Latest news16-01-2012 - Lomborg at World Future Energy Summit World Future Energy Summit 2012
Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Jan 16, 2012
Dr. Lomborg gave a 15 minute talk to the plenary between the three ministerial panels.
He talked about how to get a green energy future going:
focus on dramatic investments in green research and development to make future green energy competitive, and do not spend the money on subsidies to current inefficient green technologies.
Jan 17, 2012
Dr. Lomborg is giving a talk to the Young Future Energy Leaders students at Masdar. http://www.worldfutureenergysummit.com/ 15-01-2012 - Lomborg's talk at Univeristy of Calgary, Jan 26 ISEEE Distinguished Speaker Series
"Cool It: Effectively Addressing Climate Change," by Bjorn Lomborg, The Skeptical Environmentalist
Date: January 26, 2012 | 7:30PM
Speaker(s): Bjorn Lomborg
“Cool It: Effectively Addressing Climate Change”
Location: MacEwan Hall ballroom (3rd floor), Univeristy of Calgary Read about the program online 10-01-2012 - Lomborg op-ed: The Emperor’s New Climate-Change Agreement 2012-01-10
The Emperor’s New Climate-Change Agreement
COPENHAGEN – Dressing up failure as victory has been integral to climate-change negotiations since they started 20 years ago. The latest round of talks in Durban, South Africa, in December was no exception.
Climate negotiations have been in virtual limbo ever since the catastrophic and humiliating Copenhagen summit in 2009, where vertiginous expectations collided with hard political reality. So as negotiators – and a handful of government ministers – arrived in Durban, expectations could not have been lower. (...) Read it online BL Op-ed 2012-01-10 Emperor.pdf 16-12-2011 - Lomborg interview in Tehelka magazine India End of Kyoto would mean nothing for the climate
Dec 24, 2011
Shonali Ghosal
Q: You are known to be critical of the Kyoto Protocol. Does the Durban agreement offer more hope than Kyoto?
A: There’s virtually nothing but empty promises. The Kyoto Protocol will be a symbolic act to continue. As for the Green Climate Fund, they have provided the structure but there’s no money, which has always been the problem. The real meat of the Durban deal, the idea of getting a binding agreement in 2020, is basically just delaying tactics. They said that in 2007 with the Bali roadmap that they would have a deal in 2009 in Copenhagen, which they didn’t. They are just saying, “We didn’t do it in two years but we promise to do it in nine.” It requires a certain frame of mind to say that is a success. 12-12-2011 - Lomborg op-ed in Wall Street Journal: Global Warming and Adaptability Wall Street Journal
OPINION
DECEMBER 12, 2011
Global Warming and Adaptability
Any carbon deal to replace Kyoto would have a negligible impact on climate in coming decades.
By BJORN LOMBORG
The Durban pit-stop in the endless array of climate summits has just ended, and predictably it reaffirmed the United Nations' strong belief that the most important response to global warming is to secure a strong deal to cut carbon emissions.
What is almost universally ignored, however, is that if we want to help real people overcome real problems we need to focus first on adaptation.
The Durban agreement is being hailed as a diplomatic victory. Yet it essentially concedes defeat, leaving any hard decisions to the far end of the decade when other politicians will have to deal with it. For nearly 20 years, the international community has tried to negotiate commitments to carbon cuts, with almost nothing to show for it. (...) Read it online Art BL 2011-12-12 WSJ Adaptability.pdf 28-11-2011 - Lomborg named Top 100 Global Thinker by Foreign Policy "for looking more right than ever on the politics of climate change" The FP Top 100 Global Thinkers
Foreign Policy presents a unique portrait of 2011's global marketplace of ideas and the thinkers who make them.
DECEMBER 2011
Bjorn Lomborg
For looking more right than ever on the politics of climate change.
Director, Copenhagen Consensus, Denmark
With international action on limiting climate change seemingly stalled, it must be hard for Bjorn Lomborg to resist an "I told you so." The Danish environmental researcher has been a longtime dissenter from the conventional wisdom calling for international agreements to limit carbon emissions. Lomborg emphasizes the massive costs and argues that they would in any case have minimal effect on global warming-- inconvenient truths that help explain why the grand ambitions of the expiring Kyoto Protocol and sundry U.N. conferences have come to naught. As for climate change, Lomborg insists he's no denier and that his beef is with activists who hawk clearly unworkable solutions. Some have still labeled him a climate-change skeptic -- former U.S. Vice President Al Gore reportedly refuses to appear on the same stage as Lomborg -- but he continues to have an outsized impact in the public sphere.
His Copenhagen Consensus project was launched in 2004 to prioritize the world's most intractable problems, with efforts to solve climate change ending up well below what he considers more solvable challenges, such as malaria and HIV/AIDS. As Lomborg told Salon, "It seems evidently moral to ask: How can I do the most that I possibly can with the money that I'm going to be spending?" Read it online 25-11-2011 - Lomborg op-ed at Financial Times: Global warming needs a more innovative solution For a considerable time, it has been claimed that we must fix climate change immediately or all will be lost. As long ago as 1989, the director of the United Nations environment programme stated: "We shall win - or lose - the climate struggle in the first years of the 1990s. The issue is as urgent as that." ...
Read it online Art BL 2011-11-25 Financial Times.pdf 17-11-2011 - Lomborg op-ed in The Australian: Carbon tax a costly feel-good gesture that won't reduce emissions Bjorn Lomborg
From: The Australian
November 17, 2011 12:00AM
GLOBAL warming is real, man-made and important, but the present response has not worked for 20 years, won't work now and won't solve it in the future. This is especially true for Australia, which has introduced a carbon tax that will not work, while stifling debate on an alternative solution.
Let me elaborate. Simple physics tells us that, all else being equal, carbon dioxide emissions from burning fossil fuels will raise temperatures. Simple economics tells us temperature rises will eventually be negative for the world as a whole because infrastructure has been created based on temperatures of the past centuries. Read it online Art BL 2011-11-17 The Australian.pdf 14-11-2011 - Lomborg op-ed: Seeming Green at Project Syndicate 2011-11-14
Seeming Green
Bjorn Lomborg
COPENHAGEN – When Denmark’s new government ministers presented themselves to Queen Margrethe II last month, the incoming development minister established his green credentials by rolling up to the palace in a tiny, three-wheeled, electric-powered vehicle. The photo opportunity made a powerful statement about the minister’s commitment to the environment – but probably not the one he intended. (...) Read it online BL Op-ed 2011-11 Nov Seeming Green.pdf 25-10-2011 - Lomborg op-ed in USA Today: Government shouldn't be picking Solyndras The lesson from the federal government's failed backing of Solyndra is not that the United States should abandon energy innovation. It is that the government should not try to pick industry winners in the race to replace fossil fuels with an alternative.
Solyndra is the now-bankrupt solar-panel manufacturer that received a $535 million federal loan guarantee in 2009 to build a factory based on the proposition that solar power should be captured through solar cylinders rather than the more established technology of silicon wafers. Solyndra lost the gamble on its technology — and taxpayers lost a half-billion dollars. Congressional investigators are now probing whether any laws were broken in this venture, amid allegations of favoritism. (...) Read it online Art BL 2011-10-25 Solyndras – USA Today.pdf 17-10-2011 - Lomborg op-ed: Making HIV/AIDS Investments Count Making HIV/AIDS Investments Count
Bjørn Lomborg
2011-10-14
NEW YORK – It is dangerous to believe that the end of AIDS is in sight. Around 30 million people around the world live with HIV, and another 30 million are likely to become infected in the next decade if current trends persist. Funding from developed governments is dropping – a trend that must be reversed. But we also need to acknowledge that billions of dollars have been spent on well-meaning attempts to save lives, with an alarming lack of high-quality evaluation of how these investments have performed. (...) Read it online BL Op-ed 2011-10 Oct HIV Investments.pdf 29-09-2011 - Voice of America article about RethinkHIV September 29, 2011
Rethinking HIV from an Economic Viewpoint
Joe DeCapua
Some of the world’s top economists have gotten together to take a new look at the HIV/AIDS epidemic and see whether money can be better spent. It’s called the RethinkHIV project and includes three Nobel Laureates.
The Copenhagen Consensus Center and the Rush Foundation sponsored the panel of experts, which presented its findings Wednesday in Washington to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.
“It’s essentially a project to try to say, let’s spend money on HIV in the smartest possible way,” said Dr. Bjorn Lomborg, director of the Copenhagen Consensus Center.(...) http://www.voanews.com/english/news/africa/decapua-rethinkhiv-29sept11-130789388.html About BL 2011-09-29 VOA RethinkHIV.pdf 28-09-2011 - Article by Lomborg and Piot in the Wall Street Journal OPINION
SEPTEMBER 27, 2011.
Rethinking the Fight Against AIDS
With funding down, it is critical to identify those measures that achieve the most results for the money spent.
BY BJØRN LOMBORG AND PETER PIOT
After a decade of unprecedented increases in donor funding and a corresponding 17% decline world-wide in the number of new infections, the fight against HIV is losing momentum.
UNAIDS reported a 10% drop in funding from 2009-10. The U.S. Congress is clamoring for further cuts to the foreign aid budget. European governments are reducing funding commitments in the wake of fiscal crises. And in sub-Saharan Africa, the countries worst affected by AIDS have failed to live up to their commitment a decade ago in the Abuja Declaration to increase health spending to 15% of GDP. (...) Read it online Art BL 2011-09-23 WSJ Rethinking the Fight w Piot.pdf 16-09-2011 - Lomborg's op-ed: Rethinking the Fight against HIV Rethinking the Fight against HIV
Bjørn Lomborg
2011-09-15
COPENHAGEN – Thirty years ago, the world got its first inkling of impending catastrophe when five young gay men in Los Angeles were struck down by the illness that became known as HIV/AIDS. Today, the disease has a truly global impact, claiming 1.8 million lives annually – the equivalent of wiping out the population of Washington, DC, three times every year. (...) Read it online BL Op-ed 2011-9 Sept Rethink HIV.pdf 09-09-2011 - Lomborg named as one of 58 people who have changed our lives in 2011 2011 Sept
Psychologies
Bjorn Lomborg, academic and author of The Skeptical Environmentalist, for shaking up teh climate change debate without ever denying the reality of man-made global warming.
