Global warming
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Superfreakonomics, the book you can't take home to mother...really want drunk people to choose driving over walking? You've gotten a lot of pushback on the chapter on global warming -- "What do Al Gore and Mount Pinatubo have in common?" --, from everyone from the Nobel-winning New York Times... In this article: Global warming, Freakonomics, Stephen J. Dubner, Jell-O, Coal, E mail, Capitalism, University of Chicago, and Steven D. Levitt |
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San Francisco Chronicle | November 01, 2009
Is catastrophic the new normal?
...(and maybe yachting). He'll be followed by economist Steven Levitt and co-author Stephen Dubner, whose freakonomics solution to global warming, involving helium balloons and a garden hose, has set the likes of Paul Krugman's hair on fire.
In this article: Iphone, Apple, Larry Ellison, California, Stephen Dubner, Revenue, and Unemployment
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Las Vegas Sun | July 02, 2009
Climate change lies threaten freedom
...our prosperity. " He says the global warming exponents believe in their right to sacrifice the man and his freedom in order to achieve their goals, all the while maximizing their own power, prestige, careers and income. Look around. How...
In this article: Climate change, Paul Krugman, UN, Polar bear, United States, Al Gore, Tax, and Extinction
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The Corner on National Review Online | October 19, 2009
Krugman's Political Paranoia -- By: Ramesh Ponnuru
...of it. Regarding the dust-up that occasioned Krugman's latest-lefties are disputing the Freakonomics guys' treatment of global warming in their new book-I'd caution conservatives not to take the Freakonomists' side reflexively. I've looked...
In this article: Paul Krugman and Ramesh Ponnuru
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TIME | October 20, 2009
New Column (and Video): From Macro to Freako
...look at the current approach toward tackling global warming. He's definitely right about the global warming reaction-just take a look at Joe Romm's lengthy critique (via Krugman). My own take, partially expressed in the column, is that the...
In this article: Steven Levitt, Freakonomics, Nathan Myhrvold, Carbon, Al Gore, Stephen Dubner, Imperialism, and Trademark
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ThinkProgress | September 28, 2009
The WonkLine: September 28, 2009
" New York Times columnists Paul Krugman and Tom Friedman discuss the imminent threat of global warming, right-wing lies about clean energy action, and how China is outpacing the United States in the clean energy race. A federal...
In this article: RSS Feed, H1N1, Liz Cheney, Twitter, Labor Department, and Los Angeles Times
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Real Clear Politics | July 13, 2009
Krugman's Contradiction
...that he would move America to a single payer health care system, and that he'd enact much tougher environmental policy to deal with global warming. Today, Krugman spends the first half of his column lamenting the fact that without an...
In this article: Paul Krugman, Unemployment, Economics, Tax, Climate change, Nobel Prize, and Carbon
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Seeking Alpha | September 13, 2009
Cochrane Lambasts Krugman's View of Macroeconomics
...in his undergraduate introductory courses. If a scientist, he might be a global-warming skeptic, an AIDS-HIV disbeliever, a creationist, a stalwart that maybe continents don't move after all. Krugman wants people to swallow his arguments...
In this article: Paul Krugman, Joseph Stiglitz, Economics, Nobel Prize, AIDS, Rigor, HIV, and Kenneth Rogoff
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Washington Times | October 27, 2009
BOOK REVIEW: Addressing an overhyped problem
...Mr. Levitt and Mr. Dubner tackle the problem of what do about the threat of global warming. They argue that global warming is a real but often overhyped problem; that the usual green approaches to the problem are incredibly expensive; that...
In this article: Steven D. Levitt, Freakonomics, Stephen J. Dubner, Paul Krugman, Suicide, Value judgment, Capital Research Center, and Yale
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Climate change bill unreasonable
...open inquisitive debate of potential anthropogenic global warming. Obama has shut up Alan Carlin of the EPA who has questioned OBAMA's global warming endangerment argument. EPA's Al McGartland told him his work could not be presented. What...
In this article: Climate change, Tax, EPA, Al Gore, Coal, USA, and United Nations
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Global warming is the increase in the average temperature of the Earth's near-surface air and oceans since the mid-twentieth century and its projected continuation. Global surface temperature increased 0.74 ± 0.18 °C (1.33 ± 0.32 °F) during the last century. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) concludes that anthropogenic greenhouse gases are responsible for most of the observed temperature increase since the middle of the twentieth century, and that natural phenomena such as solar variation and volcanoes probably had a small warming effect from pre-industrial times to 1950 and a small cooling effect afterward. These basic conclusions have been endorsed by more than 40 scientific societies and academies of science, including all of the national academies of science of the major industrialized countries.
Climate model projections summarized in the latest IPCC report indicate that global surface temperature will probably rise a further 1.1 to 6.4 °C (2.0 to 11.5 °F) during the twenty-first century. The uncertainty in this estimate arises from the use of models with differing climate sensitivity, and the use of differing estimates of future greenhouse gas emissions. Some other uncertainties include how warming and related changes will vary from region to region around the globe. Most studies focus on the period up to 2100. However, warming is expected to continue beyond 2100 even if emissions stop, because of the large heat capacity of the oceans and the long lifetime of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
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