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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, … Continue reading

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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: … Continue reading

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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.

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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 … Continue reading

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