"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" carbon pricing - TT`s Lost in Tokyo

Jim Hansen on Freeman Dyson on climate change by TokyoTom

I received the following in an email from NASA climate scientist James Hansen (whom I`ve mentioned a number of times ), in connection with today`s New York Times Magazine article ( "The Civil Heretic" ) on Freeman Dyson , which is now making...

[Fixed] Exxon/Rex Tillerson: No longer willing to be "conservative" on climate risks, advocates carbon taxes and invests in carbon-lite tech by TokyoTom

Normal 0 0 2 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 [Somehow most of my excerpts of Tillerson`s speech weren`t included in my first try; there`re here this time.] It may still seem novel to some, but Exxon Mobil Corporation began throwing its weight...

Marlo Lewis/CEI at MasterResource: why a massive cap & trade program is much, much better than Jim Hansen's simple rebated carbon tax idea. Or not. by TokyoTom

Marlo Lewis of CEI has a rather schizophrenic post up at Rob Bradley 's MasterResource blog - one of my favorite "free market" fossil-fuel industry-funded sites (unlike the NRO's "Planet Gore", MasterResource actually allows...

Henry Payne/NRO and the Deal Not Taken: He's shocked, shocked that Dems won't end CAFE mileage standards by TokyoTom

Henry Payne (cartoonist at the Detroit News and commentator at NRO) has a interesting post up on Feb. 18 at NRO's enviro-bashing "Planet Gore" website: "Obama’s Washington Is the Enemy of Auto-Industry Reform ". In it, Payne...

Fat Tails Part Deux: cost-benefit analysis and climate change; Weitzman replies to Nordhaus by TokyoTom

[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...
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Let`s recreate the Paleocene! Giant snakes, "fat tails", cost-benefit analysis and climate change; Weitzman replies to Nordhaus by TokyoTom

Giant snakes? What could a few colossal bones found in Colombia have to do with us now? 1. A recent paper in Nature about the discovery of several specimens of a giant snake ("Titanoboa") that lived in Latin America 60 million years ago captured...
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Update from Rob Bradley: My BOOKS prove that I`m a free-marketer! (That`s why I`m free to boost fossil fuels and bash enviros on my blogs!) by TokyoTom

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...
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Rob Bradley cheers on coal, but are all those who want to better manage commons and environmental impacts "Malthusian" idiots, or only in the case of coal? by TokyoTom

Rob Bradley has a new post up at MasterResource , cheering on big (and now "clean") coal, which has apparently received assurances from the Obama administration - after being bad-mouthed by NASA scientist Jim Hansen , Steven Chu and Obama himself...
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Bob Murphy - fan of cost-benefit analysis (in the face of climate risks)! by TokyoTom

Austrian-leaning economist Bob Murphy , whose efforts last year to discount the work of Yale's William Nordhaus on how cost-benefit analysis merits current action on climate change I previously examined , is back with more, this time defending Nordhaus'...
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"Free market" Rob Bradley prefers to mock enviros rather than to make common cause by TokyoTom

Robert L. Bradley, Jr. is an energy expert (author, former speechwriter for Key Lay and director of public policy analysis at Enron, founder and CEO of Institute for Energy Research ) with libertarian leanings. But in a series of posts on climate issues...
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In the fight over climate policy, Jerry Taylor of Cato tries to stiffen the spines of the purist enviros (in order to limit the "Bootleggers") by TokyoTom

Jerry Taylor of Cato is one careful observer of the carbon follies who sees the handwriting on the wall for some type of carbon pricing system coming from the Congress during the Obama Administration. Strikingly, in an interesting post up at MasterResource...
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Bruce Bartlett: Conservatives should accept the need for more taxes, and focus on limiting the damage by TokyoTom

Bruce Bartlett , who worked in both the Reagan and Pappy Bush administrations and was a trenchant critic of the recent Bush administration, has a new article in the Politico that argues that conservatives should resign themselves to rising welfare costs...
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Libertarian law prof. Jonathan Adler warns of CO2 regulatory runaway train that Bush bequeathed to Obama; recommends rebated carbon taxes by TokyoTom

Libertarian law professor Jonathan H. Adler , of Case University, The Volokk Conspiracy law blog and NRO contributing editor, has a post up at NRO explaining why conservatives ought to be pushing for a "revenue-neutral carbon tax" as the best...
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[Update 2] Neocons, conservatives, libertarians and Exxon join Jim Hansen in calling for rebated carbon taxes in lieu of massive cap/trade rent-seeking and industrial planning by TokyoTom

[Update at bottom.] Neocons, conservatives, libertarians and Exxon`s Rex Tillerson have recently joined arch-warmer Jim Hansen in calling for rebated carbon taxes in lieu of massive cap/trade rent-seeking and industrial planning . I`ve blogged extensively...
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