See this surprising decision in the UK , letting climate-change protesters/trespassers off the hook for damages resulting from spray-painting a coal plant smokestack, on the grounds that a UK law "allows damage to be caused to property to prevent even greater damage." Why is this single jury...
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TokyoTom
on Thu, Sep 11 2008
Filed under: cordato, AGW, Ron Bailey, adler, Dolan, Block, climate change, Iain Murray, rothbard, bratland
[ UPDATE: Unfortunately I've confused the 1979 JASON report with the Charney report that followed it (and referred to it) later that year. My bad! The Charney report is available online and is summarized in item 2 below; I could not find a copy of the JASON report online, but report some available...
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TokyoTom
on Mon, Sep 8 2008
Filed under: AGW, climate change, JASON report, Oreskes, Charney report
Hockey-stick artist Michael Mann is back, along with the rest of his team from Penn State’s Earth System Science Center, with his hockey stick, this time supported by more proxy data. Although McIntyre and McKitrick had some valid criticisms of Mann's initial work, the National Academy of Sciences...
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on Mon, Sep 8 2008
Filed under: AGW, mcintyre, mckitrick, climate change, hockey stick, Mann
I copy below comments I made on a related thread at Roger Pielke, Jr .'s Prometheus science policy blog, regarding recent duelling op-eds on climate change policy between the left-leaning Danish political scientist Bjørn Lomborg and economist Gary Yohe . Lomborg has stirred up discussions...
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TokyoTom
on Thu, Sep 4 2008
Filed under: AGW, carbon pricing, lomborg, pielke jr., Richard Tol, climate change, Yohe, Copenhagen
Jim Manzi has just posted the close-out essay in the online forum (at Cato Unbound ) that the Cato Institute has devoted recently to the issues of climate change risks and policy. I alerted readers to the Cato effort and provide comments here , here and here . My thoughts on Manzi`s final essay? Briefly...