Robert Murphy | Friday October 19, 2018 at 10:08 AM PDT
A deeper look at the work of this year’s Nobel Prize in Economic Science recipient.
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Tag: Climate Change
Randy Simmons | Wednesday September 12, 2018 at 9:28 AM PDT
Before spending trillions of dollars to fight climate change, a little humility might be a good place to start.
Robert Murphy | Thursday July 13, 2017 at 4:00 PM PDT
Part 2 of 3 In a previous Beacon post, I explained that interventionists had often “moved the goalposts” in policy debates in which I’d participated. I specifically recounted an episode where Paul Krugman had moved the goalposts in a dispute over so-called fiscal austerity. In the present post, I’ll focus on an example from…
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Aaron Tao | Tuesday September 29, 2015 at 12:15 PM PDT
“We don’t want to ‘save the planet’ from human beings; we want to improve the planet for human beings.” —Alex Epstein I never thought I would encounter a book titled The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels. After all, in this day and age, it is the politically correct and fashionable trend for activists, media,…
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Sam Staley | Friday November 28, 2014 at 9:55 AM PST
Spoiler Alert: This blog post may contain clues to key plot points in the 2014 film Interstellar. One of the cornerstones of progressive political thought is that experts should be put in charge of public policy, using “scientific” management and “evidence-based” policy analysis to determine and implement social policy. Few areas of policy have…
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Mary Theroux | Wednesday July 9, 2014 at 9:12 AM PDT
From our friend Cal Beisner over at the Cornwall Alliance: What would you say if your child accused you of a thought crime, and turned you in to the thought police? Would you say it was ridiculous? Perhaps you would say, “There is no ‘thought crime’ in the United States.” Surely your children would…
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Mary Theroux | Monday July 1, 2013 at 12:31 PM PDT
The climate crisis is real, it’s here, and it’s time for absolute power for Obama! President Obama is set to expand his rule via Executive Order, last week outlining a series of climate proposals he plans to push through via executive action rather than working through Congress. His rationale for this further step to…
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David Theroux | Tuesday November 22, 2011 at 11:34 PM PST
As reported in The Guardian and elsewhere, a new batch of 5,000 emails (“FOIA2011”) has just been leaked that follow up on Climategate of 2009 and the more recent scandal of the BEST studies that further reveal the deliberate and coordinated efforts by key climate alarmist scientists to distort the scientific record in order…
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Mary Theroux | Tuesday September 7, 2010 at 6:00 PM PDT
It’s not news that “Global warming” has been morphed into “Climate change” as global temperatures have failed to rise as predicted by climate alarmists of the 1990s. But the quoted reaction by the head of the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) to the most recent investigation into the IPCC’s methodology is…
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David Theroux | Friday June 18, 2010 at 5:26 PM PDT
As reported by Lawrence Solomon in the Financial Post, prominent climate scientist/alarmist Mike Hulme has now admitted that: The UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change misled the press and public into believing that thousands of scientists backed its claims on manmade global warming, according to Mike Hulme, a prominent climate scientist and IPCC insider….
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