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Myhrvold jumps the shark — and jumps ship on SuperFreakonomics

Un-friggin-believable. Nathan Myhrvold, who Levitt and Dubner call the “polymath’s polymath” — who is one of the primary “experts” the authors rely on to make the case for their central […]

What makes a good story?

Clearly, pretending to loft your kid across the countryside in a balloon is the big story. But what about the fairly extraordinary effort that the kids at 350.org and Bill […]

Interviews support my reporting on SuperFreakonomics

Caldeira, like the vast majority of climate scientists, believes cutting carbon dioxide and other greenhouse-gas emissions is our only real chance to avoid runaway climate change. “Carbon dioxide is the […]

Columbia suspends evironmental journalism program

Columbia Journalism Review itself reports the startling and depressing news: For the first time since it was created fourteen years ago, Columbia University’s highly regarded dual-degree graduate program in environmental […]

Anatomy of Debunking

  UPDATE:  For an independent vindication of my reporting here, see Bloomberg interview of Dubner and Caldeira backs up my reporting on error-riddled Superfreakonomics. Dubner is baffled that Caldeira “doesn’t […]

Error-riddled 'SuperFreakonomics,' Part 5

n SuperFreakonomics, Levitt and Dubner write of Ken Caldeira (page 184), “Yet his research tells him that carbon dioxide is not the right villain in this fight.”  What he really […]

Error-riddled 'SuperFreakonomics,' Part 4

This post looks at Nobelist Krugman’s first take-down of the single most stunning economic error in SuperFreakonomics.  I’ll also take on the authors disingenuous response to the critics (including me), […]

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 […]

NOAA – Second hottest September on record

NOAA’s National Climatic Data Center has issued its latest monthly, “State of the Climate: Global Analysis,” which found: The combined global land and ocean surface temperature for September 2009 was […]

EPA analysis appears doubly flawed

Midwesterners are operating under the misimpression that the allocation formula in the House bill is unfair to them.  It doesn’t, although a new, flawed EPA “analysis” (”here“) suggests otherwise. Certainly […]