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Freakonomics Has Always Been Dumb

Posted on October 23, 2009 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Everyone is all mad at Seven Levitt and Stephen Dubner for including a hilariously wrong chapter on climate change in the sequel to their famous book Freakonomics , but some of us have been on the hating-those-dudes train forever. Steven Levitt is probably a Very Good Economist, but he has proven again and again and again that this Using Economics To Explain The World thing is utter bullshit. And he and Dubner invented this pop-econ trend that is the most annoying application of make-believe science since pop-psychology.

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U.S. hunters, anglers lobby for climate bill

Posted on October 19, 2009 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

An unlikely lobbying group is pressing the U.S. Senate to curb greenhouse gas emissions: American hunting and fishing groups who fear climate change will disrupt their sport. Hunters and anglers are mainly a Republican Party constituency representing tens of millions of votes in the U.S

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Galapagos Islands a microcosm of climate changes to come

Posted on October 3, 2009 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

About 600 miles west of the Ecuadorian coast sits the volcanic archipelago, which hosts a number of endemic species that largely depend on each other to survive, reported Reuters. According to scientists, sudden and frequently changing sea temperatures and the death of coral reefs near the islands reveal the impact global warming is having on local sea life.

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The "Climate Illiterate" US could hurt Copenhagen deal, says expert

Posted on September 29, 2009 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Leading climate scientist criticises Bush administration and points to general ignorance of global warming in US public polls. US ignorance about the risks and reality of global warming could sink hopes of a new global deal to control greenhouse gas emissions at December's climate talks in Copenhagen, an advisor to the German government has said.

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Consumerism is ‘Eating the Future’

Posted on August 9, 2009 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

We're a gloomy lot, with many insisting that there's nothing we can do personally about global warming, or that the human race is over-running the planet like a plague. But according to leading ecologists speaking this week in Albuquerque at the annual meeting of the Ecological Society of America, few of us realise that the main cause of the current environmental crisis is human nature.

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FUTURE FARMS: High-Rise, Beach Pod, and Pyramid Pictures

Posted on July 13, 2009 by | Leave a comment

might have to go this way if global warming is not stopped.

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