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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...

Confirmation bias, rent-seeking and the rush to print the latest climate science "scoop" (Lindzen-Choi) by TokyoTom

Since I`m in Tokyo and deprived of Bob Murphy `s enviable access, via talk radio , to cutting-edge climate science, I thank him using his blog to bring it to the attention of his audience (which occasionally includes me). Says Bob (emphasis added): Chip...

On Bob Murphy`s narrow attack on Krugman`s support for the Waxman-Markey climate bill by TokyoTom

I just stumbled into Bob Murphy `s June 8 post at the LvMI Daily site, and submitted a few comments . As it looks like my links prevented my comments from posting, I`ve copied them here (with a few typo tweaks and links added): Bob, I didn`t realize you...

Marlo Lewis/CEI at MasterResource: why a massive cap & trade program is much, much better than Jim Hansen's simple rebated carbon tax idea. Or not. by TokyoTom

Marlo Lewis of CEI has a rather schizophrenic post up at Rob Bradley 's MasterResource blog - one of my favorite "free market" fossil-fuel industry-funded sites (unlike the NRO's "Planet Gore", MasterResource actually allows...

Update from Rob Bradley: My BOOKS prove that I'm a free-marketer! (That's why I'm free to boost fossil fuels and bash enviros on my blogs!) by TokyoTom

I noted in a previous post that Rob Bradley , CEO of the Institute for Energy Research and lead blogger at MasterResource , has cheered on big coal and bashed what he calls "Malthusian anti-energy crusaders", but ignoring while he does so the...

Rob Bradley cheers on coal, but are all those who want to better manage commons and environmental impacts "Malthusian" idiots, or only in the case of coal? by TokyoTom

Rob Bradley has a new post up at MasterResource , cheering on big (and now "clean") coal, which has apparently received assurances from the Obama administration - after being bad-mouthed by NASA scientist Jim Hansen , Steven Chu and Obama himself...
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"Free market" Rob Bradley prefers to mock enviros rather than to make common cause by TokyoTom

Robert L. Bradley, Jr. is an energy expert (author, former speechwriter for Key Lay and director of public policy analysis at Enron, founder and CEO of Institute for Energy Research ) with libertarian leanings. But in a series of posts on climate issues...
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