Bob Murphy (Senior Fellow in Business and Economic Studies at Pacific Research Institute, and economist with the Institute for Energy Research) has a recent post up on the wonders of "geo-engineering" as a cure-all any potential negative consequences for our unmanaged, unrepeatable experiment...
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TokyoTom
on Sat, Dec 19 2009
Filed under: geo-engineering, climate change, Bob Murphy, David Henderson
Bob Murphy recently offered LvMI readers a post; "Apologist Responses to Climategate Misconstrue the Real Debate" ; I left a few comments in response (minor edits). (My apologies to Bob for borrowing and tweaking his title.) Bob, interesting title - "Apologist Responses to Climategate...
[Update: I copy at bottom a follow-up exchange I had on Bob`s thread with another reader - radio silence from Bob.] Bob Murphy has a new post up at his blog, " CBO Testimony Misleads on Cost of Cap-and-Trade ", that draws attention to a new blog post at the Institute of Energy Research that...
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TokyoTom
on Wed, Oct 28 2009
Filed under: rent-seeking, Block, climate change, Coal, Bob Murphy, Rob Bradley, Exxon
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
[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