Bjorn Lomborg’s “Cool It”

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Here’s a great article in the New York Times about Bjorn Lomborg and his new book Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist's Guide to Global Warming. He’s starting to cause almost as much of a stir as Michael Crichton did with State of Fear.

Feel Good vs. Do Good on Climate
By JOHN TIERNEY, NY Times, September 11, 2007
www.nytimes.com/2007/09/11/science/earth/11tiern.html
After looking at one too many projections of global-warming disasters — computer graphics of coasts swamped by rising seas, mounting death tolls from heat waves — I was ready for a reality check. Instead of imagining a warmer planet, I traveled to a place that has already felt the heat, accompanied by Bjorn Lomborg, the Danish political scientist and scourge of environmentalist orthodoxy.

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Bjorn Lomborg was on The Colbert Report Monday September 10. You can watch the video here:

Colbert Report – Bjorn Lomborg

The only problem is that Stephen Colbert is so insistent on being the star that Lomborg didn’t get to say as much as he wanted to. Colbert did the same thing to Richard Branson two weeks ago.

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From James Erlandson at Climate Audit--
Here’s a link to a NPR’s Morning Edition interview with Bjorn Lomborg:
www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=14285997

And something else in the NY Times:
A Cool Look at Global Warming

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Here’s a good article on Bjorn Lomborg’s book in the Wall Street Journal:

Chill Out: Bjorn Lomborg provides a calm voice in the heated debate over global warming
BY KIMBERLEY A. STRASSEL, Wall Street Journal, Thursday, September 13, 2007
In this world of Republicans and Democrats, meat-eaters and vegetarians, dog lovers and cat lovers, we have a new divide. On one side are global-warming believers. They've heard Al Gore's inconvenient truths and, along with the staff of Time magazine, feel "worried, very worried." Humanity faces no greater threat than a warming Earth, they say, and government must drastically curb carbon-dioxide emissions. On the other side are those who don't think that the Earth is warming; and even if it is, they don't think that man is causing it; and even if man is to blame, it isn't clear that global warming is bad; and even if it is, efforts to fix it will cost too much and may, in the end, do more harm than good.

Standing in the practical middle is Bjorn Lomborg, the free-thinking Dane who, in "The Skeptical Environmentalist" (2001), challenged the belief that the environment is going to pieces. Mr. Lomborg is now back with "Cool It," a book brimming with useful facts and common sense.

Wall Street Journal – Chill Out

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Bjorn Lomborg is going to be on Book TV (CSpan-2) this weekend.

Lomborg on Book TV


Here’s the description of the program:

In "Cool It," Bjorn Lomborg argues that global warming is not a catastrophe but a problem. Mr. Lomborg provides scenarios and solutions to problems associated with global warming. He also discusses some of the issues he views as more of an immediate problem, like malaria, AIDS, and clean water supplies.