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[Warning: Snarky. Sorry, but as I got going I couldn`t resist.] 1. As I noted on several Mises wildfire threads last year , a 2006 study showed that the wildfire season in the West has increased on average by 78 days over the past three decades (1987-2003 vs. 1970-1986), with the average total area burned...
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David Zetland's libertarian-environmental blog, Aguanomics , has recently been carrying on some excellent discussions on resource and environmental economics, with interlocutors like Bob Murphy , Gene Callahan and others. In the context of two recent posts on government approaches to climate change...
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Mon, Jul 14 2008
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Filed under: AGW, carbon pricing, Callahan, climate change, Nordhaus, Bob Murphy, David Zetland, Mankiw, Pigou, coase
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Yes, NF3 (nitrogen trifluoride) is a potent GHG. But its use in electronics manufacturing does NOT make a significant AGW contribution, much less one greater than coal. More at Rabbet Run and Real Climate . Alarmists being ... reasonable? While the "reasonable" are being alarmist ? Maybe the...
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I`m disappointed that my attempts at discourse with Lubos Motl have blown up. Lubos, a Czech physicist/climate science blogger who responded to my post on Bret Stephens` exegesis in the WSJ of the psychology of the cult-like "belief" by the rest of the world in the "nonfalsifiable hypothesis"...
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as this article in the July 7 NY Times shows. This is not at all surprising, as owners all have incentives to protect their property, and relatively small communities of people can work together well when needed. One can expect to see increasing sophistication in voluntary fire-fighting and in fire prevention...
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In response to my comments last month to Bob Murphy 's June 4 blog post, Cap and Trade Is Not a "Market Solution" , Bob has kindly noted on the blog thread his intention not to let my comments on his post remain the last word: Just following up on an old thread here: TokyoTom, I have to...
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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" Stephens . Just who is "sick-souled", anyway...
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[Update below] My last piece (on Bret Stephen 's straight-faced but ridiculous dismissal in the WSJ of all concerns about climate change as a "sick-souled religion" and a "nonfalsifiable hypothesis, logically indistinguishable from claims for the existence of God") brought the...
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As noted on the prior thread , in a recent blog post, scientist Lubos Motl concluded that there " literally pandemics " of people writing stuff on global warming, and that is "simply ... no other help for the people who are writing most of the stuff" but " euthanasia " and...
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[Update: For an ongoing case study of the startling irrationality and "sick souls" of some of the "skeptics", see my related discussions with the physicist Lubos Motl: [Update] Mind Games/Luboš Motl: how an absence of functioning markets means that I'm right, but you're...
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Filed under: religion, AGW, Enviro Derangement Syndrome, cognition, climate change, Bret Stephens, Durkin, Cockburn, Horner, Festinger, Lubos Motl
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There's an interesting bit of arm-twisting, self-deception, defensiveness and reluctant position-shifting going on in the libertarian science skeptics crowd, and Penn and Teller seem to be letting the social pressure help clear their minds. At James Randi 's gathering of skeptics in Las Vegas...
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An LvMI blogger sent me the following inquiry, which I post here - along with my response - as a public service. I note first that I am no climate expert, but someone who doesn`t mind a little scientific or other inquiry. Question : "I would like to see your response to this: http://www.rationalmind...
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The folly practically speaks for itself . Why does Bjorn Lomborg think that governments can better determine worthy investments than private firms? And that such investments should be borne by ordinary taxpayers rather than those who are generating the externalities that are the basis for his concern...
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In response to Jim Hansen's recent expressed desire for "public trials" for fossil fuel executives if, despite being "aware of long-term consequences of continued business as usual," they continue their "campaigns" "to spread doubt about global warming" in...
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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:...