Bjørn Lomborg

Credentials

Ph.D., Department of Political Science, University of Copenhagen (1994).“¹
M.A., political science (1991).

Background

Bjørn Lomborg is a political scientist, economist, and the founder and president of the Copenhagen Consensus Center (CCC).² Lomborg’s Copenhagen Consensus Center (CCC) was founded in 2006 in Denmark and registered as a non-profit organization in the United States in 2008.³The Center has attracted at least $18,955,642 in funding since 2008, according to a review of publicly available 990 forms. A DeSmog investigation found that the CCC received at least $200,000 in 2013 from “vulture capitalist” Paul Singer’s charitable foundation, however its 2015 tax return suggests the gift was returned.⁴

According to his website, Lomborg.com, Bjørn Lomborg is a visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University and was also an adjunct professor at the Copenhagen Business School from 2005 to 2015 and then a visiting professor from 2016 to 2020. He received his Ph.D. in Political Science at the University of Copenhagen in 1994.⁵

Since March 2023, Lomborg has been an advisory board member of the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship,⁶ a group co-founded by Jordan B Peterson, which includes a number of high-profile climate deniers on its advisory board.

Lomborg is listed as a ”Speaker” by The Sweeney Agency, which defines itself as a “client-focused speakers bureau that puts the needs of the client first.”⁷. The Sweeney Agency describes Lomborg as an “Author and Speaker on the Environment and Climate Change,” noting that one of the topics Lomborg speaks about is “The Truth About Global Warming”:⁸

“This thought-provoking talk is based on Dr. Lomborg’s bestselling book and film, Cool It. Here, Lomborg will demonstrate how we’re often told very one-sided and exaggerated claims about the environment and climate change, leading to unwarranted panic, instead of rationally assessing where and how we can do the most good. He argues that to tackle global warming we need smarter solutions focused on getting long-term solutions like cost-competitive renewables and that many of the impacts of global warming would be better addressed through adaptation.”

Lomborg is best known as the author of The Skeptical Environmentalist and Cool It, two books that downplay the risks of global warming. Lomborg does not have a background in climate science and has published no peer-reviewed articles in journals devoted to climate change research. He has, however, authored policy studies arguing against measures to prevent climate change. He wrote a similar article in the peer-reviewed journal Technological Forecasting and Social Change, where he claimed, “Climate policies also have costs that often vastly ouetigh their climate benefits.”

TFSC describes itself as a “major forum for those wishing to deal directly with the methodology and practice of technological forecasting and future studies as planning tools as they interrelate social, environmental and technological factors.”⁹

Lomborg’s Errors

Lomborg’s errors in his discussion of climate change have been documented by many sources, including a 2010 book published by Yale University Press titled The Lomborg Deception: Setting the Record Straight About Global Warming.

Lomborg-errors.dk is a website focused on documenting his errors, although it does not appear to have been recently updated. It also maintains a timeline documenting the events leading to Lomborg’s fame, and how he is regarded among his fellow Danes.¹⁰

Copenhagen Consensus Center Funding

Below is a sample of some of the Copenhagen Consensus Center’s known funding, according to research by Conservative Transparency and DeSmog’s review of publicly available 990 forms.¹¹

Stance on Climate Change

In a 2010 report in The Guardian, Lomborg acknowledged that global warming is “a challenge that humanity must confront.” Lomborg goes as far as calling for a carbon tax and a $100 billion investment in clean technologies.¹²

However, in his book Smart Solutions to Climate Change, Lomborg argues that implementing any major carbon reduction policy would be too expensive, and that “drastic carbon cuts would be the poorest way to respond to global warming.”¹³

As Desmog reports, Lomborg appears to be directly contradicting himself.¹⁴

On December 6, 2013 (three days after Lomborg wrote an op-ed for The New York Times Opinion page), The Guardian released an article entitled, “Is Bjorn Lomborg right to say fossil fuels are what poor countries need?”¹⁵ where Lomborg’s solution to climate change was to give the globe more access to cheap fossil fuels. This solution by Lomborg has developed into a term coined as “energy poverty.”¹⁶

Green Energy

In a 2019 article in The Australian, Lomborg ponders if this generation wants to be remembered as “the generation that overreacted and spent a fortune” on “subsidising inefficient solar panels.”¹⁷

In what appears to be a contradiction, Lomborg also advocates for investments in green energy technologies, stating, “At the same time, wealthy Western nations must step up investments into research and development in green energy technologies to ensure that cleaner energy eventually becomes so cheap that everyone will want it.”¹⁸ ¹⁹

Geo-Engineering

Lomborg has promoted the controversial idea of geoengineering as a means to address climate change.²⁰ In one instance, Lomborg envisioned a fleet of 1900 robotic ships that would patrol the ocean while releasing spouts of ocean water to reflect the sun’s rays in an attempt to reduce global warming.²¹

Geoengineering research proponent Ken Caldeira has said “the vision of Lomborg’s Climate Consensus is ‘a dystopic world out of a science fiction story … Geoengineering is not an alternative to carbon emissions reductions … If emissions keep going up and up, and you use geoengineering as a way to deal with it, it’s pretty clear the endgame of that process is pretty ugly’.”²²

Key Quotes

December 20, 2024

Lomborg posted on Twitter/X:

“No, fossil fuels won’t end soon

“Today, world gets 81% of its energy (not just electricity) from fossil fuels, down from 82.8% in 2010 and 81.2% in 2000

“On current trends from 2010, we get to zero in 2401, four centuries from now

“On current trends from data start in 1971, we get to zero in 2905, nine centuries from now”²³

August 6, 2023

In a Telegraph piece announcing the launch of the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship (ARC), Lomborg along with ARC co-founder Jordan B Peterson asserted that there was a need to “have an honest debate of costs and benefits” of climate action “to find the best solutions.”²⁴ They decry “the alarmist treatment of climate,” accuse climate campaign groups of “fear-mongering” which is “pushing us toward the wrong solutions.” They also characterise criticise the costs of net zero “that will cost far beyond $100 trillion, while producing benefits a fraction as large.”

Other versions of the same article were also published by the New York Post on August 4²⁵, National Post on August 10²⁶ and Jakarta Post on August 11.²⁷

September 18, 2023

Lomborg wrote an article in NH Journal, a publication of InsideSources titled “No Need to Panic on Climate Change“:²⁸

“As surely as temperatures rise during the summer, climate alarmism serves up more stories of life-threatening heat domes, apocalyptic fires and biblical floods, all blamed squarely on global warming. Yet, the data to prove this link is often cherry-picked, and the proposed policy responses could be more effective,” Lomborg wrote. He concluded: “To do better on climate, we must resist the misleading, alarmist climate narrative.”

August 3, 2023

A Guardian report detailed how, in the face of unprecedented wildfires across much of the world, Lomborg argued that wildfires were becoming less commonplace and less severe globally.²⁹

In a tweet he said:

“Climate alarmists scare us with ever more fire. But satellites show the world is burning ever less. In 2022, the world burned the least ever in the satellite era.”³⁰

Lomborg tweeted a link to his article, published in the journal Technological Forecasting and Social Change, which claims to show agreement across various modelled scenarios global will be only moderately impacted by 8 degrees of global warming.
In the paper, Lomborg makes the case that the costs of taking climate action “vastly outweigh” the costs imposed by climate change itself. He argued that the 2 degree target is economically “unrealistic” and that a favourable scenario would see a reduction of warming from 4 degrees to 3.75 degrees.

He argued that:

“The current climate discourse leads to wasteful climate policies, diverting attention and funds from more effective ways to improve the world.”’

July 31, 2023

Lomborg wrote an opinion piece for the Wall Street Journal entitled “Climate Change Hasn’t Set the World on Fire,” where he argued the area of land burned each year has been in decline since 2001, despite “one of the most common tropes in our increasingly alarmist climate debate” that wildfires are becoming more prevalent with climate change.³¹ He accused the media of “cherry-picking” when reporting on wildfires, in particular over claims about the number of animal deaths resulting from wildfires.

He added that claims that climate policy is the only way to reduce wildfires were “embarrassingly wrong”

Lomborg asserted that wildfire reporting was one of many climate “scare-duds,” citing media discourse of threats to polar bears from climate change as a prime example given an apparent increase in the polar bear numbers in the past half-century.

In relation to climate policy, he argued that:

“The common-sense response would be to recognize that both climate change and carbon-cutting policies incur costs, then negotiate a balance that puts the most effective measures first.”

July 2, 2023

In an interview with the New York Post, Lomborg characterised climate debate as “scaremongering” over the threat of climate change and “we just need to have a sense of proportion” in relation to other issues.³² He argued that “not only are we not fixing the climate, but we’re also wasting an enormous amount of money that could have been spent on other things.” He added that the best way to tackle these challenges he outlines is through “global capitalism” which “lifted millions out of poverty.”

June 17, 2023

Lomborg tweet ed a link to his article, published in the journal Technological Forecasting and Social Change, which claims to show agreement across various modelled scenarios global will be only moderately impacted by 8 degrees of global warming.³³
In the paper, Lomborg makes the case that the costs of taking climate action “vastly outweigh” the costs imposed by climate change itself. He argued that the 2 degree target is economically “unrealistic” and that a favourable scenario would see a reduction of warming from 4 degrees to 3.75 degrees.³⁴

He argued that:

“The current climate discourse leads to wasteful climate policies, diverting attention and funds from more effective ways to improve the world.”’

May 15, 2023

Lomborg appeared on Fox Business where he argued that, rather than reducing emissions from agriculture, it would be better to focus on improving yields through technological innovation as “you’re just barking up the wrong tree by saying it’s all about CO2.”³⁵

April 26, 2023

Republicworld.com reported that Lomborg gave a speech at the Republic Summit 2023 in India in which he argued that the Paris agreement is “little effective” to tackle climate change as “the West does not walk the talk on climate change.”³⁶ Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi was also to attend the summit according to the report. Lomborg also said that climate change “was not the end of the world” and was a challenge required smart solutions.

April 18, 2023

Lomborg tweeted a link to a Bloomberg article on anticipated price increases for European air travel as a result of climate policy with the caption “Congrats: European flight costs will almost double because of climate policies.”³⁷

April 17, 2023

In an article for the National Review, Lomborg uses a series of eight graphs, six of which are his own, to argue that the threat of climate change is consistently overstated, that “global warming is real, but it is not the end of the world.” He characterised “the global discussion about climate change” as “hysterical,” arguing that this was “drowning out many other relevant facts about climate change.” He uses the piece to argue that the most effective way to combat climate change would be to invest in research and development of new clean technologies, rather than cutting back on fossil fuel production in the short-term.³⁸

One of the eight graphs included in the piece is on “the cost of going net zero” which Lomborg characterised as “fantastically expensive” meaning that “these policies are doomed to failure.”

Elsewhere, Lomborg uses another graph to argue that climate change was not making hurricanes more likely, adding that “these days, every weather phenomenon is turned into instant climate news.”

Another graph takes on the issue of heat and cold related deaths, where Lomborg argues that while climate change will increase the number of heat deaths each year, this will be more than offset by a reduction in deaths from cold. He argued that reducing deaths from extreme temperatures would require “access to plentiful and cheap energy — the opposite of what many climate policies would achieve.

Lomborg references another graph to argue that Polar bear populations have recovered significantly since the 1960s due a reduction in hunting, arguing that climate change should be discounted in polar bear population numbers as “if we care about polar bears, it is hunting that we should focus on.”

A graph on malnutrition is used by Lomborg to argue against WHO predictions that the number globally suffering from malnutrition will increase due to climate change. He instead makes the case that economic development alone will mean more people will have access to a nutritious diet, offsetting a loss in crop yields due a warming climate.

On the subject of climate-related deaths, Lomborg argues that climate-related deaths would decrease due to technological advancement and that “not only is climate not the big killer of our times, it also isn’t claiming more lives than before.”

A final graph, created by Lomborg, shows the trajectory of the global share of renewables, which he uses to argue that renewables will not, and cannot replace fossil fuels on the 2050 net zero timeline, making the prospect of meeting these targets “hardly realistic.”

In conclusion, Lomborg makes the case against cutting fossil fuel production, adding:

“Climate change will be solved not by making fossil energy unaffordable, but by innovating the price of green technologies downward so that everyone can afford the switch.”

April 15, 2023

In a tweet, he labelled the thesis that climate change could worsen the spread of malaria “climate doomism,” also posting a graph which claims to show that climate change would only marginally worsen the spread of malaria versus a non-climate change scenario.³⁹

He said:

“Higher temps: more people 𝗰𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗱 get malaria. In real life, you get malaria if you’re poor. Malaria endemic in 36 US states before 1940s bc poverty. Malaria decreases bc development. climate just slows improvement slightly.”

April 14, 2023

Bjørn Lomborg gave a speech at the Calgary Petroleum Club in which he argued that media reporting of climate change exaggerates the reality of climate impacts and downplays the effects of human adaptation.⁴⁰ Lomborg also argued against carbon taxes to help reduce emissions as “states are less effective at spending revenue than people.”

He concluded by characterising climate policy as unfeasible:

“Why would you want to say ‘No -I support poor and ineffective, very expensive solutions that we never can sell to most of the world’.”

March 28, 2023

In a Fox Business interview, Lomborg characterised the Paris accord target of limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees celsius as “impossible,” adding that it is “incredibly expensive and not going to happen.”⁴¹

He argued against governmental mandates on renewable energy and electric vehicles amounted to fixing the problem of climate change “really badly,” arguing “technological innovation, that is how you solve this.”

February 22, 2023

Writing in BusinessDay, Lomborg argued that the best route to meet sustainable development goals in relation to hunger is to fund agricultural research based on findings from his think tank the Copenhagen Consensus, and that doing so would be more effective than “subsidising fertilizer.”⁴²

December 1, 2023

In a piece for the Financial Post, Lomborg argued against government subsidies for electric vehicles, by suggesting that the carbon emissions and pollution from electric vehicles were not significantly lower than that of fossil fuel powered cars.⁴³

He concluded the piece by saying:

“Politicians want the change now and are planning to waste hundreds of billions of dollars subsidizing electric cars, blocking consumers from choosing the cars they want, to achieve virtually nothing for the climate.”

May 14, 2022

In a Spectator article titled “What the new GCSE in global warming should teach”, Lomborg argued that students should “be encouraged to take a rationalist approach” rather than “be scared to death about the future of the planet”.⁴⁴

He added:

“They might ask whether the obsession with climate change in recent decades has taken attention away from the many other major problems facing the planet. And they might also look at ‘extreme weather events’ and whether they really are claiming more lives.”

Lomborg also argued that though the “commercial cost of hurricane damage” will increase due to climate change, but “because the world will also get richer, relative damages will keep declining, just slightly more slowly than they would have done”.

Similarly, he argued that deaths from the cold were a greater risk than excess deaths from rising temperatures, writing “it’s all about perspective” and that:

“By the UN’s own estimates, the average person in 2100 will be 450 per cent richer than today. Global warming will make this increase 4 per cent smaller, reducing it by 16 percentage points. It means that the average person in 2100 will ‘only’ be 434 per cent as rich. This is not a disaster.”

He added: “There certainly are studies showing that low-lying Bangladesh will be threatened by sea level rises by the end of the century. But similarly, the UN also assumes that by then Bangladesh will be richer than the Netherlands is now, and able to afford flood defences.”

April 14, 2022

In an article for The Herald titled “Bjorn Lomborg: Fracking could be the answer as Europe seeks energy independence”, Lomborg argued that “we have been sold a largely untrue story that renewables can give us energy independence” because “the key renewables […] only work when the sun is shining or the wind is blowing”.⁴⁵

He also claimed that “all the batteries in Europe can store power for just one minute and 21 seconds of the continent’s average electricity demand”, adding: “after that we’re back to relying mostly on fossil fuel backup”.

According to Lomborg, Europe should “reconsider producing its own natural gas through fracking, like the US did” because “Fracking could deliver cheap energy, complete energy independence, and has reduced US emissions dramatically”.

Addressing the concerns which led to the UK’s fracking ban, he wrote that “most can be addressed with good regulation”, repeating the claim that “most of Europe has rejected fracking because of exaggerated fears, spread with financial help from Russia”.

He concluded by suggesting that fracking is the “most pragmatic option” to increase energy security “for the short run”, and that gas “ could generate plentiful, cheap gas and huge economic benefits, while reducing emissions”.

April 13, 2022

In a Business Live article titled “Bjorn Lomborg: Obsession with climate change distorts our priorities”, Lomborg argued that the “global elite’s obsession with climate change” has “taken away from the many other major problems facing the planet”.⁴⁶

Lomborg stated that the “elite” have “worked hard” to make fossil fuels “both more expensive and less available for the world’s poorest” while Western countries remain “overwhelmingly powered by fossil fuels”.

He also criticised the media, writing:

“For years the media has portrayed the effects of climate change as horrendous. Today almost every natural disaster routinely gets blamed on the climate crisis, with every new hurricane or destructive flood held up as another exhibit of human folly. Yet hurricanes killed many more people in the past.”

Lomborg continued to argue that we shouldn’t worry about global climate damage, writing: “Global climate damage as a percentage of GDP keeps declining […] Remember, by the UN’s own estimates the average person in 2100 will be 450% richer than today. Global warming means that person will ‘only’ be 434% as rich.”

He concluded:

“Climate should be tackled more effectively by funding research into green energy sources so they eventually outcompete fossil fuels […] We need our perspective back to overcome the elitist hyperbole on climate change.”

