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Politics : The Environmentalist Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: longnshort who wrote (9033)	1/18/2007 10:19:15 AM
From: Wharf Rat	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 36917

I wouldn't waste my time with Lomborg.

To: longnshort who wrote (9033)	1/18/2007 10:29:32 AM
From: maceng2	Respond to of 36917

From a companies web site.. 1.2 Schneider's opposing view /snippet He states that most of the nearly 3000 citations in 'The Skeptical Environmentalist' are of secondary literature and media articles. Some are pre-approved reports or secondary articles. The small number of peer-reviewed articles that are cited are only those that support the rosy view of things that Lomborg typically holds. Schneider mentions that the IPCC claims have been reviewed many times, contrary to those of Lomborg. It is also remarkable that a statistician such as Lomborg never mentions any kind of probability in his work. The IPCC gives fairly wide ranges to its projections, but in Lomborg's work the ranges are fully missing. Schneider claims that Lomborg misunderstands certain mechanisms. He also uses research that has results for only a few years as evidence for one of his claims. The above-mentioned solar hypothesis cited by Lomborg is dismissed by Schneider and the IPCC because its advocates have not demonstrated any radiative forcing sufficient to match that of more parsimonious theories, such as that of anthropogenic forcing. Schneider comments Lomborg's failure to discuss ecological impacts. Instead Lomborg focuses merely on health and agriculture. He thinks these sectors will not be harmed much by climate change. Schneider dismisses Lomborg's theory of an upcoming renewable energy economy as merely a wish. He does not find it likely that high prices for fossil fuels will automatically lead to a transfer to renewables. In fact high pricing of fossil fuels does not guarantee new policies for stimulation of renewable energy source application. He also states that a fossil fuel scenario cannot be regarded as unlikely as is done by Lomborg, who also gives no probability of occurrence for this claim. /end snippet lenntech.com lenntech.com