@guardianeco slimes New Zealand’s record on #climatechange @NZGreens @GreenpeaceNZ
22 Aug 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of information, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, Public Choice Tags: Australia, climate alarmism, global warming, Left-wing hypocrisy, The Guardian
https://twitter.com/guardianeco/status/634681114527797248
Excellent wrap up of carbon pricing globally, found here: worldbank.org/en/news/featur… #renewables http://t.co/Hocf9Z5cEC—
Danny Rose (@_DannyRose) August 19, 2015
Carbon pricing expanded in the last 21 months. New report shows where & how:
wrld.bg/R0EuZ http://t.co/VB69szI1je—
World Bank (@WorldBank) August 19, 2015
A carbon price gives investors a clearer view of the future risks of high-carbon assets: wrld.bg/R0GLE http://t.co/GuNnzlMMlZ—
World Bank (@WorldBank) August 21, 2015
How is the environment going under the ravages of 21st century capitalism
22 Aug 2015 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, economic history, economics of regulation, energy economics, environmental economics, environmentalism, politics - USA Tags: doomsday prophecies, doomsday prophets, environmental law, environmental protection, environmental regulation, free market environmentalism, green scaremongering, tear pollution, The Great Escape, The Great Fact, water pollution
U.S. population has grown since 1980, yet pollution rates either haven't moved or are falling. buff.ly/1ILu7RM http://t.co/PXriaKlsZO—
HumanProgress.org (@humanprogress) August 14, 2015
Why do unilateral actions to combat global warming fail in Congress?
21 Aug 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of regulation, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, politics - USA Tags: climate alarmism, evidence-based policy, expressive politics, expressive voting, global warming, rational irrationality
Why @NZGreens @nzlabour @GreenpeaceNZ hate applied welfare economics
21 Aug 2015 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, economics of regulation, energy economics, environmental economics, health economics, international economics, labour economics, law and economics, politics - New Zealand, Public Choice Tags: antiforeign bias, antimarket bias, expressive voting, Greenpeace, Leftover Left, make-work bias, methodology of economics, New Zealand Greens, New Zealand Labour Party, rational ignorance, rational irrationality
Quotation of the Day from French Economist Frederic Bastiat in the 1850s http://t.co/2ECWtb6m9u—
Mark J. Perry (@Mark_J_Perry) August 14, 2015
Julian Simon and William Buckley on Cross–Fire
18 Aug 2015 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, economic history, energy economics, entrepreneurship, environmental economics, environmentalism, liberalism, resource economics Tags: commodity prices, creative destruction, entrepreneurial alertness, Julian Simon, peak oil, The Great Enrichment, The Great Escape, The Great Fact, William Buckley
The track record on banking on solar energy innovation becoming cost competitive
18 Aug 2015 Leave a comment
in economic history, energy economics, entrepreneurship, environmental economics, global warming, politics - USA, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: Big Solar, creative destruction, green rent seeking, renewable energy, renewable resources, solar energy
Has the ‘Peak Oil’ drama peaked?
17 Aug 2015 Leave a comment
in economic history, energy economics, entrepreneurship, environmental economics, resource economics Tags: creative destruction, entrepreneurial alertness, peak oil, The Great Enrichment
Remember Peak Oil? Just a few years ago Green Party leaders Jeanette Fitzsimons and Russell Norman routinely issued warnings about ‘the world running out of oil’ and told us that we needed to move freight off roads and on to shipping and rail, and commuters out of cars and on to trains, buses and bicycles.
They weren’t alone of course. An April 2006 article in The Economist reported that:
For years a small group of geologists has been claiming that the world has started to grow short of oil, that alternatives cannot possible replace it and that an imminent peak in production will lead to economic disaster. In recent months this view has gained wider acceptance on Wall Street and in the media. Recent books on oil have bewailed the threat. Every few weeks, its seems, “Out of Gas”, “The Empty Tank” and “The Coming Economic Collapse: How You Can…
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Julian Simon on Resources, Growth and Human Progress
17 Aug 2015 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, development economics, economic history, energy economics, entrepreneurship, environmentalism, health economics, liberalism, resource economics Tags: capitalism and freedom, commodity prices, creative destruction, entrepreneurial alertness, Julian Simon, life expectancies, peak oil, The Great Enrichment, The Great Escape, The Great Fact
On the inefficiency of fuel efficiency standards
17 Aug 2015 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, economics of regulation, energy economics, environmental economics Tags: fuel efficiency standards, offsetting behaviour, The fatal conceit, The pretense to knowledge, unintended consequences
If Someone Replaced Your Car with a Prius, Would You Drive More?
17 Aug 2015 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, energy economics, entrepreneurship, environmental economics, industrial organisation Tags: offsetting behaviour, The fatal conceit, The pretense to knowledge, unintended consequences
Settled science part 1: Is science ever actually settled?
17 Aug 2015 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, energy economics, environmental economics, history of economic thought Tags: climate alarmism, conjecture and ref patient, global warming, methodology of economics, philosophy of science, philosophy of social sciences
We are constantly told that “everyone has a right to their opinion” and “there are two sides to every story.” Our entire news system is predicated on the notion that we need to give fair time to both sides of every situation. The problem with this type of thinking is that it leads to the misconception that both sides are equally valid, or, at the very least, that there must be some truth to both sides, but in many cases, only one side has any merit. In other words, it’s often not opinion #1 vs. opinion #2, rather, it is fact vs. fiction. One “side” is reality, while the other “side” is a fairy tail. For example, if you want to say that the island of Jamaica is being carried around on the back of giant sea turtle, that’s not your opinion, you’re just wrong. There wouldn’t be two legitimate…
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The Battle Over Global Warming Is All in Your Head
16 Aug 2015 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, economics of information, economics of media and culture, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: climate alarmism, doomsday prophecies, global warming, political psychology
Why are Australian power prices so high?
15 Aug 2015 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: carbon pricing, climate alarmism, power prices, solao energy, solar power, wind power
The fracking revolution
14 Aug 2015 Leave a comment
in economic history, energy economics, politics - USA Tags: creative destruction, fracking
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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