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Partha Dasgupta, professor
of economics at the University of Cambridge and author of "Discounting
Climate Change" in Review of Environmental Economics and Policy:
"Unfortunately, Lomborg's thesis is built on a deep misconception of
Earth's system and of economics when applied to that system. . . If the
uncertainties are not small, standard cost–benefit analysis as applied
to the economics of climate change becomes incoherent . . . "
Review of "Cool it!" in Nature
449, 143-144 (13 September 2007) (link)
P. Z.. Myers:
"And, as usual, he turns his false dilemma into an argument that we
need to sit and talk about what to do, instead of actually doing
anything. That's probably my main gripe with Lomborg: he's a clueless
force for inertia, who's answer for everything is to do nothing that
might cause us to break a sweat." Biologist P. Z. Myers in this
blog.
Michael Pawlyn, after having
made a phone call to one of Lomborg´s sources for the cost of
climate damage:
"The figure that Lomborg has used was quite simply wrong and not just
slightly wrong but by more than an order of magnitude. The figure that
he has used to persuade thousands of influential people is a grotesque
distortion. Just staggering." (link).
Michael Pawlyn:
"I phoned up one of the directors fo the World Glacier Monitoring
Service and I said "What do you think of Bjorn´s statements about
glaciers" and he said, well, the fact of the matter is the data simply
does not support his statements. I then phoned one of the authors of
the polar bear report who was really pretty fed up actually with the
way that Bjorn had used not only out of date information, but had
completely distorted the conclusions of the report." (link).
Howard Friel:
" As one reads on, one might wonder how Lomborg´s work managed to
evade serious scrutiny by the major publishing houses . . . that issued
his two major books . . . " The
Lomborg Deception, p. 6.