#climateemergency #globalwarming Prediction Swings and Misses: A Decade of @Greens @NZGreens @Greenpeace Alarmist Strike Outs, 2010-2019
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in economics of natural disasters, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: Anti-Science left, climate alarmists, pessimism bias, regressive left
Is 100% Renewable Possible By 2050?
01 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
in entrepreneurship, environmental economics, global warming Tags: solar power, The fatal conceit, wind power
The Nazis Building Bridges, Not Walls – WW2 – 079 – February 28, 1941
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in defence economics, war and peace Tags: World War II
Let’s Scrub Away Climate Change
01 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
“Who would be the saddest people in the world if a cheap carbon-scrubber were invented? Answer: climate activists. They would almost certainly be bitterly crestfallen if ever an inexpensive technological fix resolved the climate issue. I say this because they so often give the impression their real motivation is not concern about the climate but rather a strange abhorrence of the modern world. “
Carbon Dioxide Scrubber
Ross McKitrick says Jeff Bezos has put enough money on the table to vanish climate change concerns, except for those who won’t let go. He writes at Financial Post: It’s never enough with climate activists — even a staggering $10 billion from Jeff Bezos. Excerpts in italics with my bolds.
Observers might conclude activists don’t care about the climate per se but instead want to impose a big-government central planning regime
Jeff Bezos, the mega-billionaire founder/owner of Amazon, just announced he will give US$10 billion to “fight climate change.” According to CNN, this followed immense pressure from his employees to take action. And, as is inevitable with this issue, as soon as he made the announcement his activist employees declared it wasn’t enough.
“We applaud Jeff Bezos’s philanthropy, but one hand cannot give what the other is taking away,” their group sniffed. “Will Jeff Bezos show us…
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The Netherlands faces pressure as global ‘test case’ for deep emissions cuts in 2020
29 Feb 2020 Leave a comment
They are up against it. Governments are now finding themselves increasingly boxed in by their own climate ideology. From the report below:
Richard Tol, professor of the economics of climate change at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, said it is “highly unlikely” that the Netherlands will rise to the challenge, saying a [extra] 10% emissions reduction by the end of 2020 would “require shutting down a substantial part of the economy”.
But what options are there? Nuclear power is unpopular and can’t be built quickly anyway, while wind and solar power are part-time, intermittent, and relatively expensive. No viable ‘off-the-shelf’ way exists to store electricity on a massive scale. Awkward.
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The Netherlands is under pressure to slash emissions in sectors such as power generation and agriculture in 2020 after a ruling by a top court made the government a reluctant ‘test case’ for tougher global climate policies, says…
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Canny summary of Sowell
29 Feb 2020 1 Comment
in discrimination, economic history, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, occupational choice, poverty and inequality, Thomas Sowell Tags: racial discrimination, The fatal conceit
Freeman Dyson on the Global Warming Hysteria April, 2015
29 Feb 2020 Leave a comment
in economics of natural disasters, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: pessimism bias
Does GDP growth overstate progress?
29 Feb 2020 Leave a comment
in development economics, econometerics, economic history, Gary Becker, growth disasters, growth miracles, health economics Tags: The Great Enrichment, The Great Escape
From Health, Politics, and Revolution in Cuba Since 1898
29 Feb 2020 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, growth disasters, health economics, law and economics, Marxist economics, Public Choice Tags: Cuba
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