Useful Fools

If more evidence is needed that Radical Environmentalism is a religion (see previous posting), it is provided in the latest in a series of attacks on Bjorn Lomborg, author of “The Skeptical Environmentalist.

The Skeptical Environmentalist is a result of Lomborg’s belated discovery of the falsehoods and manipulations of the Environmental Movement. It is a detailed, well sourced description of their deceits and of their claims. Since it’s publication, greens have been viciously attacking it.

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The increasingly left wing Scientific American devoted 14 pages to its attack (reducing the amount of actual interesting content), and yet almost no facts were in dispute. Instead, ad hominem arguments and unsupported assertions of authority were the order of the day. Lomborg was only allowed one page in reply. When he initially attempted to reply on his website by listing the entire article and inserting responses on a point by point basis, he was reportedly threatened by Scientific American with a copyright lawsuit, even though his actions were valid within the “fair use” doctrine!

Now the Danish “Committees on Scientific Dishonesty” (the Inquisition) has ruled that “Objectively speaking, the publication of the work under consideration is deemed to fall within the concept of scientific dishonesty.” The committee cites no arguments or data supporting their ruling - only the original four articles published by Scientific American. Even more surprising, considering the attack, the book is not and is not presented as a scientific publication - the familiar peer-reviewed paper or collection of papers in scientific journals. Scientific dishonesty is a term reserved for scientists who commit fraud in their scientific publications, no those who write popular books. There is even an undisputed quote in the book of an established environmental scientist which admits to and advocates fraud in dealing with the public!

As one who has read the book, I recommend it to anyone interested in environmental issues. Not only does it expose the damning statements of leaders of major so-called environmental groups, but it also provides enormous amounts of data on the science.

So who is this anti-environmentalist wizard being burned at the stake? Bjorn Lomborg is a statistician and director (at least until now) of Denmark’s Environmental Assessment Institute.

He was a typical poorly informed environmentalist until he heard a talk by Julian Simon which denied many of the most famous environmenalist claims. As an exercise for his students, he assigned them to research the claims and validate the statistics. Much to his and their surprise and dismay, they found that Simon was right. The claims were either exaggerated or totally without founding. From that shock and the realization that the environmentalists had been lying to him, Lomborg began a detailed and critical study of the claims of environmentalists, resulting in his book.