Danish academic Bjørn Lomborg created some waves with his 2001 book The Environmental Skeptic and its follow-up, 2007’s Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist’s Guide To Global Warming, both of which poked holes in long-held assumptions about the effects of climate change and the inefficient ways the world was addressing them. It should be said upfront that he doesn’t deny climate change, but those who want to slow (or stop) any efforts to address the problem have nonetheless eagerly embraced his contrarian arguments. For his affront to conventional wisdom—meaning the findings of a vast swath of environmental scientists—Lomborg was officially reprimanded for “scientific dishonesty” by the Danish Committees On Scientific Dishonesty (sounds like committee created just for him, no?), a decision that the committee’s parent body later annulled.
