2013-10-15 En af de mest vedholdende påstande i klimadebatten er, at den globale opvarmning fører til mere ekstreme vejrforhold. Vi hører det ustandseligt fra grønne grupper, og selv respektable medier som Scientific American er bukket under for presset til generelt at erklære, at »ekstreme vejrforhold er et produkt af klimaændringer.« Men alarmisme og panik er sjældent den bedste måde at opnå gode politikker på.

2013-10-14 FOR the past half century, a fundamental debate has raged between optimists and pessimists over the state of the world. Pessimists build their case on overpopulation, starvation and depletion of resources. Optimists stand for the infallibility of the market economy. Wouldn't it be nice to remove the darkened or rose-tinted spectacles for once, and try to quantify how the world really has done and will do in future? I asked some of the world's leading economists to do just that. The result is a groundbreaking book, How Much Have Global Problems Cost The World?

2013-10-07 Australian science magazine COSMOS features a 5-page portrait of Bjorn Lomborg in its October/November edition. 

2013-09-30 On Friday, the U.N. climate panel, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), produced its first overview in six years. It wasn’t about panic and catastrophe, which unfortunately has dominated our climate debate, leading to expensive but ineffective policies.