Nominated by Julian Baggini, philosopher and author of The Ego Trick. Read it online About BL 2011-09-09 Psychologies 58 people.pdf 05-09-2011 - Interview with Lomborg on CNBC Sept 5, 2011
The Lomborg Challenge
How can we innovate the price of green technologies?
Politicians are incentivised to announce emission targets and solar panel installations rather than commitments to scientific research. Bjørn Lomborg, Director of the Copenhagen Consensus Centre, argues that this means we are wasting large sums of money on reducing carbon emissions by only a few tonnes rather than preparing for a truly low carbon future.
What are the stumbling blocks to this necessary investment? How can we encourage politicians to think differently? What incentives are necessary for business to invest dramatically higher amounts? http://www.energyopportunities.tv/Embracing-Innovation/The-Lomborg-Challenge 17-08-2011 - Transatlantyk Glocal Hero Award for Bjorn Lomborg Glocal Hero Award – for the person whose work has both a local and a global impact – will go to Bjørn Lomborg, named by The Guardian as “one of 50 people who can save the planet”.
Bjørn Lomborg also made an appearance at the Polish premiere of Ondi Timoner’s “Cool It” on Saturday, August 6th at Multikino 51 at 5 P.M.
The documentary focuses on the facts and myths regarding global warming, introduces the audience to the scientist behind the film, which is the main event of the Transatlantyk Eco section.
Bjørn Lomborg took part in the debate about counteracting climate change effects.
The Danish scientist, writer, and celebrity wrote a book about global warming that has been translated into 17 languages. World Economic Forum named him Global Leader for Tomorrow; he has been published by The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, The Economist, The Guardian, The Times, LA Times, Boston Globe, and appeared on Larry King Live. In his Consensus Center project he gathered the world’s top economists (including five Nobel Prize winners) to search for an answer to a question on how to do the most good having limited resources. As a result two books were written, “Global Crisis, Global Solutions” and “How to Spend Fifty Billion to Make the World a Better Place”. http://www.transatlantyk.org/en/program/events/opening-gala-opening-ceremony 13-08-2011 - Lomborg's op-ed: A Dim Light on Global Warming 2011-08-12
Bjørn Lomborg
COPENHAGEN – Amid a growing wave of concern about climate change, many countries – including Brazil, Australia, the United States, and the members of the European Union – passed laws in the 2000’s outlawing or severely restricting access to incandescent light bulbs. The intention was understandable: if everyone in the world exchanged most light bulbs for energy-efficient compact fluorescent light bulbs (CFLs), we could save 3.5% of all electricity, or 1% of our CO2 emissions. (...) Read it online BL Op-ed 2011-8 Aug A Dim Light.pdf 20-07-2011 - FreedomLab video interview with Lomborg Powershift videos by FreedomLab
Interview with Lomborg
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July 20, 2011 Wednesday
Length: 9:02 Listen to it online 14-06-2011 - Lomborg op-ed: How to Set Goals 2011-06-14
How to Set Goals
COPENHAGEN – At this century’s start, leaders from every country agreed to pursue the United Nations’ Millennium Development Goals. The ambition was to improve significantly the lot of the planet’s most disadvantaged citizens before 2015. (...) Read it online BL Op-ed 2011-6 June How to set Goals.pdf 31-05-2011 - Interview with Lomborg in the RICS Modus magazine Are governments doing enough to mitigate the effects of climate change?
No, they are doing too much of the wrong things, and too little of what will actually work. All the focus has been on immediate carbon cuts although studies show that the cost will be vastly greater than the benefit.
(...) Int BL 2011 June Modus magazine p23.pdf 18-05-2011 - Reuters interview with Lomborg EU 2020 energy cuts may raise import share: Lomborg
By Alister Doyle, Environment Correspondent
OSLO
Wed May 18, 2011
(Reuters) - EU plans to cut energy use by 2020 risk raising the proportion imported from outside the bloc, partly due to domestic nuclear power curbs, Danish academic and environmental writer Bjorn Lomborg said on Wednesday. (...)
Read it online Int BL 2011 May 18 Doyle Reuters.com.pdf 17-05-2011 - Lomborg's Project Syndicate op-ed: The Myth of Green Energy Security The Myth of Green Energy Security
2011-05-17
Bjørn Lomborg
COPENHAGEN – Turmoil across the Middle East and Northern Africa has refocused attention on the impact that political tensions or interference can have on the price and availability of energy imports. Against consumer fears of gas-price hikes, energy security ranks high on many Western governments’ policy agendas. (...) Read it online BL Op-ed 2011-5 May Energy Security.pdf 05-05-2011 - Lomborg radio interview on 89.3 KPCC Patt Morrison for May 5, 2011
Has Bjorn Lomborg—the poster child of environmental skeptics—changed his climate?
Bjorn Lomborg, Danish environmental academic, infuriated scientists around the world when he published The Skeptical Environmentalist in 2001. The book claimed that overpopulation, destruction of resources, and global warming are not imminent problems. It would be a waste of time, Lomborg wrote, and even detrimental, if countries focused on environmental problems like global warming instead of on bigger problems such as worldwide poverty and disease. (...)
Listen to it online Int BL 2011 May 5 KPCC radio.pdf 23-04-2011 - Lomborg on Dylan Ratigan Show on Earth Day Climate debate driven by fear?
The self-described skeptical environmentalist, Bjorn Lomborg, joins the Dylan Ratigan Show on Earth Day to discuss global warming, the fear-based rhetoric, and whether China is actually beating the U.S. in the clean energy race. Watch it online 21-04-2011 - Lomborg on Fox Happening Now FoxNewsInsider, Apr 21, 2011
Earth Day: Author Bjorn Lomborg on Whether We're 'Saving the World ... Or Just Burning Money'
One day ahead of Earth Day, 'Skeptical Environmentalist' author Bjorn Lomborg stopped by to talk about what's worth it and what's not when it comes to actually changing the environment.
Watch it online 21-04-2011 - Lomborg's article in Washington Post Washington Post
Opinions
Hold the accolades on China’s ‘green leap forward’
By Bjorn Lomborg,
Published: April 21, 2011
As the world’s factory floor, China is not an obvious environmental leader. It is beleaguered by severe pollution and generates more carbon emissions than any other nation. Yet many have trumpeted it as an emerging “green giant” for its non-carbon-based energy production and its aggressive promises to cut carbon emissions. New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman described China’s “green leap forward” as “the most important thing to happen” at the end of the first decade of the 21st century.
But the facts do not support this “green” success story. (...)
Read it online Art BL 2011 Apr 21 China Washington Post.pdf 16-04-2011 - Lomborg's op-ed in The Daily: Some serious green Some serious green
Investment in wind and solar power will cost more than they’re worth
By Bjorn Lomborg Saturday, April 16, 2011
President Obama has thrown his weight behind alternative energy sources, including wind and solar power. At a wind-turbine factory last week, he declared, “This is the future of American energy.” Like other politicians around the globe, Obama justifies the push for alternative energy investment by promising green jobs and greater energy security. But while green jobs and reduced reliance on foreign oil are important goals, they will be poorly served by using public funds to subsidize the wind and solar energy industries.
Read it online Art BL 2011 Apr 16 The Daily.pdf 16-04-2011 - Lomborg on Letterman Watch Late Show with David Letterman – Ricky Gervais, Bjorn Lomborg, Foo Fighters
Apr 12, 2011
Air date: 11:35 pm, 11:35 pm
TV Network: CBS Watch it online 07-04-2011 - Lomborg on CNN In the Arena Expert: Fossil fuels kill more people
Bjorn Lomborg, revolutionary thinker and writer, says closing nuclear plants in the wake of a huge tsunami in Japan will actually cause more deaths. Watch it on CNN 24-03-2011 - Lomborg's article in USA Today: 'Earth Hour' won't change the world By Bjorn Lomborg
Updated 3/23/2011
Copenhagen's central square hardly competes with New York's Times Square for glitz, but it is prime commercial space in my home of Denmark. Now there's a new advertiser among the neon signs: a brightly lit billboard exhorts everyone to participate in "Earth Hour," the 60 minutes on Saturday night in which the whole world is urged to dim the lights to cut greenhouse emissions. (...) Read it online Art BL 2011 March 24 UsaToday.pdf 10-03-2011 - Lomborg's op-ed: A Race to Hunger 2011-03-10
A Race to Hunger
SYDNEY – Spectators at February’s Daytona 500 in Florida were handed green flags to wave in celebration of the news that the race’s stock cars now use gasoline with 15% corn-based ethanol. It was the start of a season-long television marketing campaign to sell the merits of biofuel to Americans.
(...) Read it online BL Op-ed 2011-3 March PS Race to Hunger.pdf 02-03-2011 - Lateline interview with Lomborg Solving warming is about innovation: Lomborg
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Broadcast: 02/03/2011
Reporter: Tony Jones
Bjorn Lomborg is the author of the controversial book The Skeptical Environmentalist and says we are taking the wrong approach to tackling climate change. Watch it online 25-02-2011 - March 1-8: Lomborg's Australian Speech Tour Lomborg's upcoming Australian Speech Tour.
