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		Bjorn Lomborg, who recently claimed that polar-bear numbers were actually increasing and then had to abandon his claim when science intervened, says the best climate-change strategy is to “make the rest of the world as rich as New York” so all the people of the world can afford air conditioners.
		Lomborg makes his same old argument against action on climate change, that the world's economic resources are finite and that we should dedicate them to his top priorities - a list that misses climate change.
		To quote Lomborg, "We're focussed very much on climate change, and we are not focussed very much on all the other issues in the world and quite frankly we don't have infinite resources." Friend of the Earther, Tony Juniper retorts, "Lomborg's logic breaks down somewhat in trying to trade these things off against each other.
	www.desmogblog.com /directory_people/bjorn-lomborg (610 words)

	Bjørn Lomborg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Bjørn Lomborg (born January 6, 1965) is a Danish political scientist and former director of the Institute for Environmental Assessment in Copenhagen.
		Bjørn Lomborg spent one year as an undergraduate at the University of Georgia, earned a Masters in political science at the University of Aarhus in 1991, and earned a Ph.D. at the Department of Political Science, University of Copenhagen, 1994.
		Lomborg declared on the 22nd of June 2004 his decision to resign from his post to go back to the University of Aarhus, citing that his work in the Institute was done and that he better could service the public debate from the academic sector.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bjorn_Lomborg (1217 words)

	Copenhagen Consensus 2004 – addresses 10 major challenges in the world. - Bjørn link til forside
		Bjørn Lomborg is the director of the Environmental Assessment Institute.
		Lomborg is a frequent participant in global environmental discussion.
		In June 2002, Lomborg was named one of the "50 stars of Europe" and one of nine European "agenda setters" in Business Week.
	www.copenhagenconsensus.com /Default.aspx?ID=321 (177 words)

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		Bjorn Lomborg: Yes, but I think it’s still important to point out that fulfilling Kyoto for just one year probably is the equivalent of solving the single biggest problem in the world, giving clean drinking water and sanitation to every single human being on earth.
		Bjorn Lomborg: Well basically you have to look at, which is what I try to do, look at the facts, and look at the best models we have, predicting what is actually going to happen into the future.
		Lomborg devotes entire chapters to "revealing" that we are not running out of oil or metals, although virtually nobody in the environmental movement has claimed otherwise in the past twenty years.
	www.geocities.com /jimgreen3/lomborg.html (9895 words)

	TCS: Tech Central Station - Bjorn Lomborg's Groundhog Day (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		The Danish academic, Bjorn Lomborg, author of the international best-seller, The Skeptical Environmentalist, seems caught up in a similar time vortex, only in his case it is brought on by the pettiness of his critics.
		Lomborg championed employing cost-benefit analysis when weighing the merits of environmental regulations, such as the Kyoto Protocol, and demonstrated that many such green initiatives were misguided and more likely to do serious harm than good.
		Thankfully, the Danish Committees' effort to discredit Lomborg backfired as well, as hundreds of Danish scientists and academics came to Lomborg's side, defending the integrity of his work as well as the right of academics to pursue their research free of harassment from political opponents.
	www.techcentralstation.com /082803D.html (1002 words)

	The Borking of Bjorn Lomborg
		The magazine refused Lomborg the right to reply in the same issue, refused to post his response on its website immediately, and threatened him for infringement of copyright when he tried to reproduce their articles, with his responses, on his own website.
		Lomborg is also criticised for his effrontery in challenging the widely accepted figure that 40,000 species become extinct every year.
		But Lomborg does not dispute the need to save the planet, only the assertion that this is impossibly difficult and the particular priorities foisted on us by the big environmental pressure groups.
	bussorah.tripod.com /borklomb.html (1761 words)

	Reaction to Bjorn Lomborg
		Lomborg relies heavily on the issues of economic growth and the measurement of welfare, which is precisely Hueting's topic.
		Lomborg may show that those costs would be much lower than commonly stated, but this does not invalidate the idea that those costs should be included.
		Lomborg is rather convincing that a claim concerning 40,000 species is shockingly wrong - but it is not clear whether this claim was widespread or just from a few people.
	www.dataweb.nl /~cool/Papers/Environment/ReactionToLomborg.html (2154 words)

	Science Activists Attack The Skeptical Environmentalist - Center for Global Food Issues (CGFI)
		Lomborg, a Danish professor and self-described leftist, has harvested huge swaths of newsprint on both side of the Atlantic by documenting the world’s largely positive current environmental trends.
		Bongaart continues: “Lomborg correctly notes that poverty is the main cause of hunger and malnutrition, but he neglects the contribution of population growth to poverty.” Bongaarts ignores the reality that the poor areas of the world today were poor before modern medicine created their population surge.
		Bjorn Lomborg’s book has begun to worry the “pessimistic and dishonest cabal of environmental groups, institutions and the media” who’ve profited by distorting real science.
	www.cgfi.org /materials/articles/2002/jan_9_02.htm (772 words)

