This time it`s David Veksler , with a post on the main LvMI blog , with the title I`ve quoted above. Why is it that so many Mises commentators flee from reason and prefer a fever-pitched focus on strawmen when it comes to addressing environmental issues? I copy below my comments on the thread [note:...
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on Thu, Jun 26 2008
Filed under: Reisman, commons, enviros, geo-engineering, AGW, Enviro Derangement Syndrome, climate change, GAO, GHGs
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 Gunter concerning the relatively high snowfalls...
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on Mon, Feb 25 2008
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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, on a host of "environmental" issues...
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on Sat, Feb 23 2008
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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, ad hominem attacks over Austrian principles, rational...
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on Mon, Feb 18 2008
Filed under: climate, Reisman, mises, commons, Greenwald, Corrigan, Enviro Derangement Syndrome, Dolan, Austrian, Hayek