An open letter to Steve Levitt at the RealClimate blog:
... if it has come to pass that we can’t expect the William B. Ogden Distinguished Service Professor (and Clark Medalist to boot) at a top-rated department of a respected university to think clearly and honestly with numbers, we are indeed in a sad way. ...May I suggest that if you should happen to need some friendly help next time you take on the topic of climate change, or would like to have a chat about why aerosol geoengineering might not be a cure-all, or just need a critical but informed opponent to bounce ideas off of, you don’t have to go very far. For example…
But given the way Superfreakonomics mangled Ken Caldeira’s rather nuanced views on geoengineering, let’s keep it off the record, eh?
Your colleague,
Raymond T. Pierrehumbert
Louis Block Professor in the Geophysical Sciences
The University of Chicago
I finished reading the prostitution chapter (it was great, but "patriotic prostitutes"? that's a reach) and the global cooling section of the climate change chapter. I must agree with the critics, it really does present global cooling as the scientific consensus, implying that the current scientific consensus might be just as nutty.
