After his opening shot at Lomborg's op-ed in Sunday's Washington-Post, Rep. Markey has had the staff of his Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming prepare a detailed refutation of the claims Lomborg makes in this article, many of which even a high school intern at the Post's fact-checking department could have found.
Here's one example from the Committee's analysis:
Lomborg: "according to a wealth of scientific literature," damage from a ton of carbon is $2.
Rather than a wealth of scientific, this $2 figure appears to come from Lomborg pressing one economist as related on page 31 of his book Cool It. In reality the academic literature shows a wide range of estimated costs of the damage from a ton of carbon ($16 - $62 per ton), with the cost increasing over time and as heat-trapping gases accumulate in the atmosphere.
Markey has been a crusader in Congress for more than 3 decades for better energy policies, and has been the most devastating critic in both Houses of Congress of the fiscal, environmental, and nonproliferation threats of investing in nuclear power. The Select Committee's website is new, but is already a site for anyone interested in stopping climate change.
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