Refuting Gore Critic Bjorn Lomborg on Global Warming

One of former Vice President Gore's biggest critic's on global warming (and hence, an "expert" often cited by the Radical Right Noise Machine) is Bjorn Lomborg. However, as the well-respected journal Scientific American points out in a series of four articles, Dr, Lomborg's analysis is at best, questionable.

Bob Somerby in the March 22, 2007 edition of The Daily Howler gives us a taste of Dr. Lomborg's selective scientific conclusions:

"As he did in the New York Sun last month, Lomborg played a savage game of scientific apples-and-oranges, accusing Gore of “wild exaggeration� in the process. The UN said sea levels might rise one foot—but Gore said twenty feet, Lomborg railed!

Of course, as we’ve noted, Gore was talking about what will happen if the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets break away. By contrast, the UN report was predicting future sea levels if the ice sheets don’t break off. (For the record, the UN report said that sea levels may rise by as much as 23 inches if the ice sheets remain intact.) Lomborg’s presentation is baldly deceptive—a bald-faced scam on the American public. And no, it really doesn’t make sense to think Lomborg doesn’t know this."

Source of Scientific American hyperlink: Media Matters for America.