Lomborg on Stossel: Whom can you trust?

The Hoover Institution held a Fellow Talk with Bjorn Lomborg on Monday, April 1, 2024 from 2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. PT. Lomborg discusses Climate and Development Spending: How the World Bank and others are spending evermore resources on doing ever less good.

Global warming is a significant, long-term problem. Unfortunately, we’re tackling it with very costly, and very ineffective, feel-good solutions.

Lomborg writes in The Australian that we should instead focus on cost-effective CO2 reductions like shale gas in the short term and green R&D in the long run.

2014-02-14 FORT LAUDERDALE – At the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in Davos last month, leading participants called for a rapid shift to cleaner energy to tackle climate change. There is something unsettling about the global power elite jetting into an exclusive Swiss ski resort and telling the rest of the world to stop using fossil fuels. (...)