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Lessons from California

By Kenneth P. Green -- February 3, 2009

One hopes, as Obama constructs his energy and climate policy, that someone points him to an interesting article by Stephen Moore in the Wall Street Journal. In the article, Moore points out something that I experienced first-hand in California and that, in fact, guided me into a career in economic and environmental policy. What I noticed,…

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John Holdren in Retrospect (Part VIII on Obama’s New Science Advisor)

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- February 2, 2009

Two quotations circa 1971 are germane to a final stocktaking of failed alarmist John Holdren. Both come from the introduction to Holdren and Paul Ehrlich, eds., Global Ecology (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1971):…

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W. S. Jevons (1865) on Energy Efficiency (Memo to Obama, Part IV)

By Robert Bradley Jr. --

The insights of William Stanley Jevons, though set down long ago, make a profound contribution to the current debate over energy efficiency and energy-conservation policy, and not just to the debate over the role of renewable energy in modern society. …

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Martin Weitzman’s Dismal Theorem: Do “Fat Tails” Destroy Cost-Benefit Analysis?

By Robert Murphy -- February 1, 2009
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Grist Wants CAP-and-trade, Not a “Poison Pill” Carbon Tax

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- January 31, 2009
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W. S. Jevons (1865) on Coal (Memo to Obama, Part III)

By Robert Bradley Jr. --
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W. S. Jevons (1865) on Waterpower, Biomass, and Geothermal (Memo to Obama, Part II)

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- January 30, 2009
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The Buzz about Antarctica

By Chip Knappenberger -- January 29, 2009
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W. S. Jevons (1865) on Windpower (Memo to Obama, Part I)

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- January 28, 2009
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Obama’s “Bold” Action on Climate Change

By Jerry Taylor -- January 27, 2009
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