HT: https://twitter.com/David_Boaz/status/493382382507278336?s=09
Saving Civilization: 2009 vs 2015
27 Jan 2015 Leave a comment
in environmental economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: activists, climate ala, climate alarmism, do gooders, expressive voting, green rent seeking, rational ignorance, rational irrationality
An absolutely excellent collection of climate alarmist statements by hacks whose jobs depended on fermenting confusion and moral panic
Five years ago, we were told that the 2009 Copenhagen climate summit was the last chance to save civilization. As the 2015 Paris summit approaches, the same sort of fear mongering is ramping up.
Earlier this week, a climate declaration published as a full-page ad in the international edition of New York Times tried to frighten us. It told us that:
the UN Climate Summit in Paris in December 2015 may be the last chance to agree a treaty capable of saving civilization; [bold added]
The declaration insisted that global warming may “cause the very fabric of civilization to crash.” It said charitable foundations should therefore divert resources away from other projects – presumably building hospitals and schools, preventing blindness and malaria, ensuring basic sanitation – in order to “save civilization” from the climate scourge.
Problem is, we’ve heard this before. Not so very long ago, the British Prime…
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Is the Electoral (Disqualification of Sentenced Prisoners) Amendment Act 2010 invalid as submitted today in the High Court?
27 Jan 2015 Leave a comment
Every 20 years we worry about losing jobs to technology
26 Jan 2015 Leave a comment
in politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, technological progress Tags: creative destruction, search and matching, technological unemployment
Every generation has its moral panic about technological change in creative destruction.
For young people, it’s that overweening conceit about the problems they are attempting to solve are new.
For the middle-aged and older, rather than suggest that they are policy hustlers, it’s more like you they simply forgot that these debates were had 20 years ago and the scaremongers lost the same reason they lost 20 years before that, and so on.
HT: https://twitter.com/JamesBessen/status/498435714322014208
Double standards on terrorism
26 Jan 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, war and peace Tags: Gaza Strip, Hamas, Israel, Leftover Left, Osama bin Laden, war on terror
Evidence that the Left over Left are narrow-minded and personally nasty to people who disagree with them
26 Jan 2015 Leave a comment
in politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: activists, expressive voting, Greens, Leftover Left, political psychology, progressive left
The UK Green’s election signs are not in any way fluffy like those in New Zealand
26 Jan 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of media and culture, politics - New Zealand Tags: expressive voting, Greens, Leftover Left, Uk Greens
Obviously, the UK Greens are not as fluffy as their down-under compatriots if you have a look at this somewhat confrontational sign of theirs.
The New Zealand Greens have election campaign signs from which I can neither discern their message, nor easily work out that it is a Green sign because their logo is so small in the bottom right hand corner when driving by a car.
Maybe the Greens are not after car-owner votes, only bicyclists and public transport users – the middle-class on the way to their jobs in the city.
The sign of the UK Greens borders on hate speech. The UK Greens also do not have female and male co-leaders, as is the case for the New Zealand Greens, from what I can see – where is their gender balance?
American public concern about global warming is recovering with the economy
26 Jan 2015 Leave a comment
in environmental economics, global warming, politics - USA Tags: climate alarmism, expressive voting
It was the Democrats and and independents who lost interest in global warning as the economy weakened.
Global warming is second bottom is a major political priority in the USA at this time
Has the USA moved to lower trend GDP growth path?
26 Jan 2015 Leave a comment
in business cycles, economic growth, great recession, macroeconomics, politics - USA Tags: great recession, Jagadeesh Gokhale, prosperity and depression
Proof at last, that the moon landing was real
26 Jan 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of bureaucracy, politics - USA, technological progress Tags: conspiracy theorists, immigration, moon landing
Charles Krauthammer on what conservatives and liberals think of each other
25 Jan 2015 Leave a comment
in liberalism, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: Charles Krauthammer, expressive voting, Leftover Left, media bias, rational ignorance, rational irrationality
The cheek to complain about ICT enabled off shoring of services
25 Jan 2015 Leave a comment
in international economics, politics - USA Tags: expressive voting, jingoism, offshoring, outsourcing, popularism
These are undercover officers?
25 Jan 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, economics of media and culture, law and economics, personnel economics, politics - USA Tags: Undercover police
The Doomsday Clock is seriously awry
24 Jan 2015 Leave a comment
Things are worse than in the 1980s. What nonsense.
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