1\\ Just got "Global Warming Gridlock" in the mail from @ewinsberg

I'll be adding to this thread as I read the book

Thanks Eric!

2\\ "Two degrees of warming" is the "Six feet apart" of climate propaganda; a piece of scientism that makes for good marketing.

3\\ I wonder what evidence the author would adduce for the effectiveness of the UN and IMF

4\\ I don't really understand his reason for preferring a carbon tax to cap and trade.

He seems to be saying the costs of warming are unknowable, but the costs of mitigation are also unknowable...therefore tax not cap?

5\\ Obvious pot shot: this book, which treats the US like an unruly teenager to be brought into line by global elites, was published in 2011

Same year hicks with horizontal drills unlocked Appalachian shale gas, allowing the US to lead the world in CO2 reduction

Markets win.

6\\ This "state capacity as source of growth" assumption is so shaky that any theory you build on it will crumble.

I've excoriated it elsewhere.

https://twitter.com/ElonBachman/status/1284545596012089352?s=19

7\\ Ok, something the author and I might agree on: the impetus for the FDA's creation was large food producers seeking to expel foreign competition. Food safety laws remain an absurdity.

8\\ Great example of how global warming hysteria turns good people into bad people.

The author abandoned his belief in liberlism because Greta scared him.

Those who try to create utopias always end up creating hell.