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Tom Woods Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Sidekick

In this episode of the Tom Woods Show, he interviews Cato climate scientist Chip Knappenberger. And in the latest Contra Krugman Tom tries to pull a Paul Simon on me. You go to Europe for a week and this is what happens.

Appeal to Scientism in the Climate Change Policy Debate

My latest at FEE. I think I have some funny lines in here that you haven’t seen before; this was not my usual piece. An example: The “statistical analysis” did not establish that the critics’ claims were false. It is undeniably true that the official NASA GISS records showed, for example, that the average annual […]

Krugman’s Climate Alarmism Is Juuuuust Right

My latest at IER. An excerpt: Again I point to the tightrope Krugman is walking here: He wants his readers to get on board, cheerleading these “green” power sources because they keep getting so efficient. Yet on the other hand, if the government doesn’t support them, everybody dies. How does that make any sense? If […]

World Doesn’t Need US “Leadership” on CO2 Emissions

My latest article at IER. A nice graphic:

Many Climate Economists Don’t Believe Climate Economic Models

My latest at IER. Some excerpts: As the numbers indicate, 59 percent—a solid majority—[of the 365 peer-reviewed climate economists] thought that climate change would be beneficial for the global economy at least through the year 2025. Moreover, 37 percent of the experts thought that climate change would be beneficial to the global economy until at least […]

CPI in 2015 Highest on Record: Inflation Deniers Beware

David Kreutzer, an economist at the Heritage Foundation, is one of my favorite guys in the climate change debate. (I invited him to the IER conference on carbon tax that I organized.) Today he sent me his recent article in the Daily Signal reacting to the NOAA report that 2015 was the second-hottest US year […]

Tom Woods and I Push Back on Krugman’s Climate Hysteria

I think I missed blogging this; Contra Krugman Episode 14. Incidentally with traveling and getting a bad cold, I have been behind. I will do Step #3 of my response to Beckworth soon…

On Paris Climate Deal (and Alleged Fate of Humanity), Show Your Work, Dr. Krugman

My latest post at IER. C’mon tell me this isn’t a good line: Notice the absurdity, and we’re still in Krugman’s first two paragraphs. The existence of humanity itself is allegedly on the line—Krugman wonders if there will even be future historians—and yet this Paris meeting won’t solve the problem. Isn’t it weird that a […]