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IPCC to Emphasize New Marketing Campaign

My latest at IER. An excerpt: As [the interventionists] themselves are now admitting, the actual situation is much more nuanced, showing that the critics had a point all along. Originally the case for government restrictions on carbon dioxide emissions was portrayed as a “no-brainer” akin to changing the oil in your car, but now the […]

New MLI Study on Carbon Tax Swap

Long-time readers have seen most of this before, but this is something I wrote for a Canadian outlet that was released today.

Focus on “Co-Benefits” Shows Flaw in Carbon Tax Case

My latest at IER. An excerpt: First of all, consider the title of the new IMF study: “How Much Carbon Pricing is in Countries’ Own Interests? The Critical Role of Co-Benefits.” I hope the reader’s Spidey Sense is tingling at this point. The IMF study’s entireraison d’étre is that without co-benefits—which we must remember, is a concept enjoying relatively recent attention […]

The Science Is Settled on the Threat of Man-Made Price Change

In a recent post I reproduced this funny excerpt from Cliff Asness’ thoughts on his 2010 open letter to Ben Bernanke warning of (price) inflation: At the risk of enraging a whole different group (I promise I’m not denying anything I’m just making an analogy, and one I know is very far from dead on) […]

A Carbon Tax Will Be Set By Politics, Not Science

In this latest IER post I walk through a blog from an enviro group in the Northwest, discussing revenue projections for Washington State if they impose a stiff carbon tax. My favorite part: I encourage the reader to look again at the part I’ve put in bold from Eberhard’s commentary. Notice that she didn’t write, […]

Would Milton Friedman Have Supported a Carbon Tax?

My sources say no. And one of them is Milton Friedman from 1999. (Thanks to Keshav–I think?–for digging that one up.)

Beware Smugness in the Name of Science

In the last hour I was assaulted by two wonderful examples of people misleading their audience while wearing the mantle of objective science. First, I was reading to my son from Max Tegmark’s book, The Mathematical Universe. Tegmark is a physicist at MIT so he is a smart guy. In the begining of the book […]

Using IPCC’s Own Numbers to Defeat UN Climate Policy Agenda

In honor of the summit in NYC, I used the latest IPCC report to show that a popular policy goal fails a global cost/benefit test. Now you know why they are moving the goalposts.