Archive for Climate Change
Bias in the Published Estimates of Social Cost of Carbon
This is a bit technical, but if you care about the climate change policy debate, you should try to get through it. I made it as easy as possible.
Read moreUsing Nordhaus’ Book Review to Outline Flaws in U.S. Carbon Tax Narrative
The more I study climate change economics, the more astounded I become at the chasm between reality and what has been sold to the American public. I give another example in my IER analysis of a recent book review by William Nordhaus. Here’s an excerpt: What is fascinating is that if you go to the […]
Read moreWhat Is Senator Whitehouse Smoking?
The best part of my new IER post is the title, but the content isn’t bad either. An excerpt: Internet enthusiasts are quite familiar with Godwin’s Law, which says that the longer an online argument continues, eventually someone will compare his opponent to Hitler. Well we have already had that for years in the debates […]
Read morePotpourri
==> David R. Henderson replies (or did he issue a rejoinder?) on the question of a stock market bubble. Let me clarify my position: I am saying it wouldn’t surprise me (and indeed would be a repeat of recent history) if the market crashed in the next few years, then the Fed blew up another […]
Read moreVox Runs a “Climate Denier” Piece
Yes I’m being tongue-in-cheek, but I’m also serious. Look at how David Roberts at Vox describes what these climate scientists are doing. The following are *his* words: Climate scientists, Geden says, feel pressure to provide the good news. They’re worried that if they don’t, if they come off as “alarmist” or hectoring, they will simply […]
Read moreUpcoming UN Paris Climate Meetings Open Up Gravy Train
My latest at IER. An excerpt: In this post I’ll focus specifically on the enormous wealth transfers from rich to poor countries that are being proposed in the draft—as high as annual transfers in excess of $100 billion from the United States alone, according to some of the language. To be sure, at this stage […]
Read moreUN Pushes for Global Bureaucracy to Allegedly Fight Climate Change
It’s fashionable among “respectable” libertarians and other small-government types to make fun of their more extreme brethren, especially when it comes to the United Nations. And yet the UN’s “Negotiating Text”–draft language containing options for the delegates who will meet in Paris in December–doesn’t need any wild imagination to appear sinister. We can just quote […]
Read moreTwo More on Climate Change Policy
==> At IER I have a response to Jerry Taylor. An excerpt: Again, I realize some readers may tire of reading two narcissists trading jabs on the Internet, but I walked through this particular aspect of the dispute in great detail because it’s crucial: Jerry Taylor has been assuring conservatives to trust him, that he […]
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