"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, AGW - TT's Lost in Tokyo

Paul Krugman: "The only way we’re going to get action ... is if those who stand in the way of action come to be perceived as not just wrong but immoral." by TokyoTom

Paul Krugman reaches the above conclusion in his August 1 New York Time op-ed , which asks "Can This Planet Be Saved?" , while discussing the latest work by economists on the cost-benefit analsys of taking action to mitigate potential climate...

More carbon tax advocacy, this time from Jerry Taylor/Cato, in a piece criticizing Pickens' plan by TokyoTom

Jerry Taylor , a senior fellow at the Cato Institute , published a pithy criticism in last week's Financial Post of T. Boone Pickens' plan to get wind subsidies and other favors from Congress; said Taylor: "Virtually every claim made by T...

Marlo Lewis/CEI laughs at the ice sheets and Gore; Lloyd's and other insurers do not. Hmmm. by TokyoTom

Andy Revkin of the NYT recently posted at his "Dot Earth" blog an update by a scientist to the effect that apparently the increasing summer melt in Greenland is not markedly lubricating glacier flow . While this doesn't alter the fact that...

Jim Hansen warns of slow-motion disaster and welcomes future public trials of fossil fuel CEOs for buying government delay by TokyoTom

Prominent climatologist Dr. James Hansen , Director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies and Adjunct Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Columbia University, who has long been warning of the long-term consequences of man's...

The importance of being a drop in the climate bucket - Michael Pollan on personal responsibility by TokyoTom

The New York Times has dubbed its April 20 Magazine edition as "The Green Issue" . The subtitle? "Some Bold Steps to Make Your Carbon Footprint Smaller" . I've barely taken a look at the issue as a whole, but I have noticed that...
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Bush - hoist by own petard - prepares global warming initiative by TokyoTom

More at the Washington Times: http://washingtontimes.com/article/20080414/NATION/676175489/1001 And at the Wall Street Journal's enviro blog: http://blogs.wsj.com/environmentalcapital/2008/04/14/green-bush-white-house-to-push-climate-package/?mod...
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Climate science resources by TokyoTom

Here are rather exhaustive lists of the skeptics' arguments on science grounds, along with brief analyses and links to underlying publications: Coby Beck: How to talk to Global Warming Skeptic Brian Angliss A Thorough Debunking New Scientist: Climate...
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[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...
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Climate spin: Who changed "global warming" to "climate change"? by TokyoTom

Answer: It wasn't the enviros who changed the use of this term, but rather high-powered corporate lobbying interests and their allies in Bush government and the Republican party , spearheaded by leading Republican pollster/ spinmeister Frank Luntz...
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Did global warming stop in 1998? Jim Hansen says NO. by TokyoTom

Inquiring minds might want to take a quick look at what Dr. James E. Hansen of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies has to say: The year 2007 tied for second warmest in the period of instrumental data, behind the record warmth of 2005, in the...
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Reducing CO2 vs. expanding energy needs by TokyoTom

Ron Bailey of Reason , reporting from Bali, has an interesting post up summarizing the discussion by James Connaughton, director of President Bush's Council on Environmental Quality, on one small aspect of the climate conundrum, namely, what would...
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Richard Tol and Marty Weitzman on The Costs of Ignoring Carbon by TokyoTom

There is a new paper out by economist Richard Tol that summarizes all of the economic work on climate change over the past two decades, in light of recent analyses, particularly the ground-breaking new work by Harvard's Marty Weitzman on how the "fat...
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Roy Spencer and his Christian "EcoFreako" rock band mock Al Gore's fever by TokyoTom

Further to my post on Al Gore's Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech, Dr. Roy Spencer , a prominent climate scientist/skeptic and lead guitarist in a contemporary Christian rock band at St. Mark's Lutheran Church in Huntsville, Alabama, has kindly...
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Duck Hunters Are Becoming AGW Nuts (reports the Evil NYT) by TokyoTom

[Snark Alert!] Duck hunters (and state game departments) are noticing climate change and are changing their individual and group behavior. See the NYT December 11 article, "In Duck Blinds, Visions of Global Warming", http://www.nytimes.com/2007...
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