misinformation
-
Error-riddled 'SuperFreakonomics,' Part 3
First a favor: Please digg my original debunking of Superfreakonomics by clicking here. I’m trying to draw as much attention as possible to the post since the book comes out Tuesday, it has a huge media blitz, and will be heavily reviewed. My post already been referenced by Nobelist Paul Krugman on his blog […]
-
Santer, Jones, and Schneider respond to CEI’s phony attack
When we last left the Competitive Enterprise Institute, they were going ape for the Scopes climate trial that the Chamber of Commerce had proposed for the EPA. The deniers just stick their fingers and their ears and scream whenever they hear any science-based finding that GHGs harm human health. What else can you expect from […]
-
Error-riddled 'SuperFreakonomics,' Part 2
UPDATE: For an even bigger shocker, read Myhrvold’s “rebuttal,” which actually endorses my main critique (!): Nathan Myhrvold jumps the shark — and jumps ship on Levitt and Dubner (on their blog!) asserting: “Geoengineering is proposed only as a last resort to try to reduce or cope with the even greater harms of global warming! […]
-
New York Times spins the greatest nonstory ever told
Memo to status quo media: We get it, already. You have already written your “Copenhagen has failed” stories, and are just waiting for the flimsiest excuse to “scoop” everyone else. Your desperation to file this as-yet-unwritten story is unbecoming and also perverse, since, as I’ve argued, prospects for a global deal have never been better. […]
-
And the winner is…
Where else but the Washington Post editorial page — that bastion of un-fact-checked disinformation – would you find a misleading and misguided piece attacking federal efficiency standards written by a guy who “teaches environmental ethics”?! Or is that “!?” Now I can see a libertarian writing a misleading op-ed in defense of inefficient incandescent […]
-
Markey spokesman questions Breakthrough Institute
“Your manuscript is both good and original. But the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.” Those words, “attributed” to the 18th century English essayist Samuel Johnson, are a perfect summation of the oeuvre of The Breakthrough Institute (TBI). So it is with their latest attack […]
-
Obama: Let’s “spark a clean energy transformation… Make no mistake: This is a jobs bill.”
… in a decade, the price to the average American will be just about a postage stamp a day…. There is no longer a debate about whether carbon pollution is placing our planet in jeopardy. It’s happening. Memo to Obama speechwriters: The price to the average American household will be about a postage stamp a […]
