Bjorn Lomborg is the author of the book ‘The Skeptical Environmentalist‘, this is an seminal work and I recommend it to everyone. Lomborg is meticulous and backs up each claim carefully both with tables and graphs as well as multiple citations to a host of sources. His work has survived multiple reviews from decided hostile sources. The book provides over a 100 pages of both web links as well as book references in its bibliography. Many of these links are to the U.N. documents of the source studies regarding Global Warming Studies, Poverty, Energy etc. Regardless of what you think of Lomborg’s conclusions, his book can at least provide you with sources from which to from your opinion.
The following presentation was made by Lomborg at a TED conference. TED stands for Technology-Entertainment-Design, it has hosted both Lomborg and Gore and each has made his point at the conference. Among the scores of other speakers are Steve Jobs, Burt Rutan, and Stephan Hawking, some of the entertainers invited are Yo Yo Ma and Bono. The conferences are annual, and the talks cover everything from education to the state of African economies to the technology behind the Wii system.
Interestingly, Lomborg has asked Gore to debate Global Warming, Gore has declined, which is both a shame, for the public would benefit from such a debate, and cowardly on Gore’s part.
The left is using this issue as an anvil on which to hammer away our freedoms. This is an issue about government control over our lives, not human survival. Is global warming a problem? Possibly. There are anecdotal stories to support both sides of this argument. Overall global temperatures are falling this year. Still, currently the evidence does point to a warming trend.
The weather varies from year to year (big surprise!), only 20 years ago the threat of Global Cooling was the bogey man. Is Global warming caused by man? Possibly. However with other planets in the solar system warming up one can then wonder what is the effect of the Sun on our weather.
According to the U.N. report the sea level will rise but the change is inches (0.17 m/4.3 in), not feet as claimed by Gore. Is global warming our biggest problem? No, we have bigger fish to fry.
Hat Tip to Suburbanite for reminding me.
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The biggest problem is people who think they have no impact on anything and continue to defecate poisons into the atmosphere so they can drive to get cigarettes and beer at the corner gas station.
Humanity deserves what it gets.
Thanks Earl, did ya listen to Lomborg’s talk? goodbye!
see: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GovJ4jAnr14
What I liked about the presentation is that it looked not at the problem, but what can be done. If the planet Jupiter was somehow knocked out of orbit, and was going to collide with the earth in 100 years, it would be the biggest problem with no doubt. Of course there is nothing we would be able to do about it, and if we could forestall the collision by two days using all the resources of all mankind, what good would it do?
This has been Lomborg’s message always–how do we actually accomplish anything.
Earl, looks like you’ve swallowed what he fights against hook, line, sinker, reel, rod, creel, camper and fishing license.
The discussion of “popular” priorities vs. measurable improvement gets to the root of the problem with religious climate change lobbyists–the Day after Tomorrow makes a much better shill for scarce dollars than a handsome actor digging latrines in the third world and REALLY CHANGING part of the world by doing so.
Interesting that he so often mentioned not being asked back if he said certain things; he was crucified by the orthodox enviro-shills when he published his major work, because he put it out there for all to see that very little actual information was being used to prioritize. Instead, extremely selective massaged hype was put out to get as many dollars into lobbying groups’ pockets as possible–everything was ALWAYS in crisis, because it needed to be!
His very presence at such an event tells me that the orthodox high priests of doom have been forced to acknowledge that Lomborg is not only NOT a lunatic “paid by polluters” or any of the other dreck thrown at him when he pantsed them in public years ago, but a logical force which must be reckoned with in attempting beneficial change (on the ground instead of in non-profits’ hefty bankbooks).
Green has become a joke in becoming the new black, and that is the result of treating it as religious/political marketing.
Go, Bjorn!
Earl — there is a difference between pollutants and “greenhouse gasses.” Not that I can speak for you, personally, but in general, most people’s breath does not pollute the atmosphere. However, if you equate greenhouse gasses to pollution, they the breath of every animal on the planet is polluting the atmosphere, not to mention what comes out the other end.
Brian ,
Yes, to me this was the key point, and a paradigm that will escape many. Those espousing a “fix” to “global warming” are little more than the rainmakers of the dust bowl during the 20th century.
They say sex sells, but it remains number two to fear.
Guess Earl must be a shut in who survives on tap water and Dominos pizza delivery.
They say sex sells, but it remains number two to fear.
Correct, create a crisis ( fear) and the money starts to flow. Whether it is for financial gain, funding for research in order to justify ones existence or expansion of political power, it is all about fear. Fear created via hyped crisis is the conduit for the transfer of wealth.
That transfer of wealth then funds the consolidation of political power and control.
Environmental Socialism has little or nothing to do with the environment.
G,
Some time back, I read an interesting story that spoke to commonality among scientists of varying disciplines opposed to the current global warming hype. The one commonality :
They already had all the grant money they needed..
Dan, I suspect if dug a little further you’d find an overwhelming majority of Global Warning Alarmists received mega-grant money too.
Time for a little Friday humor, to stop global warming, we all need to park our cars, and use mass transit.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQdS5HY_O6k
Been there. Fortunately, I was going against the flow, but I did see the poor bastards trying to go in on the subway. Hideous.
Perhaps that is the real reason the government is concerned about メタボ (metabo) — they need to fit more people on the trains.