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On the heels of my post about Apple leaving the U.S. Chamber of Commerce , here are a few more links and excerpts for eager readers (who have been spared a longer post that vanished into the ether as pixie dust crashed Mozilla and my prior unsaved draft) (emphasis added). 1. The Chamber`s opaque policy...
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Filed under: carbon pricing, climate change, Exxon, chamber of commerce, Apple, Nike, Tom Donohue, USCAP, BICEP, CERES, NRDC
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Since I`m in Tokyo and deprived of Bob Murphy `s enviable access, via talk radio , to cutting-edge climate science, I thank him using his blog to bring it to the attention of his audience (which occasionally includes me). Says Bob (emphasis added): Chip Knappenberger explains the significance (and remaining...
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[Note: Although the giant snakes I mentioned in my preceding post may have fat tails, I didn't want my description of the discussion between Harvard`s Martin Weitzman and Yale`s William Nordhaus of the limits of cost-benefit analysis to be overlooked, so I have largely copied it below. I've added...
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I noted in a previous post that Rob Bradley , CEO of the Institute for Energy Research and lead blogger at MasterResource , has cheered on big coal and bashed what he calls "Malthusian anti-energy crusaders", but ignoring while he does so the questions of (1) whether there are any legitimate...
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Kudos to Robert P. Murphy for a new opinion piece dated Novermber 15 in Forbes.com regarding "The High Costs Of 'Green Recovery'" . The biographical note appended to the piece describes Bob as "a senior economist with the Institute for Energy Research , a nonprofit foundation that...
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In June, I made a number of comments to Bob Murphy in response to his blog post entitled, Cap and Trade Is Not a "Market Solution" ; Bob declined to respond at that time. One of my comments was that Bob (1) ... unfairly conclude that, since it will be government that will be implicitly pricing...
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More here . The signatories agreed to the following 10 principles: Canada needs to act on climate change now. Any substantive action will involve economic costs. These economic impacts cannot be an excuse for inaction. Pricing carbon is the best approach from an economic perspective. Pricing allows each...
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I copy below comments I made on a related thread at Roger Pielke, Jr .'s Prometheus science policy blog, regarding recent duelling op-eds on climate change policy between the left-leaning Danish political scientist Bjørn Lomborg and economist Gary Yohe . Lomborg has stirred up discussions...
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A few days ago I concluded that Jim Manz i’s lead essay in Cato Unbound's new climate issue exhibited rather weak “libertariarian sinews” . Allow me to note a few additional remarks on Manzi`s arguments. 1. It's clear from Manzi's essay that (i) he is actually quite concerned...
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[UPDATE: See my follow-up post .] Cato Unbound's new climate issue features a lead essay by Jim Manzi , who is an MIT- and Wharton-trained statistician and CEO of Applied Predictive Technologies (which uses pattern recognition and optimization models for sales and marketing). Manzi is a newcomer...
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Thomas Friedman has an op-ed at the New York Times that describes some of Denmark's energy taxation and alternative energy policies . No doubt these policies created distortions and in some ways left Denmark less wealthy than if such policies had not been adopted - particularly as high energy prices...
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The right-wing Business & Media Institute has published a rather confused piece by Chris Horner , senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute , in which Horner, while noting China's progress along the environmental Kuznets curve (as I discuss here ), prefers to wring his hands that...
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On July 17, Al Gore challenged our nation to produce " 100 percent of our electricity from renewable energy and truly carbon-free sources within 10 years ". Ron Bailey , science correspondent of Reason online , has examined whether Gore's proposal is at all practically achievable. Bailey...
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On the main Mises blog, Bob Murphy has just advocated opening ANWR and the OCS to oil and natural gas exploration and development , for the purpose of providing "rapid relief at the pump". As my comment has been held up - it only had two links for Pete's sake! - I've decided to post...
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It's long been obvious that: (1) government policy concerning the use of public lands is highly bureaucratized, often inept and subject to behind the scenes sweet deals favoring insiders; (2) discussions about how the public lands should be used often very politicized; (3) politicization is especially...