The Christchurch Mosque Massacres, Covid-19, deep political disillusionment, and the jealous cruelty of the intersectionists: all had a part to play in causing School Strike 4 Climate’s bright bubble of hope and passion to burst. But, while it floated above us, it was something that mattered. Something Important. Chris Trotter writes – […]
Something important: the curious death of the School Strike 4 Climate Movement
Something important: the curious death of the School Strike 4 Climate Movement
12 Apr 2024 Leave a comment
in defence economics, economics of education, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, liberalism, Marxist economics, politics - New Zealand, war and peace Tags: climate activists, free speech, Gaza Strip, Israel, Middle-East politics, political correctness, regressive left, war against terror
Net zero means net negative?
12 Apr 2024 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, politics - New Zealand
Will look forward to reading the Climate Commission’s latest report. This bit, from Jim Rose over at Carbon News, is a bit concerning:The world is not on track to meet the Paris Agreement’s 1.5 degrees target, the commission says, and New Zealand is likely to continue contributing to global warming after 2050.That’s because the country’s…
Net zero means net negative?
The Greening Earth vs Enemies of Climate Truth
12 Apr 2024 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: climate alarmism
Earth benefits from increasing greening that reverberates through entire ecosystems! Rising CO2 and its fertilization effects makes ecosystems more robust and more resilient. Greening debunks claims by enemies of climate truth that rising Co2 is causing ecosystem collapse!
The Greening Earth vs Enemies of Climate Truth
There is no human right to a safe or stable climate
12 Apr 2024 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, law and economics Tags: climate alarmism
by Judith Curry “Europe’s highest human rights court ruled Tuesday that countries must better protect their people from the consequences of climate change , siding with a group of older Swiss women against their government in a landmark ruling that could have implications across the continent.” [link]
There is no human right to a safe or stable climate
New coal plants in China ‘soar’, dismaying climate worriers
12 Apr 2024 Leave a comment
in development economics, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, growth miracles Tags: China
Obsessing about Chinese coal power, and its imagined effect on air temperatures, doesn’t stop the same people doing the obsessing from buying Chinese products made using that power, such as wind turbines, batteries and solar panels. – – – China ramped up coal power capacity last year, according to new analysis, despite a pledge to […]
New coal plants in China ‘soar’, dismaying climate worriers
European court rules human rights violated by climate inaction
10 Apr 2024 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, law and economics Tags: climate activists, climate alarmism
By Paul Homewood h/t Various! This is deeply insidious: A group of older Swiss women have won the first ever climate case victory in the European Court of Human Rights.
European court rules human rights violated by climate inaction
Extinction Rebellion Attacks an Electric Vehicle at the New York Auto Show
06 Apr 2024 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, law and economics, politics - USA, property rights Tags: climate activists
There is no path to appeasement – nothing is ever green enough for climate fanatics.
Extinction Rebellion Attacks an Electric Vehicle at the New York Auto Show
Never-Reliable Wind & Solar Mean Ever-Reliable Coal-Fired Power Only Hope
02 Apr 2024 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: solar power, wind power
As the sun sets on a calm afternoon, talk about a ‘wind and solar transition’ sounds delusional, because it is. The cult is driven by that very delusion, however. But those who have been dragged along for the ride are finally waking up to the fact that first world economies can’t run on sunshine and […]
Never-Reliable Wind & Solar Mean Ever-Reliable Coal-Fired Power Only Hope
In the new world of EVs and AI, renewable green energy means more gas or coal capacity, not less
02 Apr 2024 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: electric cars
Technology demands are outrunning misguided climate/energy policies. ‘Officials admit – more hogs means a bigger trough’ (Telegraph) but laws of physics can’t be overridden by government demands, however much they insist on barking up the wrong tree with puny renewables and rejecting available fuel sources. – – – It is no secret that the expanding […]
In the new world of EVs and AI, renewable green energy means more gas or coal capacity, not less
The crews bracing themselves for a rise in electric car fires
02 Apr 2024 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, health and safety, labour economics, law and economics, property rights Tags: electric cars
Firefighter: “Our preferred approach is to let them burn themselves out”. EV fires ‘create a variety of toxic chemicals’. They ‘have to be “quarantined” away from other vehicles even after the fire appears to have been put out’, in case they re-ignite days or even 2-3 weeks later. Other types of car are still available, […]
The crews bracing themselves for a rise in electric car fires
The State of the Climate 2023 (GWPF) – evidence of crisis not observed
01 Apr 2024 Leave a comment
in economic history, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: climate alarmism
The summary remarks: ‘There is no visible effect of the global COVID-19 lockdown 2020–2021 in the atmospheric concentration. The increasing amount of atmospheric carbon dioxide is enhancing photosynthesis and thereby global crop yields.’ – – – London, 28 March — In his annual review of the state of the global climate, Professor Ole Humlum reviews […]
The State of the Climate 2023 (GWPF) – evidence of crisis not observed
Biden’s Signature Climate Law Has a Major Achilles’ Heel — And Dems Are Making It Worse
31 Mar 2024 Leave a comment
in economics of bureaucracy, economics of regulation, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, politics - USA, Public Choice Tags: land supply, solar power, wind power, zoning
…you can’t get anything built because of these statutes,” Mike McKenna, a Republican strategist with extensive experience in and around the energy sector, told the DCNF about Congressional gridlock on permitting reform.
Biden’s Signature Climate Law Has a Major Achilles’ Heel — And Dems Are Making It Worse
DON BRASH: BANKS AND CLIMATE CHANGE: THE LAW IS AN ASS
30 Mar 2024 Leave a comment
in energy economics, entrepreneurship, environmental economics, financial economics, global warming Tags: climate alarmism, efficient markets hypothesis
As everybody who is not blind and deaf is aware, there is a huge political preoccupation with climate change at the moment, a widespread (though by no means unanimous) belief that global temperatures are rising mainly as a result of the greenhouse gases created by humankind, and a strong view that all countries have a…
DON BRASH: BANKS AND CLIMATE CHANGE: THE LAW IS AN ASS
How the Carbon Cult Subverts Political Discourse
30 Mar 2024 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, economics of regulation, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: Canada, climate alarmism
Trudeau Turns the Carbon Tax Screws on Canadians April 1 Ross Mckitrick explains the smoke and mirrors in Trudeau’s justifications for his racheting carbon tax in a National Post article Wanted: A leader who is honest about climate policy. Excerpts in italics with my bolds and added images. Pierre Poilievre is leading anti-carbon tax rallies […]
How the Carbon Cult Subverts Political Discourse
The Real Climate Crisis: Relying Upon Weather-Dependent Wind & Solar
29 Mar 2024 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: solar power, wind power
Frozen wind turbines and solar panels buried under piles of snow and ice produce nothing at all, except photo opportunities. When the weather conspires against the ‘unreliables’, somewhere there will be a coal, or gas or diesel powered generator ready to swing into action and prevent you from freezing in the dark. However, if the […]
The Real Climate Crisis: Relying Upon Weather-Dependent Wind & Solar
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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