Super Freakonomics

[EmptyTimCup]

Freaked Out Over SuperFreakonomics
Global warming might be solved with a helium balloon and a few miles of garden hose.

More subversively, they suggest that climatologists, like everyone else, respond to incentives in a way that shapes their conclusions. "The economic reality of research funding, rather than a disinterested and uncoordinated scientific consensus, leads the [climate] models to approximately match one another." In other words, the herd-of-independent-minds phenomenon happens to scientists too and isn't the sole province of painters, politicians and news anchors.

I have been saying that to anyone who will listen for a while now ......


global warming / climate change is big money in research dollars and phony solutions like Tax and Trade

Part of the genius of Marxism, and a reason for its enduring appeal, is that it fed man's neurotic fear of social catastrophe while providing an avenue for moral transcendence. It's just the same with global warming, which is what makes the clear-eyed analysis in "SuperFreakonomics" so timely and important. (Now my sincere apologies to the authors for an endorsement that will surely give their critics another cartridge of ammunition.)

[toppick08 (Premo)]

Originally Posted by EmptyTimCup

I have been saying that to anyone who will listen for a while now ......


global warming / climate change is big money in research dollars and phony solutions like Tax and Trade

how ironic........I hear Maryland is tops on research/preparations for upcoming ocean level rises........

[ImnoMensa]

The plan I liked was the plan to bury CO2 underground.

In the first place the CO2 scam was horse dung, then they planned to build a huge Fire extinguisher underground by pumping in CO2 to keep it out of the atmosphere.

Geez, how many billions for that debacle?

[chernmax (Premo)]

Well this is one instance where the messanger needs to be shot. I always say follow the money trail!

Al Gore invests millions to make billions in cap-and-trade software

June 2, 2009 Al Gore’s venture capital firm has invested $6 million in a software company that stands to make billions of dollars from cap-and-trade regulation — further fueling controversy that Gore lied about his profiteering from cap-and-trade to Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) and the House Energy and Environment Subcommittee during testimony in April.

Hara Software sells software to help track greenhouse gas emissions. The market for such software is now about $2.5 billion dollars in size, and is expected to grow by a factor of ten to $25 billion if cap-and-trade legislation is enacted, according to Hara CEO Amit Chatterjee.

Kleiner Perkins, a venture capital firm in which Al Gore is a partner, invested in Hara just last year. Chatterjee told Reuters that,

“This company would not have existed if Al Gore had not bought off on the idea.”

Gore is also under fire for lying to Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA) at the same congressional hearing about his relationship with Goldman Sachs.

Operating as a stealth tax, cap-and-trade will make the vast majority of Americans poorer and less free — but Al Gore, Kleiner Perkins, Amit Chatterjee and Hara will be laughing all the way to the bank.

Al Gore invests millions to make billions in cap-and-trade software

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[ylexot (Premo)]

And I'm sure that companies will pay to have the software calculate emissions is such a way as to favor them...all off the books, of course.