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Stop the panic: global warmings all wrong.

kma | 18.08.2001 21:36

Global warming is the greatest threat to mankind. Wrong, says Bjorn Lomborg. In the last of his three exclusive essays for the Guardian, he argues that cutting carbon emissions is a pointless waste of money.

At the time of writing this piece, a main stream British “liberal” newspaper is running a three week article by Scientist Bjorn Lomberg entitled “Global Warming-are we doing the right thing?”



The paper writes:



“Global warming is the greatest threat to mankind. Wrong, says Bjorn Lomborg. In the last of his three exclusive essays for the Guardian, he argues that cutting carbon emissions is a pointless waste of money”.



To read this article you can follow this link:



 http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4240581,00.html



To read his whole paper, follow this link:



 http://image.guardian.co.uk/sys-files/Guardian/documents/2001/08/14/warming.pdf



This is not an unfamiliar tactic, for the corporate media system to try. But what disturbs me most is the fact that the average person on the street may all to easily be fooled into false sense of security, when being bombarded by a deluge of misrepresentative facts and figures.



If you would like to contact the Guardian Papers to complain, praise or question you can contact the editor by following this link:



mailto: letters@guardian.co.uk



I hope you can find the time to do this.



Peace and regards.

kma