Does anyone know how I change the colors and font size of this theme easily? I’m not terribly techie and my tech adviser isn’t around to walk me through it, but I’d like to make the text font slightly larger and the color darker (probably black). Feel free to leave a comment or email me at imurray [at] cei [dot] org.
Roger Pielke Jr has some helpful and appreciated reactions to my post below. I’ve been very busy over the last couple of days both at work and domestically, but I hope to keep this conversation going as i work up my policy proposals.
Roger Pielke Jr has a thoughtful run-down of what he, as a “non-skeptic heretic” on global warming, would do in constructing a policy around the issue. In this long post I’d like to comment on his suggestions and propose an alternative framework that may be more appealing to conservative policy-makers.
From 7pm this evening I’ll be broadcasting to Boston as a guest on WKRO AM680’s Pundit Review show. If you’re unfortunate enough to miss it, you can find it via the Pundit Review Podcast feed. Also on there, my good friend Chris Horner from a couple of weeks ago.
People who are interested in reading further about some of the ideas explored in The Really Inconvenient Truths can use this list as a good starting point. It is reproduced from the sadly defunct Commons Blog, where the best and brightest in Free Market Environmentalism used to gather. Sadly, they all have their own private blogs now. A real Tragedy of the Commons…
My better half Kris had a great point about what those three categories listed in the Shaw Report imply:
Earth Day – Screaming hippies telling you want to do.
Carbon Credits – subsidy seeking agribusiness shills
Quiet Environmentalism – thinking for myself and doing what I think is best and right individualism
And that final category is exactly what The Really Inconvenient Truths is supposed to promote.
The most senior directly-elected post in Britain is now Conservative. Old Etonian Boris Johnson has, as I suggested earlier, indeed been elected Mayor of London, the first Conservative to hold that post. Boris is a classical scholar of no mean ability as well as being a master of making people underestimate him.
What I find most amazing about the result is that the incumbent Ken Livingstone managed to get out 200,000 more votes than he did last time, which is some feat, but Boris got out half a million more votes than the Conservative candidate did last time. This is, to my mind, a truly astonishing feat and it underlines that the Conservative Party is back with a vengeance.
Moreover, as the exceptionally sound Donal Blaney underlines, the party now is much more balanced between centrist and right than previously. The green tinge remains, but that is often now cover for more traditional conservative policies on crime and education, for instance.
While he has two years to turn things around, an electoral disaster as bad as John Major’s in 1997 is on the cards for Gordon Brown. Floreat Etona et floreat gens togata!
Entertainment Weekly has a feature called The Shaw Report that summarizes what the chatterati are chatting about, in the form of “In,” “Five Minutes Ago,” and “Out.” I’ve been waiting for this for a while, but this week it’s here:
In: Quiet environmentalism
Five Minutes Ago: Carbon credits
Out: Earth Day
“Loud” environmentalism has become passe. That’s an important indicator.
(With apologies to Heidi Klum for the title)
I have a piece up at Human Events today, which one commenter over-interpreted as literally calling for the heads of Congressmen…