March 1, 2022

In a Financial Post article titled “If you think today’s energy prices are high, wait until net-zero”, Lomborg argued that climate policies are “increasingly driving prices up” and that “New net-zero emission pledges add trillions in costs”.⁴⁷

Lomborg wrote: “Making a transition away from fossil fuels to green energy will be costly […] As countries move to achieve ‘net-zero carbon’ emissions, costs will escalate much higher again.”

He concluded:

“The vast cost of achieving net-zero isn’t an argument to do nothing. It’s an argument to be smarter and put the horse back before the cart. […] Only when green energy is cheaper than fossil fuels will the entire world be able and willing to make the transition.”

January 1, 2022

In a post on Facebook, Lomborg wrote: “Fewer and fewer people die from climate-related natural disasters. This is even true of 2021 — despite breathless climate reporting, almost 99% fewer people died that year than a hundred years ago.” He asked, “why is this consistently not reported?”⁴⁸

Lomborg added: “Global warming is a real problem that we should fix smartly. But panic from bad media reporting, scaring kids and adults alike, does not help us being smart.”

October 9, 2018

In an article at the Wall Street Journal, Lomborg criticized the recent United Nations report on climate change:⁴⁹

“The new report has no comparison of the costs and benefits of climate targets. Mr. Nordhaus’s most recent estimate, published in August, is that the ‘optimal’ outcome with a moderate carbon tax is a rise of about 6.3 degrees Fahrenheit by the end of the century. Reducing temperature rises by more would result in higher costs than benefits, potentially causing the world a $50 trillion loss.”

December 7, 2017

Lomborg has consistently criticized the Paris climate Treaty. For example, he wrote at the Herald Sun:⁵⁰

“By the United Nations’ own estimates, all of the promised cuts up to 2030 will reduce emissions by less than 1 per cent of what would be needed to keep temperature rises under 2C. Paris will deliver far less than politicians promise and cost more than most people are willing to pay.”

June 2016

“[J]ust like every other issue, there’s both positives and negatives to global warming. Overall, and in the long run, the negatives will outweigh the positives, but there is a lot of positives to global warming right now.”⁵¹

April 6, 2016

Bjørn Lomborg wrote an article in The Wall Street Journal titled “An Overheated Climate Alarm” which claims that cold temperatures are more deadly than heat, following the publication of the US Global Change Research Program’s (US GCRP) overview of the impact of climate change on public health:⁵²

“Climate change is a genuine problem that will eventually be a net detriment to society. Gradually rising temperatures across decades will increase the number of hot days and heat waves. If humans make no attempts whatsoever to adapt—a curious assumption that the report inexplicably relies on almost throughout—the total number of heat-related deaths will rise. But correspondingly, climate change will also reduce the number of cold days and cold spells. That will cut the total number of cold-related deaths.”

“In pushing too hard for the case that global warming is universally bad for everything, the administration’s report undermines the reasonable case for climate action. Focusing on only the bad side of the ledger destroys academic and political credibility.”

January 2, 2015

Lomborg was quoted in a piece titled, “Climate change real, deadly says David Attenborough,” in which Lomborg says that “the UN should focus on more cost-effective environmental policies,” and increase their global target for limiting warming from 2C to 3C:⁵³

“Pursuing this 2C target is very costly and not guaranteed to be successful. Much better, then, to target a maximum of, say, 3C rise, which will cost about $40 trillion but avoid most damages.

“If we insist on 2C, we will pay an extra $60,000 billion, but only prevent a stream of $100 billion damages that begins in 70 to 80 years. Moreover, all of these estimates assume cost-effective climate policies, whereas in real life they have often become many times more expensive.”

April 29, 2014

In an opinion piece written by Lomborg in The Australian entitled, “Renewables pave path to poverty,” Lomborg encourages everyone engaged in the debate [of Australia’s Renewable Energy Target (RET)] to “recognise:”⁵⁴

“The Australian government recently released an issues paper for the review of the renewable energy target. What everyone engaged in this debate should recognise is that policies such as the carbon tax and the RET have contributed to household electricity costs rising 110 per cent in the past five years, hitting the poor the hardest.”

Further on, he states:

“In 1971, 40 per cent of China’s energy came from renewables. Since then it has lifted 680 million people out of poverty using coal. Today, China gets a trifling 0.23 per cent of its energy from wind and solar. Africa gets 50 per cent of its energy today from renewables — and remains poor. New analysis from the Centre for Global Development shows that, investing in renewables, we can pull one person out of poverty for about $US500. But, using gas electrification, we could quadruple that. By focusing on our climate concerns, we deliberately choose to leave more than three out of four people in darkness and poverty. Addressing global warming requires long-term innovation that makes green energy affordable. Until then, wasting enormous sums of money at the expense of the world’s poor is no solution at all.”

February 2014

“A new paper by Todd Moss and Ben Leo from the nonprofit think tank, Center for Global Development, puts it very clearly. If Obama spends the next $10 billion on gas electrification, he can help lift 90 million people out of poverty. If he only uses renewables, the same $10 billion can help just 20 million-27 million people. Using renewables, we will deliberately choose to leave more than 60 million people in darkness and poverty…Our development aid should be used to help 60 million more people out of poverty, not as a tool to make us feel virtuous about facile, green choices.”⁵⁵

December 2013

In an op-ed in The New York Times, Lomborg writes:

“There’s no question that burning fossil fuels is leading to a warmer climate and that addressing this problem is important. But doing so is a question of timing and priority. For many parts of the world, fossil fuels are still vital and will be for the next few decades, because they are the only means to lift people out of the smoke and darkness of energy poverty.”⁵⁶

November 12, 2013

Lomborg hosts a TED Blog video titled, “What do global problems cost us?” as a follow-up to his previous TED Talk in 2005:

Source: TED Blog Video YouTube account

Bjørn Lomborg: [09:37-10:22] “[I]f you look at the time period from 1900 to 2050, surprisingly, for a lot of people, the net impact of most global warming was actually positive. That’s because CO2 is actually fertilizer; that means it increases our agricultural production. Of course, in the long run, increasing temperatures is also going to reduce agricultural production. We will also see more people die from heat, but many more people will avoid to die from cold, again with moderate global warming. And we probably also see the lower costs of heating outweigh the extra costs of cooling. So, actually, if you look at what the cost is [of global warming], it turns out to be a slight negative around 1900 at about 0.5% and across the whole of the century, mostly a negative.”⁵⁷

March 2007

“We have to ask ourselves: what do we want to do first? Do we want to focus on cutting CO2, at fairly high costs and doing fairly little good a hundred years from now? Or would we rather want to fix some of the many obvious problems in the world, where we could do a lot more good and do it now?”⁵⁸

Key Actions

May 2025

Lomborg published an op-ed in several publications, including the New York Post and Bangkok Post, among others, under “‘Cheap’ solar and wind is a lie, green countries pay more!” and similar titles.⁵⁹ ⁶⁰

In the New York Post article, Lomborg declared:

“Poor countries are especially hurt by the lie of cheap green energy.”⁶¹

He concluded, “We will only fix climate change and make a transition when green energy truly becomes cheaper than fossil fuels.”

Lomborg claimed in the article that “The latest data from the International Energy Agency make it clear that there is a strong and clear correlation between more solar and wind and much higher average energy prices for households and industries.”

May 7, 2025

E&E News reported Bjørn Lomborg, Alex Epstein, Roy Spencer, and John Constable as “four influencers who have helped shape [Chris] Wright’s approach to climate and energy.”⁶²

E&E News reported that “many of his [Wright’s] talking points spring from a broad network of conservative activists and influencers.”

“Their approach has been described by critics as a new kind of climate denialism. One that doesn’t dispute that global warming is real but rather frames it as a lesser problem — often with the use of cherry-picked data and a misrepresentation of scientific findings,” E&E News reported.

“’He pretty much claims that there is no evidence that burning fossil fuels would lead to, you know, deleterious effects, bad effects on the climate, and it’s just not true,” said Colorado State University climate scientist Scott Denning.

E&E News noted that Bjørn Lomborg “has been called a ‘friend’ by Wright and was cited in his ‘Bettering Human Lives’ report.”

“Lomborg acknowledges that climate change is occurring but he has made a career of attacking clean energy by making claims that it is unreliable and ‘hurts the poor’,” E&E News reported.

Roy Spencer’s work was cited as a resource in Wright’s report. “[H]e has attacked federal climate researchers as being biased because they receive taxpayer money, and he has claimed that people alive today won’t experience global warming,” E&E News noted, adding “Spencer also served as a visiting fellow for the Heritage Foundation, which produced the Project 2025 policy proposal that has guided the first months of President Donald Trump’s second term.”

E&E News noted that both Wright and Alex Epstein like to use the phrase “human flourishing” in reference to oil and gas. Wright appeared on an episode of Epstein’s “Power Hour” podcast.

Wright hosted John Constable at a 2022 event where he referred to him as an “energy scholar” and top energy system analyst. He also said Constable was an editor of his “Bettering Human Lives” report.

“In his presentation, Constable suggested that Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act, which contained almost $400 billion in clean energy incentives and spending, could create conditions in the U.S. within a decade that would be akin to the Great Depression,” E&E News reported.

May 7, 2025

Lomborg wrote an article in the New York Post titled “‘Cheap’ solar and wind is a lie, green countries pay more!”⁶³

“Poor countries are especially hurt by the lie of cheap green energy,” Lomborg claimed in the piece.

He concluded, “We will only fix climate change and make a transition when green energy truly becomes cheaper than fossil fuels.”

May 2, 2025

Lomborg wrote an op-ed at the Philippine Daily Inquirer titled “Flirting with green virtue-signaling.”⁶⁴

In the article, he argued that “It is hypocritical and ultimately immoral to insist that poorer countries rely on intermittent solar and wind when every single rich country has access to a vast amount of affordable, dependable energy, mostly from fossil fuels.”

Lomborg commented:

“Climate change is undeniably a real problem which has tangible economic impacts. However, climate solutions also come with their own set of costs, often demanding that businesses and individuals rely on pricier, less dependable energy sources. The decision to balance the expenses of climate policies with the advantages of climate action falls rightly under the responsibility of governments, not profit-driven businesses.”

Commenting on how BP gave up on its promise to slash oil and gas production and “abandoned those farcical green promises and recommitted to its primary activity: fossil fuels,” Lomborg claimed, “the truth is that these promises were always an inefficient way of helping the planet, and very short-sighted for fossil fuel companies.”

“Shareholders need to ask hard questions about what these policies really do for the planet, and what they add to the bottom line,” Lomborg wrote.

He concluded: “The era of being cheered on for every green promise and vow—regardless of how silly or self-defeating—has come to an end. It’s time for those leaders to get back to business.”

April 22, 2025

Bjorn Lomborg wrote a piece on Earth Day at CITY AM titled “Ignore the climate alarmism – the biggest polluter is poverty.”⁶⁵ He published a version of the same article in the New York Post on April 20 titled “Environment improves as more nations prosper — the greatest polluter is poverty.”⁶⁶

According to Lomborg, “Rather than spiralling into panic, we should take a moment to appreciate the remarkable progress we’ve made in improving the environment – and acknowledge that a key factor is prosperity.”

“Indeed, in many ways the greatest polluter is poverty. When people are struggling to survive, environmental concerns take a backseat,” Lomborg wrote in the piece.

Under a section titled “Climate change is not an existential threat,” Lomborg suggested that “It is not the existential threat that some would have us believe.”

He added, “In fact, over the past century deaths from climate-related disasters – such as storms, floods, droughts, and wildfires – have declined by a remarkable 98 per cent. This is not because the environment has remained static, but because human innovation and adaptation have made us more resilient.”

Lomborg concluded: “Instead of being scared by sensationalist rhetoric into spending trillions of dollars on poor climate policies, we should focus on practical, smart solutions that can make a real difference. In the case of climate change, this means investing in green energy innovation.”

April 20, 2025

Lomborg wrote an article in The Telegraph titled “Banks and business are talking sense on climate at last. But it must not be just talk,” where he argued that “green targets are bad for business and a terrible way to help the world.”⁶⁷

“These actors shouldn’t just be quieter about them. They should stop this waste,” Lomborg wrote of businesses who “are now going silent about their sustainability goals.”

“Perhaps the most blatantly self-defeating attempt to go green was by the fossil fuel industry,” Lomborg suggested, highlighting BP’s walk-back on its promise to cut oil and gas production by 40 percent by 2030 and become a net-zero energy company.

“These green pledges were always silly,” Lomborg wrote. “Consumers and businesses want more energy. It is a foolish company that declares it will supply less.”

“While climate change is a real problem with real costs, climate solutions also have real costs, typically requiring companies and individuals to use more expensive, less reliable energy. The explicit tradeoffs between the costs of climate policies and the benefits of climate mitigation are a matter for governments, not for profit-maximizing companies,” Lomborg suggested.

April 15, 2025

In a Financial Post op-ed titled “Global warming policies hurt the poor,” Lomborg argued that as opposed to climate change disproportionately harming the poorest people, “climate policies are directly hurting the poor right now.”⁶⁸

“More energy leads to better, healthier, longer lives. Less energy means fewer opportunities. Climate policies demand we pay more for less reliable energy. The impact is greater if you’re poorer: the wealthy might grumble about higher costs but can generally absorb them; the poor are forced to cut back,” Lomborg wrote.

“The blinkered pursuit of climate goals blinds politicians in rich countries like Canada to the impact on the poor, both here and in developing nations,” he concluded.

April 14, 2025

Fraser Myers of Spiked interviewed Bjorn Lomborg, summarizing that “The belief that climate change is the most pressing issue of our time isn’t only ill-informed, it’s dangerous.”⁶⁹

Spiked also published the video on YouTube:⁷⁰

Source: Spiked YouTube account

“Remember, climate change is a real problem. But it’s not the end of the world. It’s not as though there is a meteor hurtling towards Earth, and nothing else matters, which is how the conversation has been going for the past 10-15 years. This view has led to a lot of really bad policies,” Lomborg said in the interview.⁷¹

Discussing renewables and Net Zero in Europe, Lomborg said, “The more wind and solar you have, the higher the cost of energy.“

Lomborg responded to the question, “Why is it that fossil fuels are still so essential to the modern economy?”

“More than 80 per cent of global energy comes from fossil fuels. So no, you can’t ‘just stop’ oil, coal and gas. If you did, literally four billion people would die, because we wouldn’t have enough food.”

Lomborg added, ”If the UK and European Union went Net Zero today, it would have no impact on the climate. … We would impoverish ourselves for no purpose.”

He also claimed we are not seeing more climate disasters:

“Most people think we are seeing more climate disasters than ever. But that’s not true. There are a few categories in which things are getting worse. For example, we’re experiencing more heatwaves. But if you measure the impact of floods, droughts, storms and wildfires in terms of lives lost, far fewer people die today than they did a century ago.”

Discussing polar bears, Lomborg commented: “We don’t hear about them anymore, and the main reason is because they’re not going extinct, or anything close.”

March–April 2025

Lomborg re-published an article critical of the UN’s position supporting climate action at several outlets, including:

“UN pushes awful green deal policies while also spreading eco lies,”The New York Post, March 6, 2025.
“United Nations ‘propaganda’ on climate costing the world trillions,” The Australian, March 22, 2025.
“BJORN LOMBORG: Free and informed debate poses no threat,” BusinessDay, March 26, 2025.
“Climate debate is being silenced by the UN’s bias,”Bangkok Post, March 14, 2025.
“UN attempts to suppress the climate debate,” Daily Graphic, March 19, 2025
“Climate change: Time for the UN to face the inconvenient truth,” Dhaka Tribune, March 19, 2025.
“ONU quiere silenciar el debate abierto sobre el cambio climático,” El Tiempo, April 4, 2025
“ONU quiere silenciar el debate abierto sobre el cambio climático,” El Universal, March 21, 2025.
“ONU tapa el debate,” El Pais, March 23, 2025.
“ONU quiere silenciar el debate abierto sobre el cambio climático,” Milenio, March 29, 2025.
“ONU quiere silenciar el debate abierto sobre el cambio climático,” CRHoy, March 24, 2025.
“ONU quiiere silenciar el debate abierto sobre el cambio climático,” La Prensa, March 22, 2025.
“ONU quiere silenciar el debate abierto sobre el cambio climático,” La Estrella de Panamá, March 27, 2025.
“Ritskoðun í boði Sameinuðu þjóðanna,” Morgunbladid, April 7, 2025.

“UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has made clear, ‘urgent climate action’ means a race to net-zero, extremist, economy-punishing policies, including rich countries paying poor countries huge sums for climate reparations, sweeping new climate taxes and ending fossil fuels entirely within 25 years,“ Lomborg wrote in his article at The New York Post.⁷²

According to Lomborg, “The UN is ignoring the inconvenient truth that there are many important, ongoing debates among climate scientists and economists.”

He added, “Even after decades of extensive research, huge uncertainty remains on how much the world would warm from a doubling of CO2.”

Among what Lomborg listed as “lies” was the UN’s position that climate change is a major threat to human health due to air pollution from fossil fuels.

“In misstating the threat to life, the UN ignores the fact that deaths from climate-related catastrophes have declined 97.5% over the past century — or that far more people die from cold than heat,” Lomborg wrote.

According to Lomborg, “The UN also repeats the oft-told lie that renewables are cheaper than fossil fuels.”

