The Surprising Track-Record of Climate Predictions | Alex Epstein
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in applied price theory, economic history, economics of natural disasters, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: climate alarmists
Not even unions can stop women choosing work-life balance over equal earnings @women_nz @JulieAnneGenter
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in discrimination, gender, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice
From https://scholar.harvard.edu/bolotnyy/publications/why-do-women-earn-less-men-evidence-bus-and-train-operators-job-market-paper HT Marginal Revolution
The paper itself cannot be downloaded but clearly suggest they are detailed evidence on the work choices down to people nominating to rosters and taking up their roster nomination as a bus or train driver. This paper is therefore the only rival the Uber paper that found a zero gender pay gap once work-life balance choices were accounted for by women.
.@JustSpeak didn’t know only 20 people in prison for drug use in NZ
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in economics of crime, politics - New Zealand
From https://www.justspeak.org.nz/ourwork/justspeak-briefing-to-incoming-ministers which footnotes a Cato Institute publication instead of New Zealand correction statistics.
CHINA To Phase Out ‘Renewable’ Subsidies, Continue To Build Coal Plants
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China Expected to Phase Out Renewable Subsidies, Continue to Build Coal Plants – IER
“We get a tax credit if we build a lot of wind farms. That’s the only reason to build them. They don’t make sense without the tax credit.” – Warren Buffett
“Suggesting that renewables will let us phase rapidly off fossil fuels in the United States, China, India, or the world as a whole is almost the equivalent of believing in the Easter Bunny and Tooth Fairy.” – James Hansen (The Godfather of global warming alarmism and former NASA climate chief)
“Renewable energy technologies simply won’t work; we need a fundamentally different approach.” – Top Google engineers
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CHINA’S greenwashing exercise and heavily subsidised unreliables (wind/solar) experiment is coming to a grinding halt.
THE central planners in the red state know only too well that you cannot power a growing economy on…
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THE ARCTIC : Ground Zero For Anthropogenic Hubris And Climate Change Hysteria
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CLIMATE change alarmists conveniently ‘deny’ the existence of the 1970’s “global cooling” scare because such panic, a mere 40 years ago, threatens the legitimacy of the current “global warming” scare.
HOWEVER, climate experts and government agencies of the day were indeed warning of impending climate doom and that we must take immediate “action” to avoid catastrophe.
SOUND familiar?
WARMING alarmists rebut the 1970’s global cooling scare with claims that the phenomenon wasn’t “peer-reviewed” or that a “consensus” of “97%” of “scientists” didn’t agree. However, it doesn’t take Einstein to realise that the fashionable eco-scare of the day was indeed very real…
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IN 1976 the CIA warned the cooling climate would bring – “drought, starvation, social unrest and political upheaval” :
21 Jul 1976 – C.I.A. WARNING – Trove
C.I.A. WARNINGFrom a correspondent in WashingtonMAJOR world climate changes were under way that would cause economic and political upheavals “almost beyond comprehension”, an internal report of…
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.@AndrewLittleMP @NZDrug @Alisonmau hung around with some daft people at the Justice Summit @sst_nz
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in economics of crime, politics - New Zealand
Japan has a lower crime rate than Norway because of its prison systems? In Japanese prisons, every moment, every movement of your body and eyes are controlled on pain of a beating
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Watch “What if He Falls? The Terrifying Reality Behind Filming “Free Solo” | Op-Docs” on YouTube
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in economics of media and culture
I agree
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in discrimination, gender, labour economics, politics - Australia Tags: gender gap
Why American Sunscreens Suck
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in economics of regulation, health economics Tags: The fatal conceit
Why Japan’s conviction rate is 99% | The Economist
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in economics of crime, law and economics Tags: crime and punishment, Japan, law and order
How Footpaths Help Shape Our Technology – Cheddar Explains
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in economics of media and culture, entrepreneurship, industrial organisation, survivor principle Tags: creative destruction, spontaneous order
Wind Power is a Dead End
02 Nov 2018 Leave a comment
meeting America’s current demand for electricity alone—not including gasoline or jet fuel, or the natural gas required for things like space heating and fertilizer production—would require covering a territory twice the size of California with wind turbines.
Robert Bryce reports on the end of wind power hopes in City Journal. Why Wind Power Isn’t the Answer Excerpts in italics with my bolds
As a new study confirms, turbines would have to be stacked across state-sized swaths of the American landscape.
On October 8, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released a report warning that nations around the world must cut their greenhouse-gas emissions drastically to reduce the possibility of catastrophic climate change. The report emphasizes “fast deployment of renewables like solar and wind” and largely ignores the essential role nuclear energy must play in any decarbonization effort.
Four days earlier, to much less fanfare, two Harvard researchers published a paper showing that trying to fuel our energy-intensive society solely with renewables would require cartoonish amounts of land. How cartoonish? Consider: meeting America’s current demand for electricity alone—not including gasoline or jet fuel, or the natural gas…
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