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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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Thu, Jun 5 2008
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Filed under: climate change, Weitzman, Bob Murphy, Rob Bradley, cost-benefit, Schelling, William Nordhaus, Arrow, Stiglitz, David Zetland
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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...
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Climate change, largely due to human activities, is currently underway, with more very serious - and largely unstoppable changes - expected in the next 25 years, and landowners, communities, farmers, businesses, communities and state and local government should pay attention, anticipate and start adapting...
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Keeping ahead of crop diseases and pests is a continual challenge, particularly as climate and weather patterns change. This challenge is in part compounded by the involvement of governments around the world in in subsidizing the consumption of certain crop staples like rice and in subsidizing crop research...
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Climate change is having a significant impact on water supplies in the US Southwest and elsewhere. Scientists increasingly that these impacts can be attributed to human influences on climate - but that is to some degree besides the point. Presently, water is very poorly used and allocated in many places...
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Here's a very interesting piece by Kristof at the New York Times about the reactions of Obama and Clinton supporters, and introducing cognitive science studies of why more information often polarizes, rather than bringing people together . Divided They Fall Simply, we are cognitively wired as tribal...
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As I noted in my April 15 post, http://mises.org/Community/blogs/tokyotom/archive/2008/04/15/bush-hoist-by-own-petard-prepares-global-warming-initiative.aspx , President Bush has indeed just made a specific policy statement on climate change . There is much in it to discuss - and disagree with - in what...
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Here are rather exhaustive lists of the skeptics' arguments on science grounds - coupled with brief analyses of the arguments and links to underlying publications: John Cross: Skeptical Science Coby Beck: How to talk to Global Warming Skeptic Brian Angliss A Thorough Debunking New Scientist: Climate...
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What do climate scientists say that recently obtained data about our past climate tells us about the consequences of long-term increases in atmospheric CO2 (and other GHGs)? They tell us that we are already at levels that, if sustained (and at current sink rates it seems that CO2 has an atmospheric half...
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I am posting here a brief summary that I just sent to a Mises Blog contributor, in response to an inquiry I received: Thanks for your email. First, I'm no expert but simply read. With that as background, let me respond on a few points. I think that the general scientific view is that CO2 is a GHG...
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Bruce Yandle , Professor of Economics Emeritus at Clemson University and Senior Fellow at PERC (the "free market" environmentalism think tank founded by John Baden and now headed by Terry Anderson ), has an article in PERC`s latest monthly report, in which he offers his thoughts on climate...
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In an earlier blog post - " WHY Pat Michaels says "The Antarctic Ain't Cooperating " - I raised questions about the objectives and role of Pat Michaels in the political debate about climate change and climate change-related policy, and suggested that readers should bear in mind his...
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[Update: I have separately posted for the interest of readers my exchange of emails with Chip Knappenberger, Pat Michael`s colleague at his self-described "advocacy science consulting firm" , New Hope Environmental Services.] In comments on my preceding post, Antarctic cooling? Or WHY "The...
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[Significant update at bottom] I've decided to put up this little post in connection with Walter Block's recent post, http://blog.mises.org/archives/007828.asp , in order to avoid having my comment stuck in a spam filter (I've found that comments with too many links get caught). I see I missed...