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While searching for something else, this popped up -
newsmax.com
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Doomsday Predictions Bunk, Ex-Greenpeace Scholar Says
Phil Brennan, NewsMax.com
Tuesday, Dec. 11, 2001
The sky is not falling, the earth is improving, and we are not all going to die as a result of any environmental disaster, according to scholars who set out to prove exactly the opposite.
"In 1997, a young Danish statistician named Bjorn Lomborg read an interview with Julian Simon, an American economist who argued that much of our knowledge about the environment was based on preconceptions and poor statistics," wrote sociologist the Rev. Andrew Greeley in the Chicago Sun-Times. "According to Simon the doomsday conventional wisdom about the environment was wrong."
Simon's claims stuck Lomberg as wrongheaded and false.
A leftist, vegetarian environmentalist and a onetime Greenpeace member, Lomberg was determined to prove that Simon was dead wrong. Putting together a team of the best statistical students at his university, he launched a massive study designed to disprove Simon's claims and was amazed after intensive research to discover that he was, for the most part, right on.
In a new 500-page book, "The Skeptical Environmentalist," boasting 70 pages of bibliography and nearly 3,000 notes, Lomberg and his team "trashes the conventional wisdom," Greeley wrote...."
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