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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 guarantee in 2009 to build a factory based on the proposition that solar... view
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... view
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... view
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... view
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,... view
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 ... view
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... view
Saving The World With Reason Interview with Bjørn Lomborg 2011 August, in Forbes Insider What was your inspiration behind the Copenhagen Consensus? Fundamentally, I feel we all want to do good in the world, but clearly we don’t spend a whole lot of money on doing good. One salient... view
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-... view
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... view
DK: Lomborg interview in Søndagsavisen 2011 Aug 12-14 Søndagsavisen Engagerede undervisere hjalp dem i gang Flere kendte danske superformidlere blev karriereinspireret af en engageret underviser Bjørn Lomborg, miljødebattør »Min mentor var professor Jørgen Poulsen. Han engagerede folk og fik os til at tænke og diskutere. Det gav mig en tro på, at universitetet var mere end en pølsefabrik, hvor folk hurtigt presses ud som standardprodukter. Universitetet... view
FreedomLab video interview with Lomborg Powershift videos by FreedomLab Interview with Lomborg Powershift - Update or upgrade? http://vimeo.com/25632835 Lomborg is on 3:49-4:24 Vimeo-album for the entire interview series: http://vimeo.com/album/1630739... view
Lomborg's Project Syndicate op-ed: Green Bootleggers and Baptists 2011-07-15 Green Bootleggers and Baptists NEW YORK – In May, the United Nations’ International Panel on Climate Change made media waves with a new report on renewable energy. As in the past, the IPCC first issued a short summary; only later would it reveal all of the data. So it was left up to the IPCC’s spin-doctors to present the take-home message for journalists. (...) ... view
CN: Lomborg's article in "China in the next 30 years" BOOK TITLE: China in the next 30 years / 书名中国在未来30年 PUBLISHER: Central Compilation and Translation Press of China (CCTP)/ 出版者中央编译出版社 Lomborg's article: China in the next 30 years/ 应对全球变暖-超越碳减排 ARTICLE AUTHOR: Bjorn Lomborg / 文章作者 : 波恩伦伯格 http://www.qumaishu.com/books/3715568.htm ... view
Bjorn Lomborg on CNN July 17 Sunday, GPS with Fareed Zakaria CNN, July 17 Sunday, 10am. Fareed Zakaria GPS features former White House National Economic Council Director Larry Summers, author Bjørn Lomborg, journalist Rami Khouri and Al Jazeera's Ayman Mohyeldin Lomborg is on from 31:47 Watch it online - Lomborg from 31:47 view
Lomborg on Australian radio show 2GB Lomborg on Australian radio show 2GB July 20, 2011 Wednesday Length: 9:02 Listen to it online view
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. ... view
Lomborg's article in The Australian: A carbon tax can't save the planet A carbon tax can't save the planet Bjorn Lomborg From: The Australian July 11, 2011 AUSTRALIAN politicians on both sides of parliament should be applauded for seeking to respond to global warming at a time when many leaders have put this on the back burner. Unfortunately, much of the present-day focus is on cutting a tonne here or there from national carbon emissions. On Sunday, Julia Gillard... view
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. (...) ... view
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.... view
Interview with Lomborg on South African E-News channel about Green Jobs Green Jobs : Jobs Week Exclusive eNews Channel From: enewschannel Apr 14, 2011 On the 8th of April 2011, the eNews channel hosted a debate regarding the creation of 'green' jobs. Anchor, Joanne Joseph hosted the discussion between Earthlife representative, Muna Lakhani and author of "The Skeptical Environmentalist", Bjorn Lomborg. ... view
DK: Lomborg interview in Raeson 2011 June Lomborg: Dan Jørgensen sidder fast i Kyoto-fortiden ”Hvis det ikke var alvorligt, var det jo komisk: Hvis EU gennemfører 2020-politikken, vil det koste 250 mia. dollar om året og reducere temperaturen med 0,05 grader. Får Dan Jørgensen sin vilje, og sætter reduktionen helt op til 30 %, vil det koste 400 mia. dollar om året, men kun reducere temperaturen til 0,06 grader; kun yderligere én hundrededel grad.”... view
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 ... view
Lomborg's article in Newsweek: A Roadmap for the Planet A Roadmap for the Planet How we live today is clearly unsustainable. Why history proves that is completely irrelevant. by Bjorn Lomborg June 12, 2011 From the 18th through the mid-19th century, whale oil provided light to much of the Western world. At its peak, whaling employed 70,000 people and was the United States’ fifth-largest industry. The U.S. stood as the world’s foremost whale slayer.... view
DK: Lomborg on Go Morgen May 27, 2011 Ny film om Bjørn Lomborg Der er kommet en ny film om den indflydelsesrige og kontroversielle klimaforsker Bjørn Lomborg. http://go.tv2.dk/morgentv/id-40246420.html view
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... view
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 view
