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"Who let the dogs out?
Patrick J. Michaels
Scientific American has sicced the big dogs on Danish statistician Bjorn Lomborg for having the audacity to publish a highly referenced book, "The Skeptical Environmentalist," which argues that global warming and many other environmental "threats" are overblown. What gives?
Scientific American now joins the magazines Science and Nature in blasting Mr. Lomborg. They all editorialize that his "book is a failure" and call out four well-traveled attack dogs from the Washington big government/greenie/lefty establishment in support. They include:
• John Holdren, a defense expert from Harvard. In 1995, he published a paper for the United Nations University advocating "a condition in which no nation's military forces were strong enough to threaten the existence of other states." Good thing we didn't listen.
• Tom Lovejoy, former director of the World Wildlife Fund, the biggest green lobbying organization in the history of the planet.
• John Bongaarts, vice president of the Population Council, the most influential lobby in the Down With People crowd.
• Steve Schneider from Stanford. Compared to the rest, Mr. Schneider is a real atmospheric scientist, and (naturally) he wrote the nastiest of the four fatwas on Mr. Lomborg.
Why draw so much attention to a book you don't want to sell? Clearly, the editorial boards of Nature and Scientific American, as well as the leadership of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS, the publisher of Science) perceive a big threat if Mr. Lomborg goes unanswered..."
Regards, Don |
