Climate Change Is Not an Emergency: A Discussion With Bjorn Lomborg

Second in a series: Global warming does cause heat deaths to rise. But many more people die from the cold

Clearing the air on climate change Talking to Bjorn Lomborg Sarah Lynch, December 14, 2010

Speaking at the United Nations, 16-year-old Swedish activist Greta Thunberg said that if humanity really understands the science of climate change and still fails to act, we’re “evil.” This is because climate change means “people are dying.” Helpfully, she also told us what we must do to act correctly: In a bit more than eight years, we will have exhausted our remaining allowance for carbon emissions, so we must shut down everything running on fossil fuels by 2028.