For comparison, Field researched the property tax for the Palisades Nuclear Plant in Covert Township along Lake Michigan. He found that the annual real and personal property taxes for Palisades…
Category: Government idiocy
Pray for Britain
Seems to me that this will place Britain at the forefront of economic disadvantage.
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"
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…
The "Taxing your car by the mile" plan
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…
One word: "plastics"
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…
RFP's and the sad state of climate science funding
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…
Blown promises
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…
The UN "disappears" 50 million climate refugees, then botches the disappearing attempt
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…
An insider's view of Caltrans, efficiency, and green edicts
A reaction comes via email from a Caltrans employee to the story: Caltrans abandons weather, embraces “climate change” as the reason for washed out roads I’ve redacted the name and other…
Caltrans abandons weather, embraces "climate change" as the reason for washed out roads
I just finished reading: Turning a More Vivid Shade of Green: Caltrans Takes a Stand on Climate Change, Global Warming from the Caltrans website. The road sign below (from this…
California's giant sucking sound
Time to leave California? Governor Moonbeam may be the best salesman Texas has. While there’s a state delegation in Texas (including former SFO mayor Gavin Newsom) trying to figure out…
Climate Change: Bigger health threat than AIDS, malaria
UPDATE: Holy moly. Dr. Richard North over at the EU Referendum points to this, (screencap below) which makes Ric’s article (further below) look tame. Add this to what’s going on…
Leaked document shows how Australian government planned to "sell the idea of a carbon dioxide tax to the public"
Professor Bob Carter writes: A rather remarkable thing happened in Australia last week, which was the leaking of an internal government document issued to all Labor MPs (probably from the…
New Hampshire House Votes to Quit Cap-and-Trade
The New Hampshire House of Representatives, the third largest legislative body in the world, voted yesterday to end the state’s participation in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative cap-and-trade program. The…
Here, let me fix that headline for you
Deadly collision? Really? This must be before they remove all the automobiles from London per the recent edict from the EU/EC. The author must have suffered through too many “BBQ…
Yeah, that's gonna work
By Bruno Waterfield, Brussels 4:16PM BST 28 Mar 2011 The European Commission on Monday unveiled a “single European transport area” aimed at enforcing “a profound shift in transport patterns for…
Model trumps observation – dam operator caught in fabrication
From Operator of dam ‘invented’ rain data Hedley Thomas, National chief correspondent March 26, 2011 12:00AM EXTREME rainfall so rare it happens on average once every 2000 years has been…
Good luck with that, congressman King
From Slashdot, an example of why legislators are often too dumb to see beyond the financial transaction, invoking the law of unintended consequences: “Rep. Peter King (R-NY), Chairman of the…
Bubbleheaded Barking Mad Met Office Modelers
From the organization that can’t forecast its way out of a paper bag, and then can’t bring itself to tell the public about long range forecasts anymore, it has come…
The Met Office link-buries the CET
The Central England Temperature Record has been getting some inconvenient attention as of late. Joe D’Aleo at ICECAP pointed out recently: The Central England Temperature record is one of the…
Met Office steps in it again
From Autonomous mind, a public relations train wreck: A Freedom of Information request submitted to the Met Office by Autonomous Mind reveals the Met Office did not tell the truth…
The Met office and the BBC- caught cold
From the blog autonomous mind, a cold ill wind blows from Britain. At least this time, FOI requests weren’t quashed like they were with CRU. Below are excerpts. The photocopy…
USGS on their mission to explore African drought
From the USGS here, I thought their mission was the United States, hence the US in USGS. Seems they’ve expanded the mission to Africa now. Disappointingly, there’s no mention of…
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