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The Lomborg Deception: Setting the Record Straight about Global Warming

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In this major assessment of leading climate-change skeptic Bjørn Lomborg, Howard Friel meticulously deconstructs the Danish statisticians claim that global warming is “no catastrophe” by exposing the systematic misrepresentations and partial accounting that are at the core of climate skepticism. His detailed analysis serves not only as a guide to reading the global warming skeptics, but also as a model for assessing the state of climate science. With attention to the complexities of climate-related phenomena across a range of areas—from Arctic sea ice to the Antarctic ice sheet—The Lomborg Deception also offers readers an enlightening review of some of todays most urgent climate concerns.

Friels book is the first to respond directly to Lomborgs controversial research as published in The Skeptical Environmentalist (2001) and Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalists Guide to Global Warming (2007). His close reading of Lomborgs textual claims and supporting footnotes reveals a lengthy list of findings that will rock climate skeptics and their allies in the government and news media, demonstrating that the published peer-reviewed climate science, as assessed mainly by the U.N.s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, has had it mostly right—even if somewhat conservatively right—all along. Friels able defense of Al Gores An Inconvenient Truth against Lomborgs repeated attacks is by itself worth an attentive reading.

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About the Author

Howard Friel is an independent scholar and author. His previous books, The Record of the Paper and Israel-Palestine on Record, both of which were co-authored by Richard Falk, have focused on media criticism and the media's use of international law. He lives in Northampton, MA.
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Product Details

ISBN:
9780300161038
Author:
Friel, Howard
Publisher:
Yale University Press
Foreword by:
Lovejoy, Thomas E.
Foreword:
Lovejoy, Thomas E.
Author:
Lovejoy, Thomas E.
Subject:
Climatic changes
Subject:
Global warming
Subject:
Life Sciences - General
Subject:
Research -- Methodology.
Subject:
Earth Sciences - Meteorology & Climatology
Subject:
Environmental Science
Subject:
Environmental Conservation & Protection
Subject:
General-General
Edition Description:
Trade Cloth
Publication Date:
20100331
Binding:
HARDCOVER
Language:
English
Pages:
272
Dimensions:
8 x 5.25 in 0.7 lb
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