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Human Development Report 2007/2008 : Fighting Climate Change : Human Solidarity in a Divided World by United Nations Development Programme, United Nations Development Program is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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The "Foreword" opening salvo doesn't leave any doubts: "Climate change is now a scientifically established fact", quickly followed by the assertion that "...today, the debate is over and climate skepticism is an increasingly fringe activity". And then, I can not resist adding, the scientific method is death, no longer necessary, and from now on, science will progress by consensus. The HDR 2007 is a bold and highly politicized report that seems a lot like a frontal attack to the moderates (such as Bjørn Lomberg's Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist's Guide to Global Warming), who are defending the position that improving third world health and poverty is of higher priority than diverting resources to mitigate the alleged climate change crisis, and by the way, a more cost effective proposition according to Lomberg's book. The UN posture on Global Warming/Climate Change takes a new turn and a difficult to understand cause and effect relationship: "climate change is already starting to affect some of the poorest and most vulnerable communities around the world", and thus, it is already undermining the international community's efforts to reduce extreme poverty, and in the long-

Who reads Human Development Report 2007/2008 : Fighting Climate Change : Human Solidarity in a Divided World?

Author

United Nations Development Programme, United Nations Development Program

Publisher

United Nations Development Programme : Palgrave Macmillan

Published

2007

Language

EN

ISBN

9780230547049

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Science, Business, Sociology