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A really, really, REALLY bad idea - Giving the Internet to the U.N.99 comments

Anthony Watts wrote 3 days ago: International Telecommunication Union, part of the United Nations (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Via Junk … more →

Tags: technology, China, Russia, United Nation, Washington Times, International Telecommunication Union, Vladimir Putin, ITU, ICANN

NOAA/NWS under fire - 'misappropriated $43 million dollars'60 comments

Anthony Watts wrote 5 days ago: The logo of the United States National Weather Service. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Report: National W … more →

Tags: NOAA, NOAA, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Weather Service, Office of Inspector General, Olympia Snowe, Commerce Department, United States Department of Commerce, United States Coast Guard

Obama wants the Electric Reliability Corporation to stop assessing electric reliability70 comments

Alec Rawls wrote 1 week ago: Guest post by Alec Rawls NERC (the North American Electric Reliability Corporation) must have though … more →

Tags: Energy, united states environmental protection agency, Wall Street Journal, Electrical Grid, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, North American Electric Reliability Corporation, NERC, Jon Wellinghoff, FERC

EU violates Aarhus Convention in ‘20% renewable energy by 2020’ program95 comments

Anthony Watts wrote 1 week ago: Emblem of the United Nations.  (Photo credit: Wikipedia)   FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE   UN: EU … more →

Tags: Energy, european union, Aarhus convention, national renewable energy action plan

NWS Chicago demonstrates that climate math is hard54 comments

Anthony Watts wrote 2 weeks ago: Chicago NWS demonstrates why climate math is hard in their May 10th summary, which I reproduce in en … more →

Tags: climate data, NOAA, united states, Chicago, O'Hare International Airport, PRWeb, InterContinental Hotels Group, Rosemont Illinois, crowne plaza

Stupid is as Stupid Does _ Three Stories17 comments

Conservatives on Fire wrote 3 weeks ago: With all that is going on in America and in the world that has impact our lives and the futures of o … more →

Tags: Cadilacs to China. General Motors, Free Phones from the FCC, Frying Pan Grease is Dangerous

Jumping the shark: Climate change a national security threat94 comments

Anthony Watts wrote 4 weeks ago: Wow, this is thick. What next? Climate research becoming classified? Panetta: Climate change a natio … more →

Tags: Al Gore, sea ice, Global Warming, Environmental Defense Fund, Washington D C, Leon Panetta, United States Secretary of Defense, national security

The new "10 year plan" for global change110 comments

Anthony Watts wrote 1 month ago: This is reminiscent of  communist Russia with their disastrous five year plan, which while the plan … more →

Tags: climate change, Environment, US Global Change Research Program, Global Change Research Act of 1990, USGCRP, Strategic Planning, Soviet Russia

Rules, Rules, Rules and, More Rules. Enough Already!21 comments

Conservatives on Fire wrote 1 month ago: Don’t you get tired of it? There seems to be no aspect of our lives that the government doesn … more →

Postal Service + Wind Farm + Electric Vehicles - What could possibly go wrong?145 comments

Anthony Watts wrote 1 month ago: I would not have believed this had I not seen this come from this idiot’s Senator’s mout … more →

Tags: Energy, Gloc, Wind power, United States Senate, United States Postal Service, Joe Lieberman, Tom Carper, United States House Committee on Oversight and Governme, postal service

The ugly battle between rural residents and alternative energy mandates in California123 comments

Alec Rawls wrote 1 month ago: Seems the Mojave evictions WERE to make way for solar and wind projects Guest post by Alec Rawls In … more →

Tags: Energy, climate ugliness, Wind power, solar power energy, California, Mojave, Antelope Valley, First Solar, Southern California Edison

UK government trying to kill the FOI act27 comments

Anthony Watts wrote 1 month ago: I guess Climategate really put a burr under their saddle. Bishop Hill writes: As it becomes clear th … more →

Tags: foi, Freedom of Information Act, Freedom of Information, FOI Act, save foi

Bad battery "karma" - Taxpayers’ Green ‘Investment’ in Battery Company Withers76 comments

Anthony Watts wrote 1 month ago: By Paul Chesser, National Legal & Policy Center Image via CrunchBase A123 Systems – the taxpayer … more →

Tags: electric vehicle, United States Department of Energy, Fisker Automotive, Massachusetts, Fisker Karma, A123 Systems, Livonia, Consumer Reports

Another Obama sanctioned taxpayer funded boondoggle goes bellyup82 comments

Anthony Watts wrote 2 months ago: California Governor Jerry Brown and Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar among others use golden sh … more →

Tags: Energy, solar power energy, Solar Power, United States Department of Energy, Solar Trust of America, Blythe Solar Power Project, Chapter 11 Title 11 United States Code, united states bankruptcy court

The EPA Wrecking Ball140 comments

Anthony Watts wrote 2 months ago: Guest post By Alan Caruba The Environmental Protection Agency is using its power to advance the obje … more →

Tags: Energy, united states environmental protection agency, EPA, Fossil fuel power station, BarackObama, United State, Alan Caruba, Harry Reid

New EPA rule will block all new coal-electric generation158 comments

Alec Rawls wrote 2 months ago: Guest post by Alec Rawls The upcoming rule: … will require any new power plant to emit no more … more →

Tags: Energy, Global Warming, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, carbon dioxide, ipcc, united states environmental protection agency, Barack Obama, EPA, obama

Where there's a need for immunity, there's a crime - Green climate fund looking to UN for diplomatic immunity protection from lawsuits.143 comments

Anthony Watts wrote 2 months ago: It seems to me, that if you are asking for immunity up-front, you already know that something has be … more →

Tags: United Nations, united nations framework convention on climate change, switzerland, durban, green climate fund, UNFCCC, United Nations Office of Legal Affairs, World War II

It's Not Government Intrusion! It's for Your Own Good!

docandraider wrote 2 months ago: … more →

Tags: Republicans, GOP, Abortion, War On Women, Eating

Los Angeles TV station pans California's AB32 climate bill93 comments

Anthony Watts wrote 2 months ago: This is a surprise, a major TV station in Los Angeles pushes back against the California Air Resourc … more →

Tags: Opinion, California, climate change, Global Warming, Los Angeles, AB32, California Air Resources Board, Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006, carb


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