The SCC enables agencies and their allies to attach any price they wish to every conceivable cost of using fossil fuels: hotter and colder, wetter and drier climate and weather;…
Category: social cost of carbon
Pielke Jr. On The Biden Administration’s Social Cost of Carbon
Pricing carbon makes good sense but should not come at the expense of scientific integrity
New York State Value of Carbon Guidance
On October 29, 2020 the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) released “Establishing a Value of Carbon, Guidelines for Use by State Agencies, Guidelines for State Agencies” for…
Court Decision: Interim Social Cost of Greenhouse Gas Metric
Recently a federal district judge found that the Bureau of Land Management (BLM, sorry it was their acronym first) arbitrarily relied on an aggressively scaled-back social cost of greenhouse gases…
Economic impact of energy consumption change caused by global warming
Reposted from Dr. Judith Curry’s Climate Etc. Posted on February 8, 2020 by curryja | by Peter Lang and Ken Gregory A new paper ‘Economic impact of energy consumption change…
“The Nobel Prize for Climate Catastrophe”… Seriously?
Guest ridiculing by David Middleton Just when I think I’ve read the dumbest thing I’ve ever read about climate change… The Nobel Prize for Climate Catastrophe The economist William Nordhaus…
Population Growth and the food supply
By Andy May Special note: You can’t see the balloon in the cartoon, the standing bear is saying to the other: “OK, I’ll admit they are kind of cute, but…
The Social Costs of Air Pollution from Cars in the UK
By Neil Lock August 2017 Back in April the mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, introduced from the coming October a £10 a day “toxicity charge” for pre 2006 cars, both…
The social cost of carbon regulations hurt the poor, and ignore benefits
Anti-fossil fuel SCC relies on garbage models, ignores carbon benefits and hurts the poor Foreword: The Social Cost of Carbon is a key foundation for numerous Obama-era energy policies, regulations…
End the phony Social Cost of Carbon
The SCC drives war on fossil fuels but relies on faulty analyses that ignore carbon benefits Guest essay by Paul Driessen and Roger Bezdek The Social Cost of Carbon is…
AT WHAT COST? EXAMINING THE SOCIAL COST OF CARBON
WRITTEN STATEMENT OF PATRICK J. MICHAELS DIRECTOR CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF SCIENCE CATO INSTITUTE WASHINGTON, DC HEARING ON AT WHAT COST? EXAMINING THE SOCIAL COST OF CARBON BEFORE THE U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Committee on Science,…
