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	The Skeptical Environmentalist - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In numerous interviews, he ascribed his motivation for writing The Skeptical Environmentalist to his personal convictions, making clear that he was a pro-environmentalist and a Greenpeace supporter (contrary to reports, not a "member", as Greenpeace does not have regular card-carrying membership).
		In fact, The Skeptical Environmentalist is the most significant work on the environment since the appearance of its polar opposite, Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, in 1962.
		The Skeptical Environmentalist currently appears on the reading list of a variety of university environmental studies courses as recommended or required reading, though this is not the case with environmental science (because the book is irrelevant) or environmental economics (because the book is for general public).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Skeptical_Environmentalist (5677 words)

	The Skeptical Environmentalist
		Far from benign, the environmentalists' exaggerated claims cause politicians to waste billions trying to solve nonexistent problems, while real ecological problems, drowned in a barrage of hype, are not addressed.
		However, by the end of the chapter, the author's skepticism, worn out from constant struggle, gives up the ghost, and he surrenders to the 2001 IPCC conclusions and their dire warnings in their entirety.
		Environmentalists, supposedly worried about potential harmful effects of these foods, and caring little about the foods' ability to relieve hunger, have committed acts that can only be described as terrorism.
	entropy.brneurosci.org /reviews/skeptical.html (1456 words)

	Skeptical Environmentalist: Case Study in the Manufacture of News (Science and the Media)
		The credibility of the The Skeptical Environmentalist was further promoted by reviews in leading newspapers that were inexplicably glowing, and tributes in the conservative and financial press that were predictably enthusiastic.
		Reason magazine, judged The Skeptical Environmentalist to be a "superbly documented and readable book," and referred to the evidence presented as "uncontroversial data." He ended the review by comparing radical environmentalists to Islamic radicals.
		The Skeptical Environmentalist is the latest in a line of books over the past decade that present the strongest of arguments supported by a smoke screen of data and end notes.
	www.csicop.org /scienceandmedia/environmentalist (2190 words)

	BBC - BBC Four Profile - Bjorn Lomborg
		In his book, The Sceptical Environmentalist, he presents an encyclopedia of facts to support his main message, that global warming is not the greatest threat humanity faces.
		And his most explosive charge is that some environmentalists suppress good news about the state of the earth to maintain a political culture of fear, and ensure their own continued funding.
		Environmentalists have come out in droves to dispute his claims, but every time a dismissive article appears, Lomborg's profile goes up and he sells another copy.
	www.bbc.co.uk /bbcfour/features/bjorn-lomborg.shtml (453 words)

	Greenspirit - Support Bjorn Lomborg - The Skeptical Environmentalist
		The environmentalists Ehrlich, Harte and Holdren, all of
		What environmentalists mainly say on this topic is not that we are running out of energy but that we are running out of environment—that is, running out of the capacity of air, water, soil and biota to absorb, without intolerable consequences for human well-being, the effects of energy extraction, transport, transformation and use.
		Environmentalists who predicted widespread famine and blamed rapid population growth for many of the world’s environmental, economic and social problems overstated their cases.
	www.greenspirit.com /lomborg (17715 words)

	Earthbeat - 13/10/01: Skeptical Environmentalist Debates Critics
		Environmentalists are saying the sky is going to fall in, but the environment is getting better on many fronts.
		That’s the thrust of the environmentalist argument, not a sort of abstract question of whether there is or isn’t a problem.
		Stephen Schneider is Professor of Biology and Global Change at Stanford University in California; Tom Burke is with the Green Alliance in the United Kingdom, and he’s an adviser to BP and Rio Tinto and he was in London.
	www.abc.net.au /rn/science/earth/stories/s394496.htm (4629 words)

	The Skeptical Environmentalist - Cambridge University Press
		The Skeptical Environmentalist offers readers a non-partisan stocktaking exercise that serves as a useful corrective to the more alarmist accounts favoured by campaign groups and the media.
		'The Skeptical Environmentalist should be read by every environmentalist, so that the appalling errors of fact the environmental movement has made in the past are not repeated.
		The Skeptical Environmentalist is the most valuable book available in many years on public policy in general, not only environmental policy in particular.
	www.cambridge.org /uk/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=0521010683 (1096 words)

	Skeptical Environmentalist
		The idea that the world is heading for ruin seems to be taken for granted by almost every television news programme and newspaper, whether the subject is poverty in Africa, global warming, trends in population, traffic jams in Manchester or a spell of bad weather in Detroit.
		So in "The skeptical Environmentalist" he examines the views of the world's leading environmental pressure groups simply by consulting the sources (if any) they cite, together with other relevant literature.
		Again and again, he finds that the pessimists' claims are falsified not merely by the available scientific evidence but by their own quoted sources.
	www.igreens.org.uk /skeptical_environmentalist.htm (633 words)

