Get the facts straight
An interview with Lomborg on Cafe Babel
Published by Forbes
Many western donors love the idea that instead of dirty, coal-fired power-plants, poor nations should ‘leapfrog’ straight to cleaner energy sources such as off-grid solar technology. The World Bank is at the forefront of these efforts, no longer funding coal energy projects.
Off-grid solar projects begin with grand intentions, but too often end with recipients barely better off. We can see this in the small Pacific island nation of Fiji, where the government – advocates of strong global climate policy – teamed up with a Japanese technology company to deliver off-grid solar power.
Published by The Sunday Times
2013-03-31 Bjorn Lomborg's article in The Sunday Times
As I fly into a snow-bound Britain, I realise that you might be asking where global warming has gone as you shiver in the coldest March for 50 years and wonder what you will do if gas has to be rationed. I have been involved in the climate debate for more than a decade, but I am still amazed at how wrong we get it. Let us try to restart our thinking on global warming. Yes, global warming is real and mostly man-made, but our policies have failed predictably and spectacularly. (...)
Published by Fox Business
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.