Apologies, but I can`t resist: I saw a news item earlier today - "Copenhagen climate summit borrows Dylan's voice" - that indicates that the COP 15 organizers (the 15th Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, to which Pres. George H.W. Bush & Congress...
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TokyoTom
on Sat, Dec 5 2009
Filed under: carbon pricing, James Hansen, Coal, Exxon, climate change, Bradley, Tillerson, Murphy, Dylan
Senate Dems, who lack sufficient votes on their own to approve a cap-and-trade bill over a possible Republican fillibuster, have sought help from sympathetic Republicans, who have apparently used this leverage to broaden the bill and to extract key concessions on various issues; such concessions are...
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TokyoTom
on Mon, Oct 12 2009
Filed under: carbon pricing, pielke jr., Coal, Joe Romm, carbon capture, climate change, nuclear power, Lindsey Graham, John Kerry
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
I noted in a previous post that Rob Bradley , CEO of the Institute for Energy Research and lead blogger at MasterResource , has cheered on big coal and bashed what he calls "Malthusian anti-energy crusaders", but ignoring while he does so the questions of (1) whether there are any legitimate...
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TokyoTom
on Sat, Feb 7 2009
Filed under: energy, carbon pricing, Enviro Derangement Syndrome, climate change, Coal, obama, Rob Bradley
Rob Bradley has a new post up at MasterResource , cheering on big (and now "clean") coal, which has apparently received assurances from the Obama administration - after being bad-mouthed by NASA scientist Jim Hansen , Steven Chu and Obama himself - that, despite pressures from the "Malthusian...
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TokyoTom
on Thu, Feb 5 2009
Filed under: energy, carbon pricing, Enviro Derangement Syndrome, Coal, obama, Rob Bradley, Jim Hansen, climate change