Bjorn Lomborg, author of the influential tract "The Skeptical Environmentalist," has reversed course on the urgency of global warming, and is now calling for action on "a challenge humanity must confront."
I'd clarify one thing, however. Lomborg was hardly a skeptic of global warming, as far as I could tell, though actual skeptics welcomed the questions he raised in the face of the steamroller of warming so-called consensus. As the article on his switch notes:
Lomborg's essential argument was: Yes, global warming is real and human behavior is the main reason for it, but the world has far more important things to worry about.
Yes, he raised objections to the conclusions on the question of human-caused warming's extent, and he questioned the socialistic solutions proposed by global warmers, but he was never a skeptic in the sense that the warmists would describe real skeptics--a "denialist."
So his "defection" is not as great as the warmists would like to portray it. I can only hope that Lomborg will maintain his skepticism on the solutions to the so-called problem even as he has concluded that yes, there is a problem indeed that must be addressed.
And good luck to the man. He will find that once inside the religion of warmists, any deviation from their religion will be dealt with harshly, with more venom than he received as an outsider. One expects little from the heathens, after all--but the chosen ones must adjust their views to the consensus. Now go and emit no more.
