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Title: The Skeptical Environmentalist
Review: I had to critique a chapter of this book for a class for a module in a postgraduate GeoSciences course at Edinburgh University, Scotland. I chose the chapter on forests. It was not a difficult assignment. It was riddled with inaccuracies, exaggerations, avoidance of key issues, and, I am sad to say, plain lies. Lomborg uses data which is clearly not supposed to be used for the purpose he uses, mis-quotes people, aggregates data sets which aren't meant to go together, all to enable him to present the image he wants to portray. Personally, I can only comment on the chapter on forests, but after talking to my fellow classmates, it is clear he has done the same for the other chapters we were asked to critique. I can only assume he wants create a media frenzy which will push his book sales.Please email me if you want to read my essay critique of the chapter on forests.Thanks,Joseph Gair
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