"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" AGW, climate change - TT's Lost in Tokyo

[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...

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...

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...

Jim Manzi/Cato: Climate progressives? by TokyoTom

Jim Manzi has just posted the close-out essay in the online forum (at Cato Unbound ) that the Cato Institute has devoted recently to the issues of climate change risks and policy. I alerted readers to the Cato effort and provide comments here , here and...

More on Manzi/Cato on climate by TokyoTom

A few days ago I concluded that Jim Manz i’s lead essay in Cato Unbound's new climate issue exhibited rather weak “libertariarian sinews” . Allow me to note a few additional remarks on Manzi`s arguments. 1. It's clear from Manzi's...
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Cato ... takes climate change seriously, and devotes latest online issue to it by TokyoTom

The Cato Institute has dedicated its entire current monthly issue of Cato Unbound , its online forum, to discussing policy responses to ongoing climate change. The issue, entitled " Keeping Our Cool: What to Do about Global Warming ", contains...
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Jim Manzi/Cato on climate: with flabby "libertariarian sinews", he advocates no panic, but domestic climate science and technology investments by TokyoTom

[UPDATE: See my follow-up post .] Cato Unbound's new climate issue features a lead essay by Jim Manzi , who is an MIT- and Wharton-trained statistician and CEO of Applied Predictive Technologies (which uses pattern recognition and optimization models...
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Friedman: Energy taxes have destroyed Denmark - not by TokyoTom

Thomas Friedman has an op-ed at the New York Times that describes some of Denmark's energy taxation and alternative energy policies . No doubt these policies created distortions and in some ways left Denmark less wealthy than if such policies had...
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Chris Horner/CEI: Confused or alarmist on Kuznets, China and climate? by TokyoTom

The right-wing Business & Media Institute has published a rather confused piece by Chris Horner , senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute , in which Horner, while noting China's progress along the environmental Kuznets curve (as...
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Open letter response to Gore's "Alliance for Climate Protection" proposed 10-year transition to "clean" power by TokyoTom

I received the following email today from Cathy Zoi , who is the CEO of Al Gore's "Alliance for Climate Protection" and sent back the response I note further below; Dear Tokyo, Last week, Exxon Mobil announced record profits -- at the same...
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Op-ed by nuclear physicist on climate change: questions for "skeptics" by TokyoTom

John P. Holdren , an MIT and Stanford -trained nuclear physicist who is professor at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government and the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences and director of Harvard's Woods Hole Research Center , former President...
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Climate change AND the Forest Service's perfect budgetary firestorm by TokyoTom

On a Mises blog thread last year , I noted: controlled burns might of course be useful in some places, especially along the WUI (wildland-urban interface), but Randal O`Toole at Cato has done a good job showing that generally fuel accumulation is not...
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Gene Callahan: public moral opprobrium is an appropriate non-statist lever against climate change by TokyoTom

I previously noted Gene Callahan`s interesting essay , "How a Free Society Could Solve Global Warming" , in the October 2007 issue of The Freeman: Ideas on Liberty , at the website of The Foundation for Economic Education (FEE). While I haven...
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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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