Celebrating humanity's flourishing through the spread of capitalism and the rule of law
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in economics of climate change, energy economics, environmental economics, environmentalism, global warming, politics - USA Tags: climate activists, climate alarmism
They shoot, they miss, we score. David Wojick reports on the laughable failure of alarmists in his CFACT article Attack on DOE Climate Report is a comedy of criticism. Excerpts in italics with my bolds and added images. The DOE science report saying the impact of CO2 on climate is exaggerated was quickly followed by […]
Alarmists Fail to Refute Realistic Climate Report
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in economics of climate change, energy economics, environmental economics, environmentalism, global warming
“Pragmatism” allegedly allows politicians to be in favour of climate action without actually having to do anything.
Claim: Climate “Pragmatism” is Cover for Climate Delay
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in economics of climate change, energy economics, environmental economics, environmentalism, global warming, industrial organisation, transport economics Tags: biofuels
By Paul Homewood Another one bites the dust: From AFP: British oil giant Shell announced Wednesday it has abandoned construction of one of Europe’s largest biofuel plants in the Netherlands, as it focuses on its fossil fuels business. Faced with weak market conditions, the company last year suspended construction of the […]
Shell abandons huge biofuel project in Netherlands
04 Sep 2025 Leave a comment
in development economics, economics of climate change, energy economics, environmental economics, environmentalism, global warming, growth miracles Tags: China, coal power
By Paul Homewood China continues to burn more and more coal, according to dw.com: China burned more coal at power plants between January and July of 2025 than at any time since 2016, despite massive renewable capacity, according to new environmental research report. The report, published by the Center for Research on Energy and […]
China Still Building Coal Power Plants
29 Aug 2025 1 Comment
in applied price theory, economics of climate change, economics of regulation, energy economics, environmental economics, environmentalism, global warming, industrial organisation Tags: British politics, climate activists, wind power
By Paul Homewood Why is the price of electricity so high? It’s a puzzle, because successive politicians (Blair, Cameron, May, Johnson and now Starmer and Miliband) and lots of lobbyists have told us we should have expected quite the opposite: cheap energy, to be achieved by getting out of fossil fuels. First exit […]
Why Are Electricity Prices So High?–Dieter Helm
27 Aug 2025 1 Comment
in economics of climate change, economics of natural disasters, environmental economics, environmentalism, global warming Tags: climate alarmism
By Paul Homewood A damning piece by Roger Pielke Jr in the NY Post about the surrender of IPCC science to weather attribution zealots: https://nypost.com/2025/08/22/opinion/un-abandons-science-and-hires-climate-change-zealots-who-damn-the-facts/ Pielke cuts to the quick: “Because the IPCC has consistently failed to establish strong connections between greenhouse gas emissions and most types of extreme weather, a cottage […]
UN Abandons Science
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in economics of climate change, energy economics, environmental economics, environmentalism, global warming Tags: solar power, wind power
By Paul Homewood Dr Lars Schernikau exposes the harsh reality about grid-scale batteries: My first moped when I was fourteen, back in East Berlin, had no starter battery. The only way to get it running was to kickstart it which, back then, seemed perfectly normal. Batteries were expensive and heavy. My current […]
The Battery Storage Delusion
23 Aug 2025 Leave a comment
in economics of climate change, energy economics, environmental economics, environmentalism, global warming, industrial organisation, survivor principle Tags: British politics
Another steel mill just entered administration.
Mad Miliband’s British Net Zero Industrial Collapse
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in economics of climate change, energy economics, environmental economics, environmentalism, global warming Tags: climate alarmism
19 Aug 2025 1 Comment
in economics of climate change, energy economics, environmental economics, environmentalism, global warming, politics - USA Tags: climate alarmism
Some New York Democrats are sounding the alarm over the state’s climate goals, arguing that New York should delay implementing some of its stringent green energy mandates.
Some New York Dems Starting To Realize Climate Targets Are Too Extreme
16 Aug 2025 1 Comment
in economics of climate change, energy economics, environmental economics, environmentalism, global warming Tags: climate alarmism
Ted Nordhaus writes at The EcoModernist Why I Stopped Being a Climate Catastrophist, And why so many climate pragmatists can’t quit catastrophism. Excerpts in italics with my bolds and added images. In the book Break Through, Michael Shellenberger and I argued that if the world kept burning fossil fuels at current rates, catastrophe was virtually […]
Why Climate Doomsters Can’t Recant
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in economics of climate change, economics of regulation, energy economics, environmental economics, environmentalism, global warming, law and economics, politics - USA, property rights Tags: nuisance suits
EID covers the legal thrashing visited upon Charleston plaintiffs seeking a judgment punishing Big Oil for their role in climate misfortunes. The article is Judge Shuts Down Charleston Climate Case, Warns of “Boundless” Liability. Excerpts in italics with my bolds and added images. A South Carolina judge has dismissed Charleston’s climate lawsuit, delivering a decisive setback […]
Judge Crushes Charleston Climate Case
13 Aug 2025 Leave a comment
in economics of bureaucracy, economics of climate change, economics of regulation, energy economics, environmental economics, environmentalism, global warming, politics - USA, Public Choice Tags: climate alarmism
My response to 10 questions from the Associated Press on the DOE CWG report
The Climate Beat Goes On
05 Aug 2025 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, economics of climate change, energy economics, environmental economics, environmentalism, global warming, politics - USA
By Paul Homewood Climate sceptics have long called for a genuinely independent review of climate science – a Blue v Red Team, as it were. Thanks to the US Energy Secretary, here it is: https://www.energy.gov/sites/default/files/2025-07/DOE_Critical_Review_of_Impacts_of_GHG_Emissions_on_the_US_Climate_July_2025.pdf The authors make it clear they only undertook the task on the guarantee there would be no editorial oversight […]
A Critical Review of Impacts of Greenhouse Gas Emissions on the U.S. Climate
04 Aug 2025 1 Comment
in economics of climate change, economics of regulation, energy economics, environmental economics, environmentalism, global warming, politics - USA Tags: solar power, wind power
The Department of the Interior (DOI) moved to deal another blow to the green energy industry Friday, announcing that it will consider energy projects’ capacity density and the environmental impacts before permitting them, singling out wind and solar.
Trump Admin Moves To Curb ‘Environmentally Damaging’ Green Energy Projects
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