Giant snakes? What could a few colossal bones found in Colombia have to do with us now? 1. A recent paper in Nature about the discovery of several specimens of a giant snake ("Titanoboa") that lived in Latin America 60 million years ago captured attention last week , including among climate...
A few days ago I concluded that Jim Manz i’s lead essay in Cato Unbound's new climate issue exhibited rather weak “libertariarian sinews” . Allow me to note a few additional remarks on Manzi`s arguments. 1. It's clear from Manzi's essay that (i) he is actually quite concerned...
[UPDATE: See my follow-up post .] Cato Unbound's new climate issue features a lead essay by Jim Manzi , who is an MIT- and Wharton-trained statistician and CEO of Applied Predictive Technologies (which uses pattern recognition and optimization models for sales and marketing). Manzi is a newcomer...
Paul Krugman reaches the above conclusion in his August 1 New York Time op-ed , which asks "Can This Planet Be Saved?" , while discussing the latest work by economists on the cost-benefit analsys of taking action to mitigate potential climate risks - this time by Harvard`s Marty Weitzman ,...
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...
Bob Murphy , an economist at Rob Bradley 's Institute for Energy Research , has posted on the main Mises Blog a link to a paper that he has submitted to an economic journal, " Rolling the DICE: Nordhaus' Dubious Case for a Carbon Tax ". [Update: Bob thoughtfully copied environmental...
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I copy below comments I made on June 11 (Tokyo time) on Bob Murphy 's June 4 blog post, Cap and Trade Is Not a "Market Solution" , that have apparently been held up for moderator approval (perhaps because my three links triggered the blog's spam defenses?): Bob, I thank you for posting...
There is a new paper out by economist Richard Tol that summarizes all of the economic work on climate change over the past two decades, in light of recent analyses, particularly the ground-breaking new work by Harvard's Marty Weitzman on how the "fat tail" of climate risk affects cost-benefit...
On the main blog, Sean Corrigan posts the latest missive of what he considers the brave dissenting voices on climate science. http://blog.mises.org/archives/007541.asp . The letter nods briefly at the concerns summarized by the IPCC reports about warming and the role of human economic activity, and raises...
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