Utopia, you are standing in it!

Noam Angrist, Pinelopi Koujianou Goldberg and Dean Jolliffe in the recent Journal of Eco Perspectives:

Government temperature graphs have been altered and are not consistent with historical records. As Tony Heller explains, they are propaganda, not science.

The world’s first small modular reactor (SMR) is under construction and, surprise, surprise, it’s energy-hungry China that leads the way.

While China’s love affair with coal-fired power looks like a marriage that will last a lifetime, the CCP is also building nuclear plants, hand over first. And not just the 1,000MW plus industrial-scale reactors it needs to drive its economic miracle.

China looks set to develop the technology to build SMRs at a scale that promises to shake up power generation and delivery, for generations to come.

The World’s First Small Nuclear Reactor Is Now Under Construction
Oil Price
Charles
Kennedy
13 July 2021

China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC) launched on Tuesday the construction of the first onshore small nuclear reactor in the world, in its efforts to gain a leading position in the modular reactors market.

Construction began on the demonstration project at the Changjiang Nuclear Power Plant in…

`I am pleased to submit my opposition to this unnecessary and insidious legistlaltion as follows.

• This is nothing more than an effort by various groups and the New Zealand Government to suppress speech they do not like or agree with. Free speech is a key cornerstone of Western Society and nowhere should that be more vigorously defended than in New Zealand. It is an indictment on Labour and its Ministers that it appears to be promoting and driving this legislation.
• Freedom of speech and expression is already severely impinged and restricted in New Zealand by virtue of the fact that the two major newspaper companies(Stuff and NZ Herald) will not countenance or publish views that are contrary to the views of the editors, opinion writers and staff. This is further exacerbated by the fact that the current government has paid them taxpayers money to keep solventand their…

Photosynthesis: nature requires carbon dioxide

It’s pie in the sky time again as charity Oxfam trashes various so-called climate pledges, calling them greenwashing. For starters they reckon the amount of land required to fulfil them would far exceed anything likely to be available worldwide.
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Oxfam says governments and companies are “hiding behind unreliable, unproven and unrealistic carbon removal schemes” in order to hit targets, reports BBC News.

Global attempts are being made to reach net zero carbon emissions by 2050.

But the charity claims net zero targets are often a “greenwashing exercise”.

Net zero means any emissions that can’t be stemmed by clean technology in 2050 will either be buried using carbon capture and storage, or soaked up by plants and soils.

The GWPF has produced a 64-page Fair Fuel document. See the Chairman’s Summary on pages 56-58 for a flavour of the many present and future problems with the unplanned rush to EVs, which the ‘rebels’ fear is likely to be a disaster both for themselves and the motoring public. But they’re mixing up carbon dioxide emissions cuts with pollution, which is an entirely separate issue. Such confusion plays into the hands of the so-called ‘green’ activists.
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Tory rebels have vowed to fight the 2030 ban on new petrol and diesel cars, reports The Sun (via The GWPF).

Thirteen MPs urged the Government to think again or face public fury.

The Fair Fuel all-party parliamentary group today calls on ministers to publish a full-cost analysis of what it will mean for the economy to go electric, and how they will slash emissions.

In the course of the 18th century a variety of spas and seaside resorts became popular destinations for busy Georgians seeking cures for a variety of chronic conditions, as well as for relaxation from the dramas of high politics. Dr Robin Eagles, Editor of the House of Lords 1715-90 project, considers the experiences of some of the high-profile individuals who took their holidays at two of the most popular in the late 18th century.

Among the most popular resorts for members of the elite seeking the benefits of sea air during the later part of the 18th century were Brighton and Weymouth. Earlier in the period Scarborough had been the foremost spa town, but in the course of the century it had been steadily eclipsed by a variety of rivals and by the 1760s and 70s the delights of East Sussex were beginning to attract regular holiday-makers. Brighton’s burgeoning…

Neoclassical economics is now bifurcated between Marshallian partial-equilibrium and Walrasian general-equilibrium analyses. With the apparent inability of neoclassical theory to explain the coordination failure of the Great Depression, J. M. Keynes proposed an alternative paradigm to explain the involuntary unemployment of the 1930s. But within two decades, Keynes’s contribution was subsumed under what became known as the neoclassical synthesis of the Keynesian and Walrasian theories (about which I have written frequently, e.g., here and here). Lacking microfoundations that could be reconciled with the assumptions of Walrasian general-equilibrium theory, the neoclassical synthesis collapsed, owing to the supposedly inadequate microfoundations of Keynesian theory.

But Walrasian general-equilibrium theory provides no plausible, much less axiomatic, account of how general equilibrium is, or could be, achieved. Even the imaginary tatonnement process lacks an algorithm that guarantees that a general-equilibrium solution, if it exists, would be found. Whatever plausibility is attributed to the assumption that…

Gina Florio delivers a fascinating talk discussing the relentless indoctrination she was subjected to at Harvard and how she was able to ultimately reject what she was taught. The left’s domination of academia is the source of its power both here and abroad.

In order to ultimately defeat them, the left’s stranglehold on education must be ended. If not, the political fight the defenders of civilization are engaged in will, ultimately, fail. Higher education is now geared to turning out brainwashed graduates who are destroying the country and, by extension, the world.