By Paul Homewood From The Telegraph: Labour’s green U-turn reflects the shifting sands of climate policy If you want to see how the politics of climate change are shifting, compare today with late 2009. In both cases, a general election was approaching. In October 2009, with the Copenhagen climate summit […]
Charles Moore: The political class is only just realising that voters prefer prosperity over climate jingoism
Charles Moore: The political class is only just realising that voters prefer prosperity over climate jingoism
11 Feb 2024 Leave a comment
in economic growth, economics of bureaucracy, economics of climate change, energy economics, environmental economics, environmentalism, global warming, income redistribution, liberalism, macroeconomics, Marxist economics, Public Choice, rentseeking, technological progress Tags: British politics, climate alarmism, wind power
“Green” Activists Menace Humanity
10 Feb 2024 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, law and economics Tags: climate alarmism
A thoroughly anti-human philosophy that envisions Earth untouched by people has them blindly adhering to an unscientific theory of a climate emergency.
“Green” Activists Menace Humanity
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
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
Real Science Guy: Climate Crisis Imaginary
28 Jan 2024 Leave a comment
in economic history, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: climate alarmism
Daniel W. Nebert writes at American Thinker Today’s ‘Climate Crisis’ Is a Fairy Tale. Excerpts in italics with my bolds and added images. For the past 35 years, the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has warned us that emissions from the burning of fossil fuels, predominantly carbon dioxide (CO2), are causing dangerous […]
Real Science Guy: Climate Crisis Imaginary
Global Warming: Observations vs. Climate Models
27 Jan 2024 1 Comment
in econometerics, economic history, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: climate alarmism
By Paul Homewood Roy Spencer has written a long, detailed critique of climate models: https://www.heritage.org/environment/report/global-warming-observations-vs-climate-models The full report is worth reading, but his key graph and conclusions are below:
Global Warming: Observations vs. Climate Models
Shift to renewable energy would make economic growth impossible, says expert
22 Jan 2024 1 Comment
in applied price theory, development economics, economic growth, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, macroeconomics Tags: climate alarmism
By Paul Homewood h/t Philip Bratby Even climatologists are beginning to realise that the emperor has no clothes! Economic growth as we know it is impossible if governments shift to 100 per cent renewable energy, a renowned French climatologist has said. Jean-Marc Jancovici, the author of World Without End, the […]
Shift to renewable energy would make economic growth impossible, says expert
Guardian: A third of British Teenagers think Climate Change is Exaggerated
21 Jan 2024 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: climate alarmism
According to the Guardian, climate deniers have influenced teens by infiltrating youtube with disinformation videos.
Guardian: A third of British Teenagers think Climate Change is Exaggerated
Speaking of ice ages
16 Jan 2024 Leave a comment
in economic history, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: Arctic ice caps, climate alarmism
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04 Jan 2024 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, economic history, environmental economics, global warming Tags: climate alarmism
📸 Look at this post on Facebook
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WMO’s missing CO2-climate correlation?
20 Dec 2023 Leave a comment
in environmental economics, global warming Tags: climate alarmism
The alarmist WMO has put out a graphic on X/Twitter showing hardly any global warming increase (in blue) between 1940 and the 1970s, followed by a clear transition (to red) since then. This doesn’t correlate with the monotonic CO2 rise during that period. Weather expert Joe Bastardi is delighted: ‘Merry Christmas from the World Meteorological […]
WMO’s missing CO2-climate correlation?
From Now To 2100 Emission Reduction Policy Costs Greatly Exceed Any Net Benefit from Averted Warming
20 Dec 2023 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, development economics, econometerics, economic history, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, growth disasters, growth miracles Tags: climate alarmism
The benefits of not meeting Paris Accord emissions-reduction targets outweigh the costs associated even with worst-case-scenario global warming throughout the 21st century.
From Now To 2100 Emission Reduction Policy Costs Greatly Exceed Any Net Benefit from Averted Warming
No, Media, ‘Catastrophic Climate Tipping Points’ are Nothing to Worry About
13 Dec 2023 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: climate alarmism
…the claimed dangers are based on climate model projections, not actual cause and effect connections demonstrated by data.
No, Media, ‘Catastrophic Climate Tipping Points’ are Nothing to Worry About
Russia Reels From -60°C Cold Blast… And Munich Breaks December Snow Record
11 Dec 2023 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: climate alarmism
In early December, the Arctic practically spread to Russia (and Europe), see following chart:
Russia Reels From -60°C Cold Blast… And Munich Breaks December Snow Record
Unprecedented mass gain over the Antarctic ice sheet between 2021 and 2022 caused by large precipitation anomalies
11 Dec 2023 1 Comment
in environmental economics, global warming Tags: climate alarmism
During this period, the mass gain over the East AIS and Antarctic Peninsula was unprecedented within the past two decades
Unprecedented mass gain over the Antarctic ice sheet between 2021 and 2022 caused by large precipitation anomalies
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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