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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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Walter Block of Loyola University has graced the main LvMI blog with a rare post, this time a clipping - without commentary - from a piece entitled " Forget global warming: Welcome to the new Ice Age ", by Canadian conservative commentator Lorne Gunter concerning the relatively high snowfalls...
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Filed under: climate, Reisman, Corrigan, Enviro Derangement Syndrome, Dolan, Block, Hayek, Richman, Callahan, confirmation bias, freedom
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In my recent post, " Escape from Reason: are Austrians conservatives, or neocons, on the environment? ", I noted two recent posts by George Reisman and Sean Corrigan and wondered whether a significant number of LvMI blog authors and commenters, on a host of "environmental" issues...
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In their more considerate writings, Austrians have counseled a cool, rational approach to environmental issues. But recent posts lead me to wonder whether a number of LvMI blog authors and commenters prefer hot-headed emotional outbursts and partisan, ad hominem attacks over Austrian principles, rational...
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Voluntary action on climate change continues to grow. I'm not sure who noticed besides power project sponsors, financiers and regulators, but last week (on February 4) Citi, JPMorgan Chase and Morgan Stanley , three of the world’s leading financial institutions, announced the formation and release...
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I would like to bring readers' attention to Edwin G. Dolan's "Science, Public Policy and Global Warming: Rethinking the Market Liberal Position ", from the Fall 2006 issue of The Cato Journal: www.cato.org/pubs/journal/cj26n3/cj26n3-3.pdf . Dolan examines libertarian, "market liberal"...
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1. Check out the San Diego-based The Prometheus Institute , http://www.prometheusinstitute.net/ , which has just launched a new website calling for carbon taxes: http://www.payyourairshare.org/ . They propose that: A tax be levied on all major emitters of greenhouse gases, set so that fossil fuel prices...
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Libertarian law prof. Jonathan Adler has a brief but interesting post up at the Volokh Conspiracy blog, explaining something of the internal conflict he faces in favoring limited government but acknowledging that it is likely that man is pushing the climate in ways that generates costs that merit concern...
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"No, your computer isn't misfiring. Welcome to a new Wall Street Journal blog, Environmental Capital." So says the WSJ's announcement of its new blog, which replaces its Energy Roundup blog and, in addition to continue to track daily energy news, will "go further, analyzing how...
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So runs the title of a recent op-ed by David Shearman (professor of medicine in Australia) who recently co-authored the book The Climate Change Challenge and the Failure of Democracy , with Joseph Wayne Smith (a US lawyer), in a series from the Pell Center for International Relations and Public Policy...