In this major assessment of leading climate-change skeptic Bjorn 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.

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