Kindly contact the organizers if you want to attend any of the events
March 1, 9am, Melbourne
Green Cities 2011 Conference
http://www.greencities.org.au/speakers.asp
March 2, 11:30am, Canberra
Outlook 2011 Conference
Forests in a low carbon global economy session
http://www.daff.gov.au/abare-brs/outlook
March 2, 3pm, Canberra
Economics and Regional Development Conference
http://www.csu.edu.au/research/ilws/news/events/
March 7, 6pm, Melbourne
Australian Institute of International Affairs lecture (AIIA)
Climate Change: A Way Forward
http://www.aiia.asn.au/vic-events/event/192-climate-change-a-way-forward
March 8, 12:45pm, Sydney
Lowy Institute, Distinguished Speaker Series
Building a Response to Climate Change: Two Sides to the Solution
http://www.lowyinstitute.org/Upcoming-Events.asp
March 8, 5pm, Sydney
Planet Ark event
http://planetark.org 18-02-2011 - Lomborg interview in the Third Way magazine The self-styled 'sceptical environmentalist' Professor Bjørn Lomborg has for years been both extolled and excoriated. As he urges us all to 'cool it', Third Way got smart with him at the Copenhagen Consensus Center.
The accolades you have received - three years ago, for example, the Guardian called you 'one of the 50 people who could save the planet' - are extraordinary. Would the people who knew you as a child have been surprised?
I don't know. I think they would probably say they always knew I was a little bit weird, but they didn't know whether it was weird in a good way. I excelled academically, and certainly I knew too many long words.
What kind of upbringing did you have?
I was brought up by my mom, who's a primary-school teacher - my dad died when I was very young. I'm an only child and I had a huge amount of love. I've always felt that the reason I've been able to do what I've done is fundamentally because my mom told me, 'You're just amazing and I love you.' So, you know, I don't feel quite the same need to know that everybody else does. (...) Read it online Int BL 2011 Febr 18 Third Way print.pdf 17-02-2011 - Lomborg's article in NATO Review Febr 16, 2011:
Food Security:
The seed of solution is already here.
Bjørn Lomborg argues that global warming’s effects on food scarcity can be addressed – and now. Furthermore, he paints a picture in which less people starve in the world, despite population growth. Here he sets out the action needed now. Read it online Art BL 2011 Febr 17 Nato review.pdf 17-02-2011 - Lomborg's op-ed: The False Promise of Green Jobs COPENHAGEN – Political rhetoric has shifted away from the need to respond to the “generational challenge” of climate change. Investment in alternative energy technologies like solar and wind is no longer peddled on environmental grounds. Instead, we are being told of the purported economic payoffs, above all, the promise of so-called “green jobs.” Unfortunately, that does not measure up to economic reality. (...) Read it online BL Op-ed 2011-2 Febr PS False Promise.pdf 15-02-2011 - IEMA interview with Lomborg Environmentalistonline.com
2011 Febr
A sceptic is someone who questions or doubts accepted opinions. Bjorn Lomborg, author of The Skeptical Environmentalist, challanges many "orthodox" views about climate change, but one thing he does accept is that man-made global warming exists: he is no climate-change denier. (...) A minority voice?
The self-styled sceptical environmentalist, Bjørn Lomborg, talks to Paul Suff http://www.environmentalistonline.com/ Int BL 2011 Febr IEMA.pdf 03-02-2011 - Lomborg's article in The Daily: Cooling-off period Why the carbon-capping frenzy has died down
Bjorn Lomborg Thursday, February 3, 2011
In just a few years, climate change has gone from the hottest issue on the global political agenda to one that top leaders barely acknowledge.
Whatever happened to President Obama’s ambitious vow to "act boldly and decisively," former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s urgent intention to hammer out "a comprehensive and global agreement" on carbon cuts, or United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s belief that the world was creating "a very concrete foundation for a legally binding treaty"? These days, U.N. climate conferences come and go without even the participation of any top leaders, let alone any serious global agreement. (...) Read it online Art BL 2011 Febr 3 TheDaily.pdf 28-01-2011 - Lomborg's article in Public Servant Why it's time we gave up on this carbon-cutting crusade
Friday, January 28, 2011
The EU is spending $250bn to achieve minuscule reductions in temperature rises. It's time for Europe to abandon its quixotic carbon-cutting crusade and try a different approach, writes Bjorn Lomborg. (...)
Read it online Art BL 2011 Jan 28 Public Servant.pdf 27-01-2011 - Lomborg's comment on Obama's talk WSJ blog
By Joseph B. White
January 27, 2011
Obama’s Energy Shift: It’s Not About Climate
(...) The new, 2011 Obama energy rhetoric appears to embrace the idea that the politically palatable way to cut greenhouse gas emissions is to make low-carbon energy cheaper, instead of using taxes or government-imposed limits to make coal and oil more expensive. That approach has been promoted by Danish economist Bjorn Lomborg and like-minded thinkers in the U.S. such as Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus of the Breakthrough Institute. (...) Read it online Int BL 2011 Jan 27 WSJ.pdf 24-01-2011 - Lomborg in the first 10 O'Clock show, Channel 4 Ten O'Clock Live
New live topical comedy show hosted by Jimmy Carr, David Mitchell, Charlie Brooker and Lauren Laverne
Bjorn Lomborg appears in the show from 6:16 Watch it online 24-01-2011 - Interview with Lomborg in I-CIO magazine “We need to ignite an energy tech revolution,” says controversial environmentalist Bjørn Lomborg
Posted by Kenny MacIver
24 Jan 2011
Al Gore issues strict, clear instructions when he finds himself speaking at the same climate-change conference as Bjørn Lomborg: along the lines of, “Make sure I don’t share the stage or speakers’ room with that guy.” (...)
Read it online Int BL 2011 Jan 24 I-CIO.pdf 13-01-2011 - Lomborg's article in Slate: The Best Dollar You Will Ever Spend The Best Dollar You Will Ever Spend
Nobel laureates have figured out the eight investments that will help the planet most. No. 1: micronutrients.
By Bjørn Lomborg
Thursday, Jan. 13, 2011, at 3:24 PM ET
On the eastern edge of Kolkata, India, Dulu Bibi, a 25-year-old mother of four, worries about the cost of treating her two sick boys. Her husband earns 80-90 rupees ($1.90) a day. The family's basic diet is low in the essential micronutrients that children need to thrive. Dulu's two sons, age 3 and 1, are weak and feverish, lack appetite, and cry a lot. "If I have to spend 150-200 rupees on medicine," she asks, "what will I eat and feed my children with?" (...) Read it online A BL 2011 Jan 13 Slate.pdf 07-01-2011 - Interview with Lomborg in Christian Science Monitor Ideas for a better world in 2011
In many ways, 2010 is a year you may want to relegate to the filing cabinet quickly. It began with a massive earthquake in Haiti and wound down with North Korea once again being an enfant terrible – bizarrely trying to conduct diplomacy through brinkmanship. (...) Read it online Int BL 2010 Dec 26 CSM.pdf 23-12-2010 - Book review: Smart Solutions in TIMES Higher Education Smart Solutions to Climate Change: Comparing Costs and Benefits
23 December 2010
TIMES Higher Education
Sweating over the heating bill
Steven Yearley finds that cost-benefit analysis is of limited use when it comes to saving the planet
Suppose the international community took climate change seriously and committed a quarter of a trillion dollars a year to the problem for the next decade: how would they best spend the money?
(...) Read it online Book review Smart Sol 2010 Dec 23 Times Higher Education.pdf 22-12-2010 - Matt Ridley, author of The Rational Optimist chose The Skeptical Environmentalist as one of his 5 favorite books Matt Ridley’s books have sold over 800,000 copies, been translated into 27 languages and been short-listed for six literary prizes. In 2004 he won the National Academies Book Award from the US National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine for Nature via Nurture. In 2007 he won the Davis Prize from the US History of Science Society for Francis Crick.
Bjørn Lomborg.
He read a famous article about Julian Simon in Wired, about the bet and Simon’s views, and Bjorn, being a gay, vegetarian, left-wing Dane thought: ‘This is crap.’ But he was an economics professor so he set some of his students to show what was wrong with Simon’s argument but, instead of showing what was wrong they concluded, after a term, that Simon was absolutely right, and Bjorn became a convert to Simon’s view and he started taking on environmental pessimism and wrote The Skeptical Environmentalist. He said, hang on, most of the environmental trends in the world are getting better not worse. There is more forest now than there was 50 years ago. (...)
Read it online 14-12-2010 - Interview with Lomborg in Now Lebanon "Talking To" column Clearing the air on climate change
Talking to Bjorn Lomborg
Sarah Lynch, December 14, 2010
Danish author and academic Bjorn Lomborg has such controversial views on climate change that Al Gore will not debate him. While he thinks global warming is real, he campaigns against immediate measures to cut carbon emissions, arguing that they are not cost effective.
Lomborg became well-known in 2001 for his controversial book “The Skeptical Environmentalist,” in which he argued that many widely-published views on environmental matters are flat-out wrong.
In 2004, Lomborg ranked on Time Magazine’s list of the world’s most influential people. He was among Foreign Policy’s 2010 list of the 100 Top Global Thinkers, and was named one of the "50 people who could save the planet" by the UK Guardian in 2008. He is the director of the Copenhagen Consensus Center and an adjunct professor at the Copenhagen Business School.
Lomborg talked to NOW Lebanon about the ways he thinks the world can battle global warming, and what he believes might be causing Lebanon’s changing weather patterns. (...)
Read it online Int BL 2010 Dec 14 NOWLebanon.pdf 10-12-2010 - Financial Times: Europe needs real vision on climate By Bjørn Lomborg
Published: December 9 2010
Barring last-minute upsets, the climate conference in Cancún will close on Friday having delivered on expectations that it would achieve nothing meaningful.
