The writings of leading climate-change skeptic, Bjørn Lomborg (a Danish statistician) sheds light on an age old question, "Do Figures Lie or do Liars Figure?
In his new book, The Lomberg Deception Howard Friel exposes Lomborg as a complete fraud who has a pattern of referencing non-existent source material. Friel's important work reveals systematic misrepresentations about climate change that have their origin with Lomborg. Sadly, without fact checking, these lies have been repeated thousands of times in the right-wing blogosphere and by most major media outlets. Have all the fact-checkers been fired?
"In our judgment, Congress should move forward to enact comprehensive climate change legislation that will reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Although we recognize the difficulties involved in this effort, we believe that legislation can be crafted that will reduce global warming pollution while at the same time creating jobs and providing a boost to our economy. In particular, we believe such legislation can help to provide significant investment in domestic production of advanced technology vehicles and their key components, as well as other energy saving technologies. But such progress will be undermined if a disapproval resolution or rider were to overturn EPA's endangerment finding."
Scientists from the University of Alaska have discovered that much larger amounts of methane gas are leaking from beneath the Arctic seabed that had been estimated or even likely considered. Because the frozen seabed is thawing and is no longer able to act as a ‘cap’ to contain the methane beneath it, more methane is being released each year from the East Siberian Arctic Shelf than had been thought to be the total for all the world’s ocean’s combined. Considering that release of "even a small fraction of the methane" stored in the shelf "could trigger abrupt climate warming," wouldn’t it seem that this news would receive more coverage? Yet to my knowledge none of the major outlets gave it even a mention.
I’m glad to be heading to Nebraska this week to help Nebraska Wildlife Federation celebrate 40 years of success protecting the state’s greatest natural resources. Understanding how important it is to confront climate change to save what they care about, its statewide members have been effectively working to pass energy and climate legislation that will safeguard Nebraska’s wildlife. And I’ll be speaking at University of Nebraska – Lincoln Wednesday.
Networks might not be covering the big climate stories but I’m so glad the people I’ll be seeing this week understand how important it is to confront climate change to protect wildlife and people.
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