Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist's Guide to Global Warming

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Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist's Guide to Global Warming
by Bjørn Lomborg
from Knopf

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• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0

• he has the right idea
  He has the right idea in that we need to be looking at climate change in terms of costs and benefits. Not in terms of the hysterics that we are force fed daily.
  Are all his facts and numbers correct? I don't know. I've seen some webpages that have gone through point-by-point and refuted Lomborgs claims. Lomberg supposedly has rebuttals (though they're in Danish).
  Regardless I like and buy the gist of Lomborg's argument: there are things we can do in the short run to mitigate the adverse effects of... more info

• Convincing But Needs Paleontological Perspective
  In COOL IT, Professor Lomborg approaches the global warming controversy by admitting that global warming is real, may in fact be caused in part by recent human activity, but no, global warming is not the End Of Days as predicted by Al Gore. Lomborg takes the hydra-headed Green Peace monolith of global warming and analyzes it in ways that have caused some environmentalists to tag him and others of his ilk as climate deniers, the operative word "deniers" meant to resonate with those who seek to assail true... more info

• Cherry Picks Facts, Doesn't Understand the Science
  This book seemed reasonable until I started investigating what climate scientists think. For a more informed opinion, see Hell and High Water: Global Warming--the Solution and the Politics--and What We Should Do. Also, read Joseph Romm at ClimateProgress web site and for some real meat go to RealClimate web site. You can look up the actual web site addresses in Google.

• Thoughtful Action
  The author believes in Man-caused Global Warming. However, rather than reflectively go along with the majority of that group, he demonstrates that their course of action will do little to stem the warming.
  He concludes that the better approach is to use the same (or less) amount of money to help people in the developing world. The overall increase in human welfare will then allow the people to adapt to the warmer world.

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