He wrote, “The United Nations is trying to control what people can hear, read and think about climate change just when social media companies like Meta are reversing their years-long policy of ‘fact-checking,’ climate change policy debate—which Meta admits resulted in censorship.“

February 2025

Alan Miller of #together interviewed Lomborg in a brief segment while at the second annual conference of the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship (ARC).”⁷³

Source: Together YouTube account

Lomborg blamed climate policies for driving down economic growth in Europe:

[00:57] “Unfortunately, with our current climate policies, we have driven down our economic growth dramatically. We’re seeing that in Europe, which is basically stagnating with just maybe 1% growth per year per person. This is not sustainable. That’s actually not a good world.” [01:11]

Lomborg suggested that we should focus on adaptation:

[01:31] “Most of this is because of global warming policies, not all of it, but most of it. This is unsustainable. And so what you need to do is to find a way that you say, yes, there is a problem with climate, but we’re gonna do it smarter, we’re going to do it cheaper. And that’s about innovation. So find ways to eventually get us off fossil fuels and get us off emitting CO2 because, it’s a real problem. Then make sure we also focus on adaptation…” [01:54]

He added, [02:01] “then make sure you get back on growth because growth is what’s going to fix a lot of problems both for climate but also of course for all the other problems we have like defense and healthcare and education and all the challenges.” [02:11]

Lomborg also summarized his views on climate change:

[02:47] “So the short version is climate is a problem, we know that from a lot of science, but also from the best climate economists, including William Nordhaus, who’s the only guy who got the Nobel Prize in climate economics, that climate cost unmitigated will cost us, say, two to three percent by the end of the century per year. So not nothing. It’s not 100 percent or anywhere near 100 percent. If we can find a solution that will cost, say one percent of GDP to avoid a three percent problem for our kids and grandkids, that’s a good deal. Unfortunately, right now, we’re spending 10 percent to avoid a tiny bit of 3 percent problem. That’s a dumb idea.” [03:20]

February 2025

GB News’s Darren Grimes interviewed Bjorn Lomborg at the second annual conference of the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship (ARC).”⁷⁴

Source: GB YouTube account

During the interview, Lomborg claimed that statements about a climate revolution in the UK by the Secretary of State for Energy was [01:50] “mostly just, you know, propaganda.” [01:52]

[01:52] “Fundamentally, what he’s telling you is that we can make energy with much more jobs. That’s not efficiency,” [01:58] Lomborg said.

Lomborg went on to claim that [03:37] “the more power you have from solar and wind, the higher the cost. There’s none that are cheap.” [03:34]

Discussing climate-related disasters, Lomborg claimed, [06:18] “We’ve seen a reduction in 500-fold. This simply shows you this is not a world that’s suddenly on fire. It’s actually less and less on fire.” [06:25]

On climate change itself, Lomborg declared, [06:57] “there’s still a problem, but obviously the problem shouldn’t be solved with policies that are much, much more costly than the original affliction that they’re trying to solve. […] You’re going to solve this through innovation so you can be hotter and more comfortable and richer and solve climate.” [07:40]

January 19, 2025

Lomborg wrote an op-ed at the New York Post titled “Climate change fanatics want to bankrupt the entire world for little to no reward.”⁷⁵

In the article, Lomborg promoted studies by Richard Tol and William Nordhaus, suggesting “that a 3 degree Celsius temperature increase by the end of the century — slightly pessimistic based on current trends — will have a global cost equivalent to between 1.9% and 3.1% of global GDP.”

Lomborg wrote, “the United Nations estimates that by the end of the century, the average person will be 450% as rich as he or she is today. Because of climate change, they will feel ‘only’ 435%-440% as rich as today.”

According to Lomborg, in the media, “Alarmist campaigners and credulous journalists fail to account for the simple fact that people are remarkably adaptable and tackle most climate problems at low cost.”

“The real cost of inefficient climate policy is that it distracts resources and attention from other priorities,” he claimed.

January 16, 2025

Lomborg appeared on a Fox Business segment where he discussed climate policy in the US.“⁷⁶

Discussing forest fires, Lomborg commented: “Fundamentally, if you want to do something about fires, and we should, you should focus on the things that you can actually make a viable impact on. […] Instead, we’re focusing on spending hundreds of trillions of dollars on climate, which, at best, would have a tiny impact in 100 years. That’s just simply not a sensible way to try to help people in the next couple of decades.”

January 9, 2025

Brendan O’Neill quoted Bjorn Lomborg in a Spiked article titled “No, the LA inferno is not Mother Nature’s revenge.”⁷⁷

“’Climate change hasn’t set the world on fire, says Bjorn Lomborg,” O’Neill wrote, quoting Lomborg’s original piece in the Wall Street Journal titled “Climate Change Hasn’t Set the World on Fire” from July 31, 2023.

O’Neill added, “On the contrary, the amount of the world’s land consumed by fire has been trending downwards for more than 20 years.”

O’Neill concluded that “Climate change is real, but it’s a metaphor, too. It’s become a metaphor for what the elites view as the disastrous project of industrialisation and growth.”

December 4, 2024

In an interview with Sky News Australia, Lomborg stated that fossil fuels “deliver a lot of good for humanity,” arguing that countries are unwilling to make progress towards cutting carbon emissions because doing so is “actually very, very costly.”⁷⁸

“We keep emitting more CO2, and remember, we do this because fossil fuels, which is the main reason we emit CO2, deliver a lot of good for humanity,” Lomborg said.

He added, “Basically it delivers a lot of baseload power, it delivers opportunity for especially poor countries to get themselves out of poverty. Now, there is a problem again, but you’re not going to get to solving that problem by telling people, oh, we promise to be good. That’s essentially what they’ve done for the last 29 UN climate conferences.”

Lomborg discussed emissions drivers:⁷⁹

“Now the rich countries are increasingly, and so Australia, isactually reducing their emissions. They’re reducing their consumption for instance of electricity. That has real cost. We’re seeing many of those costs here in Europe. But the problem is there’s a big whole world out there who’s still poor and wants to be rich and they’re the ones driving this. We’re not gonna solve climate [change] by promising to be virtuous…”

Lomborg concluded that “governments around the world are now realizing this [cutting carbon emissions] is gonna be fantastically costly and probably impossible to do.”

November 13, 2024

Lomborg published an article in several news outlets, including Business Day, the National Post, and The Jordan Times, about the UN climate summit in Azerbaijan.⁸⁰

In the National Post article titled “Redistributing the West’s wealth won’t solve climate change,” Lomborg argued:

“[P]oor people across the world struggle with poverty, disease, malnutrition, and bad education, which could be alleviated at low cost. It is wrongheaded and immoral to mostly ignore those afflictions and instead spend trillions on climate projects.”

Lomborg concluded, “Unfortunately, the global climate process has lost its way. Most of the focus this week will instead be on the need for huge transfers of wealth. These were never going to happen, even before Donald Trump’s election — but now they are utterly unrealistic.”

November 4, 2024

Lomborg wrote an op-ed at the Financial Post titled “climate policy is dead. That’s a big opportunity.”⁸¹

Referring to COP climate summits, Lomborg wrote “The election of Donald Trump may up-end these sanctimonious summits. That would be a big opportunity for the world.”

Lomborg concluded, “A dose of realism could also end elite preoccupation with climate. The rich world faces many challenges: rapid aging, an urgent need for pension reform, growing health-care costs, flatlining education results and increased military threats. The trillions of dollars wasted on current climate policies could be much better spent.”

October–November 2024

Lomborg published an op-ed in several news outlets, including the Bangkok Post, The Dallas Morning News, Dhaka Tribune, Philippine Daily Enquirer, Business Day, and The Ghana Report, criticizing policies designed to mitigate climate change.⁸²

“In general, what we’re seeing exemplifies what climate economists have long warned: policies pushing a transition to greener energy are inherently costly,” Lomborg wrote.

He added, “While climate change is a real and man-made problem, constant end-of-the-world proclamations from media and campaigners massively overstate the situation.”

According to Lomborg, “While climate economics shows the overall impact of global warming is negative, its likely total impact is equivalent to one or two recessions over the rest of the century — a problem, but nowhere near end-of-world.”

October 8, 2024

Lomborg was a guest on the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship’s Arc Conversations.⁸³

Source: ARC YouTube account

In the episode, Lomborg argued that climate change is not an existential problem:⁸⁴

Bjørn Lomborg: [00:25:09] One of the big issues in climate conversation is, you know, people will tell you this is the end of the world. Joe Biden will tell this is an existential problem. This is sort of the standard argument across the world. No, it’s not. And that’s not only what the UN Climate Panel tells us, but it’s also what all the major climate economics tells us.

So there’s two new studies out in 2024 estimating what’s the total impact by the end of the century of climate change if we don’t do more than what we’ve already done now. The estimate is it’s somewhere between 1.9 and 3.1 percent of global GDP by that time.

So we’ll be slightly poorer than we otherwise would be. Now remember, we’ll a lot richer. By the standard scenario by the UN, each person on the planet will be about 450% as rich as he or she is today. That’s a fantastic problem. [00:26:01]

Gerard Holland (Host of ARC Conversations): [00:26:01] That’s like a pretty good deal.

Bjørn Lomborg: [00:26:02] That’s pretty good deal. But because of climate change, it’s going to feel like we’re only 435% to 440% as rich. Yeah, that’s less good, but it’s not a catastrophe. This is still a fantastically better world. [00:26:17]⁸⁵

Lomborg further clarified:

Bjørn Lomborg: [00:31:45] So what I’m trying to say is the evidence very clearly shows climate change is a problem. But it’s not the end of the world. Climate change is the difference between the world being incredibly much better and the world being incredibly much better but slightly less incredibly much better. That’s the conversation that we need to understand. [00:32:04]⁸⁶

September–October 2024

Lomborg wrote a September 15, 2024, article in the New York Post titled “Shrinking island, vanishing polar bears — the climate scare stories that turn out to be false.”⁸⁷

He also published the article in the Financial Post under the title “Twenty years of scare stories in the name of climate alarmism.”

Lomborg wrote in the New York Post:

“[C]ampaigners do the cause a massive disservice by refusing to acknowledge evidence that challenges their intensely doom-ridden worldview.

“All these misguided claims add up, and have shaped the climate panic that has led to politicians passing climate legislation that now costs the world more than $2 trillion annually, for a tiny benefit.”

According to Lomborg, “It is hard not to see a pattern of climate-alarmed campaigners scaring people witless and choosing to ignore inconvenient science for as long as they can — before simply switching to a new climate fright when it becomes too awkward not to.”

He concluded: “Telling half-truths whilst piously purporting to be following the science benefits activists with their fundraising, generates clicks for media outlets, and helps politicians rally voters.”

August 29, 2024

Lomborg wrote a Wall Street Journal op-ed titled “U.N. Climate-Change Alarms Cast Little Light on Heat” where he argued,⁸⁸ as The Times later quoted him, “Falsely attributing heat deaths to global warming is likely to lead to more heat deaths. The recent decline in heat mortality is largely thanks to greater access to electricity and therefore to air conditioning.”⁸⁹

August 11, 2024

Lomborg published an article critical of the green energy transition in multiple outlets, including the New York Post, Financial Post, The Business Times, and Mint.⁹⁰

The New York Post piece was titled “We are wasting $2 trillion a year chasing ‘green’ fantasies.”

“Despite much hype, the much-vaunted green energy transition away from fossil fuels isn’t happening,“ Lomborg wrote in the article. He added, “Achieving a meaningful shift with current policies turns out to be unaffordable. We need to drastically change policy direction.”

Lomborg claimed that “Countless studies show that when societies add more renewable energy, most of it never replaces coal, gas or oil. It simply adds to energy consumption.”

“When politicians tell you the green transition is here and we need to get on board, they are really just asking voters to support them throwing more good money after bad. We need to be much smarter,” Lomborg concluded.

July 24, 2024

Lomborg published an article in The Telegraph, as well as similar articles in other news outlets, titled “Net zero will only make you poorer and China richer.”⁹¹

In the article, Lomborg suggested ending the reliance on fossil fuels is “a naïve, narrow-minded world view.”

“As rich countries irresponsibly attempt to export the cost of climate policy to poor countries through carbon adjustment taxes, they will drive a further wedge into an already fractured world,” Lomborg wrote.

He added, “Yet, across Europe and North America, single-minded zealots who were born of a world of relative calm of the 1990s continue to push for deindustrialization and immiseration to tackle climate change – including for the world’s emerging economies.”

He concluded:

“The world needs a better way forward. The best solution is not to push people to be worse off by forcing a premature transition from fossil fuels to inadequate green alternatives.”

Lomborg added, “Rich countries need to wake up and stop hemorrhaging trillions in self-inflicted climate policies that will be followed by few, laughed at by many, and will mainly make China rich.”

July 9, 2024

The Washington Examiner quoted Lomborg in an article titled “Repeal Biden’s entire destructive climate change program.”⁹²

“Bjorn Lomborg has noted concerning the Inflation Reduction Act that ‘if you plug the predicted emissions decline into the climate model used for all major United Nations climate reports, it turns out the global temperature will be cut by only 0.0009 degree Fahrenheit by the end of the century,’” David Simon wrote at the Washington Examiner.

July 1, 2024

Lomborg appeared on a Fox Business segment where he claimed electric vehicles (EVs) are a “net negative.”⁹³

Lomborg declared during the segment:

“It’s very unlikely that they’re great. It’s very likely that they’re actually negative. And that should make us think: Sure, EVs are fine for some things, but they’re not actually the main part of the solution.”

June 21, 2024

Lomborg appeared on a Fox News segment where he discussed how “Proposed EV solutions are ‘costly’ and ‘won’t work very well’.”⁹⁴

Lomborg commented:

“The big problem with electric cars is they’re great for some people, but they’re just not great for everyone, and that’s the real issue. You have to spend a lot of money, you don’t get a lot people buy in, it’s mostly people in rich cities, it’ll often be Democrats, and of course, you mostly buy it to virtual signal. If you actually need to go anywhere far, you will drive your gasoline car.”⁹⁵

He added:

“So we got to get back to reality. Yes, it’s a little part of the solution, but it’s not the main part of the solution.”

Lomborg added later in the segment:

“It’s a question of cost. Look, if this was free or incredibly cheap, of course, everyone would rather not put out CO2, which contributes to climate change and is a problem. But when you’re asking people to take on much more cost, are you willing to have a car that’ll go not as far and they’ll be less convenient and they’ll be more costly? Of course not.”

“It’s about that the solutions that we’re proposing right now are costly, but won’t work very well,” Lomborg said.

May–July 2024

Lomborg published an article claiming “Climate studies are increasingly becoming politicised” in several news outlets, including:⁹⁶

“Don’t let green dogma get in the way of climate science,” CityAM, July 22, 2024.

“BJORN LOMBORG: The politicisation of climate research,” Business Day, May 13, 2024.

“When climate research is politicised,” The Business Times, June 17, 2024.

“The world can’t afford to politicize climate change research,” The Boston Globe, May 6, 2024.

In the articles, Lomborg promoted geoengineering as a response to climate change. For example, he wrote at CityAM:

“Geoengineering is one way humanity could deal with the real problem of climate change. The standard approach — which most of the rich world is focused on — is to try to cut carbon emissions and divert investment to solar and wind energy.

“However, this approach is incredibly hard and expensive, because fossil fuels still effectively power most of the world. Despite decades of political support for fossil fuel reductions, emissions are still increasing and were at their highest ever last year.

“In contrast, geoengineering tries to directly reduce the planet’s temperature.”

Lomborg added, “Because the world has so far mostly failed to tackle climate change through cutting fossil fuel reliance, it seems prudent to also investigate other policies that could address parts of the problem.”

He additionally claimed that “Geoengineering is the only feasible way that humanity has ever identified to cut temperatures quickly.”

“That isn’t science, it’s dogma. The idea that there is only one correct policy — cutting carbon emissions to zero in a short timeframe — is absurd, and especially so when this sole policy is failing globally. The truth is that geoengineering could be an incredibly useful innovation, even if it harbors risks,” Lomborg wrote.

May 23, 2024

Lomborg wrote an opinion article in the New York Post titled “Green activists don’t care how many people will die from zero fossil fuel use.”⁹⁷

“We endlessly hear the flawed assertion that because climate change is real, we should ‘follow the science’ and end fossil fuel use,” he began.⁹⁸

“But it is false because it conflates climate science with climate policy,” he added.⁹⁹

Lomborg argued that “[T]he reality is that the world over the past centuries has improved dramatically — largely because of the immense increase in available energy that has come mostly from fossil fuels.”¹⁰⁰

“While the impact of climate change is likely negative, it is enormously exaggerated,” he claimed.¹⁰¹

He concluded: “Climate change is a problem, but a civilization-endangering cure can be far worse than the illness.”¹⁰²

April 2024

Lomborg published an article in Business Day and the New York Post criticizing solar and wind energy.

“If solar and wind really were cheaper, they would replace fossil fuels without the need for a grand push from politicians and the industry,” Lomborg claimed.¹⁰³

He concluded, “claims that fossil fuels are already outcompeted are just wishful thinking.”

March 18, 2024

Lomborg and Jordan Peterson co-wrote an article titled “We need a discussion about how we respond to crises before the next one” where they promoted ARC. They claimed the organization “will help ensure a broader range of perspectives can be heard globally.”¹⁰⁴

Lomborg and Peterson described the worldwide response to the COVID pandemic, claiming a “A panic-stricken lockdown orthodoxy far too soon took hold, and those whose policy proposals deviated quickly were labeled ‘COVID deniers.'”¹⁰⁵

The authors then outlined what they described as the “alarmist” response to climate change:¹⁰⁶

“We need to have a serious conversation about our manner of response before the next crisis to ensure that the cure is not much worse than the disease. Consider the alarmist treatment of climate change. Campaigners play up fear while neglecting to mention that reductions in poverty and increases in resiliency mean climate-related disasters kill fewer people. Over the past century, deaths have dropped 97%. Heat waves capture the headlines. Globally, however, cold kills nine times more people. Currently, higher temperatures are resulting in 166,000 fewer temperature-related deaths annually.

