Second Paperback Bjorn Lomborg (1 results)

Soft cover. Condition: As New. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Nigel Lawson, former UK Secretary of State for Energy, comments: "While not disputing the existence of man-made global warming, they demonstrate with scientific rigor, yet in terms accessible to the layman, that the alarmist narrative which is commonly supposed to derive from this is, in fact, wholly unfounded." Media publication bias, the authors point out, tends to publicize results which are extreme, outrageously unexpected, and frightening. Should a study find no correlation between global temperature trends and birth rates, for instance, that study is unlikely to be published anywhere, because it's what was generally expected, and the typical reaction would be "ho-hum." On the other hand, a study that seems to predict some devastating population trend would be "news" and would be more likely to get a headline -- even if the two studies were equally reliable and (should both be published) would tend to "cancel each other out" in terms of generating alarm. With graphs. 242 pp. including bibliography. Reduced from $22.…