"He's a snake in the grass, I tell ya guys; he may look dumb but that's just a disguise; he's a mastermind in the ways of espionage." Charlie Daniels, "Uneasy Rider" February 2008 - Posts - TT's Lost in Tokyo

February 2008 - Posts

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Thank you, Prof. Block, for feeding our confirmation biases by TokyoTom

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...
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Thanks, Dr. Reisman; or, How I Learned to Hate Enviros and Love Tantrums by TokyoTom

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...
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Mr. Lessig goes to Washington? by TokyoTom

Wouldn't THAT be something? http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2008/02/rep-lawrence-le.html . http://boingboing.hexten.net/2008/02/18/draft-larry-lessig-f.html http://draftlessig.org/
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Escape from Reason: are Austrians conservatives, or neocons, on the environment? by TokyoTom

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...
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Whales and fisheries - "standing up to Japan", or managing/enclosing the commons? by TokyoTom

Dave Neiwert , a thoughtful voice on the left and with an experienced, informed view on America's right-wing racist fringe, has a rather confused post up on whaling on his blog, Orcinus . http://dneiwert.blogspot.com/2008/02/standing-up-to-japan.html...
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Voluntary action on climate change: Wall Street's new "Carbon Principles" by TokyoTom

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...
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Edwin Dolan: applying the Lockean framework to climate change by TokyoTom

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...
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"Pay Your Air Share" - Libertarian think tank advocates carbon taxes! by TokyoTom

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...
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"Climate Change, Evidence and Ideology" by TokyoTom

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...
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