All very small and short ranged
11 Dec 2023 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, politics - New Zealand, transport economics
California dreaming no more
11 Dec 2023 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, economic growth, entrepreneurship, income redistribution, industrial organisation, labour economics, minimum wage, Public Choice, public economics Tags: California, Florida
COP28: Who Matters? — Follow-up
11 Dec 2023 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: solar power, wind power
“China having a higher share of renewables each year, while also having a massive growth in overall electricity consumption. … What does this tell us about the type and amount of capacity they add each year?” and some discussion followed as to whether China was increasing coal faster than renewables or vice-versa.
COP28: Who Matters? — Follow-up
How the First World War Created the Middle East Conflicts (Documentary)
11 Dec 2023 Leave a comment
in defence economics, economic history, International law, war and peace Tags: Israel, Middle-East politics, World War I
2023 prize lecture in economic sciences | Claudia Goldin
10 Dec 2023 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economic history, gender, history of economic thought, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice Tags: gender wage gap, sex discrimination
Whose Land Is It? Almost a Biblical Story
10 Dec 2023 Leave a comment
in defence economics, economic history, laws of war, war and peace Tags: Gaza Strip, Israel, Middle-East politics, war against terror, West Bank
The failure of Western “Liberals and Leftists” to hold the Arabs to the same moral and ethical standards as Israel is a “example of old colonialist and racist habits. They don’t see in the Arabs moral equals.” – Michael Walzer (1982) I think that most of the arguing and fighting over land and religion should […]
Whose Land Is It? Almost a Biblical Story
Big Climate, Internally Conflicted, Descending into Farce
10 Dec 2023 Leave a comment
in economic history, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: climate alarmism
e Raymond J. de Souza asksa good question at National Post: Is Big Climate over? That would be good for the environment. Excerpts in italics with my bolds and added images. Backing away from absurd, grandiose policies would shift attention toward more practical measures Is the era of Big Climate over? It may be that […]
Big Climate, Internally Conflicted, Descending into Farce
Another Great Moment in Government-Run Healthcare
10 Dec 2023 Leave a comment
in health economics, politics - USA Tags: Canada, health insurance
Because of misguided government policies, health care in America is expensive and inefficient. But it’s always possible to have a system that is even worse. I have often cited the United Kingdom, which has genuine socialism (government employs the doctors and runs the hospitals). However, as part of an ongoing series about “great moments in […]
Another Great Moment in Government-Run Healthcare
JERRY COYNE: A powerful University dean in New Zealand touts merging higher education with indigenous spirituality
09 Dec 2023 Leave a comment
in economics of education, liberalism, Marxist economics, politics - New Zealand Tags: Age of Enlightenment, conjecture and refutation philosophy of science, free speech, political correctness, regressive left
Jerry Coyne writes – This article from New Zealand’s Newsroom site was written by Julie Rowland, the deputy dean of the Faculty of Science at the University of Auckland as well as a geologist and the Director of the Ngā Ara Whetū | Centre for Climate, Biodiversity & Society. In other word, she’s a scientist. One key to […]
JERRY COYNE: A powerful University dean in New Zealand touts merging higher education with indigenous spirituality
Global CO2 Emissions Likely To Rise Through 2050–US EIA
09 Dec 2023 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming
By Paul Homewood By 2050, energy-related CO2 emissions vary between a 2% decrease and a 34% increase compared with 2022 in all cases we modeled. Growing populations and incomes increase fossil fuel consumption and emissions, particularly in the industrial and electric power sectors. These trends offset emissions reductions from improved energy efficiency, lower […]
Global CO2 Emissions Likely To Rise Through 2050–US EIA
The Oil Demand Outlook COP28 Leaders Would Hate
08 Dec 2023 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming
The 28th UN-sponsored attempt to reduce global ’emissions’, in line with its pet climate theories, stares its own failure in the face as emissions keep going up. The renewables industry is running fast to stand still in terms of making a global dent in oil usage, for example. Imposition of ‘net zero’ policies may impact […]
The Oil Demand Outlook COP28 Leaders Would Hate
BREAKING: Green Party to Oppress Woman, Gays and Trans
08 Dec 2023 Leave a comment
in laws of war, liberalism, Marxist economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, war and peace Tags: Gaza Strip, Israel, Middle-East politics, war against terror
It’s hard to believe I know, but what other conclusion can be made based on what Green MP (and superstar) Chloe Swarbrick said the other day at the “Pro-Palestine” rally in Auckland: … after what we’ve witnessed, I want to say strongly, clearly and vehemently, the Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand stands for a […]
BREAKING: Green Party to Oppress Woman, Gays and Trans
The war cabinet vs. the security cabinet
08 Dec 2023 Leave a comment
in defence economics, laws of war, war and peace Tags: Gaza Strip, Israel, Middle-East politics, war against terror
A very interesting development reported today by Barak Ravid of Axios (in a Twitter thread) shows some further evolution of the relationship between Israel’s security cabinet (an inner team of ministers with grounding in law) and the “war cabinet” that was set up as part of the process of bringing some (former) opposition parties into […]
The war cabinet vs. the security cabinet
Many Countries Don’t Accurately Report Emissions
08 Dec 2023 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic history, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, growth disasters, growth miracles
By Paul Homewood Electricity generation in China and India, and oil and gas production in the US, have produced the biggest increases in global greenhouse gas emissions since 2015, when the Paris climate agreement was signed, new data has shown. Emissions of methane, a greenhouse gas 80 times more powerful than carbon dioxide, […]
Many Countries Don’t Accurately Report Emissions
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