The Lomborg Deception: Setting the Record Straight about Global Warming.

Friel, Howard; Lovejoy, Thomas E. (foreword).

ISBN 10: 0300161034 / ISBN 13: 9780300161038

Published by Yale University Press, New Haven, 2010

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Hardback octavo, dustjacket, very good condition (in very good dustjacket), minor edgewear. 258 pp. Howard Friel provides a detailed assessment of the writings of leading climate-change skeptic Bjorn Lomborg. He deconstructs the Danish statistician's claim that global warming is 'no catastrophe' by exposing systematic misrepresentations and partial accounting that are at the core of climate skepticism. A detailed analysis that is not only as a guide to understanding global warming skeptics, but also a model for assessing the state of climate science. The author assesses the complexities of climate-related phenomena across a range of areas, thus providing an enlightening pole-to-pole review of some of today's most urgent climate concerns.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Lomborg Deception: Setting the Record Straight about Global Warming.
• Publisher: Yale University Press, New Haven
• Publication Date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0300161034
• ISBN 13: 9780300161038
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: Reprint ed.
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Seller catalogs:
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Synopsis

A compelling exposé of the highly problematic scholarship of Bjørn Lomborg, the world’s leading global warming skeptic

In this major assessment of leading climate-change skeptic Bjørn Lomborg, Howard Friel meticulously deconstructs the Danish statistician’s claim that global warming is “no catastrophe” by exposing the systematic misrepresentations and partial accounting that are at the core of climate skepticism. His detailed analysis serves not only as a guide to reading the global warming skeptics, but also as a model for assessing the state of climate science. With attention to the complexities of climate-related phenomena across a range of areas—from Arctic sea ice to the Antarctic ice sheet—The Lomborg Deception also offers readers an enlightening review of some of today’s most urgent climate concerns.

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 footnotes 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 U.N.’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.

About the Author

Howard Friel is an independent scholar and author. His previous books, The Record of the Paper and Israel-Palestine on Record, both of which were co-authored by Richard Falk, have focused on media criticism and the media's use of international law. He lives in Northampton, MA.