Vacuum cleaners downgraded by the EU to tackle climate change in Europe Story submitted by P. Wilson Anyone wanting to buy a powerful vacuum cleaner has only 10 days left…
Category: Government idiocy
The Unqualified Judging the Self-Interested
Scientists largely removed from the consideration of science Story submitted by Tom Barr The U.K.’s Energy and Climate Change Committee [yesterday] endorsed the IPCC’s 2014 opinion that humans are the…
Barking Mad – A rave, prompted by facing insane heating costs
Guest essay by Caleb Shaw It is a painful thing to confront someone whom one is accustomed to respecting, and to tell that person they are barking mad. Usually one…
NCDC: 'our algorithm is working as designed'
In a statement to Polifact today, NCDC made the following statement: “… our algorithm is working as designed” One wonders though, about these sorts of things that have been found…
NOAA's temperature control knob for the past, the present, and maybe the future – July 1936 now hottest month again
Two years ago during the scorching summer of 2012, July 1936 lost its place on the leaderboard and July 2012 became the hottest month on record in the United States.…
Climate Warning to be Removed from Aussie Driving Handbook
While Al Gore brings his trademark ‘Gore Effect’ to Canberra, it seems some of the most ridiculous climate edicts of the KRudd/Gillard administrations are being purged. Eric Worrall writes: A…
Failure of the primary mission at the VA – vets died while VA bureaucrats obsessed over green energy installation
Green energy gets the green light while people that served our country with honor have to wait in line, dying while waiting. For example, does anyone other than Eco-zealots give…
John Holdren's Bi-Polar Vortex, Part II – appeal filed
(part 1 is here) By Sam Kazman, CEI Back on June 6th, OSTP (the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy) officially declined to reexamine its highly-publicized January explanation…
John Holdren’s 'personal' Bi-Polar Vortex video
OSTP rules Holdren’s video released by the White House was “personal opinion” and therefore not subject to Data Quality Act. Guest essay by Sam Kazman Back in January, in the…
U.S. Postal Service issues 'global warming' Forever® stamp?
This just in from the U.S.Postal service. (h/t to Marc Morano) In 2014, the U.S. Postal Service introduces Global: Sea Surface Temperatures, a new Forever® international rate stamp. Hmmm, not…
EPA spokeswonk tries to sell Obama's power plan with nirvana style graphics
Wow, this EPA guy (Joseph Goffman, EPA Associate Assistant Administrator & Senior Counsel) thinks that renewables are going to make up 30% of the power grid by 2030. That may…
Obama's big EPA announcement tomorrow translates directly to higher electricity prices
The President thinks his plan will “boost the economy by $43 billion to $74 billion” – he’s living in a fantasy world. From Bloomberg (apparently one of those “read in”…
Oh, joy, climate waste on the local level now
From the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Global survey: Climate change now a mainstream part of city planning CAMBRIDGE, MA — An increasing number of cities around the world now include…
Oops! 'Dieselification' of London due to CO2 regulations have increased actual air pollution
London’s Dirty Secret: Pollution Worse Than Beijing’s Reader Drew H. submits this story. It’s the law of unintended consequences at work. European Union efforts to fight climate change favored diesel…
John Kerry reaches new highs of beclowning himself with temperature
I’m pretty sure he’ll blame his blathering on the heat. You have to wonder if privately, many leading climate alarmists are saying quietly “shut up John you are blowing our…
Governor 'Moonbeam' beclowns himself over sea level rise at LAX airport
Proof positive politicians can’t do simple math. From the LA Times today: Brown’s remarks came a day after the release of two studies finding that a slow-motion and irreversible collapse…
'Houston, we have a dumbass problem'
I’m truly sorry about the title, but nothing else really describes the ridiculousness of the pronouncement by the White House aide John Podesta over these two satellite images in a…
Idiots on parade: Portland water bureau's tenuous grasp of science
From ARStechnica and the stupid, it burns, department comes this ridiculous story of a bureaucrat gone off the rails. See the video that set off this pissing match below. The…
Going Postal – Why the Pony Express is still faster than the U.S Post Office in the West
This has nothing to do with climate or the usual WUWT fare, though it does shine a light on government inefficiency, so I thought I’d share this for entertainment purposes.…
Analysis: Tesla may have made over $100 million off the CARB enabled battery swap ZEV credit scheme
Guest essay by Alberto Zaragoza Comendador In the past I’ve provided estimates of the money Tesla has made off this mysterious feature enabled by credits authorized by the California Air…
Watch the Senate climate pajama party all-nighter live
In case you haven’t heard about it, the Senate is having a “denier bashing fest” while they bask in the warmth provided by steam from the coal-fired Capitol Power Plant.…
Obama Administration to Insert Global Warming Activism into Dietary Guidelines Mandated by Congress
Aaargh! Forget nutrition and medical guidelines, carbon footprint is the new diet selector. Climate Change Activists to Meet Food Police at Closed-Door Meeting March 14 New York, NY / Washington…
A must read: Why Secretary of State John Kerry Is Flat Wrong on Climate Change
By Dr. Richard McNider and Dr. John Christy In a Feb. 16 speech in Indonesia, Secretary of State John Kerry assailed climate-change skeptics as members of the “Flat Earth Society”…
The real reason for flooding in Somerset Levels? Not global warming – river management
UPDATE: Satellite images added. UPDATE2: Upon further inspection of satellite images and flood maps I’ve concluded that while what this commenter had to say about the history is indeed true,…
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