The coal- and utility-funded "free-market think tank" Institute of Energy Research has a just released another study that tells us the obvious about the regressive consequences of the Waxman-Markey cap-and-trade bill and the benefits likely to flow to its corporate supporters, while masking...
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TokyoTom
on Fri, Oct 2 2009
Filed under: carbon pricing, Coal, statism, Bob Murphy, Rob Bradley, Exxon, IER, political capitalism
Since I`m in Tokyo and deprived of Bob Murphy `s enviable access, via talk radio , to cutting-edge climate science, I thank him using his blog to bring it to the attention of his audience (which occasionally includes me). Says Bob (emphasis added): Chip Knappenberger explains the significance (and remaining...
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TokyoTom
on Fri, Sep 4 2009
Filed under: carbon pricing, confirmation bias, climate change, Knappenberger, Bob Murphy, Rob Bradley, Lindzen
I just stumbled into Bob Murphy `s June 8 post at the LvMI Daily site, and submitted a few comments . As it looks like my links prevented my comments from posting, I`ve copied them here (with a few typo tweaks and links added): Bob, I didn`t realize you had put a post up here. Allow me first to copy...
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TokyoTom
on Thu, Jun 11 2009
Filed under: carbon pricing, Richard Tol, Bob Murphy, Rob Bradley, Jerry Taylor, Joe Romm, climate change
[Note: Although the giant snakes I mentioned in my preceding post may have fat tails, I didn't want my description of the discussion between Harvard`s Martin Weitzman and Yale`s William Nordhaus of the limits of cost-benefit analysis to be overlooked, so I have largely copied it below. I've added...
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TokyoTom
on Fri, Feb 13 2009
Filed under: carbon pricing, climate change, Nordhaus, Bob Murphy, Weizman, fat tails
Giant snakes? What could a few colossal bones found in Colombia have to do with us now? 1. A recent paper in Nature about the discovery of several specimens of a giant snake ("Titanoboa") that lived in Latin America 60 million years ago captured attention last week , including among climate...
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TokyoTom
on Wed, Feb 11 2009
Filed under: carbon pricing, Weitzman, Nordhaus, Bob Murphy, cost-benefit, climate change