Dr. Ross McKitrick of the University of Guelph presents on the economics of energy and emissions. There has been a lot of positive response to this video during the original broadcast, so I decided to upload it first. Some folks wonder why I haven’t got these all videos uploaded by now. The reason is simple.
Since these were shot in HD and I don’t have a super-hispeed internet connection, this video in HD took ~27 hours to upload. Since there are graphs in these, I try not to compromise the quality by going to a lower resolution. I will continue to add videos as the time permits.
omnologos says:
November 23, 2012 at 10:46 am
All this discussion appears to confirm geekhood is a common trait among skeptics
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Yes, skeptics do appear to include an above average number of folks that understand technology. As compared to alarmists that don’t understand technology, believe in solutions that do not work, to problems that do not exist.
One can imagine the first humans to use fire. There would have been a much larger group raising alarm over the threat this poised to future generations. Had the prehistoric Hansen’s and Gore’s of the time got their way we would never have domesticated fire and would still be living in trees. Or quite possibly extinct.
I don’t know the limits of WordPress. I’d suggested previously that the links to the videos be put on the sidebar. Perhaps they should be put under “Resources” or “Reference Pages” with a reminder on the sidebar?
So many people have stepped up to counter this deception and corruption. Some of the names of those involved are given a backseat to those more reconized and or well known. Mann, Hansen and Gore are the names most reconized of those trying to drive us back to the stone age. Often things that others have done are connected with those names. And those names ofren get the blame.
On the flip side, I’m happy to see that Dr. McKitrick is getting credit here for what he has done that may, at times, be lumped under another’s name.
Thank you, Dr. McKitrick.
(Sigh) People might think I much smarter than I really am if I didn’t have to type what I want to say. (Sigh)
epanadiplosis
It still baffles me why CO2 is looked upon as a pollutant. It is the natural, efficient resultant of a chemical reaction burning hydrocarbon. You should be focused like a laser to output CO2 over all other outputs.
Alvin;
It’s so very useful to do so. As a significant demonstration example of this, it enables/requires the EPA in the US to monitor and minimize every source of over 250 tons/annum. That’s pretty much the entire economy.
(The EPA itself objected to this Hurculean task. It would have to increase its bureaucratic staffing by something like 140X. Palpably impossible.)
Very good observation by Dr. McKitrick about the inefficiency of regulating each and every aspect.
Of course, the warmists , warmist governments and their cronies know this full well but simply use the arguments they had themselves manufactured by the political tools at the IPCC exactly to have a pretense to inflict damage on their economies whereever they can – as one man’s damage is another man’s profit, at least in the short term – in the long term we’ll all suffer because the growth of the entire wealth will be exterminated – but until then they will have made off with their billions.
Dr. McKitrick,
That was very informative and you kept my attention. Thanks for passing on your knowledge and common sense. It seems very clear to me what governments must do as far as energy production regulations are concerned. It isn’t clear at all why the environmental advocates do such mental gymnastics to get around the simple facts that you have supplied. Anthony, thanks for putting that up and for all that you do at this blog.
Loved it!
This was one of the presentations I missed during the live show.
As an Economist, I was right at home 😉
Economics is something that loads of folks like to think they understand, especially Lawyers, and typically don’t. Especially things like the indirect regulation failures… Sigh…
I wish we could require that every law maker and regulator watch this presentation once a month until they ‘get it’…