Democrats finally passed climate legislation, does it matter?

The new United Nations report is being talked about as though it portends the end of the world: To avoid catastrophe, we must instantly transform the entire economy no matter the costs.

This is unjustified. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), in its latest major global analysis, estimated that the total impact of unmitigated climate change from extreme weather, changes in agriculture, rising sea levels and so on would be equivalent to reducing the average person’s income by between 0.2 and 2 percent in the 2070s.

Lomborg's article in The Times, Sept 30, 2008.

Global warming: why cut one 3,000th of a degree?

NewsConference: Bjorn Lomborg, Author, Documentarian, Environmentalist Bjorn Lomborg, author of the "Skeptical Environmentalist", has new documentary out called "Cool It". It is sure to ignite controvery in Southern California's environmental community. In this film, he does not challenge the notion of man made global warming...but says the way we are approaching the problem is all wrong.