New IPCC economic models
An article from Forbes Magazine on the IPCC’s latest “socio-economic modelling” of emission and growth scenarios has attracted a lot of attention b...
Tag: emissions
Smoking and climate change
Malcolm Turnbull, in a recent speech invented a parable about a foolhardy smoker to illustrate his claim that contesting the views of the “best scien...
Treasury’s advocacy of a CO2 tax
One thing on which I agree with Julia Gillard is the poor quality of many journalists’ analysis of her proposals. But when you cram journalists with no...
Why shoot elephants?
It’s the most effective way to kill them. Any game-keeper will tell you that. Just as any economist will tell you that the most effective way to control o...
The “clean energy” hustle
Some aspects of the Prime Minister’s advocacy for her coal tax are, at best, misleading: a wedge for the much greater costs implied by the Labor/Greens agen...
When is “reform” not a reform?
No doubt Ms Gillard will assure us, next Sunday when she announces the coal tax she has agreed with the Greens and two “independents”, that this is a “reform...
It’s the politics (stupid)!
If history has rules, one must be that interest smothers concept (and eats its lunch). The political challenges of implementing any big, disruptive ...