The science behind rising temperatures is up for debate, but what can’t be argued is that increasingly hot summers are …
agriculture
Let’s Tax Christmas Trees … To Help Sell More Christmas Trees
The number of real Christmas trees sold has reportedly been dropping—from, for example, 37 million in 1991 to 31 million in 2007. By some indication, sales of artificial Christmas trees have also soared in recent years. To push …
The freakonomists vs. the world
Stephen Dubner and Nathan Myhrvold have now both written retorts to the many critiques of the chapter on global warming in the new book Superfreakonomics (which is co-authored by Dubner and economist Steven Levitt and stars, in its global warming segments, inventor-dude Myhrvold). They’re both mainly responding to the lengthy critique …
