Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist's Guide to Global Warming.

Lomborg, Bjorn.

ISBN 10: 0462099121 / ISBN 13: 9780462099125

Published by Cyan Communications / Marshall Cavendish, London, 2007

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Hardback octavo, dustjacket, very good condition (in very good dustjacket), small edge tears & minor edgewear jacket, top edge minimally foxed, remainder stripe. 353 pp. Bjorn Lomborg argues that many of the elaborate and staggeringly expensive actions now being considered to meet the challenges of global warming ultimately will have little impact on the world's temperature. Rather, we should look at smarter, more cost-effective approaches (such as massively increasing our commitment to green energy R&D) that will allow us to deal not only with climate change, but also with other pressing global concerns, such as malaria and HIV/AIDS. And he considers why and how this debate has fostered an atmosphere in which dissenters are immediately demonized. Bjorn Lomborg is the author of the bestselling 'The Skeptical Environmentalist'. First U.K. edition.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist's Guide to Global Warming.
• Publisher: Cyan Communications / Marshall Cavendish, London
• Publication Date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0462099121
• ISBN 13: 9780462099125
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st U.K. ed.
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Seller catalogs:
  • ENVIRONMENT

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Synopsis

Global warming has become one of the permanent concerns of our time, with ever stronger calls to combat it via drastic programs, like the Kyoto Protocol. In this highly controversial book, Bjorn Lomborg (author of the bestselling The Skeptical Environmentalist) claims that the arguments for such action are little more than scare mongering and exposes this wide range of disinformation. Global warming is happening. It's a serious and important problem and we need to deal with it in a responsible way. But in order to do so effectively, Lomborg argues we need to look at the cost and benefits of the proposed measures against global warming. He demonstrates that drastic, here-and-now measures is the worst way to spend our money. Climate change is a 100-year problem - we should not try to fix it in 10 years. This important book explodes myths and places the global warming debate into a broader view.

About the Author

Bjorn Lomborg was named as one of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time magazine in 2004. Foreign Policy and Prospect magazines listed him as the world s 14th most influential intellectual in 2005. He is the author of the bestselling The Skeptical Environmentalist (CUP, 2001) and regularly appears in the media worldwide.