Get the facts straight
Rhetorical excess undercuts the case against global warming. By John Vinocur.
Published by The Sunday Times
2013-09-22 With the first overview in six years from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), it is time to raise two big questions. Why have panic and catastrophe dominated the debate? And why have the solutions presented thus far been so expensive and ineffective? We really need to start talking about what will work.
Published by The Spectator
A new report revealing that using wood pellets to generate electricity can actually speed up global warming should be the final nail in the coffin for the flawed policy of biomass subsidies. Policies designed to incentivise green energy use are not only having a dubious effect on climate change, they are destroying biodiversity and even killing many thousands of people.
Published by The Guardian
Björn Lomborg guardian.co.uk, Monday 15 September 2008
Solving climate change will be the most expensive public policy decision ever. Half-baked thinking won't fix it now.
One commonly repeated argument for doing something about climate change sounds compelling, but turns out to be almost fraudulent. It is based on comparing the cost of action with the cost of inaction, and almost every major politician in the world uses it. (...)
