How to tackle global warming - and how not to

Björn Lomborg guardian.co.uk, Monday 15 September 2008

Solving climate change will be the most expensive public policy decision ever. Half-baked thinking won't fix it now.

One commonly repeated argument for doing something about climate change sounds compelling, but turns out to be almost fraudulent. It is based on comparing the cost of action with the cost of inaction, and almost every major politician in the world uses it. (...) 

It turns out the percentage of the globe that burns each year has been declining since 2001.

Leaders are implementing superficially attractive but terribly inefficient policies - not least on climate change