- Wagner on the Jevon's Paradox: "To get emissions down in the long run, there’s no escaping the (gasp) inconvenient truth that we must limit pollution directly—ideally though a declining cap on total emissions." He misses the point, since it's possible that lower emissions may come with a cost to something else we are trying to "save" (remember how biodisel leads to orangutan deaths?). I'd prefer honesty, i.e., "ideally through a declining cap in total consumption."
- Deidre McCloskey explains our current wealth as the result of "bourgeois dignity," a variation "greed is good" that meant it was ok to trade and profit and consume.
- "The Secret to Turning Consumers Green: It isn't financial incentives. It isn't more information. It's guilt."
- The economics of highway construction and maintenance.
- 2010 Climate BS of the year award (BS as in Bad Science) -- an excellent summary of ideological attempts to refute science with lies and innuendo (but not science).
07 January 2011
Anything but water
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RE: the 2010 BS awards
Can we give BS awards to the same climate scientists they are praising for the false claim that a single weather event is proof of global warming (see any major natural disaster this year and Joe Romm's blog)?
and:
following set of B.S.: “There has been no warming since 1998″
erm, isn't this completely accurate?
Instead of cap and trade schemes, I'd prefer a simpler, cheaper to administer without all the fraud, carbon tax. Too bad the politicians
won't go near the idea.
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