Oliver Hartwich writes – The World Justice Project ranks New Zealand 7th out of 142 countries on its ‘Rule of Law Index’, narrowly ahead of Australia’s 13th place. However, Australia still has hope – if only because of a recent decision by the Supreme Court of New Zealand. The case is easily told. Mike Smith, […]
OLIVER HARTWICH: Absurd – NZ courts can now decide on climate change
OLIVER HARTWICH: Absurd – NZ courts can now decide on climate change
17 Feb 2024 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, economics of climate change, energy economics, environmental economics, environmentalism, global warming, law and economics, liberalism, politics - New Zealand, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking Tags: climate activists, rule of law
Orsted’s Financial Collapse Spells Armageddon For US Offshore Wind Industry
17 Feb 2024 Leave a comment
in energy economics, entrepreneurship, environmental economics, financial economics, global warming, politics - USA Tags: celebrity technologies, wind power
When the most heavily subsidised industry on earth can’t make it pay, you know the economics must really stink. Denmark’s Ørsted share price plummeted 25% late last year, and after slashing dividends to shareholders was forced to write $billions off the projected value of its US offshore projects, and its share price is still heading south. Exhibiting […]
Orsted’s Financial Collapse Spells Armageddon For US Offshore Wind Industry
Ford EV Crisis: “Our Gen 2 vehicles won’t launch unless we can … profit”
16 Feb 2024 1 Comment
in energy economics, entrepreneurship, environmental economics, global warming, industrial organisation, Public Choice, rentseeking, survivor principle, transport economics Tags: electric cars
Death of the EV revolution?
Ford EV Crisis: “Our Gen 2 vehicles won’t launch unless we can … profit”
Demand for electric cars crashed last summer, supply is slow to adjust
15 Feb 2024 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, transport economics Tags: electric cars
From WSJ: The wave of early EV adopters willing to splurge had receded, and the next round of potential customers was proving more hesitant. They had more questions about how far a car could go on a single charge, and the life expectancy of batteries. They worried about charging times, repair costs, and not having…
Demand for electric cars crashed last summer, supply is slow to adjust
Congress and Courts enable Energy and Climate Fantasy and Tyranny
15 Feb 2024 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, economics of bureaucracy, economics of climate change, economics of regulation, energy economics, environmental economics, environmentalism, global warming, law and economics, politics - USA, property rights, Public Choice Tags: constitutional law
Supreme Court should end “Chevron deference” to restore checks, balances and reality
Congress and Courts enable Energy and Climate Fantasy and Tyranny
The California Energy Scam: Newsom’s Actions Of “Leaking” Emissions To Poorer Developing Countries.
14 Feb 2024 Leave a comment
in development economics, economics of regulation, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, politics - USA Tags: California, climate alarmism
By “leaking” emissions to other countries, California successfully reduces its in-state emissions, but effectively induces net increases to the world’s emissions!
The California Energy Scam: Newsom’s Actions Of “Leaking” Emissions To Poorer Developing Countries.
All Sweat: More Wind & Solar Chaos – State Orders Remote Air-Con Shut Down
13 Feb 2024 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: Australia, solar power, wind power
When the sun sets and/or calm weather sets in, wind and solar power can’t be bought, at any price. As we approach our inevitable transition, that means that daily power rationing becomes completely inevitable. The perceived logic of supplying consumers with electricity from nothing but wholly weather-dependent wind power and wholly sunshine-dependent solar power lacks […]
All Sweat: More Wind & Solar Chaos – State Orders Remote Air-Con Shut Down
The Deindustrialization of Europe in Five Charts
13 Feb 2024 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: European Union
Industrial electricity use in the EU is collapsing. US policymakers “Have no excuse for not looking at Europe and learning.”
The Deindustrialization of Europe in Five Charts
BBC Asks “Are the politics of climate change going out of fashion?”
12 Feb 2024 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, television Tags: British politics
Labour opposition leader Keir Starmer’s election campaign decision to cancel a pledge to spend £28 billion per year on green projects has rocked the British political landscape.
BBC Asks “Are the politics of climate change going out of fashion?”
Charles Moore: The political class is only just realising that voters prefer prosperity over climate jingoism
11 Feb 2024 Leave a comment
in economic growth, economics of bureaucracy, economics of climate change, energy economics, environmental economics, environmentalism, global warming, income redistribution, liberalism, macroeconomics, Marxist economics, Public Choice, rentseeking, technological progress Tags: British politics, climate alarmism, wind power
By Paul Homewood From The Telegraph: Labour’s green U-turn reflects the shifting sands of climate policy If you want to see how the politics of climate change are shifting, compare today with late 2009. In both cases, a general election was approaching. In October 2009, with the Copenhagen climate summit […]
Charles Moore: The political class is only just realising that voters prefer prosperity over climate jingoism
Broken Dreams: Constant Calm Weather Wiping Out Britain’s Wind Industry
11 Feb 2024 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: wind power
The wind industry treats natural meteorological phenomenon – like calm weather – as a grand conspiracy. They’ve even coined their very own curse, calling such lengthy events “wind droughts”. Wind and solar-dependent Germans call gloomy, windless weather ‘dunkelflaute’. Wild claims being smashed by nature is a common feature of earthly hubris. Icarus learnt the hard […]
Broken Dreams: Constant Calm Weather Wiping Out Britain’s Wind Industry
“Green” Activists Menace Humanity
10 Feb 2024 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, law and economics Tags: climate alarmism
A thoroughly anti-human philosophy that envisions Earth untouched by people has them blindly adhering to an unscientific theory of a climate emergency.
“Green” Activists Menace Humanity
Labour Cuts Green Budget By 80%
10 Feb 2024 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: British politics
By Paul Homewood It’s been the worst kept secret of the year! Labour has slashed its original £28bn green borrowing plan by four fifths and unveiled a new tax raid on oil and gas giants to bankroll the Net Zero drive. Sir Keir Starmer announced that his flagship clean energy policy […]
Labour Cuts Green Budget By 80%
PETER WILLIAMS: Supreme Court decision astounding
09 Feb 2024 Leave a comment
in economics of bureaucracy, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, law and economics, liberalism, Marxist economics, politics - New Zealand, property rights, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: climate activists
Three years ago a friend of mine who’s a District Court Judge asked me if I would be guest speaker at the annual DCJ shindig, scheduled that year for the Hilton in Taupo. Despite a feeling of significant intellectual inferiority, I accepted on the condition that all I would talk about were personal experiences from…
PETER WILLIAMS: Supreme Court decision astounding
Jury finds in favor of Michael Mann in defamation lawsuit against Mark Steyn, Rand Simberg
09 Feb 2024 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, law and economics, politics - USA, property rights Tags: defamation, free speech, regressive left
The jury awarded Mann $1 in compensatory damages from each plaintiff. It also awarded $1,000 in punitive damages from Simberg and $1 million from Steyn.
Jury finds in favor of Michael Mann in defamation lawsuit against Mark Steyn, Rand Simberg
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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