As negotiators, commentators and campaigners head home, attention will turn to what happens next. Pundits and politicians in Europe will inevitably argue that we should “go it alone” and strengthen the European Union’s 20/20/20 policy, which aims to cut greenhouse gas emissions to 20 per cent below 1990 levels by 2020 and ensure 20 per cent renewable energy. The real lesson is that it is time for Europe to abandon its quixotic carbon-cutting crusade. (...) Art BL 2010 Dec 10 Financial Times.pdf 10-12-2010 - Lomborg's op-ed: No, You Can't Several thousand officials from 194 countries just gathered in Cancún, Mexico, for yet another global climate summit. Dissatisfied with the pace of climate diplomacy, many individuals are now wondering what they can do about climate change on their own. For years now, climate activists from Al Gore to Leonardo DiCaprio have argued that individual actions like driving more economical cars and using more efficient light bulbs are a crucial element in the effort to address global warming. (...) Read it online BL op-ed 2010-12 Dec No, You Can’t.pdf 08-12-2010 - Lomborg in the National Theatre, London, Febr 15, 2011 Bjørn Lomborg: Cool It! – The Skeptical Environmentalist's Guide to Global Warming
A controversial figure in the climate change debate, the self-proclaimed Danish ‘skeptic’, academic and environmental writer talks about his much-discussed and criticised analysis on the subject as outlined in his book and film Cool It.
Part of the series of Greenland events.
This Platform is followed by a booksigning
Tickets £3.50 (£2.50 concessions)
Running time 45 minutesTue 15, February 2011
6:00 pm
GREENLAND events Read it online 03-12-2010 - BBC debate: The Climate Connection The Climate Connection 2010
Debate - What's Stopping Us?What's stopping us from taking action on climate change?
Can research from other fields help us find solutions where conventional thinking around environmentalism might have failed?
The last part of the Climate Connection explores some of the ideas we've heard throughout the series in an audience discussion with experts in the fields of economics, psychology, leadership and environmentalism.
Participants:
Kersty Hobson
Bjorn Lomborg
Stephen Peake
Sunand Prasad
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Listen now 02-12-2010 - Interview with Lomborg in Spiked Climate change is a practical problem, not a moral one
Has ‘skeptical environmentalist’ and scourge of Greenpeace Bjorn Lomborg really had a change of heart and turned green? Er, no, he tells spiked.
Rob Lyons
‘“Skeptical environmentalist” and critic of climate scientists to declare global warming a chief concern facing world’, declared the front page of a British broadsheet newspaper in August this year. It suggested that recent comments made by the Danish author Bjorn Lomborg were ‘an apparent U-turn that will give a huge boost to the embattled environmental lobby’. (...) Read it online Int BL 2010 Dec 2 spiked.pdf 01-12-2010 - Lomborg Broadcast Appearances 2010 NovENERGY NOW!
http://www.energynow.com/video/2010/11/14/bjorn-lomborg-his-film-cool-it
CNN PARKER SPITZER
http://parkerspitzer.blogs.cnn.com/2010/11/15/climate-change-skeptic-says-cool-it
MSNBC MORNING SHOW
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036789
MSNBC DYLAN RATIGAN SHOW
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FOX BUSINESS FREEDOMWATCH WITH JUDGE ANDREW NAPOLITANO
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BIG THINK
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KPPCC “AIR TALK” WITH LARRY MANTLE
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THOM HARTMANN SHOW
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LARS LARSON show Subscription needed 01-12-2010 - Lomborg's views in Environmental Health Perspective Bjørn Lomborg, a Danish writer and author of The Skeptical Environmentalist,11 argues that if imposed today, efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 80% by 2050 (one goal of the Obama administration) would cost trillions of dollars and inflict more pain than climate change itself. Not surprisingly, governments won’t agree to those costs, he says, which is why international meetings like the Copenhagen conference fail every time they’re held.
“One of the definitions of insanity is doing the same thing again and again and expecting a different outcome,” Lomborg says. “At some point, you have to ask yourself if you need a different approach.” (...) Read it online Int BL 2010 Dec 1 EHP.pdf 29-11-2010 - Lomborg is 65th on Foreign Policy's 100 Top Global Thinkers list 65. Bjorn Lomborg
for questioning whether we're going after climate change right.
POLITICAL SCIENTIST | DENMARK
Climate activists aren't terribly fond of Bjorn Lomborg. But economists -- and increasingly, some environmentalists -- think he might be onto something. That's because for the last decade, the Danish political scientist has been asking the tough question about how the world should respond to global warming: Is it worth it?
Lomborg, as he makes clear in his provocative new book, Smart Solutions to Climate Change, doesn't deny that the planet is heating up. But we can do more good in the world, he argues, if we stop and think before plowing more money and time into questionable political solutions like cap and trade. Lomborg would rather see more resources directed to problems like malnutrition and HIV/AIDS. As for climate change, dollar for dollar, he told Foreign Policy, "We can do 500 times more good if we do it right." Read it online 100 Top Global Thinkers - Lomborg.pdf 23-11-2010 - Lomborg's op-ed in USA Today: Cancun summit wheel-spinning By Bjorn Lomborg
In a week's time, several thousand well-meaning officials from 194 countries will gather in Cancun, Mexico, for yet another global climate summit. And just as they did last year in Copenhagen, and the year before in Poznan, Poland, and in fact every year since 1995 in a variety of locales from Kyoto, Japan, to Marrakech, Morocco, they will fill the air with apocalyptic warnings about what will happen to the planet if we don't cut carbon emissions drastically. After that, they will go home, once again having done nothing meaningful about global warming. (...) Read it online Art BL 2010 Nov 23 USA Today.pdf 17-11-2010 - Lomborg's op-ed in Washington Post:Cost-effective ways to address climate change By Bjorn Lomborg
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
One of the scarier predictions about global warming is the suggestion that melting glaciers and ice caps could cause sea levels to rise as much as 15 to 20 feet over the next century. Set aside the fact that the best research we have - from the United Nations climate panel - says that global sea levels are not likely to rise more than about 20 inches by 2100. Rather, let's imagine that over the next 80 or 90 years, a giant port city - say, Tokyo - found itself engulfed by a sea-level rise of about 15 feet. (...) Read it online Art BL 2010 Nov 17 WashPost.pdf 17-11-2010 - Lomborg's article at Atlantic's 5 Best Wednesday Columns Bjorn Lomborg on Cost-Effective Ways to Address Climate Change The author of The Skeptical Environmentalist reviews humanity's "pretty impressive track record" of adapting to various climates in The Washington Post. (...) Read it online About BL 2010 Nov 17 Atlantic.pdf 16-11-2010 - The Ridiculous Global-Warming Freakout - Lomborg in The Daily Beast Bjorn Lomborg is back with a new, controversial movie about global warming. Tunku Varadarajan talks to him about the right way to deal with climate change.
Read it online Int BL 2010 Nov 16 Daily Beast.pdf 15-11-2010 - Lomborg in MSNBC Dylan Ratigan Show Author: Climate change debate hijacked by fear
Author Bjorn Lomborg, talks about the documentary, “Cool It!,” which showcases his travels around the world in search of real solutions to global warming. Watch it online 13-11-2010 - Dot Earth in New York Times: Questioning Bjorn Lomborg As promised, below you can read responses from Bjorn Lomborg to questions I posed related to “ Cool It,” the new documentary on his approach to global warming. Other sites are starting to critique points made in the film. While staking what he calls a sensible stance on the issue, he has elicited strong reactions for nearly a decade, including a pie in the face from Mark Lynas, the British environmental campaigner and writer, in 2001.
(...) Read it online Int BL 2010 Nov 13 NYTimes Revkin.pdf 12-11-2010 - Lomborg on South California Public Radio 83.9 KPCC
AirTalk with Larry Mantle
Episode: AirTalk for November 12, 2010
Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist's Guide to Global Warming
Global warming is real. But climate activist Bjorn Lomborg says it’s not so bad and Al Gore is an inconvenient truth-stretcher. Yes, we need to do something about it--but will manufacturing millions of compact fluorescent bulbs really help? Listen to it online 12-11-2010 - Lomborg on KNBC TV NewsConference: Bjorn Lomborg, Author, Documentarian, Environmentalist
Bjorn Lomborg, author of the "Skeptical Environmentalist", has new documentary out called "Cool It". It is sure to ignite controvery in Southern California's environmental community. In this film, he does not challenge the notion of man made global warming...but says the way we are approaching the problem is all wrong. Watch it online 10-11-2010 - Lomborg op-ed: A Return to Reason COPENHAGEN – Common sense was an early loser in the scorching battle over the reality of man-made global warming. For nearly 20 years, one group of activists argued – in the face of ever-mounting evidence – that global warming was a fabrication. Their opponents, meanwhile, exaggerated the phenomenon’s likely impact – and, as a consequence, dogmatically fixated on drastic, short-term carbon cuts as the only solution, despite overwhelming evidence that such cuts would be cripplingly expensive and woefully ineffective. (...) Read it online BL op-ed 2010-11 Nov Return to Reason.pdf 28-10-2010 - Lomborg at CBN news 'Cool It' Movie Offers Global Warming Alternative
By Paul Strand
CBN News Washington Sr. Correspondent
Self-proclaimed "skeptical environmentalist" Bjorn Lomborg says there's way too much panic over global warming.
In his new documentary, "Cool It," Lomborg offers alternative ways to protecting the environment without overreacting -- and overspending. Watch it online Int BL 2010 Oct 28 CBN news.pdf 26-10-2010 - Lomborg in Chicago Tonight Is fear ruling the climate change debate?
Self-described "skeptical environmentalist" Bjorn Lomborg says yes. He talks about his new documentary Cool It. Watch it here 22-10-2010 - Lomborg op-ed: What Have Climate Activists Learned? COPENHAGEN – Advocates of drastic cuts in carbon-dioxide emissions now speak a lot less than they once did about climate change. Climate campaigners changed their approach after the collapse of the Copenhagen climate-change summit last December and the revelation of mistakes in the United Nations climate panel’s work – as well as in response to growing public skepticism and declining interest. (...) Read it online BL op-ed 2010-10 Oct Climate Activists.pdf 12-10-2010 - "Cool It" movie seeks climate solutions: Lomborg By Alister Doyle, Environment Correspondent
OSLO | Tue Oct 12, 2010 6:39pm EDT
Danish "Skeptical Environmentalist" Bjorn Lomborg hopes a movie about his work will stir debate over his alternative solutions to climate change led by $100 billion a year in green technology research.
