One of Lomborg's rhetorical conceits is his claim that he is standing in the middle between global warming "extremists" and global warming deniers. As the Wall Street Journal put it, "Standing in the practical middle is Bjorn Lomborg, the freethinking Dane...."

In an interview with Lomborg in Salon, Kevin Berger picks Lomborg apart. Especially good demolition of Lomborg's claim that global warming poses little threat to polar bears.