Today Eve Irvine welcomes Bjorn Lomborg, a writer and environmental activist who has just published "Cool it". A former Greenpeace member, Bjorn Lomborg now calls himself a sceptical environmentalist. Watch it on France24.com

...The question is, what comes next? The author of the Copenhagen Consensus (not to be confused with December's Copenhagen summit), Danish economist Bjorn Lomborg, has talked about a "third way" forward: acknowledging that climate change is real, but pursuing a cost-benefit approach that would commit countries to projects that yield the greatest benefits for the greatest number of people. "I've read Lomborg," Mr. Ramesh says with a smile. "I don't think you should dismiss Lomborg the way climate evangelicals have dismissed him. He makes reasonable points.

El danés que salvará al mundo  by Martha Meier enviada especial

Spaventare i cittadini non è la politica giusta BJØRN LOMBORG

Negli ultimi mesi l’illustre gruppo di consulenza delle Nazioni Unite sul cambiamento del clima, l’Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (Ipcc), è stato scosso da tutta una serie di imbarazzanti rivelazioni sulle fonti di alcune delle sue previsioni più allarmistichee. (…) 

As George W. Bush and Tony Blair learned the hard way, the public does not take kindly to being misled about the nature of potential threats. A similar shift in global public opinion is occurring with respect to climate change, owing to a stream of revelations about climate scientists' sloppy, if not tendentious, practice. 

Lomborg participated in the Munk Debate in Toronto, Canada, on Dec 1 2009. ABOUT the debate: C02 levels in the atmosphere are climbing steadily higher. Some believe this is having a devastating effect on humans and nature, while others argue that the threat has been overstated. Is this the moment for a bold international treaty to curb carbon emissions? Or, are the social and economic costs of reducing C02 emissions too high in world where a billion people live on a dollar or less a day?

From Monday's Globe and Mail Published on Friday, Feb. 05, 2010

Podemos fazer melhor O principal representante dos céticos diz que o combate ao aquecimento global tem de se basear em tecnologia, e não em mudanças no consumo. O cientista político dinamarquês Bjorn Lomborg, de 44 anos, não tem carro. Usa bicicleta ou metrô para se deslocar em Copenhague. Lomborg é um dos mais respeitados entre os pesquisadores céticos em relação aos efeitos catastróficos do aquecimento global. Seus livros e artigos provocam a ira de ambientalistas, mas seus argumentos afiados também são ouvidos com atenção pelos cientistas.

France24 has quoted from Bjorn Lomborg’s Le Monde op-ed in its coverage of the carbon tax debate. The link is below; the quote from Lomborg is in the second to last paragraph. 

By Nicholas Newman, Oxford Prospect.  Increasingly, we are hearing the term that something must be done to solve the world’s almost never-ending ending crises. The media is full of pressing appeals that every problem is urgent and must be tackled immediately, with often little regard to the economic and social costs involved. Unfortunately, for policy makers, the real world of geopolitics and budgetary issues forces politicians to prioritise decisions. Often such policy decisions will be both tough to make and politically unpopular with the public at large.