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My Talk on the Paris Climate Agreement

This mostly summarizes the articles I’ve posted here, but some of you might prefer to see me hamming it up.

Article on Climate “Insurance”

The title is the best part, but here’s an angle I haven’t stressed much: What people often overlook in the climate change policy debates is that the severe outcomes that occur in the computer simulations typically don’t kick in until many decades down the road. Even if governments “do nothing,” so long as they get […]

Potpourri

==> Oren Cass says climate alarmists are the real science deniers. ==> Excellent advice from Jordan Peterson for all of you super-intellectuals. ==> A lot of people have wondered if the mechanism by which expanded ACA (Medicaid) coverage has been correlated with mortality, is through opioid addiction. This guy thinks it’s a tenuous link. ==> […]

Three Times Interventionists Moved the Goal Posts

At the Independent Institute’s blog I have 3 posts up: One Two Three In the third installment, make sure you don’t miss how slippery Ezra Klein was. For example: Cass recently summarized the Oregon results for his readers by writing, “In a randomized trial in Oregon that gave some individuals Medicaid while leaving others […]

Clarifying Paris, Parts 1 and 2

The sequel to my post on the Paris Agreement is now up at IER. For your reference, here is Part 1 and now here is Part 2. In this latest article, I focus on the 2 degrees Celsius target, which is the centerpiece of the Paris Agreement. Some surprising stuff in here. For example: As […]

Potpourri

==> Ed Dolan replied to my recent IER post on Hayek. BTW, if you are knowledgeable and want to respond to Dolan, let me know and I can put you in touch with someone who might run it. I personally am moving on. ==> Somebody recently sent me this link, reminding me that some people […]

Potpourri

==> I push back against Ed Dolan’s claim that Hayek would probably have supported a carbon tax. ==> I had seen some people linking to this CNN story about the “Trump leaked sensitive information to the Russians” stuff. It is really unusual. I encourage you to click the link and read the story. It sounds […]

In Honor of the March for Science

I think the progressives really have no sense of self-awareness or irony. For years, a standard talking point among climate skeptics was that government funding made it very lucrative to exaggerate the possible influence of humans on global temperatures. Naturally, the “pro-science” community recoiled in horror at the very suggestion at such a crass motivation. […]