Climate 
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More Superfreakonomics: emails from Steven Levitt
Posted 10/18/09
[Update Oct 19: My (concluding?) thoughts here.] This may not be terribly interesting, but here is an email correspondence I had with Steven Levitt this morning: From: Yoram Bauman To: Steven Levitt Hi Steve: This email is a hard one for me to write because it may void your kind offer to mention my forthcoming [...]
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Climate change in Superfreakonomics
Posted 10/18/09
Update Oct 18 11:07am PST: My email exchange with Steven Levitt is here. Update Oct 19: My (concluding?) thoughts here. Joe Romm at climateprogress.org posts a PDF of the climate change chapter in the forthcoming book Superfreakonomics by economist Steven Levitt and journalist Stephen Dubner, and in my opinion the chapter is misleading and incredibly [...]
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Carbon cap: Be careful what you wish for
Posted 10/07/09
Much of the discussion in the environmental community about the climate strategy known as “cap-and-trade” centers on the fact that this strategy sets a hard cap, a maximum level of carbon emissions. Seemingly forgotten is the flip side of the coin: a hard cap also effectively sets a minimum level of carbon emissions. As with [...]
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The anthropology of peak oil
Posted 9/18/09
Ari Rubenstein has a hilarious (and thought-provoking) take on participants in the Peak Oil debate, with a “spectrum… from total denial…” Abiotic Oilers: Related to creation scientists, these folks believe that oil is not a “fossil fuel” but is generated deep in the earth by mysterious geological processes. No really. There’s plenty of oil, we [...]
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A must-read for hippies
Posted 8/31/09
Hippies (and everyone else) should read Elizabeth Kolbert’s “Green like me” in the New Yorker. The author of a great book on climate change called Field Notes from a Catastrophe, Kolbert reviews the book No Impact Man by Colin Beavan (in which he spends a year trying to “go green”, e.g., by doing without toilet [...]
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Greg Mankiw on carbon
Posted 8/19/09
Read it here. Also interesting is Steven Landsburg’s response here.
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The WSJ is still not admitting that we have a climate problem.
Posted 8/03/09
From a June 26 editorial: The reality is that cost estimates for climate legislation are as unreliable as the models predicting climate change.
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