Category Archives: economy-health

The Simon-Erlich Wager at Seven Billion People

Posted on January 25, 2012 by

Guest post by David Middleton Back in 1980, the great libertarian economist, Julian Simon, and the prepetually wrong Malthusian biologist, Paul Erlich, entered into a little wager regarding population growth and resource scarcity. They decided on using the inflation-adjusted prices … Continue reading →

Posted in Alarmism, Curious things, economy-health, energy, Environment | Tagged , , , , , , , | 157 Comments

La Niña and flu

Posted on January 16, 2012 by

From the Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health Does the La Niña weather pattern lead to flu pandemics? Worldwide pandemics of influenza caused widespread death and illness in 1918, 1957, 1968 and 2009. A new study examining weather patterns … Continue reading →

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Another alarming climate myth bites the dust – mosquito borne malaria does NOT increase with temperature

Posted on December 20, 2011 by

Back in 2001, the University of Florida wrote one of those “science by press release” thingy’s in Eurekalert where they speculated that global warming would increase ranges, and thus the range of mosquito borne disease. The next year, NPR jumped … Continue reading →

Posted in Alarmism, economy-health, Michael E. Mann | Tagged , , , , , , , , | 91 Comments

To the Guardian: You cannot make good public policy on mistaken premises

Posted on December 15, 2011 by

Guest post by Indur M. Goklany Damian Carrington’s Environment Blog at the Guardian proclaims: Climate deal: A guarantee our children will be worse off than us. This myth —perhaps myth-take would be a better word—has been addressed previously at WUWT. … Continue reading →

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Malaria and global warming – no linkage

Posted on October 4, 2011 by

From World Climate Report: Malaria Declines Despite Local Warming “Spreading tropical disease” is high on the list of bad things that are going to happen as the world warms—if you believe the doomsayers. And topping their list of spreading tropical … Continue reading →

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The Amazing Decline in Deaths from Extreme Weather in an Era of Global Warming, 1900–2010

Posted on September 25, 2011 by

Guest post by Indur M. Goklany Summary Proponents of drastic curbs on greenhouse gas emissions claim that such emissions cause global warming and that this exacerbates the frequency and intensity of extreme weather events, including extreme heat, droughts, floods and … Continue reading →

Posted in economy-health, weather | Tagged , , , | 84 Comments

Is economic “graceful decline” the true agenda of some warmists?

Posted on August 20, 2011 by

Guest commentary by Indur Goklany Sometimes the true agenda is laid bare. From http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/print/2011/08/19/1, a piece on Bill McKibben, in which E&E News’ Paul Fialka discusses his agenda, are these passages. [My comments are in brackets. I have highlighted some … Continue reading →

Posted in economy-health, Opinion | 102 Comments

Johns Hopkins succumbs to heat wave mania

Posted on May 3, 2011 by

From Johns Hopkins/Bloomberg School of Health, where they apparently haven’t looked at this data before writing a worrying scare story. The simple fact is, record high temperatures are simply not on the increase. Lots more analysis on the extremes of … Continue reading →

Posted in economy-health, heat wave, weather | Tagged , | 80 Comments

Are biofuel policies to help Mother Earth killing her most vulnerable children instead?

Posted on April 19, 2011 by

Guest post by Indur M. Goklany I have a new paper — Could Biofuel Policies Increase Death and Disease in Developing Countries?  — which suggests that global warming policies may be helping kill more people than it saves. It was … Continue reading →

Posted in economy-health | Tagged , , | 172 Comments

Extreme Nonsense by Krugman

Posted on February 9, 2011 by

Guest post by Indur M. Goklany 1. Krugman in Gradual Changes and Extreme Events forgets that there is a threshold on the left hand side, below which cold kills. In fact, in the moderate to higher latitudes more people die … Continue reading →

Posted in Agriculture, Alarmism, Disaster, economy-health | Tagged , , | 112 Comments

Poo Gloo Gaia Pans

Posted on January 9, 2011 by

Sorry for the title, I couldn’t resist. This article is calling to Mike Rowe, of “Dirty Jobs” fame, who makes “poo” his specialty. While this brown, er green, story isn’t our normal fare on WUWT, but I found it interesting. … Continue reading →

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You know it’s bad California when green companies move out of Berkeley

Posted on December 21, 2010 by

Excerpts via Bloomberg: Wind energy company moving headquarters to KC By BILL DRAPER The Associated Press KANSAS CITY, Mo. A California-based wind turbine manufacturer is moving its headquarters and production operations to a site at Kansas City International Airport, where … Continue reading →

