Lomborg's Cool It! should be read by everyone who's stressing on global warming and fantasizing about Mad Max-like post-apocalypses where mating pairs roam Antarctica in a Hobbesian existence.

Sounds kinky/kool, doesn't it?

Some basic so far, and I'm not even to the sea levels part (why spoil your best suspense?):

--> Polar bears are not declining.

--> Glaciers are climate artifacts, not sacred treasures.

--> The average developing country's income will rise 12 fold by 2100, according to the UN, so the resources will be vast for adaptation.

--> Cold kills far more each year than heat, to which humans adapt--throughout history--far better, so global warming will save far more lives than it kills.

--> Finally, humans have always prospered when it's gotten warmer and suffered when it's gotten colder, and these rises are not unprecedented: worst-case rises have already been successfully managed in large "heat island" cities over the past century and even in these "labs," cold kills more each year than heat!

I'm not running any serious real-world numbers here, which Lomborg supplies in abundance, and his Copenhagen Consensus stuff of prioritizing many other ills over global warming remains powerful and brilliant stuff ... even if our NewRuleSets.Project beat him by a couple of years using exactly the same techniques and yielding exactly the same results!

You think he ever visited my Naval War College site?

Okay, I'm getting verklempft ... Talk amongst yourselves ....