tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3692282252844489453.post4114567114491869847..comments2024-03-01T18:58:48.605-08:00Comments on What'sUpWithThatWatts, et al.: In defense of Bjørn Lomborg ???citizenschallengehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04559990934735912814noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3692282252844489453.post-21879836379816045562013-02-20T12:51:29.224-08:002013-02-20T12:51:29.224-08:00"Hot, It’s Not:
Reflections on Cool It!, by B...<b>"Hot, It’s Not:<br />Reflections on Cool It!, by Bjorn Lomborg"</b><br />by Frank Ackerman<br /><br />http://sei-us.org/Publications_PDF/SEI-ReflectionsOnCoolIt-08.pdf<br /><br />Came across an interesting thoughtful article reviewing Lomborg's various fallacies, I figured I should share:<br />~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<br /><br /><i> . . . If he had confined himself to actual examples of oversimplification and exaggeration in climate change rhetoric, Lomborg could have written a short, useful article - perhaps making the point that it is unhelpful and unnecessary to overstate the case, since the real problems of climate change are serious enough. <br /><br />Unfortunately, Lomborg did not write that article, but instead stretched his story into a book length claim that climate change is only a moderately serious problem, while the proposed remedies are all prohibitively expensive. Many other problems, in his view, are both more urgent and cheaper to solve. . .</i>citizenschallengehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04559990934735912814noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3692282252844489453.post-19431556153862451582013-01-27T08:42:57.326-08:002013-01-27T08:42:57.326-08:00George Will, ideologue warrior, stealer of documen...George Will, ideologue warrior, stealer of documents off President Carter's desk - is about the last person one should turn to for an objective appraisal of anything to do with health, safety or our environment. But, he keeps his job and spews his party-line.<br /><br />In any event, the following was posted over at Watching the Deniers<br />~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ <br /><br />"Tamino has an article today at Open Mind, about George Will’s statements on reduced forest fires in the U.S. As Tamino shows, the acreage burned has had a big increase.:<br /><br />"Where there’s a Will … theres a way to distort the truth"<br /><br />http://tamino.wordpress.com/2013/01/26/where-theres-a-will-theres-a-way-to-distort-the-truth/<br />~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ <br /><br />Tip of the Hat to <i>sailrick</i>citizenschallengehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04559990934735912814noreply@blogger.com