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

Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist's Guide to Global Warming | Bjørn Lomborg | Cool It; The skeptical environmentalist guide to global warming

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Cool It: The Skept...

	Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist's Guide to Global Warming Bjørn Lomborg Knopf, 2007 - 272 pages average customer review:based on 91 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Cool It By Lomborg

Excellent summary of what is wrong with current human induced global warming hype.

Lomborg is a liberal but he is informed. He understands the cost to western civilization of implementing current Al Gore supported "reforms" to western culture.

Cool It; The skeptical environmentalist guide to global warming

This was an excellent book. Lomborg showed that global warming, while real, has good aspects as well as bad and that wildly curtailing the use of carbon-based fuels would cost the society an enormous amount of money which would best be used for other uses, for instance, finding a vaccine for malaria and supplying nets for people to sleep under until a vaccine is found. These kind of actions are cheap compared to disrupting the whole economy by drastic steps to save on carbon use. This will save far more lives than slowing down global warming, part of which is created by nature recovering from the "little ice age" of several hundred years ago.

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Rational Discussion

Fair-minded people should be willing to discuss important problems, and their proposed solutions, in a reasonable manner. Lomborg's book points out that there are overstatements about both the alleged crisis of global warming and about the proposed solutions. But the biggest impact of this book isn't on whether the Kyoto accords should or shouldn't be adopted, it is, instead, in promoting cost/benefit analysis in approaching world problems like malaria. Even idealistic people need to focus on how they can best achieve their utopian goals in the real world and put their money where their mouth is. While I wish there had been a bit more on the end game for a world with an ever increasing population, I understand the need to focus on the near term. Never be afraid to read both sides of an argument. Donald J. Bingle, author of GREENSWORD (coming Jan. 2009).

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Brilliant

Lomborg has as big of an influence as he does in a hostile intellectual environment because of his carefully neutral, meticulously reasoned, and evidence based approach to environmental issues. This book is no exception. The first chapter alone, on polar bear populations, refutes thousands of pages of internet and dead-tree hype on supposed imminent species extinction due to global warming.

Our society would be well-served if more people took Lomborg's empirical approach towards discussing policy issues.

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