He said on Tuesday that "Cool It," to be released in the United States and Canada on November 12, offered solutions after former U.S. Vice President Al Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth" in 2006 publicized the risks of global warming. (...) Read it online Int BL 2010 Oct 12 Reuters.pdf 07-10-2010 - Politico.com: Lomborg says he agrees with Al Gore, sort of By ROBIN BRAVENDER | 10/7/2010
One of the world's most famous global warming contrarians says he sees eye to eye with Al Gore on climate science – for the most part – and claims his view have been distorted by those on both sides of the global warming debate.
Bjorn Lomborg, a Danish academic and the self-proclaimed "skeptical environmentalist," said he "fundamentally" agrees with the global warming crusader and former vice president. (...)
Read it online Int BL 2010 Oct 7 POLITICOcom.pdf 05-10-2010 - Lomborg in Rolling StoneThreat Assessment section Int BL 2010 Sept 30 Rolling Stone pic.jpg 24-09-2010 - The NS Interview: Bjørn Lomborg Sophie Elmhirst
Published 24 September 2010
NS: You started life as a statistician. What sparked your interest in the environment?
BL: I found university a little dispiriting. I thought I would enter the great halls of Plato, but instead I entered the halls of an intellectual sausage factory. I wanted to do something not on the main course, and chose the environment. Read it online Int BL 2010 Sept 24 New Statesman.pdf 20-09-2010 - Bloomberg news: Lomborg Sees No U-Turn Lomborg Sees No U-Turn in Renewable Energy, Carbon Tax Support
By Gelu Sulugiuc - Sep 20, 2010
Bjoern Lomborg, the Danish social scientist known for his opposition to efforts to cut emissions, said taxing carbon dioxide and raising investments in renewable energy are the best ways to limit global warming.
The author of the best-seller, “The Skeptical Environmentalist,” in a new book advocated global spending on developing renewable-energy technologies of about $100 billion a year and new carbon taxes instead of cap-and-trade programs. (...)
Read it online Int BL 2010 Sept Bloomberg.pdf 16-09-2010 - Lomborg's article in Esquire Magazine Middle East WHATEVER HAPPENED TO Saving Planet?
Global warming is not a current threat but a future one. It will cause more heat deaths, flooding and lower agricultural productivity in hot areas. But it will also result in longer growing seasons, more precipitation and fewer cold deaths in most places.
Attempts to terrify people about climate change have backfired. Political posturing by celebrity activists and scientists has undermined years of important work on the matter.
Art BL 2010 Sept ESQ10.pdf 15-09-2010 - Lomborg's article in Wall Street Journal: U-Turn On Global Warming? Hardly U-Turn On Global Warming? Hardly.
Being skeptical of Al Gore's solution doesn't make me a 'denier.'
WALL STREET JOURNAL
September 15, 2010
By Bjorn Lomborg
After years of being accused of believing something I didn't believe—or, more accurately, not believing something I really did—I made headlines last month for changing my mind even though I hadn't.
Confused? Imagine how I feel.
It's worth explaining what happened to me because it tells us something important about why the global warming debate has produced so little in the way of results. (...) http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703376504575491643716526782.html Art BL 2010 Sept 15 WSJ U-turn hardly.pdf 10-09-2010 - Lomborg's newest op-ed in Globe and Mail Sure, worry about climate change – but not too much
by Bjørn Lomborg
Exaggerated fear is no basis for making smart decisions about something as complicated as global warming
For some years now, the debate over global warming has been dominated by fear. Understandably frustrated that their message might not be getting through, climate activists have been ratcheting up the rhetoric to the point where one could be excused for wondering whether they are quoting from scientific journals or the Book of Revelations. If nothing is done, we’ve been told, global warming would soon destroy “up to 40 per cent of the Amazonian forests,” cut African crop yields in half by 2020, turn the American Southwest into a new dust bowl within a few decades and melt the Himalayan glaciers, causing them to disappear completely “by the year 2035 and perhaps sooner.”
All very frightening, but none of it was based on solid science. (...)
Read it online Art BL 2010 Sept 10 Globe and Mail.pdf 07-09-2010 - Lomborg in The Independent: Sceptical green urges smart billions to fight warming www.independent.co.uk/environment
Tuesday, 7 September 2010
Bjoern Lomborg, the bad boy of the climate debate who has rejected for years "alarmist" prophecies from environmentalists, stresses in a new book the need to invest billions to fight global warming. (...)
Read it online Int BL 2010 Sept 7 AFP- The Independent.pdf 04-09-2010 - Reuters: Bjorn Lomborg: skeptic or too much an optimist? Sep 4, 2010 10:18 EDT
Bjorn Lomborg, author of “The Skeptical Environmentalist,” used to argue that concern about climate change was overblown because there were better causes to spend money on such as curing AIDS or malaria.
The Danish political scientist now says in a book coming out later this month called ”Smart Solutions to Climate Change: Comparing Costs and Benefits,” that global warming is one of the top challenges facing the world and we should spend money on trying to fix it – $100 billion a year.
But true to his contrarian nature, he thinks the way the world is fighting climate change is all wrong. (...) Read it online Int BL 2010 Sept 4 Reuters.pdf 03-09-2010 - Lomborg in Foreign Policy magazine A Changed Climate Skeptic?
Bjorn Lomborg has long infuriated environmental activists with his contrarian views on global warming. Has he now embraced their cause?
INTERVIEW BY ELIZABETH DICKINSON | SEPTEMBER 3, 2010
It seemed too sensational to be true. On Aug. 30, the Guardian reported that one of the world's most prominent "climate change skeptics," Bjorn Lomborg, had made an apparent about face, now calling for $100 billion to be devoted to stopping global warming. (...)
Read it online Int BL 2010 Sept 3 Foreign Policy.pdf 31-08-2010 - GUARDIAN FRONTPAGE STORY ON LOMBORG EDITED BOOK: Bjørn Lomborg: $100bn a year needed to fight climate change
Exclusive 'Sceptical environmentalist' and critic of climate scientists to declare global warming a chief concern facing world
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/aug/30/bjorn-lomborg-climate-change-u-turn
Bjørn Lomborg: the dissenting climate change voice who changed his tune
With his new book, Danish scientist Bjørn Lomborg has become an unlikely advocate for huge investment in fighting global warming. But his answers are unlikely to satisfy all climate change campaigners
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/aug/30/bjorn-lomborg-climate-change-profile
Bjørn Lomborg: in his own words
Quotes from Dane seen as climate change sceptic show he has always accepted 'the reality of man-made global warming' but now sees practical ways to tackle it
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/aug/30/bjorn-lomborg-climate-change-quotes ; Read it online The Guardian frontpage 20100831 A3.pdf 13-08-2010 - Lomborg's op-ed in PS: Who’s Afraid of Climate Change? COPENHAGEN – Imagine that over the next 70 or 80 years, a giant port city – say, Tokyo – found itself engulfed by sea levels rising as much as 15 feet or more. Millions of inhabitants would be imperiled, along with trillions of dollars worth of infrastructure.
This awful prospect is exactly the sort of thing global-warming evangelists like Al Gore have in mind when they warn that we must take “large-scale, preventive measures to protect human civilization as we know it.” The rhetoric may sound extreme, but with so much hanging in the balance, surely it’s justified. Without a vast, highly coordinated global effort, how could we possibly cope with sea-level rises on that order of magnitude? (...) Read it online BL op-ed 2010-08 Aug Who’s Afraid.pdf 03-08-2010 - KCRW interview, TO THE POINT China and a New Age of Energy
WED JUL 21, 2010
Host: Warren Olney
China Overtakes US in Energy Consumption (12:07PM)
China has now become the world's biggest consumer of energy. Because of the recession, it overcame the US five years sooner than anybody expected. That means more competition for limited resources, more clout for countries the US doesn't like, and, in the short run, more environmental pollution. What will it mean for green technology, especially if the US continues to lead the way in research while China does the manufacturing? We look at the vast implications of what's being called "a new age in the history of energy."
Guests:
Neil King: Reporter, Wall Street Journal
Trevor Houser: former Senior Advisor, US Special Envoy on Climate Change
Michael Shellenberger: President, Breakthrough Institute
Bjorn Lomborg: Director, Copenhagen Business School's Consensus Center
03-08-2010 - CNBC's What The Future... with Lomborg Research Files: A Chat with Bjorn Lomborg Part 1 of 6
As part of our research for WTF! we interviewed some of the most influential thought leaders we could find. We met up with Bjorn Lomborg for lunch.
Video, 6 part episode Watch it online 02-07-2010 - Lomborg's op-ed in Telegraph By Bjorn Lomborg
02 Jul 2010
The EU's response to global warming is a costly mistake.
Europe's 20/20/20 policy will cost billions of pounds, but yield only tiny results, writes Bjorn Lomborg .
European leaders have a lot to deal with. The financial crisis has prompted several national stimulus packages and a joint effort to keep Greece afloat, while the EU is in danger of being outstripped by other economies that are growing faster, producing more efficiently and at lower costs.
One bright spot is that politicians remain committed to responding to global warming. Unfortunately, their plans do not withstand scrutiny. (...) Read it online A BL 2010 July 2 costly mistake Telegraph.pdf 01-07-2010 - Lomborg op-ed: Europe’s Determination to Decline SÃO PAULO – In a heroic case of finding a silver lining in the bleakest of all situations, the European Union
climate commissioner has concluded that the global economic crisis and recession actually provided a lucky
break for everyone.
Commissioner Connie Hedegaard says that the slowdown in economic activity will make it easier for the EU
to achieve its 2020 goal of ensuring that greenhouse-gas emissions are 20% below their 1990 level. In
fact, Hedegaard believes that cutting emissions has become so easy that European leaders should be more
ambitious and unilaterally aim for a 30% reduction below the 1990 level – an idea that has won support
from David Cameron’s new British government.
