Category Archives: Government idiocy

Regulatory Czar wants to use copyright protection mechanisms to shut down rumors and conspiracy theories

Posted on January 20, 2012 by

Guest Post by Alec Rawls As Congress considers vastly expanding the power of copyright holders to shut down fair use of their intellectual property, this is a good time to remember the other activities that Obama’s “regulatory czar” Cass Sunstein … Continue reading →

Posted in Climategate, Government idiocy | Tagged , , , , , , , | 256 Comments

UK police seize computers of skeptic blogger in England

Posted on December 23, 2011 by

UPDATE: 12/21/11 4PM  -BBC covers Tallbloke, finally, Richard Black still silent-  Norfolk constabulary to share hand-off Climategate investigation, and  Greg Laden caves – see below Dec 14th -The first blogger to break the Climategate2 story has had a visit from … Continue reading →

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Hiding the decline down under – inconvenient papers censored

Posted on December 1, 2011 by

UPDATE: An Australian science paper I located from 1990 says that century scale sea level trends are 1-1.1 mm per year, and Sydney was 0.54 mm/ year. See below. UPDATE2: a graph of the current SLR for Sydney is now … Continue reading →

Posted in Government idiocy, post-normal science, sea level | 142 Comments

New ten year plan for carbon and climate science

Posted on November 16, 2011 by

From the Carnegie Institution , what looks to be a throwback to the old days of central planning has been introduced, except it is twice as good as that, ten years instead of five. The only difference between the ten … Continue reading →

Posted in Government idiocy | 68 Comments

California commits business suicide

Posted on October 21, 2011 by

A mass exodus of business and jobs out of California will be the likely result of this madness. From the San Franscisco Chronicle:

Posted in cap-and-trade, Government idiocy | Tagged , | 126 Comments

Message to Maldives president Mohammed Nasheed: your claims are BS

Posted on October 15, 2011 by

From NatGeo Newswatch: Maldives, Ground Zero for Climate Change Impacts If there is a ground zero for observing the impacts of a changing global climate the Maldives are definitely a front-runner. … Soon after arriving by float plane President Nasheed … Continue reading →

Posted in climate cash, Government idiocy, ridiculae | Tagged , , , , , | 74 Comments

Guardian: UK carbon capture project close to collapse

Posted on October 7, 2011 by

Another billion plus down the drain. I guess it wasn’t “sustainable”.

Posted in carbon sequestration, Government idiocy | Tagged , , , | 82 Comments

Your [wasted green] tax dollars at work

Posted on September 26, 2011 by

From the Fiscal Times: Solyndra Went on a Spending Spree After Getting Loan Former employees of Solyndra, the shuttered solar company that exhausted half a billion dollars of taxpayer money, said they saw questionable spending by management almost as soon … Continue reading →

Posted in Government idiocy, Green tech | Tagged , , | 103 Comments

Let the inhaler hoarding begin

Posted on September 23, 2011 by

First, let’s go back a month,  this from the Will Steger Foundation: On Tuesday [August 2nd 2011], State Senator Torres Ray said, “I’m delighted to participate in the air quality awareness event organized by the Sierra Club in Minneapolis. Air … Continue reading →

Posted in CFC's, GLOC, Government idiocy, ozone | Tagged , , , , , , , | 91 Comments

Netherlands testing car use meters that tax your environmental impact as you drive

Posted on August 13, 2011 by

Looks to me like a system ripe for hacking and fraud that will turn ordinary citizens into criminals. The New York Times reports that the Netherlands is testing a new car use tax system that will tax drivers based upon … Continue reading →

Posted in carbon tax, Government idiocy, Technology | 151 Comments

Australian government prepares for massive climate disruption

Posted on August 5, 2011 by

This film, being shown all throughout Australia, and now available here at WUWT shows what the Gillard government is doing to prepare for the worst unstoppable effects of climate change. It’s quite something. RealClimate has declined comment.

