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Apologies, but I can`t resist: I saw a news item earlier today - "Copenhagen climate summit borrows Dylan's voice" - that indicates that the COP 15 organizers (the 15th Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, to which Pres. George H.W. Bush & Congress...
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Senate Dems, who lack sufficient votes on their own to approve a cap-and-trade bill over a possible Republican fillibuster, have sought help from sympathetic Republicans, who have apparently used this leverage to broaden the bill and to extract key concessions on various issues; such concessions are...
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"If you cannot measure it; You cannot improve it." -- Lord Kelvin I noted in February (" Empowering power consumers: Google beta tests software to give consumers real-time info ") that Google , whose climate change-related efforts I've blogged about previously , has been beta...
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The intransigence of a core of coal interests, in the face of a rebellion by firms that support legislative action on climate change, is threatening the status of the US Chamber of Commerce as the premier business council in the US, as now Apple Computer has quit the US Chamber of Commerce . Apple`s...
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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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Lord knows I`ve got better things to do, but I can`t resist. Rob Bradley has written extensively on energy regulation from a libertarian viewpoint and spent a number of years as an adviser to Ken Lay inside Enron - apparently seeing up-close (while conscientiously fighting a losing battle to steer Enron...
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[Update at bottom.] Bob Murphy , Austrian economist and part-time consultant for Rob Bradley `s Institute for Energy Research , asserted in a recent blog post that "IER [has] Call[ed] For End to All Energy Subsidies" . I took a closer look at the recent commentary at IER that Bob pointed to...
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Roger Pielke, Jr. , a political scientist who rather persistently blames politically naive climate scientists for the very natural fact that there is a politicized debate over climate policy, posted last week at his Prometheus website a guest commentary by Michael Zimmerman , Professor and Director,...
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After decades of loathing nuclear power as the ugly, monstrous child of a big government Dr. Frankenstein, climate-change-fearing enviros like George Monbiot are finally coming around to the relative benefits of nuclear power. This is a welcome change - as it is clear that coal has generated and continues...
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Rob Bradley has a new post up at MasterResource , cheering on big (and now "clean") coal, which has apparently received assurances from the Obama administration - after being bad-mouthed by NASA scientist Jim Hansen , Steven Chu and Obama himself - that, despite pressures from the "Malthusian...