Comments on: One-a-Day: Bjorn Lomborg, Cool It https://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/blog/2008/01/04/one-a-day-bjorn-lomborg-cool-it/ Culture, Politics, Academia and Other Shiny Objects Sat, 09 Feb 2008 16:47:30 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.4.15 By: barry https://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/blog/2008/01/04/one-a-day-bjorn-lomborg-cool-it/comment-page-1/#comment-4794 Tue, 08 Jan 2008 16:04:36 +0000 http://weblogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/?p=485#comment-4794 Tim,
You might wish to skim some of Tim Lambert’s posts over on Scienceblogs:

http://scienceblogs.com/deltoid/2007/11/more_middle_muddle.php

http://scienceblogs.com/deltoid/2006/11/lomborg_spreads_ddt_ban_myth.php

http://scienceblogs.com/deltoid/2007/02/misinformation_from_lomborg.php

http://scienceblogs.com/islandofdoubt/2007/10/inside_bjorn_lomborgs_brain.php

Other blogs:
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2007/08/29/bjorn_lomborg/ (wait through ad to get to the feature).

http://climateprogress.org/2007/09/13/debunking-bjorn-lomborg-cool-it-polar-bears/

Article in the Guardian on polar bears:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2007/oct/14/climatechange.conservation

Review of Lomborg’s book in ‘Nature’ magazine:
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v449/n7159/full/449143a.html

]]> By: Sisyphus https://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/blog/2008/01/04/one-a-day-bjorn-lomborg-cool-it/comment-page-1/#comment-4788 Mon, 07 Jan 2008 02:43:01 +0000 http://weblogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/?p=485#comment-4788 Good stuff — and this critique of the book could be made in even more detail.

I like how the last few posts — this and the “cultural competency” one — are implicitly building an argument for the importance of a liberal arts education (well, maybe a sociology major, more specifically); the last one on the importance of being able to grasp and analyze complex structures and systems; this one on the importance of knowing how to understand statistics as well as their limitations.

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