Posted in economy-health, energy | Tagged , , | 51 Comments

New peer reviewed study: global warming lowers death rates

Posted on November 23, 2010 by

The doom and gloom, hell and high water howling seems to have hit a traffic obstacle in the form of a new paper in the UK that shows warmer weather saves lives. I really liked this part: …they found there … Continue reading →

Posted in economy-health | 136 Comments

IPCC Official: “Climate Policy Is Redistributing The World’s Wealth”

Posted on November 18, 2010 by

Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 14 November 2010 Climate policy has almost nothing to do anymore with environmental protection, says the German economist and IPCC official Ottmar Edenhofer. The next world climate summit in Cancun is actually an economy summit during which … Continue reading →

Posted in economy-health, politics | 146 Comments

A better idea on fighting malaria

Posted on October 30, 2010 by

Immunizing Mosquitoes To Fight Malaria By Jesse Emspak, International Business Times   (Photo: Wikipedia / Tim Vickers) A diagram showing the life cycle of malaria parasites. Researchers are proposing that the disease be attacked via immunizing the mosquitoes against the … Continue reading →

Posted in economy-health | 60 Comments

Malarial mosquitoes helped defeat British in battle that ended Revolutionary War

Posted on October 19, 2010 by

Was it warmer in Virginia in 1781 than it is today, or has our capacity to cope been enhanced? In fact, climate does not determine our well-being.  Unfortunately, climate change policies might, and for the worse. H/T and comment above: … Continue reading →

Posted in economy-health | 99 Comments

How Wicked Is This Problem?

Posted on October 18, 2010 by

by Tom Fuller, Let’s start with proper attribution of Wikipedia’s definition: ““Wicked problem” is a phrase originally used in social planning to describe a problem that is difficult or impossible to solve because of incomplete, contradictory, and changing requirements that are … Continue reading →

Posted in economy-health, politics | 63 Comments

Wasted food a huge energy gobbler

Posted on October 3, 2010 by

I’ll have to admit, Professor Webster has a point. Food is so abundant in the western world that household trashbins are routinely stuffed with uneaten food. Now If I can just get my mind around eating more leftovers. – Anthony … Continue reading →

Posted in Agriculture, economy-health, energy | 97 Comments

The Improving State of the World

Posted on September 29, 2010 by

With all the gloom and doom being pushed today, the title of this book is one of certain optimism. WUWT reader may recognize the author, Indur M. Goklany, a frequent WUWT contributor. I highly recommend his book, both for the … Continue reading →

Posted in Book Review, economy-health | 118 Comments

New discovery may lead to a malaria vaccine

Posted on September 27, 2010 by

WUWT recently carried a guest post from Indur Goklany titled Smacking Down Malaria Misconceptions which generated a lot of contentious comments, inflammatory rebuttal posts, and even a permanent ban of Ed Darrell from WUWT because he claims I’ve called Rachel Carson … Continue reading →

Posted in economy-health | 56 Comments

Bad news for green technology

Posted on September 23, 2010 by

From Slashdot: The NY Times reports that the Chinese government has placed a trade embargo on all exports to Japan of a crucial category of minerals used in products like hybrid cars, wind turbines and guided missiles. China mines 93 … Continue reading →

Posted in economy-health, Technology | 188 Comments

Smacking Down Malaria Misconceptions

Posted on September 13, 2010 by

Engineer Indur Goklany, a frequent contributor to WUWT and occasional commenter has more than a few things to say about commenter Ed Darrell’s views on Malaria posted on WUWT yesterday. There’s so much in fact, that I’ve dedicated a whole … Continue reading →

Posted in economy-health | 164 Comments

An Open Letter to Mr. Bill Gates

Posted on September 11, 2010 by

The Quality of Life for the World’s Poorest Can Be Advanced Farther, Faster, Cheaper and More Surely Through Adaptation than Through Zero-Carbon Technologies Guest Post By Indur M. Goklany A few days ago, Tom Nelson had a link to a … Continue reading →

Posted in economy-health | 79 Comments

Peer reviewed whack a mozzie

Posted on June 16, 2010 by

Via the SPPI Blog – Trying to Hit a Mosquito with a Sledgehammer Source:  World Climate Report One of the standard tenets of the global warming bible is that malaria will get worse as temperatures rise. We’ve addressed this many … Continue reading →

Posted in Alarmism, economy-health | 53 Comments

Does money grow in wind farms?

Posted on June 13, 2010 by

Wind turbines are a poor way to harness energy – but a very good way to generate public subsidies, says Andrew Gilligan. By Andrew Gilligan from The UK Telegraph Published: 7:00AM BST 13 Jun 2010 A general view of Europe’s … Continue reading →

Posted in economy-health, energy, politics | 170 Comments