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I`ve done a bit of blogging over the past few weeks regarding the "The tragedy of climate commons" post by climate scientist Gavin Schmidt and ensuing discussion at the RealClimate website. Schmidt wrote the post in response to the implied suggestion by Chip Knappenberger at the MasterResource...
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More from the National Review 's "Planet Gore" corner . My reaction? While we do need investments in power transmission infrastructure , do it with your own money, T. Boone . While I, along with many others, could support a rebated carbon tax that would spur investments in energy efficiency...
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Paul Krugman reaches the above conclusion in his August 1 New York Time op-ed , which asks "Can This Planet Be Saved?" , while discussing the latest work by economists on the cost-benefit analsys of taking action to mitigate potential climate risks - this time by Harvard`s Marty Weitzman ,...
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Jerry Taylor , a senior fellow at the Cato Institute , published a pithy criticism in last week's Financial Post of T. Boone Pickens' plan to get wind subsidies and other favors from Congress; said Taylor: "Virtually every claim made by T. Boone Pickens to justify the lavish subsidies he...
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Andy Revkin of the NYT recently posted at his "Dot Earth" blog an update by a scientist to the effect that apparently the increasing summer melt in Greenland is not markedly lubricating glacier flow . While this doesn't alter the fact that the Greenland melt (and outlet glaciers)continues...
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Prominent climatologist Dr. James Hansen , Director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies and Adjunct Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Columbia University, who has long been warning of the long-term consequences of man's essentially uncontrolled experiment with the world's...
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The New York Times has dubbed its April 20 Magazine edition as "The Green Issue" . The subtitle? "Some Bold Steps to Make Your Carbon Footprint Smaller" . I've barely taken a look at the issue as a whole, but I have noticed that Michael Pollan , in a piece entitled Why Bother...
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More at the Washington Times: http://washingtontimes.com/article/20080414/NATION/676175489/1001 And at the Wall Street Journal's enviro blog: http://blogs.wsj.com/environmentalcapital/2008/04/14/green-bush-white-house-to-push-climate-package/?mod=WSJBlog And, finally, at a press briefing at the White...
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Here are rather exhaustive lists of the skeptics' arguments on science grounds, along with brief analyses and links to underlying publications: Coby Beck: How to talk to Global Warming Skeptic Brian Angliss A Thorough Debunking New Scientist: Climate...
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There is a new climate change lawsuit in US courts, this time by the Inuit inhabitants of an Alaskan village that will soon be rendered uninhabitable by the rapid erosion resulting from the year-round pounding of seas that were once frozen; the villagers are blaming man-made climate change and suing...
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Answer: It wasn't the enviros who changed the use of this term, but rather high-powered corporate lobbying interests and their allies in Bush government and the Republican party , spearheaded by leading Republican pollster/ spinmeister Frank Luntz , who in 2002 pushed Republicans to move the public...
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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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Filed under: climate, Reisman, Corrigan, Enviro Derangement Syndrome, Dolan, Block, Hayek, Richman, Callahan, confirmation bias, freedom
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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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Voluntary action on climate change continues to grow. I'm not sure who noticed besides power project sponsors, financiers and regulators, but last week (on February 4) Citi, JPMorgan Chase and Morgan Stanley , three of the world’s leading financial institutions, announced the formation and release...