Wednesday, May 20, 2009

 

Potpourri

I am really cheating on this one; my Firefox browser is filling up with tabs, so I'm putting things in this blog post to which "I shall return!"

* Jim Manzi gives a quick and dirty estimate of the costs and benefits of Waxman-Markey. Note that I literally haven't even skimmed this yet, but in the past Manzi's description of the climate models was the most useful I had found (word for word).

* The Center for American Progress criticizes the Spanish study on "green jobs." There is some snark in here, but this is actually a decent critique. Don't get me wrong, I still agree with Calzada and disagree with CAP, but the CAP writers raise legitimate points. I plan on writing a response within the next week.

* A list of Christian libertarian blogs. I haven't checked any of these out, but I know some of you have expressed shock and awe at this blog, so here ya go.



Comments:
Bob,

This is a pretty useful site/service. It's easy to save links for reading later.

http://www.savethis.clickability.com/st/main
 
Bob, thanks for linking to my Comprehensive List of Christian libertarian blogs. There are some pretty good ones there, it is worth perusing. It is also a "living document", suggestions are welcome, and I will update it regularly.
 
Bob, my own view is that the Waxan-Markey bill is a lemon, loaded up with way too much pork and bureaucracy.

But Manzi and Knappenberger both have their thumb on the scale in measuring benefits, by presuming that, in this obvious multi-decadal prisoners` dilemma game, the strategy of the US and other developed nations is to play patsy and let developing nations free-ride for the rest of the century. Our refusal to even present Kyoto to the Senate for approval and our behavior over the past decade put the lie to that.

I think the other comments on Manzi`s post do a pretty good job of pointing out other problems with his analysis, which is nevertheless useful. 
 
When it comes to incongruous thinking, I take Libertarian Christians of Atheistic Socialists any give day. At least the former will likely leave me in peace.
 
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