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Shorter URL's for your blog, profile

If you weren't pleased with the longer blog URLs of the Mises Community, you now have an alternative URL: http://blogs.mises.org. For example http://blogs.mises.org/misestech You can also link to your profile at http://people.mises.org. For example...

Posted to The Mises Tech Update by David V on Wed, Jul 2 2008

Filed under: URLs

Robert Sohn of Wood's Hole: the 1999 Arctic seafloor volcanic explosions are NOT responsible for rapid sea ice melting

In personal email correspondence with me, geophysicist Robert A. Sohn , the lead scientist on the international team that reported last week about powerful explosive volcanic activity in 1999 in the deep Arctic Ocean seafloor has strongly rejected the...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Wed, Jul 2 2008

Filed under: climate change, volcanoes, Revkin, Arctic, Rob Sohn, AGQ

Lomborg's brilliant climate plan: leave GHG externalities alone and let governments spend 0.05% of GDP on picking winning low-carb technologies!

The folly practically speaks for itself . Why does Bjorn Lomborg think that governments can better determine worthy investments than private firms? And that such investments should be borne by ordinary taxpayers rather than those who are generating the...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Sun, Jun 29 2008

Filed under: hansen, AGW, carbon pricing, lomborg, climate change, pork, Boudreaux, British Columbia

Hoppe's "paper law": a post-modern view?

Today's daily article on Mises.org, Hoppe's " On the Impossibility of Limited Government and the Prospects for a Second American Revolution ," reminded me of a section in Walter Truett Anderson's book Reality Isn't What It Used...

Posted to scottyokim by scottyokim on Sat, Jun 28 2008

Peabody Coal is VERY concerned about how Jim Hansen is "cheapening the dialogue"

In response to Jim Hansen's recent expressed desire for "public trials" for fossil fuel executives if, despite being "aware of long-term consequences of continued business as usual," they continue their "campaigns" "to...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Sat, Jun 28 2008

Filed under: hansen, AGW, carbon pricing, climate change, Coal, Peabody, Revkin

Why top demagogues (Jim Hansen, Florida Power, RAND, Exxon, AEI, Margo Thorning, major economists, George Will) prefer rebated carbon taxes

[Note to first-time readers: the title is tongue-in-cheek.] I have previously blogged on libertarian, non-state approaches to climate change ; allow me to use this post to pull together for diligent readers various recent sources of opinion and information...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Fri, Jun 27 2008

Filed under: hansen, AGW, carbon pricing, GAO, George Will, Mankiw, Peter Barnes, rebated tax, OMB, RAND, Hayward, Thoring, Ken Green, Exxon, Pizer, Shapiro, AEI, Royce, Lakoff, Lewis Hay, Riddle

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

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...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Thu, Jun 26 2008

Filed under: climate, AGW, carbon pricing, James Hansen, adler, Callahan, fossil fuels, George Will, Peter Barnes

[Update] Another Clear Thinker at Mises warns us about "The vicious lie behind the global warming scare"!!!

This time it`s David Veksler , with a post on the main LvMI blog , with the title I`ve quoted above. Why is it that so many Mises commentators flee from reason and prefer a fever-pitched focus on strawmen when it comes to addressing environmental issues...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Thu, Jun 26 2008

Filed under: Reisman, commons, enviros, geo-engineering, AGW, Enviro Derangement Syndrome, climate change, GAO, GHGs

False Realism and Utopianism

Conservatism is a defense of the existing order or past existing orders as "natural". Any potential alternative to the existing order or to the romantisized past order is immediately brushed aside as "unnatural" and "utopian"...

Posted to Brainpolice by Brainpolice on Wed, Jun 25 2008

Filed under: Determinism, Collectivism, Social Evolution, Equality, Philosophy, Human Nature, conservatism, History, Vulgar Libertarianism, Marxism

Criminality, Consent, and Copyright

Its sometimes argued that without the state intellectual property could, and should, continue under contracts. Aside from the obvious pragmatic concerns, this "consent" based approach fails to legitimize the activity. To put it concisely: you...

Posted to Brush Fires of Freedom by Bostwick on Tue, Jun 24 2008

Filed under: Intellectual Propert

George Will on why a carbon tax is much preferable to cap and trade

The Warner-Lieberman bill has been withdrawn for consideration by Congress this year - and thank goodness. Why do I say that? A few weeks ago George Will published a column that explains very clearly why we are fortunate that this bill has been put on...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Tue, Jun 24 2008

Filed under: AGW, carbon pricing, climate change, George Will

Good stuff: Ron Bailey, Fred Smith and Lynne Kiesling debate climate change policy at Reason.org

I highly recommend that readers view the debate (or the transcript) between the above participants that Reason held last October but has just given renewed prominence at Reasononline and in their July 2008 print edition. Ron Bailey is the Science Correspondent...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Sun, Jun 22 2008

Filed under: Ron Bailey, carbon pricing, climate change, Fred Smith, Kiesling, Reason

Judeo-Christian Morality vs. The Free Society

I'd like to explain why I think that traditional judeo-christian morality does not synch up very well with the principles of liberty and does not provide a beneficial cultural framework for a free society. In many ways, I'm not going to be saying...

Posted to Brainpolice by Brainpolice on Sat, Jun 21 2008

Filed under: Objectivism, Ethics, Self-interest, Rational Egoism, Altruism, Religion, Atheism, Libertarianism, Philosophy

More on deliberate cooling via geo-engineering

See Ron Bailey's recent summary of developments about whether it may be possible to buy time on climate change with technological fixes. Libertarian Iain Murray supports government funding of geo-engineering approaches. See my previous posts for more...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Sat, Jun 21 2008

Filed under: geo-engineering, Ron Bailey, climate change, Iain Murray

GAO releases report summarizing views of leading economists on climate change policy

At the request of Congress, the General Accounting Office has prepared and recently publicly released a report, " Expert Opinion on Economics of Policy Options to Address Climate Change ," which summarizes the views of leading climate change...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Thu, Jun 19 2008

Filed under: climate change, cost-benefit, GAO, economists