The Skeptical Environmentalist, Bjorn Lomborg
August 29th, 2007 by Brendan SteinhauserSalon.com has a piece on Bjorn Lomborg, who has been one of the most outspoken and widely read critics of global warming alarmism.
Bjørn Lomborg drives people crazy. The tale of the controversy that swarmed his 2001 book, “The Skeptical Environmentalist,” in which the native Dane argued that many environmental problems were overblown, has been widely told. With a few clicks you can read all about his skirmish with the Danish Committees on Scientific Dishonesty and his protracted battle with Scientific American. In a flash you can find his defenders strafing his critics from their libertarian bunkers or congressional offices. When Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla., wants to back up his claim that global warming is the “greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people,” or invites somebody to Washington to debate Al Gore, he calls on Lomborg.
Lomborg, 42, rose to infamy by way of a Ph.D. in political science and a love affair with statistics. Today he is an adjunct professor at the Copenhagen Business School and the director of the Copenhagen Consensus Center, where he strives to devise economic solutions to the world’s pressing problems. Next week he will storm back into the cultural fray with “Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist’s Guide to Global Warming,” a highly readable asseveration that global warming is not so bad and that Al Gore is an inconvenient truth-stretcher.
