[Summer|Winter]: watch out.
- OBAMA TO USE ADMINISTRATIVE AUTHORITY TO FIGHT CLIMATE CHANGE
- OBAMA TO INVEST IN TECHNOLOGY TO MAKE FOSSIL FUELS CLEANER
- OBAMA CLIMATE PLAN IS NOT A WAR ON COAL, MONIZ SAYS
Uh, will a sweating Steve Ballmer lead the first charge?
We have no idea what any of that means or what administrative authority Obama has to unilaterally declare war on, well, climate. But if Obama is taking on the unprecedented Arctic heat cold [6] and is about to usher in centrally-planned weather, we would be nervous if we were Syria. Very nervous.
And, as an amusing reminder,here is what happens "when Keynesian correlation becomes causation [7]"
Forget high unemployment, hyperinflationary central bank policies, competitive devaluations, and all those useless demographic and political factors that go into the Shoe Thrower’s Index [8]. In what can only be described as a moment of pure Keynesian genius, Paul Krugman concludes [9]that the primary reason for the surge in food riots is…global warming.
Perhaps he’s right. In order to put an end to these pesky riots and revolutions we should reduce our carbon footprint via extensive taxes on emissions (even though many scientists believe CO2 actually lags temperature change). Come to think of it, we should reduce all activities which are ‘positively correlated’ with a rising temperature anomaly, just to be on the safe side. And millions of public sector jobs would be created as new regulatory agencies would be needed, thus solving our structural unemployment issue.
Paul, meet the Keynesian Climate Model….
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…with a higher correlation than CO2 (chart concept Ira Glickstein [11])
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But the correlation between Keynesian policies and temperature anomalies is just a bit more impressive.