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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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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...
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I received the following in an email from NASA climate scientist James Hansen (whom I`ve mentioned a number of times ), in connection with today`s New York Times Magazine article ( "The Civil Heretic" ) on Freeman Dyson , which is now making its way through the "skeptosphere". My...
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[Somehow most of my excerpts of Tillerson`s speech weren`t included in my first try; there`re here this time.] It may still seem novel to some, but Exxon Mobil Corporation began throwing its weight behind carbon pricing policies more than two years ago , Subsequently, Rex Tillerson, Exxon`s Chairman...
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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...
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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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Austrian-leaning economist Bob Murphy , whose efforts last year to discount the work of Yale's William Nordhaus on how cost-benefit analysis merits current action on climate change I previously examined , is back with more, this time defending Nordhaus' work from the criticism that I alerted...
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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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[Update at bottom.] Neocons, conservatives, libertarians and Exxon`s Rex Tillerson have recently joined arch-warmer Jim Hansen in calling for rebated carbon taxes in lieu of massive cap/trade rent-seeking and industrial planning . I`ve blogged extensively on the reasons why I and others view carbon taxes...