Climate change

Climate hyperbole abounds. We are being misled about the looming "climate apocalypse," and we’re also misled that a coming green transition will make energy cheaper, societies safer and everyone richer.

We need better information on how to tackle climate change smartly, while ensuring that we have resources to respond to all the other challenges and to invest in growth and development.

Bjorn Lomborg gave a 16-minute keynote presentation to more than 4000 attendents from more than 90 countries at the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship (ARC) Forum in London. Other speakers besides Lomborg included US Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, Energy Secretary Chris Wright, investor Peter Thiel, Canadian psychologist Dr. Jordan Peterson, and former Australian prime ministers Tony Abbott and Scott Morrison.

The myth that the green energy transition is inevitable and will make cheap electricity for everyone is one of the most dangerous self-delusions of the global elite. Despite two decades of policy attempts, fossil fuels in 2022 still meet 81 per cent of global energy needs, down from 81.2 per cent in 2000. On the most optimistic trend, fossil fuels will still supply two-thirds of all energy in 2100.

Across the world, public finances are stretched dangerously thin. Per person growth continues dropping while costs are climbing for pensions, education, healthcare, and defense. These urgent priorities could easily require an additional 3-6 percent of GDP. Yet green campaigners are loudly calling for governments to spend up to 25 percent of our GDP choking growth in the name of climate change.

Two major new scientific meta-studies on the total global cost of climate change show why political demands of de-growth in the name of climate change are such a misguided idea.

Groene beloften en de schrille stem van klimaatverdoemenis putten kiezers uit. Het is terug te zien in verschuivingen naar rechts in verschillende Europese landen, redeneert Bjørn Lomborg. „Er is behoefte aan slimmere, meer praktische klimaatbeleidsmaatregelen. Wat we het meest nodig hebben is innovatie.”

Development agencies fund green projects when people need jobs, food and energy.
 

Acúpula climática da ONU no Azerbaijão, a COP29, está sendo realizada na sombra da eleição de Donald Trump, e muitos líderes importantes nem aparecerão.

A november 11-én kezdődött és 22-éig tartó azerbajdzsáni ENSZ-klímacsúcsot Donald Trump megválasztásának árnyékában rendezik meg, sok fontos politikai vezető el sem megy az eseményre. A csúccsal kapcsolatos elvárások már a klímakonferencia kezdete előtt is alacsonyak voltak, ennek ellenére grandiózus beszédek hangzanak el arról, hogy hatalmas pénzáramlásra van szükség a gazdag országokból a szegényebbek felé. Trump győzelme előtt is irreálisnak tűnő, ezer milliárd dolláros fellépésre vonatkozó felhívások elhibázottak, és biztos, hogy kudarcot vallanak.

La cumbre de las Naciones Unidas sobre el clima que se está celebrando en Azerbaiyán (hasta el 22 de noviembre) tiene lugar a la sombra de la elección de Donald Trump y muchos líderes clave ni siquiera se presentarán. 

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