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Nature 449, 143-144 (13 September 2007) | doi:10.1038/449143a; Published online 12 September 2007

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A challenge to Kyoto

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Standard cost–benefit analysis may not apply to the economics of climate change.

BOOK REVIEWEDCool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist's Guide to Global Warming

by Bjorn Lomborg

Knopf/Cyan-Marshall Cavendish: 2007. 272 pp./256 pp. $21/£19.99

Bjorn Lomborg's The Skeptical Environmentalist created a sensation six years ago. The author offered figures to dismiss claims that the ecological-resource base in many parts of the world is deteriorating, and argued that the costs of reducing ecological losses are usually higher than the benefits.