The relative political importance of climate change
01 Apr 2015 Leave a comment
in environmental economics, global warming, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: 2014 congressional elections, climate alarmism, global warming, opinion polls, voter demographics
The alarmist predictions of global warming have proved to be exaggerated
31 Mar 2015 Leave a comment
Air quality has improved in the countries that use the most fossil fuels
27 Mar 2015 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics Tags: air pollution, Fossil Fuels, The Great Escape
Source: U.S. EPA National Emissions Inventory Air Pollutant Emissions Trends Data
via via 9 Graphs That Prove Using Fossil Fuels Hasn’t Harmed The Planet | The Daily Caller.
The Campaign To Make You Care About Climate Change Is Failing Miserably
27 Mar 2015 Leave a comment
in economic history, economics of media and culture, environmental economics, global warming, politics - USA, Public Choice Tags: climate alarmism, expressive voting, global warming, rational ignorance, rational irrationality
Since 1989, there’s been no significant change in the public’s concern level over global warming. To put this in perspective, note that the most expensive public-relations campaign in history—one that includes most governmental agencies, a long list of welfare-sucking corporations, the public school system, the universities, an infinite parade of celebrities, think tanks, well-funded environmental groups and an entire major political party—has, over the past 25 years or so, increased the number of Democrats who “worry greatly” about global warming by a mere four percentage points.
via The Campaign To Make You Care About Climate Change Is Failing Miserably, Climate Change Not a Top Worry in U.S., In U.S., Concern About Environmental Threats Eases and The number of people worried about climate change hasn’t changed since 1989 – The Washington Post.
How Costa Rica went 75 days without using fossil fuels for electricity
26 Mar 2015 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: green hypocrisy, hydroelectricity, renewable energy, renewable resources
The New Zealand Greens happily retweeted that Costa Rica had not used a drop of fossil fuels for 75 days.
My first experiences with the environmental movement was through their opposition to the building of dams in south-west Tasmania. Maybe they have rehabilitated dams as a permissible energy source?
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via How Costa Rica went 75 days without using fossil fuels for electricity – Vox.
Malaria used to be common in the eastern USA, Continental Europe and northern Australia
26 Mar 2015 Leave a comment
It’s the Trend, Stupid
25 Mar 2015 1 Comment
in econometerics, environmental economics Tags: climate alarmism, conjecture and refutation, double standards, green hypocrisy
If I had a dollar for every time a climate alarmist talked about how hot this summer was or how strong that cyclone was is evidence of global warming, I’d be a rich man.
They can’t then go around saying a sample size of 17 years is too short to assess trends will show evidence of global warming when they routinely use a sample of one for their own global warming alarmism.
Naturally, such is the high stakes of the never admit you’re wrong, never concede anything public political discourse of these days, if a fellow traveller oversteps the mark, you gain nothing from calling him out as someone who overstepped the mark.
Both NASA and NOAA report 2014 as the hottest year on record. Despite the new #1, neither the news itself nor the response to it has surprised me.
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European residential electricity prices increasing faster than prices in United States
25 Mar 2015 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, economic history, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: energy prices
Still more evidence of mass kidnappings of environmental activists
25 Mar 2015 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, environmentalism, global warming Tags: activists, Big Wind, bootleggers and baptists, do gooders, green hypocrisy, green rent seeking, trade-offs, world heritage areas
Global temperature trends in the short and long run
25 Mar 2015 Leave a comment
in environmental economics, global warming Tags: conjecture and refutation, global cooling, global warming, ice ages, Little ice age
Another reason why that treaty with China over climate change won’t count much
25 Mar 2015 1 Comment
in environmental economics, global warming, politics - USA Tags: China, climate alarmism, global warming
The numbers behind any shift to a lower carbon economy simply don’t add up
24 Mar 2015 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: carbon trading, climate alarmism, expressive voting, global warming, Kyoto Protocol, power prices, rational ignorance, rational irrationality
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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