The Lomborg Deception: Setting the Record Straight About Global Warming

Friel, Howard

ISBN 10: 0300171285 / ISBN 13: 9780300171280

Editore: Yale University Press (edition ), 2011

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• Titolo: The Lomborg Deception: Setting the Record Straight About Global Warming
• Editore: Yale University Press (edition )
• Data di pubblicazione: 2011
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0300171285
• ISBN 13: 9780300171280
• Rilegatura: Paperback
• Condizione: Very Good

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Riassunto

A compelling exposé of the highly problematic scholarship of Bjørn Lomborg, the world&;s leading global warming skeptic

In this major assessment of leading climate-change skeptic Bjørn Lomborg, Howard Friel meticulously deconstructs the Danish statistician&;s claim that global warming is &;no catastrophe&; by exposing the systematic misrepresentations and partial accounting that are at the core of climate skepticism. His detailed analysis serves not only as a guide to reading the global warming skeptics, but also as a model for assessing the state of climate science. With attention to the complexities of climate-related phenomena across a range of areas&;from Arctic sea ice to the Antarctic ice sheet&;The Lomborg Deception also offers readers an enlightening review of some of today&;s most urgent climate concerns.

Friel&;s book is the first to respond directly to Lomborg&;s controversial research as published in The Skeptical Environmentalist (2001) and Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist&;s Guide to Global Warming (2007). His close reading of Lomborg&;s textual claims and supporting footnotes reveals a lengthy list of findings that will rock climate skeptics and their allies in the government and news media, demonstrating that the published peer-reviewed climate science, as assessed mainly by the U.N.&;s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, has had it mostly right&;even if somewhat conservatively right&;all along. Friel&;s able defense of Al Gore&;s An Inconvenient Truth against Lomborg&;s repeated attacks is by itself worth an attentive reading.

Informazioni sull?autore

Howard Friel is an independent scholar and author. His previous books, The Record of the Paper and Israel-Palestine on Record, both of which were co-authored by Richard Falk, have focused on media criticism and the media's use of international law. He lives in Northampton, MA.