The Lomborg deception
Subtitle: setting the record straight about global warming
By: Howard Friel ; foreword by Thomas E. Lovejoy.
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New Haven
Language: eng
Number of pages: 258
ISBN-13: 9780300161038
Subjects: Lomborg, Bjørn, -- 1965-; Fraud in science; Global warming; Climatic changes
Description: Friel's book is the first to respond directly to Lomborg's controversial research as published in The Skeptical Environmentalist (2001) and Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist's Guide to Global Warming (2007). His close reading of Lomborg's textual claims and supporting documentation 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 UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, has had it mostly right--even if somewhat conservatively right--all along. Friel's able defense of Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth against Lomborg's repeated attacks is by itself worth an attentive reading. --Publisher's description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-249) and index.