Watts Up With That reports on a debate between Greenpeace and an actual climatologist.
The contenders are:
- Miguel Soto, Greenpeace Spain forests campaigner
- Joe Bastardi is one of the lead forecasters for AccuWeather
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New Scientist reports that global cooling is proof of global warming
Here is the article from the New Scientist. (H/T Ace of Spades via ECM)
Excerpt:
Forecasts of climate change are about to go seriously out of kilter. One of the world’s top climate modellers said Thursday we could be about to enter “one or even two decades during which temperatures cool.
“People will say this is global warming disappearing,” he told more than 1500 of the world’s top climate scientists gathering in Geneva at the UN’s World Climate Conference.
“I am not one of the sceptics,” insisted Mojib Latif of the Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences at Kiel University, Germany. “However, we have to ask the nasty questions ourselves or other people will do it.”
Rats! Now the lefties will have to find a new fake crisis to justify enslaving humanity.
MUST-LISTEN: Dr. Jennifer Roback Morse explains basic economics!
Wow, I thought that her earlier podcast on marriage and family was good.
This new podcast is a MUST for social-conservatives who nevertheless like big government, taxing the rich, public schools, and single-payer health care. I listened to this twice already, and it’s going to become one of my favorites for sure!
Topics:
- The study of economics is anti-postmodern – there is objective truth independent of what people think
- The study of economics believes in fixed principles of human nature
- Economics studies the allocation of scarce resources that have alternative uses
- Economics studies how people exchange resources
- How both people who engage in a voluntary trade always believe that they will be better off
- How both people who engage in a voluntary trade both benefit from the exchange
- How incentives motivate people to act
- Understanding supply and demand
- Understanding how “free” government services are rationed
- Understanding opportunity costs
- How prices signal producers to produce more or less, and consumers to buy or not buy
- Market-driven prices versus price controls
- The role of substitution
- The necessity of allowing failure in a free market
The requirements of economic growth:
- private property
- contracts
- the profit motive
- competition
- free trade
- entrepreneurship, creativity and innovation
- the rule of law
DOWNLOAD THE PODCAST. LISTEN TO THE PODCAST. REPEAT.
The Ruth Institute accepts donations. I sent her TWO already this year. She does on-campus events, just like William Lane Craig. If you want to have an impact on the university, she should be considered for funding.
You can find more economics lectures at the Acton Institute.
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