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

from wbc3

Lomborg examines what we should do about global warming rather than whether it is happening. He concedes that global warming is happening and it is largely caused by humans. He then takes the models of others and looks at how we should cooly react. He uses examples such as the famed polar bear. A...

from PastorBob

One of the most important popular level books in print. Should be mandatory reading in high schools everywhere. Stop everything, and go read this. Immediately. No really, sign out now, get this book, go read it and then help stop governments around the world from making some of the worst and most...

from PaulFAustin

Lomborg continues the path he's traveled with "Skeptical Environmentalist" and "Global Crises, Global Solutions", using economic analysis of alternative ills and cures which must be chosen between. In "Cool It", Lomborg shows that the canonical cure for climate change (CO2 reduction) has a terrib...

from heyitsdaver

this was quite possibly the best environmental/climate change book i've read.

from masoninman

Lomborg's refrain in Cool It is that the Kyoto process is too expensive and delivers little benefit, but never backs up the claim about how expensive it is. Also, he mentions George Monbiot's book Heat, which explores how we might be able to cut carbon emissions by 90% within a few decades withou...