Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist’s Guide to Global Warming (Vintage)
Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist’s Guide to Global Warming (Vintage) – Review
Lomberg is too polite to say it, but his book illustrates that Al Gore is a demagogue and a fool. The tools of the witch doctor and the demagogue have always been guilt (”we are all guilty”) and risks of fire and brimstone. To his credit, Lomberg sticks mostly to facts and avoids ad hominen (even though he will of course be the subject of same.) I say frequently to “facts” because, as a self told skeptic, he gives to much credence to the climate and economic modelers, who deal in predictions, not facts. Their models are necessarily simplistic and cannot exactly simulate the past much less predict the future. Lomberg also does not mention those large number of scientists who argue that warming from likely causes are mainly in play. Still, noone should attempt to dicuss this issue without simply reading this book.