DK: Der er noget galt i DK: Blackout DR2 lader en række markante samfundsdebattører og opinionsdannere fortælle deres helt personlige version af Danmarkshistoriens største fejltrin i serien 'Der er noget galt i Danmark'. Tredje program sendes søndag d. 22 maj kl 21.50 på DR2. 'Blackout - når iltsvind kvæler fornuften' af Bjørn Lomborg er den sjette og sidste film i rækken. Da Folketinget vedtog den store vandmiljøplan i 1986, skete det efter en kort debat... view
BG: Венцислав Савов Трябва да насочим усилията си към производство на зелена енергия на по-ниска и по-достъпна цена, смята Бьорн Ломборг, световноизвестен писател и еколог Автор: Венцислав Савов Прочетете го онлайн Int BL 2011 March Manager BG.pdf... view
DK: Politiken TV: Miljødebattens enfant terrible er gået til filmen 2. jun 2011 Kilde: politiken.tv Miljødebattens enfant terrible er gået til filmen Bjørn Lomborg vil ikke bare tale til hjernen, men også hjernet med sin film 'Cool it'. Se den online view
DK: Lomborg: Min opvækst er nødvendig at inddrage Bjørn Lomborg fortæller sin personlige historie i filmatiseringen af 'Cool It'. Debat 3. jun. 2011 KL. 13.05 AF Kenneth Lund »Modstykket til 'An Inconvenient Truth'«. Sådan markedsføres Bjørn Lomborgs nye dokumentarfilm 'Cool It', der onsdag havde dansk premiere i 40 biografer. 'An Inconvenient Truth' (på dansk 'En Ubekvem Sandhed') var Al Gores Oscarvindende dokumentarfilm fra 2006, hvor den tidligere amerikanske vice... view
DK: Ekstra Bladet: Klima-trolden Lomborg kan ikke tæmmes Når han ikke lige snakker om klima og miljø, er pizza og PlayStation det bedste Bjørn Lomborg ved 05. jun 2011 Jacob Ørsted - Hvad glæder du dig til i nærmeste fremtid? - For tiden glæder jeg mig allermest til en god debat med et dansk publikum om min nye film 'Cool it'. Jeg er spændt på at dele filmen og idéerne bag den med danskerne - og selvfølgelig også på hvordan den bliver modtaget. Mange har kun hørt en... view
DK: Interview with Lomborg on Filmland, DR P1 Trier og melankolien Filmland 27. maj 2011 kl. 14:03 på P1 Hør udsendelsen, 56:57 Interview with Lomborg starts 40.45 minutes in on this clip Lars von Trier er taget hjem fra Cannes, formentlig udmattet og med et nyt syn på verdens største filmfestival. Og samtidig får danskerne nu muligheden for at se den film, der var udgangspunkt for balladen, men egentlig handler om noget helt andet. Filmland taler med Trier og... view
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... view
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. (...) ... view
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 view
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... view
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-... view
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 view
BR: Lomborg interview in Galileu Cortar emissões de carbono é uma ideia ruim, diz estatístico dinamarquês Bjorn Lomborg diz que é melhor usar o dinheiro para aumentar o gasto com a pesquisa e desenvolvimento de energias verdes O estatístico dinamarquês Bjorn Lomborg se tornou conhecido (e odiado) a partir da publicação de seu polêmico livro "O Ambientalista Cético", em 2001, no qual afirmava que o dinheiro destinado a combater o aquecimento global... view
PL: Lomborg op-ed: Zadnych elektrowni nuklearnych? Zadnych elektrowni nuklearnych? Autor tekstu: Bjørn Lomborg Tekst oryginału. Project Syndicate, 13 kwietnia 2011 Kiedy część Japonii została niedawno zdewastowana przez trzęsienie ziemi i następujące po... view
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... view
BG: Lomborg interview in Dnevnik / Kapital ИНТЕРВЮ - Бьорн Ломборг: Вярвам в затоплянето, но не и как се борим с него От Николет Йенсен Последна промяна в 16:58 на 03 дек 2009, 1729 прочитания. Бьорн Ломборг е сред най-видните представители на т.нар. скептици на тезата за глобално затопляне. Политолог, създател и директор на Copenhagen Consensus Center, в който членуват някои от най-видните икономисти на планетата. През 2008 г. Ломборг беше посочен сред "50-те... view
AR: Lomborg interview in Clarin: El calentamiento no se soluciona con impuestos 10 ABR 2011 Entrevista Bjørn Lomborg: "El calentamiento no se soluciona con impuestos" Contra la solución propuesta en el Protocolo de Kioto, el autor del libro "El ecologista escéptico" aconseja invertir el 0,2% del PBI mundial en la investigación y el desarrollo de energías verdes. Francisco de Zárate De denunciar a los científicos del calentamiento por catastrofistas a creer que el mercado de bonos de carbono no... view
Lomborg at The Guardian Hay Festival – May 30, 2011 Hay Festival – May 26-June 5, 2011 May 30, 2:30pm Bjorn Lomborg talks to Rosie Boycott http://www.hayfestival.com/p-3512-bjorn-lomborg-talks-to-rosie-boycott.aspx May 30, 8:30pm Bjorn Lomborg Cool it Screening... view
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 view
Lomborg at BRISTOL Festival of Ideas, May 31 Bjørn Lomborg Putting Global Warming in Perspective 31 May 2011, 18.30-20.30 At Bristol Bjørn Lomborg believes that global warming is real, man-made and will have a serious impact on humans and the environment toward the end of thiscentury. In a range of books (including The Skeptical Environmentalist and Cool It), articles and now a film, Lomborg argues that we need to... view
Lomborg's participation in the Milken Conference, May 2-4, 2011 MILKEN Institute Global Conference, Los Angeles Slowing Climate Change: Plan B Panel Detail: Monday, May 2, 2011 9:30 AM - 10:45 AM Economists across the political spectrum have long argued that the least costly, least intrusive way to... view
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. (...) ... view
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. ... view

