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Economist Frank Ackerman of Tufts University and the Stockholm Environment Institute, wrote a review of Lomborg's book. [4] In it, Ackerman criticised Lomborg for his views on the economics of climate change, including the costs of the Kyoto Protocol and the use of cost-benefit analysis.
The lecture was called "The Economics and Politics of Climate Change. An Appeal to Reason " [ 4 ] As explained in the introduction, the aim of the book is to examine each of the dimensions of the global warming issue, including the science, the economics, both from the perspective of long-term forecasting and cost-effectiveness analysis, the ...
A review in The Irish Times by John Gibbons was critical of the book's primary focus on effects of climate change on humans rather than also covering impacts on other species. [9] In The New Climate War, the climatologist Michael Mann dedicates 12 pages to comment "The Uninhabitable Earth". [10]
The book includes 36 short essays predicting the consequences of global warming and has been translated into over twenty languages. [4] The book reviews evidence of historical climate change and attempts to compare this with the current era.
The first chapter describes the expected effects of climate change with one degree Celsius (1 °C) increase in average global temperature since pre-industrial times.. The second chapter describes the effects of two degrees average temperature and so forth until Chapter 6 which shows the expected effects of an increase of six Celsius degrees (6 °C) average global temperature.
Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change is a non-fiction environmental science book by Elizabeth Kolbert that was published by Bloomsbury Publishing in 2006. The book documents a series of scientific observations and political processes, bringing attention to the causes and effects of global climate change. In this book ...
Climate change: hockey stick graph: Michael E. Mann: 2012: ISBN 0-23115254-X: The Hockey Stick Illusion: Climategate and the Corruption of Science: Climate change: hockey stick graph and Climatic Research Unit email controversy: Andrew Montford: 2010: ISBN 978-1-906768-35-5: Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution--And How It Can ...
The Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change is a 700-page report released for the Government of the United Kingdom on 30 October 2006 by economist Nicholas Stern, chair of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the London School of Economics (LSE) and also chair of the Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy (CCCEP) at Leeds University and LSE.