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Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist's Guide to Global Warming Hardcover – September 4, 2007

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  • Hardcover: 253 pages
  • Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf; 1st edition (September 4, 2007)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0307266923
  • ISBN-13: 978-0307266927
  • Product Dimensions: 5.1 x 1.5 x 7.8 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 13.4 ounces
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (170 customer reviews)
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126 of 134 people found the following review helpful
Clever Title
By Amazon Customer on October 29, 2007
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What you are getting from this review is a non-scientific analysis of the book, and a summation of the contents. While I taught a year or two of High School Biology in Cheatham County, TN, that probably isn't going to qualify me to sit on the International Global Warming Council anytime soon. I'll try and avoid the observation that it still probably makes me more qualified than a lot of people suddenly making careers out of Global Warming.

The book was not what I expected. I kind of thought, based on the controversy it had generated, that it would be a global warming denial book espousing the glories of capitalism and a desire to turn North America into the new Sahara. Well it is nothing of the sort. The book, whether you agree with the science or not, never argues that global warming is happening nor even that it results to varying degrees from human produced co2. What is argued is that there has become a political, and even hysterical component that has insinuated itself so in the discussion that it has overwhelmed all other argument. Any attempt at debate is met with howls that those bringing up objections are evil incarnate and should be fired, imprisoned, etc. It is an interesting debate technique, and nice work if you can get it, but I'm not sure it's an accepted debating format.

For all the balance the book brings, it probably won't warm hearts on either side. The need for redistribution of wealth is a recurring theme, and his arguments against Kyoto, etc, are more that they are an inefficient means to accomplish this goal, not that they are idealogically mistaken. Much of his analysis also relies heavily on the projection that the next 100 years will produce great wealth across the board.Read more ›
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94 of 107 people found the following review helpful
Terrific information and sensible proposals. Well worth reading.
By Craig Matteson HALL OF FAMETOP 500 REVIEWER on October 8, 2007
Format: Hardcover
True believers won't like this book, but anyone who is willing to listen with an open mind and consider multiple points of view will find this book to be a breath of fresh air in the climate change / global warming clash. Bjorn Lomborg is a liberal, a vegetarian, an economist and a passionate environmentalist. Certainly, he is far left of me. He also is convinced that global warming is real, that mankind does have a role in creating it and making it worse, and that we do need to change the way we live in order to improve conditions for all life on the planet. So, why do I like him and find this book very much worth reading?

Because he is sensible in the arguments he makes. Rather than beating the drum of gloom and doom, he looks at the evidence, looks at what we can realistically do, and what it is we can do that will have the most effect. He also pokes holes in the overheated bag-of-wind arguments of the drowning polar bears (more die from hunting), the 20 foot sea rise (it is rising, but no more in the coming century than in the last), and the benefits of Kyoto (basically an attempted $16 trillion tax on the United States that would, after a century, delay global warming by a few years). And he nicely points out that the devastation in New Orleans was NOT because of global warming or because of the hurricane itself, but because of poorly maintained levees and destroyed wetlands that would have provided some protection. He is also right in pointing out that there has been NO increase in the violence of the storms. The critics will point to the vastly increased costs of the storms.Read more ›
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44 of 51 people found the following review helpful
Lomborg and Al Gore will become friends. Read why.
By Sympa on November 20, 2007
Format: Hardcover
Environmentalists have attacked Lomborg ever since he wrote The Skeptical Environmentalist: Measuring the Real State of the World. I have not read it, but read critiques in Scientific American. It seemed Lomborg did cross lines that rendered him vulnerable to scientific attacks; But, with "Cool It" he his on strong scientific ground. He is still attacked by the usual suspects such as Kare Fog, a Danish biologist who posts on the web all the "errors" Lomborg made. Fog goes on pages advancing a case how Lomborg misinterpreted sea level rise data. Fog argues sea level rise is more likely to be two feet instead of one per Lomborg (relying on the IPCC best estimate). In the end Fog contradicts himself by quoting most recent studies that support Lomborg. Kare Fog other attacks are fruitless.

In this great short book, Lomborg covers the following fascinating themes. First, the impact of Global Warming is hugely exaggerated. Second, the efficacy of the Kyoto Protocol is close to nil. Third, the Kyoto Protocol is unworkable as the majority of member-countries fail their CO2 reduction targets. Fourth, we can improve our environmental prospects at a fraction of the Kyoto Protocol's cost and with often more than a 1,000 times the effectiveness.

In the first three chapters Lomborg debunks all the wild exaggerations regarding the impact of Global Warming as conveyed by the media. A couple of examples include the supposedly rapid disappearance of the polar bear often pictured on a melting iceberg. Meanwhile, the overall polar bear population is actually growing.Read more ›
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Most Recent Customer Reviews

Required reading for everyone

Great read, no controversial denial arguments, gives great insight into what we should do about the situation from the perspective of costs versus rewards. Read more

Published 1 month ago by Craig D. Engel
The book is exceptional in it's detail explanation of why ...

The book is exceptional in it's detail explanation of why global warming seems to be so popular = MONEY. Read more

Published 5 months ago by Patrick H.
It's good to have some real intelligence brought to bear

This is a grea book. A very thoughtful approach to global warming that avoids the puerile stupities of both sides on the issue. Read more

Published 6 months ago by Robert L. Taber
that you can do a lot more good in the world by spending money that...

This book has one (and one only) idea: that you can do a lot more good in the world by spending money that would go towards the Kyoto agreement towards more pressing issues facing... Read more

Published 7 months ago by Tilu
He does an excellent job of pointing out the many lies and falsehoods...

This presented the most clear cut and rational approach to dealing with global warming that I have ever read. Read more

Published 7 months ago by Jean R. Moore
Another View of the Future

Cool It

Bjorn Lomborg is an adjunct professor at the Copenhagen Business School. “Global Warming” is called the greatest threat to our society. Read more

Published 10 months ago by Acute Observer
False research

I watched this movie via Netflix. It seemed to have odd "sliding" around points so I looked up this author. Read more

Published 10 months ago by cal clements
Very intelligent man (dangerous to fools)

You have to watch out for people like him. We don't want to get facts into our panic.

Published 11 months ago by D. Glover
Sensible look at climate change

Well written, very enlightening and thought provoking. Sensible look at ways to deal with global warming if man actually does effect the climate without causing the country going... Read more

Published 13 months ago by Joeofsh
One Star

Nonsense.

Published 14 months ago by Adriana Moellmann

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