Francesco Ramella
@ramella_f
Policy analyst @researchbridges | @istbrunoleoni | @iref_eu. Commentatore per @RepubblicaAF e @Tempi_it.
POLITICHE DEI TRASPORTI: SENSO COMUNE vs. BUON SENSO. 🧵 "Una delle idee oggi più diffuse e popolari in materia di investimenti nei trasporti è che la strada può venire alleggerita trasferendo una parte del traffico verso altri tipi di trasporto.
Cheaper train tickets typically mean higher subsidies from taxpayers, most of whom hardly ever travel on the railways. Artificially inflated demand then creates a pretext for expensive new capacity like HS2, ripping off taxpayers yet again. manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-m…
New from me: How China's clean energy manufacturing boom is helping reduce CO2 emissions overseas. In 2024, China’s exports of solar panels, batteries and electric vehicles are shaved 1% off global emissions outside of China.
NEW – Analysis: China’s clean-energy exports in 2024 alone will cut overseas CO2 by 1% | @laurimyllyvirta Read here: buff.ly/V7BVSsL
SSP5-8.5 featured in the FT today Irresistible momentum of bad science continues 🤓
"The world has never seen a government more radically libertarian than @JMilei's. But the amazing thing is not that it is working economically—Adam Smith would say, 'I told you so.' The true miracle is that Milei’s shock therapy is working politically."
In which me and @atrembath LARP as @PatrickTBrown31 to explain that the big new Nature study doesn't say what the authors or media say it does. What does it actually say?🧵 breakthroughjournal.org/p/will-climate…
Un altro anno. Un altro record per la produzione di cereali nel mondo.
Sorpresa: se si riducono i vincoli alla cementificazione i prezzi delle abitazioni diminuiscono. reason.com/2025/07/22/ren…
This is nonsense. Despite a six-billion-person increase in human population since 1920, the total number of weather-related deaths (not even on a per capita basis) have fallen by 96.2% over that period. Even though heat-related deaths have increased slightly since the 1990s,…
The climate crisis is laying waste to lives & livelihoods. We must drastically speed up the reduction of emissions & deliver on global promises: To double energy efficiency & triple renewables capacity by 2030. And to accelerate the transition away from fossil fuel.
“Consider what Milei has achieved in just a year and a half. When he was sworn in as president in December 2023, the Argentine economy was a seemingly incurable basket case. In 2023, its gross domestic product had shrunk by 1.6 percent, according to the International Monetary…
In simpler terms, for Japan to invest in the us it must get dollars. The only way to get dollars is to sell more goods and services to the us. Which Japan will do much to both countries benefit.
On the Japan so called deal (diktat?). Trump can win many fights, but one thing he cannot do is win fights against accounting identities. Trade deals, whatever they do, cannot, as claimed, simultaneously reduce the US current account deficit, and increase net capital flows to the…
La differenza tra precipitazioni estreme (in aumento) e alluvioni (non in aumento) spiegata bene. Follow the science (not the activists)! aei.org/articles/preci…
In most of the world day-to-day weather variations are still much larger than long-term global warming. As a result, both daily record highs and daily record lows remain common. However as the world warms, new daily record highs consistently far outnumber new daily record lows.
This!
As Argentina shows the power of smart free market policies, America's Democrat and Republican populists compete to drive up debt, spend like drunken sailiers, intimidate businesses, and block trade even with allies. What a world.
Scrive Francesco Giavazzi sul @corriere che "non si è ancora vista un'analisi indipendente dei benefici nel tempo del Ponte di Messina". Eppure, mi pareva di averne intravista una. lavoce.info/archives/10315…
"Make no mistake: the incredible progress in the reduction of overall deaths from disasters is one of the most incredible accomplishments of humanity... You probably haven’t heard much, if anything, about this very good news." rogerpielkejr.substack.com/p/human-progre…
☀️ Aggiornamento: confermati ZERO morti in eccesso in Italia per la recente ondata di calore, per i quali lo studio predittivo ripreso da tutti i giornali stimava 1.500-2.300 morti in più.
Nell'ultimo rapporto di @arpalombardia sulla qualità dell'aria a Milano si legge che è confermata "la tendenza ad avere concentrazioni BASSE per gli inquinanti primari tipici del traffico veicolare". Non esattamente quello che si legge sui giornali e si sente in tv.
There's already sufficient capacity on existing lines for the envisaged increase in rail freight (which may not occur). Even if extra capacity were needed, it would be insane to waste tens of billions on high-speed rail to achieve this modest aim. theguardian.com/business/2025/… #HS2
Negli Stati Uniti dal 1980 al 2023 la concentrazione media di biossido di azoto (inquinante che deriva prevalentemente dal traffico) è diminuita di 2/3. Senza alcuna restrizione all'uso dell'auto e solo grazie alla riduzione delle emissioni unitarie dei veicoli.
The zero-sum trap: the more people believe that wealth, status, and well-being are zero-sum, the more they back policies that make the world zero-sum. marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolu…