Lomborg's economists find their voices (at last)

John Quiggin triggers a long campaign of comment wars with these comments on the collapse of a good deal of Bjorn Lomborg's credibility in his "Copenhagen Consensus" game.

"Robert Mendelsohn, a conservative Yale economist who was an official “critic” of the climate paper in this process, goes further: because Dr Cline’s positions are “well out of the mainstream”, he had no choice but to reject them. He worries that “climate change was set up to fail.”
http://www.economist.com/agenda/displayStory.cfm?story_id=3630425

What - Lomborg set up a project in such a way as to fail in the direction best suited to the political end of destroying popular concern for the environment and public faith in science? Who'd have thought that? (More than just Quiggin and I thought it, actually).