Case in point is Kate Sheppard , reporter on energy and environmental politics in Mother Jones ' Washington bureau (previously political reporter for Grist.org and a writing fellow at The American Prospect ), who has an interesting but shallow piece up called " Most Credible Climate Skeptic...
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on Sun, Feb 28 2010
Filed under: climate, rent-seeking, ostrom, Enviro Derangement Syndrome, confirmation bias, sheppard
These "tribal truths" seem to fairly summarize modern political discourse - whether in the pages of Mises Daily, in "Tea Party" conventions, in the MSM or elsewhere in the intertubes. It's a point I've been making like a broken record - in order to mask my nefarious agenda...
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on Mon, Feb 15 2010
Filed under: Enviro Derangement Syndrome, cognition, confirmation bias, partisan, watermelon
[This is a work in progress and largely taken from previous posts, but readers might find some value in it in the meanwhile.] 1. Heated but vacuous climate wars On environmental issues in general and climate in particular, find me someone ranting about “Malthusians ” or "environazis"...
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on Wed, Feb 10 2010
Filed under: property, rent-seeking, energy, Enviro Derangement Syndrome, power, climate change
David R. Henderson has a nice post up at Antiwar.com , titled "In Defense of Avatar" , in which he takes issue with reviews of Avatar by Reihan Salam and Edward Hudgins . (My earlier comments on Stephan Kinsella`s review of Avatar are here .) I would just note that Henderson has presumed that...
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on Tue, Jan 12 2010
Filed under: tragedy of commons, property, ostrom, theft, Corporate socialism, Enviro Derangement Syndrome, Kinsella
Lew Rockwell has a post up on the Mises Economics Blog - "The Left Fell into the Climate Morass" - that has just come to my attention. I`m not from the left, but as a right-leaning, free-market enviro, I offered Lew a few comments , which I copy below: Lew, I think most of your criticism of...
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on Sun, Dec 20 2009
Filed under: climate, property rights, Enviro Derangement Syndrome, Dolan, left, Lew Rockwell