Midas Oracle .ORG » social engineering http://www.midasoracle.org Prediction Markets, etc. Mon, 13 Feb 2012 22:24:30 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Economist Brad DeLong has received a DMCA takedown notice from HarperCollins, publisher of Steve Levitt and Steve Dubner’s SuperFreakonomics. http://www.midasoracle.org/2009/11/10/brad-delong-dmca-takedown-notice-super-freakonomics/ http://www.midasoracle.org/2009/11/10/brad-delong-dmca-takedown-notice-super-freakonomics/#comments Tue, 10 Nov 2009 08:39:40 +0000 Chris F. Masse http://www.midasoracle.org/?p=19019 Continue reading →]]> - 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 not the right villain”.

- Ken Caldeira’s Carbon Solution

]]> http://www.midasoracle.org/2009/11/10/brad-delong-dmca-takedown-notice-super-freakonomics/feed/ 0 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. http://www.midasoracle.org/2009/11/04/super-freakonomics-reason-magazine/ http://www.midasoracle.org/2009/11/04/super-freakonomics-reason-magazine/#comments Wed, 04 Nov 2009 07:02:06 +0000 Chris F. Masse http://www.midasoracle.org/?p=18934 Ron Bailey on SuperFreakonomics.

]]> http://www.midasoracle.org/2009/11/04/super-freakonomics-reason-magazine/feed/ 0 Intellectual Ventures wanna solve global warming via “stratoshield”. http://www.midasoracle.org/2009/11/03/intellectual-ventures-super-freakonomics-stratoshield/ http://www.midasoracle.org/2009/11/03/intellectual-ventures-super-freakonomics-stratoshield/#comments Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:59:20 +0000 Chris F. Masse http://www.midasoracle.org/?p=18924 Continue reading →]]>

“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 Independence and Global Warming investigating forged letters sent on behalf of the coal industry opposing climate legislation.”

Ocean acidification:

]]> http://www.midasoracle.org/2009/11/03/intellectual-ventures-super-freakonomics-stratoshield/feed/ 0 Super Freakonomics: Steve Levitt on Jon Stewart’s The Daily Show http://www.midasoracle.org/2009/10/29/super-freakonomics-steve-levitt-on-jon-stewart-the-daily-show/ http://www.midasoracle.org/2009/10/29/super-freakonomics-steve-levitt-on-jon-stewart-the-daily-show/#comments Thu, 29 Oct 2009 08:56:54 +0000 Chris F. Masse http://www.midasoracle.org/?p=18657 Continue reading →]]> Super Freakonomics: Steve Levitt on Jon Stewart’s show (The Daily Show)

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]]> http://www.midasoracle.org/2009/10/29/super-freakonomics-steve-levitt-on-jon-stewart-the-daily-show/feed/ 0 Geo-Engineering Planet Earth — The Super Freakonomics Solution To Global Warming http://www.midasoracle.org/2009/10/26/geo-engineering-planet-earth-the-super-freakonomics-solution-to-global-warming/ http://www.midasoracle.org/2009/10/26/geo-engineering-planet-earth-the-super-freakonomics-solution-to-global-warming/#comments Mon, 26 Oct 2009 11:34:07 +0000 Chris F. Masse http://www.midasoracle.org/?p=18531 Continue reading →]]> 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

]]> http://www.midasoracle.org/2009/10/26/geo-engineering-planet-earth-the-super-freakonomics-solution-to-global-warming/feed/ 0 Environmentalists are more interested in social engineering than geo-engineering. http://www.midasoracle.org/2009/10/24/environmentalists-are-more-interested-in-social-engineering-than-geo-engineering/ http://www.midasoracle.org/2009/10/24/environmentalists-are-more-interested-in-social-engineering-than-geo-engineering/#comments Sat, 24 Oct 2009 13:11:56 +0000 Chris F. Masse http://www.midasoracle.org/?p=18488 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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