"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" August 2009 - Posts - TT's Lost in Tokyo

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The "coward of the county?" A little light on political games and the legal background of EPA`s unavoidable "endangerment" finding by TokyoTom

In April, under a regulatory process that the Bush EPA was compelled to commence by a Supreme Court decision (pursuant to the April 2, 2007 decison in Massachusetts v. EPA , 549 U.S. 497 (2007), in which the Supreme Court determined that greenhouse gases...
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"Clear-sighted" panic; the role of the corporation in the tragedy of the commons by TokyoTom

This is my fourth follow-up post to " Grist and the tragedy of the panicked enviro ", where I try to clarify the institutional frameworks for understanding and addressing resource problems, in response to confusion in comments by others. Here...
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A few simple thoughts on the evolution of moral codes, and why we fight over them (and religion, liberty and the state) by TokyoTom

 

 

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Say hello to our Cyber Big Brother: Rockefeller and Snowe want to give the President "emergency" authority over private computer networks by TokyoTom

Such authority would purportedly trump all laws to the contrary. Private operators of "critical" computer networks would also have to periodical nform the government of their network infrastructure and make sure their network managers have a...
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Tragedy of the panicked enviro IV: not capitalism, but intensive use of unowned resources is the problem by TokyoTom

This is my third follow-up post to " Grist and the tragedy of the panicked enviro ", where I try to clarify the institutional frameworks for understanding and addressing resource problems, in response to confusion in comments by others. cyberfarer...
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Tragedy of the panicked enviro III: learning from Elinor Ostrom about cooperative action by TokyoTom

This is the second follow-up to my post " Grist and the tragedy of the panicked enviro ", where I try to clarify the institutional frameworks for understanding and addressing resource problems, in response to confusion in comments by others...
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The tragedy of the panicked enviro II; understanding the "tragedy of the commons" by TokyoTom

This is the first of several follow-up posts to my post " Grist and the tragedy of the panicked enviro ", where I try to clarify the institutional frameworks for understanding and addressing resource problems, in response to confusion in comments...
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Grist and the tragedy of the panicked enviro: stop and think, about whether resources are OWNED and protected by TokyoTom

The Grist online environmental magazine lent its pages this week to a pessimistic climate change activist, Adam D. Sacks , former director of the Center for Democracy and the Constitution. Mr. Sacks, echoing a despairing piece (" Beyond the point...
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Evolution, religion and our insistence on a still undefined "objective" moral order by TokyoTom

I refer to my previous posts on the interesting subject of whether there is an "objective moral order", which Gene Callahan broached in a May blog post , returned to in a subsequent post but abandoned, to be picked up but ultimately punted by...
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A note to Joe Romm about big, bad, carbon-tax-supporting Exxon and the API by TokyoTom

Joe Romm has a post up at Climate Progress that is highly critical of the U.S. oil industry, his ire no doubt triggered by the news that the American Petroleum Institute (API) is coordinating a series of "Energy Citizen" rallies by oil industry...
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If you visit Japan, leave your pocketknife at home; if you bring it, certainly don`t ask the police for directions! by TokyoTom

 

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Margo Thorning / ACCF to WVa. Conservative Foundation: we need a carbon tax and other policies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by TokyoTom

Margo Thorning, Chief Economist and SVP at the influential American Council for Capital Formation (and director of research for its tax and environmental policy think tank (ACCF Center for Policy Research) and managing director of its new international...
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More on self-deception, mirror positions and libertarian reticence on climate policy by TokyoTom

I copy below (with minor changes for clarity) a further comment I made on the piece by Bob Murphy ( "I'm Starting With the Man in the Mirror" ) to which I referred in my prior post . The comment on which I remarking is addressed by one commenter...
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Fun with Self-Deception and Rent-Seeking: Bob Murphy's "Man in the Mirror" by TokyoTom

Robert Murphy , Austrian school economist and blogger , is in my book a remarkably thoughtful and insightful commentator on current economic issues, even as I find some of his arguments on climate policy and energy to be shallow . Bob`s balance and relatively...
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Fun with Partisanship and Self-Deception: the climate follies and Rob Bradley by TokyoTom

Political scientist and climate commenter Roger Pielke, Jr. and scientist and Climate Progress blogger Joe Romm had a heated little spat last month, with both trading accusations of lies and bad faith . When I left comments with each suggesting that the...
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