Political scientist and climate commenter Roger Pielke, Jr. and scientist and Climate Progress blogger Joe Romm had a heated little spat last month, with both trading accusations of lies and bad faith . When I left comments with each suggesting that the other might have a legitimate complaint, each reflexively...
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...
Joe Romm `s defense of Waxman-Markey against climate scientist James Hansen (who prefers rebated carbon taxes and a faster phase-out of coal) is effective and worth a read. Notably, however, Romm makes no attempt to justify all of the pork now in the bill, including the huge subsidies to coal (Congressman...
I just stumbled into Bob Murphy `s June 8 post at the LvMI Daily site, and submitted a few comments . As it looks like my links prevented my comments from posting, I`ve copied them here (with a few typo tweaks and links added): Bob, I didn`t realize you had put a post up here. Allow me first to copy...