Bjorn Lomborg, author of The Skeptical Environmentalist – a book first published in 1998 which argued that claims about global warming were over-played and were leading to climate change hysteria – appears to have made a u-turn in his beliefs.
In a new book set for the shops next month, Lomborg will argue for “tens of billions of dollars a year to be invested in tackling climate change”, according to a story published by the Guardian. Funds should flow towards R&D investments in clean energy such as wind and wave, he told the British daily newspaper. This should be financed through a tax on carbon emissions, he said.
But the Skeptical Environmentalist’s volte face has met with its own measure of scepticism. Greenpeace said Lomborg’s conversion comes too late. Meanwhile Howard Friel, writer for the 350 ppm campaign blog, finds that Lomborg still claims that it is prohibitively expensive for the world to sharply reduce CO2 emissions to the level suggested by scientists to prevent dangerous climate change.
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