Raleigh, NC: Civitas Poll: Obama Popular, Policies Not

Despite his high personal favorability ratings, voter support for Obama’s specific policy proposals garner much more negative reactions.

55 percent of voters are less likely to approve of Obama’s job performance when asked about his mortgage bailout plan. Likewise, half of voters (50 percent) have negative reaction to a proposed “Cap and Trade” tax to fight global warming.

SF Environmental Policy Examiner: Bjorn Lomborg and global warming: Part 1

"We should spend vastly more on research and development. The depressing thing is that everybody talks about green energy, but everybody think that means putting up windmills. Putting up very specific windmills. My point is if you actually want to do good, it’s not about putting up windmills that are, even now, inefficient, it’s about putting up windmills in the future that are so efficient that everybody will want one. That is actually a lot cheaper than what many people are arguing that we should be doing right now, and that kind of research and development is much cheaper and much more efficient in the long run. What the Copenhagen Consensus showed was that every dollar you invest in very quick CO2 cuts you probably do less than a dollar’s worth of good and if you take into account what kind of policy measures come up, it might be as low as 4 cents for every dollar, whereas if you invest in research and development that is bringing better technology for the future, you can end up doing as much as $16 worth of good for every dollar invested. My basic point is that I’d much rather do $16 worth of good rather than 4 cents.”

SF Environmental Policy Examiner: Bjorn Lomborg interview, Part 2: Global warming politics and assessing his critics

One gauge of how important it was is to look at the vehemence of the attacks it received. A group of scientists who had also developed into media 'darlings' found themselves confronted and often contradicted by Lomborg's book. What infuriated them most seemed to be that Lomborg was using their own statistics against them. In his native Denmark, Lomborg was accused by three environmentalists of intellectual dishonesty, a case that went to the Danish Committee on Scientific Dishonesty. The committee initially found against Lomborg, but was overturned decisively by the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation, and a band of 308 scientists petitioned to have that committee disbanded. Lomborg's real sin apparently was to show facts and figures that contradicted the global warming alarmists' view of the world, something for which they still haven't forgiven him, if one goes by what is available on the Internet.