Wednesday, November 11, 2009

Climate Change Solution: Science Fiction

I wasn't going to write about the superfreaks anymore, but Krugman inspired me.
Conclusion from Elizabeth Kolbert's review:
To be skeptical of climate models and credulous about things like carbon-eating trees and cloudmaking machinery and hoses that shoot sulfur into the sky is to replace a faith in science with a belief in science fiction. This is the turn that “SuperFreakonomics” takes, even as its authors repeatedly extoll their hard-headedness. All of which goes to show that, while some forms of horseshit are no longer a problem, others will always be with us. 

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