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...

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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...

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Lomborg op-ed: Making HIV/AIDS Investments Count

Making HIV/AIDS Investments Count
Bjørn Lomborg
2011-10-14

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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...

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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,...

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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

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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...

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Saving The World With Reason

Interview with Bjørn Lomborg

2011 August, in Forbes Insider

What was your inspiration behind the Copenhagen Consensus?

Fundamentally, I feel we all want to do good in the world, but clearly we don’t spend a whole lot of money on doing good. One salient...

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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-...

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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...

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DK: Lomborg interview in Søndagsavisen

2011 Aug 12-14 Søndagsavisen Engagerede undervisere hjalp dem i gang Flere kendte danske superformidlere blev karriereinspireret af en engageret underviser Bjørn Lomborg, miljødebattør »Min mentor var professor Jørgen Poulsen. Han engagerede folk og fik os til at tænke og diskutere. Det gav mig en tro på, at universitetet var mere end en pølsefabrik, hvor folk hurtigt presses ud som standardprodukter. Universitetet...

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FreedomLab video interview with Lomborg

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Lomborg's Project Syndicate op-ed: Green Bootleggers and Baptists

2011-07-15
Green Bootleggers and Baptists

NEW YORK – In May, the United Nations’ International Panel on Climate Change made media waves with a new report on renewable energy. As in the past, the IPCC first issued a short summary; only later would it reveal all of the data. So it was left up to the IPCC’s spin-doctors to present the take-home message for journalists. (...)

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CN: Lomborg's article in "China in the next 30 years"

BOOK TITLE: China in the next 30 years / 书名中国在未来30年

PUBLISHER: Central Compilation and Translation Press of China (CCTP)/ 出版者中央编译出版社

Lomborg's article: China in the next 30 years/ 应对全球变暖-超越碳减排

ARTICLE AUTHOR: Bjorn Lomborg / 文章作者 : 波恩伦伯格

http://www.qumaishu.com/books/3715568.htm
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Bjorn Lomborg on CNN July 17 Sunday, GPS with Fareed Zakaria

CNN, July 17 Sunday, 10am.
Fareed Zakaria GPS features former White House National Economic Council Director Larry Summers, author Bjørn Lomborg, journalist Rami Khouri and Al Jazeera's Ayman Mohyeldin

Lomborg is on from 31:47

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Lomborg on Australian radio show 2GB

Lomborg on Australian radio show 2GB
July 20, 2011 Wednesday
Length: 9:02

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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.

