My Manifesto: The Incoherent Ramblings of a Madman

The Skeptical Environmentalist's (Bjorn Lomborg) story continues:

http://www.greenspirit.com/lomborg/ --> in support of Lomborgs' ideas.

http://www.forsk.dk/uvvu/nyt/udtaldebat/bl_decision.htm --> the court case based entirely on Scientific America's rebuttal to Lomborgs ideas (adam's note: this is problematic and one sided due to the fact that Lomborg was given no right of reply)

http://www.stichting-han.nl/lomborg.htm --> some further reading on the subject.

The problem with all of those involved with this book (for, against) is that they all have vested interests: the scientists who are "experts" have an interest in showing Lomborg a fool so they get more funding for their research and increase their profiles; Lomborg has a vested interest in showing he is right so as to make more money by selling more books and not affect his academic standing.

I love a good conspiracy theory.

Sometime soon I will put up a quote from the book detailing the errors in using short-term trends - the problem that the Skeptical Environmentalist finds with most of the statistics used to prove the state of the world's health.