Net Zero Not Only Inhuman, It’s Also Ecocidal
04 Feb 2024 1 Comment
in economic history, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: climate alarmism
Roger Palmer speaks quietly, but with the force of knowledge and logic on the subject of global warming/climate change. Two expressions of his perspective are presented here: firstly a brief video and transcript, and secondly excerpts from his 2024 paper. Transcript in italics with my bolds and added images. H/T Raymond Inauen 1. Trust Climate […]
Net Zero Not Only Inhuman, It’s Also Ecocidal
The Great Fact
04 Feb 2024 Leave a comment
in economic growth, economic history, liberalism, macroeconomics Tags: space, The Great Enrichment
Environmental Laws That Impeded Pipelines For Years Could Trip Up Biden’s Sprint Toward Offshore Wind
04 Feb 2024 Leave a comment
in economics of regulation, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: celebrity technologies, wind power
Environmental rules and regulations that activists have used for years to drown disfavored infrastructure projects in litigation are now threatening a key pillar of President Joe Biden’s massive climate agenda.
Environmental Laws That Impeded Pipelines For Years Could Trip Up Biden’s Sprint Toward Offshore Wind
UPDATE: Australians March On Canberra For Reliable Power – 6 February 2024
03 Feb 2024 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: Australia
On Tuesday next, thousands of Australian advocates for reliable and affordable power will march on the Nation’s capital, Canberra (the rally starts at 10am). One of the drivers of the March, Grant Piper recently gave this interview with Topher Field. Grant clearly knows the ground on which the battle has to be one: viz, attacking […]
UPDATE: Australians March On Canberra For Reliable Power – 6 February 2024
DON BRASH: WHAT KIND OF COUNTRY DO WE WANT TO BE?
03 Feb 2024 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, discrimination, economic history, income redistribution, law and economics, liberalism, Marxist economics, politics - New Zealand, property rights, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: Age of Enlightenment, constitutional law, political correctness, racial discrimination, regressive left
Last Sunday, the Sunday Star-Times recalled on its front page the “fiery debate” triggered by my speech to the Orewa Rotary Club just 20 years earlier. Articles by several authors in the same paper brought the debate up-to-date and warned of the dangers of ACT’s Treaty Principles Bill, which the National Party’s coalition agreement with…
DON BRASH: WHAT KIND OF COUNTRY DO WE WANT TO BE?
Andrea Vance turns on Ardern
03 Feb 2024 Leave a comment
in politics - New Zealand Tags: virtue signaling
Much improved sign commemorating Dad’s co-founding of the Devonfield sheltered workshop and hostel
03 Feb 2024 Leave a comment
in administration, economics of education, health economics
The Euro at 25
03 Feb 2024 Leave a comment
in budget deficits, currency unions, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, Euro crisis, fiscal policy, global financial crisis (GFC), great recession, inflation targeting, macroeconomics, monetary economics, Public Choice Tags: Euro
The euro technically started in 1999, when the 11 founding European members of the currency agreed to keep their exchange rates fixed and to hand over monetary policy to the European Central Bank. The euro then became the actual currency that people and firms used in 2002. I confess that, back in the early 1990s,…
The Euro at 25
Two model-observation comparisons confirm: CMIP6 models run too hot
03 Feb 2024 Leave a comment
in econometerics, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: climate alarmism
By Frank Bosse and Nic Lewis A recent article by Roy Spencer was (strongly) criticized by Gavin Schmidt over at “Real Climate”. In the summary Gavin S. wrote: “Spencer’s shenanigans are designed to mislead readers about the likely sources of any discrepancies and to imply that climate modelers are uninterested in such comparisons – and…
Two model-observation comparisons confirm: CMIP6 models run too hot
Germany Resumes Unrestricted Submarine Warfare I THE GREAT WAR Week 132
02 Feb 2024 Leave a comment
in defence economics, laws of war, war and peace Tags: World War I
CNN is confused about sex
02 Feb 2024 Leave a comment
in discrimination, gender, health economics Tags: Age of Enlightenment, free speech, gender gap, political correctness, regressive left, sex discrimination
Here’s a headline at CNN Health that is seemingly confused about what a “woman” is. Note that the word, which means “adult human female” appears blatantly in the headlines, but perhaps the headline writer was ideologically different from the authors: (click on screenshot to read) This is the gist of the article, and, indeed, […]
CNN is confused about sex
Breaking the Culture of Welfare Dependency
02 Feb 2024 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, development economics, economic history, economics of education, entrepreneurship, health economics, human capital, income redistribution, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, liberalism, property rights, Public Choice, unemployment, welfare reform Tags: Canada
One hope that has occasionally been expressed since the beginning of the modern era of Treaty of Waitangi (ToW) settlements, has been that the Iwi showered with money and empowered with control of hundreds of millions or even billions of dollars worth of assets, would be able to then make a difference to all the […]
Breaking the Culture of Welfare Dependency
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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