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Betting on Copenhagen
Emile Servan-Schreiber comments on a New York Times opinion piece:
The idea that betting could help us gain clarity on some controversial scientific questions has first been proposed by George Mason economics professor Robin Hanson in 1992 in a paper entitled “-Could Gambling Save Science”- and available online here: http://hanson.gmu.edu/gamble.html
The benefits of creating prediction markets about controversial climate-change issues in particular is further developed on Nate Silver’-s blog and in this presentation given at CalTech in 2004: http://us.newsfutures.com/home/environmentalFutures.html
On Prediction Markets for Climate Change
Economist Brad DeLong has received a DMCA takedown notice from HarperCollins, publisher of Steve Levitt and Steve Dubners 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 Independence and Global Warming investigating forged letters sent on behalf of the coal industry opposing climate legislation.”-
Ocean acidification:
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: Harvard Business Review
How the Yes Men duped CNBC, Fox Business Network and Reuters by impersonating the US Chamber Of Commerce
The 2009 Global Warming prediction contract is up.
The contract, listed at Inkling Markets, is based on the Goddard Institute for Space Studies GLOBAL Land-Ocean Temperature Index, reported monthly.
GLOBAL WARMING… SOLVED.
Caveat Bettor, please take a look at that.
Mike Linksvayer, please take a look at that.
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Caveat Bettor…
…- that one is for U.
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