Carbon cuts are always a mixture of pain and gain

The concept of trade-offs has become unfashionable. Politicians around the world like to pretend that their choices will bring us nothing but superlative benefits.

Nowhere is this whitewashing more pervasive or accepted than in climate change. There is a prevalent, comforting notion that we can have our cake and eat it too: that cutting carbon need not involve financial sacrifice.

Read the full article
10 Oct 2017

Published by

Herald Sun

Category

Articles

Language

Topics

Related news

19 Jul 2019

Voters don't want the green campaigners' extreme climate policies

Published by The Telegraph
The renowned naturalist and climate change campaigner Sir David Attenborough believes governments should face a reckoning for their failure to tackle global warming. Speaking recently about the US and Australia, he expressed a hope that the electorate would vote out governments who are not taking the climate seriously enough. The problem for Sir David and other campaigners is that, far from punishing politicians who pledge to scrap expensive climate policies, voters in Australia just backed them
10 Apr 2012

Interview with Lomborg on BBC radio The World Tonight

Published by BBC

BBC The World Tonight http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldtonight

Apr 9, 2012. Starting at 28:01 min. Reporter: Paul Moss.  

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldtonight
30 May 2019

Examining the Latest False Alarm on Climate

Published by The Wall Street Journal

You’ve probably seen the latest alarming headlines: Rising sea levels from climate change could flood 187 million people out of their homes. Don’t believe it. That figure is unrealistic—and it isn’t even new. It appears in a new scholarly paper, whose authors plucked it from a paper published in 2011. And what the earlier paper actually found was that 187 million could be forced to move in the unlikely event that no one does anything in the next 80 years to adapt to dramatic rises in sea level.
Find more