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Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist's Guide to Global Warming
Cool It The Skeptical Environmentalist's Guide to Global Warming
Author: Bjorn Lomborg
A groundbreaking book that transforms the debate about global warming by offering a fresh perspective based on human needs as well as environmental concerns. — Bjorn Lomborg argues that many of the elaborate and expensive actions now being considered to stop global warming will cost hundreds of billions of dollars, are often based on emotional ra...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780307266927
ISBN-10: 0307266923
Publication Date: 9/4/2007
Pages: 272
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Publisher: Knopf
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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Well, of all the books concerning global warming I have read in the last 5 years, this author by far has the best hair. (James Lovelock's isn't bad, but he's 94 years old, for goodness' sake), which by my reading of society, means that he will have the most effect in the long run on public opinion on the subject. Anyway, his academic background is in business, not science, so he does have a lot of weirdly supported (read: non-supported) facts, but he's a lot more realistic than the scientists who write on this subject, who think in terms of changing all of society because of a problem that is full of sublety. Also, unlike most skeptics, he doesn't spend a lot of energy on personal attacks against the more "alarmist" scientists, at least not at the beginning.


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