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'Skeptical Environmentalist' Cleared of Dishonesty
"The Danish Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation has repudiated the findings by one of its own committees that Bjorn Lomborg's book 'The Skeptical Environmentalist' was 'objectively dishonest' or 'clearly contrary to the standards of good scientific practice,'" BBC News reports.

"He put forward an alternative vision, quoting the scientific 'facts' to show the environment was actually doing much better and, in many instances, had improved markedly in recent years."

Senior Fellow in Environmental Studies Patrick J. Michaels comes to similar environmental conclusions in his book, The Satanic Gases, co-authored with Robert C. Balling Jr. The book marshals an impressive array of scientific data, studies, and analyses that argue, cogently and consistently, that the initial forecasts of rapid global warming were simply wrong. But, perhaps more important, the book points out that attempts to "fix" the forecast by the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change are even more misguided than the original projections. The authors argue that the jury is already in on global warming, and the verdict is a modest heating over the 21st century -- very similar to what occurred during the last third of the 20th century