Norman Myers
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Norman Myers is an Honorary Visiting Fellow of Oxford University. He has served as Visiting Professor at universities from Harvard to Stanford and is a foreign member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences. He works as an independent scientist, undertaking research projects for the U.S. National Research Council, the World Bank, and United Nations agencies.
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On Bjorn Lomborg and species diversity 0
Posted 7 years, 11 months agoBjorn Lomborg opens his chapter on biodiversity by citing my 1979 estimate of 40,000 species lost per year. He gets a lot of mileage out of that estimate throughout the chapter, although he does not cite any of my subsequent writings except for a single mention of a 1983 paper and a 1999 paper, neither of which deals much with extinction rates. Why doesn't he refer to the 80-plus papers I have published on biodiversity and mass extinction during the 20-year interim?