Global Warming Economics Updates

Little Green Lies

jwalsh — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 05:43:04 -0700

The sweet notion that making a company environmentally friendly can be not just cost-effective but profitable is going up in smoke.

CEI comments on proposed New Jersey CO2 rule

jplichta — Mon, 17 Jan 2005 23:00:00 -0800

The proposed rule is a conceptual muddle. Logically, DEP cannot classify CO2 as an air contaminant unless it is prepared to apply the same designation to water vaporthe atmospheres main greenhouse gas. Presumably, DEP has no intention to cap steam from nuclear power plants, or evaporation from public green spaces, but it should be aware of the regulatory folly that its argument implicitly demands.

Climate change: Government and Canadian steel industry reach agreement

jplichta — Sun, 09 Jan 2005 23:00:00 -0800

The Government of Canada, the Government of Ontario and the Canadian Steel Producers Association today signed a Memorandum of Understanding to work together to address climate change.

Live Chat with Dr. David Henderson: IPCC emissions scenarios; 'Corporate social responsibility'

jplichta — Thu, 06 Jan 2005 23:00:00 -0800

Dr. David Henderson is currently a Visiting Professor at the Westminster Business School. He is a former chief economist of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). In 2003, Prof. Henderson, with co-author Ian Castles, issued a scathing critique of the future emissions scenarios propogated by the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). His book on so-called "corporate social responsibility," The Role of Business in the Modern World, was recently published in America.

Environmentalists surf tsunami tragedy

jplichta — Sun, 02 Jan 2005 23:00:00 -0800

Environmental activists are shamelessly trying to exploit last week's earthquake-tsunami catastrophe in hopes of advancing their global warming and anti-development agendas.

December 2004 global warming news

jplichta — Fri, 31 Dec 2004 23:00:00 -0800

November 2004 global warming news

jplichta — Tue, 30 Nov 2004 23:00:00 -0800

Cooler Heads Hill Briefing: Are the UN's global warming forecasts based on faulty economics?

jplichta — Thu, 18 Nov 2004 23:00:00 -0800

In 2001, the Third Assessment Report of the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) predicted that the global mean temperature would be between 2.5 and 10.4o higher by 2100. David Henderson and Ian Castles have produced a powerful critique of the economic assumptions used in the IPCCs scenarios.

Air Board's greenhouse rule: Raw deal for dealers

jplichta — Thu, 11 Nov 2004 23:00:00 -0800

On September 24, Californias Air Resources Board (CARB) adopted a plan to regulate greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from new cars and trucks starting in 2009. To sell cars in California, automakers will have to reduce fleet average GHG emissions by 22 percent in 2012 and 30 percent in 2016. CARBs rulemaking is a raw deal for auto dealers in California and any other state that mimics Californias plan.

No to Kyoto treaty

jplichta — Sun, 31 Oct 2004 23:00:00 -0800

CEI's Marlo Lewis' letter in USA Today.

October 2004 global warming news

jplichta — Sat, 30 Oct 2004 23:00:00 -0700

Cooler Heads newsletter, Oct 27 2004
Hockey stick is an "artifact of poor mathematics"
CO2 rise claim too much for alarmists
Epstein blames hurricanes on warming
Russian Parliame

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Chat transcript: Implications of new California auto emissions regulations

jplichta — Wed, 27 Oct 2004 23:00:00 -0700

Green has critiqued the new California auto-emission regulations for the Orange County Register. If you have any questions about the environmental, political, or economic ramifications of this move by California, this will be a very enlightening hour.

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IEA releases world energy outlook

jplichta — Tue, 26 Oct 2004 23:00:00 -0700

The latest edition of the International Energy Agencys World Energy Outlook, released in Paris on October 26, predicts that in the absence of changed policies or accelerated use of new technology world energy demand will increase by 59 percent from now to 2030. About 85 percent of that increase will be supplied by fossil fuels, and two-thirds of the new demand will come from the developing world, especially India and China.

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Niger turns to coal to save rainforest

jplichta — Tue, 26 Oct 2004 23:00:00 -0700

The sub-Sahelian state of Niger has seen authorities turn to promoting the use of coal in an effort to halt deforestation (Inter-Press Service, Oct. 20). Wood is the primary energy source in Niger, accounting for 95 percent of energy needs. This means that the country consumes two billion kilograms of firewood each year.

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Scientists push small carbon tax

jplichta — Tue, 26 Oct 2004 23:00:00 -0700

Venturing into economics once more, the journal Science published a study October 15 by two atmospheric scientists and one economist that called for a carbon tax of 5 cents per gallon, to be gradually increased over the next thirty years.

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British price rises reveal premium aspect of renewables

jplichta — Tue, 26 Oct 2004 23:00:00 -0700

Environmentally-conscious electricity consumers in the United Kingdom have been surprised to see their bills going up by 10 percent as a result of rising oil and gas prices. The price rises have been condemned as profiteering by the opposition Conservative Party (a believer in global warming alarmism). Energy spokesman Laurence Roberston told the Times (Oct. 17), It is unbelievable. It sounds a bit of a con to me.

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EU adopts 'imperial preference'

jplichta — Sun, 24 Oct 2004 23:00:00 -0700

Commissioner Pascal Lamys announcement on 20 October that lesser developed countries that implement the European agenda of the Kyoto protocol and other international treaties on the environment will be paid off with a lighter tariff burden amounts to the EUs final repudiation of the results of the World Summit on Sustainable Development held in Johnannesburg in 2002.

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Activists, not global warming, a third-world threat

jplichta — Thu, 21 Oct 2004 23:00:00 -0700

A coalition of environmental activists called this week for rich countries to do more to control global warming and to help poor nations cope with the alleged effects of climate change.

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Kyoto is unfair to U.S.

jplichta — Wed, 20 Oct 2004 23:00:00 -0700

In July 1997, the Senate voted 95-0 for a resolution opposing any international treaty that would damage the economy by restricting energy usage, raising the cost of fuels for transportation, heating and electricity.

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EPA official predicts federal regulation of greenhouse gas emissions

jplichta — Wed, 13 Oct 2004 23:00:00 -0700

CEI Calls for Firing of Assistant Administrator Holmstead

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