More from the National Review 's "Planet Gore" corner . My reaction? While we do need investments in power transmission infrastructure , do it with your own money, T. Boone . While I, along with many others, could support a rebated carbon tax that would spur investments in energy efficiency...
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on Tue, Sep 2 2008
Filed under: climate, AGW, carbon pricing, power, Pickens, transmission
Paul Krugman reaches the above conclusion in his August 1 New York Time op-ed , which asks "Can This Planet Be Saved?" , while discussing the latest work by economists on the cost-benefit analsys of taking action to mitigate potential climate risks - this time by Harvard`s Marty Weitzman ,...
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on Fri, Aug 1 2008
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Jerry Taylor , a senior fellow at the Cato Institute , published a pithy criticism in last week's Financial Post of T. Boone Pickens' plan to get wind subsidies and other favors from Congress; said Taylor: "Virtually every claim made by T. Boone Pickens to justify the lavish subsidies he...
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on Wed, Jul 30 2008
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Andy Revkin of the NYT recently posted at his "Dot Earth" blog an update by a scientist to the effect that apparently the increasing summer melt in Greenland is not markedly lubricating glacier flow . While this doesn't alter the fact that the Greenland melt (and outlet glaciers)continues...
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on Wed, Jul 16 2008
Filed under: climate, AGW, Antarctica, Greenland, Jim Hansen, Mario Lewis, Lloyds, WAIS
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 essentially uncontrolled experiment with the world's...
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on Thu, Jun 26 2008
Filed under: climate, AGW, carbon pricing, James Hansen, adler, Callahan, fossil fuels, George Will, Peter Barnes