Hi egastfriend, I would recommend not respecting Lomborg. He regularly writes op-eds on climate change that are rated as "scientific credibility very low" on Climate Feedback due to his selective and misleading use of statistics. His books have numerous errors and his first one was found to contain: "Fabrication of data; Selective discarding of unwanted results (selective citation); Deliberately misleading use of statistical methods; Distorted interpretation of conclusions; Plagiarism; Deliberate misinterpretation of others' results". On top of that, he's received fossil fuel funding, as documented on DeSmogBlog.
Although he is right to suggest cost-benefit analyses, this is something that environmental economists already do in spades, and the reason his analyses (which have not been published in detail) come out with different answers is because of his biased and unsupportable assumptions that, frankly, reach beyond just having a different opinion.
Hi egastfriend, I would recommend not respecting Lomborg. He regularly writes op-eds on climate change that are rated as "scientific credibility very low" on Climate Feedback due to his selective and misleading use of statistics. His books have numerous errors and his first one was found to contain: "Fabrication of data; Selective discarding of unwanted results (selective citation); Deliberately misleading use of statistical methods; Distorted interpretation of conclusions; Plagiarism; Deliberate misinterpretation of others' results". On top of that, he's received fossil fuel funding, as documented on DeSmogBlog.
Although he is right to suggest cost-benefit analyses, this is something that environmental economists already do in spades, and the reason his analyses (which have not been published in detail) come out with different answers is because of his biased and unsupportable assumptions that, frankly, reach beyond just having a different opinion.
Links: http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2015/08/bjorn-lomborg-just-a-scientist-with-a-different-opinion/ http://www.lomborg-errors.dk/ http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Bjorn_Lomborg