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• Superfreakonomics: what did Nathan Myhrvold say?

  added on 25 Oct 2009

  A swimming pool pump, geoengineering potential unknown It’s clear that there are real problems with Levitt and Dubner’s take on geoengineering in their book Superfreakonomics (see past two posts Update: or more concisely, see Eric Pooley’s piece on Bloomberg, reposted here with added Joe Romm). ...

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• Superfreakonomics: what did Nathan Myhrvold say?

  posted to Heliophage on 20 Oct 2009

  A swimming pool pump, geoengineering potential unknown It’s clear that there are real problems with Levitt and Dubner’s take on geoengineering in their book Superfreakonomics (see past two posts Update: or more concisely, see Eric Pooley’s piece on Bloomberg, reposted here with added Joe Romm). ...

• Nathan Myhrvold jumps the shark — and jumps ship on Levitt and Dubner (on their blog!) asserting: “Geoengineering is proposed only as a last resort to try to reduce or cope with the even greater harms of global warming! … The point of the chapter in Supe

  posted to Climate Progress on 21 Oct 2009

  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 geoengineering-only approach to global warming — has just publicly repudiated that approach. Apparently he neve...

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