Celebrating humanity's flourishing through the spread of capitalism and the rule of law
26 Dec 2024 1 Comment
in economics of education, economics of regulation, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: climate alarmism
Graeme Weber reports from Australia on the history revealing multiple holes in IPCC claimed “settled science.” His paper is IPCC – Miss/Diss information? shared with me by email. Graeme is an earth scientist, retired consulting geologist and advocate for nuclear energy. His text is in italics with my bolds and added images. Several years ago, […]
Holes in IPCC Science Revealed
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in economics of climate change, energy economics, environmental economics, environmentalism, global warming Tags: British politics, climate activists, wind power
Rupert Darwall explains how UK Labour ensnared itself in his Spectator article Labour has walked into a net-zero trap of its own making. Excerpts in italics with my bolds and added images. The government’s net-zero noose draws tighter. At energy questions in the House of Commons on Tuesday, the Conservative MP Charlie Dewhirst asked the […]
UK Labour Caught in Own Net-Zero Trap
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in economics of climate change, energy economics, environmental economics, environmentalism, global warming Tags: British politics, climate activists, wind power
Rupert Darwall explains how UK Labour ensnared itself in his Spectator article Labour has walked into a net-zero trap of its own making. Excerpts in italics with my bolds and added images. The government’s net-zero noose draws tighter. At energy questions in the House of Commons on Tuesday, the Conservative MP Charlie Dewhirst asked the […]
UK Labour Caught in Own Net-Zero Trap
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in economics of climate change, energy economics, environmental economics, environmentalism, global warming Tags: British politics, climate activists, wind power
Rupert Darwall explains how UK Labour ensnared itself in his Spectator article Labour has walked into a net-zero trap of its own making. Excerpts in italics with my bolds and added images. The government’s net-zero noose draws tighter. At energy questions in the House of Commons on Tuesday, the Conservative MP Charlie Dewhirst asked the […]
UK Labour Caught in Own Net-Zero Trap
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in economics of climate change, energy economics, environmental economics, environmentalism, global warming, politics - USA Tags: climate alarmism
“But he also says climate change makes the planet greener by increasing plant growth, boosts agricultural productivity and likely reduces the number of temperature-related deaths annually. “It’s probably almost as many positive changes as there are negative changes,” he told conservative media nonprofit PragerU last year, referring to climate change. “Is it a crisis, is it the world’s greatest challenge, or a big threat to the next generation? No.”
‘Actually,’ MSNBC, Trump’s Energy Secretary Pick is Right, Climate Change Does Have Benefits
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in development economics, economics of climate change, energy economics, environmental economics, environmentalism, global warming, growth miracles Tags: China
The only takeaways from the coal use data are that countries with sensible leaders are looking to the energy needs of their citizens and that climate is too complex an issue to attribute to a gas that is 0.04% of Earth’s atmosphere.
Coal Use Hits Record High in 2024 Thanks to India and China
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in economic history, economics of climate change, energy economics, environmental economics, environmentalism, global warming Tags: climate alarmism
The Little Ice Age By Klimanachrichten The period between 1250 and 1860 is also known as the Little Ice Age. We have already reported on it several times here. The Little Ice Age was the undoing of the Franklin expedition, among others. In search of the Northwest Passage, the crew failed because of the ice,…
Recent Paper Shows Little Ice Age, Climate Driven By A Number Of Natural Driving Factors
19 Dec 2024 Leave a comment
in economics of climate change, environmental economics, environmentalism, global warming Tags: Denmark
Paul Schwennesen explains the nefarious intent behind this latest government hostile takeover in his Daily Economy article. Excerpts in italics with my bolds and added images. Cow farts are a distraction, and the joke’s on us. The Danish tax is a significant step toward state ownership of the means of production. Denmark, according to The New […]
Danish Fart Tax No Laughing Matter
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in environmental economics, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: recycling
Most plastic simply cannot be recycled – Greenpeace, October 24, 2022 I posted about this matter a couple of years ago, based mainly on 1996 article in, of all places, the NYT, that trashed the whole concept. The writer of that original article, John Tierney, says he got more hate mail for it than any […]
Now In A New Wrapping
16 Dec 2024 1 Comment
in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, energy economics, entrepreneurship, environmental economics, law and economics, politics - New Zealand, property rights Tags: solar power
The just resigned Chair of the NZ Green Investment Fund (NZGIF) and Chancellor of Auckland University, Cecilia Tarrant, previously worked at Morgan Stanley Bank in New York, starting in 1997 and finishing in 2009. She’s a very nice person, a lawyer by training, and Structured Products expert, in particular on Mortgage Backed Securities. The collapse of…
Call in the Bailiffs: How the NZ Government’s Green Investment Fund Turned Itself Into an Unpleasant Predatory Lender and Debt Collection Agency.
15 Dec 2024 1 Comment
in economics of climate change, energy economics, environmental economics, environmentalism, financial economics, global warming Tags: British politics, climate activists, wind power
By Paul Homewood h/t Paul Kolk Why does Miliband think he has the right to spend our money as he sees fit? Ministers have been forced to step in and rescue a wind turbine factory after collapsing demand for blades pushed it to near collapse. Wind turbine maker Vestas on Wednesday said […]
Miliband bails out wind turbine factory
15 Dec 2024 1 Comment
in economics of climate change, economics of regulation, energy economics, environmental economics, environmentalism, global warming, liberalism, Marxist economics Tags: British politics, climate activists, climate alarmism
“… fly less, eat less meat and use public transport more often …”
British Government Climate Advisors Demand Everyone Live like Poor People
14 Dec 2024 1 Comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, financial economics, global warming, politics - New Zealand
For a civil society to work smoothly and effectively certain ‘social contracts’ need to have broad acceptance and be honoured by all individuals and groups. They are unwritten rules we tacitly observe. They provide a framework of understandings that allow us to live harmoniously. Some of these ‘rules’ or social contracts get defined or backed…
OWEN JENNINGS: Banks Flout their Social Contract
14 Dec 2024 1 Comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, development economics, economics of climate change, energy economics, environmental economics, environmentalism, global warming, growth miracles, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA
Cost-benefit analyses affirm it would be better to abandon Net Zero policy initiatives and instead “do nothing” about greenhouse gas emissions. New research finds CO2’s largest possible climate impact is “negligible.” The cumulative expected temperature change in doubling CO2 from 400 to 800 ppm is only 0.81°C at most, and this is “certainly not cause…
New Study: Achieving A ‘Net Zero’ Emissions Policy Would Have A ‘Negligible’ 0.28°C Climate Effect
13 Dec 2024 Leave a comment
in economics of bureaucracy, economics of climate change, energy economics, entrepreneurship, environmental economics, environmentalism, financial economics, global warming, politics - New Zealand, Public Choice, rentseeking
Only a few months ago, the Chair of the NZ Green Investment Fund (NZGIF) and Chancellor of the University of Auckland, Cecilia Tarrant, visited my “Law and Economics” class. Why? She’s a lawyer who worked in “structured products” and “real estate finance” at Morgan Stanley in New York – and knows a Kiwi friend of…
The NZ Green Investment Fund should be Liquidated for Losing Money that could’ve gone into alleviating Poverty.
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