Cool it: the skeptical environmentalist’s guide to global warming, by Bjørn Lomborg
Marshall Cavendish, £16.99
Bjørn Lomborg believes that the future will be far better than you are being led to believe. You can’t fault his ambition, or his perseverance. But his book is a concoction of selectively presented facts which fails to address the real challenge posed by climate change.
The past two years have seen an extraordinary shift in public debates on this issue. Reports from the intergovernmental panel on climate change (IPCC) set out unequivocal evidence on the realities of human-induced global warming. Last year, a report by Nicholas Stern for the British government argued forcefully that the human, social and economic costs of failing to tackle climate change will heavily outweigh the costs of greenhouse gas mitigation. With governments preparing for a critical meeting in Bali at the end of this year on the future of the Kyoto protocol, the momentum is gathering pace.
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