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  • More Climate Confusion: Trading Permitaxes


    Poor Robert Samuelson received a lot of abuse from bloggers for arguing that a greenhouse-gas cap-and-trade system, such as the one under consideration by the Senate, would be inferior to a carbon tax. Samuelson argues that cap-and-trade advocates pretend Read More...
  • Climate Bill Confusion


    The Boxer-Lieberman-Warner climate bill is being debated in the Senate: This is important stuff—the first real attempt in the United States to regulate greenhouse-gas emissions. Does the bill make sense? Its main purpose is to create a cap-and-trade system, Read More...
  • Agency and Agitprop


    Eric , thanks for your post on the " natural disasters " op-ed. (Can it really be that someone surnamed Blow is the Times ' new storm reporter?) It leaves this takeaway: As often as not, so-called "natural disasters" owe the latter word as much to acts Read More...
  • Agitprop-Art


    A scary graph appeared on the New York Times op-ed page on Sunday. It seems to show a profound acceleration in the rate of natural disaster in the United States and the world. In the words of its author, Charles Blow: According to the Center for Research Read More...
  • Freeman Dyson Solves Global Warming and All Other Problems


    The solution—"technology"—seems not to have occurred to anyone else. See here : The science and technology of genetic engineering are not yet ripe for large-scale use. We do not understand the language of the genome well enough to read and write it fluently. Read More...

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