[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...
[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...
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...
First, George Reisman , and now, Stephan Kinsella . I have asked two of our leading lights whether they and libertarians are striving for a self-satisfied irrelevancy on climate issue, or wish to be taken seriously, and they both, with self-professed seriousness, announced that we should, in Stephan...
On Friday, November 21, the American Meteorological Society is putting on a seminar at the U.S. Senate entitled "Two Engineering Measures to Reduce Global Warming: Injecting Particles into the Atmosphere and "Clean" Coal". The presentations will address the following interesting questions...
This time it`s David Veksler , with a post on the main LvMI blog , with the title I`ve quoted above. Why is it that so many Mises commentators flee from reason and prefer a fever-pitched focus on strawmen when it comes to addressing environmental issues? I copy below my comments on the thread [note:...
See Ron Bailey's recent summary of developments about whether it may be possible to buy time on climate change with technological fixes. Libertarian Iain Murray supports government funding of geo-engineering approaches. See my previous posts for more on geo-engineering. More at the NYT's Dot...
More on geo-engineering at the NYT by climate scientist Ken Caldeira: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/24/opinion/24caldiera.html?th&emc=th I will visit later the question of whether this is something that should be investigated.