The Skeptical Environmentalist
by Bjørn Lomborg · first published 2001
25mentions
4recommended by
23HN commenters
2008–2026first – last mentioned
17% recommend74% neutral9% critical
Affiliate links. As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.
…casual and dismissive about issues of such magnitude. Environmentalists have been screaming "we're all going to die!" every 5 years for the last 40. Check out the first chapter of Bjorn Lomborg's "The Skeptical Environmentalist". Many of the still well-respected names in environmental policy have been drastically, self-servingly disingenuous in the past in order to push a radical environmental agenda that frankly was not backed…
on “Ice is on course to disappear entirely from the North Pole this year” ↗…proceeds to demolish the Litany. He shows how, time and again, ideological environmentalists misuse, distort, and ignore the vast reams of data that contradict their dour visions. In the course of The Skeptical Environmentalist, Lomborg demonstrates that the environmentalist lobby is just that, a collection of interest groups that must hype doom in order to survive monetarily and politically. Lomborg notes, "As the industry…
on “Ice is on course to disappear entirely from the North Pole this year” ↗How important? Look at the arguments of Bjørn Lomborg, "The Skeptical Environmentalist". He says e.g. there are far better ways to spend the world's money to improve lives than e.g. what's being proposed WRT to AGW/CC.
on “Why climatologists used the tree-ring data ‘trick’” ↗…More Kids - Caplan * Dawkins - The Selfish Gene * A Confession - Tolstoy * Enlightenment Now - Pinker * The Better Angels of our Nature - Pinker * The Improving State of the World - Goklany * The Skeptical Environmentalist - Lomborg * Religion for Atheists - de Botton * Ending Aging - de Grey * Gut Feelings - Gigirenzer Fiction: * Heart of Darkness - Conrad * Candide - Voltaire * Brave New World - Huxley * Selected…
on “Ask HN: What did you purchase that measurably improved your quality of life?” ↗…flat earth screeds; ideally you should be able to take individual claims and mark them "settled", a state that can only be invalidated by the output of a new, concrete experiment. I bought the book The Skeptical Environmentalist, for just this reason. I love hearing dissenting opinions from people who aren't a PR firm flunky. Bjørn Lomborg was and is paying a high price for his honest heterodoxy, and the least we can do is listen…
on “Early ‘lab-grown’ Covid virus found in sample lends weight to Wuhan theory” ↗…that he is now saying that it can be mitigated, it's important enough to be mitigated, and that it won't be all that expensive to do so. But hey, don't believe me. take it from Lomborg himself: The Skeptical Environmentalist In The Skeptical Environmentalist Bjørn Lomborg challenges widely held beliefs that the global environment is progressively getting worse. Using statistical information from internationally recognized…
on “World's most high-profile climate change skeptic does U turn on global warming” ↗"In The Skeptical Environmentalist Bjørn Lomborg challenges widely held beliefs that the global environment is progressively getting worse." Yes, but that refers to deforestation, pollution and loss of biodiversity, not global warming.…
on “World's most high-profile climate change skeptic does U turn on global warming” ↗From your own source: > After the publication of The Skeptical Environmentalist, Lomborg was accused of scientific dishonesty. And: > DCSD investigation - On 6 January 2003 the DCSD reached a decision on the complaints. The ruling sent a mixed message, deciding the book to be scientifically…
on “Climate impacts 'overwhelming' – UN report” ↗…battle is the one that is the last to commit its reserves. We really need to keep some reserves. In the HN discussion in which you posted a pointer to this discussion I referred to Bjørn Lomborg, "The Skeptical Environmentalist". Back before the release of the CRUtape Letters he believed moderate AGW was happening, but he advocates moderate local expenditures to deal with that (moderate at least when compared to the "take over…
on “Ask Hacker News: What is the % chance of cataclysmic climate change?” ↗Bjorn Lomborg is a sad case. He titled his book The Skeptical Environmentalist and everyone got the message, without reading the book, that he was a climate-change skeptic -- and for the most part labeled him as an "enemy" and rebuffed him. It was just a public relations disaster.…
on “What's Really Warming the World?” ↗The Skeptical Environmentalist by Bjorn Lomborg: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Skeptical-Environmentalist-Measurin...
on “Ask HN: Good Books on Climate Change?” ↗To say Bjorn Lomborg is a controversial character is to put it mildly. His 2001 book, the Skeptical Environmentalist was the centre of a huge controversy.
on “Giving Up Meat Won’t Have Much of an Effect on Climate Change” ↗For those that had to look the guy up, here is the relevant part from his wiki page. > After the publication of The Skeptical Environmentalist, Lomborg was formally accused of scientific dishonesty by a group of environmental scientists, who brought a total of three complaints against him to the Danish Committees on Scientific Dishonesty (DCSD),…
> Best Things First. By Bjorn Lomborg Wait, this is the social scientist who wrote The Skeptical Environmentalist, whom a Danish Science committee found to be "scientifically dishonest through misrepresentation of scientific facts, but Lomborg himself not guilty due to his lack of expertise in the fields in question."…
on “Books of 2023, as Chosen by The Economist” ↗He's better described as a self serving political populist with this being one of several interesting chapters: After the publication of The Skeptical Environmentalist, Lomborg was formally accused of scientific dishonesty by a group of environmental scientists, who brought a total of three complaints against him to the Danish Committees on Scientific Dishonesty (DCSD),…
on “Count Binface” ↗