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‘Climate culture’ versus ‘knowing disbelief’

15 Aug 2015 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in applied price theory, economics of information, economics of media and culture, environmental economics, global warming Tags: climate change, conjecture and refutation, global warming, philosophy of science, political psychology

Climate culture versus knowing disbelief.

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Australia announces its futile carbon emissions target

12 Aug 2015 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, environmental economics, global warming, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: Australia, China, climate alarmism, climate change treaties, free-riders, game theory, global warming, international free riders, international public goods, public goods

via Australia’s Climate Change Policy Announced | Catallaxy Files.

The climate alarmists need to lift their game on their scaremongering

11 Aug 2015 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in economics of media and culture, environmental economics, global warming, politics - USA, Public Choice Tags: climate alarmism, doomsday prophecies, global warming, scaremongering, voter demographics

Climate change that is worth worrying about

05 Aug 2015 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in economic history, environmental economics, global warming Tags: global cooling, global warming, ice ages, Little ice age

Europe during Weichselian- & Würm-Glaciation period (which ended 11,700 years ago). http://t.co/Sx58qdIEAA—
Amazing Maps™ (@amazingmap) August 03, 2015

Why Obama’s Climate-Change Plan Is Hopeless Without China

05 Aug 2015 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in environmental economics, global warming, politics - USA Tags: China, climate treaties, global warming

Why Obama’s Climate-Change Plan Is Hopeless Without China – The Atlantic.

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

by Jim Rose 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

Murray Rothbard on the falling popularity of Pope Francis

25 Jul 2015 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of education, economics of regulation, economics of religion, energy economics, environmental economics, income redistribution, industrial organisation, international economics, Murray Rothbard, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, Public Choice, rentseeking, survivor principle Tags: antiforeign bias, antimarket bias, Catholic social thought, climate alarmism, expressive voting, global warming, makework bias, Pope Francis, rational ignorance, rational irrationality, voter demographics

#ISDS is saving the planet from global warming!

22 Jul 2015 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in energy economics, environmental economics, environmentalism, global warming Tags: carbon emissions, Euroland, expressive voting, Germany, global warming, investor state dispute settlement, nuclear energy, tradeoffs

Vattenfall, nuke power co, suing German Govt under #ISDS for phasing out nukes. Their lawyer says if Govts don't like it, don't sign #ISDS

— Russel Norman (@RusselNorman) July 22, 2015

@DukeofWaiheke @RusselNorman so ISDS win will reduce German carbon emissions bigtime! Its not easy to be @NZGreens http://t.co/O3TWpP1Kmg

— Jim Rose (@JimRosenz) July 22, 2015

@RusselNorman @publicaddress was it OK to sue Dutch government over climate change policy.http://t.co/vq9qu1zi2t

— Jim Rose (@JimRosenz) July 22, 2015

There are 620 million people in Africa without electricity

22 Jul 2015 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in development economics, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, growth disasters, growth miracles Tags: Africa, climate alarmists, energy poverty, extreme poverty, global poverty, global warming

There are 620 million people in Africa without electricity. Here's where they live. vox.com/2014/10/13/697… (via @iea) http://t.co/bhK5CVmtpZ—
Vox Maps (@VoxMaps) June 09, 2015

World’s top climate scientists confess: Global warming just 1/4 what we thought – and computers got the effects of greenhouse gases wrong

18 Jul 2015 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in environmental economics, global warming Tags: climate alarmism, forecasting errors, global warming

via World’s top climate scientists confess: Global warming is just QUARTER what we thought – and computers got the effects of greenhouse gases wrong | Daily Mail Online.

Matthew Kahn on Climate Change Adaptation

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by Jim Rose in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, environmental economics, global warming, urban economics Tags: climate alarmism, climate change adaptation, competition as a discovery procedure, global warming

Entrepreneurial alertness in green, clean technologies

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by Jim Rose in economics of information, economics of media and culture, environmental economics, global warming, Public Choice Tags: climate alarmism, creative destruction, entrepreneurial alertness, global warming, green technologies, innovation

@greenpeacenz The inconvenient truth about wind power

17 Jul 2015 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: Big Wind, climate alarmists, expressive voting, global warming, rational irrationality, renewable energy, wind power

Why Greenland is called Greenland?

16 Jul 2015 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in economic history, environmental economics, global warming Tags: climate alarmism, global cooling, global warming, Greenland, Little ice age

https://twitter.com/SteveSGoddard/status/598905503238991872/photo/1

Your SUV made the Arctic ice cap disappear 1,000 years ago.
news.google.com/newspapers?nid… http://t.co/6EP7PWEPOA—
Steve Goddard (@SteveSGoddard) May 14, 2015

I thought solar energy supplied more energy than this

14 Jul 2015 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, politics - USA Tags: Big Solar, climate alarmism, global warming, renewable energy, solar energy

These solar power plants provided around 0.11% of US electricity in 2012. vox.com/2014/6/12/5803… http://t.co/z7gUh0ofdD—
Vox Maps (@VoxMaps) April 09, 2015

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