Posts tagged…Data
Climate ‘tipping’ points fall down
Thu, Feb 19 2009If you're alarmed by claims—sometimes from official sources—about CO2 from thawing permafrost or cataclysms caused by a slowing or reversal of the "Meridional Overturning Circulation", then relax!
It looks like neither one nor the other of these exotic risks stands up to scientific scrutiny.
Transparency as stimulus
Thu, Feb 19 2009
This is a great idea that the Rudd government should adopt.
"…The ‘American Recovery and Reinvestment Act,’ better known as our national Hail Mary stimulus bill, … also contains a measure promoting a less-noted type of economic infrastructure: government data. In the name of transparency, all the Fed’s stimulus-spending data will be posted at a new government site, Recovery.gov"Extract from Naive forecasts outperform IPCC Tue, Feb 17 2009
In a straightforward but important paper, Green, Armstrong and Soon demonstrate that there is no reason to develop elaborate 'forecasts' of temperature. The forecasts of the CGM models, they predict, will be no better over policy-relevant periods of 20, 50 or even 100 years than a naive forecast that assumes future temperatures will be the same as today's.
"Global mean temperatures were found…Aus exports at current prices
Mon, Dec 08 2008
Speaking of unsustainable trends …
Australian food trade barriers revealed
Wed, Aug 13 2008
The World Bank's World Trade Indicators (WTI) are a relatively new, but very powerful, way of describing global trade policies and regulations. Their simplified metrics help to reveal the 'big picture' that emerges from a blizzard of trade and tariff data collected by the UN and WTO. Their method is theoretically sound but—as always—has limits and perspectives that need some interpretive…
IMF Data Mapper
Sat, Feb 02 2008
Trade data sets are large and often difficult to interpret. Simplifying the data and showing policy-relevant relationships is important. The new IMF Data Mapper is a brilliant new on-line tool for doing just that
Click the thumbnail image to see an example map.
WTO Tariff Profiles
Tue, Jun 26 2007
A gazette of global tariff levels by country, product group, applied and bound. Just in time for the regrets over the demise of Doha
Inquit Database of SPS notifications
Tue, May 29 2007
here to open the IQ SPS database in a new window”
I’ve built a new database of WTO notifications of Sanitary and Phytosanitary measures, covering all measures notified to WTO from September 1999 to
April 2007May 2007. [UPDATE] The database contains some6,1706265 records [UPDATE] of which about 150 corrections. On average, governments are notifying about 75 new measures every month. The rapid…Design of a multilateral regime for emissions trading
Sat, Mar 10 2007
The most difficult questions about the management of climate change are not about taxes or trading but about the weakness of multilateral regimes. Their recent history should worry anyone who wants a global answer to a problem of managing a global commons.
In my submission to the Prime Minister’s Task Force on Emissions Trading I draw some lessons from the history of multilateral trade and…
Access to the Inquit Standards Database
Mon, Feb 19 2007
The Inquit database of SPS and TBT standards
is still availablehas been retired and replaced with new database of SPS measures (see this story). The data on SPS measures and TBT measures had a number of errors due, mostly, to the inconsistent way that Members filled out their notifications in the first few years of the WTO system. The new datbase is much more accurate, and links directly to the…Climate change concern
Tue, Feb 13 2007
The daily number of blog posts in last 12 months has quadrupled
WTO and Developing Countries
Sat, Feb 10 2007
here to open WTODC in a new window”
The World Trade Organization has commissioned Inquit to write a number of publications. One of the first—in 1999—was “WTO and Developing Countries”, which described the impact on Developing Country members of the Uruguay Round Agreements and the provisions that the agreements made specifically for development.
The hard-cover version of the book is now out of…
![Mean and maximum errors in a naive forecast of temperature 1850-2008 [Green et. al.]](http://www.inquit.com/images/uploads/NaiveForecast.gif)
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