If the oil companies want to take the moral high ground, they must first acknowledge, not just the negative effects of their product, but also its enormous benefits to humans.
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Consumers and Not Bureaucrats Should Regulate Facebook and Google
Our economy depends on the continued forward march of technological progress. But with this growth come new problems and, inevitably, new regulation. We must ensure that this regulation does not stifle tomorrow’s innovations, whose details we cannot predict in...
Green New Deal: Fact versus Fiction
The Green New Deal’s goal is to move America to zero carbon emissions in 10 years.
The Nightmare Fairyland of the Green New Deal
House Resolution 109 “Recognizing the Duty of the Federal Government to Create a Green New Deal,” has a long list of sponsoring congresspersons who seem to be not much different from that child in the toy store.
The Case Against a Carbon Tax
Carbon taxes are nonobjective, they are coercive, and they are impediments to prosperity.
The Green New Deal, Not Climate Change, is an Existential Threat
The core idea of the Green New Deal, endorsed by virtually every Democratic Presidential candidate, is that the government should rapidly outlaw fossil fuel power and rapidly replace it with renewable power, mostly from solar and wind. This would be the most radical...
Fossil Fuels: The Greenest Energy
To make earth cleaner, greener and safer, which energy sources should humanity rely on?
Political Advocacy Disguised with Obscure Academic Jargon
What today’s academics write, and what journals treat as neutral science, tends to reinforce only one side of the political spectrum.
Break Up Government, Not Tech Companies
A Response to Elizabeth Warren’s Fascist Plan To Break Up Successful Tech Companies
Our Planet Is Not Fragile: Sorry AOC, The World Will Not End in 12 Years
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez claims that “the world is going to end in 12 years if we don’t address climate change.”
How To Be a Climate Thinker
Climate Change and the Power of Scaremongering
The New York Times and the scientists it cites in “U.S. Climate Report Warns of Damaged Environment and Shrinking Economy” (11/23/18), either do not understand simple mathematics, or rely on the ignorance of their readers to create a silly scaremongering headline over...
“Climate-Change Compensation” From Oil Companies Is Immoral
The values the oil companies provide far outweigh negative consequences of fossil fuel production.
The Power of Compounding and the Power of Scaremongering
The New York Times and the scientists it cites in “U.S. Climate Report Warns of Damaged Environment and Shrinking Economy”, either do not understand simple mathematics, or rely on the ignorance of their readers to create a silly scaremongering headline over an absurd statistic.
The Lame-Duck Carbon Tax Lob
A carbon tax with a realistic possibility of being signed into law, would not be the revenue-neutral, regulation-busting efficient solution that libertarian and conservative tax advocates desire. The political forces on the left want no part of an even nominally market-based solution.
There Are No Natural Resources
The human mind is the ultimate resource because it, and only it, creates all of the other economically valuable inputs that we call “resources.”
Social Media Bias II
When social media platforms only pick certain politically disfavored positions to add Wiki links to, they skew debate.
The Social Cost of Carbon: Considerations and Disagreements in Climate Economics
In performing cost-benefit analyses our government has a responsibility to present the fullest view to the public that is possible. In the context of climate change, that means exploring the social cost of carbon at a wide range of discount rates, on a diversity of time horizons, and showing both the domestic and the global consequences.
Social Media Trickery
I’m glad Twitter purges robots and Facebook bans posts that call for direct violence (that’s illegal, after all). But I worry when big media companies start policing content.
What is a ‘Rational’ Climate Policy?
Taking taxpayers’ money and allocating it to fighting climate change, the causes of which are complex, is not rational but irrational climate policy.
The D.C. Carbon Tax Comedy of Errors
What is critical, however, in rebutting the proposals is to parse the disparate, inchoate elements from one another, drawing attention to the ever-shifting justifications carbon tax advocates offer.
FCC Ends The Net Neutrality Attack on Internet Freedom
Regulating public utilities to be “neutral” has led to ever-escalating prices and poor service (think of postal services and roads), due to inefficient operations and the lack of incentives—competition—to lower costs and to improve service.
Wither Post-Carbon Economy?
Why are businesses not gearing up for the post-carbon economy?
The Solar Value Cliff: The Diminishing Value of Solar Power
“More solar penetration in places like California will lead to an outcome no one wants: a less reliable electricity grid.”
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