"He's a snake in the grass, I tell ya guys; he may look dumb but that's just a disguise; he's a mastermind in the ways of espionage." Charlie Daniels, "Uneasy Rider" Enviro Derangement Syndrome - TT`s Lost in Tokyo

Envirofascists at Heritage Foundation worry about China's environmental problems by TokyoTom

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...

Tom Friedman/NYT roots for freedom and property rights as ways to propel Chinese progress along the enviro Kuznets curve by TokyoTom

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...

Alarmists (scientists and the Bush administration) claim "climate change" is causing Western wildfires and stressing watersheds by TokyoTom

[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...

Up is Down: Irrational & unscientific (?) "Alarmists" dismiss senseless alarmist hype by TokyoTom

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"...

Luboš Motl 2: The cool-headed overheat; to this "rational" scientist, I'm a freedom-hating hypercommunist Nazi who should be "jailed or executed" by TokyoTom

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"...
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Luboš Motl 4: His considered plan to eliminate enviros: they should be treated like N*zis, so it may be necessary to kill millions (less if we get started soon!) by TokyoTom

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...
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[Update] Mind Games: Bret Stephens of The Wall Street Journal panders to "skeptics" by abjuring science and declaring himself an expert on "mass neurosis" by TokyoTom

[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...
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[Update] Another Clear Thinker at Mises warns us about "The vicious lie behind the global warming scare"!!! by TokyoTom

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...
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Food shortages: Ron Bailey takes up the cry, are Malthus and "Green fascism" on the march? by TokyoTom

" 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...
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Nick Kristof on politics: why we conclude that I'm right, and you're evil by TokyoTom

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...
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Thank you, Prof. Block, for feeding our confirmation biases by TokyoTom

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...
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Thanks, Dr. Reisman; or, How I Learned to Hate Enviros and Love Tantrums by TokyoTom

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...
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Escape from Reason: are Austrians conservatives, or neocons, on the environment? by TokyoTom

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...
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Not Climate Change Welfare, But Capitalism and Free Markets by TokyoTom

... 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...
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