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

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 even greater damage." Why is this single jury...

Posted to TT`s Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Thu, Sep 11 2008
Filed under: cordato, AGW, Ron Bailey, adler, Dolan, Block, climate change, Iain Murray, rothbard, bratland

[Update:] The 1979 JASON and Charney Reports

[ 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 the JASON report online, but report some available...

Posted to TT`s Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Mon, Sep 8 2008
Filed under: AGW, climate change, JASON report, Oreskes, Charney report

That danged hockey stick makes another appearance

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 Mann's initial work, the National Academy of Sciences...

Posted to TT`s Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Mon, Sep 8 2008
Filed under: AGW, mcintyre, mckitrick, climate change, hockey stick, Mann

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

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 Gary Yohe . Lomborg has stirred up discussions of...

Posted to TT`s Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Thu, Sep 4 2008
Filed under: AGW, carbon pricing, lomborg, Richard Tol, climate change, Yohe, Copenhagen

Re: Hermann Goering on Anthropogenic Global Warming

hjmaiere: People are interested in anthropogenic global warming because they subconsciously want it to be true . So they tell each other scary campfire stories, skillfully embellishing them with scientific jargon, nodding their heads in reassuring tribal consensus that something can and must be done...

Posted to Political Theory by TokyoTom on Wed, Apr 23 2008

Re: Hermann Goering on Anthropogenic Global Warming

hjmaiere : "anthropogenic global warming is a manufactured issue, selected specifically for its ability to slough off `libertarian approaches.`" While I respect your suspicions (as I have repeatedly acknowledged, unfortunately with a big government politics is now full of rent-seeking), this...

Posted to Political Theory by TokyoTom on Sun, Apr 20 2008

Re: Hermann Goering on Anthropogenic Global Warming

Juan , I`m having difficulty continuing to find motivation to respond further in the face of your obtuseness, hostility and zero-sum approach to discussion. Even when we agree, you find a reason to crow and to question my good faith. You appear to not be remotely familiar with Austrian views on "environmental"...

Posted to Political Theory by TokyoTom on Sun, Apr 13 2008

Re: Hermann Goering on Anthropogenic Global Warming

hjmaiere: Thanks for the more in-depth history of the war. Again, I largely agree with you as to the culpability other others for our imperial behavior - extending a long way back. But distinctions are still in order. It is the current crew who are responsible for invasion and ongoing bloodbath, and...

Posted to Political Theory by TokyoTom on Sun, Apr 13 2008