Get the facts straight
Rhetorical excess undercuts the case against global warming. By John Vinocur.
Published by New York Post
Watching the news, you get the sense that climate change is making the planet unlivable. We are bombarded with images of floods, droughts, storms and wildfires.
Published by New Scientist
2013-10-14 FOR the past half century, a fundamental debate has raged between optimists and pessimists over the state of the world. Pessimists build their case on overpopulation, starvation and depletion of resources. Optimists stand for the infallibility of the market economy. Wouldn't it be nice to remove the darkened or rose-tinted spectacles for once, and try to quantify how the world really has done and will do in future? I asked some of the world's leading economists to do just that. The result is a groundbreaking book, How Much Have Global Problems Cost The World?
Published by Foreign Policy
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58 BJORN LOMBORGFor taking the black and white out of climate politics.Director, Copenhagen Consensus Center | Czech Republic