Get the facts straight
The international body’s warnings are more about demagoguery than data.
Published by Wall Street Journal
Partisan “fact checks” are undermining open discourse about important issues, including climate change. Earlier this month I wrote an accurate post on Facebook about the growing polar-bear population. The post undercut alarmist climate narratives, so it was wrongly tagged as a falsehood.
Published by Project Syndicate
Hurricane Sandy isn't about reducing CO2 emissions. It's about better disaster-preparedness.
Op-ed by Bjørn Lomborg in Project Syndicate.
When “superstorm” Sandy hit the east coast of the United States on October 29, it not only flooded the New York City Subway and became the most important factor for 15% of US voters in the presidential election a week later. It also resurrected the unwarranted claim that global warming was to blame for such events, together with the morally irresponsible argument that we should help future hurricane victims by cutting CO2 emissions.
Published by KPCC radio
Patt Morrison for May 5, 2011
Has Bjorn Lomborg—the poster child of environmental skeptics—changed his climate?
Bjorn Lomborg, Danish environmental academic, infuriated scientists around the world when he published The Skeptical Environmentalist in 2001. The book claimed that overpopulation, destruction of resources, and global warming are not imminent problems. It would be a waste of time, Lomborg wrote, and even detrimental, if countries focused on environmental problems like global warming instead of on bigger problems such as worldwide poverty and disease. (...)