Comments on: Lomberg Lies on Global Warming to Make Money

By: VORE

VORE — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 16:40:22 +0000

Who said it was dishonest? Hypocritical maybe, but not dishonest. In fact, it’s pretty shrewd on his part. Capitalism at its best.

By: MrWhy

MrWhy — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 14:49:01 +0000

About as dishonest as buying gasoline from a gas station you own,
or buying groceries from a grocery store you own
or going for drinks at a bar that you own
or washing your clothes in a washing machine that you own.

By: VORE

VORE — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 14:33:19 +0000

Speaking of making money, how much has Al Gore raked in with his global warming ventures? Well, at least enough to pay the energy bills for his 10,000+ sq. foot home with enough left over to fly all over the globe in private jets.

Oh, that’s right, he buys carbon offsets from a company he owns… how inconvenient is that?

By: selise

selise — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 04:28:40 +0000

that was a pretty astonishing thing to read in a wikipedia entry *g*

By: SunnyNobility

SunnyNobility — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 04:26:09 +0000

Owwww. You’re much faster than I am.

By: SunnyNobility

SunnyNobility — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 04:24:34 +0000

The ruling was a mixed message, deciding the book to be scientifically dishonest, but Lomborg himself not guilty because of lack of expertise in the fields in question:[4]

The DCSD cited The Skeptical Environmentalist for:

1. Fabrication of data;
2. Selective discarding of unwanted results (selective citation);
3. Deliberately misleading use of statistical methods;
4. Distorted interpretation of conclusions;
5. Plagiarism;
6. Deliberate misinterpretation of others’ results.

Lovely…
Innocent because he’s a dishonest idiot.

By: Loo Hoo.

Loo Hoo. — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 04:11:09 +0000

University of Georgia.

By: Suzanne

Suzanne — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 04:10:56 +0000

thers upstairs

By: BooRadley

BooRadley — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 04:07:24 +0000

Thanks.

FWIW, the prick has a Ph.D. in polysci.

Lomborg spent a year as an undergraduate at the University of Georgia, earned a master’s degree in political science at the University of Aarhus in 1991, and a Ph.D. in political science at the University of Copenhagen in 1994.

He lectured in statistics in the Department of Political Science at the University of Aarhus as an assistant professor (1994–1996) and associate professor (1997–2005). He left the university in February 2005 and in May of that year became an Adjunct Professor at Copenhagen Business School.

By: Hugh

Hugh — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 04:04:40 +0000

As Climate Progress notes there is even a Lomberg errors site:

http://www.lomborg-errors.dk/

which to be fair also points out errors in Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth