West hurting itself by pursuing ‘net zero’ while Russia and China increase fossil fuels

2013-01-08 Read Bjørn Lomborg's commentary in an article by Joseph Brean in National Post.

"Global warming has stalled and will not raise world temperatures over the next five years, according to a new prediction from the British national weather service. The updated computer model of the planet’s climate lowers by about 20% an earlier prediction of how much hotter the coming few years will be than the long-term average since 1971."

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.

On September 4, Bjorn Lomborg's latest book 'Cool It' was released in the US.  It will soon be available in the UK and the rest of the world. Buy on Amazon