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Yet more Stern criticism
David Maddison of the University of Birmingham in the UK adds his voice (PDF link) to the criticisms of the Stern Review, concluding: There…
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The tension between science and alarmism
Early last month, at about the time of the publication of the Stern Review with its inclusion of “catastrophe” in its analysis of the risks…
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Psst. Things are good. Pass it on.
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What do economists really think about global warming
Robert Whaples of Wake Forest University has the answer. He polled American economists and found: The results show that most economists are not alarmed…
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A Bold Prediction
Myron wrote earlier about how the Senate Democrats are showing no urgency to tackle global warming, otherwise known as The Greatest Threat Facing the…
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This, however, is not satire
Last year, a British MP calculated that Santa Claus’ annual trip round the world was environmentally damaging: It has been calculated that Santa’s team…
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#2 Onion Post of 2006
Al Gore exposed!…
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Government leavin’ the yout’ on the shelf
When I was a young lad in northern England, there was much distress as the Thatcher government swallowed the bitter pill and proceeded to shut…
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Model article
Excellent article from Ryan Meyer of the Center for Science, Policy and Outcomes at the University of Arizona on the inadequacies of models that…
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Just how widespread is misrepresentation in climate science?
Roger Pielke Jr has some strong words about a forthcoming paper that he feels misrepresents his work. Note that we’re not talking about an…
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Do as I say, not as I do
Interesting survey of the attitudes of British people towards the environment and their actions on the subject.
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Perhaps if the snowmobiles had been carved from walrus tusks?
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Another Stern Rebuke
Hal Varian of the University of California, Berkeley, joins the ranks of distinguished critics of the Stern Report: As these examples illustrate,…
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Did he really just say that?
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Affordable air travel? How dare you!
The UK government, which this week doubled air passenger duty to about $20 a flight in a sop to global warming alarmism, wants to go…
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Eco-censorship continued
Two interesting posts on Roger Pielke Jr’s excellent and open-minded Prometheus blog today speak to the subject of my recent…
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Stern Lectures
Sir Nicholas Stern, author of the wildly hyped and widely disparaged Stern Review on the economics of climate change, is leaving Her Majesty’s…
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So what’s stopping them?
The incoming leadership of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee are keen to use global warming as a stick to beat the Administration with…
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Miliband’s disingenuity
I should have drawn attention to this interesting phrasing in David Miliband’s enthusiasm for carbon rationing: “He said: ‘It is a way of pricing carbon…
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Scientists disprove Impressionism
The term “impressionism” was originally meant as an insult, alleging that painters such as Claude Monet merely slapped a few strokes of paint onto a…
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Black marketeers rejoice at UK government plan
The UK government is seriously thinking of introducing individual carbon rationing: Every citizen would be issued with a carbon “credit…
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Are you now or have you ever been a skeptic?
From this week’s Evans-Novak Political Report: Important Bush Administration officials are ready to leave the government rather than undergo two years of hell from Democratic…
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To Play the King
Prince Charles has decided his staff should bicycle everywhere and that he himself should practice what he preaches,…
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When in the course of human events…
Seemingly forgetting about a little thing called the Declaration of Independence, Albert Gore Jr., former Vice President of the United States of America has joined…
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Those clever Malthusians
There’s an op/ed in the New York Times today that essentially claims that Malthus was right and that Julian Simon just…
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Marketing principles involves having them
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Tony Bourdain: Recovering socialist
I’m a big fan of Tony Bourdain, but he describes himself as a socialist. At the same time, he clearly hates what the nanny state…
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Free to Choose on your Computer
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The Media Filter
Dr. Crippen, a doctor who has the misfortune to work in the British National Health Service, has an interesting story about the critical…
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Stern’s Critical Flaws
The Stern Review on the economics of climate change has come in for more criticism from experts in the field. Following Richard Tol, we…