Skeptic Defector
September 4th 2010 13:02
The pro-global-warming crowd are going to love this. The noted anti-gw scientist reverses his stance!
From the article:
Lomborg's essential argument was: Yes, global warming is real and human behavior is the main reason for it, but the world has far more important things to worry about.
(I don't believe human behavior is the main reason for it. I stick to that theory. Global warming is a real phenomenon, to which humans contribute little or nothing.)
Oh, how times have changed.
(Possibly because he has been paid or needs to promote his book reversing his stance!)
In a book to be published this year, Lomborg calls global warming "undoubtedly one of the chief concerns facing the world today" and calls for the world's governments to invest tens of billions of dollars annually to fight climate change.
(It's not his money after all! The fact that he basically defected from Greenpeace about his original skepticism, proves he's just wishy-washy.)
Lomborg's former foes in the environmental movement are so far unimpressed by news of his conversion. Calling him a "shrewd self-promoter," Grist.org's Jonathan Hiskes marveled at Lomborg's ability to "play the media" in simply "adopting a position already held by millions of sensible people." And Friends of the Earth climate campaigner Mike Childs told the U.K. Guardian, "It appears that the self-styled skeptical environmentalist is beginning to become less skeptical as he enters middle age."
(In the Save the Environment field, they are even divided when it comes to this off again-on again, a-hem, scientist!!!)
From the article:
Lomborg's essential argument was: Yes, global warming is real and human behavior is the main reason for it, but the world has far more important things to worry about.
(I don't believe human behavior is the main reason for it. I stick to that theory. Global warming is a real phenomenon, to which humans contribute little or nothing.)
Oh, how times have changed.
(Possibly because he has been paid or needs to promote his book reversing his stance!)
In a book to be published this year, Lomborg calls global warming "undoubtedly one of the chief concerns facing the world today" and calls for the world's governments to invest tens of billions of dollars annually to fight climate change.
(It's not his money after all! The fact that he basically defected from Greenpeace about his original skepticism, proves he's just wishy-washy.)
Lomborg's former foes in the environmental movement are so far unimpressed by news of his conversion. Calling him a "shrewd self-promoter," Grist.org's Jonathan Hiskes marveled at Lomborg's ability to "play the media" in simply "adopting a position already held by millions of sensible people." And Friends of the Earth climate campaigner Mike Childs told the U.K. Guardian, "It appears that the self-styled skeptical environmentalist is beginning to become less skeptical as he enters middle age."
(In the Save the Environment field, they are even divided when it comes to this off again-on again, a-hem, scientist!!!)
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