Howard Friel “The Lomborg Deception”

ISBN 978-0-300-16103-8. “The Lomborg Deception” by Howard Friel was published by Yale University Press in 2010. The 258 pages include a foreword by Thomas F. Lovejoy, fourteen chapters, some notes and an index. The large font makes this a relatively quick and easy read. Friel is a new name in the climate change quagmire charading as “debate”. He normally writes on political issues such as the future of Palestine, the news media and international law. He never originally intended on writing a book on Lomborg – instead he had started as a work on how the New York Times and Wall Street Journal have reported climate change. Bjorn Lomborg’s 2007 book “Cool It” coincided with the IPCC’s synthesis report of that year. Continue reading

Bjørn Lomborg “Skeptical Environmentalist”

ISBN 0 521 01068 3. Bjørn Lomborg’s “The Skeptical Environmentalist – Measuring the Real State of the World”. Love him or hate him Lomborg sure stirred up a hornets nest with this one. Widely quoted within the environmental movement itself, this has been a phenomena that could not be ignored. Why all the fuss? Although now largely out of date (published 2001 by Cambridge University Press) he compared, what he calls the environmental “litany” to statistical evidence to see how bad things really are. For an alleged member of Greenpeace Lomborg sure takes an active dislike to the polemic of environmental activists. Continue reading