Global warming gets cold shoulder - Sydney Morning Herald- global warming facts

The Danish academic has spent the past decade trying to reduce our growing obsession with climate change, in the process becoming the most famous global warming sceptic in the world. Lomborg writes in the preface that we need to debate "whether hysteria and headlong spending on extravagant" carbon-cutting programs at an "unprecedented price" are the only possible response to climate change. Tim Flannery, of Macquarie University's Climate Risk team, and author of The Weather Makers , draws attention to Lomborg's focus on climate change when it comes to helping the deprived of the world. Lomborg believes climate change is just the latest example of how extreme environmentalism has filled the moral vacuum in the West left by the decline of Christianity and, to a lesser extent, of traditional left-wing concerns such as labour issues. read more

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