	The Skeptical Environmentalist at opensource encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Skeptical Environmentalist is a controversial book by political scientist Bjørn Lomborg which argues that claims made by environmentalists about global warming, overpopulation, energy, deforestation, species loss, water shortages, and a variety of other issues are exaggerations unsupported by a proper analysis of environmental data.
		The Skeptical Environmentalist has many references to primary and secondary material, but much of its methodology and integrity has been subject to serious criticism (see below).
		The DSCD investigation found Lomberg guilty of scientific dishonesty, reporting that The Skeptical Environmentalist suffered from "systematic one-sidedness in the choice of data and line of argument".
	www.wiki.tatet.com /The_Skeptical_Environmentalist.html (783 words)

	Reason: Green with Ideology: The hidden agenda behind the "scientific" attacks on Bjørn Lomborg’s ...
		There are reports from environmentalist groups such as WRI and the Audubon Society, and from international and government agencies; there are non-peer-reviewed books, such as Cadillac Desert and Guns, Germs and Steel; there are many secondary sources, including reports from The New York Times, Barron’s, The Economist, Vanity Fair, and even the Encyclopedia Britannica.
		The Skeptical Environmentalist cites many studies that show the rate of improvement in air quality in both Britain and the U.S. did not change with the adoption of such laws.
		Ideological environmentalists have simple-mindedly applied concepts from zoology and biology to human societies to create a kind of theory of political ecology.
	www.reason.com /0205/fe.rb.green.shtml (4447 words)

	A special edition of Grist takes an in-depth look at Bjorn Lomborg's book The Skeptical Environmentalist \| Grist ...
		Before the terrible events of Sept. 11 nudged our national mood towards nouveau-earnestness, skepticism was the disposition of the day.
		Bred in the swamps of transparent consumer manipulation, untrustworthy political leaders, and information overload, skepticism stamped a permanent question mark onto the brows of Generation X and seemed poised to become the watchword of our nation.
		By bringing a healthy dose of skepticism to Lomborg's own claims, the resulting compilation fights fire with fire; we leave it to our readers to determine who gets flambeed.
	www.grist.org /advice/books/2001/12/12/of (905 words)

	Bjorn Lomborg (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In The Skeptical Environmentalist Bjørn Lomborg challenges widely held beliefs that the global environment is progressively getting worse.
		The Skeptical Environmentalist is a useful corrective to the more alarmist accounts favored by green activists and the media.
		"The Skeptical Environmentalist is the most significant work on the environment since the appearance of its polar opposite, Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, in 1962.
	www.lomborg.com /books.htm (178 words)

	The Skeptical Environmentalist (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		If everyone reads "The Skeptical Environmentalist," then the doomsayers will be exposed as the liars and frauds that they are.
		Too many environmentalists are of the "soft left" (credit to Hitchens for the term) and fail to understand that government coercion will never work to limit population over time because of the violence it does to our natures.
		Because of this I am leaning toward a belief that the Skeptical Environmentalist may well be rewarding.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/599890/posts (2650 words)

	TCS Daily - Bjorn Lomborg's Groundhog Day
		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.
		In The Skeptical Environmentalist, Lomborg tackled what he dubbed "the litany," the by now familiar list of apocalyptic doom and gloom scenarios trumpeted by green scientists and activists about how mankind is destroying the planet.
		In January 2002, Scientific American magazine published a special 11-page section with the sadly ironic title, "Science Defends Itself Against 'The Skeptical Environmentalist'" as if it was the scientific community that needed protection from an attack by Lomborg and not, as we would soon see, the other way around.
	www.tcsdaily.com /article.aspx?id=082803D (1019 words)

	The Skeptical Environmentalist
		The book -- "The Skeptical Environmentalist" -- created quite a stir upon its release in the fall of 2001.
		A self-proclaimed environmentalist and skeptic, he claimed that his reanalysis of environmental data measures "the real state of the world."
		We asked them to evaluate whether Lomborg's skepticism is coupled with the other hallmarks of good science -- namely, objectivity, understanding of the underlying concepts, appropriate statistical methods, and careful peer review.
	www.ucsusa.org /ssi/resources/the-skeptical-environmentalist.html (485 words)

	Environmental Defense - Debating "The Skeptical Environmentalist"
		When a firebrand author/political scientist and the head of a leading environmental group meet to debate the current state of the world, the results are as contentious as the stakes are high.
		The Skeptical Environmentalist, published in the U.S. in 2001, generated a firestorm of controversy over the author's assertions that what he called "doomsday predictions" by environmentalists (about such problems as global warming) were exaggerated.
		Lomborg claimed that data showed many world problems were actually getting better or were self-correcting, and that global warming would primarily affect the developing world rather than the developed world.
	www.environmentaldefense.org /article.cfm?ContentID=1984 (425 words)

