TT`s Lost in Tokyo : Dolan

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)

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 damage and property rights: do Lockean principles require Western nations to compensate poorer ones?

TokyoTom — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 04:03:00 GMT

Dedicated libertarian law professor Jonathan Adler and longtime libertarian policy analyst Indur Goklany discuss the above issue at in a Roundtable entitled " Climate Change and Property Rights " hosted by Shikha Dalmia of the Reason Foundation...(read more)

[Update] Climate change lawsuits: Does the difficulty of proving causation mean there is no harm?

TokyoTom — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 11:39:00 GMT

There is a new climate change lawsuit in US courts, this time by the Inuit inhabitants of an Alaskan village that will soon be rendered uninhabitable by the rapid erosion resulting from the year-round pounding of seas that were once frozen; the villagers...(read more)

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

TokyoTom — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 05:34:00 GMT

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...(read more)

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

TokyoTom — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 02:27:00 GMT

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...(read more)

Edwin Dolan: applying the Lockean framework to climate change

TokyoTom — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 16:31:00 GMT

I would like to bring readers' attention to Edwin G. Dolan's "Science, Public Policy and Global Warming: Rethinking the Market Liberal Position" , from the Fall 2006 issue of The Cato Journal: www.cato.org/pubs/journal/cj26n3/cj26n3...(read more)

"Pay Your Air Share" - Libertarian think tank advocates carbon taxes!

TokyoTom — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 11:16:00 GMT

1. Check out the San Diego-based The Prometheus Institute , http://www.prometheusinstitute.net/ , which has just launched a new website calling for carbon taxes: http://www.payyourairshare.org/ . They propose that: A tax be levied on all major emitters...(read more)