The Skeptical Environmentalist: Measuring the Real State of the World (2001) by Bjorn Lomborg—a Danish statistician and former Greenpeace activist—marshals a large array of data to argue that most environmental trends are improving, that doomsday scenarios are statistically exaggerated, and that policy should focus on cost-effective interventions rather than wholesale economic transformation.
Applied rigorous statistical scrutiny to environmental movement claims; shifted debate from whether there is a problem to what is the most cost-effective response; spawned the Copenhagen Consensus framework.
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