"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" July 2008 - Posts - TT's Lost in Tokyo

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Ron Bailey/Reason: Gore's proposal to generate all power carbon-free in 10 years requires trillion$ on nukes by TokyoTom

On July 17, Al Gore challenged our nation to produce " 100 percent of our electricity from renewable energy and truly carbon-free sources within 10 years ". Ron Bailey , science correspondent of Reason online , has examined whether Gore's...
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More carbon tax advocacy, this time from Jerry Taylor/Cato, in a piece criticizing Pickens' plan by TokyoTom

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...
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Bootleggers and Baptists in Texas and DC: Texas sells Pickens eminent domain powers and wind power transmission rights for his personal 8-acre "water district", while Sierra Club helps to push wind subsidies by TokyoTom

[Update: David Zetland at his Aquanomics blog has linked to my piece , astutely noting that if one applies Bruce Yandle `s "Bootleggers and Baptists" metaphor to Pickens' campaign for wind power and transmission subsidies, Pickens as Bootlegger...
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Breaking the impasse on ANWR and OCS exploration and development Part II; a response to Bob Murphy by TokyoTom

 

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Destroying the salmon; the socialized commons and climate change (Part II) by TokyoTom

I briefly commented previously on the perilous state of the West Coast salmon fishery , which is crashing due not only to climate change-related stresses in the ocean and in stream flows, but also to our government's destruction of Indian-held private...
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Alarmists (scientists and the Bush administration) claim "climate change" is causing Western wildfires and stressing watersheds by TokyoTom

[Warning: Snarky. Sorry, but as I got going I couldn`t resist.] 1. As I noted on several Mises wildfire threads last year , a 2006 study showed that the wildfire season in the West has increased on average by 78 days over the past three decades (1987...
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Marlo Lewis/CEI laughs at the ice sheets and Gore; Lloyd's and other insurers do not. Hmmm. by TokyoTom

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...
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Breaking the senseless impasse on ANWR and OCS exploration and development - a tax and rebate proposal by TokyoTom

It's long been obvious that: (1) government policy concerning the use of public lands is highly bureaucratized, often inept and subject to behind the scenes sweet deals favoring insiders; (2) discussions about how the public lands should be used often...
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Can Pigovian taxes be Coasean bargains? - The case of climate negotiations by TokyoTom

David Zetland's libertarian-environmental blog, Aguanomics , has recently been carrying on some excellent discussions on resource and environmental economics, with interlocutors like Bob Murphy , Gene Callahan and others. In the context of two recent...
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"Environmental Kuznets curve" and Onion's spoof of China's Status as World’s Number One Air Polluter by TokyoTom

Sorry; this was too good not to share: http://www.theonion.com/content/video/china_celebrates_its_status_as . China has now outstripped the rest of the world in GHG emissions, as well. Government ownership of (and favoritism to) much of industry, a lack...
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Up is Down: Irrational & unscientific (?) "Alarmists" dismiss senseless alarmist hype by TokyoTom

Yes, NF3 (nitrogen trifluoride) is a potent GHG. But its use in electronics manufacturing does NOT make a significant AGW contribution, much less one greater than coal. More at Rabbet Run and Real Climate . Alarmists being ... reasonable? While the "reasonable"...
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George Monbiot: Why do governments subsidize the rush by fishermen to destroy unowned ocean fisheries? by TokyoTom

In the context of the latest fuel strikes by European fishermen, George Monbiot has an excellent piece in the July 8th Guardian that explores the role of governments in subsidizing the destructive "tragedy of the commons" that is ocean fisheries...
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Greased by Telecom $$$, Obama & spineless Dems act with Republicans to shred the 4th Amendment and to play dumb to and sanction illegal domestic spying by Bush and Telecoms by TokyoTom

More by Glenn Greenwald . Obama shows his true colors regarding his supposed desire for change, transparency and rule of law. As likely future Spy-in-Chief, why would he be interested in anything that might limit his own power? In the 70s, Nixon was impeached...
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Luboš Motl 3: This lover of freedom and hater of irrationality can`t stand discourse and fantasizes about elimination by TokyoTom

I`m disappointed that my attempts at discourse with Lubos Motl have blown up. Lubos, a Czech physicist/climate science blogger who responded to my post on Bret Stephens` exegesis in the WSJ of the psychology of the cult-like "belief" by the...
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Citizens fight wildfires in Northern California ... by TokyoTom

as this article in the July 7 NY Times shows. This is not at all surprising, as owners all have incentives to protect their property, and relatively small communities of people can work together well when needed. One can expect to see increasing sophistication...
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