On Mar 26, 2011, at 6:50 AM, Alan Rudy wrote:
> This kind of argument is used by the neoliberal climate
> skeptic Bjorn Lomborg who say's climate change is real and
> anthropogenic but less important than other, more immediately
> pressing and resolvable things.
I'll have to read _Cool It_ again. My read was that the 'more immediately pressing and resolvable things' were the effects of the 'real and anthropogenic' climate change. And I don't see how his arguments for providing the means to ameliorate the effects of climate change to the developing world qualify as 'neoliberal'.
His argument seemed to be that the money spent on carbon reduction in the developed world would be better spent on providing the means for remediation to the developing world in an effort to reduce human suffering from the inevitable and irreversible effects. I read it as good analysis and sound progressive economic policy advice.
martin