Tragic Planet

By James Hrynyshyn, The Island of Doubt 

Bjorn Lomborg, the ex-Greenpeace bad-boy of statistics, is back at it. In last week’s National Post, Canada’s right-wing embarrassment of a newspaper, he once again takes on climate change activists. The problem with Lomborg, a man trained to play with numbers but seemingly devoid any understanding of how to understand what those numbers really mean (recall The Skeptical Environmentalist, his widely discredited attempt to argue that things aren’t really all that bad), is that he doesn’t seem to learn from his mistakes. Here’s his essay, and my attempt to show why almost everything he says is wrong.

You can read James’ entire rebuttal here.

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