Bjorn Lomborg
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Critical List: Nebraskans ‘debate’ Keystone XL; Yellowstone temps could rise 10 degrees
Are Nebraskans really “split” over the Keystone XL pipeline, as Canada’s ambassador says? Sounds like a whole lot them know what they want, which is not tar-sands oil running through their state.
Homeowners who want solar panels but don’t want to pay a $30,000 installation cost could start paying utility bills to Google instead.
The EPA’s pushing back the deadline for releasing fuel efficiency rules.
The U.K. could have commercial tidal power within the next four years. -
Climate science rapid response team debunks Bjorn Lomborg
In an op-ed in Washington Post, Bjorn Lomborg argued that efforts to reduce global warming pollution can wait, because "coping with climate change is something we know how to do." To bolster that claim, Lomborg claimed global sea levels are not likely to rise more than about 20 inches by 2100. Because the Post did not bother to fact-check Lomborg's column, the Wonk Room and a group of top climate scientists took on the task.
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Bjorn Lomborg's mostly unoriginal, kind-of-dishonest new movie is worth thinking about anyway
'Cool It' is a movie by a lying liar who lies, but that doesn't mean Lomborg doesn't have a point: we should be spending more money on clean energy.
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Bjorn Lomborg: same skeptic, different day
Bjorn Lomborg, the Danish climate skeptic, is back in the news. He now wants to have it both ways, calling climate change real, but not really urgent.
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‘Skeptical environmentalist’ Bjørn Lomborg reverses his climate skepticism
Bjørn Lomborg knows how to play the media. Who else could get such attention for adopting a position on climate change already held by millions?
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From tobacco to climate change, ‘merchants of doubt’ undermined the science
“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful people can change the world.”— Margaret Mead Because Americans are optimists we tend to see Mead’s observation as upbeat and life-affirming (as it was probably intended). Blinkered by optimism, however, we miss the dark flip side of her observation — that a few fanatics can do immense […]
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Jeff Goodell: ‘It’s a bad idea for geoengineering to be the equivalent of the Pompeii sex room’
Jeff Goodell.To head off the worst impacts of climate change, should human beings deliberately engineer the earth’s climate? Or rather, should they try, with uncertain odds of success and at least some chance of inadvertent catastrophe? Should they even learn how, or would the knowledge itself wreak havoc? These are the sorts of questions journalist […]
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The Septical Environmentalist (sic) says 16 feet of sea level rise wouldn't b
Another op-ed by Bjorn Lomborg, another Gish Gallup of non-stop disinformation. The good news is that the task of debunking the Septical Environmentalist (sic), has been made easier by the publication of whole book dedicated to that tedious task, The Lomborg Deception. And yes, “Septical Environmentalist” is not a typo. Sure, it may seem like […]
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The Climate Post: Melting ice makes slippery slope
First things first: Several high-profile exits from the climate conversation — Evan Bayh (D-Ind.) from the Senate; BP, Caterpillar, and ConocoPhillips, from USCAP; and chief climate negotiator Yvo de Boer from the U.N. — were widely reported this week. None of these stories carry as much long-term significance as the under-reported-on difficulty of many major […]