12 hours ago by Ryan

It's a buyers market on that ice cap No matter what you believe about global warming science (or should I refer to it as climate change? The movement’s name mysteriously changed mid-stream.), or a government’s right or capability to intervene in a marketplace, I’m about to tell you why non-ideologic ...

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1 day ago by nicnewman

To say that political priorities need to be informed by economic analysis sounds pretty uncontentious. When Bjørn Lomborg used this approach in his 2001 book The Skeptical Environmentalist to examine environmental policy, he ignited a controversy which has raged around the world ever since. http://w ...

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8 days ago by GS

December 10, 2009 By Ben Eisen Policy Analyst Frontier Centre for Public Policy Ben Eisen TORONTO, ON, Dec. 10, 2009/ — Would you prefer to buy a new car for $30,000, or pay down your mortgage and make do with your “clunker”? As you shop for gifts this month, do you buy your loved one an expensive g ...

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12 days ago by JoeDuck

This is pretty funny, especially if you know the whole scoop. NOTE: Stewart correctly points out at the end that this does NOT debunk warming, it just “doesn’t look good”.

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20 days ago by Andrew

There’s been a lot of discussion lately about a series of emails among climate scientists that were released after some hackers got into the computer networks of a top university. The emails, some of which you can see here, show that many of these global warming scientists had doubts, possibly manip ...

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21 days ago by Daniel Dettling

Fnf Jahre ist es her, als eine Runde von Experten um den Dänen Björn Lomborg auf der Basis von Kosten-Nutzen Analysen nach Prioritäten fr die Lösung der wichtigsten Herausforderungen der Menschheit wie Hunger, Energie, AIDS und Umweltzerstörung suchte. Das Projekt nannte sich „Copenhagen Consensus“. ...

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32 days ago by Tim

I am currently enrolled in a course entitled, “Human Reproduction and Society,” a course in the Molecular and Cellular Biology offered at the University of Illinois where I am a senior in Economics. My performance has been well below how I have performed in other areas of my college education, much ...

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56 days ago by Ryan Young

Bjørn Lomborg, head of the Copenhagen Consensus, brings some much-needed common sense to the global warming debate. Reporting from Vanuatu, he finds that many of the locals haven’t even heard of global warming. Torethy Frank is one of them. She has other priorities, such as escaping crushing poverty ...

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76 days ago by Chief Blogger

There are some very good economic arguments for opposing the introduction of an ETS to ‘tackle’ climate change, assuming you accept that it is driven by human carbon dioxide emissions: The Australian surveyed the entire Liberal Party back bench. It is something the leadership team should have done a ...

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88 days ago by eyetalk

www.ted.com Given $50 billion to spend, which would you solve first, AIDS or global warming? Danish political scientist Bjorn Lomborg comes up with surprising answers. ... Bjorn Lomborg TED TEDTalks talks environment "global warming" political science economics priorities "Copenhagen Consensus" Rati ...

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