The Skeptical Environmentalist: Bjørn Lomborg, Environmentalism, Environmental skepticism, Overpopulation, Deforestation, Extinction
The Independent (Free subscription) | 12/04/2009
Although in smart-alec fashion he slams this newspaper for alleged "hypocrisy" (because it carries adverts for long-haul air travel), Denmark's arch eco-sceptic deserves a fair hearing.
Solomonia (Free subscription) | 11/30/2009
Bjorn Lomborg: Climate Change and Melting Glaciers - Nepal's poor have more pressing problems...
a sibilant intake of breath (Free subscription) | 12/01/2009
Bjorn Lomborg is a polarizing figure: a statistician who claims that most environmental problems are less severe than people believe, and who argues that spending money on climate change is wasteful. His objective claims about the state of the environment have been challenged in other places, and I won’t consider them now. Rather, I will [...]
Daily Khabor @ Khabor.Com (Free subscription) | yesterday
COPENHAGEN, Dec. 5 (PRNewswire-AsiaNet/UNB) -- Bjorn Lomborg's Copenhagen Consensus Center Delivers Message about Need for Alternatives to Kyoto Approach. This Monday, 7 December, the first day of the global climate summit (COP15), director Bjorn Lomborg of the Copenhagen Consensus Center will unveil two billboards in central Copenhagen designed to confront politicians and...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 12/04/2009
What would your debating strategy have been against Bjorn Lomborg? How could I have handled him better? I've just returned from Canada, where I've been involved in efforts to stop the government's disastrous campaign of sabotage against the Copenhagen climate talks . I don't know whether or not I've helped to make a difference – you never do – but I did manage to get the...
Domestic Fuel (Free subscription) | 12/04/2009
What is the greatest crisis in the history of civilization? Global warming. Well, at least according to the media’s portrayal. However, according to Bjorn Lomborg, the author of “Cool It“, and the second review in my Copehagen Climate Conference three views in seven days series, while global warming is an concern, it is not the [...]
The Australian (Free subscription) | 12/04/2009
We shouldn't tax carbon but make alternative energy cheaper instead, writes Bjorn Lomborg
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 12/05/2009
COPENHAGEN, Dec. 4 /PRNewswire/ -- This Monday, 7 December, the first day of the global climate summit (COP15), director Bjorn Lomborg of the Copenhagen Consensus Center will unveil two billboards in central Copenhagen designed to confront politicians and delegates with the message that...
PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 12/05/2009
COPENHAGEN, Dec. 4 /PRNewswire/ -- This Monday, 7 December, the first day of the global climate summit (COP15), director Bjorn Lomborg of the Copenhagen Consensus Center will unveil two billboards in central Copenhagen designed to confront politicians and delegates with the message that the current approach to solving global warming is deeply flawed.
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 12/04/2009
Bjorn Lomborg Danish academic and author, director of the Copenhagen consensus centre Key claim Accepts that climate change is happening and is man-made but argues that the proposed solutions are expensive and would not address the problem. Could it be true? The Stern Report says that reduction carbon emissions will cost 1%-2% of global GDP, far less than adapting to it in the long run....
Tom Nelson (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
Under heat, climate-change contrarian won't wilt - The Globe and Mail [Bjorn Lomborg] People say, you shouldn't be a climate-science denier, and I agree. But likewise you shouldn't be a climate-economics denier. And in doing the numbers, we're saying that if you want to keep the temperature rise at two degrees centigrade by cutting carbon emissions, by the end of the century it's going...
artdiamondblog.com (Free subscription) | 12/05/2009
... because of global warming, but because of failing medical response. For the full commentary, see: BJORN LOMBORG. "Climate Change and Malaria in Africa; Limiting carbon emissions won't do much to stop disease in Zambia." The Wall Street Journal (Mon., NOVEMBER 2, 2009): A17. (Note: ellipsis added.) (Note: the online version of the article was dated Nov. 1st.)
Green Party Watch (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
Be it resolved climate change is mankind’s defining crisis and deserves a commensurate policy response. That was the proposition debated last night in Toronto. The participants were: George Monbiot: author of the best selling books Heat: how to stop the planet burning; Bjørn Lomborg: adjunct professor at the Copenhagen Business School. He is the organizer of the Copenhagen [...]...
Clean Break (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
I’ve just returned from the Munk Debate featuring Green Party Leader Elizabeth May, Guardian columnist and Heat author George Monbiot, the skeptical environmentalist Bjorn Lomborg, and British global-warming skeptic and author Nigel Lawson, who insists on having “Lord” precede his name. At debate was the following statement: “Climate change is mankind’s defining...
The News From Scotland (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009
... them. Interestingly there is a more immediate cause of the human suffering. Author Bjørn Lomborg writes, “The global cost of climate-related disaster has increased relentlessly over the past century. The cause is not global warming, however. Rather it is the rising concentrations of people and infrastructure along coastlines.” That is, the trouble is not the storms but...
