"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" climate change, carbon pricing - TT`s Lost in Tokyo

More on Manzi/Cato on climate by TokyoTom

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...

Jim Manzi/Cato on climate: with flabby "libertariarian sinews", he advocates no panic, but domestic climate science and technology investments by TokyoTom

[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...

Friedman: Energy taxes have destroyed Denmark - not by TokyoTom

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...

Chris Horner/CEI: Confused or alarmist on Kuznets, China and climate? by TokyoTom

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...

Ron Bailey/Reason: Gore's proposal to generate all of our power carbon-free in 10 years is on the scale of our Iraq frolic by TokyoTom

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...
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Breaking the impasse on ANWR and OCS exploration and development Part II; a response to Bob Murphy by TokyoTom

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...
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Breaking the senseless impasse on ANWR and OCS exploration and development - a tax and rebate proposal by TokyoTom

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...
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Can Pigovian taxes be Coasean bargains? - The case of cｌimate negotiations by TokyoTom

David Zetland's libertarian-environmental blog, Aguanomics , has recently been carrying on some excellent discussions on resource and environmental economics, with interlocutors like Bob Murphy , Gene Callahan and others. In the context of two recent...
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Bob Murphy punts on whether "Cap and Trade" is a "market solution" by TokyoTom

In response to my comments last month to Bob Murphy 's June 4 blog post, Cap and Trade Is Not a "Market Solution" , Bob has kindly noted on the blog thread his intention not to let my comments on his post remain the last word: Just following...
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[Update] Mind Games/Luboš Motl: how an absence of functioning markets means that I'm right, but you're a delusional, neurotic "zealot" by TokyoTom

[Update below] My last piece (on Bret Stephen 's straight-faced but ridiculous dismissal in the WSJ of all concerns about climate change as a "sick-souled religion" and a "nonfalsifiable hypothesis, logically indistinguishable from...
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Lomborg's brilliant climate plan: leave GHG externalities alone and let governments spend 0.05% of GDP on picking winning low-carb technologies! by TokyoTom

The folly practically speaks for itself . Why does Bjorn Lomborg think that governments can better determine worthy investments than private firms? And that such investments should be borne by ordinary taxpayers rather than those who are generating the...
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Peabody Coal is VERY concerned about how Jim Hansen is "cheapening the dialogue" by TokyoTom

In response to Jim Hansen's recent expressed desire for "public trials" for fossil fuel executives if, despite being "aware of long-term consequences of continued business as usual," they continue their "campaigns" "to...
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George Will on why a carbon tax is much preferable to cap and trade by TokyoTom

The Warner-Lieberman bill has been withdrawn for consideration by Congress this year - and thank goodness. Why do I say that? A few weeks ago George Will published a column that explains very clearly why we are fortunate that this bill has been put on...
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Good stuff: Ron Bailey, Fred Smith and Lynne Kiesling debate climate change policy at Reason.org by TokyoTom

I highly recommend that readers view the debate (or the transcript) between the above participants that Reason held last October but has just given renewed prominence at Reasononline and in their July 2008 print edition. Ron Bailey is the Science Correspondent...
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