"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" Coal - TT's Lost in Tokyo

Sen. Byrd - coal-hater and climate fanatic? by TokyoTom

It looks like Sen. Robert Byrd , a lifetime loyal supporter of the West Virginia coal industry (see his definitive biography, “Robert C. Byrd: Child of the Appalachian Coalfields” ), stabbed Don Blankenship/Massey Coal and the rest of the...

"The Climes, They Are A-Changin`"; Or, Dylan Does Copenhagen by TokyoTom

Apologies, but I can`t resist: I saw a news item earlier today - "Copenhagen climate summit borrows Dylan's voice" - that indicates that the COP 15 organizers (the 15th Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate...

[update] Bob Murphy, Rob Bradley and the Austrian Road Not Taken on Climate by two fossil-fuels gunslingers by TokyoTom

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Republicans (Sen. Lindsey Graham & others) give Dems a climate deal? In exchange for streamlining for nukes, "clean coal" subsidies, offshore drilling, carbon price ceiling & import taxes by TokyoTom

 

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Google electrifies power consumers by pairing its free PowerMeter software with a power monitor provider; sideteps public utility monopolies by TokyoTom

 

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Now Apple Computer leaves! One-track "King Coal" interests insist on steering the US Chamber of Commerce`s climate bus by TokyoTom

The intransigence of a core of coal interests, in the face of a rebellion by firms that support legislative action on climate change, is threatening the status of the US Chamber of Commerce as the premier business council in the US, as now Apple Computer...
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Bob Murphy spins shallow "Blockbuster study" by coal lobby on cap and trade bill by TokyoTom

The coal- and utility-funded "free-market think tank" Institute of Energy Research has a just released another study that tells us the obvious about the regressive consequences of the Waxman-Markey cap-and-trade bill and the benefits likely...
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Bob Murphy on climate change at Antiwar Radio; a puppet for the "King Coal" hand that feeds him? by TokyoTom

 

 

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Steve Milloy criticizes GE’s "smart-meter profiteering" via green mandates, but ignores state grants of "public utility" monopolies by TokyoTom

 

 

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Does responding to climate change risks REQUIRE government? by TokyoTom

A reader of Bob Murphy` s recent post on climate science - " TokyoTom Moving the Goalposts? " - queried my views on whether perceptions of climate change problems themselves justified a need to establish government. I copy below my response...
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The extra richness of Robert Bradley/MasterResource: diehard libertarian making a living at pure rent-seeking ("political capitalism") by TokyoTom

 

 

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[Updated] Bob Murphy: Rob Bradley's "IER Calls for End to All Energy Subsidies" - Not by TokyoTom

 

 

 

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Overlooked by those warmed by climate rhetoric ("alarmist" or "denialist") - the fact that our most important commons have NO property rights rules by TokyoTom

 

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Rot at the core: federally-owned TVA's massive coal flyash spill - the TVA "protects" affected residents by hassling/arresting the volunteers who help them by TokyoTom

 

 

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