Get the facts straight
Fox interview with Bjørn Lomborg. Watch it online (only available from the USA)
Published by New York Post
For years, climate campaigners have claimed that our food supply is under grave threat from climate change caused by excessive fossil fuel use. Ironically, the war in the Middle East is highlighting the much bigger food challenge for the world: Not having enough access to fossil fuels to make fertilizer.
Fears of climate-driven food collapse are vastly overstated, while policies aimed at rapidly curbing fossil fuel use risk making food more expensive and less accessible, especially for the world’s poorest.
Published by Wall Street Journal
Activists constantly talk about the existential threat climate change poses and the deaths natural disasters inflict—but they never quite manage to total up these deaths. One reason is that it’s easier to bend the data about disaster frequency than to bend death statistics. Death tolls tell a very clear story: People are safer from climate-related disasters than ever before.
After the Cold War, the West took a vacation from history. Now it’s urgent that we get back to work.
