Ross McKitrick uses pure theory to trace Canada’s (Australia’s and NZ’s) marginal abatement cost and marginal damage curves for carbon emissions @mfe_news @jamespeshaw
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in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, Public Choice, public economics Tags: carbon tax
And Justice Wept
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Environmentalist judge gives free pass to climate activists. Where will this lead?
CGTN reports approvingly Climate activists win landmark case over Federer demo at Credit Suisse. Excerpts in italics with my bolds.
Swiss climate protesters have won a landmark legal battle against investment bank Credit Suisse, which could transform the way that climate activism is prosecuted in Switzerland in future.
A judge ruled on Monday that the danger posed by climate change means activists from the climate group Breakfree were not guilty of trespassing when they occupied a branch of the Swiss investment bank two years ago to demonstrate against the financiers’ funding of fossil fuel projects.
In November 2019, a group of young people wearing tennis kits and wigs staged a tennis-themed sit-in at a Credit Suisse branch in Lausanne. Their goal was to convince Swiss tennis player Roger Federer to end his sponsorship deal with the…
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Jonathan Pie’s Rant On Cultural Appropriation
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in economic history, economics of education, economics of media and culture, law and economics, movies, Music, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, property rights, Public Choice, television Tags: political correctness, racial discrimination, regressive left
#OTD 1939 #globalwarming #climateemergency @VictorianGreens @Greens @GreenpeaceAP
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in economic history, economics of natural disasters, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, politics - Australia Tags: climate alarmists, pessimism bias, regressive left
World’s first fully electric commercial aircraft takes flight in Canada
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15 minute flight by tiny plane.
Company hails start of the ‘electric aviation age’ after 15-minute test flight in Vancouver
The world’s first electric commercial during its maiden flight in Richmond, British Columbia Photograph: Jonathan Hayward/AP
The world’s first fully electric commercial aircraft has taken its inaugural test flight, taking off from the Canadian city of Vancouver and flying for 15 minutes.
“This proves that commercial aviation in all-electric form can work,” said Roei Ganzarski, chief executive of Australian engineering firm magniX.
The company designed the plane’s motor and worked in partnership with Harbour Air, which ferries half a million passengers a year between Vancouver, Whistler ski resort and nearby islands and coastal communities.
Ganzarski said the technology would mean significant cost savings for airlines and zero emissions. “This signifies the start of the electric aviation age,” he said.
Civil aviation is one of the fastest-growing sources of carbon emissions as people increasingly take to the…
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The Impossibly Expensive Promises of Bernie Sanders
16 Jan 2020 1 Comment
I’ve written about some of Elizabeth Warren’s statist proposals, but watching last night’s Democratic debate convinced me that I need to pay more attention to Bernie Sanders’ agenda.
When he ran for president last time, I warned that his platform of $18 trillion of new spending over 10 years would be “very expensive to your wallet.”
This time, “Crazy Bernie” has decided that his 2016 agenda was just a down payment. He now wants nearly $100 trillion of new spending!
Even CNN acknowledges that his platform has a staggering price tag.
…the new spending programs Sen. Bernie Sanders has proposed in his presidential campaign would at least double federal spending over the next decade… The Vermont independent’s agenda represents an expansion of government’s cost and size unprecedented since World War II… Sanders’ plan, though all of its costs cannot be precisely quantified,
would increase government spending as a…
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4. Social Costs versus Social Benefits
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in applied welfare economics, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: climate alarmists
But French laws are so crap that the tribal council on the Survivor TV show were successful sued for unjustified dismissal & redundancy pay
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in economics of regulation, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, occupational choice, Public Choice, television, unemployment Tags: employment law, employment protection, France, Spain
Thomas Sowell – Ethnic mobility 1984 1/2
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in discrimination, economic history, economics of education, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, Thomas Sowell Tags: racial discrimination
Question for @Greenpeace @oxfam @NZGreens @Greens
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in development economics, economics of regulation, environmental economics, financial economics, growth disasters Tags: anti-GMO movement, cranks
If @Greens proposals were implemented 30 years ago, would the bushfire risk be less? #globalwarming #climateemergency @GreenpeaceAP
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in economics of natural disasters, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, politics - Australia Tags: Australia, climate alarmism, pessimism bias
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