Heat deaths are being hyped, while deaths from the cold are ignored

Patt Morrison for May 5, 2011

Has Bjorn Lomborg—the poster child of environmental skeptics—changed his climate?

Bjorn Lomborg, Danish environmental academic, infuriated scientists around the world when he published The Skeptical Environmentalist in 2001. The book claimed that overpopulation, destruction of resources, and global warming are not imminent problems. It would be a waste of time, Lomborg wrote, and even detrimental, if countries focused on environmental problems like global warming instead of on bigger problems such as worldwide poverty and disease. (...) 

Environmentalistonline.com 2011 Febr

A sceptic is someone who questions or doubts accepted opinions. Bjorn Lomborg, author of The Skeptical Environmentalist, challanges many "orthodox" views about climate change, but one thing he does accept is that man-made global warming exists: he is no climate-change denier. (...) A minority voice? The self-styled sceptical environmentalist, Bjørn Lomborg, talks to Paul Suff 

The Climate Connection 2010
Debate - What's Stopping Us?What's stopping us from taking action on climate change?
Can research from other fields help us find solutions where conventional thinking around environmentalism might have failed?
The last part of the Climate Connection explores some of the ideas we've heard throughout the series in an audience discussion with experts in the fields of economics, psychology, leadership and environmentalism. 

Participants:
Kersty Hobson
Bjorn Lomborg
Stephen Peake
Sunand Prasad