“Fear-mongering and suppressing inconvenient truths are pushing us dangerously toward the wrong solutions. Politicians and pundits call for net-zero policies that will cost far beyond $100 trillion while producing benefits a fraction as large. We need to discuss honestly the costs and benefits to find the best solutions.”¹⁰⁷

They concluded, “The Alliance for Responsible Citizenship forum can help us positively envision the future.”¹⁰⁸

March 2024

Bjorn Lomborg wrote a Wall Street Journal op-ed titled “‘Follow the Science’ Leads to Ruin.”¹⁰⁹

Bob Ward offered a debunking of Lomborg’s piece at the Grantham Research Institute at the London School of Economics and Political Science, suggesting “Dr Lomborg provides a masterclass in the use of inaccurate and misleading sources to construct a bogus narrative.”¹¹⁰

Referring to a graph Lomborg used as support on climate-related deaths, Ward wrote “Dr Lomborg ignored the experts and cherrypicked [sic] the data to convey a misleading impression of the magnitude of the reduction in weather-related deaths over the past century.”

Ward also noted that Lomborg had linked to a journal paper by Richard Tol, who has been an advisor to the Global Warming Policy Foundation, that was “severely flawed due to poor methods and sloppy mistakes.”

“This paper is an update of previous studies which have been beset with errors and problems that the author has blamed on ‘gremlins ,’” Ward noted. He added, regarding Tol’s estimates of the economic impacts of climate change, that “Professor Tol makes his own estimates based on other authors’ studies, but without providing details of his calculations so that readers can check their accuracy.”

Ward noted other mistakes in Tol’s reference to a paper by Robert Mendelsohn, Michael Schlesinger, and Larry Williams, suggesting “Professor Tol’s paper suggests that the study produced two estimates of economic impact, each at temperature rises of 2.5°C, 4.0°C and 5.2°C. In fact, the paper by Mendelsohn et al. includes just two estimates, for temperature rises of 2.21°C and 2.49°C. The other estimates are phantoms and render Professor Tol’s analysis and conclusions invalid.”

“Dr Lomborg compounds the mistake by referring to another paper by Professor Tol containing the same mistakes,” Ward added.

He concluded:

“All in all, the article by Dr Lomborg is riddled with misrepresentations, strawman arguments, cherrypicked data, fantasy figures, and false assertions based on flawed academic studies. It demonstrates not only that he cannot be trusted to tell the truth about climate change, but also that the Wall Street Journal does not bother to factcheck its comment articles, which are apparently selected purely on ideological grounds.”

February 8, 2024

Responding to a tweet by António Guterres suggesting “The fossil fuel era is on its last legs,” Lomborg tweeted the following:

“So, fossil fuel era is on its last legs[,]

“but simultaneously we have to furiously act for the transition to happen?

“Sounds like wishful thinking[.]

“Maybe facts will help?

“Currently, renewables provide 15.7% of global energy (not just electricity)[.]

“On current policies, the International Energy Agency estimate[s] we’ll get to 33.5% in 2050. The trendline reaches 100% by 2153.

“Biden’s Energy Information Administration is less optimistic at 25.6% in 2050, reaching 100% in 2253[.]”¹¹¹

January–February 2024

Lomborg published an op-ed in several news outlets, including the Financial Post, Inquirer.net, China Daily, and New York Post, criticizing the World Bank’s diversion of funds towards climate change.

According to Lomborg, “Climate change is not the end of the world. Indeed, UN climate panel scenarios show that the world will dramatically improve over the century and that — despite panicked campaigning — climate change will merely slow that progress slightly.”¹¹²

Lomborg concluded, “as politicians are asking for more money, ostensibly to help the world’s poorest, we should demand it go to efficient development projects that actually save and transform lives, not to feel-good, inefficient climate programs.”

He claimed, “Much of the poorer world primarily wants to pull people out of poverty and improve their quality of life with cheap and reliable energy. Yet rich countries refuse to fund anything remotely fossil fuel-related.”

December 23, 2023

Lomborg wrote an op-ed in The Telegraph titled “Twelve good causes to save the world this Christmas (and climate change isn’t one of them),” where he argued that “Of all the Sustainable Development Goals agreed to by governments, climate policies are likely the single most expensive component” and that “with limited resources, more funding should first be applied elsewhere.”¹¹³

December 4, 2023

Lomborg wrote an article in the Dhaka Tribune during the UN Climate Change Conference in the United Arab Emirates, COP28, suggesting “Politicians should acknowledge the real cost of net zero policy.¹¹⁴

“Underpinning the climate summit farce is one big lie repeated over and over: that green energy is on the precipice of replacing fossil fuels in every aspect of our lives,” Lomborg claimed in the article.¹¹⁵

Lomborg claimed that “climate change costs are vastly exaggerated” while “the costs of climate policy are bizarrely ignored.”¹¹⁶

November–December 2023

“In most public conversations, climate change costs are vastly exaggerated,” Lomborg wrote in an article critical of COP28 published at The Business Times, ChinaDaily.com, the New York Post, the Wall Street Journal, The Telegraph, and the National Post, among other outlets.¹¹⁷

“Underpinning the climate summit farce is one big lie repeated over and over: that green energy is on the precipice of replacing fossil fuels in every aspect of our lives. This exaggeration is today championed by the International Energy Agency, which has turned from an impartial arbiter of energy data to the proponent of the far-fetched prediction that fossil fuels will peak within just seven years,” Lomborg wrote.

Lomborg went on to cite William Nordhaus, suggesting his research as evidence that “highly ambitious carbon reductions will be a bad deal, with phenomenally high costs and low additional benefits.”

November 6, 2023

Lomborg co-wrote an article with Jordan Peterson titled “Don’t give In to gloom, the world Is getting better.” In the article, Lomborg and Peterson argued that, in climate change reporting, “A pervasive and false apocalyptic narrative draws together every negative event — while ignoring, almost entirely, the bigger picture.”¹¹⁸

October 6, 2023

Lomborg wrote an article at the Wall Street Journal titled “Will the World Bank Choose Climate Change Over Poverty?” where he criticized a G20 report urging the World Bank and development organizations to allocate funding to climate policy.¹¹⁹

“Unfortunately, experience indicates that much of what does get raised will go toward climate. Development funding is already being raided for climate spending,” he wrote.¹²⁰

According to Lomborg, “an unholy alliance of green activists and climate-anxious politicians will push them [the World Bank and International Monetary Fund] to devote a plethora of new resources to climate change” at their upcoming meeting.¹²¹

“It’s easy to treat reducing carbon output as the world’s priority when your life is comfortable,” Lombog wrote. He added, “While climate change is a real challenge, the data don’t support confronting it ahead of poverty-related ills.”¹²²

September 29, 2023

Lomborg responded on Twitter/X to a poll he claimed suggesting people supported a reduction in flying in their lifetime to reduce climate change threats. Lomborg wrote:¹²³

“This is how crazy climate alarmism has becoming

“41% of French people are in favor of max 4 flights 𝗶𝗻 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗿𝗲 𝗹𝗶𝗳𝗲

“Let’s just say this once more

“Climate is a problem, not end-of-world
It will not be solved by making people worse off but through innovation”

This is how crazy climate alarmism has becoming

41% of French people are in favor of max 4 flights 𝗶𝗻 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗿𝗲 𝗹𝗶𝗳𝗲

Let's just say this once more

Climate is a problem, not end-of-world
It will not be solved by making people worse off but through innovation https://t.co/EzSZcuws87
— Bjorn Lomborg (@BjornLomborg) September 29, 2023

August 3, 2023

A Guardian report detailed how, in the face of unprecedented wildfires across much of the world, Lomborg argued that wildfires were not worsening.¹²⁴

In a tweet he said:

“Climate alarmists scare us with ever more fire. But satellites show the world is burning ever less. In 2022, the world burned the least ever in the satellite era.”¹²⁵

June 24, 2023

Lomborg tweeted the following:

“[The] UN define[s] two futures: [s]ustainable and [f]ossil fuels[.]

“Climate damages [are] clearly greater with fossil fuels[.]

“But even discounting climate damages, [the] average person in [a] poor world will be much better off in a [f]ossil fuel world[.]”¹²⁶

Source: Bjorn Lomborg X account

April 3, 2023

Jordan Peterson interviewed Lomborg on his podcast, in an episode titled “12 Ways the Planet Could Truly Be Saved.” ¹²⁷

Lomborg commented on climate change:

“To realize, yes, climate change is a real problem, but it’s not this catastrophic end of the world. There is nothing in the UN climate panel, the new report that came out from 2021–2022, these 1600 pages. No apocalypse in there.”

December 14, 2022

Lomborg and Jordan Peterson wrote an opinion piece for the National Post titled “Hunger is more pressing climate change, elites have it backwards.”¹²⁸

“We have placed core targets such as the eradication of infant mortality and the provision of basic education on the same footing as well-intentioned but peripheral targets like boosting recycling and promoting lifestyles in harmony with nature,“ they argued.

They cited a list of priorities published by Lomborg’s organization, the Copenhagen Consensus Center, which has received funding from DonorsTrust, a group that in turn received funds from Koch-controlled foundations such as the Knowledge and Progress Fund.

DonorsTrust and its sister organization Donors Capital Fund (DCF) have been described as the “Dark Money ATM” of the conservative movement.¹²⁹

October 4, 2022

In a Forbes article titled “Facts on Hurricanes and Climate Are Blowing in the Wind”, Lomborg wrote, “We are exposed to an ever-increasing torrent of alarming climate news, with pictures of extreme weather events and destruction delivered on an hourly basis.”¹³⁰

“But it doesn’t mean hurricanes are battering American coasts more frequently, as is often implied or outright claimed. Instead, the torrent of news is mainly caused by the CNN effect — many more cameras now capture every catastrophe and replay it 24/7.”

He added: “with or without emissions cuts, the world is becoming more resilient to hurricanes.”

October 2, 2022

In a New York Post article titled “Net-zero climate policy offers much pain, little gain”, Lomborg argued that the “goal of achieving ‘net-zero’ CO2 emissions brings crippling economic pain”.¹³¹

Lomborg argued that “the long-term trend” of fossil fuel prices rising “stems mostly from governments demonizing fossil fuels while societies remain dependent on them”, adding: “In rich countries, energy policies designed to make fossil fuels expensive are doing exactly what they were supposed to do.”

He also argued that instead of following “a net-zero approach that brings so much pain for so little climate reward”, the “best long term strategy is to dramatically increase investment in green-energy research and development”.

Lomborg then criticised solar and wind energy, writing that they “can only work with massive amounts of backup power, mostly fossil fuels”.

June 20, 2022

In a column for The Wall Street Journal titled “The Rich World’s Climate Hypocrisy”, Lomborg argued that “the developed world’s response to the global energy crisis has put its hypocritical attitude toward fossil fuels on display”.¹³²

He added: “Rather than give them access to the tools that have helped rich nations develop, wealthy countries blithely instruct developing nations to skip coal, gas and oil, and go straight to a green nirvana of solar panels and wind turbines.”

He also stated that “Insisting that the world’s poor live without plentiful, reliable and affordable energy prioritizes virtue signaling over people’s lives”.

June 15, 2022

In an appearance on Fox News, Lomborg criticised White House national climate adviser, Gina McCarthy, and Big Tech companies for what he described as attempting to “make sure people only hear one side of the climate story”.¹³³

Lomborg told the host:

“Look, global warming is real, but it’s not the end of the world. We should not scare our kids witless. And likewise, it’s not going to be cheap. It’s going to be fantastically expensive. Almost all studies show this. And we need to be honest about this. Most people are not going to put up with actually doing that. And of course, it leads to bad policies that will ultimately both fail and not deal with climate change and of course, take money away from everything else.”

May 31, 2022

In a Boston Herald article titled “Lomborg: Want to alleviate world hunger? Ditch the organics”, Lomborg criticised “the rich world’s obsession with organics”, saying “organic farming cannot feed the world and could even worsen future crises”.¹³⁴

He argued that organic farming was a “fashionable trend for the world’s 1%” and that “research conclusively shows that organic farming produces much less food than conventional farming per acre”.

After suggesting that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine “has reaffirmed the basic reality that fossil fuels remain crucial for the vast majority of global needs”, Lomborg celebrated synthetic nitrogen fertilisers, “mostly made with natural gas”, as “a modern miracle, crucial for feeding the world”.

May 6, 2022

In a Wall Street Journal article titled “Ukraine crisis reveals the folly of organic farming”, Lomborg argued that organic farming is “ineffective”, writing:

“As food prices skyrocket and the conflict threatens a global food crisis, we need to face another unpopular reality: Organic farming is ineffective, land hungry and very expensive, and it would leave billions hungry if it were embraced world-wide.”¹³⁵

He criticised “politicians and the chattering classes” who “have argued that organic farming is the responsible way to feed the world”, before adding that “research has conclusively shown that organic farming produces less food per acre than conventional agriculture”.

March 15, 2022

In an op-ed for the Financial Post titled “Fracking, nuclear and research are Europe’s best energy bets”, Lomborg argued that we must “not engage in wishful thinking about renewable energy” and that “we have been sold a largely untrue story that renewables can give us energy independence”.¹³⁶

Lomborg also criticised the widely-contested practice of burning wood as a form of renewable energy, writing:

“At the moment, 60 per cent of the EU’s total renewable energy comes from burning wood pellets. But while wood energy is in principle renewable, cutting down more and more forest can have huge biodiversity impacts. Moreover, wood emits more CO₂ than coal when burned, and it is often imported and transported on diesel ships from the U.S.”

February 22, 2022

In an interview with CityAM titled “Exclusive: ‘Nuclear has a lot going for it while net zero will simply not happen’”, says sceptical environmentalist Bjorn Lomborg”, Lomborg said:

“There are definitely costs from climate change, which is why global warming is a net problem. But regardless of any realistic climate policies, the costs will remain almost the same for the next many decades because of inertia in the climate system. Remember, even if the entire rich world went net-zero today, it would reduce global warming in 2050 with less than 0.2°C, using the UN’s own climate model.”¹³⁷

He added that “going 100% renewable does not make you energy secure”, and that “bioenergy is mostly just a fancy way of saying burning wood, which provides 60 per cent of all renewable energy and is especially problematic in poor countries where it leads to excessive indoor air pollution and deforestation.”

Lomborg also argued that tackling climate change “would require governments to stop spending about half on schools, hospitals and all other items on the social menu, or increase taxes by 50%, either of which are simply political non-starters”.

He also called Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) – a social responsibility metric for companies, referred to by the interviewer as “a buzzword in the City of London”, a “hollow tool”, saying:

“ESG is alluring because it suggests that you can get rich while doing good for the world. As usual, when something seems too good to be true, it is. Investing for doing good will sometimes generate higher returns, though clean tech is crashing right now, but if this was true in general, everyone would be doing good and you wouldn’t need ESG.”

February 6, 2022

Lomborg made a series of tweets about CO2 and increased global vegetation, or “global greening.” He made a series of misleading graphics with the headline “CO2 Makes World Greener.”¹³⁸

CO₂ and climate make world 𝗴𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗿

Climate net problem

but breathless reporting ignores global greening "highly credible evidence of anthropogenic climate change"

1982-2019 world added leaves with a total area equivalent to 3x Continental UShttps://t.co/iPWY4ycWbJ pic.twitter.com/6Y6Hwy1QXD
— Bjorn Lomborg (@BjornLomborg) February 6, 2022

While Lomborg cited a September 2019 article in Nature, that article begins by noting that the impact of “this vegetation structural change on the global terrestrial carbon cycle has not been systematically evaluated.” The article also noted “climate change (temperature, radiation, and precipitation)” contributed to a “−28.6% of the [carbon] sink.”

November 26, 2021

Lomborg wrote an article at The Australian following the UN Climate Conference in Glasgow (COP26) claiming, “It is easy and popular for politicians to talk up the dangers of climate change and promise safety with grandiose policies for 2030 or 2050. It is much less popular when it is time to ask voters to pay for these draconian climate policies.” ¹³⁹

Reporting from The Guardian found that a key claim Lomborg made in the column, which also appeared in The Herald in Scotland and the Economic Times in India, had appeared in a Nature Climate Change study whose authors had been asking Lomborg to stop making the claim since early November.¹⁴⁰

“Lomborg wrote in the Australian that a study’“in the renowned journal’ Nature, ‘shows that reducing emissions 95% by 2050 – almost Biden’s promise of net zero – would cost 11.9% of gross domestic product, or more than $US11,000 ($15,300) for each American citizen every year’,” Graham Readfearn reported.

“That seems like an eye-watering figure, or in Lomborg’s words ‘spectacularly costly’.

“The cited figure does appear in a supplementary section of the paper. But the authors of the study (which actually appeared in Nature Climate Change, not Nature) have told Temperature Check they have been asking Lomborg since early November to stop making that claim.

“Prof David Victor, of University of California San Diego, said Lomborg’s summary ‘took the results out of context and used them for a purpose that we explicitly said they were not to be used, and which he was reminded of when he asked for the underlying data’.

“Dr Wei Peng, of Penn State university and lead author of the study, said she and her colleagues were ‘frustrated with Lomborg’s misinterpretation of our study’.

“In late October Peng emailed Lomborg saying the modelling results for emissions cuts at 95% “was not well calibrated, and the cost number is likely to be off”.

“I hope people won’t take the high mitigation cost out of context,” she told Lomborg.

