And we don’t know what the correct temperatures are, doctored data from CRU is no longer acceptable as gospel.

It may be true that in previous temperature swings, CO2 lagged temperature. What is manifestly true is that this time, CO2 is leading temperature. It may be, likewise, that in previous events, CO2 was released from the ocean. In this event, ocean CO2 is radically elevated, to the point that it is killing whole reef ecosystems. Therefore, this guy is barking up the wrong tree, and has evidently nothing to say about the present crisis — which crisis it certainly is, whatever the cause.

Anthony, yes. People who believe that the government planted bombs in the WTC are lunatic nutcases who are dead wrong. I don’t care if they have engineering degrees…
Now of course having just said that, I would like to walk back my hyperbole. We all believe the evidence supports various “conspiracies” and I am certain I am someone else’s Lunatic Nutcase.

I think my point here is that it’s good that the New Yorker is rebutting D&L when they go off the tracks. D&L are authorities in their own right who are treated with a certain amount of deference. But in this case they are probably wrong. Global Warming is probably a serious threat and will probably require massive concerted efforts to minimize its damage. Hopefully technology will play a part. But just like that excerpt from the reviewer so eloquently puts it: downplaying the science of global warming while buying whole hog the science of a technological cure for it is a serious lapse in D&L’s judgement. The book reviewer not understanding that the study of nutrition is practiced by people who failed out of dental school has nothing to do with it.