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Texas faces gas attack

If you live in Texas, you’ll have heard about how the coal-based energy utilities want to build a lot of new power plants to meet…

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Fun with Numbers Part 3

Well, it turns out that the report on which I based my previous two posts on IPCC temperature projections was hideously garbled. The reporter had…

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Roberts explains it all

For those who have been tempted by the attractions of Pigovian taxes, Russell Roberts provides a cogent explanation of why Coasean theory suggests that…

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More fun with numbers

I wrote earlier about how the IPCC has quietly changed its definition of its projected temperature rises to include all pre-industrial warming, not just…

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Politicizing the politicization of science

A new report from the Union of Concerned Scientists finds “unacceptably large numbers of federal climate scientists [have] personally experienced instances of [political] interference…

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How to Bury the Lede

Are you an aspiring journalist for Reuters? If so, you need to know how to “bury the lede,” which is insider journo-talk for ignoring the…

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Piggies going to market

There is a respectable, if (we feel) incorrect, case to be made for the idea of raising taxes to lower demand for an activity or…

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North v South 2.0

We often hear that global warming is a global problem that requires a global solution. The developing world, on the other hand, wants none…

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Dependent on whom?

Senator Inhofe makes some very pertinent and often ignored points in his Human Events article today: The fact of the matter is that the…

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Stern vs Science

Some revealing quotations in an excellent BBC Radio investigation into the Stern Report: The IPCC is not going to talk about tipping points; it’s…

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Goldilocks and Osama

Climate Change seen fanning conflict and terrorism runs the Reuters headline. The premise is that people will fight over resources made scarcer by global…

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Development by Market

June Arunga and Billy Kahora of the International Policy Network have a new paper out about the cellphone revolution in Kenya. The tale is…

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The Third Way: Officialdom

In a nice display of bipartisanship, Iain Dale has a post quoting Britain’s former Labour party Home Secretary David Blunkett approvingly. Blunkett says: “…The…

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Out of Energy

The President’s proposals for energy in the State of the Union address are wrong-headed. He proposes to put the boon in boondoggle by increasing the…

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Oil over bar the shouting

With oil prices currently at a 19-month low and heading back to $50 a barrel, this is an excellent discussion of the causes…

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Useful Jargon

Al Gore’s movie increases Informational and Reputational Cascades based on Availability bias… Hey, don’t complain to me, but to Oxford University’s Future of Humanity…

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Bad law breeds bad law

The scandal of the US ethanol program – a mandate, a subsidy and a trade barrier all rolled into one – is now having dire…

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As Lenin said about rope…

Our sophisticated friends, the Europeans, are desperate to do anything to meet their Kyoto targets, which they are currently speeding away from in the wrong…

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Bear-baiting

CEI Adjunct Fellow Steve Milloy has more on the polar bear issue in his weekly must-read FoxNews column: “Let’s keep in mind that polar…

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EU Honesty

Some remarkable statements about the EU’s greenhouse gas emissions performance in an official EU document by Eija-Riitta Korhola, Vice-Chair of Kokoomus (Finnish National Coalition…

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Awards Season

From Numberwatch, the Sixth Annual Numby Awards.  Readers will be glad to know every effort was made to preserve the planet’s delicate ecosystem: Once…

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Farewell to Frank

Frank Johnson, the Thatcherite journalist and wit, died recently at the tragically early age of 63. It has been a bad year for Thatcherites –…

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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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Did he really just say that?

Daniel Schrag, a Harvard climatologist, is disgusted at the way the democratic process handles his issue. So disgusted, in fact, he…

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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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Weighty Problem

As Brooke notes below, obesity has been tied to global warming.  One of the lessons obesity campaigners drew from that study was that losing weight…

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Talking of silicon…

Polysilicon is used to make two things: silicon chips and photovoltaic cells for solar power. The two industries have co-existed happily as the solar industry…

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Si vis pacem, para commercium

Don Boudreaux argues that trade promotes peace and that therefore protectionism as embraced by many anti-war types simply makes the world more dangerous: By…

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Hands Across the Sea

Donal Blaney of the Young Britons’ Foundation gave a speech at the recent ConservativeHome awards ceremony in London where he mentioned…

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Terminal Shortage

When government controls everything, it necessarily has to ration it, which leads to shortages. It’s probably a toss-up at the moment as to which is…

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Perverse Incentives

Government is often said to be bedeviled by “unintended consequences.” That doesn’t mean that the consequences cannot be foreseen. Two great examples…