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Jon Stewart's Oddly Uneducated Views on Climate Change

Andrew Winston | Posted 11.05.2009 | Green

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Stewart kept acting put out that addressing climate change won't be as simple as switching from buggies to cars. Steward always half jokes, but he's usually far more educated about what he's commenting on.

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NY-23: Hoffman Tells GOP Clean Energy Bill Lie, Completely Botches it

Josh Nelson | Posted 11.03.2009 | Politics

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Doug Hoffman is dangerously out of touch. Recent false statements he made on cap-and-trade tell it all.

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Missing the SuperFreaking Point (and Ignoring the Business Case for Green)

Andrew Winston | Posted 10.28.2009 | Green

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The authors of SuperFreakonomics fail to mention that the process of shifting to a low-carbon economy has enormous upsides completely aside from the benefits to climate balance.

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Even If They're Right, the Superfreakonomics Guys Only Have Half an Answer

Scott Bittle and Jean Johnson | Posted 10.28.2009 | Green

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Even if geoengineering works magnificently to cool down the Earth (and right now, that's definitely an "if"), it won't meet growing energy demand from countries like India and China.

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AP IMPACT: Statisticians reject global cooling

AP | SETH BORENSTEIN | Posted 10.26.2009 | Home

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WASHINGTON — Have you heard that the world is now cooling instead of warming? You may have seen some news reports on the Internet or heard about it from a provocative new book.

Only one problem: It's not true, according to several independent statisticians who analyzed temperature data for The Associated Press.

The case that the Earth might be cooling partly stems from recent weather. Last year was cooler than previous years. It's been a while since the super-hot years of 1998 and 2005. So is this a longer climate trend or just weather's normal ups and downs?

In a blind test, the AP gave temperature data to four independent statisticians and asked them to look for trends, without telling them what the numbers represented. The experts found no true temperature declines over time.

"If you look at the data and sort of cherry-pick a micro-trend within a bigger trend, that technique is particularly suspect," said John Grego, a professor of statistics at the University of South Carolina.

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Book Review Round-Up

Posted 10.26.2009 | Books

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We're back again with your weekly book review round-up: Neverland: J. M. Barrie, the Du Mauriers and the Dark Side of "Peter Pan", Piers Dudgeon The...

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Superfreakonomics On Drunk Driving vs. Drunk Walking: Relevant or Ridiculous? (VOTE)

The Huffington Post | Posted 10.27.2009 | Books

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A couple of weeks ago, before the publication of Superfreakonomics, the follow up to the bestselling Freakonomics by New York Times "Freakonomics" col...

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Greens Have Finally Got the Big Mo

David Roberts | Posted 10.22.2009 | Green

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Since the summer, greens have had one good break after another. Unlike after An Inconvenient Truth, the latest dramas are not pop culture events, but political achievements inside the Beltway.

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SuperFreakonomics Authors Forced To Answer Critics

Posted 10.19.2009 | Books

Read More: Co2 Emissions, Superfreakonomics, Freakonomics, Mugging, Carbon Dioxide, Caldeira, Carnegie, Dubner, Levitt, Global Cooling, Al Gore, Global Warming, Mit, Books News

Since we posted the video and teaser for SuperFreakonomics, the follow up to the bestseller Freakonomics, there's been an outcry from scientists over ...

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Superfreakonomics Will Misinform Readers on Climate Science

Melanie Fitzpatrick | Posted 10.16.2009 | Books

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The forthcoming SuperFreakonomics, written by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner, plays fast and loose with the scientific consensus on climate change.

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Superfreakonomics (VIDEO)

The Huffington Post | Posted 10.16.2009 | Books

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