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• By: Iain Murray
• 03/15/2007

Libertarian wrestler Val Venis (real name Sean Morley) has started a blog, The Freetarian.

• By: Iain Murray
• 03/15/2007

Climate scientist James Annan makes an important point about the economics of climate change in a comment (#4) over at Prometheus: “Putting it…

• By: Iain Murray
• 03/15/2007

Here are some tidbits and links you may have missed: “Deniers” vs “Alarmists” in a debate in NYC tonight More calls for individual…

• By: Iain Murray
• 03/14/2007

Doesn’t anyone in the UK understand the economic concept of “sunk costs” any more?  Three men wrongly convicted of murder and released after many years…

• By: Iain Murray
• 03/13/2007

A few days to catch up on, so here are quite a lot of global warming-related stories you may have missed: China will not be engaging in…

• By: Iain Murray
• 03/07/2007

Some global warming-related stories you may have missed: British companies involved in the Emissions Trading Scheme enjoy a $1.5 billion profits windfall while energy…

• By: Iain Murray
• 03/05/2007

The Wall Street Journal‘s energy blog is reporting that the Securities and Exchange Commission is investigating possible insider trading in the TXU takeover deal.

• By: Iain Murray
• 03/05/2007

Lots of global warming-related stories you may have missed: Threat of Kyoto is leading to wholesale deforestation in New Zealand. U.N. climate talks…

• By: Iain Murray
• 03/02/2007

David Ignatius is worried about the planet’s vulnerability to climate change, citing futurist Peter Schwartz. I see David’s Peter Schwartz and raise him an…

• By: Iain Murray
• 02/27/2007

Apparently Al Gore now uses Green Power to light and heat his home, so he isn’t entirely hypocritical. However, the issue here is that…

• By: Iain Murray
• 02/27/2007

When I read about sainted Al’s massive power demands I immediately thought, “Surely he must use Green Power from windmills or something like that.”…

• By: Iain Murray
• 02/27/2007

Some global-warming related stories you may have missed: The EU’s rapidly rising transport emissions mean that they won’t meet their Kyoto targets “without additional…

• By: Iain Murray
• 02/25/2007

Freeborn John (good name for a good blog) has a post up remembering the excesses of British labor unions before Thatcher. As he notes,…

• By: Iain Murray
• 02/23/2007

Tyler Cowen has a good piece in the New York Times today about American cultural exports. He makes one particularly imprtant point: “Culture is…

• By: Iain Murray
• 02/23/2007

Steve McIntyre finds something fishy happening with NASA’s records of historical temperatures. This deserves investigation.

• By: Iain Murray
• 02/22/2007

A Guardian correspondent attempts to defend his admitted alarmism over global warming. In the comments, climate change economist Richard Tol dismantles his arguments: First,…

• By: Iain Murray
• 02/22/2007

There are signs that caring about the environment is becoming a little passe. This is from an uber-cool British gossip email: Having nearly as bad…

• By: Iain Murray
• 02/21/2007

Have you got a minute for Greenpeace’s youth wing? [youtube]BY7875_rv1s[/youtube] I think he wants your lunch money as well.

• By: Iain Murray
• 02/21/2007

British web-based advocacy group/ think tank/ TV station has released an ad on ‘A World Without America.‘ It makes the case for technological adaptation…

• By: Iain Murray
• 02/21/2007

I listened to this podcast on my way in today and I don’t think there’s a better introduction to our regulatory issues, especially to…

• By: Iain Murray
• 02/15/2007

Well, I never. China admits it failed to meet any of its environmental goals for 2006: China’s environmental watchdog admitted Monday the country had…

• By: Iain Murray
• 02/15/2007

If global warming is the greatest and most urgent threat facing the planet, you’d think Greenpeace would be happy when a government takes steps to…

• By: Iain Murray
• 02/14/2007

CEI Senior Fellow Christopher Horner was on “The Daily Show” last night to promote his excellent new book, The Politically Incorrect Guide to Global…

• By: Iain Murray
• 02/13/2007

Socialist Senator Bernie Sanders lamented how, despite the corporate welfare Detroit has received over the decades, it is lagging behind Toyota in technological development. Hmmm.

