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- Social Cost of Carbon: Interagency Group Predictably Predicts Climate Change Worse Than Predicted Thu, 6 Jun 13, 10:25amHold the presses! A U.S. Government interagency working group has just released its updated Technical Support Document (TSD) on the social cost of carbon (SCC). This is joyous news in some circles. “The ‘Social...
- IMF Pushes Carbon Tax as Energy Subsidy “Reform” Fri, 12 Apr 13, 8:30amThe International Monetary Fund (IMF) recently published a report urging the world’s governments to “reform” energy subsidies estimated at $1.9 trillion in 2011. Eliminating government policies designed to rig markets...
- Climate Change Impacts in the U.S.: Sober Analysis, Cool Graphics from Patrick Michaels and Chip Knappenberger Sat, 19 Jan 13, 5:50amCato Institute scholars Patrick Michaels and Chip Knappenberger have produced a layman-friendly yet thoroughly referenced draft report summarizing “the important science that is missing from Global Climate Change...
- How Many ‘Wedges’ Does It Take to Solve the Climate ‘Problem’? Sat, 12 Jan 13, 2:41amIn An Inconvenient Truth (pp. 280-281), Al Gore enthused about a Science magazine study by Princeton economists Robert Socolow and Stephen Pacala. The study concluded that, “Humanity already possesses the fundamental...
- CO2 Emissions, Life Expectancy, Per Capita GDP: The Real Hockey Stick Fri, 28 Dec 12, 8:55amThat fossil fuels are bad for people and the planet is a cardinal tenet of both mainstream and radical environmentalism. Cato Institute scholar Indur Goklany offers a dramatically different assessment in Humanity Unbound:...
- Should the GOP Champion Climate Change as a National Security Issue? Thu, 20 Sep 12, 1:10amYes, argues Daveed Gartenstein-Ross in The Atlantic (Sep. 17, 2012). Gartenstein-Ross is the author of Bin Laden’s Legacy: Why We’re Still Losing the War on Terror. I haven’t read the book, but judging from...
- When Scientists Talk Like Lawyers . . .We Should Be Skeptical Sat, 7 Jul 12, 7:15am“I’m not saying it is global warming, but it’s what global warming would look like. It’s consistent with the kind of weather climate scientists predict will become more frequent and severe as greenhouse...
- Why Doesn’t Greenpeace Demand a Congressional Probe of James Hansen’s Outside Income? Sat, 25 Feb 12, 8:01amThe Heartland Institute plans to pay Indur Goklany, an expert on climate economics and policy, a monthly stipend to write a chapter on those topics for the Institute’s forthcoming mega-report, Climate Change Reconsidered...
- Climate McCarthyism: Democrat Congressman Demands Hearing on Interior Employee Linked to Heartland Fri, 24 Feb 12, 9:09amYesterday, Rep. Raúl Grijalva (D-Ariz.) requested that the House Resources Committee investigate whether Department of Interior employee Indur Goklany accepted “illegal outside payments” from the Heartland Institute,...
- 10 Reasons Why We Shouldn't Be In Libya Wed, 30 Mar 11, 9:52pm“It is one of those times when I feel estranged from the country and not comprehending of what we are doing and why everyone is so gung-ho for it all.” Rod Liddle on the Anglo-French/American Libyan intervention...