Tag Archives: geo-engineering
Nathan Myhrvold on geo-engineering to combat global warming
Great interview on CNN — video.
He also talks about “investing in inventions”.
John Stossel defends the Super Freakonomics authors, who are attacked by the Global Warming Church.
John Stossel on global warming as a scare tactic:
Economist Brad DeLong has received a DMCA takedown notice from HarperCollins, publisher of Steve Levitt and Steve Dubner’s SuperFreakonomics.
- Brad DeLong has received a DMCA takedown notice from HarperCollins.
- http://delong.typepad.com/files/superfreakonomics-chapter-5.pdf
- Is SuperFreakonomics author Levitt again denying the ‘unequivocal’ scientific evidence for global warming? New Yorker’s Kolbert calls book a form of “horseshit.”
- One error retracted, 99 to go. Superfreaknomics authors will, in future editions, correct their claim that Caldeira believes “carbon dioxide is [...]
Ocean iron fertilization as geo-engineering solution to global warming
Part 1: Fertilizing the Ocean with Iron
Part 2: Will Ocean Iron Fertilization Work?
Part 3: What Are the Possible Side Effects?
Part 4: Lessons from Nature, Models, and the Past
Part 5: Dumping Iron and Trading Carbon
Part 6: Proposals Emerge to Transfer Excess Carbon into the Ocean
Via MR
Although flawed, in SuperFreakonomics, Levitt and Dubner have done citizens and policymakers a real service by breaking the taboo on discussing the feasibility and risks of climate engineering in public.
Ron Bailey on SuperFreakonomics.
Intellectual Ventures wanna solve global warming via “stratoshield”.
“Rep. Jay Inslee (D-WA) assailed the authors of SuperFreakonomics for participating in the effort to deceive the American public on the science of global warming, in particular for their “absolute deception” in their portrayal of the views of climate scientist Ken Caldeira. He criticized the book during a hearing of the House Committee on Energy [...]
Super Freakonomics: Steve Levitt on Jon Stewart’s The Daily Show
Super Freakonomics: Steve Levitt on Jon Stewart’s show (The Daily Show)
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The Daily Show With Jon Stewart
Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c
Geo-Engineering Planet Earth — The Super Freakonomics Solution To Global Warming
Narrator: “Every year, more and more ice must be dumped into the ocean to cool the earth, thus solving the problem forever.”
Little Girl: “But . . .”
Narrator: “Forever!!!”
- The SuperFreakonomics Global-Warming Fact Quiz
- Read all the comments there.
UPDATE: Climate Progress + AP
UPDATE: Harvard Business Review
Environmentalists are more interested in social engineering than geo-engineering.
Very good comment on the Freakonomics blog.
I am reading all the comments, right now. Many are well thought and interesting. Do read.
ADDENDUM: Why is Intellectual Ventures researching geoengineering technologies?
UPDATE: Climate Progress + AP
UPDATE: Harvard Business Review
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