Glenn Reynolds 121

RICH LOWRY: Tesla terrorism only reveals the left’s impotence.

The left, with Soros-funded organizations taking a big role, has its next project — an intifada against the country’s largest maker of electric cars.

The progressive fear and loathing of Elon Musk now may be greater than that directed at Donald Trump.

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The heretofore trend-setting, eco-conscious vehicle for the affluent is now a hate object, a so-called swasticar, the equivalent of a Volkswagen in 1930s Germany.

Everyone has a right to peacefully protest, of course, and to refuse to buy whatever products they wish.

But when the left engages in direct action, it’s always a sign you should take steps to protect your property and person.

Teslas have been set on fire, spray-painted and otherwise damaged. Charging stations have been burned and dealerships vandalized.

Shots were fired at a Tesla showroom in Portland, Ore.

A woman in Colorado who attacked a Tesla dealership, including with a Molotov cocktail, was subsequently arrested near the location with more makeshift bombs in her car.

A Tesla charging station in South Carolina was also Molotov-cocktailed. The vandal spray-painted “LONG LIVE UKRAINE” on the ground.

In Ukraine, they prepared Molotov cocktails to blunt the advance of Russian tanks closing in on Kyiv; in America, progressive activists use them to stick it to an entrepreneur whose politics they don’t like.

Of course, Teslas have been painted with swastikas, as if a streamlined federal government is an indicator of incipient fascism.

We’ve descended into some sort of bizarre hell-world in which the son of John and Yoko is a voice of sanity:

Joel Kotkin adds: The climate has changed on climate change.

Immiseration has become central to green ideology. According to Robert Jackson, a Stanford professor of earth system science, Americans should learn to like living on one-quarter of their current energy, essentially turning the clock back to consumption patterns of the 1950s. This does not make an appealing proposition to the public, as the likes of Bill Gates and even the head of a powerful and prominent UK trade union have noted.

Political scientist Roger Pielke’s “iron law of climate policy” suggests that “substantially increasing the costs of energy, which supports every aspect of modern life, is off the table as a policy option for achieving deep decarbonization.”

Fortunately, there are other less damaging ways to reduce emissions, by using natural gas instead of coal and building emissions-free nuclear plants. Gradual shifts in cars with greater efficiency — such as hybrids — are more likely to win marketplace acceptance than the current insistence on electrical vehicles. (EVs also have their own considerable environmental drawbacks, due to the heavy use of carbon-intensive materials.)

Mark Kelly’s Musk Derangement Syndrome is causing him a definite “past performance is no guarantee of future results” moment: ‘Trashing the Climate to Own the Cons’! Here’s What Dem Sen. Mark Kelly Traded in His Tesla For.

Exactly. Like Al Gore selling out to oil-rich Qatar a decade ago, Mark Kelly has just declared “Mission Accomplished” to radical environmentalism:

Earlier: “Seriously, it’s like Musk is some kind of evil genius who figured out how to separate lefties from billions of their dollars by appealing to their idiotic climate religion…and then made them despise themselves for doing it. He should get a Nobel Prize for that.”

Posted at 5:14 pm by Ed Driscoll 224

BREAKING NEWS: Just the News reporting that:

“Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley on Friday sent a letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel, revealing that the bureau allegedly obtained the cellphones of President Donald Trump and his former Vice President Mike Pence.”

Remember when the phrase “deep state” or as Tucker calls it, “Permanent Washington” were so easily dismissed as a conspiracy theory? I have a (good) feeling those days are getting fewer and far between.

**Update: JTN dialed back the original lede and changed above. Originally said “listened in” but changed to show that they simply obtained the cellphones.

Posted at 5:08 pm by Charles Glasser 77

I LOVE THIS APP:

This account is going to turn out to be Elon’s isn’t it?

Posted at 4:58 pm by Glenn Reynolds 65

IDIOCRACY WAS NEVER MEANT TO BE A HOW-TO GUIDE TO LIFE IN THE 21st CENTURY:

Posted at 4:45 pm by Ed Driscoll 139