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
On the heels of my post about Apple leaving the U.S. Chamber of Commerce , here are a few more links and excerpts for eager readers (who have been spared a longer post that vanished into the ether as pixie dust crashed Mozilla and my prior unsaved draft) (emphasis added). 1. The Chamber`s opaque policy...
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TokyoTom
on Tue, Oct 6 2009
Filed under: carbon pricing, climate change, Exxon, chamber of commerce, Apple, Nike, Tom Donohue, USCAP, BICEP, CERES, NRDC
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