http://www.becker-posner-blog.com/archives/2004/12/global_warming.html This week I am posting first. The term “global warming” refers to increased global temperatures caused by increased concentrations of “greenhouse gases” in the atmosphere. A greenhouse gas is a gas that tends to block heat reflected from the earth’s... en-us http://troppoarmadillo.ubersportingpundit.com/archives/008708.html One of the nice things about blogging and teaching law is that the two often complement each other. Yesterday while searching for additional readings for my first year public law class I stumbled across the fact that legendary US federal... http://citycomfortsblog.typepad.com/cities/2004/12/is_this_a_bellw.html There are two issues with global warming/climate change: 1. Is it happening?and then2. If it is happening, what should we do? I can well understand debate on the second; the so-called http://www.pejmanesque.com/archives/008904.html This week, Gary Becker and Richard Posner are taking on the issue of global warming. Posner went first and discussed his preferred response to global warming; namely that the United States should go ahead and ratify the Kyoto Protocol: What... http://www.acsblog.org/news-and-announcements-564-wednesday-news-roundup.html Judge Hellerstein of the SDNY has rejected the guilty plea of a former AOL employee who admits to stealing a list of 92 million email addresses from the company's database and selling it to spammers. He was to set to... http://viewfrommyright.blogspot.com/2004/12/kyoto-protocol-discussions.html In two well-written posts economists Gary Becker and Richard Posner discuss global warming and the Kyoto agreement. Posner takes the position that the Kyoto Protocol is flawed, but a step in the right direction. He maintains that by imposing stiff ... http://moonagewebdream.blogs.com/moonage_spacedream/2004/11/arctic_cooling.html First of all, kudos to MichaelRead for pointing me to this research.A long succession of climate models has consistently suggested that CO2-induced global warming should be amplified in earth's polar regions and that the first signs of man's predicted ... http://moonagewebdream.blogs.com/moonage_spacedream/2004/12/two_global_warm.html MSNBC is running two stories under the same headline. http://moonagewebdream.blogs.com/moonage_spacedream/2004/12/global_cooling.html There are ominous signs that the Earth’s weather patterns have begun to change dramatically and that these changes may portend a drastic decline in food production– with serious political implications for just about every nation on Earth. The drop http://satyrnein.blogspot.com/2004/12/proper-emissions-trading-markets.html It doesn't have to be this way. As I wrote in a paper earlier this year, emissions credits should come from actual absorptive capabilities, not created ex nihilo, and awarded to the owners of those capabilities. http://illusionfree.com/weblog/index.php/no_illusions/niperm/20041220_bp_kyoto/