	Andrew Sullivan \| The Daily Dish (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The fact that one of the most popular conservative bloggers is still in denial about Abu Ghraib, let alone the dozens of other torture-facilities set up by this administration, speaks volumes.
		Marty Lederman is skeptical of the Pentagon's Geneva announcement.
		As so often with Cheney and Rumsfeld, their mastery of bureaucratic warfare and political dissembling requires maximal skepticism toward anything coming from this administration.
	time.blogs.com /daily_dish (6773 words)

	Correcting myths from Bjørn Lomborg
		There is now general consensus that global warming is a genuine phenomenon, but the uncertainty among studies as to its scope and speed provide more than enough ammunition for those determined to seek weaknesses in the arguments, and thus dither away while the problem intensifies.
		The Skeptical Environmentalist: Measuring the Real State of the World by Bjørn Lomborg (Cambridge University Press, 2001) has become the most popular "brownlash" book ever, and has led to a large number of rebuttals and counter-rebuttals.
		Pimentel, D., "Skeptical of the Skeptical Environmentalist", The Skeptic, Vol.
	info-pollution.com /lomborg.htm (1138 words)

	A Skeptical Environmentalist (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Lomborg dared to write a dissident book, The Skeptical Environmentalist, which was published in 2001.
		The Skeptical Environmentalist "challenges widely held beliefs that the global environment is progressively getting worse...
		The Washington Post Book World, for example, called The Skeptical Environmentalist "the most significant work on the environment since the appearance of its polar opposite, Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, in 1962.
	www.shout.net /~bigred/SkepticalEnvironmentalist.html (388 words)

	TCS Daily - Skeptical Environmentalist Vindicated!
		The Danish Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation today severely repudiated a board which, a year ago, had judged "The Skeptical Environmentalist," the best-selling book by Bjorn Lomborg, "objectively dishonest" and "clearly contrary to the standards of good scientific practice."
		All this attention, however, served merely to boost sales of the book, which nearly two years after its publication still ranked first in its category on Amazon.com.
		The report was, to be charitable, a piece of junk, but its conclusions, coming from an official body, were nonetheless given prominent display in world media.
	www.tcsdaily.com /article.aspx?id=121703F (599 words)

	The Skeptical Environmentalist; Book Review (Skeptical Inquirer November 2002)
		The book is both a personal odyssey of a distinguished scientist's twilight and a beacon of reason in a world awash with irrational beliefs and superstition.
		The oddity is that the book, while claiming to be a skeptical review of a wide body of "doomsaying" environmental studies, should itself be subject to a healthy dose of skepticism.
		Lomborg, B. The Skeptical Environmentalist: Measuring the Real State of the World.
	www.csicop.org /si/2002-11/environment.html (2184 words)

	The Skeptical Environmentalist (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Lomborg's book has sparked a furious controversy among scientists, environmentalists and statisticians on all sides of the debates surrounding globalisation, pollution, biodiversity, the Greenhouse Effect and the depletion of natural resources.
		Is The Skeptical Environmentalist an important corrective to the alarmist accounts favored by green activists and an ill-informed media, or is it the polemical and dangerous bad science of which Lomborg has been widely accused?
		The text of this seminar is extracted from The Skeptical Environmentalist, by Bjørn Lomborg, published by Cambridge University Press.
	www.fathom.com /course/10701035 (426 words)

	Skeptical Environmentalist Vindicated by James K. Glassman -- Capitalism Magazine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Last month, The Danish Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation severely repudiated a board which, a year ago, had judged The Skeptical Environmentalist, the best-selling book by Bjorn Lomborg, "objectively dishonest" and "clearly contrary to the standards of good scientific practice."
		Lomborg's book -- with 2,930 footnotes, 1,800 bibliographical references, 173 figures and nine tables -- powerfully challenged the conventional wisdom that the world's environment was going to hell.
		In January 2002, Scientific American magazine published a special section titled "Science Defends Itself Against 'The Skeptical Environmentalist.'" Articles by perfervid critics of Lomborg covered 11 pages.
	www.capmag.com /article.asp?ID=2475 (764 words)

	Amazon.com: The Skeptical Environmentalist: Measuring the Real State of the World: Books: Bjorn Lomborg (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Skeptical Environmentalist is a triumph.' The Economist '...
		Lomborg is truly skeptical, in the sense of taking nothing for granted and approaching all the issues dispassionately.
		Its about time we question many of the myths about environmentalism and contradictions of environmentalists (though I believe the overall need for protection is there).
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0521010683?v=glance (2380 words)

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