Matthew E. Kahn’s Keynote Address for 3rd Urbanization and Poverty Reduction World Bank Conference
11 Feb 2016 Leave a comment
in climate change, environmental economics, global warming, transport economics, urban economics Tags: climate change adaptation, Matthew Kahn
Matthew Kahn on urban climate change adaptation @RusselNorman @JulieAnneGetner
10 Feb 2016 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, environmental economics, global warming, transport economics, urban economics Tags: climate adaptation
If you do not follow this guy’s blog, there is a serious gap in your education in urban and environmental economics especially with regard to climate change.
If you love nature, stay away from it – Ed Glaeser
09 Feb 2016 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, politics - New Zealand, transport economics, urban economics
It is hard to imagine any merchant who harmed the environment as much as Henry David Thoreau…
We are a destructive species, and if you love nature, stay away from it. The best means of protecting the environment is to live in the heart of a city.
Ed Glaeser
Source: If you love nature, move to the city – The Boston Globe.
@GreenpeaceUK thinks these wind turbines are a pretty sight
05 Feb 2016 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, law and economics, property rights Tags: Big Wind, land use conflicts, visual pollution, wind power
Apparently, it has been getting hotter recently depending on what recently means
04 Feb 2016 2 Comments
in environmental economics, global warming Tags: climate alarmism
@RusselNorman @JulieAnneGenter a hedge fund specialises in shorting renewable energy shares @Greenpeace
03 Feb 2016 Leave a comment
in defence economics, economic history, economics of regulation, energy economics, entrepreneurship, environmental economics, financial economics, global warming Tags: active investing, disinvestment, entrepreneurial alertness, ethical investing, Fossil Fuels, green rentseeking, hedge funds, passive investing, renewable energy, solar power, Vice Fund, wind power
Just as the Vice Fund specialises in investing in tobacco, alcohol, gaming and defence shares, Cool Futures Funds Management is starting-up to specialise in betting against global warming by shorting green stocks:
…instead of renewables being our energy future, they’re betting on the subsidies drying up and the whole industry collapsing; instead of fossil fuels being left in the ground as “stranded assets”.
An example of the nice little earners this hedge fund can come across is anticipating when particular investors will want to disinvest from fossil fuels.
When institutional investors ranging from universities to sovereign investment funds such as the New Zealand Superannuation Fund seek to disinvest from fossil fuels, that will be a good time to buy cheap shares.The
#climatechange & #globalwarming job trends @GreenpeaceNZ @NZGreens
02 Feb 2016 Leave a comment
in environmental economics, global warming, rentseeking
A lot of jobs depend upon action to fight climate change and global warming. Perhaps they should be little bit easier about accusing others of being on the payroll to criticise or advocate for a particular position in those debates.
There has been a recession in the climate change and global warming industry in the last few years. Then there was a bit of a rebound after the Paris climate talks and subsequent agreement to promise to do something but whatever that was is up to you and your domestic political constituencies.
Source: climate change Job Trends | Indeed.com.
Source: climate change Job Trends | Indeed.com.
Source: Global warming Job Trends | Indeed.com.
@GreenpeaceUSA I must photoshop this #TPPANoWay 4 climate treaties
02 Feb 2016 Leave a comment
in environmental economics, global warming, international economic law, international economics, rentseeking
1975: Scientists “almost unanimous” cooling will reduce ag. product. thru 2000
30 Jan 2016 Leave a comment
in environmental economics, global warming
Al Gore and snow on Mount Kilimanjaro
25 Jan 2016 1 Comment
in environmental economics, global warming
Electricity from new #wind 3x more costly than existing #coal @GarethMP
22 Jan 2016 1 Comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: power prices, wind power
IPCC summaries of cost of #globalwarming @greencatherine @GreenpeaceNZ
16 Jan 2016 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming
SOURCE: Table 10.B.1, IPCC WGII AR5, p. 82 via
I used to write essays about the threats of global cooling in high school
16 Jan 2016 Leave a comment
in economic history, economics of media and culture, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: climate alarmism, conjecture and refutation, global cooling, global warming, growth of knowledge, rational irrationality
Al Gore and Arctic ice
11 Jan 2016 1 Comment
in environmental economics, global warming Tags: Al Gore, climate alarmism
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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