Elizabeth Kolbert is one of the most beautiful and, often, thoughtful reporters on energy and environmental issues. In the latest New Yorker, she turned a quite critical pen to the Super Freaky Economists with her review of SuperFreakonomics.
Kolbert turns her pen to some Super Freaky Economics
November 13th, 2009 · No Comments
Tags: climate change
Energy Bookshelf: A Super Ten more worth your time and money than Freaked-out Freakonomics
November 13th, 2009 · 1 Comment
Sad-to-say, the air waves and oped pages and blog posts have been filled with Steven Levitt’s and Steven Dubner’s shallow, truthiness-laden Superfreakonomics. The continued attention feeds on itself, as ignoring the deceptions and the mediocre interviews booked due to the authors’ Super(freaky)star status has the problem of giving it credence due to non-truthful truthiness [...]
Tags: Energy · Global Warming · building green · carbon dioxide · catastrophic climate change · climate change · climate delayers · conservation · eco-friendly · energy bookshelf · environmental · global warming deniers
Climatology: The largest single scientific gathering every year …
November 13th, 2009 · No Comments
There are all too many denier efforts to confuse and distort the discussion related to climate change. One element of this, which all too often ends up in the press, is to suggest that the random and anti-science voice of deniers, some form of group “petitioning” against a society’s climate-change statement, somehow merits equal [...]
Tags: Global Warming · climate change