Climate Alarmism Isn’t Rational
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Bjorn Lomborg, Director of the Copenhagen Consensus Center, breaks down the facts about the environment and shows why the reality of climate change may be very different from what you hear in the media.
Don’t overhype the link between climate change and hurricanes
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by Judith Curry
Doing so erodes scientific credibility — and distracts from the urgent need to shore up our vulnerability to storms’ impacts.
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Robert Trivers on the evolutionary biology of social cooperation
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in comparative institutional analysis, economics of education, economics of information, law and economics Tags: evolutionary psychology
Will @AOC @BernieSanders @SenWarren @NZGreens @greenpeace @oxfam pledge to only call electric ambulances?
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in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: climate alarmism, electric cars
Becroft reckons we are too young and impulsive at age 17 to be treated as adults in court – but we are fit to vote at age 16
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The recently launched ‘Make It 16’ campaign – aimed at lowering the voting age in New Zealand to 16 – has support from Children’s Commissioner Judge Andrew Becroft.
Becroft said lowering the voting age would enhance turnout, ingrain the habit of voting and uphold young people’s rights.
If this be so, why stop at 16?
Becroft says
“Children and young people have the right to have their voices heard and taken into account.”
This suggests there should be no age limit.
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The Supreme Court ruling in Cherry/Miller (No.2), and the power of parliament
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This week’s Supreme Court judgment against Boris Johnson on parliament’s prorogation has shaken British politics and will be looked back on as a landmark case. Yet at the same time, Meg Russell argues, it simply reinforces the core principle of parliament’s centrality in our constitution. There has long been a myth of executive-dominance in the British system. Perhaps after this case, the fact that the government gains its power and authority from parliament will be better recognised – by those both inside and outside the system.
The Supreme Court’s judgment in the prorogation case was damning. Short of deciding that Boris Johnson had misled the Queen (which would be difficult to know, given private conversations) the court issued the strongest possible condemnation on all counts. The government had argued that prorogation was non-justiciable: i.e. not a matter in which the courts could get involved. The justices instead ruled it justiciable…
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Time for @NZGreens @greenpeace supporters to make some personal sacrifices
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in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: climate alarmists
It’s Greta’s Worldview We Disavow
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Nick Gillespie gets the focus right in his Reason artilce Think Globally, Shame Constantly: The Rise of Greta Thunberg Environmentalism. Excerpts in italics with my bolds.
Her future—and that of the planet—hasn’t been “stolen” and the best way forward is through serious policy discussion, not histrionics.
To say that reactions to Thunberg are as extreme as her rhetoric is an understatement. . . But despite the volume and vitriol of the attacks directed her way, it’s vitally important that the worldview she represents and the policies she espouses are refuted. Like Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D–N.Y.), Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D–Mass.), and a host of other American politicians, Thunberg believes that we’ve only got a few years left to settle the fate of the planet, a basic tenet pushed by supporters of the Green New Deal and by most of the Democrats running for president. In fact, Thunberg thinks that “cutting our…
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A Deep Dive into Evolutionary Psychology and Sexuality | Geoffrey Miller | ACADEMIA | Rubin Report
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in discrimination, economics of crime, economics of education, economics of love and marriage, gender, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, occupational choice, poverty and inequality, property rights, Public Choice Tags: evolutionary psychology
David Friedman on US Foreign Policy, Syria, Assad, Terrorism, WWII, Hitler, and much more…
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in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, David Friedman, defence economics, economic history, economics of crime, law and economics, property rights Tags: anarchocapitalism
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