By Michael Kelly Next time you stand for 90 seconds filling your petrol tank, you might think of the enormity of what is happening, in energy terms. Chemical energy is entering your tank at a rate of typically 17 million Joules/second, or 17 megawatts—equivalent to… Read More »Electric Motors Versus Internal Combustion Engines
Guest essay by Eric Worrall According to CNBC India has just saved the world, by forcing everyone to accept the deletion of the centrepiece of COP26, replacing the “Phase Out” of coal with the much weaker phrase “Phase Down”. Countries strike deal at COP26 climate… Read More »COP26 Caves on Coal – “Phase Down” Rather than “Phase Out”
By John H. Cochrane limate policy is ultimately an economic question. How much does climate change hurt? How much do various policy ideas actually help, and what do they cost? You don’t have to argue with one line of the IPCC scientific reports to disagree… Read More »Climate Policy Should Pay More Attention to Climate Economics
By Rupert Darwall So far, the big message from the Glasgow climate conference is the role of finance in decarbonizing the global economy. It’s a dangerous development. In his speech to the twenty-sixth Conference of the Parties (COP26) last week, Britain’s Chancellor of the Exchequer,… Read More »Net Zero and Green Financial Repression
Paul Driessen COP-26, the twenty-sixth massive climate control “conference of parties,” goes live in Glasgow, Scotland on Halloween. That’s certainly appropriate since its primary purpose is to further terrify humanity to “take action” to prevent the “existential threat” of “manmade climate cataclysms.” Thousands of politicians and… Read More »Europe’s Energy Crisis Better Wake America Up