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The Skeptical Environmentalist’s Guide to Global Warming

Lomborg looks at global warming and the proposed solutions with the unflinching eye of an economist, and discovers that most of the hype and hysteria is unjustifiable, and that most of the political solutions offered will make things worse for future generations. Lomborg is not a "climate change den......more

Interesting book. Mr. Lomborg takes the science and applies statistical and economic methodology to it. Bottom line, the scare stories miss the point. Quite often they forget to give the other fact or more embaressing to look at the denominator. For example, about 5 times as many people die from col......more

5 stars, not for the prose, but for Lomborg's presentation of the facts, and a solid analytical argument that cuts through the choreographed screaming to argue that the costs of Kyoto (and this book is about Kyoto, not global warming per se), are excessive, will leave us and future generations worse......more

Nemmeno troppo eretico questo scienziato fuori dal coro. Il riscaldamento terrestre a causa dell'attivita umana e' molto probabilmente una realta', quello che veramente si differenzia nell'analisi di Lomborg e' l'effetto di questo innalzamento della temperatura a causa della co2. Nulla di catastrofi......more