Tag results for: world issues
Opinion | ‘Net Zero’ Fails the Cost-Benefit Test
Nov. 29, 2023 12:52 pm ETWorld leaders are gathering in Dubai for another climate conference, which will no doubt yield heady promises along the lines of the 2015...
Opinion | Constance Gave Me My Life Back
A visiting nurse made the pandemic and my recovery bearable.
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Opinion | Congress’s Bipartisan Alfred E. Neuman Caucus
More than a half century ago, the economist Arthur Okun, reflecting on his years advising presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson, wrote that “on a number...
Opinion | To Slow Climate Change, Curb Methane First
Many environmentalists are understandably skeptical about a climate gathering that will be led by the chief executive of the United Arab Emirates’ national oil company. But the meeting,...
Opinion | The Earth Is Warming, but Is CO2 the Cause?
Norway’s government commits a no-no by letting statisticians pose the most inconvenient question about climate change.
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Opinion | Climate Change and ‘Poor’ South Korea
Climate change hurts the economy, according to a celebrated 2012 paper by economists Melissa Dell, Benjamin Jones and Benjamin Olken. That paper is in the top 1% of...
