Posts Tagged ‘Bjorn Lomborg’

What Is Bjørn Lomborg Trying to Achieve?

In the latest issue of Cosmos magazine, I have a piece on Bjørn Lomborg, who, as I write, shot to fame in 2001 with his first book, The Skeptical Environmentalist, a broad critique of the environmental movement that infuriated many ecologists and greens. The notoriety transformed the little-known Danish statistician into a globe-trotting public intellectual. Since then,…Continue Reading…

The NYT Hearts Lomborg Flick

The new movie “Cool It” is out today and just wait till people get wind of this thumbs up review in the NYT, especially this passage: Debunking claims made by “An Inconvenient Truth” and presenting alternative strategies, “Cool It” finally blossoms into an engrossing, brain-tickling picture as many of Al Gore’s meticulously graphed assertions are…Continue Reading…

An Inconvenient Heresy

It’s quite possible that the latest musings from Bjorn Lomborg in the Financial Times only reinforce what an incorrigible media whore he is. Still, funny how Morano & club opted to ignore this snippet: Having questioned aspects of climate change science in the past, Mr Lomborg now says “the basic scientific questions [on climate change]…Continue Reading…