Lomborg's article: Wrongheaded in Rio

Project SyndicateProject Syndicate2012-06-13

Bjorn Lomborg

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Tens of thousands of people will soon gather in Rio de Janeiro for the United Nations Earth Summit. The...

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Article in the Guardian: Ignore the heart-wrenching pictures and focus on the benefits of aid

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Poverty Pollutes: Can we have our Earth Summit back, please?

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Leading economists list cheapest ways to save the world

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Leading economists have ranked how to best and most cost-effectively invest to solve...

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The Smartest Ways to Save the World

May 16, 2012
By Bjorn Lomborg 

Project Syndicate

COPENHAGEN – If you...

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How Better Nutrition for Children Helps Solve Two of the World’s Biggest Problems

How Better Nutrition for Children Helps Solve Two of the World’s Biggest Problems
A group of Nobel laureates analyze the cost-effectiveness of solutions to the world's biggest problems

By Bjørn Lomborg
Posted Monday, May 14, 2012, at 1:53 PM ET

Over the past two weeks, I have challenged Slate readers to decide what priority to give competing ways to help the...

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Copenhagen Consensus Conference 2012: The Expert Panel Findings

The goal of Copenhagen Consensus 2012 was to set priorities among a series of proposals for confronting ten great global challenges. A panel of economic experts, comprising some of the world’s most distinguished economists, was invited to consider these issues. The ten challenge papers, commissioned from acknowledged authorities in each area of policy, included nearly 40 proposals for the panel’s consideration. During the...

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Slate: To Educate Children, We Have To Teach Their Parents

To Educate Children, We Have To Teach Their Parents
We can improve education in poor countries by showing parents the importance of schooling.

By Bjørn Lomborg
Posted Thursday, May 10, 2012, at 2:06 PM ET

Over the past 50 years, remarkable progress has been made ensuring that children receive basic education. More than 60 percent of adults in low-income...

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Slate: War Is a Long, Messy Hell

War Is a Long, Messy Hell
And it’s more important than ever that we try to prevent it in the first place.

By Bjørn Lomborg
Posted Wednesday, May 9, 2012, at 3:10 PM ET

Without peace and stability, there are impediments to solving every other challenge that we have looked at in the Copenhagen Consensus 2012 series. Armed conflict is a major global problem that...

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Slate: Can You Really Make Clouds Whiter and More Reflective?

Can You Really Make Clouds Whiter and More Reflective?
Scientists are getting there, and it might be the one of the best ways to fight climate change.

By Bjørn Lomborg
Posted Tuesday, May 8, 2012

Of all of the issues in the Copenhagen Consensus 2012 project, climate change is perhaps the most talked-about and charged. Although efforts to strike...

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Slate: We Still Need to Save the Rain Forests

We Still Need to Save the Rain Forests

Biodiversity efforts are often targeted toward saving cute animals. But the real problem is disappearing forests, wetlands, and mangroves.

By Bjørn Lomborg
Posted Monday, May 7, 2012 

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Interview with Lomborg on Folha.com

'Sem inovação, nunca resolveremos o aquecimento global', diz autor de 'O Ambientalista Cético'

Without innovation, we'll never solve global warming - says the author of The Sceptical Environmentalist.
Bjorn Lomborg gave an interview to Folha, a Brazilian newspaper. 

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Slate CC12: An Ounce of Prevention ...

An Ounce of Prevention ...
It’s harder for poor countries to respond to natural disasters. We should help them be better prepared before hurricanes and earthquakes strike.

By Bjørn Lomborg
Posted Friday, May 4, 2012.  

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Slate CC12: The Thorny Issue of Population Growth

The Thorny Issue of Population Growth
Life expectancy is up and poverty is down worldwide, even with our rapidly expanding global population. Are our fears of catastrophe overblown?
By Bjørn Lomborg
Posted Thursday, May 3, 2012

Last year, the world population reached 7 billion. It added the last billion in merely 12 years...