• By: Iain Murray
• 02/13/2007

Senator Bond is making the connection between Enron and cap and trade quite explicitly.

• By: Iain Murray
• 02/13/2007

There is considerable confusion among the Democratic Senators as to whether or not the U.S. has signed Kyoto. Senator Lautenberg stated the U.S. has not…

• By: Iain Murray
• 02/13/2007

Bill Lash admitted in answer to a question from Sentor Klobuchar that an upstream cap and trade system is just like a cap. He did…

• By: Iain Murray
• 02/13/2007

Senator Klobuchar has just suggested that we might not be getting “the truth” out of Government scientists. If she is so concerned about politicization of…

• By: Iain Murray
• 02/13/2007

Senator Carper asked the PG&E spokesman what his motivation was. He replied that because PG&E’s business model “decouples” its revenues from its sales, cap and…

• By: Iain Murray
• 02/13/2007

Fred is speaking now, underlining that CEI is pro-market, not pro-business necessarily. He is warning against the carbon cartel, the creation of a rationing sytem…

• By: Iain Murray
• 02/13/2007

Kevin Hook, an energy analyst speaking in a personal capacity, points out that some of the CAP’s suggestions could raise national gasoline bill by over…

• By: Iain Murray
• 02/13/2007

Steve Elger from BP America is now speaking. I wonder if he’ll mention BP’s safety record while it has been saving the planet?…

• By: Iain Murray
• 02/13/2007

At the EPW hearing on the Climate Action Partnership, Jonathan Lash of the World Resources Institute talks about how his group’s target is 450 –…

• By: Iain Murray
• 02/13/2007

The CEO for energy company PG&E, a company that does not use any significant amounts of coal, is setting out an admirable program of efficiency…

• By: Iain Murray
• 02/13/2007

At a Senate hearing today to discuss the rent-seeking cartel masquerading as the Climate Action Partnership, Fred Smith will present the testimony here. Senator…

• By: Iain Murray
• 02/06/2007

An avian flu outbreak in the UK has had that country’s media in a predictable panic.  The Times’ Mick Hume has a rational response:…

• By: Iain Murray
• 02/06/2007

If you live in Texas, you’ll have heard about how the coal-based energy utilities want to build a lot of new power plants to meet…

• By: Iain Murray
• 02/06/2007

Here is a graphical representation of EU energy policy: Translation: Lisbon – the EU require energy to keep its industries running; it has to…

• By: Iain Murray
• 02/06/2007

At the cost of 10,000 jobs, but that’s a small price to pay for a slight reduction in the rate of global warming.  I’m…

• By: Iain Murray
• 02/05/2007

Opinion research guru Bob Lichter has a good dissection of the problem with the Union of Concerned Scientists study on federal interference with science that…

• By: Iain Murray
• 02/05/2007

Greg Mankiw notes that President Bush is considering some form of road pricing to reduce congestion. London has a congestion charge which deeply divides…

• By: Iain Murray
• 02/02/2007

Well, it turns out that the report on which I based my previous two posts on IPCC temperature projections was hideously garbled. The reporter had…

• By: Iain Murray
• 02/01/2007

For those who have been tempted by the attractions of Pigovian taxes, Russell Roberts provides a cogent explanation of why Coasean theory suggests that…

• By: Iain Murray
• 02/01/2007

I wrote earlier about how the IPCC has quietly changed its definition of its projected temperature rises to include all pre-industrial warming, not just…

• By: Iain Murray
• 01/31/2007

A new report from the Union of Concerned Scientists finds “unacceptably large numbers of federal climate scientists [have] personally experienced instances of [political] interference…

• By: Iain Murray
• 01/31/2007

Looks rather large: Perhaps he should be called Bigfoot?       …