TT`s Lost in Tokyo : AGW

UK jury approves damage to power plant in defense of a commons/ other private property; libertarians and conservatives freak out

TokyoTom — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 01:32:00 GMT

See this surprising decision in the UK , letting climate-change protesters/trespassers off the hook for damages resulting from spray-painting a coal plant smokestack, on the grounds that a UK law "allows damage to be caused to property to prevent...(read more)

[Update:] The 1979 JASON and Charney Reports

TokyoTom — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 17:19:00 GMT

[ UPDATE: Unfortunately I've confused the 1979 JASON report with the Charney report that followed it (and referred to it) later that year. My bad! The Charney report is available online and is summarized in item 2 below; I could not find a copy of...(read more)

That danged hockey stick makes another appearance

TokyoTom — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 05:42:00 GMT

Hockey-stick artist Michael Mann is back, along with the rest of his team from Penn State’s Earth System Science Center, with his hockey stick, this time supported by more proxy data. Although McIntyre and McKitrick had some valid criticisms of...(read more)

Lomborg misapplies the "Copenhagen Consensus" to ignore carbon pricing and yet argue for massive government investments in clean energy

TokyoTom — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 05:10:00 GMT

I copy below comments I made on a related thread at Roger Pielke, Jr .'s Prometheus science policy blog, regarding recent duelling op-eds on climate change policy between the left-leaning Danish political scientist Bjørn Lomborg and economist...(read more)

Pickens, with "a mission" as a wind crusader, shakes John Kerry's hand

TokyoTom — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 06:09:00 GMT

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...(read more)

Solar vs. deserts; or how "public" ownership of resources produces zero-sum political fights over preferences

TokyoTom — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 07:54:00 GMT

Ron Bailey , Science Correspondent of Reason Online , reported recently "how some environmental groups are fighting the development of utility-scale solar power in the Mojave Desert." As I have posted elsewhere on the role our government plays...(read more)

Jim Manzi/Cato: Climate progressives?

TokyoTom — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 08:43:00 GMT

Jim Manzi has just posted the close-out essay in the online forum (at Cato Unbound ) that the Cato Institute has devoted recently to the issues of climate change risks and policy. I alerted readers to the Cato effort and provide comments here , here and...(read more)

More on Manzi/Cato on climate

TokyoTom — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 21:02:00 GMT

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...(read more)

Cato ... takes climate change seriously, and devotes latest online issue to it

TokyoTom — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 21:26:00 GMT

The Cato Institute has dedicated its entire current monthly issue of Cato Unbound , its online forum, to discussing policy responses to ongoing climate change. The issue, entitled " Keeping Our Cool: What to Do about Global Warming ", contains...(read more)

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

TokyoTom — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 13:56:00 GMT

[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...(read more)

Friedman: Energy taxes have destroyed Denmark - not

TokyoTom — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 17:26:00 GMT

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...(read more)

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

TokyoTom — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 12:52:00 GMT

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...(read more)

Open letter response to Gore's "Alliance for Climate Protection" proposed 10-year transition to "clean" power

TokyoTom — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 06:40:00 GMT

I received the following email today from Cathy Zoi , who is the CEO of Al Gore's "Alliance for Climate Protection" and sent back the response I note further below; Dear Tokyo, Last week, Exxon Mobil announced record profits -- at the same...(read more)

Op-ed by nuclear physicist on climate change: questions for "skeptics"

TokyoTom — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 16:28:00 GMT

John P. Holdren , an MIT and Stanford -trained nuclear physicist who is professor at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government and the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences and director of Harvard's Woods Hole Research Center , former President...(read more)

Climate change AND the Forest Service's perfect budgetary firestorm

TokyoTom — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 15:30:00 GMT

On a Mises blog thread last year , I noted: controlled burns might of course be useful in some places, especially along the WUI (wildland-urban interface), but Randal O`Toole at Cato has done a good job showing that generally fuel accumulation is not...(read more)