Posted in fun_stuff, Government idiocy, satire | 134 Comments

Quote of the week: from the reductio ad absurdum file

Posted on July 26, 2011 by

This story is about why laws bowing to sea level worries will make signs like this at left more common in one Australian town. I’ve seen stupidity from local city governments before, but this one takes the cake. Residents of … Continue reading →

Posted in Government idiocy, sea level | Tagged , , , | 87 Comments

Your tax dollars at work – EPA offers “golf swing seminar” on EPA work hours and in an EPA facility

Posted on July 19, 2011 by

I hadn’t planned on blogging today during my own work hours, but I’ll take a few minutes from my lunch to shine some much needed sunlight on this. Maybe I need to shut off my email to get anything done. … Continue reading →

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Craziest carbon credit scheme yet – shooting camels in Australia

Posted on June 11, 2011 by

How to Create Carbon Credits – Kill a Camel. By Viv Forbes The people who brought us pink-bats and cash-for-clunkers have a new scheme – we can earn carbon credits by shooting wild camels, humanely of course. Surely it would … Continue reading →

Posted in carbon credits, Government idiocy | Tagged , , , | 151 Comments

Update on the Thompsons and “smellgate”

Posted on June 7, 2011 by

Jo Nova has an update on this story that we have covered in detail here. Follow the link for the story: Breaking: Thompsons lose right to sue DEC; but Spencer gets a green light From Matt and Janet Thompson, a … Continue reading →

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ENSO color tricks from NOAA’s Environmental Visualization Lab

Posted on May 21, 2011 by

Or, “how to hide the decline with color”. Here’s the image and press release from NOAA NNVL this week to push their hurricane season announcement. Notice anything odd? Weakening of La Niña but Above Normal Hurricane Season is Predicted [Thursday] … Continue reading →

Posted in ENSO, Government idiocy, Sea Surface Temperature | Tagged , , | 48 Comments

If NASA science was this easy to hack, CRU must have been child’s play

Posted on May 18, 2011 by

We still have no final report from the Norfolk police on whether the ClimateGate files were a hack, or an inside job by a whistleblower. However, we do have another example emerging today that illustrates that it seems rather easy … Continue reading →

Posted in Climategate, Government idiocy | Tagged , , , , | 26 Comments

Krazy in Kalamazoo – taxes on solar farm more than the value of the electricity produced

Posted on May 16, 2011 by
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Pray for Britain

Posted on May 15, 2011 by

Seems to me that this will place Britain at the forefront of economic disadvantage.

Posted in Government idiocy | Tagged , | 193 Comments

The new US Postal service green stamps – no mention of global warming, climate change, or carbon – but they do want us to turn off our lights “forever”

Posted on May 14, 2011 by

The first thing I thought of when I heard about  the new US Postal Service “green stamps” was this logo at right. I suppose I’ve dated myself identifying this, but I can’t help it. For the baby boomer generation, S&H … Continue reading →

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The “Taxing your car by the mile” plan

Posted on May 6, 2011 by

Or in other words, we’ll all drive “taxis”, except for the chosen exempt few. Yesterday on “The Hill” they reported this story: Obama admin. floats draft plan to tax cars by the mile: ‘A vehicle miles traveled tax could be … Continue reading →

Posted in carbon tax, Government idiocy | Tagged , , | 189 Comments

One word: “plastics”

Posted on May 5, 2011 by

With apologies to Dustin Hoffman in “The Graduate” I can’t wait to hear the fish stories that will be told to the EU trying to scam money from this latest idea:

Posted in Government idiocy, ridiculae | 80 Comments

RFP’s and the sad state of climate science funding

Posted on April 28, 2011 by

From the “more study is needed” department and Dr. Roger Pielke Senior, it seems that the RFP (request for proposal) might be one of the biggest problems with climate science today, as some read like recipes. He posted this article … Continue reading →

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Blown promises

Posted on April 27, 2011 by

First the promise, perhaps a bit overrated: The article goes on to say: The borough already has one publicly-owned turbine — a 33ft Air Dolphin turbine at a location off Taylors Lane, Oldbury, near the civic amenities site in Shidas … Continue reading →

Posted in FOI, Government idiocy | Tagged , , | 163 Comments

The UN “disappears” 50 million climate refugees, then botches the disappearing attempt

Posted on April 15, 2011 by

Hoo boy, government bureaucratic idiocy at its finest. Not only is the original claim bogus, the attempts to disappear it are hilariously inept. Apparently, they’ve never heard of Google Cache at the UN. Rather than simply say “we were wrong”, … Continue reading →

Posted in GLOC, Government idiocy | Tagged , , | 272 Comments