“Victor said Lomborg’s use of the figure was ‘obscenely reckless’ in the context of ‘serious scientific analysis’ and wrote to him in early November.”

November 5, 2021

In a Forbes article titled “World Leaders Need to Unleash Green Innovation at COP26”, Lomborg argued that meeting net zero targets “will be prohibitively expensive”.¹⁴¹

Lomborg added that since the adoption of the Kyoto Protocol, the first major global agreement to cut carbon emissions, “the world has hosted hundreds of climate summits and rich nations have reliably talked green; but emissions have kept increasing”, which Lomborg writes is because “no leaders want to stick their citizens with the huge price tag”.

He argued:

“What is needed is a much stronger focus on green energy research. If the world could innovate green energy that was cheaper than fossil fuels, we would have solved global warming. Everyone would switch — not just rich well-meaning countries like the U.S., but everyone, including China and India.”

November 2, 2021

In an interview with Marc A. Thiessen, a columnist at The Washington Post and American Enterprise Institute senior fellow, Lomborg argued “Climate change is a problem, but not the end of the world.”¹⁴²

“Fundamentally, we’ve got to stop the alarmists,” Lomborg told Thiessen, claiming that while a recent poll found young Americans “humanity is doomed” actually things are a lot better than you think.”

Thiessen concluded, based on Lomborg’s suggestions, “The way to address climate change is to unleash the free market to increase prosperity and innovation. But climate alarmists are using false claims of doom to scare people into adopting policies that will have the opposite effect — destroying economic growth and increasing global poverty.”

September 30, 2021

Writing at the Wall Street Journal, Lomborg provided what the editor described as “some important background so readers can have a better understanding of the true effects of climate change and the real costs of climate policy” prior to the global climate conference in Glasgow coming up in November 2021.¹⁴³

“Even if all electricity turned green, most of the world would still run on fossil fuels,” Lomborg wrote. “Though renewables are often touted as the cheapest energy source, it’s only true when the sun is shining and the wind is blowing. If it’s a still night you need backup power, typically from fossil fuels—which makes electricity costlier because you need to pay for both the solar panel and the gas turbine.”

He concluded:”In 2021 emissions would have to drop by more than double the [Covid-]lockdown-induced decline. By the end of 2030, they’d have to have fallen by 11 times what they did in 2020. Not exactly realistic.”

August 5, 2021

Lomborg wrote an article at the Wall Street Journal titled “Climate Change Doesn’t Cause All Disasters,” where he suggested, “climate change annually causes almost 120,000 additional heat deaths but avoids nearly 300,000 cold deaths.”¹⁴⁴

“Every death is a tragedy, yet current warming is avoiding many more tragedies,” Lomborg claimed in the article.

May 22, 2021

Lomborg wrote an article for The Australian claiming climate activists were undemocratic and climate policies “enormously expensive”. Arguing that no popular mandate existed for such policies, Lomborg wrote: “climate campaigners have increasingly pursued a new strategy by forcing climate policy through courts,” adding: “Unfortunately, such cases undermine democracy, harm the poor and sidetrack us from smarter ways to fix the climate.”¹⁴⁵

Disputing the effectiveness of decarbonisation policies, Lomborg argued that they would fail because “strong climate policy is enormously expensive and delivers minuscule climate benefits.” Elsewhere in the article, he suggested that: “Ramping up climate policies in court will mean even more people left in poverty because of slower economic growth.”

April 26, 2021

Lomborg wrote an article for The Australian arguing that G7 countries’ strategies for decarbonising their economies by 2050 were expensive and inadvisable. He wrote: “As climate policies reduce growth further, this will threaten long-term social coherence as people realise their children won’t be better off and pensions wither.”¹⁴⁶

Lomborg argued that carbon tariffs represented an attempt to shift the burden of decarbonisation onto poorer countries by preventing them from developing, and would “lead to profound resentment towards a rich world that claims to implement climate policies to help, but really shifts the costs onto the world’s poor.” He added: “It could lead to a tariff war and the developing world shaping their separate free trading regime.”

April 25, 2021

Lomborg was interviewed on Sky News Australia, discussing a climate summit at the White House which comprised 40 world leaders and was led by Presidential Envoy John Kerry. Stating that the US plan, which would involve cutting carbon emissions by at least 50% of their 2005 levels by 2030, would do “virtually nothing” for climate mitigation, Lomborg argued that “Biden is setting himself up to do something that is very hard,that is phenomenally costly, and that will probably not happen, and even if it did, would not actually cut carbon emissions enough to make a difference to temperatures by the end of the century.”¹⁴⁷

April 24, 2021

April 22, 2021

Lomborg wrote an article for The Financial Post arguing that concern over climate change was “vastly exaggerated.” He added: “This pervasive climate alarmism is the culmination of persistent eco-anxiety over the past few decades.”¹⁴⁹

Elsewhere in the article, Lomborg disputed the causal link between climate change and incidents of extreme weather, writing: “Such irresponsible exaggerations are destroying our ability to make sensible decisions for the future. The evidence actually shows that climate-related disasters are killing far fewer people than ever before.”

April 20, 2021

Lomborg was interviewed on Fox News, discussing proposals by progressive US Democrats including Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio Cortez and Senator Edward Markey to reintroduce the Green New Deal, a spending plan intended to achieve net zero carbon emissions by 2050.¹⁵⁰

Lomborg described the Green New Deal as “throwing lots of money at it (climate change) and not actually achieving very much.” He argued that genuine climate mitigation would cost “trillions of dollars per year,” stating “of course, people are not actually going to live up to that, they’re not going to vote for those types of guys, and of course, it won’t solve the problem.”

March 15, 2021

Lomborg wrote an article for Fox News which claimed that the severity of climate change was “typically vastly exaggerated,” adding: “the resulting alarmism is exploited to justify the wasteful spending of trillions”.¹⁵¹

Arguing that climate change mitigation measures were expensive and authoritarian, Lomborg stated: “The easiest way to get societies to authorize the spending of tens of trillions we don’t have is to scare us.” He added: “The academic and activist faction that sets the threatening tone in the climate conversation want dissent eliminated, leaving themselves the only ones authorized to tell you how scared you should be.”

March 8, 2021

Lomborg wrote an article for The Australian which criticised pledges made by several developed nations including the United States to achieve net zero carbon emissions by 2050. He described these policies as “fantastically expensive” and “an unsustainable and ineffective Western world approach,” stating: “If all the rich countries in the world were to cut their carbon emissions to zero tomorrow and for the rest of the century, the lack of energy would devastate societies.”¹⁵²

Lomborg also disputed the efficiency of renewable energy, stating: “Solar panels in some places make cheaper electricity at noon, but at night the cost is infinite. That is why across Europe, the higher the share of wind and solar, the higher the household cost of electricity.”

February 26, 2021

Lomborg was interviewed on Fox Business discussing US President Joe Biden’s climate change plans, which included the creation of a carbon-free power sector by 2035. Lomborg stated that Biden’s plans “are not sustainable because people are not willing to pay that amount of money.” Lomborg also criticised the Paris Climate Agreement, which the US had recently rejoined under Biden, stating: “Paris by itself will actually be fairly costly…and will have virtually no impact even in eighty years’ time.”¹⁵³

February 16, 2021

Lomborg was interviewed on Fox News discussing power outages that had occurred in Texas following an ice storm. He stated that the event “does tell us the very hard point that we’re going to have to face if we want to switch over to 100% renewable, that’s going to be wind and solar,” adding: “when the sun is not shining or the wind is not blowing, you’re up the creek.” Lomborg also stated that the implementation of predominantly renewable energy would lead to “rolling blackouts,” and “worse outcomes for higher costs.”¹⁵⁴

According to a fact check from Reuters: “The use of wind turbines in Texas does not appear to be the primary cause of statewide power outages amid historic cold weather. The state’s woes mainly stem from issues surrounding its independent power grid.”¹⁵⁵

February 9, 2021

Lomborg wrote an article for The New York Post criticising US President Joe Biden’s climate change spending plans, which he characterised as “an unsustainable and ineffective First World approach”. He wrote: “Growth-killing ‘fixes’ would delight a few job-secure academics, but they would lead to tragic outcomes of stagnation, strife and discord for ordinary people.”¹⁵⁶

Disputing the effectiveness of policies aimed at decarbonisation, Lomborg stated: “The last 30 years of climate policy have delivered high costs and rising emissions. The only reliable ways to cut emissions have been recessions and the COVID-19 lockdowns, both of which are unpalatable.”

February 5, 2021

In an interview on Fox News, Lomborg criticised US Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry for taking a private jet to Iceland. He stated: “nobody wants to give up their car or their ability to heat or cool their home, or fly. Most people actually like these things, and that’s why lots of people make these promises, but the actual impact is going to be a lot less because when you realise it, you actually don’t want to give up your car or when you have a private jet, your private jet.”¹⁵⁷

When asked about the economic viability of renewable energy, Lomborg responded: “There are certainly a lot of concerns around electric cars, and they only cut a little bit of emissions right now, because as you say, we get a lot of our power from coal,” adding: “most of the choices that we can make actually have very small impacts.”

Lomborg disputed the impact of taking personal measures to counteract climate change, stating: “If everyone in the world who used to fly stopped flying for the rest of the century, the impact would be miniscule.”

February 2, 2021

Lomborg was interviewed on Sky News Australia criticising US President Joe Biden’s climate plan, stating that it would do “virtually nothing” to combat climate change. He added: “fundamentally, climate is a problem, but the way we are trying to tackle it right now is typically incredibly expensive and will do very little to actually fix the problem.”¹⁵⁸

Lomborg also disputed that climate change had caused more extreme weather, stating: “most of us heard that 2020 was a record-breaking hurricane year, but actually if you look at the amount of damage from hurricanes around the world, there was no such thing,” adding: “actually, 2020 was one of the weakest hurricane years in satellite history.”

Disputing the cost implications of decarbonising economies by 2050, Lomborg stated: “If you actually want to fix climate change, you’re not going to do this by these incredibly expensive policies because you’re going to run out of money and willingness to pay.”

December 14, 2020

An article in The New York Post¹⁵⁹ discussing President -elect Joe Biden’s approach to climate change cited a piece written by Lomborg entitled: “How Climate Change Alarmists are actually Endangering the Planet,” which described warnings about sea levels rising as “spectacularly misleading.”¹⁶⁰

November 26, 2020

In an article for The Financial Post, Lomborg disputed the effectiveness of electric cars in reducing emissions. Commenting on proposals to incentivise electric car usage by world leaders including Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who proposed a ban on the sale of new petrol and diesel cars by 2030, Lomborg stated: “Electric car subsidies are something wealthy countries can afford to give to rich elites to show virtue.” He added: “Electric cars are certainly fun, but almost everywhere cost more across their lifetime than their gasoline counterparts.”¹⁶¹

November 2, 2020

In an article for Euractiv, Lomborg criticised the EU’s decarbonisation plans, describing them as “a costly way of achieving almost nothing”. Lomborg argued that “this does not mean that the EU should do nothing. It should do something smarter. The fundamental problem with climate policy is that switching to zero-carbon now is expensive. That means rich, well-meaning Europeans can afford a bit, but globally little will happen”. Lomborg also stated that, “climate change is a real and man-made problem that should be tackled sensibly. Yet, the impacts are often dramatically exaggerated.”¹⁶²

September 8, 2020

Lomborg appeared in a podcast for The Spectator alongside self-described climate “lukewarmer” Matt Ridley and Kate Andrews of the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA), discussing whether tackling climate change ought to be considered a top priority.¹⁶³

Lomborg disputed that counteracting climate change was a priority for the world’s poorest nations, stating: “If you actually want to help the world’s poor, they have many other much, much more important issues they want us to fix first, and fortunately, we can also fix them much cheaper and much more effectively.” He also stated that the Paris Agreement would achieve “almost nothing in 100 years,” and that “we probably won’t be able to measure the difference even if we continue to stick to the Paris agreements throughout the 21st century.”

August 25, 2020

Lomborg featured alongside Matt Ridley in a six-part podcast series about climate change presented by economics correspondent for the Spectator and former Associate Director of the Institute of Economic Affairs, Kate Andrews.

In the first episode of the series, Lomborg claimed that climate change was “a problem” but “not the end of the world” and criticised statements from the U.N Secretary General, Antonio Guterres and Democratic presidential candidate, Joe Biden, suggesting that climate change posed an existential threat to humanity. Lomborg said that to present climate change in this way was “alarmism” and “wrong.”¹⁶⁴

July 2020

Lomborg published an article in Technological Forecasting and Social Change titled “Welfare in the 21st century: Increasing development, reducing inequality, the impact of climate change, and the cost of climate policies.”¹⁶⁵

He wrote in conclusion:

“As municipalities, counties, and even countries declare a “climate emergency,” it is apparent that global warming is often being presented as an existential challenge requiring urgent and strong climate policies to avoid devastation.

“This article has shown that these claims are misleading and often incorrectly describe the issue and its future. While climate change is real, human caused, and will have a mostly negative impact, it is important to remember that climate policies will likewise have a mostly negative impact. Thus, we must account for the effects of both to find the policies that will achieve the highest welfare gains.”

Daily Kos discussed the article in an issue of its “ClimateDenierRoundup”:¹⁶⁶

“By focusing solely on GDP as the only measure of humanity’s wellbeing, Lomborg disregards the reality of what 3.75C of warming would mean. Regardless of whether he thinks it’s “realistic,” it’s only “optimal” when money matters more than human life,” Daily Kos wrote. “Warming of 3.75C would be genocidal: it would not only lead to millions of deaths across the planet, but would also directly cause the destruction of many island nations and their cultures.”

Roger Pielke Jr., who Lomborg also cites multiple times in the paper, promoted the article on Twitter in April 2020.

July 2020

Lomborg published a book titled False Alarm: How Climate Change Panic Costs Us Trillions, Hurts the Poor, and Fails to Fix the Planet. It was promoted by the Institute for Energy Research and the Hoover Institution among other groups.¹⁶⁷

The thesis of the book, reported in a review at the New York Times, was that “Activists have been sounding a false alarm about the dangers of climate change. If we listen to them, Lomborg says, we will waste trillions of dollars, achieve little and the poor will suffer the most.”¹⁶⁸

Joseph E. Stiglitz of The New York Times notes that, “Somehow, missing in his list of good policy measures are easy things like good regulations — preventing coal-burning electric generators, for example.” Stiglitz adds that Lomborg, “exhibits a naïve belief that markets work well — ignoring a half-century of research into market failures that says otherwise — so well, in fact, that there is no reason for government to intervene other than by setting the right price of carbon.”

“A second mistake — which biases the results in the same way — is Nordhaus’s and Lomborg’s underestimation of the damage associated with climate change.” Examples of that damage include ocean acidification and sea level rise. “Climate change also includes more extreme weather events — more intense hurricanes, more droughts, more floods, with all the devastation to life, livelihood and property that accompanies them.”

A third mistake identified in the article is “not taking due account of risk.”

“As the atmospheric concentration of carbon increases, we are entering uncharted territory. Not since the dawn of humanity has there been anything like this. The models use the ‘best estimate’ of impacts, but as we learn more about climate change these best estimates keep getting revised, and, typically, in only one direction — more damage and sooner than had been expected.”

Stiglitz concluded:

“This book proves the aphorism that a little knowledge is dangerous. It’s nominally about air pollution. It’s really about mind pollution.”

IER disagreed with Lomborg’s case of a tax on carbon, suggesting “a no-carbon-tax policy is better than the ‘optimal’ carbon tax.”¹⁶⁹

Lomborg was also interviewed at the Hoover Institution, where he is a visiting fellow, on July 24 to discuss the book.¹⁷⁰

January 16, 2020

Lomborg posted a graph on his Facebook page claiming that “Over the past hundred years, annual climate-related deaths have declined by 96%”. He said that although the data “does *not* mean that there is no global warming or that possibly a climate signal could eventually lead to further deaths”, it showed that “our increased wealth and adaptive capacity has vastly outdone any negative impact from climate when it comes to human climate vulnerability.”¹⁷¹

September 2019

Lomborg debated Dutch investor Mark van Baal on the dangers and solutions to climate change at an event hosted by EV Equity.¹⁷²

While he admitted climate change was real, Lomborg also claimed it was an exaggerated threat that does not pose an existential crisis for humanity, and dismissed concerns (found in a recent YouGov poll) about humanity’s potential for extinction as “just silly.”

He equated the impacts of climate change, given increased wealth in the world, as not much worse than a recession:

“It’s the equivalent to about one recession over the next 50 years,” he said. “That’s a problem, but it’s certainly not the end of the world.”

“If you want to help people,” he said, “you have to ask yourself do we want to help future generations by cutting carbon emissions and hence having them experience less climate change or do we want them to be more resilient against climate change by making sure they get out of poverty and get richer?”

In response, van Baal, said:

“I think the only way to do so is to make sure the oil and gas industry changes its course, stops investing in exploring for even more oil and gas and start exploring new business models. It’s simple as that.”

September 2019

The Australian reported Lomborg was among those named in a statement by academic website The Conversation, which said it would ban comments from climate change deniers.¹⁷³ The list was drawn from research published in the journal Nature, tracking the academic publications of climate change deniers and expert scientists across research in digital and print media on climate change. Those on the list included Richard Lindzen, Jennifer Marohasy, Judith Curry, Richard Tol, Bjørn Lomborg, Ian Plimer, and Maurice Newman.¹⁷⁴

Alex Petersen, lead author of the study, said: “It’s time to stop giving these people (contrarians) visibility, which can be easily spun into false authority. … By tracking the digital traces of specific individuals in vast troves of publicly available media data, we developed methods to hold people and media outlets accountable for their roles in the climate change denialism movement, which has given rise to climate change misinformation at scale.”

