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fakeplasticfish.com - 10/15/2009

Climate Action Day is coming. What will you do?

— fakeplasticfish.com — Back in the early 70’s when I was a child, there were few movies scarier to me... than The Wizard of Oz . Surprisingly, the made-for-TV Horton Hears a Who was one that frightened me more than that wicked green witch with her flying monkeys. Every time it came on, I’d hold my breath ... (more) Climate Action Day is coming. What will you do?

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news.bbc.co.uk - 10/13/2009

'Scary' climate message from past

— news.bbc.co.uk — BBC: A new historical record of carbon dioxide levels suggests current political targets on climate may be... "playing with fire", scientists say. Researchers used ocean sediments to plot CO2 levels back 20 million years. Levels similar to ... (more) 'Scary' climate message from past

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entergy.com - 10/14/2009

Entergy and the Environment

— entergy.com — In order to appreciate what’s at stake in the climate change debate and how it stands to... impact individual families, it’s important to understand the science behind climate change and why many consider it the greatest challenge of recent times. (more) Entergy and the Environment

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Why Levitt and Dubner like geo-engineering and why they are wrong
Peak Oil News — ... above). He made the following two points which I think go to the heart of his thinking on this issue: “Why would anyone be against a cheap fix?” and “No problem has ever been solved by changing human behaviour” (possibly not exact quotes, but close enough). He also alluded to the switch over from horse-driven transport to internal combustion engines a hundred years ago as an example of a ‘cheap technological fix’ to the horse manure problem. I deal with each of these points in turn. Real Climate "

SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling ?
Peak Energy — ... The folks at RealClimate are aghast at the pseudo-economists claim that a form of geoengineering (the "sulphates in the upper atmosphere" mad-scientist's experiment) would be the most cost effective way to "solve" global warming - Why Levitt and Dubner like geo-engineering and why they are wrong. ...

Actually it’s the WSJ, not a parody site … i think
Greenfyre's — ... Why Levitt and Dubner like geo-engineering and why they are wrong ...

Jon Stewart praises ‘SuperFreak’ author
Grist - the Latest from Grist — ... for fearmongering and promotes a radical alternative to existing policy, Levitt tells Stewart, “I don’t try to pretend I know the 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 — ... for fearmongering and promotes a radical alternative to existing policy, Levitt tells Stewart, “I don’t try to pretend I know the science.” ...

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 — ... And it’s not as if the “black solar cell” gaffe was the only bit of academic malpractice in your book: among other things, the presentation of aerosol geoengineering as a harmless and cheap quick fix for global warming ignored a great deal of accessible and readily available material on the severe risks involved, as Gavin noted in his recent post. The fault here is not that you dared to advocate geoengineering as a solution. There is a broad spectrum of opinion among scientists about the amount of aerosol geoengineering research that is justified, but very few ...