Just days before the release of the new book by the authors of Freakonomics (not-so-imaginatively titled Superfreakonomics), a controversy sprung up about whether or not the book gets the science on global warming very, very wrong. As folks know, the Freakonomics team of Stephen Dubner and Steven Levitt found their original zing by taking a contrarian approach to persistent economic puzzles; but a rising chorus of critics — including their New York Times colleague Paul Krugman — are charging that, this time, the pair are way out of their depth.
