Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist’s Guide to Global Warming (Vintage)
Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist’s Guide to Global Warming (Vintage) – Review
There are two good things that Lomborg does: First, he looks at all of the issues in the Global milieu and argues that a single minded focus on Global Warming is detrimental to simultaneously maximizing the overall welfare of humans on earth. He points out in important detail, that the cost of currently fighting AIDS/HIV and Malaria and expanding access to reliable water significantly exceeds fully implementing the Kyoto accord, which will have a negligible impact on Global Warming. His book is intelligent, insightful and dull bang on. Second, he actually points out that nice things will happen from Global Warming (GASP!). Think about it, when have you rarely heard someone do that? At the height of our paranoia as humans, we equate any change with all bad. Such is the case with most people concerning Global Warming. But is this rational? Of course not, change can bring good and bad. The question is what is the result on balance? As examples, deaths due to weather will decrease overall. Heat joined deaths will increase, but cold closely related deaths will decrease and cold closely related deaths account for about eighty per cents of weather cooperated deaths. Overall accessibility of quality water will increase because precipitation levels will increase. Antarctica will really get larger (i.e.; have a deeper, senior ice field), not shrink as strongly implied by Al Gore in his movie. But this is only a incomplete list, there will, indeed, be many benefits from Global Warming which dramatically change the equation from “This-could-be-the-end-of-the-earth” type rhetoric to “This is one of many major problems that needs to be balanced against the other challenges of Earth.” So thank you Mr. Lomborg. A logical mind is finally writing, speaking and actually talking about Global Warming.