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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.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environ...-u-turn

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Sept. 2,2010
Suzuki's sockeye black eye

Last year the David Suzuki Foundation issued an article that blamed declining sock-eye salmon stocks on global warming, among other things:

The stocks were so low last year that the government launched an investigation which is set to cost $14 million and start next month.  The David Suzuki Foundation was granted standing as part of the Conservation Coalition.

This year, the salmon are back, in numbers not seen in almost 100 years: Radical environmentalists have been parading NOAA’s declaration that the first 6 months of 2010 were the warmest on record.  Yet sockeye salmon thrived in what are presumably the same ‘warming oceans’ the Suzuki article declared would see them vanish almost into extinction.

The Suzuki Foundation has been caught out by the nature of things, they took a short-term trend and used it as an example that global warming is real.  Now, nature has bounced back with record numbers of fish and the David Suzuki Foundation’s unfounded fear-mongering is exposed.

(jimhanson @ Sep. 03 2010,10:19 am)

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Not to mention AlBore's jets and Obummer burning 6000 gallons of jet fuel to plant one tree in Colorado.

If they REALLY believed in global warming "climate change"--they wouldn't engage in such behavior.

I know, I know--"They're doing it for our own good."