Tag: Bjorn Lomborg
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Bjørn Lomborg: $100bn a year needed to fight climate change
Guardian: Bjørn Lomborg: $100bn a year needed to fight climate change Exclusive 'Skeptical Environmentalist' and critic of climate scientists to declare global warming a chief concern facing world. The world's most high-profile climate change sceptic is to declare that global warming is "undoubtedly one of the chief concerns facing the world today" and "a challenge…
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Axe the tax if you want to go green
The Australian: Axe the tax if you want to go green POLITICIANS are trying hard to pretend that the Copenhagen climate summit was not a complete failure. After raising expectations that they would broker a significant, binding treaty on carbon emission reductions, they are now telling us we should view Copenhagen's empty, non-binding agreement as…
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Global Warming’s Cheap, Effective Solution
Project Syndicate: Global Warming’s Cheap, Effective Solution (Bjorn Lomborg) COPENHAGEN – Global warming will mean that more people die from the heat. There will be a rise in sea levels, more malaria, starvation, and poverty. Concern has been great, but humanity has done very little that will actually prevent these outcomes. Carbon emissions have kept…
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A New Dawn
Wall Street Journal: A New Dawn The benefits of climate-change policies are limited and costly. Instead, the president-elect needs to coolly evaluate competing priorities, says Bjørn Lomborg. Most generations face large and daunting challenges. But few generations have the promise of leadership that could address them rationally. Fortunately, President-elect Obama is uniquely positioned to achieve…
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A Better Way Than Cap and Trade
Washington Post: A Better Way Than Cap and Trade Bjorn Lomborg …Politicians favor the cap-and-trade system because it is an indirect tax that disguises the true costs of reducing carbon emissions. It also gives lawmakers an opportunity to control the number and distribution of emissions allowances, and the flow of billions of dollars of subsidies and…
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How to Think About the World’s Problems
Wall Street Journal: How to Think About the World's Problems. Opinion by Bjorn Lomborg The pain caused by the global food crisis has led many people to belatedly realize that we have prioritized growing crops to feed cars instead of people. That is only a small part of the real problem. This crisis demonstrates what…
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MEC: Addressing Global Warming
Today's hot environmental topic (pun intended) is anthropogenic (human-caused) climate change. The leading theory is that CO2 emissions from burning fossil fuels are causing a greenhouse gas effect that is causing global warming. McLaren seems to take this as indisputable fact. I don't. However, I'm not interested in debating that point here. We will assume…
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From a Rapt Audience, a Call to Cool the Hype
New York Times: From a Rapt Audience, a Call to Cool the Hype Hollywood has a thing for Al Gore and his three-alarm film on global warming, “An Inconvenient Truth,” which won an Academy Award for best documentary. So do many environmentalists, who praise him as a visionary, and many scientists, who laud him for…