"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" carbon pricing - TT's Lost in Tokyo

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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Ringside seat on the fight to steer the Chamber of Commerce`s climate bus by TokyoTom

On the heels of my post about Apple leaving the U.S. Chamber of Commerce , here are a few more links and excerpts for eager readers (who have been spared a longer post that vanished into the ether as pixie dust crashed Mozilla and my prior unsaved draft...

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...

A note to Joe Romm about big, bad, carbon-tax-supporting Exxon and the API by TokyoTom

Joe Romm has a post up at Climate Progress that is highly critical of the U.S. oil industry, his ire no doubt triggered by the news that the American Petroleum Institute (API) is coordinating a series of "Energy Citizen" rallies by oil industry...
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Margo Thorning / ACCF to WVa. Conservative Foundation: we need a carbon tax and other policies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by TokyoTom

Margo Thorning, Chief Economist and SVP at the influential American Council for Capital Formation (and director of research for its tax and environmental policy think tank (ACCF Center for Policy Research) and managing director of its new international...
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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...
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Jim Hansen on Freeman Dyson on climate change by TokyoTom

I received the following in an email from NASA climate scientist James Hansen (whom I`ve mentioned a number of times ), in connection with today`s New York Times Magazine article ( "The Civil Heretic" ) on Freeman Dyson , which is now making...
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[Fixed] Exxon/Rex Tillerson: No longer willing to be "conservative" on climate risks, advocates carbon taxes and invests in carbon-lite tech by TokyoTom

[Somehow most of my excerpts of Tillerson`s speech weren`t included in my first try; there`re here this time.] It may still seem novel to some, but Exxon Mobil Corporation began throwing its weight behind carbon pricing policies more than two years ago...
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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...
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Henry Payne/NRO and the Deal Not Taken: He's shocked, shocked that Dems won't end CAFE mileage standards by TokyoTom

Henry Payne (cartoonist at the Detroit News and commentator at NRO) has a interesting post up on Feb. 18 at NRO's enviro-bashing "Planet Gore" website: "Obama’s Washington Is the Enemy of Auto-Industry Reform ". In it, Payne...
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Fat Tails Part Deux: cost-benefit analysis and climate change; Weitzman replies to Nordhaus by TokyoTom

[Note: Although the giant snakes I mentioned in my preceding post may have fat tails, I didn't want my description of the discussion between Harvard`s Martin Weitzman and Yale`s William Nordhaus of the limits of cost-benefit analysis to be overlooked...
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Let`s recreate the Paleocene! Giant snakes, "fat tails", cost-benefit analysis and climate change; Weitzman replies to Nordhaus by TokyoTom

Giant snakes? What could a few colossal bones found in Colombia have to do with us now? 1. A recent paper in Nature about the discovery of several specimens of a giant snake ("Titanoboa") that lived in Latin America 60 million years ago captured...
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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...
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