The Washington Post devoted a full page of the Sunday Outlook section to Pulitzer winner Tom Toles’ and Nobel Prize (sharer) Dr. Michael Mann’s Deniers club: Meet the people clouding the climate change debate which provides nine clarion examples of people who have “stalled action with a campaign of deliberate misinformation”. One of those nine, ‘The Smiling […]
Entries Tagged as 'bjorn lomborg'
Day after blunt takedown of #climate deceivers, @WashingtonPost gives soapbox (again) to one of them
September 19th, 2016 · 1 Comment
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Unpublished letters: On cool roofing, Lomborg ain’t so cool
November 22nd, 2010 · 2 Comments
WarrenS has taken on an admirable resolution: to send a letter to the editor (LTE) (or, well, a major politician) every single day, on the critical issues of climate change and energy. This discusses his approach and here is an amusing ‘template’ to for rapid letter writing. Now, I have always written letters and even […]
Tags: bjorn lomborg · climate change · climate delayers · environmental · Global Warming · Washington Post
Energy Bookshelf: The Lomborg Deception … leads to a question: “Does the Washington Post have any honor left?”
April 21st, 2010 · 8 Comments
At a recent conference, a scientist made a comment during his presentation about how we need to understand trade-offs in investments, advocating action on climate change but noting that we need to understand opportunity costs. In doing this, he referenced Bjorn Lomborg (with a somewhat condescending tone). In my bag, as he spoke, Howard Friel’s […]
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Making Global Warming Controversial in Public School Classrooms
May 19th, 2009 · 4 Comments
A guest post from “loblolly” in which “A retired science teacher looks at subtle and not so subtle efforts by the oil and coal industry and global warming deniers to subvert environmental education in the public schools, by spreading doubt and making teaching about global warming a controversial topic in public school classrooms.” Received from […]
Tags: bjorn lomborg · catastrophic climate change · climate change · climate delayers · Global Warming · global warming deniers
The Lomborg chill effect hits again
October 3rd, 2008 · 3 Comments
Bjorn Lomborg is eloquent, articulate, suave, debonair and recklessly dangerous. Lomborg’s disingenous truthiness provides a fourth category to “lies, damned lies, and statistics” which might referred to “Lomborg statistics“. He struck again with a Times opinion piece calling into question UK investment plans to fight global warming. It is hard, almost, to account for all […]
Tags: analysis · bjorn lomborg · carbon dioxide · climate change · climate delayers · Energy · truthiness
Not misrepresenting, but lying about evidence …
April 4th, 2008 · 3 Comments
Bjorn Lomborg has taken some real heat for his misrepresentations within and truthiness permeating his fantasy work Cool It. Over at SolveClimate, the typically excellent David Sassoon has taken the time to pull the string on the “evidence” for one of Lomborg’s key claims, that cold kills some 1.5 million Europeans each year and that […]
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WE … WashPost Reporting Balanced vs Objective
April 1st, 2008 · 7 Comments
Tomorrow, Al Gore and the Alliance for Climate Protection are launching a $300 million advertising campaign to mobilize American support for serious action to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in “one of the most ambitious and costly public advocacy campaigns in U.S. history.” One of the real challenges when it comes to press reporting on […]
Tags: Al Gore · an inconvenient truth · bjorn lomborg · carbon dioxide · climate change · climate delayers · coal · Congress · emissions · Energy · environmental · Global Warming · global warming deniers · government energy policy
No wonder people are confused … v2 …
November 15th, 2007 · Comments Off on No wonder people are confused … v2 …
Andrew Revkin, at the New York Times, who I generally find very much worth reading, has a dousy today. In a review of three global warming books, Revkin speaks of Bjorn Lomborg as a “centrist” and discusses his book without suggesting that there any factual errors or how truthiness runs roughshod over the truth. He […]
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Is Lomborg’s world heating up?
September 27th, 2007 · Comments Off on Is Lomborg’s world heating up?
Bjorn Lomborg is a reckless economist, pursuing disingenuous truthiness in arguing that fighting global warming isn’t worth the effort. While, Lomborg has received serious criticism after serious criticism of his work all over the globe, it looks like his world is heating up a bit as the Post-Carbon Institute has put together a collection of […]
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