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This is the first of several follow-up posts to my post " Grist and the tragedy of the panicked enviro ", where I try to clarify the institutional frameworks for understanding and addressing resource problems, in response to confusion in comments by others. cyberfarer Posted 2:58 am 27 Aug...
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The Grist online environmental magazine lent its pages this week to a pessimistic climate change activist, Adam D. Sacks , former director of the Center for Democracy and the Constitution. Mr. Sacks, echoing a despairing piece (" Beyond the point of no return" ) by Ross Gelbspan in Grist in...
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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...
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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...
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Ron Bailey , science correspondent for ReasonOnline , on July 1 noted in a Hit & Run post that " Models Aren`t Always Right ". I left the following comment, which I copy here since I didn`t see it post: "Ron, of course models aren`t always right, but; 1. even Lindzen is arguing for...
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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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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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The incessant calls for - and criticism of - government-funded/mandated "green/clean power" pork both ignore root causes and potential common ground. As a result, both sides of the debate are largely talking past each other, one talking about why there is a pressing need for government policy...
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Only those making out like bandits (or those not paying attention) are particularly happy with the Waxman~Markey bill that made it out of committee the other day. The dissatisfaction was exemplified by this post by environmental journailst Tom Yulsman . But a new MIT study, the disturbing and startling...
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I recently posted a copy of a comment to Bob Murphy , trying to explain Roe Romm`s attack on Bob`s effort to explain some of the stupidity behind "green" or "clean" jobs, and how it is that Bob just doesn`t seem to be (and is in fact not) above the fray. Well, Bob has professed that...
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Bob Murphy has recently noted that he is busy at work, doing yeoman`s work in fighting the good battle against stupid "green" or "clean" jobs that the Obama administration and some enviros are pushing. This is fine as far as it goes, but in his struggle to be fair and even-handed...
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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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The Ludwig von Mises Institute (which kindly hosts these pages!) continues to outdo itself on providing empty climate posts, this time by bringing us a new author, Jason King (completely new to LvMI, and apparently with no prior internet-searchable commentary whatsoever). How is it that LvMI is proving...
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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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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,...