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Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist's Guide to Global Warming
Skeptical Inquirer, Jan-Feb, 2008 by Kendrick Frazier
COOL IT: The Skeptical Environmentalist's Guide to Global Warming. Bjorn Lomborg. Knopf, New York, 2007. 253 pp. Hardcover, $21. Lomborg (Copenhagen Business School and author of The Skeptical Environmentalist) here attempts to transform the debate about global warming with a fresh perspective based on human needs as well as environmental concerns.
He states clearly at the outset "That humanity has caused a substantial rise in atmospheric carbon-dioxide levels over the past centuries, thereby contributing to global warming, is beyond debate." But what is debatable, he says, is "whether hysterical and head-long spending on extravagant C[O.sub.2]-cutting programs at an unprecedented price is the only possible response." He asks that we cool the rhetoric and have a measured discussion about the best ways forward. "We clearly need better ways to deal with climate change," he says. He provides an economist's analysis of not only much of the scientific data about climate change but also many of the proposals for mitigating it.
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