2009-11-16
Is There a Quick Fix for Climate Change? Book Review by Elizabeth Kolbert, New Yorker, November 16, 2009 issue. "Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner, in their new book, SuperFreakonomics [offer a simple message]: if, at any particular moment, things look bleak, it's because people are seeing them the wrong way. 'When the solution to a given problem doesn't lie right before our eyes, it is easy to assume that no solution exists,' they write. 'But history has shown again and again that such assumptions are wrong'... To be skeptical of climate models and credulous about things like carbon-eating trees and cloudmaking machinery and hoses that shoot sulfur into the sky is to replace a faith in science with a belief in science fiction. This is the turn that SuperFreakonomics takes, even as its authors repeatedly extoll their hard-headedness."
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