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Last year around this time I criticized Reason science correspondent Ron Bailey , for a rather empty post trumpteting dark warnings of "green fascism" in the wake of last year`s grain shortages. This year Ron is back, with a new post out (" Never Right But Never in Doubt ") in which...
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Further to my prior posts , here are my more recent comments over at the remarkable RealClimate thread started by climate scientist Gavin Schmidt , to specifically discuss the "tragedy of the commons" paradigm in the context of domestic and international wrngling over climate policy: 544: TokyoTom...
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CEI funds, staffs and supports the relatively young, growing and interesting " Bureaucrash " grassroots libertarian social action site , by which CEI tries to tap into some of the discontent with government that has bloomed over the Bush presidency. I`ve opened an account there and cross-posted...
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[some snark in the title, reflecting the heat of the fight over the wheel of government ] Further to my prior posts , here is the full list of my comments over at the remarkable RealClimate thread started by climate scientist Gavin Schmidt , to specifically discuss the "tragedy of the commons"...
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Here , in the belly of the Beast - the " RealClimate" blog by climate scientists. Anybody wanna chip in? So far, comments by yours truly are as follows: 134. TokyoTom Says: 8 May 2009 at 11:56 AM Gavin, thanks for a thoughtful post that I hope will be brought to the attention of every so-called...
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[Snark Factor: Ridiculously High ] In honor of Earth Day, yesterday Dr. George Reisman , Professor Emeritus of Economics at Pepperdine University and author of Capitalism: A Treatise on Economics , put up a fun little post that mocks the full-employment arguments made by President Obama on behalf of...
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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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Anti-enviro Steven Milloy ,adjunct scholar at CEI, author and co-founder of a gadfly free-enterprise fund, has a post up on his Green Hell Blog about some interesting recent remarks by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. Apparently RFK Jr., at the "Capitol Climate Action" rally held on March 2, said that...
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In a series of posts at the self-declared "free market" blog of the fossil-fuel energy industry funded Institute for Energy Research , energy expert Rob Bradley (former Ken Lay speechwriter and Enron policy wonk) explores his dark forebodings that the "Malthusian wing" of the Obama...
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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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UK enviro-journalist-commentator George Monbiot has an interesting post in the Feb. 20 Guardian that explains his why he now believes that " A kneejerk rejection of nuclear power is not an option ", and why he's willing to take heat from others by raising the topic. Reasonable (even if...
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I noted in a previous post that Rob Bradley , CEO of the Institute for Energy Research and lead blogger at MasterResource , has cheered on big coal and bashed what he calls "Malthusian anti-energy crusaders", but ignoring while he does so the questions of (1) whether there are any legitimate...
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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...
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Robert L. Bradley, Jr. is an energy expert (author, former speechwriter for Key Lay and director of public policy analysis at Enron, founder and CEO of Institute for Energy Research ) with libertarian leanings. But in a series of posts on climate issues on the recently launched "free market"...
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Jerry Taylor of Cato is one careful observer of the carbon follies who sees the handwriting on the wall for some type of carbon pricing system coming from the Congress during the Obama Administration. Strikingly, in an interesting post up at MasterResource (a new self-styled "free market" energy...