Celebrating humanity's flourishing through the spread of capitalism and the rule of law
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in development economics, economic history, economics of climate change, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, growth miracles Tags: life expectancies, The Great Enrichment
Coal, then oil and gas, have driven the mechanization and industrialisation responsible for lifting billions out of agrarian poverty, and all in the space of little more than a century. As a band of miserable misanthropes would have it, oil, coal and gas are an unadulterated evil to be driven back to the earthly depths […]
Prosperity Essentials: Why Coal, Oil & Gas Keep Delivering Heaven on Earth
28 Jan 2024 1 Comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: atomic energy, celebrity technologies, wind power
The French are just the latest European power to ditch ludicrous wind and solar generation targets in favour of nuclear power. And Britain is lining up to do much the same. Both have adopted net zero carbon oxide gas emissions targets, and the only way of meeting them is safe, reliable and affordable nuclear power. […]
Renewables Targets Scrapped: Britain Joins French Nuclear Power Generation Renaissance
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in economic history, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: climate alarmism
Daniel W. Nebert writes at American Thinker Today’s ‘Climate Crisis’ Is a Fairy Tale. Excerpts in italics with my bolds and added images. For the past 35 years, the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has warned us that emissions from the burning of fossil fuels, predominantly carbon dioxide (CO2), are causing dangerous […]
Real Science Guy: Climate Crisis Imaginary
28 Jan 2024 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: energy poverty
You’ll own nothing and be happy, and you’ll feel pure bliss, freezing or boiling in the dark. Well, that’s what the wind and solar transition mob would have you believe. However, the likelihood of feeling happy or grateful living in a world without reliable and affordable power is pretty low. Electricity is one of those […]
Transition to Miserable Poverty: Net Zero Targets Designed So You Live With Nothing
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in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, transport economics Tags: road safety
By Paul Homewood Another electric bus fire in London. This is Putney Bus Garage: https://twitter.com/ediz1975/status/1750116346606633023 The story has also been covered in the The Standard here.
Third Electric Bus Fire In London This Month
27 Jan 2024 1 Comment
in econometerics, economic history, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: climate alarmism
By Paul Homewood Roy Spencer has written a long, detailed critique of climate models: https://www.heritage.org/environment/report/global-warming-observations-vs-climate-models The full report is worth reading, but his key graph and conclusions are below:
Global Warming: Observations vs. Climate Models
27 Jan 2024 1 Comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: celebrity technologies, Germany, wind power
The policies of (worst ever) Economics Minister Robert Habeck (Green Party) are leading the German economy to disaster.
Germany: “Renewable Energy Sector Facing The Abyss”…”On The Brink” …Economy Breaking Up
26 Jan 2024 Leave a comment
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Andrew Montford: Does the Climate Change Committee understand the energy storage problem?
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in economics of natural disasters, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming
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in economics of bureaucracy, environmental economics, industrial organisation, law and economics, politics - New Zealand, property rights, Public Choice, survivor principle Tags: economics of networks, privatization
Chris Parker at Treasury sometimes quips that there are no silver bullets for solving housing in NZ, only pieces of silver buckshot. Basically you’ve got to do a lot of things to solve the problem; any one of them on their own won’t do it. I was on RNZ’s The Panel yesterday afternoon (here, from around…
Water metering – a small piece of silver buckshot
24 Jan 2024 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: electric bikes
They claimed 18 lives and caused 150 injuries, with fatalities increasing 200 per cent in 2023.
Electric bikes start record number of fires in New York
22 Jan 2024 1 Comment
in applied price theory, development economics, economic growth, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, macroeconomics Tags: climate alarmism
By Paul Homewood h/t Philip Bratby Even climatologists are beginning to realise that the emperor has no clothes! Economic growth as we know it is impossible if governments shift to 100 per cent renewable energy, a renowned French climatologist has said. Jean-Marc Jancovici, the author of World Without End, the […]
Shift to renewable energy would make economic growth impossible, says expert
21 Jan 2024 1 Comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming
Another expensive and wasteful result of ‘net zero’ climate obsession in government, as the much vaunted renewables policy continues to prove fatally flawed, no matter how much is spent on it. One obvious problem with wind power is that the times of peak electricity demand and the times of optimal wind conditions rarely coincide. In […]
French ‘rubbing their hands’ as Britain forced to import £1.5bn of electricity
21 Jan 2024 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: climate alarmism
According to the Guardian, climate deniers have influenced teens by infiltrating youtube with disinformation videos.
Guardian: A third of British Teenagers think Climate Change is Exaggerated
19 Jan 2024 Leave a comment
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By Paul Homewood h/t Dennis Ambler . Even the greeniacs are starting to understand the damage to wildlife from wind turbines: As wind power grows around the world, so does the threat turbines pose to wildlife. From simple fixes to high-tech solutions, researchers are finding ways to reduce the toll.
Wind turbines kill too many birds and bats. How can we make them safer?
Celebrating humanity's flourishing through the spread of capitalism and the rule of law
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