	Books by Bjorn Lomborg (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		BJORN LOMBORG is associate professor of statistics at the department of political science, University of Aarhum, Denmark
		Lomborg has written a detailed and well documented account of environmental indicators and has done so with the implicit goal of demystifying doomsday thinking in the environmental community.
		Lomborg is a careful writer with a clear and lucid style and the strength of this book also comes from the many references and sources that the reader may look up, if time allows.
	www.whatislife.com /reviews/lomborg.htm (266 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Books: The Skeptical Environmentalist (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Bjorn Lomborg, a former member of Greenpeace, challenges widely held beliefs that the world environmental situation is getting worse and worse in his new book, The Skeptical Environmentalist.
		Lomborg criticizes the way many environmental organizations make selective and misleading use of scientific evidence and argues that we are making decisions about the use of our limited resources based on inaccurate or incomplete information.
		Bjorn Lomborg is an associate professor of statistics in the Department of Political Science at the University of Aarhus.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0521010683 (2219 words)

	BBC - BBC Four Profile - Bjorn Lomborg
		A 37-year-old associate professor of statistics at the University of Aarhus, Lomborg was browsing in a Los Angeles bookshop when he came across the work of an American professor, the late Julian Simon, who argued that global resources would become more abundant and cheaper.
		Back in Denmark, Lomborg set his students the task of "debunking the man's myths, but found to our surprise that most of what he said was correct".
		Lomborg's wealth of research led to his controversial but popular book, published by Cambridge University Press in England last year.
	www.bbc.co.uk /bbcfour/features/bjorn-lomborg.shtml (453 words)

	The Skeptical Environmentalist; Book Review (Skeptical Inquirer November 2002)
		Lomborg states that this "is a figure which with monotonous regularity has been repeated everywhere until in the end we all believed it." The problem is, it hasn't, and we don't (Lovejoy 2002).
		Lomborg decries what he perceives to be a number of personal attacks on himself in the myriad reviews that conflict with his own point of view.
		Lomborg is determined not to let him off the hook, and repeats this number several times in his biodiversity chapter.
	www.csicop.org /si/2002-11/environment.html (2184 words)

	Bjorn Lomborg - SourceWatch
		Bjorn Lomborg is associate professor of statistics in the Department of Political Science at the University of Aarhus, Denmark.
		In particular, Lomborg argues in his book that while global warming is occurring, projections of its magnitude "are rather unrealistically pessimistic" and that "the typical cure of early and radical fossil fuel cutbacks is way worse than the original affliction and moreover its total impact will not pose a devastating problem for our future".
		In November 2004 Lomborg was the after dinner speaker at a special pre conference environmental meeting ahead of the annual meeting of the Philanthropy Roundtable, the coordinating committee of conservative foundations.
	www.sourcewatch.org /index.php?title=Bjorn_Lomborg (2859 words)

	Greenspirit - Support Bjorn Lomborg - The Skeptical Environmentalist
		Lomborg's response was to publish the text of the Scientific American article on his own website and to intersperse it with a detailed response to every point raised by his critics.
		And it is hard not to be struck by Lomborg’s presumption that he has seen into the heart of the science more faithfully than have investigators who have devoted their lives to it; it is equally curious that he finds the same contrarian good news lurking in every diverse area of environmental science.
		Lomborg fails to discuss— and I haven’t seen it treated by the authors of that speculative theory either— what such purported changes to this cloud cover have done to the radiative balance of the earth.
	www.greenspirit.com /lomborg (17715 words)

	Resurgence issue 210 - NO FRIEND OF THE EARTH by Andrew Simms
		So says Bjorn Lomborg, the self-styled "sceptical environmentalist" who has ignited the ire of the Green movement with a series of articles and the publication of his book.
		But Lomborg concedes that it is happening, is human-driven, is serious and will impose the greatest costs on those in the world who can least afford to deal with it.
		Lomborg ascribes problems with managing the global commons, such as the world's fisheries, to a lack of decent property rights regimes.
	www.gn.apc.org /resurgence/issues/simms210.htm (809 words)

	A special edition of Grist takes an in-depth look at Bjorn Lomborg's book The Skeptical Environmentalist \| Grist ...
		Lomborg, an associate professor of statistics at Denmark's University of Aarhus, applies the doctrine of doubt to environmentalism and concludes that most of the movement's sacred cows are, to put it bluntly, bull:
		Lomborg claims that these and other worries are "phantom problems" created or inflated by the environmental movement for its own ends, with the result that time and money are diverted from other, needier causes.
		Energy expert David Nemtzow, president of the Alliance to Save Energy, says Lomborg wastes his time battling a straw man: Virtually no one in the contemporary environmental movement disputes that fossil fuels are abundant, Nemtzow argues; in fact, it's precisely their abundance and their impact on our ecosystems that's the trouble.
	www.grist.org /advice/books/2001/12/12/of (918 words)

	On Bjorn Lomborg and extinction \| By E. O. Wilson \| Grist Magazine \| Arts and Minds \| 12 Dec 2001
		My greatest regret about the Lomborg scam is the extraordinary amount of scientific talent that has to be expended to combat it in the media.
		We will always have contrarians like Lomborg whose sallies are characterized by willful ignorance, selective quotations, disregard for communication with genuine experts, and destructive campaigning to attract the attention of the media rather than scientists.
		Lomborg's estimate of extinction rates is at odds with the vast majority of respected scholarship on extinction.
	www.grist.org /advice/books/2001/12/12/point (1011 words)

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