Well this is not good news for the Koch brothers and all the little Kochsuckers - the one person who wrote a semi-intelligent book arguing the denial case is about to release a new book reversing his earlier position.
For those of us who actually read books, Lombergs original book had as it'score thesis the argument that while global warming may or may not be happening, the prposed solutions, such as cap-and-trade, all cost more than either migration or accepting the effects of global warming. An interesting thesis still worth considering, especially as humans are not politically capable of either planning ahead or of cutting back consumption voluntarily.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environmen...-change-u-turn
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The world's most high-profile climate change sceptic is to declare that global warming is "undoubtedly one of the chief concerns facing the world today" and "a challenge humanity must confront", in an apparent U-turn that will give a huge boost to the embattled environmental lobby.
Bjørn Lomborg, the self-styled "sceptical environmentalist" once compared to Adolf Hitler by the UN's climate chief, is famous for attacking climate scientists, campaigners, the media and others for exaggerating the rate of global warming and its effects on humans, and the costly waste of policies to stop the problem.
But in a new book to be published next month, Lomborg will call for tens of billions of dollars a year to be invested in tackling climate change. "Investing $100bn annually would mean that we could essentially resolve the climate change problem by the end of this century," the book concludes.
Examining eight methods to reduce or stop global warming, Lomborg and his fellow economists recommend pouring money into researching and developing clean energy sources such as wind, wave, solar and nuclear power, and more work on climate engineering ideas such as "cloud whitening" to reflect the sun's heat back into the outer atmosphere.
In a Guardian interview, he said he would finance investment through a tax on carbon emissions that would also raise $50bn to mitigate the effect of climate change, for example by building better sea defences, and $100bn for global healthcare.
His declaration about the importance of action on climate change comes at a crucial point in the debate, with international efforts to agree a global deal on emissions stalled amid a resurgence in scepticism caused by rows over the reliability of the scientific evidence for global warming.
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Understand this - it wont make a difference, because we humans are do not have the type of brain that allows us to reason and plan for the long term. Short term benefits will favor the Koch Brothers for several decades yet.