Celebrating humanity's flourishing through the spread of capitalism and the rule of law
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in energy economics, environmental economics, environmentalism, global warming Tags: climate alarmism
According to Wikipedia: ‘The 100,000-year problem refers to the lack of an obvious explanation for the periodicity of ice ages at roughly 100,000 years for the past million years, but not before, when the dominant periodicity corresponded to 41,000 years. The unexplained transition between the two periodicity regimes is known as the Mid-Pleistocene Transition, dated […]
Mid-Pleistocene climate transition (aka the 100,000 year problem) triggered by Antarctic Ice Sheet growth, say researchers
03 Aug 2024 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, politics - USA
This fall, the citizens of Washington State should reject Climatism and vote in favor of the resolution to strike down the Climate Commitment Act.
No Governor Inslee, Repeal of Washington State’s Climate Commitment Act Won’t Hurt the Climate
03 Aug 2024 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, environmentalism, global warming, Marxist economics, politics - New Zealand, Public Choice Tags: regressive left
Chris Trotter writes – CHLOE SWARBRICK has embarked on a brave, but almost certainly doomed, political experiment. She has set out to build a mass movement on the foundations of a political party that rejects majoritarian decision-making, and which, by elevating the particular above the universal, makes the social solidarity that fuels mass action impossibly […]
Wooing The Masses – A Green Fairy Tale?
01 Aug 2024 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, politics - New Zealand, transport economics
By Paul Homewood From the Independent: Air New Zealand scrapped its 2030 carbon emissions reduction targets on Tuesday, citing lags in producing new planes, a lack of alternative fuel and “challenging” regulatory and policy settings. The move by the national carrier — one of New Zealand’s biggest companies by revenue — was the highest-profile […]
Air New Zealand scraps its 2030 carbon emissions target, saying solutions are costly and scarce
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in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, politics - Australia Tags: climate activists, climate alarmism
Chris Kenny writes at The Australian Facts at a premium in blustery climate debate. Excerpts in italics from text provided by John Ray at his blog, Greenie Watch. My bolds and added images. Collective Idiocy From Intellectual Vanity We think we are so clever. The conceit of contemporary humankind is often unbearable. Yet this modern […]
Fantasies of Clever Climate Policies
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in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: solar power, wind power
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in environmental economics, global warming Tags: climate alarmism
The world is ‘greening’ at an astonishing and rapidly growing rate and deserts are shrinking almost everywhere you look.
Global Greening Becomes so Obvious That Climate Alarmists Start Arguing We Need to “Save the Deserts”!
27 Jul 2024 Leave a comment
in development economics, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, growth disasters, growth miracles Tags: climate alarmism
Sierer’s analysis hits the nail on the head that climate activism is more likely to be harming the world’s poor rather than helping them.
Utah’s The Independent is Right, Climate Activism Ignores or Harms the World’s Poor
26 Jul 2024 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, economics of regulation, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking Tags: cap and trade, carbon tax, climate alarmism
That is the topic of my latest Bloomberg column, here is one excerpt: A recent study finds that, of all domestic subsidies, the most effective involve replacing the dirty production of electricity with the cleaner production of electricity. In practice, that means subsidies or tax credits for solar and wind power. Those are more than twice as effective as […]
Which are the most effective subsidies for green energy?
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in development economics, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, growth miracles Tags: China, climate alarmism
By Paul Homewood Starting in the 1990s, climate change has become a fixation for rich country politicians and elites. It emerged as the world had just seen the end of the Cold War. There was relative peace and trust across the world, broad economic growth, and swift progress being made against poverty. In the […]
Net zero will only make you poorer and China richer-Bjorn Lomborg
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in economics of crime, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, law and economics, transport economics Tags: climate activists
…the Heathrow arrestees may find the UK justice system will be less forgiving than their previous experiences.
Just Stop Oil Activists Disrupt Flights, Demand Fossil Fuel End by 2030
24 Jul 2024 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, law and economics, politics - USA, property rights Tags: climate activists, climate alarmism
By Paul Homewood . A new organisation called Climate Criminals is calling on the International Criminal Court to bring charges against a large number of businessmen and others from what they call the polluter industrial complex, who they deem to be guilty of various crimes against the climate. They are clearly a bunch of loons, […]
Climate Criminals
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in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: British politics
This new analysis drives a coach and horses through the demented Miliband’s plan to fully decarbonise the grid completely by 2030.
Future Energy Scenarios 2024
22 Jul 2024 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, energy economics, environmental economics, environmentalism, global warming, law and economics Tags: British politics, climate activists
If they release Just Stop Oil, they’ll upset the voters. If they keep JSO activists incarcerated, they’ll upset the donors.
British Labour Government Pressured to Release Just Stop Oil “Truth Tellers”
22 Jul 2024 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, energy economics, environmental economics, environmentalism, global warming, law and economics Tags: British politics, climate activists
7 weeks of rain and 5 years in prison By Klimanachrichten Five years ago, we published an article about Roger Hallam in this blog. He is the founder of XTinction Rebellion and an activist with Stop Oil. Interestingly, these groups are/were funded with money from oil heirs. Already in 2019 we had many doubts about…
XR Founder Roger Hallam Sentenced 5 Years In Prison For Blocking M25 Motorway In 2022
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