A healthy dose of critical comment has already been levelled at Superfreakonomics, the follow-up to the entertaining bestseller Freakonomics (4m copies sold). The list of mistakes that has now been itemised probably runs longer than the chapter on global warming that appears in the book.
Tim Lambert at Deltoid has had to link once more to his Global Warming Sceptic Bingo because the Superfreakonomics chapter manages to tick five of the boxes. They are:
global warming is a religion, ice cores show warming comes first, ice age predicted in the 70s, water vapour dominates and climate modelling isn't scientific.
Update: the award-winning journalist Eric Pooley on Bloomberg.com writes: Freakonomics Guys Flunk Science of Climate Change.
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*North Norfolk:* Every morning, an endless flow of pink-footed geese passes
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