"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" Dolan - TT's Lost in Tokyo

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...

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...

Climate change damage and property rights: do Lockean principles require Western nations to compensate poorer ones? by TokyoTom

Dedicated libertarian law professor Jonathan Adler and longtime libertarian policy analyst Indur Goklany discuss the above issue at in a Roundtable entitled " Climate Change and Property Rights " hosted by Shikha Dalmia of the Reason Foundation...

[Update] Climate change lawsuits: Does the difficulty of proving causation mean there is no harm? by TokyoTom

There is a new climate change lawsuit in US courts, this time by the Inuit inhabitants of an Alaskan village that will soon be rendered uninhabitable by the rapid erosion resulting from the year-round pounding of seas that were once frozen; the villagers...

Thank you, Prof. Block, for feeding our confirmation biases by TokyoTom

Walter Block of Loyola University has graced the main LvMI blog with a rare post, this time a clipping - without commentary - from a piece entitled " Forget global warming: Welcome to the new Ice Age ", by Canadian conservative commentator Lorne...
Filed under: , , , , , , , , , ,

Escape from Reason: are Austrians conservatives, or neocons, on the environment? by TokyoTom

In their more considerate writings, Austrians have counseled a cool, rational approach to environmental issues. But recent posts lead me to wonder whether a number of LvMI blog authors and commenters prefer hot-headed emotional outbursts and partisan...
Filed under: , , , , , , , , ,

Edwin Dolan: applying the Lockean framework to climate change by TokyoTom

I would like to bring readers' attention to Edwin G. Dolan's "Science, Public Policy and Global Warming: Rethinking the Market Liberal Position ", from the Fall 2006 issue of The Cato Journal: www.cato.org/pubs/journal/cj26n3/cj26n3...
Filed under: , , , , , ,

"Pay Your Air Share" - Libertarian think tank advocates carbon taxes! by TokyoTom

1. Check out the San Diego-based The Prometheus Institute , http://www.prometheusinstitute.net/ , which has just launched a new website calling for carbon taxes: http://www.payyourairshare.org/ . They propose that: A tax be levied on all major emitters...
Filed under: , , , ,