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 leveled by physicist/climate blogger Joe Romm, which I referenced in my post on Levitt last week.

Dubner counters Romm’s charge that he and Levitt twisted the words of climate scientist Kent Caldeira by demonstrating that Romm twisted Caldeira’s words too. After reading Romm’s rebuttal-of-the-rebuttal, though, I think Dubner-Levitt did more substantive twisting than Romm did (although who knows what I’ll think after reading Dubner’s-rebuttal-of-the-rebuttal-of-the-rebuttal). As for Myhrvold, he does seems to succeed in showing that he knows a bit more about solar power than Romm gave him credit for.