Our fixation with Gross Domestic Product for over half a century as the primary indicator of economic health has rendered nature “invisible” from national finances, intensifying the biosphere’s destruction by…
Category: Climate Economics
Credit, Covid and Climate: ‘Rock Star’ Urges Central Banks To Join The Fight Against Climate Change
One would think that the appropriateness of the image of a central banker as a ‘rock star’ is the least of our worries in a world beset by the Covid-19…
Fund Manager Advises on Navigating New Zealand’s Uncertain Climate Emergency Investment Landscape
Coming soon to the USA? Pathfinder Ethical Investment Fund manager John Berry advising on what sectors to avoid to protect your money from New Zealand’s Climate Emergency. But the reality…
TCI: Taxing the Poor to Benefit the Rich
“I think TCI is just taxing poor people so that we can subsidize rich people’s electric cars.”
If US Fossil Fuel Fracking Dies, Kiss Goodbye to Affordable Home Loan Interest Rates
One thing which wasn’t made clear during the recent US election was how important domestic US energy production and fracking is to reducing the trade deficit, which in turn feeds…
ANZ Bank Demands Carbon Divestment as a Condition of Business Loans
If you want to borrow money from ANZ (Australia and New Zealand Banking Group), you better present your carbon offset plan along with your financial records, otherwise regardless of the…
Major Hedge Fund Manager Demands Big Funds Force Companies to Act on Climate Change
It is never enough; despite recent moves to green their portfolios, major Hedge Fund manager Chris Hohn has accused Blackrock and Vangard of not doing enough. But this push for…
The Guardian: A $20+ Carbon Tax would Boost Economic Growth
From the “lets tax our way to prosperity” school of economics; According to Guardian author Greg Jericho, although it might seem like a massive carbon tax would hammer the economic…
Study: Renewable Energy does Nothing to Reduce CO2 Emissions
A group of high profile scientists, including Dr. Willie Soon, have published a meticulously referenced study which discuses the pros and cons of various CO2 reduction strategies.
The West Intends Energy Suicide: Will It Succeed?
Suicide is viewed as a crime in many countries. In a court of law, it is a serious charge and the evidence needs to be conclusive for such an accusation…
Study: “mitigation costs of limiting global warming … are higher than … avoided damages this century”
According to a new PLOS One study, efforts to mitigate global warming will not yield a net economic benefit until the next century.
CLINTEL puts hard climate questions to Bill Gates
Bill Gates is throwing several billion dollars at climate change. Mind you he is not throwing it away, because it is mostly venture capital for new energy technologies, which could…
Climate Change Financial Risk: Commodity Futures Trading Commission Edition
What follows is a multipart story much richer than my last Atlantic SEAMS article; an even better illustration than Charles’ addendum thereto on how fake news gets manufactured and promulgated.…
Nobel prize-winning economics of climate change is misleading and dangerous – here’s why
If you find reassurance in those mild estimates of damage, be warned. In a newly published paper, I have demonstrated that the data on which these estimates are based relies…
Post-Covid-19 ‘Sustainable Development’ Means Little In Precision Or Practice
Now that COVID-19 is compounding and exacerbating threats to the global economy, including higher public debt burdens, de-globalization and an expanding role of the state, the call for “sustainable development”…
Majority of groundwater stores resilient to climate change
Fewer of the world’s large aquifers are depleting than previously estimated, according to a new study by the University of Sussex and UCL.
The Telegraph: Airships to Provide Climate Friendly Air Transport
Low carbon enthusiasts are promoting the idea of airships. But there is a sound reason why this form of travel was abandoned, other than the a few famous accidents.
False Alarm: Book Review
Lomborg’s facility in using simple language to explain economic concepts is put to work once again in this new book “False Alarm,” which is devoted to the topic of climate…
MIT: Five Grand Thermal Challenges to Decarbonise the Global Economy
What would it take to make renewable energy viable, and reduce emissions from industrial processes? MIT professors Asegun Henry, Ravi Prasher & Arun Majumdar describe five thermal challenges which must…
The Climate Left Attacks Nobel Laureate William D. Nordhaus
Having received the 2018 Nobel Prize in economics largely in recognition of his economic analysis of climate policy—in particular the development and application of the Dynamic Integrated Climate-Economy (DICE) model—William…
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