<blockquote>[Sorry about this mess. I was able to get the formatting to work here: http://mises.com/blogs/tokyotom/archive/2007/10/30/climate-science-a-fundamentalist-creation-science-approach-update.aspx ]</blockquote> For convenience of reference, I`ve excerpted from the long "Malthus...
More on geo-engineering at the NYT by climate scientist Ken Caldeira: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/24/opinion/24caldiera.html?th&emc=th I will visit later the question of whether this is something that should be investigated.
1. There is an excellent interview of Dr. Ron Paul now up at Grist, the environmental news and commentary site, that explores some of his views on environmental and energy issues. I am with him in principle but think he has underestimated the seriousness of the climate change problem and not seriously...
[updated] A great new post by libertarian Ron Bailey of Reason here: Congratulations to Al Gore But be wary of the man's proposed solutions for global warming. Ronald Bailey | October 12, 2007 http://www.reason.com/news/show/122960.html 1. Here are some excerpts (emphasis added), followed by a copy...
"Advanced democracies export their problems to emerging economies, thus shoving the whole problem neatly under the carpet. If the west really believed in being good global citizens we would (just for starters) refuse to trade with China and India. Then there is the small matter of cleaning up our...
How exactly do you transfer commons into private ownership in a fair way, even for easily divided up stuff like land? That's the trillion dollar question that someone asked me on a recent thread ( http://blog.mises.org/archives/007152.asp#comments ) regarding my suggestion that better definition...
[Previously posted on a recent thread ( Malthus and Mein Kampf come to Cork - thanks, Sean Corrigan !) in response to someone who is concerned about environmental problems but is unfamiliar with Austrian approaches.] Man is clever but not wise ("homo sapiens" is a misnomer) and we remain very...
"Not all externalities are crimes, and as long as CO2 does not make clear victims, it should be left as an externality for people to adapt to ...." In response to this statement on a recent thread ( http://blog.mises.org/archives/007152.asp#comments ), I observed, in the context of the impact...
Roy Cordato has cogently summarized his views and the work of his Austrian colleagues here: http://mises.org/story/1760 . Thoughts on what this framework implies for modern issues are welcome. Below are some favorite excerpts, with emphasis added: "Austrian economics lacks a formalized, self-conscious...
[update: see additional links at bottom - including to discussions of Austrian concerns] [update2: at bottom] Climate change skeptic Benny Peiser of the Liverpool John Moores University recently circulated these links and excerpts via his "CCNet" mailing list (
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Here's a partial list of useful articles, alphabetically by author: Terry L. Anderson and J. Bishop Grewell Property Rights Solutions for the Global Commons: Bottom-Up or Top-Down? http://www.law.duke.edu/shell/cite.pl?10+Duke+Envtl.+L.+&+Pol'y+F.+73+pdf H. Barnett and Bruce Yandle The End...