2016 Annual GWPF Lecture – Matt Ridley – Global Warming Versus Global Greening
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in development economics, economic history, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: climate alarmists, pessimism bias
Another supply-side driven pay gap. How do employers learn sexual orientations to favour and discriminate?
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in applied price theory, discrimination, economics of education, economics of information, gender, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, occupational choice Tags: gender wage gap
The wages of sin are still paying for the Vice Fund
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in economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, financial economics, health economics Tags: active investing, efficient markets hypothesis, passive investing, picking winners
Money For Nothing: Scotland’s Wind Farms Earn More Revenue When They’re Turned Off!!
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The fact that Scotland’s wind farms have pocketed £650m for not generating power has attracted more than just a little attention.
STT has run several stories over the last few months about wind power outfits being paid very handsomely to NOT generate electricity. Perhaps it’s the sense of outrage that comes with knowing a group of unscrupulous thugs are being paid for doing nothing that’s prompted a flurry of articles, including this one.
Wind turbines generate more cash when switched off and Scots customers shouldering £650m blame
Daily Record
Paul Rodger
17 January 2020
Constraint payments have been paid to energy firms in charge of wind farms, when demand for electricity falls or winds are too strong for turbines to operate.
Wind turbines generate more cash when they’re switched OFF than when they’re working – with customers shouldering nearly £650 million in payments over a decade.
So-called ‘constraint payments’, a…
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Why Space Over South America is Deadly for Satellites
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in transport economics Tags: space
“If they can’t get their act together, soon, it’s going to be over before it begins”
15 Feb 2020 1 Comment
in politics - USA, Public Choice Tags: 2020 presidential election
The IPCC, the world’s leading scienti…, err, political body
15 Feb 2020 1 Comment
A new communication handbook for IPCC scientists is published. It is compiled by Climate Outreach and was commissioned by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Working Group I Technical Support Unit. They want this handbook out “ahead of the IPCC’s 1.5 degrees special report later this year”.
Interesting.
The handbook also comes with a video explaining the 6 principles to help IPCC scientists better communicate their work. They already lost me in the second sentence in that video though:
The facts are there, thanks in great part to the IPCC – the world’s leading scientific body on climate change
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A defense of the binary in human sex
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As a biologist, I get especially irked at the repeated claim that sex in humans is “a spectrum, not a binary.” In fact, as I’ve discussed several times before (e.g., here, here, here and here), sex might as well be a binary, because the overwhelming majority of people conform to the definitions of either male or female, which involve differential gamete production (sperm vs. eggs), and only slightly fewer fail to conform to a binary of other primary sexual characteristics (appearance of genitalia) or secondary sexual characteristics that appear at puberty (breasts, pubic hair, etc.).
To be a bit more precise, biological sex in humans is bimodal: if you do a frequency plot with “sex” on the X axis and “frequency of individuals conforming to that sex” on the Y axis, you get a huge peak at “male”, another huge peak at “female”, and then a…
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Elections and electioneering, 1832-1868
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As voters across the country head to the polls this month, we thought it was an ideal opportunity to look back at some of the research on 19th century elections we have featured in our blogs over the past few years. These draw on our work for the History of Parliament’s House of Commons, 1832-68 project, which is producing biographical profiles of the 2,591 MPs who sat between the first and second Reform Acts and accounts of the 401 constituencies in England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales across the nine general elections which took place during this period. You can find more details about our project here.
The system under which electors cast their votes between 1832 and 1868 was very different in many ways from the modern British electoral system. As our editor, Philip Salmon, explains in this post, before the introduction of the secret ballot in 1872…
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Do #endcoal #endoil #globalwarming #climateemergency @GreenpeaceAP @Greens accept scientific evidence?
15 Feb 2020 Leave a comment
in economics of regulation, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, health and safety, health economics, labour economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: air pollution, Anti-Science left, nuclear power, solar power, wind power
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