Published by Straits Times (Singapore) on 10 January 2020 By Tilak Doshi and Euston Quah Some commentators have called for more drastic action from Singapore’s policymakers to “mitigate”, or reduce,…
Category: Climate Economics
Climate alarmist banks go carbon-colonialist
Africa must move forward without them, using fossil and nuclear energy to build prosperity By Paul Driessen and David Wojick Africa has the world’s lowest electrification rate. Its power consumption…
Democrats Seek To Outlaw Suburban, Single-Family House Zoning, Calling It Racist And Bad For The Environment
From The Daily Caller Luke Rosiak Investigative Reporter December 23, 2019 3:52 PM ET Font Size: Democrats in Virginia may override local zoning to bring high-density housing, including public housing,…
Excess costs of UK Weather Dependent Renewable Energy: 2018
Reposted from edmhdotme Summary: 2018 using Renewable Energy Foundation data In 2018 UK Weather dependent renewables generated some 7.7 Gigawatts of power from an installed fleet of ~34 Gigawatts achieving…
Economists Prove Climate Change is Always Worse Somewhere Else
Guest essay by Eric Worrall According to the EIU, climate change will cause tremendous economic harm, but the USA and Europe will be least affected. The Asian economy will be…
Sweden Central Bank Sells Australian, Canadian Bonds because of Climate Policy Risk
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Sweden’s Central Bank is selling off holdings in Australian and Canadian bonds, because the financial stability of Australia and Canada is at risk if the…
World Economic Forum’s Post Climate Change Utopia Reads like a Homeless Tent City
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Obligatory ride sharing, less living space, more facility sharing, less ownership of goods, no car, far less privacy. This is what 2030 could look like…
Eco-imperialists impose a biomess on Africa
Instead of cutting forests and burning dung and charcoal, shouldn’t Africa have cheap electricity? Duggan Flanakin China, India, Vietnam and other nations are using more and more oil, natural gas…
EU fails to set tougher climate targets before December U.N. conference
from Reuters BRUSSELS (Reuters) – European Union government leaders declined on Friday to set tougher targets for fighting climate change, dashing hopes they would inject momentum into a United Nations…
FT: US Companies are Ignoring Climate Change
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Shocking – its almost like company boards and many of their shareholders have decided climate change does not pose a threat to their operations. Investors…
Understanding the Climate Movement Part 3: Follow the Money
Guest post by Dr Paul Rossiter Following my earlier two essays that looked at the new grand narrative of the green/left and the corruption of the cause, I now turn…
Putin Dismisses Climate Messiah Greta Thunberg: “Poorly Informed Teenager”
Guest essay by Eric Worrall h/t Breitbart; President Vladimir Putin has dismissed Greta Thunberg’s climate crusade, suggesting she has no idea of the cost of what she is demanding. “I…
Climate Change Economist Commits Suicide Nearly A Year After Not Winning Nobel Prize
From The Daily Caller Chris White Tech Reporter September 05, 2019 1:32 PM ET Climate economist Martin Weitzman died Aug. 27 from a suicide about a year after being passed…
Developing nations latest decade of energy & emissions growth torpedoes alarmist global emissions control scam
Guest essay by Larry Hamlin The UN has been pursuing global emissions policy for decades that are intended to provide for the establishment of global government schemes allowing it to…
Wind Farm Back-of-the-Envelope Economic Analysis
Guest post by Larry F. Brown, PhD We visited a wind farm in southern Utah recently. I’ve always been curious about the costs, profitability, and physical size of these things…
UCI study blithely calls for $100 trillion shutdown of fossil plants to meet Paris climate goals
Guest essay by Larry Hamlin The Los Angeles Times cavalierly suggests based upon a UCI study published in the journal Nature that the world needs to retire its fossil fuel…
MMT could be used to pay for the Green New Deal
guest post by Joel O’Bryan PhD NPR news is running this story on Green New Deal financing by writer Scott Horsley: When Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez rolled out her “Green New…
The cost of this net zero madness? Even a trillion is an underestimate
From The Conservative Woman BY Andrew Montford June 14, 2019 THE £1trillion figure is propaganda, not analysis; you can pluck any number you want.’ So said Adair Turner, the former…
Bitcoin causing CO2 emissions comparable to Hamburg
Hardware and IP addresses analyzed to assess the carbon footprint of the cryptocurrency Technical University of Munich (TUM) The use of Bitcoin causes around 22 megatons in CO2 emissions annually…
Young people blame climate change for their small 401(k) balances
from Market Watch By Kari Paul Published: May 23, 2019 9:46 a.m. ET Many young people today think civilization may not exist when they’re of retirement age. Here are ways…
Illinois Could Raise EV Registration Fee To $1,000, Hike Gas Tax
From OILPRICE.com By Tsvetana Paraskova – May 13, 2019, 12:30 PM CDT A bill at the Illinois legislature proposes to raise the annual registration fee for electric vehicles (EV) from…
Research sheds light on UK’s new unsustainable viewing habits
A new study looks behind closed doors to reveal how UK viewing habits are shifting away from traditional broadcasting with more data-intensive streaming options now the default for many. Lancaster…
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