Discuss among yourselves...

Still doing the final exams (2 down, 1 to go) but I've got some good reading for you...

1. Bjorn Lomborg pens an Op-Ed for the UK Guardian: Save the world, ignore global warming. Here's the key passage:

Global warming is real and caused by CO2. The trouble is that the climate models show we can do very little about the warming. Even if everyone (including the United States) did Kyoto and stuck to it throughout the century, the change would be almost immeasurable, postponing warming by just six years in 2100.

Likewise, the economic models tell us that the cost is substantial. The cost of Kyoto compliance is at least $150billion a year. For comparison, the UN estimates that half that amount could permanently solve the most pressing humanitarian problems in the world: it could buy clean drinking water, sanitation, basic health care and education to every single person in the world.

2. Eugene Volokh observes more feuding between Cato's Tom Palmer and the Mises crew at LewRockwell.com and Antiwar.com. Palmer restarted this ongoing battle within the libertarian "movement" with a post that started:

Something Is Rotting at the Periphery of the Libertarian Movement.....

What’s that terrible smell? It’s coming from a hatred of the United States that has become so strong that it has overpowered any lingering attachment to the ideas of liberty on which the United States was founded. Lewrockwell.com and antiwar.com are where the stench is strongest.