Inslee slams SuperFreakonomics for ‘absolute deception’ on climate science.
Inslee slams SuperFreakonomics for ‘absolute deception’ on climate science.
During today’s forged letter investigation hearing in the House, Rep. Jay Inslee (D-WA) rebuked the authors of SuperFreakonomics for participating in a “continuing effort to deceive the American public” on the science of climate change. Inslee condemned the coal industry’s effort to “hoodwink, defraud, and deceive the American public now to cover up the toxicity to the world environment” of global warming pollution. Inslee then pivoted to authors Steven Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner, criticizing them for “absolute deception” in their work on global warming:
The second thing I want to note is this is not the only continuing effort to deceive the American public. I want to note a book called Freakonomics, or SuperFreakonomics, that some authors wrote, that basically said or asserted we don’t have to control CO2, we’ll just pump sulfur dioxide up into the atmosphere and that will solve the problem. They purported to quote a scientist named Ken Caldeira from Stanford who’s one of the predominant researchers in ocean acidification to suggest that Dr. Caldeira didn’t think we should control CO2. Which is an absolute deception. Dr. Caldeira I’ve spoken to personally. He’s told me we have to solve ocean acidification. You can’t solve ocean acidification without controlling CO2 and yet people are still trying to write books to deceive the American public. And we ought to blow the whistle on them, we’re blowing the whistle on one today, we’ll continue to do it, because ultimately science is going to triumph in this discussion.
Watch it:
Levitt and Dubner’s promotion of geoengineering as a “cheap and simple” alternative to carbon mitigation is in direct opposition to the views of Dr. Ken Caldeira and the world’s scientific community. Although Caldeira objected to the chapter and has since repeatedly said he was misrepresented in multiple ways, the SuperFreakonomics authors have continued their deception, joining the billion-dollar effort by fossil-fuel companies and the radical right to thwart action on climate change.
Cross-posted on The Wonk Room.
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One upside, our sales of planktonic feeds to mariculture and shellfish vendors increase as it gets harder to maintain shells in the changing oceanic acidity.
One downside, a major part of the food chain crashes.
Keep arguing if the problem even exists, our grandkids will thank us.
October 29th, 2009 at 7:11 pme_to_the_p says:
I eagerly anticipate the release of your book.
October 29th, 2009 at 7:16 pmThis comment has been voted down. Click to read.
kwsventures belches forth his own contribution of toxic gas.
October 29th, 2009 at 7:18 pmDr Venture
YOU are an ignorant punkass troll. Not to mention you are a liar and a fool. No one in their right mind cares what you think so just STFU
October 29th, 2009 at 7:24 pm“…to control CO2, we’ll just pump sulfur dioxide up into the atmosphere and that will solve the problem.”
Do you think this is a good idea, Dr. Venture?
October 29th, 2009 at 7:30 pmDo you have a clue?
kwsventures @ 3
clueless? He is spot on comparing lies the tobacco industry put out there to protect it’s industry with the lies the GNOP/corporate thugs and whores are now issuing on a very serious matter :Global warming.
I suppose you are one thinking by pumping sulfur dioxide up into the atmosphere will solve the problem.
October 29th, 2009 at 7:37 pmI thought the trolls claimed climate change wasn’t real?
Why are they defending someone who wants to do something kooky about something that doesn’t exist?
October 29th, 2009 at 7:48 pmFrom Wired:
Climate change could choke oceans for 100,000 years.
October 29th, 2009 at 7:55 pmkwsventures,
If this is not your company, listed below, then I have a feeling they would like for you to stop using their company name.
KWS Ventures
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Phone: (850) 423-0606
Care to comment and tell the truth for a change?
October 29th, 2009 at 7:58 pmSuperFreakonomics is SuperFreakyStupid.
October 29th, 2009 at 8:00 pmThank you, Luis.
October 29th, 2009 at 8:01 pmExcellent article.
It’s really simple. Just look at the republicans. If they are for it then it is the wrong thing to do.
October 29th, 2009 at 8:02 pmkwsventures, you don’t like it when liars are called out for lying?
October 29th, 2009 at 8:03 pmYeah for Inslee! He used to be my representative when I lived in WA state. I’m so proud!
October 29th, 2009 at 8:12 pmThis comment has been voted down. Click to read.
I live a mile from the WA border, and I can smell Beethoven Rules’ stupid from here.
October 29th, 2009 at 8:32 pmUh, putting more Sulfur Dioxide in the air. Anyone remember acid rain ? (admittedly, he wants to put it higher than the rain clouds).
I’m probably more likely to try engineering solutions than most folks in this group. But novel and untested engineering solutions could also have unintended consequences and should be entered into very, very cautiously.
October 29th, 2009 at 9:16 pm“…to control CO2, we’ll just pump sulfur dioxide up into the atmosphere and that will solve the problem.”
Yes, acid rain will eat away at vegetation and cure the problem of forests taking Co2 out of the atmosphere.
October 29th, 2009 at 9:27 pmWouldn’t it make more sense to just realign the deflector dish to emit a positron/tachyon pulse? Or, here’s a really wild idea, reconsider burning shit for no good reason?
October 29th, 2009 at 10:01 pmWouldn’t it make more sense to just realign the deflector dish to emit a positron/tachyon pulse?
We could always hijack a UFO and escape to another planet
October 29th, 2009 at 10:13 pmXisithrus says:
We could always hijack a UFO and escape to another planet
But. I don’t want to be an illegal alien.
October 29th, 2009 at 10:16 pmI thought the trolls claimed climate change wasn’t real? -=Z=-
I think even though they deny climate change they cant deny acidification of the oceans and other problems such as dead spots from oxygen starvation.
In the latest sign of trouble in the planet’s chemistry, the number of oxygen-starved “dead zones” in coastal waters around the world has roughly doubled every decade since the 1960s, killing fish, crabs and massive amounts of marine life at the base of the food chain
October 29th, 2009 at 10:23 pmhttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/14/AR2008081401910.html
In fact in Chesapeake bay, close to DC, the crab industry has been pretty much decimated because of agricultural runoff and runoff into the bay from such things as poultry farms.
October 29th, 2009 at 10:36 pmI think you are giving the trolls a bit too much credit,
October 29th, 2009 at 10:44 pmXisithrus. They don’t think anything about anything until Lush and Becky tell them what they think. And, even then, they just parrot the words without any real understanding.
I think you are giving the trolls a bit too much credit,
Xisithrus
Perhaps you are correct. Yet I cant help but hope they will read something, maybe here, and start using their own noggins and form their own opinions based on their own actual research and logic.
October 29th, 2009 at 11:45 pmChristopher Monckton dispels global warming myths.
October 30th, 2009 at 2:30 amLord Monckton??? BHahahahahahahaha… You give us Lord Monckton who has no background in climate science whatsoever, who has no degrees in any scientific field. His degree was in journalism.
This is the man who used the Cambrian period as evidence that plants love carbon dioxide. Anybody with a high school education would know that during the Cambrian period there were no plants on land to love anything.
You can do better then this marwick. Next time give us someone who is smarter then a 5th grader to try and make your point.
October 30th, 2009 at 6:45 amThe coal industry is the tobacco industy X1000. They will lie and obsfiscate to sell their crap.
October 30th, 2009 at 9:33 amLord Monckton? Indeed! You’re going to lend credence to that upper class twit of the year?
At one point, in his illiminous past, he had a judicial review petition dismissed by the Scottish courts for “want of relevancy.” That kind of describes his input in a nutshell.
October 30th, 2009 at 11:15 amghggg
October 31st, 2009 at 11:46 am5555
October 31st, 2009 at 12:26 pm