The Post reports: Many Wellington City home owners have received a nasty surprise after new rates costs came out with increases higher than the already-eye-watering planned increases. My rates have gone up over $900 a year, or just over 20%. This is not due to more investment in water infrastructure. This is due to the […]
Wellington rates skyrocket
Wellington rates skyrocket
31 Jul 2024 Leave a comment
in economics of bureaucracy, environmental economics, income redistribution, law and economics, politics - New Zealand, property rights, Public Choice, rentseeking, transport economics, urban economics
Fantasies of Clever Climate Policies
29 Jul 2024 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, politics - Australia Tags: climate activists, climate alarmism
Chris Kenny writes at The Australian Facts at a premium in blustery climate debate. Excerpts in italics from text provided by John Ray at his blog, Greenie Watch. My bolds and added images. Collective Idiocy From Intellectual Vanity We think we are so clever. The conceit of contemporary humankind is often unbearable. Yet this modern […]
Fantasies of Clever Climate Policies
So Much for wind and solar
29 Jul 2024 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: solar power, wind power
Global Greening Becomes so Obvious That Climate Alarmists Start Arguing We Need to “Save the Deserts”!
29 Jul 2024 Leave a comment
in environmental economics, global warming Tags: climate alarmism
The world is ‘greening’ at an astonishing and rapidly growing rate and deserts are shrinking almost everywhere you look.
Global Greening Becomes so Obvious That Climate Alarmists Start Arguing We Need to “Save the Deserts”!
Utah’s The Independent is Right, Climate Activism Ignores or Harms the World’s Poor
27 Jul 2024 Leave a comment
in development economics, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, growth disasters, growth miracles Tags: climate alarmism
Sierer’s analysis hits the nail on the head that climate activism is more likely to be harming the world’s poor rather than helping them.
Utah’s The Independent is Right, Climate Activism Ignores or Harms the World’s Poor
Which are the most effective subsidies for green energy?
26 Jul 2024 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, economics of regulation, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking Tags: cap and trade, carbon tax, climate alarmism
That is the topic of my latest Bloomberg column, here is one excerpt: A recent study finds that, of all domestic subsidies, the most effective involve replacing the dirty production of electricity with the cleaner production of electricity. In practice, that means subsidies or tax credits for solar and wind power. Those are more than twice as effective as […]
Which are the most effective subsidies for green energy?
Net zero will only make you poorer and China richer-Bjorn Lomborg
26 Jul 2024 Leave a comment
in development economics, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, growth miracles Tags: China, climate alarmism
By Paul Homewood Starting in the 1990s, climate change has become a fixation for rich country politicians and elites. It emerged as the world had just seen the end of the Cold War. There was relative peace and trust across the world, broad economic growth, and swift progress being made against poverty. In the […]
Net zero will only make you poorer and China richer-Bjorn Lomborg
Just Stop Oil Activists Disrupt Flights, Demand Fossil Fuel End by 2030
25 Jul 2024 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, law and economics, transport economics Tags: climate activists
…the Heathrow arrestees may find the UK justice system will be less forgiving than their previous experiences.
Just Stop Oil Activists Disrupt Flights, Demand Fossil Fuel End by 2030
Climate Criminals
24 Jul 2024 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, law and economics, politics - USA, property rights Tags: climate activists, climate alarmism
By Paul Homewood . A new organisation called Climate Criminals is calling on the International Criminal Court to bring charges against a large number of businessmen and others from what they call the polluter industrial complex, who they deem to be guilty of various crimes against the climate. They are clearly a bunch of loons, […]
Climate Criminals
Future Energy Scenarios 2024
24 Jul 2024 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: British politics
This new analysis drives a coach and horses through the demented Miliband’s plan to fully decarbonise the grid completely by 2030.
Future Energy Scenarios 2024
British Labour Government Pressured to Release Just Stop Oil “Truth Tellers”
22 Jul 2024 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, energy economics, environmental economics, environmentalism, global warming, law and economics Tags: British politics, climate activists
If they release Just Stop Oil, they’ll upset the voters. If they keep JSO activists incarcerated, they’ll upset the donors.
British Labour Government Pressured to Release Just Stop Oil “Truth Tellers”
XR Founder Roger Hallam Sentenced 5 Years In Prison For Blocking M25 Motorway In 2022
22 Jul 2024 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, energy economics, environmental economics, environmentalism, global warming, law and economics Tags: British politics, climate activists
7 weeks of rain and 5 years in prison By Klimanachrichten Five years ago, we published an article about Roger Hallam in this blog. He is the founder of XTinction Rebellion and an activist with Stop Oil. Interestingly, these groups are/were funded with money from oil heirs. Already in 2019 we had many doubts about…
XR Founder Roger Hallam Sentenced 5 Years In Prison For Blocking M25 Motorway In 2022
Climate Warriors are Colonising Medicine
21 Jul 2024 Leave a comment
in environmentalism, environmental economics, global warming, health economics, energy economics Tags: political correctness, cranks, climate activists, regressive left
…aspiring to be a planet-saving superhero risks undermining the commitments that doctors make: make doctors doctors again. Physicians, heal thyselves!
Climate Warriors are Colonising Medicine
Did The Guardian Just Blow Up the Exxon Knew Narrative?
20 Jul 2024 Leave a comment
in economic history, economics of media and culture, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: conspiracy theories
So much for the big secret big oil conspiracy. Marathon Oil published an article in 1977 in a company periodical suggesting CO2 might cause mass starvation.
Did The Guardian Just Blow Up the Exxon Knew Narrative?
Death Can Come from a Thousand Cuts!
20 Jul 2024 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, politics - Australia
Federal Labor leader Albanese is battling to stop the bleeding. Following his total demolition when he tied his Flag to the doomed Voice referendum where a total reversal saw his attempt to institute the nonsense New Zealand suffers every day from Native citizens having minimal Maori blood even to the absurdity of none at all […]
Death Can Come from a Thousand Cuts!
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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