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Goodall´s analysis of footnotes
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This page deals with the latest
book by Bjørn Lomborg:
"Cool it!- The Skeptical
Environmentalist´s Guide to Global Warming".
The book has appeared in two versions, an
American (A) and a British (B).
A was published by Alfred A.
Knopf about 1st. Sept. 2007. It has 253 pp.
B was published by Cyan Communications about
26th Sept. 2007. It has 353 pp.
The two versions differ in several respects.
The American version is written relatively much as a popular book, with
no graphs. The British book appears more `technical´, with many
graphs and with the same note system as in "The Skeptical
Environmentalist". In some chapters, the text differs widely from the
American version.
Lomborg-errors´ criticism is more
precise in the pages referring to the British version.
Go to American version
Go to British version
Lomborg´s books have
extensive footnotes and
references, which leads many readers to believe that the text must be
correct. The conception is that when all statements are based on
precise references, then the statements must be true. But what happens
if you actually check the footnotes?
One of the surprises is that Lomborg often
plagiarizes other texts.
Read what Chris Goodall found out when he made a check of 31 randomly chosen footnotes in
`Cool it´.