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Slate CC12: Developing the Smartphone of Toilets

Developing the Smartphone of Toilets
More than 2.5 billion lack basic sanitation. We can fix that.
By Bjørn Lomborg.
Posted Wednesday, May 2, 2012

The story of water and sanitation is one of success and failure. The world has met the Millennium Development Goal on the provision of clean drinking water five years...

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Slate CC12: Malaria Is Making a Comeback

Malaria Is Making a Comeback
But making sure new drugs are affordable for poor countries is still a cheap way to save hundreds of thousands of children.
By Bjørn Lomborg
Posted Tuesday, May 1, 2012.
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Slate CC12: The High Cost of Heart Disease and Cancer

The High Cost of Heart Disease and Cancer
Malaria, AIDS, and tuberculosis get all the attention in the developing world. But chronic diseases kill more people.
By Bjørn Lomborg
Posted Monday, April 30, 2012.

Chronic diseases such as heart disease, stroke, and cancer are problems that we associate with rich countries, while...

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Slate CC12: How To Get Food on Every Table

How To Get Food on Every Table
We have enough food to feed everyone. But we need to produce even more. Here’s why.
By Bjørn Lomborg
Posted Friday, April 27, 2012.

The problem of hunger can be solved. The planet creates more than enough food to meet everyone’s needs. But there are still about 925 million hungry people in the world, and...

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Slate Copenhagen Consensus 2012: Big Problems, Big Solutions

Big Problems, Big Solutions
Bjørn Lomborg has a group of Nobel laureates working to solve climate change, war, hunger, and more. And he wants to know what you think.

By Bjørn Lomborg
Posted Thursday, April 26, 2012.

COPENHAGEN—This decade has seen remarkable progress against humanity’s greatest challenges...

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Article by Lomborg in The Wall Street Journal

An Economic Approach to the Environment
Resources are limited.
Cost-benefit analysis can inform our decisions.

April 23, 2012 by Bjorn Lomborg

 

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Lomborg interview on Frank Beckmann show

NewsTalk
WJR 760am

April 18, 2012.
Bjorn Lomborg, adjunct professor at the Copenhagen Business School, where he founded and directs its Copenhagen Consensus Center, author of The Skeptic Environmentalist and Cool it, regarding Germany and China cutting back on subsidies for green energy. 

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Lomborg op-ed: The Problem of Priorities

Project Syndicate, Apr. 13, 2012by Bjorn Lomborg. 

COPENHAGEN – This decade has seen remarkable progress against humanity’s greatest challenges. Consider the declaration of victory over polio in India, which seemed impossible ten years ago. January marked one year since the country’s last reported case. Or look at the strides...

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Interview with Lomborg on BBC radio The World Tonight

BBC The World Tonight
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldtonight

Apr 9, 2012.
Starting at 28:01 min.
Reporter: Paul Moss.
 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldtonight

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Lomborg comments on the Energiaftale / Danish Energy Agreement

Bjorn Lomborg comments on the Energyaftale / Danish Energy Agreement, can be read in English and in Danish in the attached file.

DK
1) Man er meget glad for, at vindenergi kan komme op på næsten 50% af DKs elproduktion. Desværre er el allerede omfattet af EUs kvotehandelssystem, så når vi bygger en vindmølle mere, så bliver kvoterne blot...

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Lomborg op-ed: Gone With the Wind

COPENHAGEN – Efforts to stem global warming have nurtured a strong urge worldwide to deploy renewable energy. As a result, the use of wind turbines has increased ten-fold over the past decade, with wind power often touted as the most cost-effective green opportunity. According to Connie Hedegaard, the European Union’s commissioner for climate action...

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Lomborg participates in the How the Light Gets In philosophy festival

Lomborg participates in the How the Light Gets In philosophy festival on June 2, 2012
4:00pm
Hay-on-Wye, Wales, UK

The World in Our Hands

Polly Higgins, Crispin Tickell, Nigel Lawson, Bjorn Lomborg

The future of humanity is at stake. There is nothing to worry about. What is it about the debate between...

