1. Articles from Tim Worstall

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    1. The British Government Goes Stark Staring Mad Over Climate Change

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      The British Government Goes Stark Staring Mad Over Climate Change

      Christopher Booker highlights a decision in Parliament which is at the very best somewhat absurd: Last Tuesday something happened in the House of Commons so weird that it must be counted as one of the more terrifying episodes in the entire history of our Parliament. Towards the end of a seven-hour debate on its virtually incomprehensible, 200-page Energy Bill, the Government slipped in a new ...

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    2. Tim Cook Hires Lisa Jackson At Apple: It's All About The Bureaucracy

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      Tim Cook Hires Lisa Jackson At Apple: It's All About The Bureaucracy

      Tim Cook has announced that Apple will be hiring Lisa Jackson, the ex-EPA head, to work on their environmental programs. We could think that this means that Apple wants to take matters environmental more seriously. Which would be true in a way but perhaps not in the sense that most would take that. 

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      Mentions: Apple Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Bloom Energy

    3. The Wall Street Journal Is Wrong Here: Low Carbon Permit Prices Are Just Great

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      The Wall Street Journal Is Wrong Here: Low Carbon Permit Prices Are Just Great

      The Wall Street Journal tells us that the entire edifice of Europe's attempt at controlling carbon emissions has come tumbling down. They say this because the price of permits on the trading exchange has tumbled. But they seem to be unaware that low prices are just great, this is what we actually desire: One of the great policy bubbles of our times has been cap and trade for carbon emissions ...

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      Mentions: Europe Wall Street Journal

    4. The Joy Of Green Energy: The Lights Go Out In 2015

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      The Joy Of Green Energy: The Lights Go Out In 2015

      It's entirely possible to be convinced by the case about climate change and yet still believe that what we're doing about it is even worse than the original problem. It must be possible for that's the situation I find myself in. The latest little piece of news to underwrite this gloomy view is the news that the lights are likely to go out in my native UK, starting in only three year's time. Britain risks running out of energy generating capacity in the winter of 2015-16, according to the energy regulator Ofgem.

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    5. Apple Wrongfoots Greenpeace over Renewable Power for the iCloud

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      It’s only a month back that Greenpeace slammed Apple for using “dirty” coal fired electricity to power the iCloud data centre in Maiden, North Carolina. Apple has now come back with plans to power the entire site with renewables. One could say that they’ve done this because Greenpeace agitated for them to do so. But that would be very silly indeed because plans of this type do not get made in only a month. Sorry, but these sorts of engineering projects take much longer than that.

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      Mentions: Apple Greenpeace Bloom Energy

    6. Lying With Numbers: Green Energy Edition

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      Lying With Numbers: Green Energy Edition
      A nice little report out telling us that going green isn't in fact going to cost us anything. Which is indeed nice as just about everyone else would just love to clean up the planet, reduce pollution and not boil Gaia but we have this sneaking suspicion that the costs of doing so are going to be greater than the benefits. So to hear that it won't cost anything is just glorious: miraculous in fact.
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    7. Green Energy Economics in Action

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      Green Energy Economics in Action
      I know that politicians are required to have an odd view of th world: what else would provide the ego necessary to think that they and they alone have the answers to life's problems? But when politics meets the green (or even Green) understanding of economics we do end up with some really rather strange results: Households currently pay £89 a year on their bills for the green energy drive, but this will increase every year to reach £280 by 2020, according to the Government’s Department for Energy and Climate Change (DECC).
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      Mentions: Decc
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