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Peak Oil News: An open letter to Steve Levitt
Only In It For The Gold: Dogs, SUV's, and Freaks
Greenfyre's: Ouch … more Superfreakonomic Uber-Pwnage (all sorts)
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This is an intellectual beat-down. http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2009/10/an-open-letter-to-steve-levitt/ 15 hours ago |
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RT @foratv: SuperFreakonomics on Global Warming Fixes http://bit.ly/72H7RE >> read also critique on RealClimate blog http://bit.ly/DnHvx 42 hours ago |
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rather stunning proof that solar based electricity might just be great investment http://bit.ly/2xaUGF... 2 days ago |
An open letter to Steve Levitt
Peak Oil News —
... The problem was that you failed to do the most elementary thinking needed to see if what they were saying (or what you thought they were saying) in fact made any sense. If you were stupid, it wouldnt be so bad to have messed up such elementary reasoning, but I dont by any means think you are stupid. That makes the failure to do the thinking all the more disappointing. I will take Nathan Myhrvolds claim about solar cells, which you quoted prominently in your book, as an example. RealClimate "
Dogs, SUV's, and Freaks
Only In It For The Gold —
Ray's excellent takedown of Freakonomics in RealClimate has me shaking my head about people's abilities to discuss even the arithmetic, never mind the algebra or calculus or statistics, of global sustainability issues. ...
Ouch … more Superfreakonomic Uber-Pwnage (all sorts)
Greenfyre's —
... has written an “An open letter to Steve Levitt” that is well worth the read. In it he demonstrates just how easy it would have been for Superfreakonomics to get it right, and by implication, how inexcusable it is that they got it so badly wrong. ...
Monday Nov 2nd Energy and Sustainability show
GreenMonk: the blog —
... Mon, 2 Nov, 16:53 Joe Garde :
Mon, 2 Nov, 16:54 MikeTheBee : The first Scottish wine will be ready soon
Mon, 2 Nov, 16:55 Tom Raftery : http://greenpeaceblong.wordpress.com/2009/11/02/accion-greenpeace-en-la-sagrada-familia-barcelona/
Mon, 2 Nov, 16:57 Tom Raftery : http://www.greenpeace.org/international/news/google-ibm-and-microsoft271009
http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2009/10/an-open-letter-to-steve-levitt/
Mon, 2 Nov, 16:59 MikeTheBee : There are Irish vineyards already. ...
Climate Progress is Technorati’s top-ranked “Green” website, but …
Climate Progress —
... should in fact be slow changing — the “Authority” and influence of a blog or website.
No doubt my exceedingly high Authority right now is partly due to the phenomenal amount of traffic and linking I’ve gotten from breaking the story on the Error-riddled book Superfreakonomics — a post that has been read by more than 50,000 people and, whose analysis, I’m happy to say, has been vindicated by major journalists and leading climate scientists.
That said, Technorati is hurting its own credibility by not ...
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”
Climate Progress —
... , the Louis Block Professor in the Geophysical Sciences at the University of Chicago, on RealClimate, in an”An open letter to Steve Levitt.” Pierrehumbert accuses his U of C colleague of “academic malpractice in your book.” ...
Why solar energy trumps coal power: Exclusive new Caldeira analysis explains “the burning of organic carbon warms the Earth about 100,000 times more from climate effects than it does through the release of chemical energy in combustion.”
Climate Progress —
... ) — Levitt brought upon himself the detailed and devastating takedown by Geophysicist Raymond T. Pierrehumbert, which focused on the same exact paragraph in the book that I debunked: ...
George Will, low hanging fruitcake?
Greenfyre's —
... As Pierrehumbert’s brilliant open letter to Steve Levitt documents, many people would rather travel across the continent to be misled rather than walk two blocks to get the facts. In a nutshell, the vested interests are only too happy to employ willing propagandists to write nonsense for a public, many of whom are only too eager to believe the fiction as it does not threaten their life style. ...
Superfreakonomics coauthor replies to “scathing review” by Elizabeth Kolbert: “she somehow accomplished all this with a degree from Yale in … literature.”
Climate Progress —
... is, factually speaking, wrong. Among the many matters they misrepresent are: the significance of carbon emissions as a climate-forcing agent, the mechanics of climate modelling, the temperature record of the past decade, and the climate history of the past several hundred thousand years. Raymond T. Pierrehumbert is a climatologist who, like Levitt, teaches at the University of Chicago. In a particularly scathing critique, he composed an open letter to Levitt, which he posted on the blog RealClimate. ...
Blasphemy
Open the Future —
... going after him for the many, many mistakes in (at least) the global warming section of the book. Interestingly, a phrase that keeps coming up in his ...
Melting Ohio Daily
Only In It For The Gold —
... I'll defer to Ray Pierrehumbert on this one. "by the time a hundred years have passed, the heat trapped each year from the CO2 emitted by using coal instead of solar energy to produce electricity is 125 times the effect of the fossil fuel waste heat." According to a neutral arbiter (a ...
On Having Not Yet Fully ReadThe SuperFreakonomics Book
The Yale Forum on Climate Change & The Media —
... by frequent climate change writer Elizabeth Kolbert? Best to read her “Hosed: Is There A Quick Fix for the Climate” after reading the Levitt-Dubner book itself. But best to read it somewhere along the line for sure. That goes too for the truly extraordinary “ open letter ” to his faculty colleague Steven Levitt from University of Chicago Louis Block Professor in the Geophysical Sciences Raymond T. Pierrehumbert. But, mind you: Read both the Kolbert column and the Pierrehumbert letter only after having read the SuperFreakonomics climate change chapter, thereby keeping your ...
SuperFreakonomics’ Climate Contrarianism:Do Trees and Solar Panels Warm the Earth?
The Yale Forum on Climate Change & The Media —
... in the near-term makes sense only if we expect those albedo changes to remain indefinitely. Solar Panel Albedo Concerns? Think of Alternative In the case of solar panels, the albedo argument raised by Levitt and Dubner again suffers from their failure to examine the alternative; namely, the amount of heat produced by conventional electricity production. In the worst-case scenario for solar panels, when they are located in high-albedo desert environments, the waste heat produced is only 11 percent greater than that produced by burning coal. In other conditions, such as rooftop ...
