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Corn ethanol, bootleggers & Baptists
Bruce Yandel’s Bootleggers and Baptists framework explains many odd informal political alliances. Corn ethanol is one example: …corn ethanol has been the lucky beneficiary of an American political...
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Why revenue-neutral carbon taxes are superior to "cap and trade" schemes
To stabilize carbon emissions we need to choose effective policies to incent investors and consumers to make low-carbon choices immediately — not twenty years in the future. The most critical...
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Jennie Schmidt: The Costs of GMO Labeling
Jennie Schmidt is the proprietor of TheFoodieFarmer “Blogging about how your food gets from field to fork”. Jennie is very different from your typical Whole Foods customer, who has never set foot on a...
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Scott Andes: Why California’s GMO Labeling Proposition Should be Defeated
I was planing to write an article on California Proposition 37. Now I don’t need to, because Scott Andes has done the job nicely with his essay at ITIF’s Innovation Files. To frame the discussion we...
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‘To Those Influencing Environmental Policy But Opposed to Nuclear Power’
James Hansen, arguably America’s most famous climate scientist, has been a forceful advocate for nuclear power, including fast reactors such as the IFR that convert nuclear “waste” into zero carbon...
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Enviros and climate scientists continue their fight over nuclear power
It didn’t take long for the Bootleggers to organize a roomful of Baptists to respond to the open letter from four climate scientists Caldeira, Emanuel, Hansen and Wigley. The response was signed by...
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