(...) Read it online BL op-ed 2010-06 June 10 Europe’s Determination.pdf 25-06-2010 - Lomborg on BBC: What's up with the Weather? June 28June 28 8:30pm BBC1 We’re told another barbecue summer and droughts are on the way - but do you really trust the predictions any more? Despite governments, scientists and campaigners telling us the world's climate is changing, increasing numbers of us simply don't believe in global warming.
After one of the coldest winters on record and a vicious row about the science behind climate change, Panorama goes back to basics and asks what we really know about our climate and how it will affect us. Panorama reporter Tom Heap speaks to some of the world's leading scientists on both sides of the argument, to find out what they can agree on and uncovers some surprising results. http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/theeditors/2010/06/whats_up_with_the_weather.html 10-06-2010 - Lomborg's PS op-ed: Europe’s Determination to Decline SÃO PAULO – In a heroic case of finding a silver lining in the bleakest of all situations, the European Union climate commissioner has concluded that the global economic crisis and recession actually provided a lucky break for everyone.
Commissioner Connie Hedegaard says that the slowdown in economic activity will make it easier for the EU to achieve its 2020 goal of ensuring that greenhouse-gas emissions are 20% below their 1990 level. In fact, Hedegaard believes that cutting emissions has become so easy that European leaders should be more ambitious and unilaterally aim for a 30% reduction below the 1990 level – an idea that has won support from David Cameron’s new British government. (...) Read it online BL op-ed 2010-06 June 10 Europe’s Determination.pdf 04-06-2010 - Lomborg's article in Forbes India Bjorn Lomborg: Get Real, Make Green Energy Cheaper
Cutting carbon emissions is not the right solution, we must seriously ramp up our commitment to green-energy development
I would single out the idea that policymakers should pay more heed to economic science — and less to hyperbole and alarmism — when they are formulating solutions to the world’s biggest problems. (...) Read it online Art BL 2010 June 4 Forbes India.pdf 01-06-2010 - Lomborg on Stossel May 28, 2010
Undue Panic Over Global WarmingBjorn Lomborg, author of "The Skeptical Environmentalist", argues we need to be smart about global warming and not rush into making policies out of panic and fear.
Watch it online 31-05-2010 - Lomborg's article in New Statesman CLOUD CONTROL
Drastic and immediate cuts in carbon emissions, as advocated by most of the green lobby, are an expensive way of doing very little good. They would reduce growth and especially hurt the world’s poor. But there is another, better way
There is a disturbing tendency among many in the climate debate today to deride as "deniers" anyone who does not advocate making huge and immediate carbon cuts. The framing began nearly a decade ago with discussions about the science of climate change. People who questioned the link between carbon emissions and warming were branded "deniers". (...) http://www.newstatesman.com/environment/2009/11/global-warming-climate-carbon BL art 2009 Nov 19 New Statesman Cloud Control.pdf 18-05-2010 - Lomborg on BigThink: Our Responsibility to Adapt Our Responsibility to Adapt
BJØRN LOMBORG
Balancing People, Planet and Profit: The Future of Business Sustainability
What is sustainable business? Over the next three months, we will be sharing insights from some of the world's leading thinkers and policy makers on what sustainability means and how we should approach the key environmental, economic and societal challenges we face today. Dive in and join the debate.
http://bigthink.com/series/30 13-05-2010 - Lomborg's PS op-ed: Talking Sense About Global Warming LONDON – In February, 14 distinguished climate scientists, economists, and policy experts came together to discuss how to tackle global warming. This week, the London School of Economics and Oxford University are publishing their conclusions. They are worth considering.
The group was brought together by Gwyn Prins, a well-regarded expert in security policy and international relations who heads LSE’s Mackinder Programme for the Study of Long Wave Events. Participants included climate scientist Mike Hulme of the University of East Anglia, climate policy expert Roger Pielke Jr. of the University of Colorado, and climate economist Christopher Green of McGill University. (...) Read it online BL op-ed 2010-05 May Talking Sense.pdf 03-05-2010 - Lomborg at PEN World Voices Lomborg participated in the Weather Report panel, Apr 29 in New York. You can watch the entire event online.Lomborg's part of the talk starts at 33 minutes in. Watch it online 26-04-2010 - Reaction on Lomborg's Earth Day op-edNational Review Online
Wednesday, April 21, 2010
In Honor of Earth Day, Let's Have Some DDT
Veronique de Rugy
Tomorrow is Earth Day. Preparing for the event, my daughter's first-grade class has been hard at work to show all the perils that our planet faces. Hoping to brighten her teacher and her classmates' day, I sent her to school with this USA Today article by the fantastic director of the Copenhagen Consensus Center, Bjorn Lomborg, stating that:
Given all the talk of impending catastrophe, this may come as a surprise, but as we approach the 40th anniversary of the first Earth Day, people who care about the environment actually have a lot to celebrate. [...] In virtually every developed country, the air is more breathable and the water is more drinkable than it was in 1970. In most of the First World, deforestation has turned to reforestation. Moreover, the percentage of malnutrition has been reduced, and ever-more people have access to clean water and sanitation.
Read it online About BL 2010 Apr 21 Earth Day.pdf 24-04-2010 - Lomborg's wish for Earth Day The vanity fair earth day video has posted. It's 4 min and Bjorn Lomborg appears in the first minute. He appears along the likes of Stephen Chu, Deepak Chopra, Frances Benecke and many more.
An Eco Wish
Forty years ago today, 20 million Americans stood up to promote environmental activism, and the modern environmental movement was born. Now more than 500 million people in 175 countries celebrate Earth Day.
Since Earth Day is about changing human behavior and policy, it’s a good time to consider how one can make a difference in this new era of collaborative, interactive giving that I like to call Philanthropy 2.0. Here are some practical tips, but to make a significant change, keep reading.
An Eco Wish 23-04-2010 - Lomborg about Earth Day - in Fox Business FOX Business April 23, 2010
Has Spending on Carbon Emissions Made a Difference?
"Cool It" author Bjorn Lomborg argues we need to find a new strategy to improve the environment is that is better and cheaper. Watch it online 22-04-2010 - Lomborg's op-ed in AmNY ...but scare tactics only hurt fight against global warming
Apr 22, 2010
By Bjorn Lomborg
The recent revelations that some climate scientists have been exaggerating the likely impact of global warming left a lot of people wondering whether they could trust anything the environmental activists tell them. (...)
A BL 2010 Apr 22 amNY op-ed.pdf 22-04-2010 - Lomborg about Earth Day - on MSNBC Morning Joe with Joe Scarborough
Can green energy be cheap?
An interview with Bjorn Lomborg http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3096434/vp/36734919#VpFlash 21-04-2010 - Lomborg's op-ed in USA Today: Earth Day: Smile, don't shudder Earth Day: Smile, don't shudder
By Bjorn Lomborg
USA Today, Apr 21, 2010
Given all the talk of impending catastrophe, this may come as a surprise, but as we approach the 40th anniversary of the first Earth Day, people who care about the environment actually have a lot to celebrate. Of course, that's not how the organizers of Earth Day 2010 see it. In their view (to quote a recent online call to arms), "The world is in greater peril than ever." But consider this: In virtually every developed country, the air is more breathable and the water is more drinkable than it was in 1970. In most of the First World, deforestation has turned to reforestation. Moreover, the percentage of malnutrition has been reduced, and ever-more people have access to clean water and sanitation.(...)
Read it online A BL 2010 Apr 21 USAtoday.pdf 10-04-2010 - Interview with Lomborg in Policy (CIS-Australia) In January 2010, Lomborg was interviewed by Joel Malan, an Australian now living in Copenhagen.
JM: The Skeptical Environmentalist drew on your background in statistics to reach a more holistic interpretation of existing research. I understand you are not a climatologist as such, but what contribution can statistics make to the climate change debate?
BL: It’s about looking at what are the actual and aggregated impacts. Very often, we look at only specific instances such as more heat-wave deaths, which are absolutely true, but we fail to remember that fewer people will be dying from cold. We need to bring together both sets of facts. That’s what statistics does. It makes sure you count everything, not just what seems convenient to the particular point you want to make. It brings together all the relevant data and keeps us honest.
(...) Read it online Int BL 2010 Apr CIS Policy.pdf 04-04-2010 - Lomborg in BrazilHere are translations of the coverage of Bjorn Lomborg’s speech in Sao Paulo March 30, 2010 by three of Brazil’s biggest newspapers.
Folha de São Paulo: Climate sceptics talk to agrarians in São Paulo
Estado de São Paulo: Agricultural confederation brings climate sceptics to São Paulo
IG: Bjorn Lomborg asks for “intelligent” solutions to global warming, in São Paulo.
Lomborg Brazil coverage 2010 March 30.pdf 01-04-2010 - Lomborg's PS op-ed: Stumbling in the Dark SAO PAULO – As well-intentioned gestures go, Earth Hour is hard to beat. At the stroke of 8:30 p.m. on Saturday, March 27, nearly a billion people in more than 120 countries demonstrated their desire to do something about global warming by switching off their lights for an hour. In a show of official solidarity, the lights also went out at many of the planet’s most iconic landmarks, from the Opera House in Sydney to the Great Pyramid at Giza, not to mention Beijing’s Forbidden City, New York’s Empire State Building, London’s Big Ben, Paris’s Eiffel Tower, and the skylines of both Hong Kong and Las Vegas. (...) Read it online BL Op-ed 2010-04 Apr Stumbling.pdf 19-03-2010 - Lomborg on Al Jazeera: Counting the Cost - Business vs. the environment Looking at the issues behind the trade of endangered species, plus Middle East banking. For interview with Lomborg: see 10:40-15:10.
