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

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More on Pickens: FOX offers soapbox for Pickens mouthpiece; Milloy responds by TokyoTom

FOX offers soapbox for Pickens mouthpiece Warren Mitchell (former chairman of Southern California Gas Company and San Diego Gas & Electric, and director and head of the compensation committee of Pickens' owned Clean Energy Fuels); Steven Milloy...
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UK jury approves damage to power plant in defense of a commons/ other private property; libertarians and conservatives freak out by TokyoTom

See this surprising decision in the UK , letting climate-change protesters/trespassers off the hook for damages resulting from spray-painting a coal plant smokestack, on the grounds that a UK law "allows damage to be caused to property to prevent...
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[Update:] The 1979 JASON and Charney Reports by TokyoTom

[ UPDATE: Unfortunately I've confused the 1979 JASON report with the Charney report that followed it (and referred to it) later that year. My bad! The Charney report is available online and is summarized in item 2 below; I could not find a copy of...
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That danged hockey stick makes another appearance by TokyoTom

Hockey-stick artist Michael Mann is back, along with the rest of his team from Penn State’s Earth System Science Center, with his hockey stick, this time supported by more proxy data. Although McIntyre and McKitrick had some valid criticisms of...
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The evolution of Palin: Is the battle over evolution a struggle against science, or a proxy war with the state? by TokyoTom

In the context of a review of the focus on "creationism" that Alaska governor Sarah Palin has injected in the presidential election, Christopher Caldwell , a senior editor at The Weekly Standard , has attempted to explain (in The Financial Times...
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Breaking the impasse on ANWR and OCS (Part III): WSJ op-ed supports Alaska-style direct pass-through of royalties from oil/gas produced from OCS leases by TokyoTom

Last week the Wall Street Journal ran an op-ed by James P. Lucier, Jr ., a managing director of Capital Alpha Partners , LLC, in Washington, D.C. Lucier`s piece describes how Alaska shares its oil revenues with residents, and suggests that John McCain...
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Envirofascists at Heritage Foundation worry about China's environmental problems by TokyoTom

The bleeding-heart liberal do-gooders! Puzzlingly, this Heritage Foundation essay completely fails to mention the predominant role of the state and the lack of property rights in generating the problem. They make Tom Friedman seem like the real advocate...
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Lomborg misapplies the "Copenhagen Consensus" to ignore carbon pricing and yet argue for massive government investments in clean energy by TokyoTom

I copy below comments I made on a related thread at Roger Pielke, Jr .'s Prometheus science policy blog, regarding recent duelling op-eds on climate change policy between the left-leaning Danish political scientist Bjørn Lomborg and economist...
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Pickens, with "a mission" as a wind crusader, shakes John Kerry's hand by TokyoTom

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...
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NYT on capacity problems in our regional/national power distribution grids; do we regulate or deregulate? by TokyoTom

The New York Times has an interesting article that points out how the use of new wind and solar capacity is being hobbled by power distribution limitations , which limits result in part from the reluctance of state regulators to approve projects that...
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Solar vs. deserts; or how "public" ownership of resources produces zero-sum political fights over preferences by TokyoTom

Ron Bailey , Science Correspondent of Reason Online , reported recently "how some environmental groups are fighting the development of utility-scale solar power in the Mojave Desert." As I have posted elsewhere on the role our government plays...
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Tom Friedman/NYT roots for freedom and property rights as ways to propel Chinese progress along the enviro Kuznets curve by TokyoTom

Here's the money quote from Tom Friedman 's interesting op-ed at the Sunday New York Times : " The problem for the ruling Communist Party is this: China can’t have a greener society without empowering citizens to become watchdogs and...
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