If Gore is really right then Lomberg is really right

Sir Clive Crook when reviewing Bjorn Lomberg’s recent book “Cool It”, “An inconvenient Danish pasting” October 15, underlines the differences between the Gore camp and the much smaller group of Lomberg followers. This is somewhat unfortunate because the more the truth in Al Gore sermons the more the need for a truly sceptical attitude that considers carefully every opportunity costs, not only to help us to attack the problem wisely but more importantly to keep at distance all those peddlers of green magic potions that could sure tempt us into monumental waste. If on the other hand Gore is not right and climate change induced calamities are not waiting for us around the corner well then a little waste does not matter that much since it would just constitute another drop in that brimming bucket of wasteful spending and throwaway investing