Watch it on youtube 18-03-2010 - Bjorn Lomborg on France 24 (in English) Today Eve Irvine welcomes Bjorn Lomborg, a writer and environmental activist who has just published "Cool it". A former Greenpeace member, Bjorn Lomborg now calls himself a sceptical environmentalist. Watch it on France24.com 12-03-2010 - Lomborg's op-ed: Cars, Bombs, and Climate Change COPENHAGEN – For the better part of a decade, I have upset many climate activists by pointing out that there are far better ways to stop global warming than trying to persuade governments to force or bribe their citizens into slashing their reliance on fuels that emit carbon dioxide. What especially bugs my critics is the idea that cutting carbon is a cure that is worse than the disease – or, to put it in economic terms, that it would cost far more than the problem it is meant to solve. “How can that possibly be true?” they ask. “After all, we are talking about the end of the world. What could be worse – or more costly – than that?” Read it online BL op-ed 2010 March 12 Cars, Bombs, CC.pdf 08-03-2010 - Lomborg in WSJ interview with India's environment minister ...The question is, what comes next? The author of the Copenhagen Consensus (not to be confused with December's Copenhagen summit), Danish economist Bjorn Lomborg, has talked about a "third way" forward: acknowledging that climate change is real, but pursuing a cost-benefit approach that would commit countries to projects that yield the greatest benefits for the greatest number of people. "I've read Lomborg," Mr. Ramesh says with a smile. "I don't think you should dismiss Lomborg the way climate evangelicals have dismissed him. He makes reasonable points. The spirit of science is the spirit of enquiry, of questioning." Read it online About BL 2010 March 8 WSJ Ramesh.pdf 12-02-2010 - Lomborg's PS op-ed: Climate Science or Climate Evangelism? COPENHAGEN – As George W. Bush and Tony Blair learned the hard way, the public does not take kindly to being misled about the nature of potential threats. The after-the-fact revelation that the reasons for invading Iraq were vastly exaggerated – and in some cases completely fabricated – produced an angry backlash that helped toss the Republicans out of power in the United States in 2008 and may do the same to Britain’s Labour Party later this year.
A similar shift in global public opinion is occurring with respect to climate change. (...) Read it online BL op-ed 2010-02 Febr Climate Science or Evang.pdf 10-02-2010 - Lomborg's article in Globe&Mail: Climate strategy on a road to nowhere From Monday's Globe and Mail
Published on Friday, Feb. 05, 2010
Bjorn Lomborg
Climate strategy on a road to nowhere
After a string of empty promises agreed to in Rio, then Kyoto, then Copenhagen, Canada needs a new approach in making meaningful change to emissions policy
Like many countries, Canada has grappled with how to respond effectively to climate change. The federal government has reportedly contemplated both a cap-and-trade carbon emission reduction scheme and a carbon tax, while attracting environmentalist scorn for allowing the development of the oil sands production industry. This month, it announced it would match U.S. greenhouse-gas emission reduction targets – but has yet to establish how it will reach those targets. (...) Read it online A BL 2010 Febr 5 Globe&Mail.pdf 16-01-2010 - Lomborg's PS op-ed: Two Cheers for China’s Climate Obstruction COPENHAGEN – Since the Copenhagen climate summit’s failure, many politicians and pundits have pointed the finger at China’s leaders for blocking a binding, global carbon-mitigation treaty. But the Chinese government’s resistance was both understandable and inevitable. Rather than mustering indignation, decision-makers would do well to use this as a wake-up call: it is time to consider a smarter climate policy.
China is unwilling to do anything that might curtail the economic growth that has enabled millions of Chinese to clamber out of poverty. This development can be seen in the ever- expanding Chinese domestic market. (...) Read it online BL op-ed 2010-01 Jan 13 Two Cheers.pdf 11-01-2010 - Lomborg's Skeptical Enviromentalist is among TOP 50 SUSTAINABILITY BOOKS This unique title draws together in one volume some of the best thinking to date on the pressing social, environmental and ethical challenges we face as a society. These are the Top 50 Sustainability Books as voted for by the University of Cambridge Programme for Sustainability Leadership’s alumni network of over 2,000 senior leaders from around the world.
In addition to profiles of all 50 titles, many of the authors share their most recent reflections on the state of the world and the ongoing attempts by business, government and civil society to create a more sustainable future. Read more online 23-12-2009 - Financial Times: We should change tack on climate after Copenhagen By Bjorn Lomborg
Published: December 23 2009
After 12 days of protests, posturing and seemingly endless palaver, the elephantine gath ering that was the Copen-hagen climate summit has laboured mightily and brought forth . . . a mouse. As vague as it is toothless, the accord on curbing greenhouse gas emissions that emerged from the Bella Centre this weekend imposes no real obligations, sets no binding emissions targets and requires no specific actions by anyone. (...) Read it online BL art 2009 Dec 23 FT.pdf 19-12-2009 - Lomborg in Hindustan Times 6)Star Statistician: Bjorn Lomborg
Why: He would have appeared on CNN’s “Larry King Live” by the time you read this. In the run up to Copenhagen, the professor at the Copenhagen Business School has written for Time, Newsweek and the Hindustan Times, and his views are sought by everyone from the Economist to the government of Mali, which wants him to advise them on how to spend money they might receive to tackle the effects of climate change. So the Playstation addict and author of two books (“Have you played Uncharted 2?” he asks a HT reporter, who hasn’t) roams freely through the highly restricted 1,100-seat media centre, pursued for interviews.
Lomborg’s USP: Using the services of economists and Nobel laureates, he advocates a move from spending money on global warming — it simply does not make economic sense, he says — to use radical technology-based solutions. The future: Some of Lomborg’s fixes sound like science fiction — whitening clouds so they reflect more sunlight back into space — but he merely collates and commissions what is done by solid scientists. Some say the director of the Copenhagen Consensus Center understates the risks and costs of climate change and overstates the costs of preventive action. The Guardian said he was one of the 50 people who could save the planet. Either way, you’re going to hear a lot from Lomborg.
read it online Int BL 2009 Dec 17 Hindustan Times.pdf 18-12-2009 - COP15 news
Lomborg on TV2 on Dec 8.
Dec 9: Listen to ABC breakfast show with Lomborg
Dec 11: Bloomberg TV
Dec 12: Fox news with Paul Gigot
Dec 13: DR1 debate
Dec 15 Tue 2pm: Lomborg live on CNN (watch here live) and on ABC radio. Listen to Lomborg on NPR
Dec 18 5pm ET: Lomborg on CNN Campbell Brown show
15-12-2009 - Lomborg article in Wall Street Journal: Time for a Smarter Approach to Global Warming Time for a Smarter Approach to Global Warming
Investing in energy R&D might work. Mandated emissions cuts won't.
By BJORN LOMBORG
Copenhagen, Dec 15, 2011
The saddest fact of climate change—and the chief reason we should be concerned about finding a proper response—is that the countries it will hit hardest are already among the poorest and most long-suffering. Read it online BL art 2009 Dec 15 WSJ.pdf 09-12-2009 - Global Warming and Mt. Kilimanjaro Global Warming and Mt. Kilimanjaro The glaciers on the famous peak, receding for more than a century, attract many tourists; the people of Tanzania attract much less attention.
By BJORN LOMBORG
Climate change has captured the attention of politicians around the world. The following article is part of a series, leading up to the United Nations conference on global warming in Copenhagen that starts this week, on how ordinary people in different countries view the issue:
Every year, more than 10,000 tourists are drawn to Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania, driven in no small part by the fear that the mountain's magnificent ice will soon melt.
Mary Thomas lives not far from their path, on the southwestern slopes of that mountain, but tourists do not come to her town of Mungushi. (...)
Read it online BL vignette 2009 Dec 7 Kilimanjaro WSJ.pdf 30-11-2009 - Climate Change and Melting Glaciers Climate Change and Melting Glaciers
Nepal's poor have more pressing problems. By BJORN LOMBORG
Global warming has captured the attention of politicians around the world. The following article is part of a series leading up to the December United Nations conference in Copenhagen on how ordinary people in different countries view the issue:
Nine years ago, Maya Bishwokarma moved with her family to Kathmandu from Trisuli, a remote village in the hilly Nepal countryside. Their search for a better life has proved elusive. She and her husband and two sons live in a small, two-room house with her brother-in-law's family, near the bank of a small stream that has been converted into an open sewer.
Read it online BL vignette 2009 Nov 29 Nepal WSJ.pdf 30-11-2009 - Lomborg: Under heat, climate-change contrarian won't wilt Interview with Bjorn Lomborg. John Allemang
From Saturday's Globe and Mail
Published on Friday, Nov. 27 2009
Under heat, climate-change contrarian won't wilt.
The controversial Bjorn Lomborg doesn't deny global warming. But he believes it's ‘an incredibly bad deal' to spend so much money on cutting carbon emissions, he tells John Allemang.
Former Danish statistics professor Bjorn Lomborg created a storm of controversy when he published The Skeptical Environmentalist , a 1998 work that was denounced by scientists for its cost-benefit critique of the Kyoto Protocol but also praised for its willingness to challenge environmental orthodoxy.
Dr. Lomborg published a follow-up book, Cool It , a decade later and is now the director of the Copenhagen Consensus Center, which explores how to do the greatest good in the world with limited economic resources. On Dec. 1, he will take part in the Munk Debate on climate change in Toronto. John Allemang spoke to him this week. (...) Read it online Int BL 2009 Nov 27 Globe and Mail.pdf 23-11-2009 - Cyclones and Global Warming NOVEMBER 22, 2009, Wall Street Journal Cyclones and Global Warming A survivor in India says carbon cuts won't help. By BJØRN LOMBORG
Global warming has captured the attention of politicians around the world. The following article is part of a series leading up to the December United Nations conference in Copenhagen on how ordinary people in different countries view the issue:
One week after Cyclone Aila flattened Lakshmi Bera's mud, bamboo and thatched grass house in May, a Copenhagen Consensus researcher found her family of five under the open sky. Their only protection was a plastic tarp.
"We have been living on a bowl of rice for the past few days", said 35-year-old Mrs. Bera. "The food that we had stocked up was lost. Whatever water we are getting we are sharing with our cattle, since the animals too are suffering. The only clothes we have left are the ones we are wearing." Read it online BL vignette 2009 Nov 22 India WSJ.pdf 18-11-2009 - Global Warming as Seen From BangladeshWall Street Journal.