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Lomborg's article in The Australian: A carbon tax can't save the planet

A carbon tax can't save the planet
Bjorn Lomborg
From: The Australian
July 11, 2011

AUSTRALIAN politicians on both sides of parliament should be applauded for seeking to respond to global warming at a time when many leaders have put this on the back burner.
Unfortunately, much of the present-day focus is on cutting a tonne here or there from national carbon emissions. On Sunday, Julia Gillard...

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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. (...)

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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....

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Interview with Lomborg on South African E-News channel about Green Jobs

Green Jobs : Jobs Week Exclusive
eNews Channel
From: enewschannel
Apr 14, 2011
On the 8th of April 2011, the eNews channel hosted a debate regarding the creation of 'green' jobs.

Anchor, Joanne Joseph hosted the discussion between Earthlife representative, Muna Lakhani and author of "The Skeptical Environmentalist", Bjorn Lomborg.

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DK: Lomborg interview in Raeson

2011 June Lomborg: Dan Jørgensen sidder fast i Kyoto-fortiden ”Hvis det ikke var alvorligt, var det jo komisk: Hvis EU gennemfører 2020-politikken, vil det koste 250 mia. dollar om året og reducere temperaturen med 0,05 grader. Får Dan Jørgensen sin vilje, og sætter reduktionen helt op til 30 %, vil det koste 400 mia. dollar om året, men kun reducere temperaturen til 0,06 grader; kun yderligere én hundrededel grad.”...

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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

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Lomborg's article in Newsweek: A Roadmap for the Planet

A Roadmap for the Planet
How we live today is clearly unsustainable. Why history proves that is completely irrelevant.
by Bjorn Lomborg June 12, 2011

From the 18th through the mid-19th century, whale oil provided light to much of the Western world. At its peak, whaling employed 70,000 people and was the United States’ fifth-largest industry. The U.S. stood as the world’s foremost whale slayer....

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DK: Lomborg on Go Morgen

May 27, 2011 Ny film om Bjørn Lomborg Der er kommet en ny film om den indflydelsesrige og kontroversielle klimaforsker Bjørn Lomborg.
http://go.tv2.dk/morgentv/id-40246420.html

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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...

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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

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DK: Der er noget galt i DK: Blackout

DR2 lader en række markante samfundsdebattører og opinionsdannere fortælle deres helt personlige version af Danmarkshistoriens største fejltrin i serien 'Der er noget galt i Danmark'. Tredje program sendes søndag d. 22 maj kl 21.50 på DR2. 'Blackout - når iltsvind kvæler fornuften' af Bjørn Lomborg er den sjette og sidste film i rækken. Da Folketinget vedtog den store vandmiljøplan i 1986, skete det efter en kort debat...

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BG: Венцислав Савов

Трябва да насочим усилията си към производство на зелена енергия на по-ниска и по-достъпна цена, смята Бьорн Ломборг, световноизвестен писател и еколог Автор: Венцислав Савов
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DK: Politiken TV: Miljødebattens enfant terrible er gået til filmen

2. jun 2011 Kilde: politiken.tv Miljødebattens enfant terrible er gået til filmen Bjørn Lomborg vil ikke bare tale til hjernen, men også hjernet med sin film 'Cool it'.
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DK: Lomborg: Min opvækst er nødvendig at inddrage

Bjørn Lomborg fortæller sin personlige historie i filmatiseringen af 'Cool It'. Debat 3. jun. 2011 KL. 13.05 AF Kenneth Lund »Modstykket til 'An Inconvenient Truth'«. Sådan markedsføres Bjørn Lomborgs nye dokumentarfilm 'Cool It', der onsdag havde dansk premiere i 40 biografer. 'An Inconvenient Truth' (på dansk 'En Ubekvem Sandhed') var Al Gores Oscarvindende dokumentarfilm fra 2006, hvor den tidligere amerikanske vice...

