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Danish 'best-selling' climate change sceptic swims against the tide AFP As world leaders scramble to address global warming, sceptical
environmentalist Bjoern Lomborg finds himself increasingly alone in his
claim that climate change poses no imminent threat to the planet. The 42-year-old Dane, who once headed Denmark's Environmental Assessment Institute, has for years been speaking out against the increasingly mainstream concern that global warming is causing sea levels to rise and changing weather patterns in a way that will soon wreak havoc on world ecosystems and all of humankind. "There are other global challenges to address this century like the battle against AIDS, malaria, malnutrition and poverty," he told AFP.
Lomborg's "Sceptical Environmentalist," which appeared in Danish in 1998 and in English three years later, blasts the growing "hysteria" around climate change and has drawn the ire of virtually the entire scientific community. "The polar bear, which is close to extinction, has become an icon in the warming debate, when it would be enough to simply stop hunting hundreds (of the animals) each year," said Lomborg, who currently works as an assistant applied statistics professor at the Copenhagen Business School.
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