tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25163458.post7330282375980685803..comments2023-10-31T05:09:58.639-04:00Comments on maribo: Superfreakonomics and the glory of contrarianismUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25163458.post-64429905635493491542009-10-21T03:14:10.143-04:002009-10-21T03:14:10.143-04:00Yes! Yes! Again, 10 years ago was relatively late ...Yes! Yes! Again, 10 years ago was relatively late in the game, even! The thing that kills me is how they pretend this is new - and every year it's brand new. Of course there was a consensus then.<br /><br />Not only did I have people sending me info on global warming back in the very early 80s when we were still slightly more worried about ozone depletion, not only did Al Gore make it a key feature of EITB in 1992, 4 years after James Hansen's vital presentation, but even some of the tropes they give out are pre-debunked - when McIntyre claimed that Hansen had said 1998 was hotter in the contiguous US than 1934, not only had a lot of us read Hansen saying the opposite, but I'd had a mailing in 1999 from an environmental group that mentioned in passing that 1998 was almost as hot in the contiguous US as 1934. I mention that only as an example of what happens all the time.<br /><br />By then, there was a huge consensus on virtually everything that the public is just now seeing a consensus on. It's always Groundhog Day - I think it'd be a worthwhile thing, really, to simply say, this is the first time someone made (what is now denialist claim X) all those years ago - I'd say urgent discussion on this started in the 1950s for the US. Once people realize that all of this has been thought of, that will change their minds.<br /><br />By the way, once they kill off the reefs, we can make new ones out of our still planned for obsolescence cars, right? And cremation ashes.Marion Delgadohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09493068399042656060noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25163458.post-56005178418012210572009-10-18T08:30:34.886-04:002009-10-18T08:30:34.886-04:00Krugman appears to be starting a serious professio...Krugman appears to be <a href="http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/17/weitzman-in-context/" rel="nofollow">starting</a> a serious professional attack on Levitt (Dubner as a journalist being immune to such criticism). <br /><br />MT, cruelly but pithily: Dubn and Dubner.Steve Bloomnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25163458.post-55392372927032755402009-10-18T00:27:42.976-04:002009-10-18T00:27:42.976-04:00Note: Potential typo in blog title (Superfreakecon...Note: Potential typo in blog title (Superfreakeconomics VS Superfreakonomics)<br /><br />It's an interesting concept, although I do see the sense behind it. After all, it is much easier to prove something false than it is to prove something true.Tylerhttp://www.deathofdestiny.com/tysune/noreply@blogger.com