[lbo-talk] more 'cool it'

[Gar Lipow]

On Sun, Dec 25, 2011 at 11:49 PM, martin schiller <mschiller at pobox.com> wrote:
> Browsing Netflix this evening, and was presented a recommendation for a Bjorn Lomborg documentary defense of his position in "Cool It' and representation of his program. Seemed like solid argument in a very decent presentation.
> Seems like I recall some strong feeling when I asked about the book here a couple of years back. Just wondered if there had been any reconsideration since then, or there were any critiques of the documentary.

Still bullshit.  I'll let others go into more detail. But really
quickly - to get the results he gets requires understating
consequences of global warming, overstating costs of doing something
about global warming, and ignoring co-benefits, cause about 99% of
what needs to be done about global warming  needs to be done for other
reasons in any case. Not going to let Lomborg waste much of time,
Salon had a review of the book at the time it came out was pretty
devastating http://www.salon.com/2007/08/29/cool_it/ . And honestly
they could have double the length of the review without running out of
valid criticism.

Whats more, the science since then shows the situation to be much
worse that we thought at the time. We are seeing feedbacks today that
were not officially expected at the time - though you can find many
climate scientists who thought even then that the slow consensus
process of the IPCC was drastically underestimating the danger.  And
apparently they were right.


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