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Luboš Motl 2: The cool-headed overheat; to this "rational" scientist, I'm a freedom-hating hypercommunist Nazi who should be "jailed or executed"
It looks like Lubos woke up on the wrong side of bed. BELOW is the type of "rational", "dispassionate" response that my previous attempt at discourse with Luboš Motl has earned from that fan of Bret "Mass Neurosis"...
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TT's Lost in Tokyo
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TokyoTom
on Mon, Jul 7 2008
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commons
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Enviro Derangement Syndrome
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cognition
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climate change
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Bret Stephens
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Lubos Motl
On Human Nature
It is common for humans to be presented as being separate from and even antagonistic with nature. In particular, some radical environmentalists portray human beings as inherently waging war on mother nature, that our existance is intrinsically destructive...
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Brainpolice
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Brainpolice
on Wed, Jan 2 2008
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Ethics
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Determinism
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Philosophy
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Human Nature
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Praxeology
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Thomas Hobbes
Nick Kristof on politics: why we conclude that I'm right, and you're evil
Here's a very interesting piece by Kristof at the New York Times about the reactions of Obama and Clinton supporters, and introducing cognitive science studies of why more information often polarizes, rather than bringing people together . Divided...
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TokyoTom
on Thu, Apr 17 2008
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rent-seeking
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Enviro Derangement Syndrome
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cognition
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climate change
Thank you, Prof. Block, for feeding our confirmation biases
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...
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TokyoTom
on Mon, Feb 25 2008
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climate
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Reisman
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Corrigan
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Enviro Derangement Syndrome
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Dolan
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Block
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Hayek
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Richman
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Callahan
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confirmation bias
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freedom
Jim Hansen warns of slow-motion disaster and welcomes future public trials of fossil fuel CEOs for buying government delay
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...
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TokyoTom
on Thu, Jun 26 2008
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James Hansen
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adler
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Callahan
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fossil fuels
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George Will
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Peter Barnes
Why top demagogues (Jim Hansen, Florida Power, RAND, Exxon, AEI, Margo Thorning, major economists, George Will) prefer rebated carbon taxes
[Note to first-time readers: the title is tongue-in-cheek.] I have previously blogged on libertarian, non-state approaches to climate change ; allow me to use this post to pull together for diligent readers various recent sources of opinion and information...
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TokyoTom
on Fri, Jun 27 2008
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Mankiw
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Peter Barnes
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RAND
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Hayward
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Thoring
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Ken Green
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Exxon
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Pizer
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Shapiro
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AEI
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Royce
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Lakoff
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Lewis Hay
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Riddle
The Road Not Taken II: Austrians strive for a self-comforting irrelevancy on climate change, the greatest commons problem / rent-seeking game of our age
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TokyoTom
on Fri, Oct 30 2009
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Kinsella: climate change
Holiday joy: roasting "watermelons" on an open pyre!
[snark on] One of Sean Corrigan's threads brings us not only more information on handy Misesean definitions, but a path towards Yuletide joy. (For those of you who have not been reading them, Sean's columns and comment threads are truly gifts...
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TokyoTom
on Sun, Dec 16 2007
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"Climate Change, Evidence and Ideology"
Libertarian law prof. Jonathan Adler has a brief but interesting post up at the Volokh Conspiracy blog, explaining something of the internal conflict he faces in favoring limited government but acknowledging that it is likely that man is pushing the climate...
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TokyoTom
on Wed, Feb 6 2008
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Bruce Yandle on "no regrets", free-market approaches to climate change policy
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TokyoTom
on Fri, Apr 4 2008
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Antarctic cooling? Or WHY "The Antarctic Ain't Cooperating" [Updated]
[Significant update at bottom] I've decided to put up this little post in connection with Walter Block's recent post, http://blog.mises.org/archives/007828.asp , in order to avoid having my comment stuck in a spam filter (I've found that comments...
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TokyoTom
on Sun, Mar 2 2008
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Block
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ozone
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Antarctica
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climate change
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Pat Michaels
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British Antactic Survey
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fossil fuels
Stupid Arguments - RE: Immigration
Here's the first installment in my list of stupid arguments I've heard regarding government, law, economics, etc. I've talked to a number of people who say they have no problem with people immigrating to the U.S. in order to build a better...
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Ronorama
on Tue, Nov 6 2007
Almost levelled, West Virginia: Crooked justice allows mountain-top removal practices to freely injure homes and health
... with the federal government, state and union all firmly in the pocket of coal firms. This seems to be a classic case, on a huge scale, of the difficulties individual property owners and communities face when confronting clearly wrongful acts by large...
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TokyoTom
on Mon, Mar 3 2008
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mining
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mountaintop removal
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Appalachia
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statism
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power
Atheist Inanity
What do Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, and Gore Vidal all have in common? They're all atheists and I've never never seen anything by them in print where they say a nice thing about anyone. Bizarely enough, all the atheists I've ever...
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The Spirit of Liberty
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TigerofRobare
on Sun, Oct 7 2007
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Catholicism
Is self-ownership a misnomer?
If something is owned, then by definition there is something external to it that is doing the owning. Likewise, something that is owned is by definition something external to the agent that owns it. Taking this very basic point into account, does it really...
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Brainpolice
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Brainpolice
on Tue, Sep 16 2008
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