BJØRN LOMBORG, Nov 9 2009.
Global Warming as Seen From Bangladesh
The following article is part of a series leading up to the December United Nations conference in Copenhagen on how ordinary people in different countries view global warming.
When the monsoon rains come, Momota Begum and her husband and children must take turns sleeping in their tiny concrete house's one bed to escape the waste and human excrement that can wash in from outside. They live in a three-decade old refugee camp in Dhaka, Bangladesh. It is run for Urdu-speaking people who found themselves on the wrong side of the border after Bangladesh won its independence from Pakistan in 1971. (...) Read it online: BL vignette 2009 Nov 9 Bangladesh WSJ.pdf 06-11-2009 - Lomborg: Climate Change and Malaria in Africa WALL STREET JOURNAL
By BJORN LOMBORG
Climate Change and Malaria in Africa
Limiting carbon emissions won't do much to stop disease in Zambia.
NOVEMBER 1, 2009
When he first got sick, Samson Banda didn't realize he had malaria. Only after he came down with a serious fever did he end up at a clinic in the Bauleni slum compound in Lusaka, Zambia. The clinic has just a few nurses and staff with basic medical skills. Locals can wait for an entire day to be seen.
Unchecked malaria is serious. Nine out of 10 of the world's annual one million malaria-caused deaths occur in sub-Saharan Africa. The disease—transmitted via mosquitoes—can cause low blood sugar, an enlarged spleen and liver, severe headaches, a shortage of oxygen to the brain, and renal failure. It can lead to coma and death. Twenty-seven year-old Samson was ill for six months before he started to recover. (...)
Read it online BL vignette 2009 Nov 1 Malaria WSJ.pdf 26-10-2009 - The View from Vanuatu on Climate Change (...) Torethy Frank, a 39-year-old woman carving out a subsistence lifestyle on Vanuatu's Nguna Island, is one of those "innocent people." Yet, she has never heard of the problem that her government rates as a top priority. "What is global warming?" she asks a researcher for the Copenhagen Consensus Center. (...) Read it online BL 2009 Oct 22 WSJ Vanuatu 30-09-2009 - Lomborg interview at Barron's: A Smarter Approach to Climate Change DANISH STATISTICIAN AND MORAL CRUSADER Bjorn Lomborg rarely misses an opportunity. Speaking by telephone last week from his apartment in Copenhagen, Lomborg told me about his recent initiative to get the world to deal sensibly with climate change. (...) Read it online Int BL 2009 Sept 28 Barrons official.pdf 22-09-2009 - Interview with Lomborg on Deutsche Welle CLIMATE | 22.09.2009
Cutting carbon emissions won't stop climate change, expert says
As world leaders meet at the UN to discuss climate change, Bjorn Lomborg tells DW he expects little to come from the talks. He tells politicians there are better ways to spend billions than on fighting climate change. (...) Read it online Int BL 2009 Sept 22 Deutsche Welle .pdf 21-09-2009 - Lomborg's op-ed in Forbes
09-21-2009: Climate Change: A Perilous Path
Our costly ''solutions'' could be more harmful than global warming itself. Evidence is growing that relatively cheap policies like climate engineering and non-carbon energy research could effectively prevent suffering from global warming, both in the short and long term. Unfortunately, political leaders gathering at a special meeting of the United Nations in New York this week will focus on a very different response. (...) Read it online BL op-ed 2009 Sept 21 Forbes.pdf 07-09-2009 - Lomborg op-eds in AugustBL Aug 15 2009, Atmospheric engineering may help reverse global warming
BL Aug 20, 2009, Cut the carbon later on
BL Aug, 2009, Adapting to Climate Change
BL Aug 28, 2009, Wall Street Journal: Technology Can Fight Global Warming
BL Aug 29, 2009, Newsweek: Carbon Cuts Won’t Work
You can find the pdf versions of the op-eds on the News in English page.
06-08-2009 - Lomborg’s latest op-eds:18-07-2009 –When it comes to global warming, talk of treason is in the air
18-06-2009 – Scared silly over climate change
15-07-2009 - Mr. Gore, Your Solution to Climate Change is Wrong (Esquire)
in the News in English section 18-05-2009 - Interview with Lomborg in the Barron's Global Warming Is Manageable -- if We're Smart
THE NEXT TREATY TO CURB GLOBAL WARMING WILL BE negotiated this December in Copenhagen, Bjorn
Lomborg's home city. Called by The Guardian (U.K.) "one of the 50 people who could save the planet," Lomborg, a
statistician, is the author of The Skeptical Environmentalist (2001) and Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist's
Guide to Global Warming" (2007). He also maintains a Website on environmental issues at www.lomborg.com.
Contrary to widely held belief, Lomborg isn't at all skeptical of the fact that global warming is a problem, or that
humanity is contributing to it. To get some idea of his real message, Barron's recently caught up with him at an
event hosted by the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, in which he presented his views on the major priorities
for helping the world's poor. Afterward, he sat down to answer our questions in clear, unaccented English,
marshalling facts and figures with stunning ease. (...) Read it on Barron's 16-03-2009 - Climate change decisions should be based on science, not political activism Better to leave it off. Bjørn Lomborg: Stefan Rahmstorf is a respected climate change scientist but by labelling me a 'spin doctor' who 'fools the public' he shows weakness in his argument on sea level rises
Bjørn Lomborg, Guardian, Monday 9 March 2009 12.58 GMT
In an article in the Guardian last month, I criticised an effort by a group of scientists and activists to cast aside the consensus view of thousands of scientists from the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). The group is organising an emergency summit on global warming in Copenhagen this month. The organiser calls the IPCC's work "wishy-washy" and says her conference is "not a regular scientific conference. This is a deliberate attempt to influence policy." (...) Read it online BL Guardian March 9 2009 Climate change decisions.pdf 16-03-2009 - GW will save millions of lives Dire predictions about climate change and health omit the cost of cold, says Bjorn Lomborg.
By Bjorn Lomborg, 13 Mar 2009
Global warming will increase the burden on the British health system because more people will suffer from heat-caused illness. This was the message delivered to a conference in Copenhagen this week by Alistair Hunt, a researcher at Bath University. "I am trying to bring home the impact of climate change to everyone," he said. (...) Read it online BL March 13 2009 Telegraph GW will save.pdf 04-03-2009 - IQ2US debate about carbon emission on Youtube! The entire playlist: Carbon Emissions Debate can be found here.
(2 of 14) MAJOR REDUCTIONS IN CARBON EMISSIONS ARE NOT WORTH THE MONEY DEBATE:BJORN LOMBORG
(13 of 14) MAJOR REDUCTIONS IN CARBON EMISSIONS ARE NOT WORTH THE MONEY: CLOSING ARGUMENTS PT1
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20-02-2009 - Global warnings - Lomborg's latest op-ed in The Guardian The Copenhagen protocol will not succeed unless China and India sign up, but bribing these nations to take part is counterproductive
Björn Lomborg, guardian.co.uk, Sunday 15 February 2009
This December, global leaders will meet in Copenhagen to negotiate a new climate change pact to reduce carbon emissions. Yet, the way that it has been set up, it will inevitably fail. The best hope is that we use this lesson finally to deal with this issue in a smarter fashion.
The United States has made it clear that developing countries must sign up to substantial reductions in carbon emissions in Copenhagen. Developing nations – especially China and India – will be the main greenhouse gas emitters of the 21st century – but were exempted from the Kyoto protocol because they emitted so little during the west's industrialisation period. Europe, too, has grudgingly accepted that without developing nations' participation, rich nations' cuts will have little impact...
Read full article BL op-ed Febr 15 2009 China and India.pdf 22-01-2009 - IQ2US debate about carbon emission on radioThe edited broadcast is available now on the NPR's website Listen to the debate 16-01-2009 - Vote results of the IQ2US debate Major reductions in carbon emissions are not worth the money - was the topic of the latest Intelligence Squared US debate (Jan 13). Bjorn Lomborg, Peter Huber and Philip Stott spoke for the motion.
Though they started out with 16% for their proposal and 49% against ("major reductions in carbon emissions are not worth the money"), they ended with 42% for, 48% against - see attached chart.
If you go to the website www.iq2US.org, click on past debates/downloads, and you can find there the full transcript of the debate and images, and from Jan 21 also the audio record. 18-12-2008 - Lomborg will participate in the IQ2US debate on Jan 13 2009 Intelligence Squared US debate series:
Tuesday, January 13, 2009
Major reductions in carbon emissions are not worth the money
Moderator: John Donvan
Speaking for the motion: Bjorn Lomborg, Philip Stott and Peter Huber
Speaking against the motion: L. Hunter Lovins, Oliver Tickell and Adam Werbach
THIS EVENT WILL BE RECORDED FOR BBC WORLD NEWS.
Panelists for the motion
Bjorn Lomborg is the author of the bestsellers Cool It and The Skeptical Environmentalist. He was named one of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time magazine in 2004, one of the "50 people who could save the planet" by the UK Guardian in 2008, one of the world's 75 most influential people of the 21st century by Esquire in 2008. He has written for numerous publications, including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and the Economist. He is presently an adjunct professor at the Copenhagen Business School, and in 2004 he started the Copenhagen Consensus, a conference of top economists who come together to prioritize the best solutions for the world's greatest challenges.
Philip Stott is an Emeritus Professor and biogeographer from the University of London, UK. Although a scientist, for the past ten years he has also employed modern techniques of deconstruction to grand environmental narratives, like "global warming." Stott was editor of the internationally-important Journal of Biogeography for 18 years. He broadcasts widely on TV and radio, and writes regularly on environmental issues for The Times of London, among other publications.
THIS EVENT WILL BE RECORDED FOR TELEVISION. http://intelligencesquaredus.org/Event.aspx?Event=32
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