False Alarm by Bjorn Lomborg; Apocalypse Never by Michael Shellenberger – review

Two prominent lukewarmers' take climate science denial to another level, offering tepid manifestos at best

It is no longer credible to deny that the average temperature around the world is rising and that other phenomena, such as extreme weather events, are also shifting. People can now see with their own eyes that the climate is changing around them.

Nor is it tenable to deny that the Earth's warming is driven by increasing levels of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, resulting from human activities, such as the production and burning of fossil fuels and deforestation. Such denial is only now promoted by cranks and conspiracy theorists who also think, for instance, that the Covid-19 pandemic is linked to the development of the 5G network.