Tilak Doshi

5 days ago | dailysceptic.org | Tilak Doshi

When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir? Paul Samuelson (commonly misattributed to John Maynard Keynes)The Financial Times’s ‘Monday Interview‘ of Lord Browne was headlined ‘Beyond BP: John Browne on the oil company’s green U-turn’. Aged 77 and now standing for the Chancellorship election at Cambridge university, it was his chance to reminisce over 40 years of career experience at BP, with 12 years as the company’s CEO.

1 week ago | dailysceptic.org | Tilak Doshi

A post on X on Wednesday played a hilarious excerpt from the comedy series of neurotic Jerry Seinfeld and his New York City friends. Seinfeld’s buddy Cosmo Kramer couldn’t stand the low-pressure showerheads mandated by the powers that be. X user @amuse – who boasts over 600,000 followers – remarked that “[i]t only took 29 years, but Jerry Seinfeld’s complaint about government-mandated, low-flow showerheads was finally taken seriously.

1 week ago | dailysceptic.org | Tilak Doshi

Politico reported last week that the European Commission wants to keep the 90% emissions-cutting 2040 target by changing how countries calculate their progress. The EU – reeling from the backlash to its costly green policies – is proposing purchasing international carbon credits to meet its 2040 target of cutting its carbon emissions by 90%.

2 weeks ago | dailysceptic.org | Tilak Doshi |Peter Coclanis

The United Kingdom has been in managed decline since 2008. The dismal performance of the British economy — characterised by slow growth, low productivity and stagnant wages — has been the subject of much analysis in recent years. The Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) has highlighted that the UK’s recovery from the 2008 financial crisis has been the slowest on record, even weaker than the recovery following the Great Depression in the 1930s and the early 1920s slump.

2 weeks ago | dailysceptic.org | Tilak Doshi

Bjørn Lomborg is one of the world’s foremost contributors to policy debates on climate change. A Danish political scientist, author and the President of the think tank Copenhagen Consensus Centre, he became internationally known for his best-selling book The Sceptical Environmentalist (2001). In 2004, he was listed as one of Time‘s 100 most influential people. A prolific author, Dr Lomborg has published several well-received books.