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Bob Murphy (Senior Fellow in Business and Economic Studies at Pacific Research Institute, and economist with the Institute for Energy Research) has a recent post up on the wonders of "geo-engineering" as a cure-all any potential negative consequences for our unmanaged, unrepeatable experiment...
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Bob Murphy recently offered LvMI readers a post; "Apologist Responses to Climategate Misconstrue the Real Debate" ; I left a few comments in response (minor edits). (My apologies to Bob for borrowing and tweaking his title.) Bob, interesting title - "Apologist Responses to Climategate...
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[Update: I copy at bottom a follow-up exchange I had on Bob`s thread with another reader - radio silence from Bob.] Bob Murphy has a new post up at his blog, " CBO Testimony Misleads on Cost of Cap-and-Trade ", that draws attention to a new blog post at the Institute of Energy Research that...
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Exxon CEO Rex Tillerson has done it again*, by proposing in a speech on October 1 in Washington, D.C. that the U.S. shelve cap-and-trade legislative approaches to managing greenhouse gas emissions in favor of direct carbon taxes that are rebated to consumers . Tillerson`s full speech is here ; the press...
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The coal- and utility-funded "free-market think tank" Institute of Energy Research has a just released another study that tells us the obvious about the regressive consequences of the Waxman-Markey cap-and-trade bill and the benefits likely to flow to its corporate supporters, while masking...
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The following is an email message that I sent to Scott Horton , host of Antiwar Radio , regarding his September 18 interview with Bob Murphy . The exchange regarding Bob`s thoughts on the cap and trade bill monstrosity appears at 24:14 to 29:47. (Minor edits and link added.) Scott, I listened with interest...
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A reader of Bob Murphy` s recent post on climate science - " TokyoTom Moving the Goalposts? " - queried my views on whether perceptions of climate change problems themselves justified a need to establish government. I copy below my response (with a few typo and editorial changes): "Do...
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Further to my preceding post, on " Confirmation bias, rent-seeking and the rush to print the latest science "scoop (Linzen-Choi) ", I note that Bob Murphy has kindly put up a new blog post that notes and responds to my comments to him . Since it`s late here, interested readers might want...
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Since I`m in Tokyo and deprived of Bob Murphy `s enviable access, via talk radio , to cutting-edge climate science, I thank him using his blog to bring it to the attention of his audience (which occasionally includes me). Says Bob (emphasis added): Chip Knappenberger explains the significance (and remaining...
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I refer to my previous posts on the interesting subject of whether there is an "objective moral order", which Gene Callahan broached in a May blog post , returned to in a subsequent post but abandoned, to be picked up but ultimately punted by Bob Murphy (and again by Gene when he visited Bob...
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I copy below (with minor changes for clarity) a further comment I made on the piece by Bob Murphy ( "I'm Starting With the Man in the Mirror" ) to which I referred in my prior post . The comment on which I remarking is addressed by one commenter to Silas Barta: cotterdan: I think the error...
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Robert Murphy , Austrian school economist and blogger , is in my book a remarkably thoughtful and insightful commentator on current economic issues, even as I find some of his arguments on climate policy and energy to be shallow . Bob`s balance and relatively rare introspection are on display in his...
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Your foolish reporter, having rushed in where even angels like Bob Murphy fear to tread, now reports the latest "unreal", or at least the rather unbelievable, turn of events (and non-events), at Gene Callahan `s Crash Landing blog. Readers may recall my earlier report regarding Mr. Callahan...
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James Hansen , a leading climate scientist at NASA (head of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies) and Columbia University , last week`published a scathing criticism of the Waxman-Markey cap-and-trade bill in the Huffington Post , and Bob Murphy noticed . Bob offers a rather schizophenic view...
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[Update: Happy news! The subject blog post, once non-existent, has (been) resurrected ! Discussions, with a decided acerbic philosopher-king, continue!] [Update part Deux: Unfortunately, as noted elsewhere , our ill-humored host has closed out his blog post, after deleting my response to a string of...