Bjorn Lomborg is the bestselling author of The Skeptical Environmentalist and Cool It. He is a visiting professor at Copenhagen Business School and at the Hoover Institution at Stanford. His work appears regularly in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, the Economist, the Atlantic, and Forbes. His monthly column appears in around forty papers in nineteen languages, with more than thirty million readers. Time magazine has named him one of the 100 Most Influential People of the World, and Foreign Policy has repeatedly called him one of the Top 10 Global Thinkers. The Guardian identified him as "one of the 50 people who could save the planet." He lives in Sweden.
"It's precisely because the problem is so serious that [Lomborg]
argues it is necessary to approach it cool-headedly....The
alternative? In Lomborg's view it is letting ourselves be panicked
into the most expensive course--trying to fix the climate without
having the necessary technology on hand. Lomborg argues powerfully
that this is a fool's errand....A corrective to many of the green
assumptions that dominate the media."--Financial Times
"False Alarm is a timely and important book. Based on the latest
scientific evidence and rigorous economic analysis, it provides a
welcome antidote to widespread, irrational panic about a coming
climate apocalypse. Instead, it provides a set of smart, rational
policies for addressing global warming -- while not losing sight of
the myriad other problems that beset our planet, including poverty
and inequality. This book is essential reading for anyone who cares
about our shared human future."--Justin Yifu Lin, former chief
economist, the World Bank
"[Lomborg] follows his previous critiques of climate change
policy...with a hard-hitting analysis of failing strategies for
addressing what he acknowledges is 'a real problem.'...A serious,
debatable assessment of a controversial global issue."--Kirkus
"An important book. Mr. Lomborg is a long-standing environmentalist
regarded as a heretic by hardliners in the movement because he is
an optimist who says that humanity is not doomed."--Iain Martin,
The Times (UK)
"Bjorn Lomborg is that rare thing: a clear-sighted realist about
climate change. In False Alarm, he argues that it would be foolish
to do nothing to prepare for a warmer planet, but it would be more
foolish to pretend that we are doing things that will significantly
reduce carbon dioxide emissions when we are not. At the same time,
getting serious about cutting CO2 emissions will have a cost. As
Lomborg says, vastly more people die as a consequence of poverty
and disease each year than die as a consequence of global warming.
As in the past, we humans are capable of adapting to climate change
in ways that can significantly mitigate its adverse effects,
without choking off economic growth. To learn how, you must read
False Alarm."--Niall Ferguson, the Hoover Institution, Stanford
University
"Bjorn Lomborg's new book offers a data-driven, human-centered
antidote to the oft-apocalyptic discussion characterizing the
effect of human activity on the global climate. Careful,
compelling, and above all sensible and pragmatic."--Jordan
Peterson, author of 12 Rules for Life
"Lomborg brands climate change warnings as alarmist, and argues
that a massive reduction in fossil fuels would exacerbate global
poverty, in this detailed account.... Lomborg is careful to back
his cost-benefit analyses of climate policies with surveys and
statistics."--Publishers Weekly
"Lomborg does not lack solutions. In False Alarm, he advocates a
range of cost-benefit tested policies to address both climate
change and global poverty.... Lomborg does a service in calling out
the environmental alarmism and hysteria that obscure environmental
debates rather than illuminate them."--National Review
"Lomborg's most basic premise remains that there are better ways to
alleviate human misery than spending taxpayer subsidies than on
panic-driven, political non-solutions to a changing climate. Few
would argue with that goal."--American Thinker
"Meticulously researched, and well worth a read."--Forbes
"The best way to deal with global warming is to increase global
prosperity.... The choice we face, Lomborg writes, is between a
human future driven by fear and one driven by ingenuity. On that,
he is exactly right."--The Bulwark
"This is a fantastic book. In it, Bjorn Lomborg examines through
the lens of statistics the apocalyptic projections of the future of
climate change. He points out, rightly, that the doomsday scenarios
are misguided and that policy decisions driven by panic have real
costs, particularly for the poor. False Alarm is a
must-read."--Bibek Debroy, Chairman, Economic Advisory Council to
the Prime Minister of India
"This is a very important and superbly argued book. Those who have
been persuaded that climate change is not happening, and those who
think catastrophe is imminent should both read it and know they can
rely on Lomborg's meticulous analysis to put them right. The rest
of us can be alarmed by his relentless revelation that the world is
spending a fortune on making the plight of the poor and the state
of the environment worse with foolish and expensive
policies."--Matt Ridley, author of How Innovation Works
"False Alarm is a comprehensive analysis of the issues in climate
change that represents a reasoned balance between the shrill voices
demanding immediate change (without being aware of the practical
issues involved) and those who see no problems at all with our
current environmental situation."--New York Journal of Books
"A detailed...human-centric, optimistic tome from an honest
environmentalist."--Capitalism Magazine
"In between the cries of imminent apocalypse and outright denial
that seems to be the daily fare of the mainstream and alternative
news outlets on the issue of global warming, Bjorn Lomborg sounds a
rare note of sanity and moderation in his new book, False Alarm.
Lomborg's achievement is in providing a much-needed broader context
to the climate debate, based on years of researching and writing on
the topic....One hopes that this book will bring to the attention
of the general public, specialists and policy-makers, not just the
scale of the problem of climate change, but the most positive steps
that can be taken by governments to address it."
--International Journal of World Peace
"Lomborg is persuasive on the vulnerability of Africa and need for
greater emphasis on building climate resilience."--The Irish
Times
"Lomborg's work is impossible for alarmists to ignore."--Heartland
Institute
"An excellent summary of the madness, hypocrisy, and cynicism of
the climate-alarm establishment.... Lomborg has done an excellent
job pointing out that climate fears are indeed a 'false alarm, '
misdirecting time and resources away from real, and soluble,
problems."--New Criterion
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