By presenting modeled counterfactuals as if they were observed declines in pay, The Week misleads readers about both climate impacts and economic reality. Actual wage data show Americans earning more, not less,…
Category: Climate Economics
Kings College London: UK Climate Action Support Plummeting
But a majority still say Net Zero should be achieved by 2050 or earlier.
Should Guardian Authors be Paid in Hugs to Reduce Climate Damage?
Guardian author Alex Clark wants the world to “move beyond” GDP as a measure of wellbeing. The experiment should start with The Guardian.
Claim: China Should Learn from California’s Clean Energy Example
“… With the right policy, coal is not essential to ensuring a reliable electricity supply… “
Germany’s Chemical Reckoning: How Europe is Dismantling its Industrial Core
The country’s chemical industry once symbolised the triumph of science, industry and energy harnessed in service of human progress. Its current decline symbolises something else entirely: the delusional triumph of…
Biden’s Push for Renewables Funding Trump’s Push To ‘Drill, Baby, Drill’
Looking to reorient U.S. energy policy toward fossil fuels and nuclear plants, President Trump has access to an enormous sum of money made available by an unlikely source: the Biden…
Poor nations won’t follow Europe, UN in economic suicide
We might call this the Reverse-Midas Effect: everything climate alarmists touch turns to lead – which brings lead poisoning, developmental delays, learning and behavioral problems, memory dysfunction, even comas and…
Poll Finds New England Women Feel Misled About Climate Policies
With Winter Storm Fern wreaking havoc across the country, New England women are worried about energy affordability. Yet many do not connect rising energy costs to the state policy decisions…
Do Renewables Make for Cheaper Electricity?
Do they or don’t they? It’s the perennial argument, and I claim that it shouldn’t be difficult to show that they do not. However, I have to admit that there…
Ross McKitrick on Climate Models, Economic Impacts, and the DOE Report
In this in-depth interview, economist and statistician Ross McKitrick discusses climate models, uncertainty, and whether the public climate debate is as scientifically balanced as often claimed. He also reflects on…
Are Green Energy Subsidies Driving California’s Plan to Expropriate the Wealthy?
Soaring energy bills, a political crisis, and an insane plan to expropriate wealth creators who drive the Californian Economy.
Constraint Payments Soar to New Record
As the Telegraph states, this is essentially a Scottish problem, as there is not enough transmission capacity to carry all the wind power south when it is windy. But naively,…
The UK’s Electricity Crisis is Not Caused by “Poor Market and System Design”. It’s Caused By Net Zero
To blame “system design” while defending Net Zero is to rearrange the analytical furniture in a sinking ship. The UK’s electricity crisis is not a bug in an otherwise sound…
Plans for huge wind farm paused over ‘unfair’ grid charges
Why should anybody else pay for all of this work, other than the wind farm itself?
World Economic Forum Elites Should Focus on Economics, Not Climate Change, Climate Change News
Climate Change News and the WEF should get with the program and realize that their concerns do not reflect the needs of the people they are supposed to represent. These…
CfD Subsidies Hit Record High In 2025
This gives the lie to the “nine times cheaper than gas” claim, which I have seen some people still claim.
China Poised to Charge a Tithe on Global Shipping, Thanks to the Maritime Net Zero Framework
Last year Trump successfully lobbied for deferral of a global carbon tax on maritime CO2 emissions. But with 10s of billions of dollars at stake, the fight isn’t over.
Chinese Solar Manufacturers Report Major Financial Losses
Has President Trump’s withdrawal of Biden era renewable subsidies killed the Chinese economy?
£2.7 Billion Bill for Floating Wind
I can think of no other branch of government that could, or ever has, signed away £38 billion of taxpayers’ money on a white elephant that has zero value at…