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Tag Archives: Stephen Dubner
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 … Continue reading
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Tagged climate change, climate science, Earth, Earth science, Economics, environmentalists, Freakonomics, geo-engineering, geoengineering, global warming, Humor, Planet Earth, Science, social engineering, Stephen Dubner, Steven Levitt, Super Freakonomics, SuperFreakonomics
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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
Posted in Economics, Politics, Science, The Global Economy
Tagged climate change, climate science, Earth science, Economics, environmentalists, Freakonomics, geo-engineering, geoengineering, global warming, Intellectual Ventures, Planet Earth, Science, social engineering, Stephen Dubner, Steven Levitt, Super Freakonomics, SuperFreakonomics
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Gawker blogger ridiculizes Super Freakonomics — and casts {Steve Levitt + Steve Dubner} as… “morons”.
QUOTE – “Steven Levitt is probably a Very Good Economist, but he has proven again and again and again that this Using Economics To Explain The World thing is utter bullshit. And he and Dubner invented this pop-econ trend that … Continue reading
Ken Caldeira about how his work was misrepresented in SuperFreakonomics —as well as the prospects (and pitfalls) of plans to engineer the planet’s climate system
“[Ken Caldeira] views geoengineering as a last resort, one fraught with risks and unintended consequences. What if, for example, industrialized nations decide to inject heat-reflecting dust into the stratosphere and set off a climate reaction that causes drought and famine … Continue reading
Steve Levitt clearly has virtually no understanding of earth science.
Previously: Steve Levitt is attacked for not sticking to the scientific approach. UPDATE: More from Climate Progress Next: Ken Caldeira about how his work was misrepresented in SuperFreakonomics —as well as the prospects (and pitfalls) of plans to engineer the … Continue reading
Steve Levitt is attacked for not sticking to the scientific approach.
About the Super Freakonomics chapter on climate change: Paul Klemencic: Brad [DeLong], I agree with your assessment. This series of emails just made my brain explode as well. I have spent a significant amount of time going through this information … Continue reading
Nobel Prize winner Paul Krugman bends Steve Levitt’s ear.
Paul Krugman: And that’s not acceptable. This is a serious issue. We’re not talking about the ethics of sumo wrestling here; we’re talking, quite possibly, about the fate of civilization. It’s not a place to play snarky, contrarian games.
What Do Al Gore and Mount Pinatubo Have in Common?
Super Freakonomics — Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner – (co-authors of Freakonomics and SuperFreakonomics) http://delong.typepad.com/files/superfreakonomics-chapter-5.pdf UPDATE: Steve Dubner + Andrew Gelman + Brad DeLong Next: Ken Caldeira about how his work was misrepresented in SuperFreakonomics —as well as … Continue reading
Modeling Planet Earth is difficult.
In defense of Super Freakonomics A commenter on their blog: I am a paleoclimatologist, and can only say FINALLY. Someone with economics background understands the difference between reality and a model for reality. Al Gore, Jim Hansen, Paul Krugman, and … Continue reading
HarperCollins is preventing bloggers to criticize Super Freakonomics by cutting off free access to excerpts of the book via Amazon.com.
Brad DeLong has the damning story. I like Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner very much, and I wish the polemique will end well for them. Previously: Super Freakonomics — Steven Levitt & Stephen Dubner — The Follow-Up On Freakonomics Super … Continue reading
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