According to modelling by University of Sydney and ETH Zürich, scaling back total production and placing a cap on maximum wealth would not only save the planet, it would also…
Category: Climate Economics
The ECB’s climate models are built on obsolete scenarios
There is an urgent need to not just update climate scenarios, but to implement a process whereby they can be kept instantaneously current … we can do this, we know…
Climate Visionaries Explain why a Green Universal Basic Income is Required
Climate visionaries explaining why a green universal income will help head off a violent armed uprising by economically redundant workers, who can no longer find a job in the age…
China: “renewable energy … intermittent and unstable, we must rely on a stable power source”
According to Su Wei, Deputy Secretary-General of the National Development and Reform Commission, renewable energy is too unreliable to power China.
India ignores media preaching on ‘net zero carbon’
When first-world reporters write about the developing world’s ongoing love affair with fossil fuels, their reports are “not necessarily the news!” Instead, they editorialize in nearly every story about the…
Pro Big Government Economist Calls for a Renewable Energy Moonshot
College of London Economist Mariana Mazzucato thinks the entrepreneurial spirit of government employees should be harnessed, to solve big problems like plastics pollution and climate change.
The American Petroleum Institute did what? Because climate?
Guest “explaining what the API did” by David Middleton Note: The primary purpose of this post is simply to lay out what the API has actually endorsed regarding carbon pricing.…
President Biden, Boris Johnson Push Green Alternative to the Chinese Belt and Road
The Biden administration has announced plans to borrow billions of dollars, presumably from China, to finance a green rival to the Chinese Belt and Road initiative, to counter China’s global…
The Latest Subsidisaster Paper
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach There’s a new study out in the Proceeding of the National Academy of Sciences that’s being hyped by phys dot org under the headline Fossil…
Borrow and Hope – for the Planet?
If the Earth is cooking, does it really matter how much money we borrow or print to cool it down? If we fail, we won’t even be here to pay…
Australian Financial Review Advises Readers to Embrace Climate Investments
According to the AFR, “You don’t want … a portfolio that has … companies that cannot make the transition.”. Just one problem – there will be no transition.
Getting Industry To Go Green Will Not Come Cheaply–Telegraph Wakes Up At Last!
The report also highlights the extremely naivety of the media up to now, who seem to have assumed that all of this decarbonisation could have been achieved for a billion…
Sleepwalking to Green Austerity
Basically, if you wish for net zero then you need to be very, very careful what you wish for. We may all end up sleepwalking to Green Austerity.
SEC Climate Task Force Tip #1: Delta Airlines’ false and misleading claim about carbon offsets
Is it truthful to claim that carbon offsets are “a viable, proven and immediate way to make an impact today”?
Stock of Alt-Energy Quadrupled during the Pandemic. What’s Up?
The COVID-19 epidemic and the response to it have devastated the economy. However, the alternative energy stock indexes quadrupled on average, including 150% growth before the US elections.
WHEN SMART PEOPLE GET THE CLIMATE CRAZIES
If Machiavelli set out to devise a strategy to drive the greatest wealth transfer in history, monetizing “climate change” on the pretext of saving planet Earth from an anthropogenic apocalypse…
Assessment of climate change risk to the insurance sector
Apart from the slow creep of sea level rise which in recent decades has been tracking the low end of the RCP4.5 scenario, there is little justification for expecting a…
Biden’s climate ‘fix’ is fantastically expensive and perfectly useless-Bjorn Lomborg
Climate policies could end up hurting much more by dramatically cutting growth. For rich countries, lower growth means higher risks of protests and political breakdown. This isn’t surprising. If you…
And so it begins: UK Government mulls emergency measures that would enable networks to switch off your electricity without warning or compensation
The Government is considering giving energy networks the power to switch off a household’s energy supply without warning or compensation for those affected.
Biden Cabinet Nominee Open to New Taxes to Pay for “Climate Agenda”
Raimondo continued the line that the “climate” agenda spending ambitions cost a lot of money, “We need funds”, and someone’s just going to have to suck it up and hand…
Biden policies already creating job losses, energy costs will skyrocket
But the linkage is not to be trusted. What is ignored is the lack of long term global temperature data to make any reasonable assessment. Data before the 1980s was…
Job Killer Joe’s Climate Team Promises to Replace the Fossil Fuel Jobs they “Sacrifice”
Perhaps it might have been a good idea to create these promised new green jobs, before destroying the old jobs?
Adaptation is more profitable than mitigation
Clintel.org has just issued a nice press release about the idea of preparing to adapt to climate changes, rather than the more controversial idea of destroying the fossil fuel industry…
