TT`s Lost in Tokyo : Ron Bailey

Climate/Oceans: A brief reminder to Ron Bailey that, even though models aren`t always right, the atmosphere and oceans remain open-access commons

TokyoTom — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 10:24:00 GMT

Ron Bailey , science correspondent for ReasonOnline , on July 1 noted in a Hit & Run post that " Models Aren`t Always Right ". I left the following comment, which I copy here since I didn`t see it post: "Ron, of course models aren`t...(read more)

Searching for common ground: In which I provide a partial defense of Ron Bailey`s "invisible hand of population control" thesis

TokyoTom — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 11:41:00 GMT

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To Ron Bailey: yes, an "invisible hand" controls population, but property rights & rule of law are not universal and, as Mises noted, require effort

TokyoTom — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 07:03:00 GMT

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Food, water, agrotech & climate change: More "NeoMalthusian" charlatans, this time at National Geographic

TokyoTom — Wed, 20 May 2009 05:39:00 GMT

[note: my title has a bit of snark, designed to point out the emptiness of some anti-Enviro scare-mongering.] A reader of my previous post - regarding Ron Bailey `s review of the concerns that "famine-monger" Lester Brown recently wrote about...(read more)

Ron Bailey and the triumph of Reason? Neo-Mathusians and other "charlatans" exposed!

TokyoTom — Tue, 19 May 2009 08:50:00 GMT

Last year around this time I criticized Reason science correspondent Ron Bailey , for a rather empty post trumpteting dark warnings of "green fascism" in the wake of last year`s grain shortages. This year Ron is back, with a new post out ("...(read more)

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)

Ron Bailey/Reason: Gore's proposal to generate all power carbon-free in 10 years requires trillion$ on nukes

TokyoTom — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 10:47:00 GMT

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...(read more)

George Monbiot: Why do governments subsidize the rush by fishermen to destroy unowned ocean fisheries?

TokyoTom — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 17:59:00 GMT

In the context of the latest fuel strikes by European fishermen, George Monbiot has an excellent piece in the July 8th Guardian that explores the role of governments in subsidizing the destructive "tragedy of the commons" that is ocean fisheries...(read more)

[Mind Games:] Penn & Teller - "Bull****" artists - get ready to change their "skeptical" stance on climate change

TokyoTom — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 17:41:00 GMT

There's an interesting bit of arm-twisting, self-deception, defensiveness and reluctant position-shifting going on in the libertarian science skeptics crowd, and Penn and Teller seem to be letting the social pressure help clear their minds. At James...(read more)

Good stuff: Ron Bailey, Fred Smith and Lynne Kiesling debate climate change policy at Reason.org

TokyoTom — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 15:22:00 GMT

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...(read more)

More on deliberate cooling via geo-engineering

TokyoTom — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 07:38:00 GMT

See Ron Bailey's recent summary of developments about whether it may be possible to buy time on climate change with technological fixes. Libertarian Iain Murray supports government funding of geo-engineering approaches. See my previous posts for more...(read more)

Food shortages: Ron Bailey takes up the cry, are Malthus and "Green fascism" on the march?

TokyoTom — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 19:14:00 GMT

" You have been warned: green fascism could soon be on the march. " So does libertarian Ron Bailey , science correspondent for Reason magazine, take up the alarm raised by Fred Pearce of New Scientist , who believes that enviros will point to...(read more)

Reducing CO2 vs. expanding energy needs

TokyoTom — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 07:33:00 GMT

Ron Bailey of Reason , reporting from Bali, has an interesting post up summarizing the discussion by James Connaughton, director of President Bush's Council on Environmental Quality, on one small aspect of the climate conundrum, namely, what would...(read more)

Roy Spencer and his Christian "EcoFreako" rock band mock Al Gore's fever

TokyoTom — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 14:18:00 GMT

Further to my post on Al Gore's Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech, Dr. Roy Spencer , a prominent climate scientist/skeptic and lead guitarist in a contemporary Christian rock band at St. Mark's Lutheran Church in Huntsville, Alabama, has kindly...(read more)

Gore's Nobel Peace Prize speech quotes Churchill in slamming those “decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all powerful to be impotent.”

TokyoTom — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 04:49:00 GMT

[Update below - Roy Spencer's band plays "Earth Has a Fever"!] The speech is worth listening to, especially by those who are inclined to reject Gore's views on our changing climate, the challenges posed by human activities that affect...(read more)