I`ve done a bit of blogging over the past few weeks regarding the "The tragedy of climate commons" post by climate scientist Gavin Schmidt and ensuing discussion at the RealClimate website. Schmidt wrote the post in response to the implied suggestion by Chip Knappenberger at the MasterResource...
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TokyoTom
on Tue, May 26 2009
Filed under: climate, rent-seeking, Knappenberger, Jim Hansen, Schmidt
More from the National Review 's "Planet Gore" corner . My reaction? While we do need investments in power transmission infrastructure , do it with your own money, T. Boone . While I, along with many others, could support a rebated carbon tax that would spur investments in energy efficiency...
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TokyoTom
on Tue, Sep 2 2008
Filed under: climate, AGW, carbon pricing, power, Pickens, transmission
Paul Krugman reaches the above conclusion in his August 1 New York Time op-ed , which asks "Can This Planet Be Saved?" , while discussing the latest work by economists on the cost-benefit analsys of taking action to mitigate potential climate risks - this time by Harvard`s Marty Weitzman ,...
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on Fri, Aug 1 2008
Filed under: climate, AGW, carbon pricing, fossil fuels, Weitzman, Krugman
Jerry Taylor , a senior fellow at the Cato Institute , published a pithy criticism in last week's Financial Post of T. Boone Pickens' plan to get wind subsidies and other favors from Congress; said Taylor: "Virtually every claim made by T. Boone Pickens to justify the lavish subsidies he...
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TokyoTom
on Wed, Jul 30 2008
Filed under: climate, AGW, carbon pricing, Pickens, Jerry Taylor, Cato, wind
Andy Revkin of the NYT recently posted at his "Dot Earth" blog an update by a scientist to the effect that apparently the increasing summer melt in Greenland is not markedly lubricating glacier flow . While this doesn't alter the fact that the Greenland melt (and outlet glaciers)continues...
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TokyoTom
on Wed, Jul 16 2008
Filed under: climate, AGW, Antarctica, Greenland, Jim Hansen, Mario Lewis, Lloyds, WAIS