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Derby Winners

Eli, Interesting points, but I don’t think that winning times are a particularly useful metric in horse racing. The Epsom Derby has seen its winning…

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Market Signal

It is a tenet of free market environmentalism that market signals provide information about the environment and its value. Therefore, when people stop buying beachfront…

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Smearing Coal

Readers of the Wall Street Journal this morning will have noticed several really expensive ads depicting pretty faces smeared with coal dust and the headline…

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Save the World by Cooking

My wife and I are fans* of in-your-face chef Gordon Ramsay’s program The F Word, which airs on BBC America (but which is actually…

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Death by Regulation 2.0

A firefighter in the UK is facing suspension for breaking fire service regulations.  His breach?  Saving a drowning woman’s life: The brigade’s rules state: “Personnel…

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Beyond parody

I cannot put it better than Stephen Pollard, who sums up this article with the well-known oxymoron, “We’re from the Government, we’re here…

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All property is (ripe for) theft

Latest wizard wheeze from Her Majesty’s Government – if you’ve left money unused in a bank account for a while, you obviously don’t need it…

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Re: Energy Sources

Eli, that table actually refers to the generating capacity of new facilities – c.1300 MW over the next few years. There’s not really any way…

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Ignorance is Bliss

Senator Hillary Clinton opines: “I turn off a light and say, ‘Take that, Iran,’ and ‘Take that, Venezuela.’ We should not be sending our…

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In the thrall of Big Oil

The current Entertainment Weekly has an interesting little tidbit about the pre-Oscar party for Al Gore thrown by Antonio Banderas and Melanie Griffith (photos…

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Operation Amtrak

Eli is, of course, correct. Amtrak is in no state to be privatized yet, and the botched BR privatization demonstrated that privatizing a railroad…

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Good point!

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

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Global warming round-up

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

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Insult to injury

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…

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Global warming latest

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…

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Global Warming Round-up

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…

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Insider trading in TXU deal?

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.

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Global warming round-up

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…

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Rationing in action

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…