SciBloggers vs. Freakonomics Dudes: Round One… Ready… FIGHT!

In case you haven’t heard about Superfreakonomics, it’s due out soon, and there’s a chapter in there where the authors attack the global warming theory on a number of points.

It turns out that they do a very bad job of this, and to top that off they… ah, are a bit loose with their citations.

Now, one of the dead giveaways that someone doesn’t know what they’re talking about is when they actually attribute findings or quotations to people that actively refuted the findings or never, in fact said what they’re claimed to have said…