As we approach the UN climate body’s Conference of Parties (COP26), to be held in Glasgow in November, the drive by the UN’s climate body to push the world’s major…
Category: Climate Economics
Boris, here’s why net-zero emissions by 2050 just aren’t worth it
Net-zero just isn’t worth it. Let us do the math that no government seems to have done. It is not very difficult – but the results are astonishing.
£170 Million To Be Wasted On “Greener Homes”
£170 a year for 38,000 homes tots up to a saving of £6.4 million. In what sane world would this justify spending £170 million?
The Hill: Forcing Renewable Operators to Pay for Network Upgrades is Impeding the Green Energy Revolution
According to The Hill and industry advocates, its deeply unfair that the government is unfairly trying to force renewable energy providers to pay the full cost of power line upgrades…
Hydrogen: UK government sees future in low-carbon fuel – but what’s the reality?
The UK government has failed to provide comparative evidence that hydrogen is a preferred net-zero route in many applications. Only by comparing the paths to net zero in a way…
Claim: the job-creating potential of clean energy is “where we get stuck a bit”
According to proponents, union awareness of workers being fired by text message halfway through projects is undermining the green energy promise of secure jobs. But some government green energy jobs…
“Energy Fascism” (Rothbard 1974 speaks to us today)
August 15, 1971, was the day that President Richard Nixon shocked the country, and indeed the world, with a price control order. Everything—all goods and services, as well as wages and interest…
Trying To See If California’s Energy Plans Add Up
Does the California multi-agency Report provide any reason to believe that the California bureaucrats have a good idea as to how to get to a zero-emissions electrical grid? The answer…
“Off Target”: Bad Economics of the Climate Crusade (mitigation not supported by mainstream analysis)
Why is such a temperature change bad? I can walk across the street and not notice the temperature change of the accumulated warming of the last century or more–and that has…
The lurking threat to solar power’s growth
Simply put: the more solar you add to the grid, the less valuable it becomes.
Eating less Meat won’t save the Planet. Here’s Why
Why are people saying Cows are bad for the planet?
G20 Endorses Global Carbon Pricing
G20 Guest Bankers also spoke of the need to “unlock” pension funds, so they can invest ordinary people’s savings into combatting the climate crisis.
Guardian: Mass Immigration is Easing the Transition to a Climate Friendly Low Birthrate Future
The Guardian thinks immigrants will be happy to take care of the old folk in rich countries who chose not to have kids. Or maybe robots will sort it all…
Logistics and Costs for Australia to Achieve Net Zero Carbon Dioxide Emissions by 2050
Massive industrial and economic disruption. Unreliable energy. Higher energy prices reducing Australia’s international competitiveness.
Europe faces global scepticism about its carbon border tax
The European Union faces an uphill battle to convince trading partners that the world’s first levy on carbon imports is fair, workable and a necessary part of the bloc’s attempted…
SMH: Aussie Government Economic Forecasts Ignoring Net Zero Impacts
It is almost as if the Aussie Government thinks commitments to shut down coal plants and eliminate the use of steel and alumina in industry will not happen.
Texas Starts Waking Up To The Issue Of The Full Costs Of “Renewables”
Reposted from The MANHATTAN CONTRARIAN June 20, 2021/ Francis Menton The promoters of the climate scam have a variety of deceptions to get the gullible to accede to their socialist plans.…
Bloomberg Celebrates an International Banker Effort to Dictate Climate Policy
Climate policy is rapidly becoming a test bed, for how much control international bankers can exert over the policy decisions of elected governments, through boycotting the purchase of government bonds.
New Paper From Richard Tol: The Economic Impact of Weather and Climate
I propose a new conceptual framework to disentangle the impacts of weather and climate on economic activity and growth: A stochastic frontier model with climate in the production frontier and…
The Economic Costs Of Climate Change–Swiss Re
Coming back to the UK, it is simply absurd to claim that we would be £50 billion better off with the climate of the Little Ice Age, Our agriculture would…
New Zealand Climate Commission Report Recommends Fewer Cars, More Electric, Fewer Cows
Climate ambition meet Modern Monetary Theory – a slap for every remaining productive sector of the New Zealand economy.
Aussie Regulator Warns Companies to Disclose Climate Risks
Mixed signals anyone? As debate rages over the Aussie government funding a new gas generator, businesses are being coerced to increase their disclosure of alleged climate risks.
It Is Necessary To Destroy The Environment To Save It
The innumerate of society that imagine the transition to Biden’s 2035 carbon pollution-free electricity target will have such insignificant environmental impacts that they should be ignored because of the existential…
Claim: The Climate Crisis is Not About Overpopulation, the Problem is Affluence
A debate is raging amongst climate economists, about whether we need a drastic reduction in global population, or whether simply making everyone poor will suffice to save the planet.
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