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Or a frightful thought - corporations cooperating with greenies to advance shared goals? By sharing patents for free in order to clean up the environment and limit environmental footprints, are corporations being co-opted by socialists? What corporations in their right minds would do such a thing - give...
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The bleeding-heart liberal do-gooders! Puzzlingly, this Heritage Foundation essay completely fails to mention the predominant role of the state and the lack of property rights in generating the problem. They make Tom Friedman seem like the real advocate of freedom . [Snark alert: high]
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Here's the money quote from Tom Friedman 's interesting op-ed at the Sunday New York Times : " The problem for the ruling Communist Party is this: China can’t have a greener society without empowering citizens to become watchdogs and allowing them to sue local businesses and governments...
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[Warning: Snarky. Sorry, but as I got going I couldn`t resist.] 1. As I noted on several Mises wildfire threads last year , a 2006 study showed that the wildfire season in the West has increased on average by 78 days over the past three decades (1987-2003 vs. 1970-1986), with the average total area burned...
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Yes, NF3 (nitrogen trifluoride) is a potent GHG. But its use in electronics manufacturing does NOT make a significant AGW contribution, much less one greater than coal. More at Rabbet Run and Real Climate . Alarmists being ... reasonable? While the "reasonable" are being alarmist ? Maybe the...
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It looks like Lubos woke up on the wrong side of bed. BELOW is the type of "rational", "dispassionate" response that my previous attempt at discourse with Luboš Motl has earned from that fan of Bret "Mass Neurosis" Stephens . Just who is "sick-souled", anyway...
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As noted on the prior thread , in a recent blog post, scientist Lubos Motl concluded that there " literally pandemics " of people writing stuff on global warming, and that is "simply ... no other help for the people who are writing most of the stuff" but " euthanasia " and...
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[Update: For an ongoing case study of the startling irrationality and "sick souls" of some of the "skeptics", see my related discussions with the physicist Lubos Motl: [Update] Mind Games/Luboš Motl: how an absence of functioning markets means that I'm right, but you're...
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This time it`s David Veksler , with a post on the main LvMI blog , with the title I`ve quoted above. Why is it that so many Mises commentators flee from reason and prefer a fever-pitched focus on strawmen when it comes to addressing environmental issues? I copy below my comments on the thread [note:...
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" You have been warned: green fascism could soon be on the march. " So does libertarian Ron Bailey , science correspondent for Reason magazine, take up the alarm raised by Fred Pearce of New Scientist , who believes that enviros will point to the ongoing wave of food shortages to argue that...
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Here's a very interesting piece by Kristof at the New York Times about the reactions of Obama and Clinton supporters, and introducing cognitive science studies of why more information often polarizes, rather than bringing people together . Divided They Fall Simply, we are cognitively wired as tribal...
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Walter Block of Loyola University has graced the main LvMI blog with a rare post, this time a clipping - without commentary - from a piece entitled " Forget global warming: Welcome to the new Ice Age ", by Canadian conservative commentator Lorne Gunter concerning the relatively high snowfalls...
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In my recent post, " Escape from Reason: are Austrians conservatives, or neocons, on the environment? ", I noted two recent posts by George Reisman and Sean Corrigan and wondered whether a significant number of LvMI blog authors and commenters, on a host of "environmental" issues...
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In their more considerate writings, Austrians have counseled a cool, rational approach to environmental issues. But recent posts lead me to wonder whether a number of LvMI blog authors and commenters prefer hot-headed emotional outbursts and partisan, ad hominem attacks over Austrian principles, rational...
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... is what poor countries need. So corrrectly argues Keith Lockitch of the Ayn Rand Institute , in a new article that responds to the agreement, by the delegates of industrialized nations at the December climate change conference in Bali, to activate an “adaptation fund” that would help...