Rotten in the state of Denmark? Bjorn Lomborg’s The Skeptical Environmentalist has received sensational coverage in proclaiming that we don’t need to fear ecological disaster. In a special issue of Grist magazine, a panel of acknowledged authorities on various environmental topics subjects the book to rigorous scrutiny and finds its thesis seriously wanting. Lomborg is a political scientist and has not published one paper in the areas on which he declaims in the book, they note. tompaine.com