Curry said the paper “does substantial harm to climate science … There are a spectrum of perspectives, especially at the knowledge frontiers. Trying to silence or delegitimise any of these voices is very bad for science.”

The Conversation‘s editor and executive director Misha Ketchell commented: “We moderate anything that is a deliberate misinformation and distortion of facts or attempts to misrepresent arguments or community members. We know climate sceptics are very good at derailing constructive conversations, so we’ll remove comments that attempt to hijack threads or to push an agenda or argument irrelevant to the discussion.”

June 12, 2019

Lomborg was quoted in a BBC article reporting the news that the UK was set to adopt a target of “net zero” emissions by 2050. Lomborg supported a warning from the Chancellor Philip Hammond the week before that the policy could cost £1 trillion, saying:¹⁷⁵

“Mr Hammond is right to highlight the cost – and in fact, he is likely to be underestimating the real price tag.”

June 10, 2019

Lomborg wrote an article for The Telegraph entitled “Theresa May is about to spend £1 trillion on a pointless policy. This climate madness has to end.”¹⁷⁶ Lomborg was quoted in a Telegraph editorial three days later which called a “net zero” target for the UK the “wrong approach to climate change.”¹⁷⁷ Lomborg’s article was criticized by Bob Ward, Policy and Communications Director at the London School of Economics’ Grantham Institute, in a blog entitled ”UK newspaper ‘The Daily Telegraph’ duped by Bjorn Lomborg’s climate propaganda.” Ward wrote that Lomborg’s article was “characteristically filled with false claims, yet was obviously not fact-checked by the newspaper.”¹⁷⁸

December 6, 2018

Lomborg issued a critical assessment of the COP-24 climate summit by claiming that the IPCC’s stated goal of limiting global temperature increase to less than 1.5 degrees Celsius is “infeasible and unrealistic.” He also stated that abiding by the Paris agreement to meet this goal would negatively affect global GDP growth to the tune of up to $2 trillion annually after 2030 while having a negligible impact on temperature reduction.¹⁷⁹

Lomborg also criticized news reporting of the U.S. Climate Assessment, released by the Trump administration the day after Thanksgiving, as portraying a bleaker picture than the report actually revealed. The true cost to the global economy, from Lomborg’s perspective, would come not from extreme weather events and increased mortality rates, but from the imposition of “immature energy sources” to replace fossil fuels.

Minimizing the effect that rising global temperatures will have on mortality rates, Lomborg said:

“It is true more people die when it is unusually hot, but lives are not shorter in hotter places. (Otherwise, everyone would move from Texas to Alaska). Studies of migrants show people adapt quickly, within weeks. They also take actions like getting an air conditioner or adapting their houses that reduce their risk of overheating.”

October 9, 2018

Lomborg, writing at The Wall Street Journal, criticized the recent United Nations report on climate change:¹⁸⁰

“Limiting temperatures to 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit above preindustrial levels, as the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change urges, is economically and practically impossible,” Lomborg claimed, citing economist William Nordhaus as evidence.

Lomborg is one of several individuals and groups—including the industry-backed Institute for Energy Research (IER)—that selectively cited Nordhaus’s work as evidence that the IPCC’s targets are unrealistic.¹⁸¹

The IER article, giving a hat tip to David Henderson, pointed to research done by Nordhaus in 2007. However, in a more recent discussion paper from 2016, using an updated 2016 DICE model, Nordhaus “confirms past estimates of likely rapid climate change over the next century if there are not major climate-change policies.”¹⁸²

In his 2016 paper’s introduction, Nordhaus wrote:

“[W]e must take stock of what we know now as well as the implications of our actions. And the bottom line here is that this most recent taking stock has more bad news than good news, and that the need for policies to slow climate change are more and not less pressing.”

The August 2018 revision of Nordhaus’s paper that Lomborg appears to be citing includes the identical paragraph as above. In his paper, Nordhaus also notes that uncertainties surrounding the damages of climate change make it more important to act sooner and with stronger policies:¹⁸³

“The ranges of uncertainty for future emissions, concentrations, temperature, and damages are extremely large. However, this does not reduce the urgency of taking strong climate change policies today. When taking uncertainties into account, the desirable strength of policy (as measured by the social cost of carbon or the optimal carbon tax) would increase, not decrease,” Nordhaus wrote.

July 14, 2018

Lomborg published an article in The Australian criticising the Paris Agreement on climate change. In the article, he argues that:

“The Paris treaty, fully implemented, would achieve one hundredth of the reduction to 2C (a level at which there are still significant impacts), and hence achieve benefits worth perhaps only one tenth of 1 per cent of global GDP 100 years from now”.

Lomborg’s figures are based on a single study by Professor Richard Tol, an academic formally associated with the UK‘s premier climate science denial campaign group, the Global Warming Policy Foundation — as pointed out in a blog post by Bob Ward of the London School of Economics’ Grantham Institute. Ward points out many other errors in Lomborg’s analysis including that the Paris Agreement is not legally binding (it is), that the target to keep warming to 1.5 degrees is out of reach (many academics have concluded the target is still possible), and that coal will be cheaper than renewable energy in 2040 (in contrast with generally conservative International Energy Agency projections).

January 4, 2018

“Climate-Change Policies Can Be Punishing for the Poor,” an article by Lomborg in The Wall Street Journal, suggests that climate policies “bear an unfair burden” on “the rich world’s energy poor.” Lomborg claims the often-repeated talking point that “Policies aimed at addressing climate change can easily end up punishing the poor,” pointing a finger at Germany and citing a study by the fossil-fuel-funded Institute for Energy Research (IER), claiming that renewable energy targets and emissions caps have resulted in “energy poverty.”¹⁸⁴

September 7, 2017

“Talking about climate is confusing, causally incorrect and diverts important resources away from more effective interventions,” Lomborg wrote in an article titled “The Climate-Change Distraction” at The Wall Street Journal.¹⁸⁵

According to Lomborg, “Climate change has been blamed for a dizzying array of absurd woes from the dwindling number of customers at Bulgarian brothels to the death of the Loch Ness monster” as well as “the recent assertion by Unicef’s Bangladesh head of mission that climate change leads to an increase in child marriages.”

“Focusing on what we could achieve in the future through global-warming policies takes our attention away from what we could accomplish today,” Lomborg wrote, using the spread of malaria-carrying mosquitoes as an example.

July 25, 2017

Lomborg is a conributor to the Institute for Public Affairs (IPA) book “Climate Change: The Facts 2017.”¹⁸⁶ Prior versions of the book featured contributions from a range of prominent climate change deniers, and describes mainstream climate change research as “pseudo-science.”¹⁸⁷

According to the IPA‘s media release, “Climate Change: The Facts 2017 contains 22 essays by internationally-renowned experts and commentators, including Dr Bjorn Lomborg, Dr Matt Ridley, Professor Peter Ridd, Dr Willie Soon, Dr Ian Plimer, Dr Roy Spencer, and literary giant Clive James. The volume is edited by Dr Jennifer Marohasy, Senior Fellow at the Institute of Public Affairs. Fourteen of the contributors currently hold or have held positions at a university or a scientific research organisation.”¹⁸⁸

Contributors include:

Jennifer Marohasy – Senior Fellow, Institute of Public Affairs
John Abbot – Senior Fellow, Institute of Public Affairs
rrn Lomborg – Copenhagen Consensus Center
Jo Nova – Author of The Skeptic’s Handbook
Ian Plimer – Emeritus Professor, University of Melbourne
Peter Ridd – James Cook University
Matt Ridley – Author of The Rational Optimist
Willie Soon – Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Roy Spencer – University of Alabama in Huntsville
Anthony Watts – Watts Up with That?
Clive James

May 20, 2017

Lomborg’s Australian Consensus Center concluded that investment in keeping global temperature rises below 2C would return less than $1 for every $1 spent. It rated climate change prevention measures “poor” compared with other possible investments.¹⁸⁹

Under the heading “poor targets,” The Copenhagen Consensus Center’s report reads:¹⁹⁰

“Global annual carbon emission reduction targets for example, 2°C reduction below preindustrial level are extremely costly compared to benefits due to a lack of low-carbon energy sources. Returns less than one dollar for every dollar spent.”

In May, 2017, The Guardian reported that experts had rejected Lomborg’s claims, noting that the 2014 paper that Lomborg had based his claim on had underestimated the potential harm of CO2 exceeding 450 parts per million, and also has not taken into account recent advances in renewable energy technology.¹⁹¹

The 2014 paper’s author, Isabel Galiana, herself said that the “the paper does not explicitly undertake a benefit/cost analysis of keeping climate change to two degrees,” and also noted that if certain “tipping points” were passed, then climate-change induced damage could also increase.

Peter Howard, a Climate economist and economics director at New York University’s Institute for Policy Integrity said that the assessment paper gave “insufficient reasons for abandoning a 2°C limit.”

January 18, 2017

Writing at Project Syndicate, Bjørn Lomborg argues that geoengineering is a viable solution to combating climate change.¹⁹²

“Geoengineering means deliberately manipulating the Earth’s climate. It seems like something from science fiction. But it makes sense to think of it as a prudent and affordable insurance policy,” Lomborg writes.

According to Lomborg, renewable energy is too expensive, and this is the reason that “Climate summit after climate summit has failed to affect global temperatures.”

“Solar and wind power are still too expensive and inefficient to replace our reliance on fossil fuels. The prevailing approach, embodied by the Paris climate agreement, requires governments to try to force immature, uncompetitive green technologies on the world. That’s hugely expensive and inefficient,” he writes.

January 16, 2017

Bjørn Lomborg published a video at PragerU titled “The Paris Agreement Won’t Change the Climate.”¹⁹³ View the complete transcript (PDF), or see the video below.¹⁹⁴

According to Lomborg, “the [Paris] agreement will cost a fortune, but do little to reduce global warming.” He later describes the Paris agreement as “the wrong solution to a real problem,” suggesting that instead of reducing greenhouse gas emissions we should look at research and development in energy technology.

Lomborg then lists hydraulic fracturing (Fracking) as more beneficial than climate policy, without mentioning any of the potential environmental impacts of the process:¹⁹⁵

“The U.S. already shows the way. With its pursuit of fracking, making it safer and more efficient every year, America has drastically reduced the cost of natural gas. This momentous switch from coal to lower-CO2 gas as a source of energy has done far more to drive down carbon dioxide emissions than any recent government climate policy,” he writes.

October 13, 2016

Bjørn Lomborg write on Op-Ed in The Wall Street Journal titled “About Those Non-Disappearing Pacific Islands”¹⁹⁶ citing a September 2015 study and claiming that the Marshall Islands have been gaining land area.¹⁹⁷

While Lomborg says “this doesn’t mean that global warming isn’t real, or that world leaders and scientists shouldn’t tackle the adverse effects of climate change,” he accuses journalists of “hype and exaggeration.”¹⁹⁸

In September 2016, The Guardian reported first-hand accounts of Marshall Islands residents who had been directly affected by sea level changes. They noted that about a fifth of the population had left the islands between 1999 and 2011.¹⁹⁹

According to Lomborg, “doom-mongering” from issues like the Marshall Islands “makes us panic and seize upon the wrong responses to global warming.” He argues the Paris climate agreement “will slow the world’s economic growth to force a shift to inefficient green energy sources” and will “achieve almost nothing.”²⁰⁰

September 16, 2016

Bjørn Lomborg writes in The Telegraph that “one of the key benefits of the vote to leave the European Union is that Britain will not longer have to cooperate with overzealous regulations on shale gas extraction, or fracking, which has the potential to transform the energy market.” Lomborg adds that “We need to ditch our unrealistic expectations for renewables” because “A much better course is now possible: to focus on cheaper gas through fracking.”²⁰¹

June 19, 2016

Bjørn Lomborg appeared on CBC radio, where he discussed why he believes there are “a lot of positives to global warming,” although the long-term negatives would outweigh those positives. Audio below.²⁰²

“[H]alf the world’s area has greened because of global warming. So we’re basically seeing a gigantic greening […]” Lomborg says.

He also argues that global warming will reduce temperature-related deaths:

“Another issue: most people die from cold deaths, not heat deaths. And so when temperatures increase, we’re going to see about 400,000 more heat deaths because of global warming by mid-century, you hear a lot about those, but you’re probably going to see 1.8 million fewer cold deaths.”

According to Lomborg, implementing policies to combat climate change right now “end up doing a lot less good than we could do if we were a lot more rational about it.” He cites the Paris Agreement as an example of doing “Basically nothing, for a lot of money.”

April 6, 2016

Lomborg claims the report, “hypes the bad and skips over the good.” He writes, “It also ignores inconvenient evidence—like the fact that cold kills many more people than heat.”²⁰⁴

Daily Kos‘s ClimateDenier Roundup suggested that Lomborg was “deliberately being deceptive about the report’s representation of the cold deaths.”²⁰⁵

In response to Lomborg’s article, SkepticalScience published an open letter to the Wall Street Journal ²⁰⁶ summarizing an in-depth analysis of Lomborg’s op-ed that concluded “his account of the available evidence is misleading your readers.”²⁰⁷

“While the US GCRP report is based on thousands of scientific publications, Lomborg cherry-picked only a few to support his case that 1) ‘cold kills many more people than heat’ and 2) ‘climate change will reduce the number of cold days’ and ‘that will cut the total number of cold-related deaths.’” the open letter reads.²⁰⁸

February 8, 2016

Bjørn Lomborg is featured in a PragerU Video titled “Are Electric Cars Really Green?”²⁰⁹

Video and transcript below.

Transcript

Do electric cars really help the environment? President Obama thinks so. So does Leonardo DiCaprio. And many others.

The argument goes like this:

Regular cars run on gasoline, a fossil fuel that pumps CO2 straight out of the tailpipe and into the atmosphere. Electric cars run on electricity. They don’t burn any gasoline at all. No gas; no CO2. In fact, electric cars are often advertised as creating “zero emissions.” But do they really? Let’s take a closer look.

First, there’s the energy needed to produce the car. More than a third of the lifetime carbon-dioxide emissions from an electric car comes from the energy used make the car itself, especially the battery. The mining of lithium, for instance, is not a green activity. When an electric car rolls off the production line, it’s already been responsible for more than 25,000 pounds of carbon-dioxide emission. The amount for making a conventional car: just 16,000 pounds.

But that’s not the end of the CO2 emissions. Because while it’s true that electric cars don’t run on gasoline, they do run on electricity, which, in the U.S. is often produced by another fossil fuel – coal. As green venture capitalist Vinod Khosla likes to point out, “Electric cars are coal-powered cars.”

The most popular electric car, the Nissan Leaf, over a 90,000-mile lifetime will emit 31 metric tons of CO2, based on emissions from its production, its electricity consumption at average U.S. fuel mix and its ultimate scrapping.

A comparable Mercedes CDI A160 over a similar lifetime will emit just 3 tons more across its production, diesel consumption and ultimate scrapping. The results are similar for a top-line Tesla, the king of electric cars. It emits about 44 tons, which is only 5 tons less than a similar Audi A7 Quattro.

So throughout the full life of an electric car, it will emit just three to five tons less CO2. In Europe, on its European Trading System, it currently costs $7 to cut one ton of CO2. So the entire climate benefit of an electric car is about $35. Yet the U.S. federal government essentially provides electric car buyers with a subsidy of up to $7,500.

Paying $7,500 for something you could get for $35 is a very poor deal. And that doesn’t include the billions more in federal and state grants, loans and tax write-offs that go directly to battery and electric-car makers

The other main benefit from electric cars is supposed to be lower pollution. But remember Vinod Khosla’s observation “Electric cars are coal-powered cars.”

Yes, it might be powered by coal, proponents will say, but unlike the regular car, coal plant emissions are far away from the city centers where most people live and where damage from air pollution is greatest. However, new research in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences found that while gasoline cars pollute closer to home, coal-fired power actually pollutes more – a lot more.

How much more?

Well, the researchers estimate that if the U.S. has 10% more gasoline cars in 2020, 870 more people will die each year from the additional air pollution. If the U.S. has 10% more electric vehicles powered on the average U.S. electricity mix, 1,617 more people will die every year from the extra pollution. Twice as many.

But of course electricity from renewables like solar and wind creates energy for electric cars without CO2. Won’t the perceived rapid ramp-up of these renewables make future electric cars much cleaner? Unfortunately, this is mostly wishful thinking. Today, the U.S. gets 14% of its electric power from renewables. In 25 years, Obama’s U.S. Energy Information Administration estimates that number will have gone up just 3 percentage points to 17%. Meanwhile, those fossil fuels that generate 65% of U.S. electricity today will still generate about 64% of it in 2040.

While electric-car owners may cruise around feeling virtuous, the reality is that the electric car cuts almost no CO2, costs taxpayers a fortune, and, surprisingly, generates more air pollution than traditional gasoline cars.

I’m Bjørn Lomborg, president of the Copenhagen Consensus Center.

