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Bjorn Lomborg calls himself an environmentalist. He was concerned enough to join Greenpeace and go vegetarian. So when he read an interview with economist Julian Simon claiming environmental concerns are bunk, Lomborg was inspired to prove him wrong. A professor of statistics at a Danish University, Lomborg set up a class project to examine Simon’s theories. To his surprise, analysis proved Simon right on nearly every count. Lomborg was inspired to write a book, The Skeptical Environmentalist: Measuring the Real State of the World.
Why Bjorn got a pie in his face « Our Orb
Danish anti-environmentalist author Bjorn Lomborg today received his just desserts courtesy of a fellow writer enraged at his "dangerous and misleading" statements on crucial green issues. A pie was thrown in his face at Borders Bookshop in Oxford just after 7pm this evening. Lomborg's heavily-promoted new book 'The Skeptical Environmentalist' claims variously that consumer waste isn't a problem, that species loss is minimal, and that it is far too expensive to do anything about global warming. Pie-man Mark Lynas said he was unable to ignore Lomborg's comments on climate change. "I wanted to put a Baked Alaska in his smug face," said Lynas, "in solidarity with the native Indian and Eskimo people in Alaska who are reporting rising temperatures, shrinking sea ice and worsening effects on animal and bird life."
Danish anti-environmentalist author Bjorn Lomborg gets his just deserts in London!
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Mark Lynas: the green heretic persecuted for his nuclear conversion - Times Online
Mark Lynas (born 1973) is a British author , journalist and environmental activist who focuses on climate change . He is a contributor to New Statesman , Ecologist , Granta and Geographical magazines, and The Guardian and The Observer newspapers in the UK; he also worked on the film The Age of Stupid . He holds a degree in history and politics from the University of Edinburgh . He lives in Oxford , England .
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Environmental scrutiny: Doomsday postponed | The Economist
THIS is one of the most valuable books on public policy—not merely on environmental policy—to have been written for the intelligent general reader in the past ten years. Its target is environmental pessimism, the defining mood of the age. By the end, fair-minded readers will find that most of the concerns they had about the future of the planet have given way to fury at the army of dissembling environmentalists who have dedicated themselves to stirring up panic by concealing the truth. The idea that the world is heading for ruin seems to be taken for granted by almost every television news programme and newspaper, whether the subject is poverty in Africa, global warming, trends in population, traffic jams in Manchester or a spell of bad weather in Detroit.FiveBooks asked science writer Matt Ridley for a reading list on Technology, Optimism and How It’s All Going To Be Fine. Read what he had to say to editor Anna Blundy about top 5 pick The Skeptical Environmentalist by the one and only Bjørn Lomborg. He read a famous article about Julian Simon in Wired , about the bet and Simon’s views, and Bjorn, being a gay, vegetarian, left-wing Dane thought: ‘This is crap.’
This Side of the Pond | Matt Ridley on ‘The Skeptical Environmentalist’ for FiveBooks
In this previously unpublished series of interviews, Chomsky discusses his iconoclastic and important ideas concerning language, human nature and politics.
The Skeptical Environmentalist - The Debate - Cambridge University Press
In this previously unpublished series of interviews, Chomsky discusses his iconoclastic and important ideas concerning language, human nature and politics.
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"The Skeptical Environmentalist" Author Found Guilty of Scientific Dishonesty: Decision Regarding Complaints Against Bjørn Lomborg Udvalgene Vedrørende Videnskabelig Uredelighed Danish Committees on Scientific Dishonesty 7jan03
The following media release is forwarded from Mark Lynas. The full (and damning) official verdict on GE-supporter Lomborg by The Danish Committee on Scientific Dishonesty, which brings together some of the most senior members of Denmark's scientific establishment [at left]. Bjørn Lomborg , author of the controversial anti-green critique 'The Skeptical Environmentalist ', has been found guilty of scientific dishonesty by a well-respected committee in his home country Denmark. Lomborg came to prominence in August 2001 when the publication of his book caused great controversy within the scientific and environmental communities in both Europe and the United States.
The recent publication of The Skeptical Environmentalist, a book by Bjrn Lomborg (Cambridge University Press, 2001), ignited an international controversy. Lomborg, a Danish political scientist with a background in statistics, argues in his text that claims made by environmentalists about global warming , overpopulation, energy, deforestation, species loss, water shortages, and a variety of other issues are exaggerations unsupported by a proper analysis of environmental data. His message was widely publicized in the popular media and championed by political commentators traditionally opposed to environmentalist policies. Outraged voices within the mainstream scientific community quickly answered, however, that Lomborgs work was deeply flawed.
Skepticism toward The Skeptical Environmentalist: Scientific American
The Union of Concerned Scientists examines The Skeptical Environmentalist ( http://www.ucsusa.org/environment/lomborg.html ). Detailed responses from Peter Gleick on the books treatment of water resources, Jerry Mahlman on global warming , and Edward O. Wilson, Thomas Lovejoy, Norman Myers, Jeffrey Harvey and Stuart Pimm on biodiversity and species loss. Something is Rotten in the State of Denmark ( http://www.gristmagazine.com/grist/books/lomborg121201.asp ).
More Criticisms and Comments on The Skeptical Environmentalist: Scientific American
In this major assessment of leading climate-change skeptic Bjørn Lomborg, Howard Friel meticulously deconstructs the Danish statistician’s claim that global warming is “no catastrophe” by exposing the systematic misrepresentations and partial accounting that are at the core of climate skepticism. His detailed analysis serves not only as a guide to reading the global warming skeptics, but also as a model for assessing the state of climate science. With attention to the complexities of climate-related phenomena across a range of areas—from Arctic sea ice to the Antarctic ice sheet— The Lomborg Deception also offers readers an enlightening review of some of today’s most urgent climate concerns. Friel’s book is the first to respond directly to Lomborg’s controversial research as published in The Skeptical Environmentalist (2001) and Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist’s Guide to Global Warming (2007).
The Lomborg Deception - Friel, Howard; Lovejoy, Thomas E. - Yale University Press
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