ClaimsNouriel Roubini

“Paradoxically, dealing with climate change and bashing Big Oil has led now to a spike in fossil fuel prices, regardless of what’s happening in Ukraine.”

Nouriel Roubini, interviewee 3 January 2023 Storm Clouds Looming: Q&A With Nouriel Roubini (Global Finance Magazine)

Factual Economics and markets

Climate policy and pressure on Big Oil have led to a spike in fossil fuel prices regardless of events in Ukraine.

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Reasoning

The causal attribution that ignores Ukraine is a counterfactual that cannot be isolated.

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Nouriel Roubini, “Climate policy and pressure on Big Oil have led to a spike in fossil fuel prices regardless of events in Ukraine.” (said 3 January 2023). Verdict: unresolvable. Reliability API, claim c_8e45cddaf968, method 0.1.0+c876030c, dataset release v1.1.2. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_8e45cddaf968

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