Gregg Easterbrook, A Moment on the Earth
The Environmental Defense Fund's reports:
NEW In Never Mind That Boiling Kettle... Carl Zimmer finds fault with the critics, including Gregg Easterbrook, of a recent study published in Nature that showed that global warming will lead to massive species extinction.
NEW David Appell has posted comments highly critical of an article by Easterbrook UPDATE: Gregg Easterbrook has corrected one error, but persists in another.
Our Stolen Future: Gregg Easterbrook misfires again
Gadfly in the Ointment: Enviros berate Bush apologist for inaccurate L.A. Times op-ed by Amanda Griscom
AN EASTERBROOK DONNYBROOK Grist Magazine takes a look at an Easterbrook op/ed on global warming.
A pair of very critical reviews appeared in the August 1995 Natural History, pages 64-67. "Part I contains some of the most egregious cases of misunderstood, misstated, misinterpreted, and plainly incorrect 'science' writing I've ever encountered." Jack C. Schultz, 8/95, page 64.
Betrayal of Science and Reason (Paul and Anne Ehrlich, Island Press, 1996) takes a detailed look at A Moment on the Earth on pages 218 to 226. Includes a list of critiques of Easterbrook's book (note1, page 313).
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