ENVIRONMENT

The Black Sheep

Bjorn Lomborg earned the wrath of many scientists by calling into question the direness of global warming. Now, in this wide-ranging interview, find out why he claims that Al Gore is 'wildly exaggerating' about climate change and its effects.

By Christopher Werth | Newsweek Web Exclusive

Jul 2, 2008 | Updated: 6:33 p.m. ET Jul 2, 2008

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Posted By: seanconnery @ 07/12/2008 4:28:54 PM

Comment: I'm extremely disappointed that Newsweek treats this guy as if he actually knows something about climate change. When every notable scientist specialising in climate studies says climate change is an enormous problem that needs countermeasures NOW, why is Newsweek putting the mike in front of a political scientist playing ???everybody's wrong except me???. It's like giving the mike to scientists claiming the holocaust never happened. They're out there, but that doesn't make it ethical to help them gain visibility. The only question I'd like Newsweek to answer about Bjorn is if h's just doing this to promote his books or if he's on an oil company's payroll (as most ???scientists??? rejecting the idea of manmade climate change has turned out to be).
Posted By: onepoker @ 07/11/2008 2:44:09 PM

Comment: Hooray for this guy!!!!! finallly an environmentalist that gets it.

as for Al Gore I am just grateful to him for inventing the internet so we can all discuss the troubling issue of him and tipper being the subjects of the book love story.
Posted By: Solshapiro @ 07/07/2008 3:09:15 PM

Comment: Why is the subject of geoengineering as a short term solution to climate change not mentioned? This approach, one implementation of which would emulate the cooling effect of large volcanic eruptions could stop global warming in short order. Such study and deployment as needed has been endorsed by such prominent scientiists over the past 30 years as Ralph Cicerone, president of the National Academy of Sciences, Nobel laureate Paul Crutzen and Edward Teller, father of the hydrogen bomb.
Posted By: accrew4 @ 07/05/2008 2:01:12 PM

Comment: Anyone talking about the effects on global warming caused by the active vocanoes under the north pole?

During; the70's it was a mini ice age, the 80's it was the Ozone layer/hole in the Ozone over the south pole, the 90's the rising sea level, and now global warming. The number of active vocanoes decreased and now the earths themperture is rising. The mini ice age went away, thus causing the earths ice to melt. This melting causing the sea levels to rise. A few sun spots later and the Ozone hole closed up. Maybe we just need the active vocanoes to return to the historical norm. I'm sure mankind can cause this to happen.

Nature does not run on election cycles or 10 to 100 year cycles. Or the masses 5 minute attention span. Ha Ha Look at the long range cycles/changes before you think that man really has any effect on this earth. Example, The Mount StHelen eruption put more ash, CFCs and CO2 into the air that the entire US population could in years.

Or maybe we just need older collage interns to write the research papers that all the so called experts refer to for their data. Or new reporters that can read the history books and become well versed on the subjects they report as fact to the masses.
Posted By: Bornita @ 07/04/2008 11:08:05 AM

Comment: I actually agree with everything that Mr Lomborg says. The children in the 3rd world can not be saved or even noticably helped by carbon reduction, but rather by the problems that are affecting them today. I see it as a measurement for how much people care about the people who are suffering today, by looking at how they respond to the problems they are facing today. Of course, if you don't reach out to sufferers of malaria and other tormenting and deadly diseases today, then the 'environmentalism' is just a matter of escape. That's my opinion.