"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" December 2007 - Posts - TT's Lost in Tokyo

December 2007 - Posts

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Evidence of the Intelligent Designer found! by TokyoTom

His helpers are busy in a laboratory near you: http://www.silobreaker.com/DocumentReader.aspx?Item=5_802264340 And other stories show how He left some of His Watchmaking tools lying scattered around the universe: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008...
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Holiday joy: roasting "watermelons" on an open pyre! by TokyoTom

[snark on] One of Sean Corrigan's threads brings us not only more information on handy Misesean definitions, but a path towards Yuletide joy. (For those of you who have not been reading them, Sean's columns and comment threads are truly gifts...
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Bison and the Theft of the Commons by TokyoTom

[Updated, as noted] [I now view this as my first "Avatar" post. February 15, 2010.] My attention was drawn today to a letter to the editor published by The Property and Environment Research Center (PERC) , an organization of free-thinkers who...
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John Baden: is this free market enviromentalist stalwart a Mt. Pelerin misanthrope/watermelon? by TokyoTom

 

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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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"Heroic" contrarians, proven wrong on AGW, make another slick cry for relevance at Bali by TokyoTom

On the main blog, Sean Corrigan posts the latest missive of what he considers the brave dissenting voices on climate science. http://blog.mises.org/archives/007541.asp . The letter nods briefly at the concerns summarized by the IPCC reports about warming...
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Who knows climate science? The Mises Blog! by TokyoTom

[Snark alert; See update at bottom] The Mises "Daily Article" for December 11 presents "Are Carbon Emissions the Cause of Global Warming?" a brief, unfootnoted post by David Evans , a self-acknowledged non-expert (who has once previously...
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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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Gore's Nobel Peace Prize speech quotes Churchill in slamming those “decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all powerful to be impotent.” by TokyoTom

[Update below - Roy Spencer's band plays "Earth Has a Fever"!] The speech is worth listening to, especially by those who are inclined to reject Gore's views on our changing climate, the challenges posed by human activities that affect...
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Update: Greenwald on Ron Paul and the "corruption and complicity of Democrats" by TokyoTom

This is an update to my earlier piece on Glenn Greenwald's posts concerning Ron Paul ( http://mises.com/blogs/tokyotom/archive/2007/11/08/gg.aspx ). After one of Greenwald's readers drew his attention to my earlier piece, Greenwald stated the...
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Goering and Madison on War by TokyoTom

Having just stumbled across places where Lew Rockwell and others have done me the honor of posting three of my favorite quotes on war, I'd like to repeat those quotes here in the hope of increasing the likelihood that others might see them. My favorite...
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Does Cordato favor carbon taxes? McKitrick's "innovative carbon tax proposal" by TokyoTom

[Snark level - medium] [update below] Austrian economist Roy Cordato is playing at collectivism by bringing favorable attention to Ross McKitrick's "T3" carbon tax proposal on Cordato's blog, Environment NC (hosted by the John Locke...
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Australia Caves to Hysteria; Signs AGW Suicide Pact by TokyoTom

[Snark in title Alert!] http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/rudd-yes-to-kyoto-pact/2007/12/03/1196530575996.html
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