"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" environment, climate - TT`s Lost in Tokyo

At Nature, Hysterical AGW Religious Nuts and Vile Collectivists Say Tropics Are Expanding! by TokyoTom

[Snark Alert!] A recent article in Nature Geoscience that shows that measurable climate change - this time the expansion of the tropics - is outpacing predictions. The actual article is abstracted here: http://www.nature.com/ngeo/journal/vaop/ncurrent...

GeoEngineering - More on How to Cool the Globe by TokyoTom

More on geo-engineering at the NYT by climate scientist Ken Caldeira: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/24/opinion/24caldiera.html?th&emc=th I will visit later the question of whether this is something that should be investigated.

Ron Paul on the environment and energy by TokyoTom

1. There is an excellent interview of Dr. Ron Paul now up at Grist, the environmental news and commentary site, that explores some of his views on environmental and energy issues. I am with him in principle but think he has underestimated the seriousness...

Ron Bailey of Reason congratulates Al Gore by TokyoTom

[updated] A great new post by libertarian Ron Bailey of Reason here: Congratulations to Al Gore But be wary of the man's proposed solutions for global warming. Ronald Bailey | October 12, 2007 http://www.reason.com/news/show/122960.html 1. Here are...

Boycott China and India? by TokyoTom

"Advanced democracies export their problems to emerging economies, thus shoving the whole problem neatly under the carpet. If the west really believed in being good global citizens we would (just for starters) refuse to trade with China and India...
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Using the State to solve common resource problems? by TokyoTom

How exactly do you transfer commons into private ownership in a fair way, even for easily divided up stuff like land? That's the trillion dollar question that someone asked me on a recent thread ( http://blog.mises.org/archives/007152.asp#comments...
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Libertarian denial; clever but not wise by TokyoTom

Man is clever but not wise ("homo sapiens" is a misnomer) and we remain very much a part of the ecosystems that we pretend to master even as we swamp them with the growing demands that our rapidly improving technology and burgeoning populations...
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Mises on fixing externalities by TokyoTom

"Not all externalities are crimes, and as long as CO2 does not make clear victims, it should be left as an externality for people to adapt to ...." In response to this statement on a recent thread ( http://blog.mises.org/archives/007152.asp#comments...
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Cordato summarizes Austrian environmentalism by TokyoTom

Roy Cordato has cogently summarized his views and the work of his Austrian colleagues here: http://mises.org/story/1760 . Thoughts on what this framework implies for modern issues are welcome. Below are some favorite excerpts, with emphasis added: "Austrian...
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Geo-Engineering - a pound of technocrats or an ounce of Gore? by TokyoTom

[update: see additional links at bottom - including to discussions of Austrian concerns] [update2: at bottom] Climate change skeptic Benny Peiser of the Liverpool John Moores University recently circulated these links and excerpts via his "CCNet"...
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Environmental Markets? Links to Austrians by TokyoTom

Here's a partial list of useful articles, alphabetically by author: Terry L. Anderson and J. Bishop Grewell Property Rights Solutions for the Global Commons: Bottom-Up or Top-Down? http://www.law.duke.edu/shell/cite.pl?10+Duke+Envtl.+L.+&+Pol'y...
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