TT`s Lost in Tokyo : climate

Duelling climate policy parables: in the face of RealClimate`s "tragedy of the commons", MasterResource`s Emperor has no clothes

TokyoTom — Tue, 26 May 2009 09:25:00 GMT

I`ve done a bit of blogging over the past few weeks regarding the "The tragedy of climate commons" post by climate scientist Gavin Schmidt and ensuing discussion at the RealClimate website. Schmidt wrote the post in response to the implied suggestion...(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)

Paul Krugman: "The only way we’re going to get action ... is if those who stand in the way of action come to be perceived as not just wrong but immoral."

TokyoTom — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 17:21:00 GMT

Paul Krugman reaches the above conclusion in his August 1 New York Time op-ed , which asks "Can This Planet Be Saved?" , while discussing the latest work by economists on the cost-benefit analsys of taking action to mitigate potential climate...(read more)

More carbon tax advocacy, this time from Jerry Taylor/Cato, in a piece criticizing Pickens' plan

TokyoTom — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 10:07:00 GMT

Jerry Taylor , a senior fellow at the Cato Institute , published a pithy criticism in last week's Financial Post of T. Boone Pickens' plan to get wind subsidies and other favors from Congress; said Taylor: "Virtually every claim made by T...(read more)

Marlo Lewis/CEI laughs at the ice sheets and Gore; Lloyd's and other insurers do not. Hmmm.

TokyoTom — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 08:54:00 GMT

Andy Revkin of the NYT recently posted at his "Dot Earth" blog an update by a scientist to the effect that apparently the increasing summer melt in Greenland is not markedly lubricating glacier flow . While this doesn't alter the fact that...(read more)

Jim Hansen warns of slow-motion disaster and welcomes future public trials of fossil fuel CEOs for buying government delay

TokyoTom — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 01:25:00 GMT

Prominent climatologist Dr. James Hansen , Director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies and Adjunct Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Columbia University, who has long been warning of the long-term consequences of man's...(read more)

The importance of being a drop in the climate bucket - Michael Pollan on personal responsibility

TokyoTom — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:39:00 GMT

The New York Times has dubbed its April 20 Magazine edition as "The Green Issue" . The subtitle? "Some Bold Steps to Make Your Carbon Footprint Smaller" . I've barely taken a look at the issue as a whole, but I have noticed that...(read more)

Bush - hoist by own petard - prepares global warming initiative

TokyoTom — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 19:47:00 GMT

More at the Washington Times: http://washingtontimes.com/article/20080414/NATION/676175489/1001 And at the Wall Street Journal's enviro blog: http://blogs.wsj.com/environmentalcapital/2008/04/14/green-bush-white-house-to-push-climate-package/?mod...(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)

Climate spin: Who changed "global warming" to "climate change"?

TokyoTom — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 03:08:00 GMT

Answer: It wasn't the enviros who changed the use of this term, but rather high-powered corporate lobbying interests and their allies in Bush government and the Republican party , spearheaded by leading Republican pollster/ spinmeister Frank Luntz...(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)

Thanks, Dr. Reisman; or, How I Learned to Hate Enviros and Love Tantrums

TokyoTom — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 19:49:00 GMT

In my recent post, " Escape from Reason: are Austrians conservatives, or neocons, on the environment? ", I noted two recent posts by George Reisman and Sean Corrigan and wondered whether a significant number of LvMI blog authors and commenters...(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)

Voluntary action on climate change: Wall Street's new "Carbon Principles"

TokyoTom — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 11:45:00 GMT

Voluntary action on climate change continues to grow. I'm not sure who noticed besides power project sponsors, financiers and regulators, but last week (on February 4) Citi, JPMorgan Chase and Morgan Stanley , three of the world’s leading financial...(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)