Eric Crampton writes – The Reserve Bank of New Zealand desperately wants to find reasons to have workstreams in climate change. It makes little sense.
Still no prudential regulation case around climate change
Still no prudential regulation case around climate change
24 Apr 2024 Leave a comment
in economics of bureaucracy, economics of climate change, environmental economics, environmentalism, financial economics, global warming, industrial organisation, law and economics, macroeconomics, monetary economics, politics - New Zealand, Public Choice, survivor principle Tags: climate alarmism
The War On Cars
24 Apr 2024 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, development economics, economic history, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, Public Choice, public economics, transport economics, urban economics Tags: electric cars
In a fit of self-loathing, the European Union has begun to destroy the economic engine that pays its bills. Some of this is well known, but some is not, and it will astonish you.
The War On Cars
Why the Global Free Market Will Save the World
23 Apr 2024 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic growth, economic history, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, growth disasters, growth miracles, health economics, history of economic thought, income redistribution, labour economics, law and economics, liberalism, macroeconomics, Marxist economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking Tags: anticapitalist mentality, capitalism and freedom
Eco-Loons War on Productive Working Class
22 Apr 2024 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: climate alarmism

Brendan O’Neill writes at Spiked Greta’s class war. Excerpts in italics with my bolds and added images. The green ideology is the enemy of working people. It was like a case study in indifference. There was privileged Gen Zer Greta Thunberg and other Euro eco-brats smiling and flicking peace signs as they called on the […]
Eco-Loons War on Productive Working Class
Scotland to ditch key climate change target
21 Apr 2024 Leave a comment
in economics of regulation, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: Scotland

By Paul Homewood h/t Joe Public The Scottish government is to ditch its flagship target of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 75% by 2030.
Scotland to ditch key climate change target
Wash Post admits reality: ‘Amid explosive demand, America is running out of power’ – U.S. ‘power grid’ being pushed ‘to the brink. Utilities can’t keep up’ – ‘It is staggering’ – But WaPo frets energy shortage ‘threatens to stifle the transition to cleaner energy’
20 Apr 2024 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, politics - USA
It makes you scratch your head and wonder how we ended up in this situation.
Wash Post admits reality: ‘Amid explosive demand, America is running out of power’ – U.S. ‘power grid’ being pushed ‘to the brink. Utilities can’t keep up’ – ‘It is staggering’ – But WaPo frets energy shortage ‘threatens to stifle the transition to cleaner energy’
Shock Findings: Plastic Shopping Bags Cause Around Four Times Less ‘Carbon’ Emissions than Paper Substitutes
17 Apr 2024 Leave a comment
in economics of regulation, environmental economics, global warming Tags: climate alarmism, plastic bags
Almost everything that is being forced through, whether it be demonising plastic to blanketing the land and seas with giant wind turbines, makes little sense. They often cause more ecological harm than good, while the fudged finances backing many of the projects might shame Charles Ponzi.
Shock Findings: Plastic Shopping Bags Cause Around Four Times Less ‘Carbon’ Emissions than Paper Substitutes
Greens to a tee
16 Apr 2024 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, environmentalism, global warming Tags: expressive voting, rational irrationality
Green energy
16 Apr 2024 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: atomic energy
Illustrating The Absurdity Of New York’s Energy Transition
15 Apr 2024 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, politics - USA Tags: New York
…to date, relative to this project there exists no environmental impact statement, no feasibility study, no prototype, and no demonstration project to show how this can be done, let alone any detailed cost analysis to show how much it will cost.
Illustrating The Absurdity Of New York’s Energy Transition
Fun’s Over: America’s ‘Green’ Investors Ditch Climate Action Zealotry
15 Apr 2024 1 Comment
in energy economics, entrepreneurship, environmental economics, financial economics, global warming, politics - USA Tags: climate alarmism

The climate cult thought the serious money was all in, forever. Til now, weather zealots could call on Wall Street to bankroll the climate industrial complex; there was no end to the amount of money available for harebrained, uneconomic wind and solar projects; no end to the unhinged war on hydrocarbons. These days, not so […]
Fun’s Over: America’s ‘Green’ Investors Ditch Climate Action Zealotry
EU To Spend Trillions On Net Zero Grid Expansion
15 Apr 2024 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: European Union

By Paul Homewood h/t Dennis Ambler The EU is going to plough on with Net Zero insanity, regardless of the cost: The EU is looking to front-load massive anticipatory investments into its energy infrastructure, shifting risk from industry to consumers and risking a landscape with unneeded or under-used pylons. Amid its green transition, […]
EU To Spend Trillions On Net Zero Grid Expansion
Germany Electric Car Sales Plummet 30% As Country Floats Idea Of Weekend Driving Ban!
14 Apr 2024 Leave a comment
in economics of regulation, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, transport economics, urban economics Tags: climate alarmism, Germany
The massive sales drop is bad news for the current German socialist-green government, which aims to have 15 million vehicles on the road by 2030. Currently there are just 1.4 million!
Germany Electric Car Sales Plummet 30% As Country Floats Idea Of Weekend Driving Ban!
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
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
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?


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