Guest essay by Eric Worrall President Obama’s administration thinks CO2 emissions have been decoupled from GDP. The reality is many of the manufacturing jobs, and the CO2 emissions which went…
Category: Economy-health
Huff Post: Focus on Feelings, Before People Notice Climate Economics is a Mess
Guest essay by Eric Worrall The Huffington Post is worried that faltering faith in the field of Economics, whose experts spectacularly failed to predict the 2008 crash and the post…
Rural Mass Migration to Cities: Must be Climate Change
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Remember history lessons about the Industrial Revolution – about how the rise of city based factory jobs, and more efficient farming practices, caused mass migration…
Claim: Skepticism about climate change may be linked to concerns about economy
According to a new study, we are more likely to be skeptical about climate change, if we are worried about paying our living expenses. Skepticism about climate change may be…
Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Shareholders Reject Climate Motion
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Shareholders of Warren Buffet’s Berkshire Hathaway have rejected an attempt by activist shareholders, to force the company to write a report about the “dangers” climate…
Apple Issues $1.5 Billion Green Bond
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Green bonds – corporate borrowing to help finance improved energy efficiency, renewables, and other fashionable environmental activities, appear to be a growing trend. But there…
Davos: Climate Not the "Top Concern" of Business Leaders
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Once again global business leaders at Davos have gone off narrative, by failing to identify “climate change” as their number one priority; instead voicing concerns…
Surprise Volkswagen Share Price Rise
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Volkswagen share prices have risen sharply in the last few days, apparently on the back of news that Volkswagen was already negotiating a settlement with…
Claim: some coastal dwellers of US at high health risk from climate change
From the THE EARTH INSTITUTE AT COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY and the “we need a task force and more money” department comes this ridiculous pandering claim. Gotta love the caveat “Although future…
Have Fossil Fuels Diminished the World’s Sustainability and Resilience?
Guest essay by Indur M. Goklany The recent Papal Encyclical on the environment’s endorsement of “changes of lifestyle, production and consumption, in order to combat…warming,” and drastic reductions in carbon…
Wild Claim: 'climate change…could wipe out health progress over the past 50 years'
From UMEA UNIVERSITY Climate change could risk progress in health — or be a global health opportunity The threat climate change poses to human health is possibly so great that…
Surprising: Researchers correlate rheumatoid arthritis and giant cell arteritis with solar cycles
From the DOE/Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory What began as a chat between husband and wife has evolved into an intriguing scientific discovery. The results, published in May in BMJ (formerly…
Duelling Doctors – Contradictory Climate reports from Medics
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Two contradictory medical press releases have been issued within days of each other, concerning the impact of climate change on health. According to The Australian,…
The green plan to make Capitalism cruel
A regular green claim is that, for the sake of the planet, we can’t afford any more economic growth. How many times have you heard something like the following: The…
NYT: Developing world abandoning Obama's green agenda, turning to China for help
h/t James Delingpole – The New York Times reports that the developing world is abandoning green tainted US backed global banking institutions, and is looking to China for infrastructure finance.…
Last 2 years running, The White House blamed extreme cold for the faltering economy
Guest essay by Eric Worrall President Obama’s economic advisors have just blamed the faltering performance of the US economy this year on cold winter weather – just like they did…
What is the Optimum Temperature with respect to human mortality?
By Indur M. Goklany It is well known that the risk of mortality increases at both the high and low ends of the temperature range experienced by a particular population.[1],[2],[3]…
Cold kills: Summer no sweat for Aussies but winter freeze fatal
Australians are more likely to die during unseasonably cold winters than hotter than average summers, QUT research has found. From the Queensland University of Technology Across the country severe winters…
WHO Forecast Exaggerates Climate Deaths
New paper faults World Health Organisation’s wilful exaggeration A new briefing paper from the Global Warming Policy Foundation examines the World Health Organisation’s recent report on climate change and…
A conversation with Dr. Roger Pielke Jr. on the Kaya Identity
As many readers know, there was quite a hullaballo over the Kaya Identity last week, two posts by Willis Eschenbach here and here created sides seemingly equally split on whether…
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