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Economist's View: Global Warming in SuperFreakonomics: A Reply to Critics
J. Bradford DeLong's Grasping Reality with All Eight Tentacles: All Right. One More. I Gotta Correct the Record...
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Response from authors re:smear: http://bit.ly/1iukhU 18 days ago |
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http://bit.ly/3Ry4eh Do social media, blogging reinforce groupthink? Read what happened to Freakonomics authors - I t could happen to you 19 days ago |
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An upcoming book from the authors of Freakonomics talks climate change, gets interesting: http://bit.ly/30aeam 10/21/2009 |
Superfreakingmeta
Paul Krugman —
... . Legalistic quibbling about who said what in an email isn’t going to help Dubner and Levitt here: in this crucial chapter, there’s an average of one statement per page that’s either flatly untrue or deeply misleading. One good aspect of the controversy, though, has been some broader analysis of what it all means. I liked three recent comments in particular. ...
Global Warming in SuperFreakonomics: A Reply to Critics
Economist's View —
Steven Dubner
replies to
critics. Paul Krugman replies briefly to Dubner in the process of a "broader analysis of what it all means."
All Right. One More. I Gotta Correct the Record...
J. Bradford DeLong's Grasping Reality with All Eight Tentacles —
... Global Warming in SuperFreakonomics: The Anatomy of a Smear - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com: Much of the outcry was made by people who had read Romm but not our book — which isn’t surprising, since the book isn’t out until October 20. As the noise grew, Romm added on the charge that “the publisher has stopped Amazon from allowing people to search the book” – that is, to read the actual text online. Smells like a conspiracy theory, no? ...
links for 2009-10-18
Economist's View —
... How Moody's sold its ratings -- and sold out investors - McClatchy
Global Warming in SuperFreakonomics: The Anatomy of a Smear - Freakonomics ...
Hey, Where’s My Free Advance Copy of Superfreakonomics?
The Baseline Scenario —
... was his first post; read backwards from there), including links to some people who are supportive of the book. The summary is that a number of people have accused Levitt and Dubner of saying silly things about climate change (bad), accepting an “expert’s” opinion without doing due diligence (more bad), and possibly distorting the opinion of another expert (very bad), with the assumed goal of being contrarian and controversial. Levitt and Dubner disagree. ...
The correctness of being Wrong!
Lawrance G. Lux —
... Here is Dubner on Dubner; he doesn’t sound like that difficult of a Demon. I feel like the Fox channel, trying to smear some dude I have heard of (actually have) about something I know nothing about, because some people might champion Opinions different from our own stated desires. I wonder what happened in American society, which demands that your own surgical operations must become News, where the Government can be ignored immediately because Government publications could find just about any data, and Journalism creates its own Rabble to rouse. I remember when ...
Is it super freaky?
Knowledge Problem —
... or something like that — is causing waves due to commentary on global warming in Chapter 5. I haven’t seen the book or read the leaked chapter 5, which is circulating online. I’m not a climate scientist, nor do I play one on my blog. I haven’t even read too many of the commentaries on Freako II, Ch. 5. Of the ones I have read, I find the energy with which some people have lept into battle against the chapter somewhat surprising. (Stephen Dubner responds to some of the critics at the Freakonomics blog.) ...
Brad DeLong’s head must have already exploded before he wrote this
TRUTH ON THE MARKET —
I have no intention of wading into the debate over the climate change chapter in Superfreakonomics . I’m sure you all know the controversy: Levitt and Dubner had the temerity to suggest that global warming was a huge problem, that we should look hard for really expensive solutions, and we need to do something. And the outcry was from . . . the global warming alarmists. Curious. Anyway, ...
Drumbeat: October 20, 2009
The Oil Drum - Discussions about Energy and Our Future —
... (Bloomberg) -- Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner are so good at tweaking conventional wisdom that their first book, “Freakonomics,” sold 4 million copies. So when Dubner, an old friend, told me their new book would take on climate change, I was rooting for a breakthrough idea.
No such luck. In “SuperFreakonomics,” their brave new climate thinking turns out to be the same pile of misinformation the skeptic crowd has been peddling for years.
Global Warming in SuperFreakonomics: The Anatomy of a Smear
They have given the ...
Drumbeat: October 20, 2009
The Oil Drum - Discussions about Energy and Our Future —
... (Bloomberg) -- Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner are so good at tweaking conventional wisdom that their first book, “Freakonomics,” sold 4 million copies. So when Dubner, an old friend, told me their new book would take on climate change, I was rooting for a breakthrough idea.
No such luck. In “SuperFreakonomics,” their brave new climate thinking turns out to be the same pile of misinformation the skeptic crowd has been peddling for years.
Global Warming in SuperFreakonomics: The Anatomy of a Smear
They have given the ...
Rules for Contrarians: 1. Don’t whine. That is all
Crooked Timber —
... of passive-aggression and really quite unseemly, to set out to provoke people, and then when they react passionately and defensively, to criticise them for not holding to your standards of a calm and rational debate. If Superfreakonomics wanted a calm and rational debate, this chapter would have been called something like: “Geoengineering: Issues in Relative Cost Estimation of SO2 Shielding”, and the book would have sold about five copies.
Viz also, Stephen Dubner:
They have given the impression that we are global-warming deniers ...
If This Were to Be Played Upon the Stage, I Would Condemn It as an Improbable Fiction...
J. Bradford DeLong's Grasping Reality with All Eight Tentacles —
... The Anatomy of a Smear: Most gravely, we stand accused of misrepresenting the views of one of the most respected climate scientists on the scene, [Ken Caldeira,] whom we interviewed extensively. If everything [Ken Caldeira and our other accusers] said was actually true, it would indeed be a damning indictment. But it’s not... ...
