My goodness! Another Frumming at NRO! So Jim Manzi, a conservative/libertarian and a reasoned critic of cap and trade - who has been retained by NRO and is on the National Review board of trustees - has, by criticizing poor climate science arguments by neocon polemicist Mark Levin, become Public Enemy...
Last week at the NYT, Ross Douthat , himself stirred by Julian Sanchez's recent perception of a problem of "epistemic closure" (an ideologically sealed news and thought echochamber) on the Right , and threw down a gauntlet to conservative intellectuals: "Conservative domestic policy...
[Note: Snark inside.] As I mentioned earlier , Bill Gates has recently posted his thoughts on how to address climate issues . Since we know Gates has been funding scientific inquiry into (and patent rights regarding) methods to dampen "climate change" affects that are expected by many to arise...
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TokyoTom
on Thu, Feb 18 2010
Filed under: geo-engineering, climate change, Bill Gates, Freakonomics, Caldeira, innovation
"Whhhaaat the heck is TT up NOW?" I can hear some of you asking yourselves. Bill Gates , Roger Pielke , the movie Avatar and climate? Just what elusive illusions am I alluding to here? (Stop playing, you say.) Well, brace yourself, and bear with me. Roger Pielke, Jr . has a post up regarding...
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TokyoTom
on Sat, Feb 13 2010
Filed under: rent-seeking, ostrom, Lessig, climate change, Pielke, Avatar
I cite from: http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1962294,00.html "That's in part because of global warming — hotter air can hold more moisture, so when a storm gathers it can unleash massive amounts of snow." Well it's not that dumb seeing alone, but seeing it together...