SuperFreakonomics

Of all the tricks turned by the prostitutes he tracked, roughly 3 percent were freebies given to police officers.

After the September 11 terrorist attacks, all commercial flights in the United States were grounded for three days. Using data from more than four thousand weather stations across the country, scientists found that the sudden absence of contrails accounted for a subsequent rise in ground temperature of nearly 2 degrees Fahrenheit, or 1.1 degrees Ce

“It is driven mostly by water-warming—literally, the thermal expansion of ocean water as it warms up.”

But in the cash-incentive version, the men blew away the women.

while the drumbeat of doom has grown louder over the past several years, the average global temperature during that time has in fact decreased.

law of unintended consequences.

“Just about any request which could conceivably be asked of the subject by a reputable investigator,” he wrote, “is legitimized by the quasi-magical phrase “This is an experiment.’”

“Shifting less than one day per week’s worth of calories from red meat and dairy products to chicken, fish, eggs, or a vegetable-based diet achieves more greenhouse-gas reduction than buying all locally sourced food,” they write.

The world’s ruminants are responsible for about 50 percent more greenhouse gas than the entire transportation sector.