The climate alarmists need to lift their game on their scaremongering
11 Aug 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of media and culture, environmental economics, global warming, politics - USA, Public Choice Tags: climate alarmism, doomsday prophecies, global warming, scaremongering, voter demographics
Analysing environmental benefits from driving electric vehicles
09 Aug 2015 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, politics - USA, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: coal power, electric cars, green rent seeking, hydroelectric power, nuclear energy, nuclear power, offsetting behaviour, The fatal conceit, The pretense to knowledge, unintended consequences
- The benefit is large and positive in many places in the west because the western electricity grid is relatively clean – primarily a mix of hydro, nuclear, and natural gas.
- The benefit is large and negative in many places in the east because the eastern electricity grid primarily relies more heavily on coal and natural gas.
via Economist’s View.
@NZGreens and co. must face an inconvenient truth about global poverty
09 Aug 2015 Leave a comment
in development economics, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, growth disasters, growth miracles, politics - New Zealand Tags: expressive voting, extreme poverty, global poverty, rational irrationality, The Great Escape, The Great Fact
Climate change that is worth worrying about
05 Aug 2015 Leave a comment
in economic history, environmental economics, global warming Tags: global cooling, global warming, ice ages, Little ice age
Europe during Weichselian- & Würm-Glaciation period (which ended 11,700 years ago). http://t.co/Sx58qdIEAA—
Amazing Maps™ (@amazingmap) August 03, 2015
Why Obama’s Climate-Change Plan Is Hopeless Without China
05 Aug 2015 Leave a comment
in environmental economics, global warming, politics - USA Tags: China, climate treaties, global warming
What difference did the Kyoto protocol make and that’s before you consider 3rd World development
04 Aug 2015 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic history, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, growth miracles, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: climate alarmism clock, climate treaties, expressive voting, free-riders, Kyoto Protocol, rational ignorance, rational irrationality
Why do @NZGreens want NZ to lead the world by example on a carbon tax, but not unilateral free trade?
31 Jul 2015 Leave a comment
in David Friedman, environmental economics, global warming, international economics, Milton Friedman, Murray Rothbard, politics - New Zealand Tags: antiforeign bias, antimarket bias, carbon tax, carbon trading, climate treaties, expressive voting, free trade, global warming, left-wing double standards, Left-wing hypocrisy, New Zealand Greens, protectionism, rational ignorance, rational irrationality, unilateral free trade
NZ’s greenhouse gas emissions are high per person and unit of GDP but have fallen since 1990 oe.cd/10z http://t.co/f5BMLMvTjq—
OECD Publications (@OECD_Pubs) June 10, 2015
It’s a worry when James Hansen is talking sense on energy policy
30 Jul 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of media and culture, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, politics - USA, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: Big Solar, green rent seeking, James Hansen, renewable energy, solar energy, solar power
James Hansen just totally destroyed Hillary Clinton's climate plan. goo.gl/N8n9Cz http://t.co/ef8bElDBBn—
Steve Milloy (@JunkScience) July 29, 2015
#ISDS is saving the planet from global warming!
22 Jul 2015 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, environmentalism, global warming Tags: carbon emissions, Euroland, expressive voting, Germany, global warming, investor state dispute settlement, nuclear energy, tradeoffs
Do environmentalists oppose all energy subsidies?
22 Jul 2015 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: antimarket bias, Big Solar, Big Wind, expressive voting, green rent seeking, rational ignorance, rational irrationality, renewable energy, solar power, wind power
There are 620 million people in Africa without electricity
22 Jul 2015 Leave a comment
in development economics, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, growth disasters, growth miracles Tags: Africa, climate alarmists, energy poverty, extreme poverty, global poverty, global warming
There are 620 million people in Africa without electricity. Here's where they live. vox.com/2014/10/13/697… (via @iea) http://t.co/bhK5CVmtpZ—
Vox Maps (@VoxMaps) June 09, 2015
World’s top climate scientists confess: Global warming just 1/4 what we thought – and computers got the effects of greenhouse gases wrong
18 Jul 2015 Leave a comment
in environmental economics, global warming Tags: climate alarmism, forecasting errors, global warming
Why is Danish electric power more expensive than anywhere else?
17 Jul 2015 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: Big Wind, climate alarmists, Denmark, expressive voting, green rent seeking, power prices, rational ignorance, rational irrationality, renewable energy, The pretence to knowledge, wind power
Matthew Kahn on Climate Change Adaptation
17 Jul 2015 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, environmental economics, global warming, urban economics Tags: climate alarmism, climate change adaptation, competition as a discovery procedure, global warming
Entrepreneurial alertness in green, clean technologies
17 Jul 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of information, economics of media and culture, environmental economics, global warming, Public Choice Tags: climate alarmism, creative destruction, entrepreneurial alertness, global warming, green technologies, innovation
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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