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DK: Ekstra Bladet: Klima-trolden Lomborg kan ikke tæmmes

Når han ikke lige snakker om klima og miljø, er pizza og PlayStation det bedste Bjørn Lomborg ved 05. jun 2011 Jacob Ørsted - Hvad glæder du dig til i nærmeste fremtid? - For tiden glæder jeg mig allermest til en god debat med et dansk publikum om min nye film 'Cool it'. Jeg er spændt på at dele filmen og idéerne bag den med danskerne - og selvfølgelig også på hvordan den bliver modtaget. Mange har kun hørt en...

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DK: Interview with Lomborg on Filmland, DR P1

Trier og melankolien Filmland 27. maj 2011 kl. 14:03 på P1 Hør udsendelsen, 56:57 Interview with Lomborg starts 40.45 minutes in on this clip Lars von Trier er taget hjem fra Cannes, formentlig udmattet og med et nyt syn på verdens største filmfestival. Og samtidig får danskerne nu muligheden for at se den film, der var udgangspunkt for balladen, men egentlig handler om noget helt andet. Filmland taler med Trier og...

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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.
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Int BL 2011 June Modus magazine...

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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. (...)

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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.

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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...

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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-...

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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.

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BR: Lomborg interview in Galileu

Cortar emissões de carbono é uma ideia ruim, diz estatístico dinamarquês Bjorn Lomborg diz que é melhor usar o dinheiro para aumentar o gasto com a pesquisa e desenvolvimento de energias verdes O estatístico dinamarquês Bjorn Lomborg se tornou conhecido (e odiado) a partir da publicação de seu polêmico livro "O Ambientalista Cético", em 2001, no qual afirmava que o dinheiro destinado a combater o aquecimento global...

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PL: Lomborg op-ed: Zadnych elektrowni nuklearnych?

Zadnych elektrowni nuklearnych?

Autor tekstu: Bjørn Lomborg

Tekst oryginału. Project Syndicate, 13 kwietnia 2011

Kiedy część Japonii została niedawno zdewastowana przez trzęsienie ziemi i następujące po...

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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...

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BG: Lomborg interview in Dnevnik / Kapital

ИНТЕРВЮ - Бьорн Ломборг: Вярвам в затоплянето, но не и как се борим с него От Николет Йенсен Последна промяна в 16:58 на 03 дек 2009, 1729 прочитания. Бьорн Ломборг е сред най-видните представители на т.нар. скептици на тезата за глобално затопляне. Политолог, създател и директор на Copenhagen Consensus Center, в който членуват някои от най-видните икономисти на планетата. През 2008 г. Ломборг беше посочен сред "50-те...

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AR: Lomborg interview in Clarin: El calentamiento no se soluciona con impuestos

10 ABR 2011 Entrevista Bjørn Lomborg: "El calentamiento no se soluciona con impuestos" Contra la solución propuesta en el Protocolo de Kioto, el autor del libro "El ecologista escéptico" aconseja invertir el 0,2% del PBI mundial en la investigación y el desarrollo de energías verdes. Francisco de Zárate De denunciar a los científicos del calentamiento por catastrofistas a creer que el mercado de bonos de carbono no...

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Lomborg at The Guardian Hay Festival – May 30, 2011

Hay Festival – May 26-June 5, 2011

May 30, 2:30pm
Bjorn Lomborg talks to Rosie Boycott
http://www.hayfestival.com/p-3512-bjorn-lomborg-talks-to-rosie-boycott.aspx

May 30, 8:30pm
Bjorn Lomborg Cool it Screening...

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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.

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Lomborg at BRISTOL Festival of Ideas, May 31

Bjørn Lomborg
Putting Global Warming in Perspective
31 May 2011, 18.30-20.30
At Bristol

Bjørn Lomborg believes that global warming is real, man-made and will have a serious impact on humans and the environment toward the end of thiscentury. In a range of books (including The Skeptical Environmentalist and Cool It), articles and now a film, Lomborg argues that we need to...

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Lomborg's participation in the Milken Conference, May 2-4, 2011

MILKEN Institute Global Conference, Los Angeles

Slowing Climate Change: Plan B
Panel Detail:
Monday, May 2, 2011
9:30 AM - 10:45 AM

Economists across the political spectrum have long argued that the least costly, least intrusive way to...

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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.
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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.

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