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Lomborg in HLN: Jane Velez Mitchell

Lomborg is on air on CNN Issues With Jane Velez Mitchell, 7pm ET on March 6.

 

Int BL 2012-03-06 CNN Velez-Mitchell.pdf

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Interview with Lomborg on CBC Ideas

HOST: Max Allen

This is a two hour series, one hour each of the nights of March 12 and March 19.

If you want to hear the shows LIVE TO AIR (as they are being broadcast across Canada):
Go to www.cbc.ca/ideas
Look way up (right above our Host Paul Kennedy's head!)
and...

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Interview with Lomborg on CBC Ideas

HOST: Max Allen

This is a two hour series, one hour each of the nights of March 12 and March 19.

If you want to hear the shows LIVE TO AIR (as they are being broadcast across Canada):
Go to www.cbc.ca/ideas
Look way up (right above our Host Paul Kennedy's head!)
and...

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Lomborg on the John Oakley Show

Febr 23, 2012.
Bjorn Lomborg - Danish Author - Environmental Writer and Author of "The Skeptical Environmentalist."

Bjorn and John discuss the solar and wind projects in Europe.

The John Oakley Show - Talk Radio AM640
John Oakley is widely considered to be one of this country's pre-eminent talk-radio hosts. Check...

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CA: Sables bitumineux: une étude critiquée. Lomborg interview in La Presse

Mathieu Perreault
La Presse

24 février 2012

L'immensité des réserves de carburants fossiles est l'aspect qui a le plus retenu l'attention de Bjorn Lomborg, le célèbre statisticien danois qui a publié L'environnementaliste sceptique en 2001. «On voit noir sur blanc qu'il y a abondamment de carburants fossiles», dit M. Lomborg en entrevue depuis Copenhague. (...)

 

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Interview with Lomborg on Talk Radio 702 Cape Town

Talk Radio 702 - The Best Of Jenny Crwys Williams
Talk Radio 702 - The Podcasts

2012-02-20
The sceptical environmentalist
In the Going Green feature Jenny chats to international author and climate change skeptic Bjorn Lomborg. Time Magazine declared the founder of the Copenhagen Consensus Centre one of the 100 most influential people in...

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Lomborg op-ed: Germany’s Sunshine Daydream

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2012-02-16

COPENHAGEN – One of the world’s biggest green-energy public-policy experiments is coming to a bitter end in Germany, with important lessons for policymakers elsewhere.

Germany once prided itself on being the...

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Lomborg's article in NATO review: Climate, disease and food - a lot still to do

NATO Review » 2012 security predictions » Climate, disease and food - a lot still to do.

Climate, disease and food - a lot still to do

In 2012, the issue that we make the least progress on – but lament at length about – will remain global warming. Campaigners will continue to use doomsday language to try to hustle for...

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Lomborg interviewed at the Monica Crowley Show

Febr 11, 2012 (recorded on Febr 9 Thu)
Newstalk Radio
777 WABC
Monica Crowley Show 

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Lomborg on Stossel: Whom can you trust?

Whom can you trust?
Posted by John Stossel | February 09, 2012
Re-Airing on FNC Saturday @10PM

Read more here
 

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Lomborg on Varney & Co.

Fox Business Editor's PicksGlobal Warming: True or False?
Feb 3, 2012
Author Bjorn Lomborg on recent data saying humans aren’t having an impact on the planet’s temperature. 

Watch it online

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Don’t Invest in Current Clean Energy, Back Future Technology

30 Jan, 2012 in Bloomberg Briefs

Interview with Bjørn Lomborg

 

Lomborg tells Siobhan Wagner of Bloomberg New Energy Finance there is too much focus on cutting carbon-dioxide and clean-tech subsidy funds would be better spent on research and development.

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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Lomborg interview in AkzoNobel magazine

2011-Dec-10

Is global warming just a load of hot air?

Climate change is clearly a burning issue, but who to believe? We spoke to three experts with differing views on the subject in an effort to determine what’s really going on.

Words: Jim Wake

According to Katharine Hayhoe, a climate scientist on the...

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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...

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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." ......

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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