Bjorn Lomborg: Our priorities for saving the world
December 19, 2007This is from 2005, but still worth posting nonetheless. Danish political scientist Bjorn Lomborg assesses what we *realistically* should do about prioritizing the major malfunctions of the world, and guess what? Global warming is at the bottom of the list. This is the man who made me fully realise, with absolute clarity (although I had my suspicions) that the whole global warming debacle is more a political bargaining chip than anything else. Anyway, just watch it and draw your own conclusions.
Filed under: environment, politics by Paul McClean
Paul, this guy Lomborg is an out and out chancer, a guy with precisely ZERO training or qualifications in climate science and precisely ZERO published peer-referenced papers to his name in this field.
What he is expert in is self-publicity and duping the public and the (non-specialist) media by passing himself off as an authority in this field. He is nothing of the sort. His angle is selling books and getting lucrative invites to speaking gigs, such as the recent IMI conference in Dublin.
Basing your opinions on global warming on Lomborg’s spiel is as useful as relying on the Tooth Fairy for advice on dentistry, or consulting with a fortune teller for the best advice on how to treat an advanced carcinoma with secondaries.
Global warming is a deadly serious subject. Lomborg is no ‘Skeptical Environmentalist’, rather he is a ‘Cynical Self-Publicist’.
- John Gibbons