Get the facts straight
2013-10-19 Ignore the doomsters: on nearly every measure our planet is getting fairer, healthier and safer.
Published by Business Day
Low-efficiency or inefficient programmes are replacing those that tackle hunger and illiteracy
Published by USA Today
By Bjorn Lomborg In a week's time, several thousand well-meaning officials from 194 countries will gather in Cancun, Mexico, for yet another global climate summit. And just as they did last year in Copenhagen, and the year before in Poznan, Poland, and in fact every year since 1995 in a variety of locales from Kyoto, Japan, to Marrakech, Morocco, they will fill the air with apocalyptic warnings about what will happen to the planet if we don't cut carbon emissions drastically. After that, they will go home, once again having done nothing meaningful about global warming. (...)
Published by Barron's
Global Warming Is Manageable -- if We're Smart
THE NEXT TREATY TO CURB GLOBAL WARMING WILL BE negotiated this December in Copenhagen, Bjorn Lomborg's home city.