Eric Crampton writes – The Reserve Bank of New Zealand desperately wants to find reasons to have workstreams in climate change. It makes little sense.
Still no prudential regulation case around climate change
Still no prudential regulation case around climate change
24 Apr 2024 Leave a comment
in economics of bureaucracy, economics of climate change, environmental economics, environmentalism, financial economics, global warming, industrial organisation, law and economics, macroeconomics, monetary economics, politics - New Zealand, Public Choice, survivor principle Tags: climate alarmism
30 Years of Environmental Progress: Is It Time at Last to Be Optimistic? An Earth Day Panel at AEI
24 Apr 2024 Leave a comment
in environmental economics, environmentalism, liberalism Tags: The Great Enrichment
Earth Day 2024: Plastics Miracle Saving People and the Planet
24 Apr 2024 Leave a comment
in environmental economics, environmentalism
Benjamin Zycher celebrates how plastics benefit humans and the environment, in case this earth saver be overlooked by the Greens. His Real Energy article is Earth Day 2024: How Plastic Can the Enviros Get? Excerpts in italics with my bolds and added images. It is Earth Day 2024, an annual exercise in self-applause that always is too much fun because of the inanities, hypocrisies, mendacities, and […]
Earth Day 2024: Plastics Miracle Saving People and the Planet
Greens to a tee
16 Apr 2024 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, environmentalism, global warming Tags: expressive voting, rational irrationality
California’s Electricity Disaster In Seven Charts
25 Mar 2024 Leave a comment
in economics of climate change, energy economics, environmental economics, environmentalism, global warming, politics - USA Tags: celebrity technologies, wind power
Residential electricity prices jumped nearly 12% in 2023 and they are going higher. But the carbon intensity of power generation isn’t falling and low-income ratepayers are subsidizing the rich.
California’s Electricity Disaster In Seven Charts
Sobering Up? EU May Scrap Its Plans To Ban Internal Combustion Engines By 2035
12 Mar 2024 Leave a comment
in economics of climate change, energy economics, environmental economics, environmentalism, global warming, transport economics, urban economics Tags: electric cars
The EU plans to reassess the phase-out of combustion engines, based on the latest data and developments.
Sobering Up? EU May Scrap Its Plans To Ban Internal Combustion Engines By 2035
Environmentalism Perverted by Climatism
08 Mar 2024 1 Comment
in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, development economics, economic growth, economic history, economics of climate change, economics of crime, energy economics, environmental economics, environmentalism, global warming, growth miracles, law and economics, liberalism, macroeconomics, Marxist economics, property rights Tags: climate alarmism, free speech, regressive left, The Great Enrichment
J. Scott Turner explains how the roots of environmental stewardship were poisoned, resulting in the perverted modern decarbonization movement. His Spectator Australia article is Environmentalism: from concern about clean air to throwing soup at the Mona Lisa. Excerpts in italics with my bolds and added images. H/T John Ray Garrett Hardin was a professor of biology […]
Environmentalism Perverted by Climatism
Greens explained
24 Feb 2024 Leave a comment
in economics of regulation, environmental economics, environmentalism
OLIVER HARTWICH: Absurd – NZ courts can now decide on climate change
17 Feb 2024 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, economics of climate change, energy economics, environmental economics, environmentalism, global warming, law and economics, liberalism, politics - New Zealand, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking Tags: climate activists, rule of law
Oliver Hartwich writes – The World Justice Project ranks New Zealand 7th out of 142 countries on its ‘Rule of Law Index’, narrowly ahead of Australia’s 13th place. However, Australia still has hope – if only because of a recent decision by the Supreme Court of New Zealand. The case is easily told. Mike Smith, […]
OLIVER HARTWICH: Absurd – NZ courts can now decide on climate change
Congress and Courts enable Energy and Climate Fantasy and Tyranny
15 Feb 2024 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, economics of bureaucracy, economics of climate change, economics of regulation, energy economics, environmental economics, environmentalism, global warming, law and economics, politics - USA, property rights, Public Choice Tags: constitutional law
Supreme Court should end “Chevron deference” to restore checks, balances and reality
Congress and Courts enable Energy and Climate Fantasy and Tyranny
Charles Moore: The political class is only just realising that voters prefer prosperity over climate jingoism
11 Feb 2024 Leave a comment
in economic growth, economics of bureaucracy, economics of climate change, energy economics, environmental economics, environmentalism, global warming, income redistribution, liberalism, macroeconomics, Marxist economics, Public Choice, rentseeking, technological progress Tags: British politics, climate alarmism, wind power
By Paul Homewood From The Telegraph: Labour’s green U-turn reflects the shifting sands of climate policy If you want to see how the politics of climate change are shifting, compare today with late 2009. In both cases, a general election was approaching. In October 2009, with the Copenhagen climate summit […]
Charles Moore: The political class is only just realising that voters prefer prosperity over climate jingoism
06 Oct 2021 Leave a comment
in economics of bureaucracy, economics of education, environmentalism, law and economics, liberalism, libertarianism, Marxist economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, Public Choice
Lost on @Greens @NZGreens
20 Mar 2021 1 Comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, environmentalism, global warming, income redistribution, liberalism, Marxist economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, Public Choice, rentseeking, Thomas Sowell
Not even a @ReserveBankofNZ file note on biggest #globalwarming #climateemergency risk to bank lending!
04 Dec 2020 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, economics of bureaucracy, energy economics, environmental economics, environmentalism, global warming, politics - New Zealand, Public Choice, urban economics
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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