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Ideology on parade: To Mark Levin and conservatives, NRO's own climate expert is now a “Global Warming Zealot”?! by TokyoTom

My goodness! Another Frumming at NRO! So Jim Manzi, a conservative/libertarian and a reasoned critic of cap and trade - who has been retained by NRO and is on the National Review board of trustees - has, by criticizing poor climate science arguments by...
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Wow; a type of climate science review we'll never see at Mises Blog; at NRO, Jim Manzi takes down "wingnuttery" by Mark Levin by TokyoTom

Last week at the NYT, Ross Douthat , himself stirred by Julian Sanchez's recent perception of a problem of "epistemic closure" (an ideologically sealed news and thought echochamber) on the Right , and threw down a gauntlet to conservative...
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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...

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...