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Title	:	Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist's Guide to Global Warming
Author	:	Bjørn Lomborg
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 253 pages
Published	:	September 11th 2007 by Alfred A. Knopf (NY) (first published January 1st 2007)
Categories	:	Science. Nonfiction. Environment. Politics. Economics. Climate Change

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Bjørn Lomborg is the best-informed & most humane advocate for environmental change in the world today. In contrast to other figures that promote a single issue while ignoring others, he views the globe as a whole, studies all the problems, ranks them, & determines how best, & in what order, to address them. His 1st book, The Skeptical Environmentalist, established the importance of a fact-based approach. With later books, Global Crises, Global Solutions & How to Spend $50 Billion to Make the World a Better Place, this mild-mannered Danish statistician has steadily gained new converts. Not surprisingly, Time named him one of the 100 most influential people in the world. Cool It will further enhance his reputation for global analysis & thoughtful response. For anyone who wants an overview of the global warming debate from an objective source, this brief text is a good place to start. He's only interested in real problems. He's no patience with media fear-mongering. He begins by dispatching the myth of endangered polar bears, showing that this Disneyesque cartoon has no relevance to the real world where polar bear populations are in fact increasing. He considers the issue in detail, citing sources from Al Gore to the World Wildlife Fund, then demonstrating that polar bear populations have actually increased fivefold since the '60s. He then works his way thru the concerns we hear so much about: higher temperatures, heat deaths, species extinctions, the cost of cutting carbon, the technology to do it. He believes in climate change--despite his critics, he's no denier--but his fact-based approach, grounded in economic analyses, leads him to a different view. He reviews published estimates of the cost of climate change, & the cost of addressing it, & concludes that "we actually end up paying more for a partial solution than the cost of the entire problem. That is a bad deal." In some of the most disturbing chapters, he recounts what leading climate figures have said about anyone who questions the orthodoxy, thus demonstrating the illiberal, antidemocratic tone of the current debate. He himself takes the larger view, detailing why the tone of hysteria is inappropriate to addressing the problems. In the end, his concerns embrace the planet. He contrasts our concern for climate with other concerns such as HIV/AIDS, malnutrition & providing clean water. In the end, his ability to put climate in a global perspective is perhaps the book's greatest value. Lomborg & Cool It are our best guides to our shared environmental future.--Michael Crichton (edited)

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Original Title:	Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist's Guide to Global Warming
ISBN:	0307266923 (ISBN13: 9780307266927)
Edition Language:	English URL http://www.lomborg.com/

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Great insight into the problems of focusing on the issue of global warming through one lens: carbon emissions. This book examines many sources and studies, particularly from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, to create an argument that there might be better solutions to man-made global warming.

Its been a long time since I finished a book I enjoyed so little. The truth is, I appreciate much of what Lomborg seems to say and I also appreciate the spirit in which he says it, but much of the time he just doesnt say it very well. Write it, I should say. Should write. What he has to share boils down to this: 1) the trend of rising temperatures does not spell the end of the world: the stated effects of global warming are not untrue, but they are much exaggerated: alarmist vocabulary and

No, the polar bears aren't going to go extinct. No, the seas are not going to rise and flood our cities, coastlands, and small island nations. No, the Gulf Stream is not going to stop and plunge Europe into Siberian cold. No, hurricanes are not getting more frequent or more intense. No, there will not be droughts and famines. Lomborg dispenses with all the hype, hysteria, and doom-saying in this slim volume (1/3 of its pages is bibliography and notes!)Lomborg, an economist, argues that we need

No stars for this misleading bit of non-science masquerading as science. Lomborg sets out to intentionally misinform, and he distorts facts, repeats debunked denier talking points and flat-out lies in order to do so. Hard to see what his motive is, except global warming iconoclasts get a lot of attention from the mainstream media which seeks "balance" at all costs, including loss of accuracy. There's gold in being a denier I guess, but don't wast your time here -- just listen to Fox News if you

This book provides an interesting perspective on global warming without being shrill or overtly political. It's not an anti-environmental polemic but rather, a thoughtful and logically presented point of view about an issue that has polarized people to such an extent that we sometimes find it difficult to listen to one another. Lomborg's propositions will force you to test your assumptions and broaden your understanding of global warming, and no matter where you fall on the sliding scale of

A book with a point of view that really appeals to me (it of cause might be pure confimation bias) because it says "Cool it" (which refers both to the climate and the debate about climate). Yes, man made climate change it real, and yes it is a real and serious problem, BUT we should deal with it with cool heads, because it is - after all - a problem, but not the only one, and no, it will not bring about the apocalypse!We need to use science and economics in combination with a informed dialog

Interesting book. Mr. Lomborg takes the science and applies statistical and economic methodology to it. Bottom line, the scare stories miss the point. Quite often they forget to give the other fact or more embaressing to look at the denominator. For example, about 5 times as many people die from cold than from heat related disease, etc. So warming saves lives. Rain increases so some areas do better others worse, but on the whole the world may do better. The amount of starvation may go up, but