North Korean Calculations behind the Blue House Raid and the USS Pueblo Incident
08 Dec 2018 Leave a comment
in defence economics, war and peace Tags: North Korea, South Korea
That Time It Rained for Two Million Years
08 Dec 2018 Leave a comment
in economic history, environmental economics
Climate Party! African Delegates Swamp Conference
07 Dec 2018 Leave a comment
By Andrew Bolt ~
It’s a feeding frenzy at the UN climate conference. There’s the excuse for taxpayer-paid travel, of course, and the excuse to extort huge donations from the guilty rich:
An analysis of delegates by Carbon Brief found Guinea topped the list with 406 delegates, down 86 from last time. The Democratic Republic of Congo is second, with 237. Host nation Poland is third, with 211 delegates, followed by Ivory Coast, whose delegation this year has more than halved to 208 people…
Those huge delegations from these poor nations are actually down on last time? Wow.
Graham Lloyd puts it extremely diplomatically:
While some African countries give delegate tickets to non-governmental organisations, the make-up gives an indication of how important they consider the talks for securing development and mitigation funds.
Or as our Environment Minister Melissa Price memorably said to a former Kiribati Prime Minister who’d come…
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Google and Facebook Cross “The Creepy Line”
07 Dec 2018 Leave a comment
John Stossel highlights a very good movie that is out revealing how Google and Facebook cross The Creepy Line.
High ability robbers (e.g. remembers to have a gun, mask, getaway car) stay long in banks & are deterred by longer sentences @sst_nz
07 Dec 2018 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, human capital, labour economics, law and economics, occupational choice Tags: crime and punishment, criminal deterrence
Ellen McGrattan The Impact of Brexit on Foreign Investment and Production
07 Dec 2018 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, economic growth, industrial organisation, international economics, International law, macroeconomics Tags: Brexit
#OTD Pearl Harbor – The Japanese Attack
07 Dec 2018 Leave a comment
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Follow the Climate Money
07 Dec 2018 Leave a comment
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How climate finance ‘flows’ around the world is an informative article from CarbonBrief. Excerpts below in italics followed by a comment from Bjorn Lomborg.
Climate finance is one of the bedrocks of negotiations at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), including the “COP24” talks taking place this month in Katowice, Poland.
“Climate finance” refers to money – both from public and private sources – which is used to help reduce emissions and increase resilience against the negative impacts of climate change.
Rich countries have promised they will provide $100bn a year in climate finance to poorer nations by 2020. The UNFCCC’s recent biennial assessment found this sum had reached $75bn in 2016, a step forward compared to the $65bn given in 2015.
The OECD, a Paris-based intergovernmental economic organisation, asks its 36 member countries to report on their foreign aid…
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