Midnight Oil

SV: [Powderworks] Lomborg

Kate Parker Adams kate@dnki.net
Fri, 13 Dec 2002 06:38:27 -0500


He is indeed a Dane.

I have yet to meet a Dane who doesn't spit or make animated spitting mime 
at the mere mention of the man.  Then again, the vast majority of the Danes 
I know are the ones getting government money to throw at my department to 
research precautionary scientific paradigms, so it's an entirely skewed 
sample to be certain.

Perhaps that is why he is in exile and pandering elsewhere?  He's certainly 
at odds with the stated scientific decision-making objectives of the 
government of his native land!

At 12:12 PM 12/13/02 +0100, Bjorn Blomquist wrote:


> > The ageism thing is puzzling.  Who in their right mind would
> > think someone is unfit for politics simply because he's
> > almost 50?  I never did see a transcript of the Lomberg
> > interview, so I don't know what kind of stats were cited
> > there, but I remain suspicious of Lomberg's agenda in
> > general, so pardon me if I fail to take Blair's word for it.
>
>If I remember it right, Lomborg isn't even Swedish, as Blair stated, but
>Danish?
>Ah well, Scandinavia is "one country" anyway... ;)
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>/Bjorn
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