Lomborg Quits Danish Government Post - Guardian

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"Bjoern Lomborg, a researcher who made his name playing down the threat of global warming, said yesterday that he was stepping down as head of the Danish government's environmental advice agency.
Mr Lomborg, 39, is known for his 2001 bestseller, The Skeptical Environmentalist, which drew wide criticism for its argument that concerns about melting ice caps, deforestation, and acid rain were exaggerated. He said the Earth overall was getting cleaner, and that humankind was getting healthier and richer.

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Last month, Prof Lomborg's institute organised a conference where international economists ranked fighting Aids and malnutrition and making foreign trade easier as far more cost-effective ways of improving the world than combating global warming.

A former member of Greenpeace, Prof Lomborg became the institute's first director in 2002. His work had made him popular with the rightwing establishment. But he was found guilty last year of "scientific dishonesty" by a Danish panel which said his work was one-sided, selective and at variance with "good scientific practice". One panel member said he had crossed the divide between controversial but competent science and "unrepentant incompetence".

After a year-long investigation, the panel said his book suffered from "such perversion of the scientific message in the form of systematically biased representation that the objective criteria for upholding scientific dishonesty have not been met"."

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/climatechange/story/0,12374,1245140,00.html

[IrateCitizen]

1. Good riddance to bad rubbish

I, for one, am glad to see Lomborg being exposed for the charlatan that he really is. At least it's comforting to know that they still don't suffer fools gladly in Europe, even if they are embraced here in the US.

[DrWeird]

2. When does Bush appoint him head of the EPA?

It's a match made in heaven.