Tagged with SuperFreakonomics 
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‘Everybody’s Scared To Be A Skeptic’
SuperFreak Dubner embraces ClimateGate conspiracy theories 25
Posted 1 week ago
Stephen J. Dubner, co-author of SuperFreakonomics, has embraced charges by the right wing that a handful of illegally obtained private emails means that the scientific consensus on climate change is actually a dangerous conspiracy.
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Best. Review. Ever. 0
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“She somehow accomplished all this with a degree from Yale in … literature.”
Superfreakonomics coauthor replies to “scathing review” 0
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Exclusive new Caldeira analysis explains “the burning of organic carbon warms the Earth about 100,000 times more from climate effects than it does through the release of chemical energy in combustion.”
Why solar energy trumps coal power 0
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Is Superfreakonomics author Levitt again denying the ‘unequivocal’ scientific evidence for global warming?
More Superfreakonomics climate change denial? 0
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One error retracted, 99 to go 0
Posted 3 weeks, 1 day ago Superfreaknomics authors will, in future editions, correct their claim that Caldeira believes “carbon dioxide is not the right villain” -
Just Freakin' Read It
Why the ‘SuperFreakonomics’ global-warming chapter is worth your time 12
Posted 4 weeks ago
There's plenty to jeer about in Superfreakonomics' treatment of global warming, but two ideas presented by the authors deserve greater discussion in the world of climate wonkery.
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Why can’t the media tell the difference between an attack on dubious ‘conventional’ wisdom and an attack on genuine scientific wisdom?
Contrarian Chic 0
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Jon Stewart praises ‘SuperFreak’ author 5
Posted 1 month ago On last night’s Daily Show, host Jon Stewart heaped praise on the contrarian approach to global warming taken by SuperFreakonomics author Steve Levitt, a University of Chicago economist.
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Willing to risk a fawning NYT profile ... freeeeeedooooom!
Is Freeman Dyson really “brave”? 20
Posted 1 month ago
Freeman Dyson is a Nobel-winning physicist who's argued -- utterly implausibly -- that carbon eating trees will save us and we shouldn't worry about the whole climate change thing. For this, he's been profiled in The New York Times and now dubbed a Brave Thinker by the Atlantic. But is he really that brave?
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Caldeira — “To talk about global cooling at the end of the hottest decade the planet has experienced in many thousands of years is ridiculous.” Levitt “said he does not believe there is a cooling trend”
Statisticians reject global cooling 0
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“Global cooling” scam debunked yet again 17
Posted 1 month ago You've probably heard the conservative argument that the globe is actually cooling, not warming. In fact, you've probably heard it 58 gazillion times. -
“Thinking of geoengineering as a substitute for emissions reduction is analogous to saying, ‘Now that I’ve got the seatbelts on, I can just take my hands off the wheel and turn around and talk to people in the back seat.’ It’s crazy…. If I had to wager, I would wager that we would never deploy any geoengineering system.”
Caldeira on Yale e360 0
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Swagga, bitchez!
Greens have finally got the Big Mo 1
Posted 1 month, 1 week ago
It looks like greens pushing for clean energy legislation finally have the wind at their back, with a streak of positive media stories about new friends and very stupid enemies.
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Coauthor of Superfreakonomics apologizes to me 0
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“Geoengineering is proposed only as a last resort to try to reduce or cope with the even greater harms of global warming! … The point of the chapter in SuperFreakonomics is that geoengineering might be good insurance in case we don’t get global warming under control.” Did he even read the book?
Myhrvold jumps the shark — and jumps ship on Superfreakonomics 0
Posted 1 month, 1 week ago -
Dubner is baffled that Caldeira “doesn’t believe geoengineering can work without cutting emissions.”
Interviews support my reporting on Superfreakonomics 0
Posted 1 month, 1 week ago -
Caldeira says Superfreakonomics is “damaging to me because it is an inaccurate portrayal of me” and filled with “many” misleading statements. Dubner continues to make false statements, parroted by Pielke and Morano. DeLong urges authors to “abjectly apologize” for the chapter.
Anatomy of Debunking 0
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Author's claim Caldeira’s “research tells him that carbon dioxide is not the right villain.” Caldeira updates his website to read “Carbon dioxide is the right villain.”
Error-riddled ‘Superfreakonomics,’ Part 5 0
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They get the economics dead wrong, too, and their response to critics is full of misrepresentations, just like their book
Error-riddled ‘Superfreakonomics,’ Part 4 0
Posted 1 month, 1 week ago