‘Follow the Science’ Leads to Ruin

Lomborg points out that almost everywhere cold deaths outweigh heat deaths. Fortunately, heat deaths are declining in countries with good data, likely because of ever more air conditioning. This is abundantly clear for the United States, which has seen increasing hot days since 1960 affecting a much greater population. Yet, the number of heat deaths has more than halved.

by Bjorn Lomborg, WSJ May 22, 2008 The pain caused by the global food crisis has led many people to belatedly realize that we have prioritized growing crops to feed cars instead of people. That is only a small part of the real problem... Read it online BL May 22 2008 WSJ How to Think About.pdf

Copenhagen Consensus Centre President Bjorn Lomborg says countries are spending an “enormous amount of money” on the climate issue and doing “almost nothing”.

Opposition Leader Peter Dutton has signalled Australia will not follow the US in leaving the Paris climate agreement if they win the election.

“We should fix climate smartly, but right now we are just fixing it stupidly,” Mr Lomborg told Sky News host Peta Credlin.

“It is increasingly becoming obvious to voters and to politicians that this is not the right way to go about it.”