Topic: Environmentalism

That Fake Poll on the Green New Deal

– March 11, 2019

Given the way that they skewed their poll results toward the GND with biased and loaded questioning, it’s reasonable to ask whether their research output crossed the ethical line separating scholarship from politically motivated advocacy.

Environmentalism

How a Strong Private Sector Will Address Climate Change

– February 11, 2019

A world with a changing climate will desperately need a strong private sector.

Capitalism, Environmentalism

If You Are Warm Right Now, Thank Capitalism

– January 30, 2019

I am lucky to be alive. It would take me just a couple of hours to die from hypothermia if I were outside in such weather.

Environmentalism, Taxation

Why A Carbon Tax Won’t Work in the Real World

– January 18, 2019

Carbon taxes may sound like an efficiency improvement in the abstract, but their political implementation is a mess.

Environmentalism

Climate Change and the Power of Scaremongering

– January 14, 2019

The credulous manner in which cavalier economic predictions are made and the misuse of statistical methods makes me wonder at the level of care used in the other statistics cited in the global warming debate.

Energy, Environmentalism, Regulation

The Inconvenient Truth About the Green New Deal

– December 4, 2018

Nowhere has our public discourse failed us more egregiously than on the environment and climate change.

Capitalism, Environmentalism

Worried about Climate Change? Count Your Blessings!

– October 22, 2018

We have been liberated from the foulest and most lethal environmental hazards that cursed our pre-industrial ancestors.

Environmentalism, Free Markets, International, Property Rights

Nobel Roundup 2018

– October 10, 2018

Markets do not fail so much as courage and imaginations do.

Environmentalism

Let Consumers Combat Global Warming

– May 15, 2018

Despite capitalism’s track record of producing wealthier and enviromentally-conscious societies, decision makers across the globe keep insisting on anti-market and Malthusian-like measures as the best solutions to combat climate change.

Environmentalism

Canadian Documentary Pokes Holes in Global-Warming Mantra

– November 20, 2017

Robson claims that a historical overview of the geographical and weather conditions of the planet is enough to shake up the commonly accepted belief in man-made global warming.