According to their website, PragerU’s mission is to “spread what we call ‘Americanism’ through the power of the Internet. Our five-minute videos are conservative sound bites that clarify profoundly significant and uniquely American concepts for more than 100 million people each year.” They focus on “Judeo-Christian” values including “freedom of speech, a free press, free markets and a strong military to protect and project those values.”²¹⁰

According to Conservative Transparency, PragerU has received $215,000 from the conservative Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation.²¹¹

December 2015

In a new paper, Lomborg argued that pledges made ahead of the United Nations climate change summit in Paris would only reduce global warming by 0.17°C by 2100.²¹²

“Paris is being sold as the summit where we can help ‘heal the planet’ and ‘save the world’. It is no such thing. If all nations keep all their promises, temperatures will be cut by just 0.05°C (0.09°F). Even if every government on the planet not only keeps every Paris promise, reduces all emissions by 2030, and shifts no emissions to other countries, but also keeps these emission reductions throughout the rest of the century, temperatures will be reduced by just 0.17°C (0.3°F) by the year 2100,” Lomborg commented in a press release.²¹³

Bob Ward of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment published early criticism of Lomborg’s work.²¹⁴ According to Ward’s full commentary, accepted for publication in the same journal as Lomborg’s paper, “Projections of global mean surface temperature for the period up to 2100 are based on cumulative annual global emissions of greenhouse gases up to the end of the century. While Lomborg (2015) purports to analyse the temperature changes associated with policies affecting emissions up to 2030, the author fails to acknowledge that the temperature projections to 2100 are determined primarily by assumptions that are made about cumulative annual global emissions over the 70-year period after 2030, rather than cumulative annual emissions during the period up to 2030.”²¹⁵

December 2015

Bjørn Lomborg has been writing a daily blog during the Paris climate change conference (COP21) where he has been consistently criticizing wind and solar energy.²¹⁶

In a column for The Australian, Lomborg wrote:²¹⁷ ²¹⁸

“The reality is that even after two decades of climate talks, we get a meagre 0.5% of our total global energy consumption from solar and wind energy, according to the leading authority, the International Energy Agency (IEA). And 25 years from now, even with a very optimistic scenario, envisioning everyone doing all that they promise in Paris, the IEA expects that we will get just 2.4 per cent from solar and wind.”

RenewEconomy earlier countered this claim, citing the International Energy Agency (the same source that Lomborg refers to). According to RenewEconomy, the IEA‘s reports show that “wind and solar will overtake coal as the biggest source of electricity by around 2030, and by 2040 will provide more than 8,200 terrawatt hours of electricity a year – twice as much as coal.”²¹⁹

Paulo Frankl, the IEA‘s own head of renewable energy, also took issue with Lomborg’s statement:

“That is absolute rubbish,” Frankl told RenewEconomy at a side-event at the Paris climate talks.

Frankl point to graphs from the recent World Energy Outlook, the ones that show that the IEA, itself criticized for a conservative outlook on wind and solar, expected that wind and solar will provide 27 per cent of global electricity demand by 2040 in its most optimistic scenario.

November 30, 2015

Bjørn Lomborg is featured in a PragerU video titled “Is Climate Change Our Biggest Problem?” Video and transcript below.²²⁰

Transcript:

One of the most persistent claims in the climate debate is that global warming leads to more extreme weather. This is a common concern expressed by those who fear a dangerously warming planet. President Barack Obama did so eloquently in his 2013 State of the Union Address when he talked about “the devastating impact of raging fires, and crippling drought, and more powerful storms.” Many others have offered similar sentiments.

Global warming is a problem that needs to be addressed, but exaggeration doesn’t help. It often distracts us from simple, cheaper and smarter solutions. To find those solutions, let’s address the three horsemen of the climate apocalypse to which President Obama referred.

Historical analysis of wildfires around the world shows that since 1950 their numbers have decreased globally by 15%. Estimates published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences shows that even with global warming, the level of wildfires will continue to decline until midcentury and won’t resume on the level of 1950 – the worst for fire – before the end of the century.

Claiming that droughts are a consequence of global warming is also wrong. The world has not seen a general increase in drought. A study published in Nature in March 2014 shows globally that there has been little change in drought over the past 60 years.

The U.N. Climate Panel in 2012 concluded: “Some regions of the world have experienced more intense and longer droughts, in particular in southern Europe and West Africa, but in some regions droughts have become less frequent, less intense, or shorter, for example, in central North America and northwestern Australia.”

And finally, the third horseman: hurricanes. Global hurricane activity today, measured by total energy, hasn’t been lower since the 1970s.

While it is likely that we will see somewhat stronger (but fewer) storms as climate change continues, damages will be lower because we’ll be better adapted. A March 2012 Nature study shows that the global damage cost from hurricanes will be 0.02% of gross domestic product by 2100 – down 50% from today’s 0.04%.

Let me make this clear: this does not mean that climate change isn’t an issue. It means that exaggerating the threat concentrates resources in the wrong areas.

Consider hurricanes (though similar points hold for wildfire and drought). If the aim is to reduce storm damage, then first focus on resilience – better building codes and better enforcement of those codes. Ending subsidies for hurricane insurance to discourage building in vulnerable zones would also help, as would investing in better infrastructure (from stronger levees to higher-capacity sewers).

These solutions are quick and comparatively cheap. Most important, they would diminish future hurricane damage, whether climate-induced or not. Had New York and New Jersey focused resources on building sea walls and adding storm doors to the subway system and making simple fixes like porous pavements, Hurricane Sandy would have caused much less damage.

In the long run, the world needs to cut carbon dioxide because it causes global warming. But if the main effort to cut emissions is through subsidies for chic renewables like wind and solar power, virtually no good will be achieved – at very high cost.

The cost of climate policies just for the European Union – intended to reduce emissions by 2020 to 20% below 1990 levels – are estimated at about $250 billion annually, or about $20 trillion over the century. And the benefits, when estimated using a standard climate model, will reduce temperatures only by an immeasurable one-tenth of a degree Fahrenheit by the end of the century.

Even in 2040, under its most optimistic scenario, the International Energy Agency estimates that just 2.2% of the world’s energy will come from wind and solar. As is the case today, almost 80% will still come from fossil fuels. As long as green energy is more expensive than fossil fuels, growing consumer markets like those in China and India will continue mostly to be powered by them.

Solar, wind, and other renewables are still inefficient because they require subsidies of more than $120 billion a year. And even in 2040, they won’t be efficient. The International Energy Agency estimates they will still require more than $200 billion dollars annually.

Instead of pouring money into subsidies for existing, inefficient wind and solar energy, we’d be far better off supporting research and development of green energy technologies to make them cheaper, faster.

When innovation eventually makes green energy as cheap or cheaper than fossil fuel energy, everyone will use it, including China and India. Until then, let’s cool the fear mongering and make practical decisions that will help people now.

I’m Bjorn Lomborg, President of the Copenhagen Consensus Center.

July–October, 2015

Bjørn Lomborg courted federal funding, to the tune of $4.4 million, to establish a “Australian Consensus Center” (australiaconsensus.com). The contract would require Bjørn Lomborg to conduct seminars across the country titled “The Australian Rational Conversation.”²²¹

The University of Western Australia’s (UWA) Business School initially picked up the project, but backed out²²² shortly after Guardian Australia revealed the federal grant in April.²²³

The Guardian reported that after UWA pulled out of the deal, the Department of Education encouraged universities to speak directly with Lomborg:

They “had some informal approaches from universities who might be interested and suggested to them and Dr Lomborg they might want to talk.”²²⁴

As of October, 2015 the federal government had withdrawn funding offered to Bjørn Lomborg for the creation of the Australia Consensus centre in any university.²²⁵ ²²⁶

The Guardian reported in December, 2016, referring to new documents that had come to light, that the Australian government had signed an agreement to make a $640,000 grant to Lomborg’s Copenhagen Consensus Center nine months after plans to establish the Center had been abandoned. $482,000 of the funding was set aside for professional fees including research, “outreach,” and forums, according to a breakdown of the costs.²²⁷

February 1, 2015

Bjørn Lomborg writes an opinion piece in The Wall Street Journal titled, “The Alarming Thing About Climate Alarmism.” Lomborg writes the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (UNIPCC) most recent report “found that in the previous 15 years temperatures had risen 0.09 degrees Fahrenheit,” and that “the average of all models expected 0.8 degrees [Fahrenheit]. So we’re seeing about 90% less temperature rise than expected.” ²²⁸

Later on in the opinion piece, Lomborg states that climate “alarmism has encouraged the pursuit of a one-sided climate policy of trying to cut carbon emissions by subsidizing wind farms and solar panels,” referring to renewable energy policies and technology as “expensive, feel-good measures that will have an imperceptible climate impact.”

ClimateFeedback.org, a website for “Scientific feedback for Climate Change information online,” had seven climate scientists evaluate Lomborg’s piece in The Wall Street Journal for “overall scientific credibility” and estimated it to be “’very low’ to ‘low’.”²²⁹

ClimateFeedback.org explains the negative evaluation: “The main reason for this negative evaluation is that the author [Bjorn Lomborg] practices cherry-picking: he [Lomborg] is selecting limited evidence to support his thesis that ‘much of the data about climate change are…encouraging’. The evidence provided is insufficient: several examples are either inaccurate or only speak about one aspect of the problem, ignoring much of the published literature on the subject.”

October 3, 2014

Bjørn Lomborg publishes an article in TIME‘s “Ideas” section titled, “How Indoor Stoves Can Help Solve Global Poverty.” Lomborg writes that “rich countries are already finding the move away from coal and oil to be a difficult one, and there are no easy answers for developing economies,” leading Lomborg to ask “today’s crucial question,” which is, “what should the world prioritize?”²³⁰

Lomborg contends there are some “targets we should be wary of,” like the doubling of the World’s renewable energy output, which he describes as “intermittent and unpredictable,” and its cost, “likely to be higher than the benefits.”

July 29, 2014

Bjørn Lomborg testified in front of the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment & Public Works, Subcommittee on Clean Air and Nuclear Safety in a hearing titled, “Examining the Threats Posed by Climate Change: The Effects of Unchecked Climate Change on Communities and the Economy.”²³¹

April 16, 2014

Lomborg was quoted in an a web-piece entitled, “Earth Daze,” written by news correspondent John Stossel in Real Clear Politics, “The amazing number that most people haven’t heard is, if you take all the solar panels and all the wind turbines in the world, they have (eliminated) less CO2 than what U.S. fracking (cracking rocks below ground to extract oil and natural gas) managed to do.”²³²

Stossel writes that even if America reaches Obama’s “absurd” pledge to put 1,000,000 electric vehicles on the road by 2015, the impacts of climate change would only be delayed by “one hour,” according to Lomborg, and the mitigation measure was merely a “symbolic act.”

February 8, 2014

Lomborg published an article in USA Today’s Columnists’ Opinions section entitled, “Lomborg: Obama energy policy hurts African poor,” where he suggests that investing in renewable energy, instead of gas, would let “millions of poor go unserved,” again referencing the recurring theme of “energy poverty.”²³³

December 3, 2013

Lomborg publishes an op-ed in The New York Times titled, “The Poor Need Cheap Fossil Fuels,” where he advocates maintaining the status quo of “reliable, low-cost fossil fuels, at least until we can make a global transition to a greener energy future.”²³⁴

October 20, 2013

Just a few weeks following the partnership announcement between Slate and the American Prosperity Consensus Project, Lomborg releases a piece on Slate entitled, “Of Course the World Is Better Now Than It Was in 1900.”²³⁵

Within it, he describes a “scorecard spanning 150 years,” developed by him and “21 of the world’s top economists,” to see, through standard “economic valuations,” if the world was “doing better or worse.” In the closing statement of the piece, Lomborg writes, “realists should now embrace the view that the world is doing much better … We should guide our future attention not on the basis of the scariest stories or loudest pressure groups, but on objective assessments of where we can do the most good.”²³⁶ ²³⁷ ²³⁸

October 7, 2013

Lomborg is quoted in a ThinkProgress article explaining “why the Copenhagen Consensus Center is launching the American Prosperity Consensus project in partnership with Slate”:²³⁹

“In 2040, the United States will differ greatly from the country we know today. Demographics trends will continue to reshape it, making it an older, more ethnically diverse nation. It will also become a denser, more urban population, which will affect the way we eat, work, shop, and relax. The policies the U.S. pursues at home will also affect the role that the nation plays in the world as a dynamic society and economy. These internal and external pressures create the need for robust policy solutions that address the country’s most vexing challenges and transcend today’s hyperpartisan, short-term decision making … The American Prosperity Consensus is designed as a competition of sorts. After we determine the most pressing issues according to reader input, we will ask economists and academics to propose policy solutions that best address these challenges while enabling America’s prosperity to continue and expand. With your help and with the guidance of Nobel laureates, we will create a list of top proposals. A final ranking will emerge from ongoing online debates and from the American Prosperity Summit, to be held in May 2014.”

Environmental communications and public health expert Robert J. Brulle, from Drexel University, told ThinkProgress that it appeared Slate has decided to no longer engage in “serious journalism,” as seen in the “gimmick” with Bjørn Lomborg.

April 2013

Lomborg appeared on an episode of John Stossel’s “Green Tyranny” where he criticized subsidies for renewable energy:²⁴⁰

“Global warming is real and it is something we need to fix, but we should fix it smartly and not in a very, very costly way as we are doing right now,” Lomborg said in the interview.

“When you say, you know, we’re creating green jobs. Sure. If you give lots and lots of subsidies, you’re inevitably going to get jobs. But where are you going to pay it from?”

November 12, 2010

Lomborg appeared in the documentary film Cool It which focused on his views regarding climate policy where he suggests “that there’s a well-financed effort underfoot to spin the failure of climate action into a new political strategy for high-tech mega-investments.” Lomborg said that “independent investors” financed the film.²⁴¹

September 9, 2009

Lomborg publishes a blog post in Reuters UK‘s Analysis and Opinion section entitled, “We Need a Fresh Approach On Climate Change.”²⁴²

In the opinion piece, Lomborg links back to the Copenhagen Consensus Center’s research results, which were conducted by an “Expert Panel of five world-class economists – including three recipients of the Nobel Prize;” their duty: “to form conclusions about which solution to climate change is the most promising.” The panel concluded, “the most effective use of resources would be to invest immediately in researching marine cloud whitening technology,” a form of geoengineering.²⁴³

August 7, 2009

The Copenhagen Consensus Center launched its new project on global warming: Copenhagen Consensus on Climate.²⁴⁴

June 18, 2009

Lomborg is listed as a guest speaker on a panel at the fifth International Congress on Mining, Oil and Energy where he was to speak on a panel with the title “Global Crisis and Sustainable Solutions: The Truth About Global Warming.”²⁴⁵

April 2008

David Sassoon wrote a series of postings at Solve Climate on Lomborg’s media tours to the US. They are available here:

2007

In 2007 Lomborg published his second major book skeptical about climate change titled Cool It. His book tour in Canada was sponsored by the Fraser Institute, an organization which has received $120,000 from ExxonMobil since 1998.²⁵⁰ ²⁵¹

Alanna Mitchell, the Science Reporter for the Globe and Mail wrote a review:

“It would be possible to go point by point through the many similar flaws in each of Lomborg’s arguments, but frankly, the book is too pitiful to merit it. It’s not that his analysis is controversial – that would be fun – but that it is deeply dissatisfying, ignorant and shallow. I remember wondering, after I interviewed Lomborg, whether he was intellectually dishonest or just not very bright. Cool It has convinced me that it doesn’t matter. Lomborg has now proved beyond a doubt that he is incapable of contributing anything of merit to scientific discourse.”²⁵²

Dr. Frank Ackerman of Tufts University wrote a detailed and critical analysis for the peer-reviewed journal Climatic Change, outlining the many errors and biases in Lomborg’s book:

“The book is riddled with small inaccuracies, and because it displays a pervasive bias in its coverage and evaluations of climate issues. To begin with, Lomborg has a weak grasp of some of the essential details and commits elementary mistakes, with little or no citation of sources that would explain his results.”²⁵³

November 2004

Lomborg was a speaker at an environmental giving “pre-conference” organised by the conservative funding organization, the Philanthropy Roundtable. In the speech (audio here), Lomborg told the audience the only environmental investment that made economic sense was in measures to combat particulate air pollution.²⁵⁴

He promoted the findings of his Copenhagen Consensus project, which earlier that year had ranked projects on climate change as the lowest on a list of 17 potential issues to spend money on.

2004

Lomborg hosted the Copenhagen Consensus conference, partially funded by the Danish government. Eight economists selected by Lomborg were asked to prioritize ten global problems based on a hypothetical budget of $50 billion and a timeline of five years. Based on those constraints, the panel concluded that climate change was the least cost-effective area to invest public money.

The conference was hosted through the Danish Environmental Assessment Institute, of which Lomborg was the director. When the conference was announced, five of the seven board members resigned en masse in a dispute over the event.

Ackerman also provides a detailed rebuttal to the methodology of this conference in his peer-reviewed paper.²⁵⁵

Professor John Quiggin is a Senior Research Fellow of the Australian Research Council, based at the Australian National University and Queensland University of Technology. He wrote a series of articles critical of the process, participants and perceived bias of the conference.²⁵⁶ ²⁵⁷

He concludes that “the Copenhagen Consensus project was created as a political stunt. It was designed, in every detail, to produce a predetermined outcome. Having got the desired outcome, the organizer has shown little or no interest in pursuing any of the other issues raised by the project.”

Jeffery Sachs was also critical of the Copenhagen Consensus conference in his analysis (PDF) for the prestigious journal Nature.²⁵⁸

Tom Burke also wrote a scathing review of the Copenhagen Consensus, titled “This is neither scepticism nor science – just nonsense” in The Guardian.²⁵⁹

2001

In 2001, Lomborg published his first major book, The Skeptical Environmentalist. In response, The Danish Ecological Council published an 225-page book titled Skeptical Questions and Sustainable Answers which documents the many errors and omissions in Lomborg’s work.

