The Skeptical Environmentalist by Bjørn Lomborg, Cambridge, £17.95,
ISBN 0521010683
HALF-BAKED, ill-researched and designed to capture the moral high ground
rather than to advance the cause of knowledge, says Bjørn Lomborg. He’s been
scrutinising environmental statistics. He should know: he’s a statistics
professor at Aårhus University in Denmark.
The Skeptical Environmentalist came out in Danish three years ago. Its
translation into English has caused a sensation. Lomborg looks at a huge range
of statistics on environmental change, globally and locally. He says things are
getting better, refuting the doomsday environmentalists.
Part of the problem is that doing…
