Famous British playwright William Shakespeare wrote about endemic Malaria in Britain in the 1500s. Malaria was the scourge of Scandinavia and Russia right up until the 20th century. But this has not stopped greens falsely claiming Malaria is a disease of warm climates.
Claim: Global Warming is Spreading Malaria and Dengue to Europe
Claim: Global Warming is Spreading Malaria and Dengue to Europe
27 Apr 2024 Leave a comment
in economic history, environmental economics, global warming, health economics Tags: climate alarmism
Luxon gets out his butcher’s knife – briefly
27 Apr 2024 Leave a comment
Peter Dunne writes – The great nineteenth British Prime Minister, William Gladstone, once observed that “the first essential for a Prime Minister is to be a good butcher.” When a later British Prime Minister, Harold Macmillan, sacked a third of his Cabinet in July 1962, in what became known as the Night of the Long […]
Luxon gets out his butcher’s knife – briefly
18-year-old Queen Elizabeth serving in the Second World War
27 Apr 2024 Leave a comment
in defence economics, war and peace Tags: World War II
Wind Power Scarcity Data Analysis
27 Apr 2024 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: solar power, wind power
By Paul Homewood One of my regular contacts has analysed wind power data over the last five years, using the official half-hourly National Grid data. The analysis highlights just how intermittent wind power can be: https://www.nationalgrideso.com/data-portal/historic-generation-mix/historic_gb_generation_mix
Wind Power Scarcity Data Analysis
The @billmckibben Integrity Test
27 Apr 2024 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: climate alarmism
Almost without fail every time there is some oddball or unique weather event, climate alarmists immediately rushed to blame it on climate change whether or not there’s any facts to support it. Such is the case with Uber alarmist bill McKinnon founder of 350 dot org as well as “third act” and a supporter of […]
The @billmckibben Integrity Test
Grand Solar Power Rush Ends With Panels Being Used As Garden Fencing
26 Apr 2024 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, politics - Australia Tags: solar power
A decade from now, the wind and solar transition will resemble Alice’s trip down the rabbit hole – a place inhabited by lunatics and where nothing makes sense. Massive and seemingly endless subsidies have perverted the ordinary signals that free and open markets deliver. In Europe, the grand wind and solar rush has come to […]
Grand Solar Power Rush Ends With Panels Being Used As Garden Fencing
Why Socialism Won’t Die
26 Apr 2024 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, entrepreneurship, growth disasters, history of economic thought, income redistribution, industrial organisation, law and economics, liberalism, Marxist economics, property rights, Public Choice Tags: economics of socialism
“to employ a hundred people is… exploitation, but to command the same number [is] honorable.” That’s an actual book by the way, explaining that although communism has failed in the past across different nations, races and cultures, it might work in the future where machines can create anything we want. Think Star Trek’s replicator technology. […]
Why Socialism Won’t Die
US v. Google: do complaints have to be internally consistent?
26 Apr 2024 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, entrepreneurship, industrial organisation, law and economics, managerial economics, organisational economics, politics - USA Tags: competition law, creative destruction
From former DOJ Economist Greg Werden: The governments case suggests that its exclusive deals with Apple and Mozilla to be the default search engine on their browsers “allowed Google to maintain its monopoly power [in “general search”] in violation of Section 2 of the Sherman Act.” However, the government’s brief also suggests that Google’s scale is very important,…
US v. Google: do complaints have to be internally consistent?
LINDSAY MITCHELL: Is Oranga Tamariki guilty of neglect?
26 Apr 2024 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, law and economics, politics - New Zealand, Public Choice Tags: crime and punishment, law and order
One of reasons Oranga Tamariki exists is to prevent child neglect. But could the organisation itself be guilty of the same? Oranga Tamariki’s statistics show a decrease in the number and age of children in care. “There are less children in care now than as at 30 June 2019 when there were 6450 children and…
LINDSAY MITCHELL: Is Oranga Tamariki guilty of neglect?
Climate Models Not Scientific
25 Apr 2024 Leave a comment
in econometerics, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming
Paul Sutton explains in his Daily Sceptic article There’s Nothing “Scientific” About Climate Models. Excerpts in italics with my bolds and added images. On Sunday’s BBC Politics, Luke Johnson asked for evidence that the recent Dubai flooding was due to climate change. Chris Packham glibly responded: “It comes from something called science.” This simply highlighted […]
Climate Models Not Scientific
Meet a (Won’t be a striker at all) – former Third Striker # 1
25 Apr 2024 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, law and economics, politics - New Zealand Tags: crime and punishment, criminal deterrence, law and order
Ranapera Taumata is a Third Striker. He murdered his girlfriend in 2019 by beating her to death with his bare hands. The Judge summarised: Over the next 17 minutes or so, inside the sleepout you inflicted a prolongedand violent assault on Ms Hira, rendering her unconscious and injured. At about1.15 am you dragged her outside; she […]
Meet a (Won’t be a striker at all) – former Third Striker # 1
Maori Party (with “disgust”) draws attention to Chhour’s race after the High Court rules on Waitangi Tribunal’s summons
25 Apr 2024 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, law and economics, politics - New Zealand, property rights Tags: crime and punishment, criminal deterrence, law and order
Buzz from the Beehive A statement from Children’s Minister Karen Chhour – yet to be posted on the Government’s official website – arrived in Point of Order’s email in-tray last night. It welcomes the High Court ruling on whether the Waitangi Tribunal can demand she appear before it. It does not spell out what the […]
Maori Party (with “disgust”) draws attention to Chhour’s race after the High Court rules on Waitangi Tribunal’s summons
“Known unto God”
25 Apr 2024 Leave a comment
in defence economics, war and peace Tags: World War I
Visiting war graves in France and Belgium is moving and sobering. They are immaculately kept, thanks to the work of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission. They are peaceful, in stark contrast to the noise and brutality that those buried there endured. They are a tragic reminder to the tragedy of war and what so many […]
“Known unto God”
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