Lomborg, a political scientist, is best known for his carelessness and mathematical and errors, which can literally fill a book (http://www.lomborg-errors.dk/) and without exception fall on the side of minimizing the impact and costs of climate change. Here he is up to his usual tricks, trying to sell a social cost of carbon that is one-third to one-fifth that of currently accepted values, as well as suggesting that all we have to do is quietly wait for R&D to magically reduce the cost of renewable energy by itself and everything will be fine.

This playing out the clock game is another well-worn tactic that funded climate change skeptics have employed for over 30 years now... climate change isn't happening, or if it is it's not us, or if it's us it's not big deal, or if it is a big deal we have plenty of time to fix it, or if we don't have plenty of time to fix it scientists should have said something sooner.