Category Environment
Economics and climatology: Why perfect markets are like a dishpan
Brian Ferguson at A Canadian Econoview makes an interesting point: Ever wonder why so many economists are sceptical about man-made global warming? It’s because we’ve had a lot of humbling experience with just how quickly large scale computer models can go very badly wrong. Remember when we had inflation and unemployment under control through Keynesian […]
The price of Kyoto
A voting majority of the House of Commons has passed a resolution calling upon the government to "honour the principles and targets of the Kyoto Protocol in their entirety". Now, we already know that Canada cannot and will not reach its target for greenhouse gas emissions. If we go by the – admittedly questionable – […]
We can’t get to Kyoto from here, and there’s no point in pretending that we can
All of the opposition parties in Ottawa say that they support the Kyoto accord, and they insist that any climate change policy must be aimed at achieving the Kyoto targets for greenhouse gas emissions. But this is simply not going to happen. There is no feasible way we can achieve the Kyoto targets.
Why does Luxembourg have such high levels of greenhouse gas emissions?
I don’t understand this at all. Tonnnes of CO2 equivalents per person in 1990: Luxembourg: 35.5 Australia: 25.7 US: 23.8 Canada: 21.5 In 2003: Australia: 26.1 Luxembourg: 24.9 Canada: 23.9 US: 23.4 I can understand why Canada, Australia and the US are in the top four. But Luxembourg?
The politics of climate change policy in Canada
Convincing Canadians of the need to make significant sacrifices in order to slow global warming was never going to be easy.
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