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Grist - the Latest from Grist: Jon Stewart praises ‘SuperFreak’ author
Climate Progress: Contrarian Chic: Why can’t the media tell the difference between an attack on false ‘conventional’ wisdom and an attack on genuine scientific wisdom?
Greenfyre's: Ouch … more Superfreakonomic Uber-Pwnage (all sorts)
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[Wonk Room] Answers For DeLong About The SuperFreaks, Part Three: Solar Power And Warming Debts: Thi.. http://bit.ly/3cym1J 10/26/2009 |
Jon Stewart praises ‘SuperFreak’ author
Grist - the Latest from Grist —
... of a “secular religion”—they are highly respected climate scientists, energy experts, and economists, including climate scientist Ken Caldeira, who has said Levitt and Dubner misrepresented his views. The widespread criticism isn’t based on the book’s personal attacks on Al Gore or its mocking of global warming as a “religion,” but on the multitude of factual errors, misrepresentations, and false conclusions that the authors use to promote their mindless contrarianism. As science ...
Contrarian Chic: Why can’t the media tell the difference between an attack on false ‘conventional’ wisdom and an attack on genuine scientific wisdom?
Climate Progress —
... and policy are not “dogmatic” believers of a “secular religion” — they are highly respected climate scientists, energy experts, and economists, including climate scientist Ken Caldeira, who has said Levitt and Dubner misrepresented his views. The widespread criticism isn’t based on the book’s personal attacks on Al Gore or its mocking of global warming as a “religion,” but on the multitude of factual errors, misrepresentations, and false conclusions that the authors use to promote their mindless contrarianism. As science ...
Ouch … more Superfreakonomic Uber-Pwnage (all sorts)
Greenfyre's —
... http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2009/10/26/superfreak-solar-nonsense/.
Bradford DeLong. Brad does a particularly nice job shredding their claims about renewable energy and emission reductions, thereby demonstrating clearly i) how badly wrong the Superfreaks are, and ii) getting it right was not that hard
Answers For DeLong About ...
Another week of GW News, November 1, 2009
A Few Things Ill Considered —
... to flat Earthers 2009/10/29: Deltoid: Superfreakonomics: Levitt missing the point 2009/10/28: TP: Jon Stewart Praises 'SuperFreak' Author: 'I'm Sorry You've Taken So Much S**t' 2009/10/28: TP:WR: Jon Stewart Argues That Concern About Global Warming Is Just A 'Secular Religion' 2009/10/28: ClimateP: Harvard Business Review: SuperFreakonomics Ignores the Business Case for Sustainability 2009/10/26: GreenFyre: Scary Monsters (And superfreakonomics) 2009/10/26: TP:WR: Answers For DeLong About The SuperFreaks, Part Three: Solar Power And Warming ...
