Lawrence Solomon

Lawrence Solomon (born 1948 in Bucharest, Romania) is a Canadian author and columnist who has written on energy and environmental issues. He is the founder and managing director of the Energy Probe Research Foundation. He has worked for a series of newspapers including the National Post, where he writes a column. He has authored books on energy resources, urban sprawl and global warming.

Solomon opposes nuclear power based on its economic costs, is a global warming skeptic, and has been critical of government approaches and policies used to address environmental concerns.

Career

Solomon worked as a columnist at The Globe and Mail, and has been published in the National Review Online, CBS News, and the Wall Street Journal. He was the editor and publisher of Next City magazine, now defunct.

Solomon supports reforms in foreign aid, putting a stop to nuclear power expansion, and supports the privatization of transport projects and the expansion of toll roads. His columns and book Toronto Sprawls: A History blame government policy for exacerbating and encouraging sprawl. He is a critic of subsidies to rural Canada.

Global warming

In a series of articles and a companion book published in 2008, The Deniers, Solomon writes about scientists whose views and research, according to Solomon, contradicts what he calls the alarmist view of global warming presented by Al Gore, the IPCC and the media. The book featured on C-SPAN's Book TV on May 11, 2008. Reviews of the book have appeared in the Washington Times, Vancouver Sun and other newspapers. In December, 2008, an executive from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce's Institute for 21st Century Energy sponsored a debate about global warming between Lawrence Solomon and Dr. Jay Gulledge of the Pew Center on Global Climate Change, who took the oppositve view.

Wikipedia

Solomon has also written columns criticizing Wikipedia's coverage of global warming and other topics.

Coffee merchandising

Solomon started an online merchant of green and roasted coffee in 2004 called the Green Beanery. The company is located in downtown Toronto and includes a cafe where customers can sample a wide variety of coffee. The profits from Green Beanery go to Probe International.

Published works

Solomon's books include:

• The Conserver Solution (Doubleday, 1978 ISBN 978-0385145336)
• Energy shock: After the oil runs out (Doubleday, 1980 ISBN 978-0385171618)
• Breaking up Ontario Hydro's Monopoly (Energy Probe, 1982)
• Power at What Cost (Doubleday, 1984 ISBN 978-0919849037)
• In the Name of Progress (with Patricia Adams) (Earthscan, 1992 ISBN 978-1853831218)
• Toronto Sprawls: A History (University of Toronto Press, 2007 ISBN 978-0772786180)
• The Deniers: The world-renowned scientists who stood up against global warming hysteria, political persecution, and fraud (Richard Vigilante Books, 2008 ISBN 978-0980076318)

External links

• Climate change: The Deniers provides an index to the series of articles by Solomon in the National Post about scientists who "buck the conventional wisdom on climate science."
• Don’t Deny Yourself, an interview with Lawrence Solomon, in the National Review, April 22, 2008.
• A Time to Deny, an interview with Lawrence Solomon at The American Spectator, April 18, 2008.
• The climate change deniers, an article on Solomon's book The Deniers, Washington Times, May 6, 2008.
• 'The Deniers' details flaws in the theories on global warming, Vancouver Sun, May 9, 2008.
• Manhattan Declaration on Climate Change contains links to various articles by Solomon.
• Lawrence Solomon (1990-01-01). "Save the Forests - Sell the Trees". American Forests. Retrieved 2008-07-10.
• Mark Milke, Alberta to Bury Carbon, and its History, a Frontier Centre for Public Policy article dated 2008-07-16 referring to Lawrence Solomon's book The Deniers.