The footprint of Big Wind and Big Solar
21 Apr 2015 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics Tags: Big Solar, Big Wind, green rent seeking, land supply, solar power
Gary Libecap: Global environmental externalities, property rights, and public policy – Coase conference video
20 Apr 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of regulation, environmental economics, law and economics, property rights, Ronald Coase Tags: Coase conference, Gary Libecap
Are natural foods better if you are a anti-GM over activist?
16 Apr 2015 Leave a comment
in environmental economics, health economics Tags: activists, GMOs, Left-wing hypocrisy, rational ignorance, rational irrationality
Global temperatures have stopped increasing?
16 Apr 2015 Leave a comment
in environmental economics, global warming Tags: climate alarmism, global warming
Global temperatures have stopped increasing.
New paper shows why it is hard to find out why: bit.ly/1HnUkWW http://t.co/vwNkj0EQIH—
Max Roser (@MaxCRoser) April 14, 2015
A guide to Green labelling of food
15 Apr 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of information, economics of media and culture, environmental economics, health economics Tags: advertising, product labelling
Cognitive biases of the anti-vaccination movement and the Antiscience Left
15 Apr 2015 Leave a comment
in environmental economics, environmentalism, health economics Tags: anti-vaccination movement, antiscience left, cognitive biases, cognitive psychology, conjecture and refutation, philosophy of science
The merits of different options to combat global warming
14 Apr 2015 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, economics of regulation, energy economics, entrepreneurship, environmental economics, global warming Tags: climate alarmism, cost benefit analysis, evidence-based policy, global warming
Why wasn’t this study about health and the vegetarian lifestyle reported?
13 Apr 2015 Leave a comment
in environmental economics, health economics Tags: antiscience left, meddlesome preferences, nanny state, vegans, vegetarians
As one of a great many who enjoy eating tasty animals, I’m surprised this story about how the vegetarian lifestyle is less healthy wasn’t widely reported:
According to the study, those who abstain from meat are “less healthy (in terms of cancer, allergies, and mental health disorders), have a lower quality of life, and also require more medical treatment.”
Vegetarians were twice as likely to have atopy (allergies), a 50 percent increase in cancer and a 50 percent increase in heart attacks. They also drank less alcohol.
This is not the first time counter-intuitive research has shown the negative effects of consuming a meat-free diet.
In 2010 the WHO published a study where 30,604 people were followed for an average of 8.7 years on their fruit and vegetable consumption. Those who consumed the recommended 5 pieces of fruit and vegetables a day did not have less cancer nor enjoyed better health. They were even forced to conclude the opposite.
“A very small inverse association between intake of total fruits and vegetables and cancer risk was observed in this study.”
This study even concluded that a “..growing body of epidemiological, clinical and experimental evidence suggesting that regular cheese intake may reduce the risk of cardiovascular outcomes.”
On appeals to emotion
11 Apr 2015 Leave a comment
in development economics, energy economics, environmental economics, environmentalism, global warming, growth disasters, health economics, liberalism, resource economics Tags: activists, bootleggers and baptists, climate alarmism, conjecture and refutation, green rent seeking, peak oil, population bomb, precautionary principle
I knew hand dryers were time wasters, now I have proof
10 Apr 2015 Leave a comment
in environmental economics, environmentalism Tags: Anti-Science left, environmental waste
The Earth’s climate is quite variable, if you measure it over tens of millions of years
09 Apr 2015 Leave a comment
in environmental economics, global warming Tags: global cooling, global warming, ice ages
Fracking is expanding rapidly in the USA, much to the disappointment of the peak oil crowd
09 Apr 2015 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, politics - USA Tags: fracking, peak oil
"Hydraulic fracturing has unleashed vast new quantities of crude oil and natural gas." on.wsj.com/19Gj92Y http://t.co/a2hzPq0i7e—
I Love Fossil Fuels (@ILoveFossilFuel) April 08, 2015
More evidence of mass kidnapping of environmental activists
08 Apr 2015 Leave a comment
in environmental economics, environmentalism, international economic law, international economics, International law, law and economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: green hypocrisy, ozone layer
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Why aren’t they in the streets celebrating the recovery of the ozone layer, pursuant to an international treaty negotiated by the Reagan administration that banned CFCs as soon as they were not required any longer in developed countries:
International efforts to control the gases, particularly among developed countries, began to occur in the mid-1980s as new information appeared that strengthened the link between CFCs and the deterioration of stratospheric ozone. This increased the expected benefits of international action.
At the same time, domestic political opposition began to diminish when Du Pont announced they would no longer make CFCs. A reason for Du Pont’s attitude change was that European firms had increased their share of the CFC market, and in response Du Pont had developed CFC substitutes.
Accordingly, since international controls on CFCs provided them a competitive advantage, Du Pont announced that they would no longer make CFCs and the company lobbied the U.S. Congress for international regulation.
Under the 1987 Montreal Protocol, world leaders agreed to phase out CFCs, and eventually the hole in the ozone layer stopped expanding. In 2014, a UN assessment found that the ozone layer is just now starting to heal — and should be back to its 1980 levels by 2050 or so.
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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