Lomborg is quoted in Fox about Earth Hour

Copenhagen Consensus Center President Bjørn Lomborg says global warming will have “mostly negative impacts”, but people need to have a “sense of proportion”.

“When temperatures rise, you’re going to see more heat, and hence more heatwaves and hence more heat deaths,” he told Sky News host Andrew Bolt.

“But what you don’t hear is that when temperatures rise, you also see less cold, less cold waves, and hence fewer cold deaths.”

2012-09-24 Meteorologické podmínky panující během letošního léta poskytly po celém světě dostatek munice pro debatu o globálním oteplování. Sucha a vlny veder jsou předzvěstí naší budoucnosti, uhlíkové škrty jsou zapotřebí více než kdykoliv dříve, avšak smysluplná politika stále nebyla uzákoněna. (...) Read more 

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