This New Yorker book review of Superfreak-onomics implies that Levitt and Dubner show their true colours as right wingers, just like all economists, even renegades.* They downplay the seriousness of climate change and suggest geoengineering is a better solution than restricting carbon emissions. The review quotes Al Gore:

We are already involved in a massive, unplanned planetary experiment. We should not begin yet another planetary experiment in the hope that it will somehow magically cancel out the effects of the one we already have.

I agree with the criticism in the article right up until the end where she mentions that Freeman Dyson has proposed genetically engineering trees to grow on Mars. The value of running yet another planetary experiment on Earth is that we will learn how to terraform other planets!

I’ll trade a 20° Earth for a 28° Venus and a 7° Mars.

* Exception: Richard Thaler supports carbon taxes in Nudge.