 | The Lomborg Deception: Setting the Record Straight About Global Warming A compelling exposé of the highly problematic scholarship of Bjørn Lomborg, the world's leading global warming skeptic Friel's book is the first to respond directly to Lomborg's controversial research as published in The Skeptical Environmentalist (2001) and Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist's Guide to Global Warming (2007). His close reading of Lomborg's textual claims and supporting footnotes reveals a lengthy list of findings that will rock climate skeptics and their allies in the government and news media, demonstrating that the published peer-reviewed climate science, as assessed mainly by the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, has had it mostly right--even if somewhat conservatively right--all along. Friel's able defense of Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth against Lomborg's repeated attacks is by itself worth an attentive reading. Howard Friel is an independent scholar and author. His previous books, The Record of the Paper and Israel-Palestine on Record , both of which were co-authored by Richard Falk, have focused on media criticism and the media's use of inte |
