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7 September 2012
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There is a game, in the style of Trivial Pursuit, where one card reads something like:
‘Paul extinguished the flames by pouring champagne over them. That was efficient. Right or wrong...
19 June 2012
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Do you know that famous environmentalist who said:
‘Our Western industrialised civilisation has produced marvellous things, and it would be fantastic if we could carry on like this. Today...
10 February 2012
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Imagine your neighbour buys a car, a new model which has not been tested yet. Over the next few months, you realise that he has nothing but trouble with it. The car is unreliable, inefficient and...
6 October 2011
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A recent editorial in the New York Times entitled ‘End the Debt Limit’ calls for an end to the federal debt ceiling in the US and concludes that ‘The debt limit is not...
23 May 2011
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I am a Libertarian. I believe that market processes based on secure property rights and competitive ‘exit’ provide the best hope of discovering ‘solutions’ to the vast...
1 February 2011
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The recent Cancun climate change conference attracted much less media attention than last year’s event in Copenhagen. Green activists and some politicians, however, continue to press for...
6 January 2011
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After the failure even to reach an agreement through proper UN negotiating procedures at Copenhagen, expectations for the Cancun conference were so managed down that merely producing the ‘...
13 December 2010
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The claim that the Copenhagen climate change conference was not a total failure, which still enjoys currency in public debate about the Cancun conference, usually makes approving reference to the...
1 December 2010
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Nothing could be more different from the atmosphere of the Copenhagen climate change conference than the atmosphere in which the Cancun conference is being conducted. Last year’s hope of...
6 January 2010
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British households have received more than 180 million free or subsidised light bulbs in the last eighteen months from energy companies. Many if not most of these are lying idle, as the government...
31 December 2009
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● The IEA’s climate change debate, featuring Nigel Lawson and S. Fred Singer, is now online (videos)
● Mark Littlewood talks to Al Jazeera about the state of the UK...
1 December 2009
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Faced with ambitious climate change targets, the government has decided that nuclear power will play a leading role in supplying the UK’s future electricity needs. Ten new plants will be built...
25 November 2009
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The Climategate disclosures over the past few days, consisting of some thousand of emails between a small group of British and US climate scientists, suggest that global warming may...
13 November 2009
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The metaphor of ‘tearing down the Berlin Wall’ has come to be used in a quite inflationary way, and this phenomenon usually peaks around the 9th of November. At this time of the year,...
24 September 2009
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Earlier this month, President Sarkozy announced plans to introduce a carbon tax in France. The UK could follow suit. A widely applied new tax, justified on environmental grounds, could prove popular...
8 September 2009
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An interesting case is going through the courts at the moment. Its resolution could further expand Employment Tribunal jurisdiction at a time when almost 200,000 claims are being registered annually...
10 August 2009
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Aggregation is the ignis fatuus of modern modes of thought. Sums beguile. Averages bamboozle. Reality is found at the margins.
10 August 2009
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Aggregation is the ignis fatuus of modern modes of thought. Sums beguile. Averages bamboozle. Reality is found at the margins.
Take the government’s plans for wind-power to supply around 22%...
29 July 2009
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The government recently announced a series of measures designed to make Britain a low-carbon economy, including a large expansion of renewable energy (primarily wind), grants for better home...
6 June 2009
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● Kevin Dowd on moral hazard and the financial crisis (pdf)
● David Friedman sets out the problems of cap and trade
● Oliver Hartwich explains why big government is not so smart
● Mark Koyama...
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