"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" climate change - TT's Lost in Tokyo

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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Crazy Bill Gates on the need for energy innovation: We need to "fix market barriers and dysfunctions" by TokyoTom

[Note: Snark inside.] As I mentioned earlier , Bill Gates has recently posted his thoughts on how to address climate issues . Since we know Gates has been funding scientific inquiry into (and patent rights regarding) methods to dampen "climate change"...

Bill Gates, Roger Pielke, Avatar & the Climate (of distrust); or, Can we move from a tribal questioning of motives to win-win policies? by TokyoTom

"Whhhaaat the heck is TT up NOW?" I can hear some of you asking yourselves. Bill Gates , Roger Pielke , the movie Avatar and climate? Just what elusive illusions am I alluding to here? (Stop playing, you say.) Well, brace yourself, and bear...

[Update] Geo-engineering: Say It Ain't So, Bill! World's richest man revealed as sugar daddy to vicious/crackpot/envirofascist cult "scientists" by TokyoTom

[Note: Hope the obvious snark isn`t too confusing; some simple thoughts on an alternative view are at bottom.] An obviously deluded Bill Gates apparently: has become a global warming/carbon cultist and/or has been suckered by carbon-trading swindlers...

Bob Murphy, Implicit Apologist for Coal, Misconstrues the Real Debate & Lessons from "Climategate" by TokyoTom

Bob Murphy recently offered LvMI readers a post; "Apologist Responses to Climategate Misconstrue the Real Debate" ; I left a few comments in response (minor edits). (My apologies to Bob for borrowing and tweaking his title.) Bob, interesting...

More lunacy? James Murdoch/News Corp. argues for "Clean energy conservatives can embrace" by TokyoTom

Readers might also want to take note of this December 4 recent WaPo op-ed by James Murdoch , chairman and chief executive (Europe and Asia) of News Corporation, which is targetted at getting Republicans involved in approving climate legislation. Now is...
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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 Road Not Taken V: Libertarian hatred of misanthropic "watermelons" and the productive love of aloof ad-homs by TokyoTom

I copy below a comment I just left at Stephan Kinsella `s post on the main LvMI Blog, " Physicist Howard Hayden's one-letter disproof of global warming claims ", which I have discussed here in several preceeding posts . TokyoTom Published...
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