"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" rent-seeking, climate change - TT's Lost in Tokyo

To John Quiggin: Reassuring climate "delusions" help us all to avoid engaging with "enemies" in exploring common ground by TokyoTom

I left the following comment on John Quiggin`s " Libertarians and delusion " post (other comments are noted in my preceding posts): TokyoTom November 6th, 2009 at 14:03 | #34 @jquiggin I “have started to entertain the view that there is...

A few more "delusional" thoughts to John Quiggin on partisan perceptions & libertarian opposition to collective action by TokyoTom

Further to my preceding posts regarding John Quiggin`s post on " Libertarians and delusionism ", I copy below a few of the comments that I left there: TokyoTom November 4th, 2009 at 08:13 | #3 John, thanks for raising the topic more widely....

Now Apple Computer leaves! One-track "King Coal" interests insist on steering the US Chamber of Commerce`s climate bus by TokyoTom

The intransigence of a core of coal interests, in the face of a rebellion by firms that support legislative action on climate change, is threatening the status of the US Chamber of Commerce as the premier business council in the US, as now Apple Computer...

Does responding to climate change risks REQUIRE government? by TokyoTom

A reader of Bob Murphy` s recent post on climate science - " TokyoTom Moving the Goalposts? " - queried my views on whether perceptions of climate change problems themselves justified a need to establish government. I copy below my response...

The extra richness of Robert Bradley/MasterResource: diehard libertarian making a living at pure rent-seeking ("political capitalism") by TokyoTom

 

 

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"TokyoTom Moving the Goalposts?" Bob Murphy dislikes my criticism of the rush by "skeptics" to print climate science news by TokyoTom

Further to my preceding post, on " Confirmation bias, rent-seeking and the rush to print the latest science "scoop (Linzen-Choi) ", I note that Bob Murphy has kindly put up a new blog post that notes and responds to my comments to him ...
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In which I try to help Bob Murphy figure out just what the heck I`m talking about (when I say he`s entangled in a partisan, rent-seeking game) by TokyoTom

I recently posted a copy of a comment to Bob Murphy , trying to explain Roe Romm`s attack on Bob`s effort to explain some of the stupidity behind "green" or "clean" jobs, and how it is that Bob just doesn`t seem to be (and is in fact...
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Rent-seeking: CEI's Chris Horner comes clean and acknowledges that climate denialists and alarmists are peas in the same pod by TokyoTom

In an earth-shaking ;) essay in today's Human Events, CEI 's Chris Horner comes clean and acknowledges that climate denialists and alarmists are peas in the same rent-seeking pod. We have encountered Horner, former lawyer and now full-time scourge...
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