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My goodness! Another Frumming at NRO! So Jim Manzi, a conservative/libertarian and a reasoned critic of cap and trade - who has been retained by NRO and is on the National Review board of trustees - has, by criticizing poor climate science arguments by neocon polemicist Mark Levin, become Public Enemy...
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Last week at the NYT, Ross Douthat , himself stirred by Julian Sanchez's recent perception of a problem of "epistemic closure" (an ideologically sealed news and thought echochamber) on the Right , and threw down a gauntlet to conservative intellectuals: "Conservative domestic policy...
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[Note: Snark inside.] As I mentioned earlier , Bill Gates has recently posted his thoughts on how to address climate issues . Since we know Gates has been funding scientific inquiry into (and patent rights regarding) methods to dampen "climate change" affects that are expected by many to arise...
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"Whhhaaat the heck is TT up NOW?" I can hear some of you asking yourselves. Bill Gates , Roger Pielke , the movie Avatar and climate? Just what elusive illusions am I alluding to here? (Stop playing, you say.) Well, brace yourself, and bear with me. Roger Pielke, Jr . has a post up regarding...
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I cite from: http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1962294,00.html "That's in part because of global warming — hotter air can hold more moisture, so when a storm gathers it can unleash massive amounts of snow." Well it's not that dumb seeing alone, but seeing it together...
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[Note: Hope the obvious snark isn`t too confusing; some simple thoughts on an alternative view are at bottom.] An obviously deluded Bill Gates apparently: has become a global warming/carbon cultist and/or has been suckered by carbon-trading swindlers or modern-day sellers of snake oil serums, and/or...
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Briefly, Obama succeeded in getting China and India to agree that they need not simply to improve efficiency as they grow, but to make verifiable cuts in emissions. This is a major accomplishment, as it addresses the chief reason why Clinton and Bush refused to submit the Kyoto Protocol to the Senate...
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Bob Murphy (Senior Fellow in Business and Economic Studies at Pacific Research Institute, and economist with the Institute for Energy Research) has a recent post up on the wonders of "geo-engineering" as a cure-all any potential negative consequences for our unmanaged, unrepeatable experiment...
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I copy below an interesting press release with the title noted above , regarding the "smart metering" of power consumption. I have blogged previously on Google`s efforts to speed the introduction of Smart Meters . Perhaps we will also see a little more focus on the negative role that our widespread...
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On December 16, Spiegel Online ran the following interview with Elinor Ostrom , whose 2009 Nobel prize in economics (shared with Oliver Williamson ), was widely applauded by Austrian economists (and whose work I have referred to any number of time previously ). Der Spiegel asked some good questions,...
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It has been said that Christianity would be perfect if there weren't people involved. I guess that's true of many things. Look at the US Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and the Declaration of Independence. As a group of documents they exalt man to a higher level and establish a nation based...
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Either the planet is getting hotter or it isn't. Are manmade emissions the cause? Is the world headed for environmental Armageddon? Why is this a political football? It would seem to be an open and shut case. If the world is getting warmer, if manmade emissions are the cause, and if the climate will...
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I've been watching aghast the last few weeks as the climate change storm sweeps the planet. A few weeks ago we had the release of hundreds of emails detailing a systematic plan to silence and disrepute any scientific data or opinions contrary to the accepted view of anthropogenic climage change....
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Bob Murphy recently offered LvMI readers a post; "Apologist Responses to Climategate Misconstrue the Real Debate" ; I left a few comments in response (minor edits). (My apologies to Bob for borrowing and tweaking his title.) Bob, interesting title - "Apologist Responses to Climategate...
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Readers might also want to take note of this December 4 recent WaPo op-ed by James Murdoch , chairman and chief executive (Europe and Asia) of News Corporation, which is targetted at getting Republicans involved in approving climate legislation. Now is a good time, given the shift generated by the Climate...