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More from the National Review 's "Planet Gore" corner . My reaction? While we do need investments in power transmission infrastructure , do it with your own money, T. Boone . While I, along with many others, could support a rebated carbon tax that would spur investments in energy efficiency...
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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 ,...
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Jerry Taylor , a senior fellow at the Cato Institute , published a pithy criticism in last week's Financial Post of T. Boone Pickens' plan to get wind subsidies and other favors from Congress; said Taylor: "Virtually every claim made by T. Boone Pickens to justify the lavish subsidies he...
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Andy Revkin of the NYT recently posted at his "Dot Earth" blog an update by a scientist to the effect that apparently the increasing summer melt in Greenland is not markedly lubricating glacier flow . While this doesn't alter the fact that the Greenland melt (and outlet glaciers)continues...
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Prominent climatologist Dr. James Hansen , Director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies and Adjunct Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Columbia University, who has long been warning of the long-term consequences of man's essentially uncontrolled experiment with the world's...
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The New York Times has dubbed its April 20 Magazine edition as "The Green Issue" . The subtitle? "Some Bold Steps to Make Your Carbon Footprint Smaller" . I've barely taken a look at the issue as a whole, but I have noticed that Michael Pollan , in a piece entitled Why Bother...
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More at the Washington Times: http://washingtontimes.com/article/20080414/NATION/676175489/1001 And at the Wall Street Journal's enviro blog: http://blogs.wsj.com/environmentalcapital/2008/04/14/green-bush-white-house-to-push-climate-package/?mod=WSJBlog And, finally, at a press briefing at the White...
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Here are rather exhaustive lists of the skeptics' arguments on science grounds, along with brief analyses and links to underlying publications: Coby Beck: How to talk to Global Warming Skeptic Brian Angliss A Thorough Debunking New Scientist: Climate...
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There is a new climate change lawsuit in US courts, this time by the Inuit inhabitants of an Alaskan village that will soon be rendered uninhabitable by the rapid erosion resulting from the year-round pounding of seas that were once frozen; the villagers are blaming man-made climate change and suing...
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Answer: It wasn't the enviros who changed the use of this term, but rather high-powered corporate lobbying interests and their allies in Bush government and the Republican party , spearheaded by leading Republican pollster/ spinmeister Frank Luntz , who in 2002 pushed Republicans to move the public...
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Inquiring minds might want to take a quick look at what Dr. James E. Hansen of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies has to say: The year 2007 tied for second warmest in the period of instrumental data, behind the record warmth of 2005, in the Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) analysis...
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Ron Bailey of Reason , reporting from Bali, has an interesting post up summarizing the discussion by James Connaughton, director of President Bush's Council on Environmental Quality, on one small aspect of the climate conundrum, namely, what would be actually involved in meeting the energy shortfall...
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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...
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Further to my post on Al Gore's Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech, Dr. Roy Spencer , a prominent climate scientist/skeptic and lead guitarist in a contemporary Christian rock band at St. Mark's Lutheran Church in Huntsville, Alabama, has kindly emailed me the link to two songs that his band...
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[Snark Alert!] Duck hunters (and state game departments) are noticing climate change and are changing their individual and group behavior. See the NYT December 11 article, "In Duck Blinds, Visions of Global Warming", http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/11/us/11hunting.html?th=&emc=th&adxnnlx...