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...
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TokyoTom
on Thu, Sep 4 2008
Filed under: AGW, carbon pricing, lomborg, Richard Tol, climate change, Yohe, Copenhagen
A few days ago I concluded that Jim Manz i’s lead essay in Cato Unbound's new climate issue exhibited rather weak “libertariarian sinews” . Allow me to note a few additional remarks on Manzi`s arguments. 1. It's clear from Manzi's essay that (i) he is actually quite concerned...
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on Fri, Aug 22 2008
Filed under: AGW, carbon pricing, climate change, Weitzman, Cato, Manzi, Joe Romm
[UPDATE: See my follow-up post .] Cato Unbound's new climate issue features a lead essay by Jim Manzi , who is an MIT- and Wharton-trained statistician and CEO of Applied Predictive Technologies (which uses pattern recognition and optimization models for sales and marketing). Manzi is a newcomer...
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on Mon, Aug 18 2008
Filed under: AGW, carbon pricing, climate change, Weitzman, Nordhaus, risk, Manzi
Thomas Friedman has an op-ed at the New York Times that describes some of Denmark's energy taxation and alternative energy policies . No doubt these policies created distortions and in some ways left Denmark less wealthy than if such policies had not been adopted - particularly as high energy prices...