Danish poster boy for climate change skepticism wakes up out of denial stupor

[BurtWorm]

Bjørn Lomborg: $100bn a year needed to fight climate change

Exclusive 'Sceptical environmentalist' and critic of climate scientists to declare global warming a chief concern facing world

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/aug/30/bjorn-lomborg-climate-change-u-turn




The world's most high-profile climate change sceptic is to declare that global warming is "undoubtedly one of the chief concerns facing the world today" and "a challenge humanity must confront", in an apparent U-turn that will give a huge boost to the embattled environmental lobby.

Bjørn Lomborg, the self-styled "sceptical environmentalist" once compared to Adolf Hitler by the UN's climate chief, is famous for attacking climate scientists, campaigners, the media and others for exaggerating the rate of global warming and its effects on humans, and the costly waste of policies to stop the problem.

But in a new book to be published next month, Lomborg will call for tens of billions of dollars a year to be invested in tackling climate change. "Investing $100bn annually would mean that we could essentially resolve the climate change problem by the end of this century," the book concludes.

Examining eight methods to reduce or stop global warming, Lomborg and his fellow economists recommend pouring money into researching and developing clean energy sources such as wind, wave, solar and nuclear power, and more work on climate engineering ideas such as "cloud whitening" to reflect the sun's heat back into the outer atmosphere.

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[ck4829]

1. Never too late to wake up. Welcome to reality. K&R.

[Ozymanithrax]

2. Guess he got tired of swimming in the Nile.

Welcome to the sane side.

[BurtWorm]

3. kick

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

4. He's working some kind of scam.

He's another Rifkin.

[Radical Activist]

5. This was posted yesterday

and I'm still not buying it.