Why Trump shouldn’t slash R&D funding

by Wayne Visser on behalf of Cambridge Programme for Industry for the Cambridge Top 50 Sustainability Books project, 26 August 2008

WV: So if you're ready I'll kick off with a question. It's really just a reflective this on what brought you to write the book in the first place and how has it been received since.

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.”

Environmentalistonline.com 2011 Febr

A sceptic is someone who questions or doubts accepted opinions. Bjorn Lomborg, author of The Skeptical Environmentalist, challanges many "orthodox" views about climate change, but one thing he does accept is that man-made global warming exists: he is no climate-change denier. (...) A minority voice? The self-styled sceptical environmentalist, Bjørn Lomborg, talks to Paul Suff