Archive for Climate Change
Climate Change Activists Move Goalposts Yet Again
My latest IER post. An excerpt: In the present post, I’ll walk through yet another example of this phenomenon, in this case a recent ThinkProgress article that complains that GDP (Gross Domestic Product) isn’t a good metric when it comes to the debate over climate change. As we’ll see, when confronted with very compelling arguments […]
Read moreThe GAO’s Whitewash on “Social Cost of Carbon”
I know some of you may be vaguely interested in the climate change policy debate, but you realize there’s a lot of reading to get up to speed you would have to decide which person is fudging the facts etc. If that’s you, I’ve got just the blog post you’ve been waiting for. In this […]
Read moreConservatives Shouldn’t Trust Irwin Stelzer on Carbon Tax
Irwin Stelzer is an establishment figure in conservative circles (he was editor of The Neocon Reader for example). He has been pushing conservatives to embrace a carbon tax, and recently had a piece in The Weekly Standard to that effect. I respond at IER. An excerpt: As Stelzer himself notes, many of the people clamoring […]
Read moreMore on “Risky Business”
Part 2 at IER of my commentary on “Risky Business,” the climate change analysis co-chaired by Michael Bloomberg, Hank Paulson, and Thomas Steyer. An excerpt: Thus we see the fundamental flip-flop: Rubin’s long quotation from page 44 can only make sense if the Report is urging a globally-coordinated government crackdown on carbon emissions. Yet on […]
Read moreMurphy vs. Hank Paulson on Climate Change
I am working on a post that gets into the specifics, but my first reaction to Henry Paulson et al.’s recent evangelism on climate change policy. An excerpt: In a sense, Henry Paulson actually is a great guy to be spearheading the movement to get the federal government heavily involved in the energy sector. He […]
Read moreTwo Posts on Climate Change Policies
My latest two points at IER concern climate change… ==> In this one, I use Paul Krugman as a springboard to explain why conservatives/libertarians should never agree to a “market-based” carbon tax deal. ==> In today’s post, I walk through the EPA’s own cost/benefit analysis of its proposed power plant regulations. An excerpt: If she […]
Read moreDeLong and Krugman Have a High Rate of Deprecation (sic)
We also would have accepted, “Why oh why can’t we have better Keynesian bloggers?!” This isn’t worth me writing up in another outlet, but I know some of you like this petty stuff… (I sure do.) ==> Some of you may remember that Krussell and Smith wrote up a Note on Piketty, explaining why his […]
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