Putting the Heat on Lomborg

I believe that the overwhelming and ever-increasing body of scientific knowledge shows that global warming is taking place, that human activities are increasing the rate of global warming, and that the failure to stop global warming will cause large, unpredictable, and potentially devastating changes in the atmosphere and on the earth. As for my own environmental and political policy background, I was vice president for communications at the Worldwatch Institute in the late 1990s, research director at the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, and interactive media director at the Democratic National Committee. I was active in the antinuclear power movement in New England in the late 1970s (the Clamshell Alliance), and the nuclear freeze movement in the early 1980s. In 1982, I won the National Council of Teachers of English George Orwell Award for Distinguished Contribution to Honesty and Clarity in Public Language for Nukespeak: Nuclear Language, Myths, and Mindset, a book I co-authored for Sierra Club Books with Stephen Hilgartner and Rory O'Connor.