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Oops, I overestimated the cost of doing nothing about global warming
28 Apr 2016 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, environmental economics, global warming, Public Choice Tags: carbon pricing, carbon tax, climate alarmism, cost benefit analysis, expressive voting, mitigation and adaptation, rational irrationality
The incentive effects of the living wage and a carbon tax @BernieSanders
25 Nov 2015 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, energy economics, labour economics, minimum wage, politics - USA Tags: 2016 presidential election, carbon tax, climate alarmism, expressive voting, Leftover Left, living wage, rational irrationality, Twitter left
Do the @NZGreens care about the fuel poverty consequences of carbon taxes?
24 Aug 2015 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, poverty and inequality Tags: carbon tax, climate alarmism, expressive voting, fuel poverty, global warming
Who is harmed the most from higher energy costs? The poor, who spend almost 25% of their disposable income on energy? http://t.co/YOn28COXy8—
Mark J. Perry (@Mark_J_Perry) June 22, 2015
Why do @NZGreens want NZ to lead the world by example on a carbon tax, but not unilateral free trade?
31 Jul 2015 Leave a comment
in David Friedman, environmental economics, global warming, international economics, Milton Friedman, Murray Rothbard, politics - New Zealand Tags: antiforeign bias, antimarket bias, carbon tax, carbon trading, climate treaties, expressive voting, free trade, global warming, left-wing double standards, Left-wing hypocrisy, New Zealand Greens, protectionism, rational ignorance, rational irrationality, unilateral free trade
NZ’s greenhouse gas emissions are high per person and unit of GDP but have fallen since 1990 oe.cd/10z http://t.co/f5BMLMvTjq—
OECD Publications (@OECD_Pubs) June 10, 2015
The opportunity cost of expressive politics: fossil fuels disinvestment versus actually doing something that might help
17 Jun 2015 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, environmental economics, global warming, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: cap and trade, carbon tax, carbon trading, climate alarmism, expressive voting, fossil fuel disinvestment, global warming, rational irrationality, Robert Stavins
Formal carbon pricing initiatives around the world
11 Jun 2015 Leave a comment
in environmental economics, global warming Tags: bootleggers and baptists, carbon pricing, carbon tax, expressive voting, global warming, green rent seeking
#Carbonpricing is expanding w/ initiatives now valued at nearly $50 bil: wrld.bg/NBuz0 http://t.co/qELgE97i1p—
World Bank Pubs (@WBPubs) May 29, 2015
Carbon pricing expanded in the last 18 months. New report shows where & how: wrld.bg/Nrhsq http://t.co/D4uQtjl6EZ—
IFC (@IFC_org) May 27, 2015
Europe’s Climate Fail
17 Mar 2015 Leave a comment
in environmental economics, politics - USA Tags: Carbon cap, carbon tax, carbon trading, European Union
Europe’s rate of decarbonization was essentially identical before and after the ETS was introduced. If the program has effects, decarbonization has not been detectable beyond historical business-as-usual rates.
HT: http://thebreakthrough.org/index.php/voices/roger-pielke-jr/europes-climate-fail
Red Ed has given up on fighting climate change and introducing a carbon tax
11 Mar 2015 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, public economics Tags: carbon tax, climate alarmism, expressive voting, left-wing popularism, rational ignorance, rational irrationality, UK politics
I am starting to warm to Red Ed. His freeze on energy bills rules out any carbon tax was he cannot introduce a carbon tax while freezing energy bills.
EU’s rate of decarbonisation is identical before and after the ETS was introduced in 2000
13 Dec 2014 Leave a comment
in climate change, economics of climate change, environmental economics, global warming Tags: carbon tax, carbon trading, climate alarmism, European Union, expressive voting, global warming
Whatever impact the EU ETS has had, the US achieved similar results with no carbon market (and some might argue, with no climate policy at all. Both the US and EU reduced aggregate emissions by 6.4 percent from 2000.
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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