By Bjørn Lomborg Published: December 9 2010 

Bjørn Lomborg: Cool It! – The Skeptical Environmentalist's Guide to Global Warming

A controversial figure in the climate change debate, the self-proclaimed Danish ‘skeptic’, academic and environmental writer talks about his much-discussed and criticised analysis on the subject as outlined in his book and film Cool It. Part of the series of Greenland events.

This Platform is followed by a booksigning Tickets £3.50 (£2.50 concessions) Running time 45 minutes Tue 15, February 2011, 6:00 pm 

Even as the clean-up continues in the Atlantic Basin, a lot has been written about Hurricane Dean. Some commentators believe nature is sending us a message. They say that the effects of climate change are getting out of hand, and it is time to take action. We have heard this point many times before. With every "extreme weather event," passionate climate change activists ride a public wave of concern. Former Vice President Al Gore believes we must make drastic reductions in carbon emissions because weather-related disasters are on track to cost as much as $1 trillion by 2040. Mr.

Lilian FerreiraDo UOL

Ciência e Saúde Tornar energia verde barata é a solução para o aquecimento global, diz o cético Bjorn Lomborg O ambientalista dinamarquês Bjorn Lomborg já foi visto como mais um pesquisador a questionar a existência do aquecimento global. Hoje, ele afirma que o evento ocorre e é, sim, efeito da ação do homem. Mas sua voz continua dissonante em relação a dos estudiosos do setor: Lomborg não é a favor das metas de redução de emissão dos gases de efeito estufa. (...)  

Efter klimatfiaskot i Köpenhamn misströstar många om ett bindande avtal om utsläppsminskningar. Men tänk om ett sådant avtal inte bara är svårt, utan även ineffektivt? Den omstridda klimatdebattören Bjørn Lomborg och hans tankesmedja anser att det enda som hjälper är att göra grön energi billigare än kol och olja. (...)  

Bjørn Lomborg, a Danish writer and author of The Skeptical Environmentalist,11 argues that if imposed today, efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 80% by 2050 (one goal of the Obama administration) would cost trillions of dollars and inflict more pain than climate change itself. Not surprisingly, governments won’t agree to those costs, he says, which is why international meetings like the Copenhagen conference fail every time they’re held. “One of the definitions of insanity is doing the same thing again and again and expecting a different outcome,” Lomborg says.

65. Bjorn Lomborg for questioning whether we're going after climate change right.

Bjorn Lomborg is back with a new, controversial movie about global warming. Tunku Varadarajan talks to him about the right way to deal with climate change. 

The Climate Connection 2010
Debate - What's Stopping Us?What's stopping us from taking action on climate change?
Can research from other fields help us find solutions where conventional thinking around environmentalism might have failed?
The last part of the Climate Connection explores some of the ideas we've heard throughout the series in an audience discussion with experts in the fields of economics, psychology, leadership and environmentalism. 

Participants:
Kersty Hobson
Bjorn Lomborg
Stephen Peake
Sunand Prasad

Climate change is a practical problem, not a moral one Has ‘skeptical environmentalist’ and scourge of Greenpeace Bjorn Lomborg really had a change of heart and turned green? Er, no, he tells spiked. Rob Lyons ‘“Skeptical environmentalist” and critic of climate scientists to declare global warming a chief concern facing world’, declared the front page of a British broadsheet newspaper in August this year. It suggested that recent comments made by the Danish author Bjorn Lomborg were ‘an apparent U-turn that will give a huge boost to the embattled environmental lobby’. (...)