Let Them Eat Carbon:
The Price of
Failing Climate Change Policies,
and How Governments and Big
Business Profit From Them
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Let Them Eat Carbon: The Price of Failing Climate Change Policies, and How Governments and Big Business Profit From Them (Paperback)
. Rather it's a very thoughtful and interesting take on the policy issues one that mostly assumes of a several degree rise in world temperature , exactly that which the British Government and the UN agree on the (IPPC predictions). It argues very compelling that even taking into account the policies designed to prevent this most of all but not exclusively in the UK and EU just do not make sense. His points include
-the supposed costs don't take enough account of time and mitigation even given the IPPC predictions
- That when balanced with the enormous economic cost of more expensive energy the costs of Climate Change look a lot less daunting.
-How terribly expensive the ways we're trying to reduce Carbon consumption are- the Uk goverment seems to give higher subsidies the more expensive the low carbon energy is!
- I thought particularly compelling that given how outside the EU , and to a large degree the UK there is so little attempts e , unilateralism is pointless 'high carbon' industry will just move to China or wherever
He also tackles a series of arguments in favour of the making carbon based energy expensive- his particularly convincing on how green jobs are a myth- any jobs created by more expensive 'green' energy will be outweighed by job losses.
At the same time he does so by and large in a fair mannered way sadly lacking on both sides of this very important area.
I would not suggest this book is perfect-for example I found Mr Sinclair's idea of sponsoring research 'alternatives' a lot less convincing than his powerful arguments against the policy status quo for example. Nonetheless this is an excellent book which i recommend to anyone interested in this issue whatever their stance from 'it's a hoax' to 'end the industrial revolution'.
come up with some uncomfortable challenges on how the UK government is spending our money in ways that other governments around the world are not.
Friday, 16 September 2011
This book offers a great insight into the increasingly important but poorly understood world of climate change policy. Anyone who wants to understand how they are affected, and what can be done about the gross failure and exorbitant cost of politicians attempts to curb greenhouse gas emissions, will find it invaluable. --Lord Lawson, author of An Appeal to Reason
"A terrifically well-researched, well-argued and persuasive exposition of the huge economic and personal costs of our current energy policy. Read it. And heed it. --Ruth Lea, Economic Adviser, Arbuthnot Banking Group; former Head of the Policy Unit, Institute of Directors
"A terrifically well-researched, well-argued and persuasive exposition of the huge economic and personal costs of our current energy policy. Read it. And heed it. --Ruth Lea, Economic Adviser, Arbuthnot Banking Group; former Head of the Policy Unit, Institute of Directors
This book offers a great insight into the increasingly important but poorly understood world of climate change policy. Anyone who wants to understand how they are affected, and what can be done about the gross failure and exorbitant cost of politicians attempts to curb greenhouse gas emissions, will find it invaluable. --Lord Lawson, author of An Appeal to Reason
"A terrifically well-researched, well-argued and persuasive exposition of the huge economic and personal costs of our current energy policy. Read it. And heed it. --Ruth Lea, Economic Adviser, Arbuthnot Banking Group; former Head of the Policy Unit, Institute of Directors
This book offers a great insight into the increasingly important but poorly understood world of climate change policy. Anyone who wants to understand how they are affected, and what can be done about the gross failure and exorbitant cost of politicians attempts to curb greenhouse gas emissions, will find it invaluable. --Lord Lawson, author of An Appeal to Reason
"A terrifically well-researched, well-argued and persuasive exposition of the huge economic and personal costs of our current energy policy. Read it. And heed it. --Ruth Lea, Economic Adviser, Arbuthnot Banking Group; former Head of the Policy Unit, Institute of Directors
This book offers a great insight into the increasingly important but poorly understood world of climate change policy. Anyone who wants to understand how they are affected, and what can be done about the gross failure and exorbitant cost of politicians attempts to curb greenhouse gas emissions, will find it invaluable. --Lord Lawson, author of An Appeal to Reason
Ordinary people are paying a ruinous price for the attempts politicians make to control greenhouse gas emissions. Climate change policies dramatically raise electricity bills; make it much more expensive to drive to work or fly on holiday; put manufacturing workers out of a job and sometimes even make your food more expensive. Climate change is big business. Much of the money so-called green policies cost us goes straight into the pockets of a bewildering range of special interests. Around the world companies are making billions out of the schemes governments have put in place saying they will curb global warming and protect us from the threat of climate change. There is little evidence that those policies are an efficient way to cut emissions. They simply do not represent good value, and the public are right to be sceptical. In Let Them Eat Carbon Matthew Sinclair looks at the myths perpetuated by the burgeoning climate change industry, examines the individual policies and the potentially disastrous targets being put into place by ambitious politicians, and proposes a more realistic alternative.
Interesting and challenging take on Climate Change Policies,19 Aug 2011
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Edmund -
about the Science of Artificial Global Warming and it is not the tub thumping Littlejohn style book the title may suggest
Why won't they listen?, 11 Sep 2011
Let Them Eat Carbon: The Price of Failing Climate Change Policies, and How Governments and Big Business Profit From Them (Paperback)
be informed, 10 Sep 2011
Let Them Eat Carbon: The Price of Failing Climate Change Policies, and How Governments and Big Business Profit From Them (Paperback)
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