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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 […]

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 […]

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 […]