The Danish Committee for Scientific Dishonesty also received numerous complaints regarding the accuracy of Lomborg’s first book. After investigating, they concluded:

“The publication is deemed clearly contrary to the standards of good scientific practice…there has been such perversion of the scientific message in the form of systematically biased representation that the objective criteria for upholding scientific dishonesty … have been met.”²⁶⁰

Lomborg later had this overturned after appealing to the Danish Government, who was sympathetic to his message, ordered the body to review this decision.²⁶¹

Scientific American later published their own 10-page article, written by four leading experts, that was critical of The Skeptical Environmentalist and which described Lomborg’s work as “deeply flawed.”²⁶²

They further described Lomborg’s text as having “misrepresented the actual positions of environmentalists and scientists” with an analysis that was “marred by invalidating errors that include a narrow, biased reading of the literature, an inadequate understanding of the science, and quotations taken out of context.”

John P. Holdren, one of the Scientific American authors noted: “It is instructive that [Lomborg] apparently did not feel he could manage an adequate response by himself (In this, at least, he was correct. But he could not manage it with help, either).”²⁶³

For his part, Lomborg sent a plea to his supporters asking for help in forming a rebuttal. It read:

“Naturally, I plan to write a rebuttal to be put on my web-site. However, I would also love your input to the issues — maybe you can contest some of the arguments in the Scientific American, alone or together with other academics. Perhaps you have good ideas to counter a specific argument. Perhaps you know of someone else that might be ideal to talk to or get to write a counter-piece.”²⁶⁴

The Union of Concerned Scientists also authored a highly critical analysis of Lomborg’s first book. They state:²⁶⁵

“Lomborg’s book is seriously flawed and fails to meet basic standards of credible scientific analysis. The authors note how Lomborg consistently misuses, misrepresents or misinterprets data to greatly underestimate rates of species extinction, ignore evidence that billions of people lack access to clean water and sanitation, and minimize the extent and impacts of global warming due to the burning of fossil fuels and other human-caused emissions of heat-trapping gases. Time and again, these experts find that Lomborg’s assertions and analyses are marred by flawed logic, inappropriate use of statistics and hidden value judgments. He uncritically and selectively cites literature—often not peer-reviewed— that supports his assertions, while ignoring or misinterpreting scientific evidence that does not. His consistently flawed use of scientific data is, in Peter Gleick’s words ‘unexpected and disturbing in a statistician.’”

Grist magazine also asked eight leading experts to critique the book based on their particular areas of knowledge. Their critical analysis, titled “A Skeptical Look at the Skeptical Environmentalist,” thoroughly discredits many of Lomborg’s claims.²⁶⁶

Dr. Peter Gleick, a renowned American scientist, wrote another critical review of Lomborg’s Skeptical Environmentalist book in the magazine Environment. Dr. Gleick’s review, “Is the Skeptic All Wet?” catalogued numerous errors in Lomborg’s methods, data and assumptions, particularly focused on water issues.²⁶⁷

Affiliations

@BjornLomborg on Twitter.
@bjornlomborg on Facebook (Official Page).

Publications

Apart from the Skeptical Environmentalist and Cool It, Lomborg was also the editor of a 2010 book titled Smart Solutions to Climate Change: Comparing Costs and Benefits.²⁷⁷

According to a search of Google Scholar, Lomborg has primarily published articles in the area of policy and economics in relation to climate change. Many of his publications are through his Copenhagen Consensus Center via Project Syndicate, and articles at the Wall Street Journal and The Financial Times.

Sample Journal Publications

Bjorn Lomborg. “Welfare in the 21st century: Increasing development, reducing inequality, the impact of climate change, and the cost of climate policies,” Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Volume 156 (July 2020) 119981, ISSN 0040-1625.
Lomborg, Bjorn. “Impact of Current Climate Proposals,” Global Policy, Vol. 7, Issue 1 (November 9, 2015): 109-118 . doi:10.1111/1758-5899.12295.

Other Resources

“Facebook Page,” Copenhagen Consensus Center.
“Bjorn Lomborg,” SourceWatch Profile.
ExxonSecrets Factsheet: Bjorn Lomborg.
“Bjørn Lomborg,” Wikipedia entry.
“The Skeptical Environmentalist,” Wikipedia entry.
Stacy Feldman. “Why Isn’t Anyone Laughing at Bjorn Lomborg?” Solve Climate, October 26, 2007. Archived January 5, 2009.

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Bjorn Lomborg. ”The Poor Need Cheap Fossil Fuels,” The New York Times, The Opinion Pages, December 3, 2013. Archived March 3, 2025. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/WjSOP
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Bjorn Lomborg. “Climate trillions frittered in the wind,” The Australian, July 20, 2019. Archived October 24, 2021.
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“No, fossil fuels won’t end soon …” post by user “@BjornLomborg” on x.com, December 20, 2024. Archived .png on file at DeSmog.
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Jordan Peterson and Bjorn Lomborg. “Elite groupthink put the West on the path to despair – but there’s another way,” The Telegraph, August 6, 2023. Archived August 6, 2023. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/FnKFM
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Bjorn Lomborg and Jordan Peterson. “Stop the panicked fearmongering if we want to make the world better,” New York Post, August 4, 2023. Archived August 6, 2023. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/kEf9L
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Jordan Peterson and Bjorn Lomborg. “Jordan Peterson and Bjorn Lomborg: How to save critical thinking and constructive debate,” National Post, August 10, 2023. Archived August 10, 2023. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/kHPNT
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Bjorn Lomborg and Jordan Peterson. “Enough panicked fear-mongering on climate change,” Jakarta Post, August 11, 2023. Archived August 12, 2023. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/L4bv9
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“Point: No Need to Panic on Climate Change,” NH Journal, September 18, 2023. Archived November 8, 2023. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/fNOfi
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Graham Readfearn. “The world likely just had its hottest month on record. What a time to be a climate science denier,” The Guardian, August 3, 2023. Archived August 1, 2023. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/auvKD
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Bjorn Lomborg. “Climate alarmists scare us of ever more fire. But satellites show the world is burning ever 𝙡𝙚𝙨𝙨. In 2022, the world burned the least ever in the satellite era. Why haven’t you seen this?,” Tweet by user @BjornLomborg, August 1, 2023. Archived .png on file at DeSmog.
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Bjorn Lomborg. “Climate change hasn’t set the world on fire,” Wall Street Journal, July 31, 2023. Archived August 1, 2023. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/WfDJh
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John Stossel. “Spend climate-change cash on better causes to save millions of lives,” New York Post, July 2, 2023. Archived July 2, 2023. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/TOhvf
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Bjorn Lomborg. “It is often claimed that the cost of climate change is very uncertain But the three main global models (ones used by Obama Admin) show surprisingly similar estimates Read more in my peer-reviewed article: https://sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0040162520304157,” Tweet by Bjorn Lomborg, Archived June 23, 2023. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/odyzr
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Bjorn Lomborg. “Welfare in the 21st century: Increasing development, reducing inequality, the impact of climate change, and the cost of climate policies,” Technological Forecasting and Social Change, July 2020.
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“Innovation in green technology is the key to fixing global warming: Bjorn Lomborg,” Fox Business, May 15, 2023. Archived May 15, 2023. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/CfiV9
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Saumya Joshi. “Paris Deal ‘less Effective’ As West Doesn’t Walk The Talk On Climate Change: Bjorn Lomborg,” RepublicWorld.com, April 26, 2023. Archived April 26, 2023. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/jpWkX
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Bjorn Lomborg. “Congrats: European flight costs will almost double because of climate policies. Costs €819 billion more to 2050. “waving goodbye to the low prices that made globetrotting accessible to millions of people”,” Tweet from user @BjornLomborg, April 18, 2023. Retrieved from Twitter.com. Archived .png on file at DeSmog.
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Bjørn Lomborg. “Life after climate change,” National Review, March 30, 2023. Archived March 30, 2023. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/WJLl7
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Bjorn Lomborg. “Climate doomism: Higher temps: more people 𝗰𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗱 get malaria In real life, you get malaria if you’re poor Malaria endemic in 36 US states before 1940s bc poverty Malaria decreases bc development climate just slows improvement slightly,” Tweet by user @BjornLomborg, April 15, 2023. Archived .png on file DeSmog.
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Maureen McCall. “Discussing climate change strategy and climate policy with Bjorn Lomborg,” BOE Report, April 14, 2023. Archived April 14, 2023. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/WjJ1e
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“Democrat approach to climate change is deeply flawed: Bjorn Lomborg,” Fox Business, March 28, 2023. Archived March 29, 2023. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/pKtA1
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Bjørn Lomborg. “Bjorn Lomborg: A second green revolution is needed to feed the planet,” BusinessDay, February 22, 2023. Archived February 24, 2023. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/ywQym
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Bjorn Lomborg. “Bjorn Lomborg: The muddled reality of electric cars,” The Financial Post, December 1, 2023. Archived December 2, 2023. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/pW0nq
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Bjorn Lomborg. “What the new GCSE in global warming should teach”, Spectator, May 14, 2022. Archived May 16, 2022. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/v0ShS
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Bjorn Lomborg. “Bjorn Lomborg: Fracking could be the answer as Europe seeks energy independence”, The Herald, April 14, 2022. Archived April 14, 2022. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/X9zJx
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Bjorn Lomborg. “Bjorn Lomborg: Obsession with climate change distorts our priorities”, Business Live, April 13, 2022. Archived April 13, 2022. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/yutQ5
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Bjorn Lomborg. “If you think today’s energy prices are high, wait until net-zero”, Financial Post, March 1, 2022. Archived March 1, 2022. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/ZHXks
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Bjorn Lomborg. “Fewer and fewer people die from climate-related natural disasters”, January 1, 2022. Archived October 19, 2022. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/GE1Ar#selection-911.0-929.37
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Bjorn Lomborg. “U.N. Ignores Economics Of Climate,” Wall Street Journal, October 9, 2018. Archive.fo URL: https://archive.fo/QTQhN
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“Bjorn Lomborg: Climate change action has to be democratic,” Herald Sun, December 7, 2017. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/SUG6r
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“Opinion: Climate change is bad, but it comes with benefits too,” CBC Radio, June 19, 2016. Archived September 5, 2016. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/A5hpn
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Bjorn Lomborg. “An Overheated Climate Alarm,” The Wall Street Journal. Archived .pdf on file at Desmog. Archive .is URL: Archive .is URL: https://archive.is/YoA3H
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Climate change real, deadly says David Attenborough,” The Australian (sub. required), January 2, 2015. Archived .pdf on file at DeSmog.
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Bjorn Lomborg. ”Renewables pave path to poverty,” The Australian, April 29, 2014. Archived May 8, 2014. Archived .pdf on file at DeSmog.
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“Lomborg: Obama energy policy hurts African poor,” USA Today, February 8, 2014. Archived September 1, 2016. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/vKPyb
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Bjorn Lomborg. ”The Poor Need Cheap Fossil Fuels,” The New York Times, The Opinion Pages, December 3, 2013. Archived March 3, 2025. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/WjSOP
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Bjorn Lomborg. “What do global problems cost us?” TED Blog Videos, November 12, 2013. Archived .mp4 available at DeSmog.
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“Perspective on Climate Change” (PDF), Testimony prepared by Bjorn Lomborg for the Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality joint hearing with the Subcommittee on Energy and Environment of the Committee on Science and Technology on Wednesday March 21, 2007. Archived .pdf on file at Desmog.
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Bjorn Lomborg. “‘Cheap’ solar and wind is a lie, green countries pay more!” New York Post, May 7, 2025. Archived June 10, 2025. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/ZP9oZ
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Bjorn Lomborg. “Green energy has become a pricey delusion,” Bangkok Post, May 13, 2025. Archived June 12, 2025. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/mNa5B
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Bjorn Lomborg. “‘Cheap’ solar and wind is a lie, green countries pay more!” New York Post, May 7, 2025. Archived June 10, 2025. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/ZP9oZ
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Scott Waldman. “Meet the 4 influencers shaping Chris Wright’s worldview,” E&E News, May 7, 2025. Archived May 8, 2025. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/yAZX6
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Bjorn Lomborg. “‘Cheap’ solar and wind is a lie, green countries pay more!” New York Post, May 7, 2025. Archived June 10, 2025. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/ZP9oZ
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Bjorn Lomborg. “Flirting with green virtue-signaling,” Philippine Daily Inquirer, May 2, 2025. Archived June 12, 2025. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/HeCmJ
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Bjorn Lomborg. “Ignore the climate alarmism – the biggest polluter is poverty,” CITY AM, April 22, 2025. Archived May 28, 2025. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/Pcg2Y
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Bjorn Lomborg. “Environment improves as more nations prosper — the greatest polluter is poverty,” New York Post, April 20, 2025. Archived June 12, 2025. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/ykDz3
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Bjorn Lomborg. “Banks and business are talking sense on climate at last. But it must not be just talk,” The Telegraph, April 20, 2025. Archived June 12, 2025. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/MBEsR
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Bjorn Lomborg. “Bjorn Lomborg: Global warming policies hurt the poor,” Financial Post, April 15, 2025. Archived June 12, 2025. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/oQl1d
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“‘If we stopped using fossil fuels today, billions would die’,” Spiked, April 14, 2025. Archived June 12, 2025. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/eucHf
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“The stupidity of Net Zero | Bjorn Lomborg on how climate alarmism leads to economic crisis,” YouTube video uploaded by user “spiked,” April 9, 2025. Archived .mp4 on file at DeSmog.
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“‘If we stopped using fossil fuels today, billions would die’,” Spiked, April 14, 2025. Archived June 12, 2025. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/eucHf
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Bjorn Lomborg. “UN pushes awful green deal policies while also spreading eco lies,” New York Post, March 6, 2025. Archived June 12, 2025. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/rh7t6
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NET ZERO: ‘Has reduced economic growth dramatically… this is not sustainable’ – Bjorn Lomberg,” YouTube video uploaded by user “Together,” March 7, 2025. Archived .mp4 on file at DeSmog.
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Ed Miliband’s Green Agenda SHATTERED as ‘PROPAGANDA’ – Expert SLAMS ‘Costly’ Net Zero Plans,” YouTube video uploaded by user “GBNews,” February 18, 2025. Archived .mp4 on file at DeSmog.
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Bjorn Lomborg. “Climate change fanatics want to bankrupt the entire world for little to no reward,” New York Post, January 19, 2025. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/Qc4NM
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US spending trillions on climate efforts that will have a tiny impact in 100 years: Bjorn Lomborg,” Fox Business, January 16, 2025. Archived January 19, 2025. Archived .mp4 on file at DeSmog.
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Brendan O’Neill. “No, the LA inferno is not Mother Nature’s revenge,” Spiked, January 9, 2025. Archived June 13, 2025. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/ymMz6
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“Fossil fuels deliver ‘a lot of good’ for humanity” Sky News Australia, December 4, 2024. Archived .mp4 on file at DeSmog. Archived March 6, 2025. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/ZPfjW
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“Fossil fuels deliver ‘a lot of good’ for humanity” Sky News Australia, December 4, 2024. Archived .mp4 on file at DeSmog. Archived March 6, 2025. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/ZPfjW
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Bjorn Lomborg. “Redistributing the West’s wealth won’t solve climate change,” National Post, November 13, 2024. Archived November 13, 2024. Archived .pdf available at DeSmog.
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Bjorn Lomborg. “Bjorn Lomborg: Expensive climate policy is dead. That’s a big opportunity,” Financial Post, November 28, 2024. Archived June 13, 2025. Archive URL: https://archive.fo/OfykO
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Bjorn Lomborg. “Climate policies are getting far too expensive,” Bangkok Post, November 2, 2024. Archived June 28, 2025. Archived June 25, 2025.
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“THIS ONE IDEA could save MILLIONS of lives | Bjorn Lomborg ARC Conversations,” YouTube video uploaded by user “Alliance for Responsible Citizenship,” October 8, 2024. Archived .mp4 on file at DeSmog.
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“THIS ONE IDEA could save MILLIONS of lives | Bjorn Lomborg ARC Conversations,” YouTube video uploaded by user “Alliance for Responsible Citizenship,” October 8, 2024. Archived .mp4 on file at DeSmog.
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“THIS ONE IDEA could save MILLIONS of lives | Bjorn Lomborg ARC Conversations,” YouTube video uploaded by user “Alliance for Responsible Citizenship,” October 8, 2024. Archived .mp4 on file at DeSmog.
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“THIS ONE IDEA could save MILLIONS of lives | Bjorn Lomborg ARC Conversations,” YouTube video uploaded by user “Alliance for Responsible Citizenship,” October 8, 2024. Archived .mp4 on file at DeSmog.
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Bjorn Lomborg. “Shrinking island, vanishing polar bears — the climate scare stories that turn out to be false,” New York Post, September 15, 2024. Archived June 13, 2025. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/HhnR6
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Bjorn Lomborg. “U.N. Climate-Change Alarms Cast Little Light on Heat,” Wall Street Journal, August 29, 2024. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/LF8kD
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“Cold kills eight times more than heat in Europe, study finds,” The Times, August 30, 2024. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/6OEfV
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Bjorn Lomborg. “We are wasting $2 trillion a year chasing ‘green’ fantasies,” New York Post, August 11, 2024. Archived June 13, 2025. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/HNzK6
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Bjorn Lomborg. “Net zero will only make you poorer and China richer,” The Telegraph, July 24, 2024. Archived June 13, 2025. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/5EXB9
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David Simon. “Repeal Biden’s entire destructive climate change program,” Washington Examiner, July 9, 2024. Archived June 13, 2025. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/yNmHs
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“EVs are ‘net negative’ and not part of renewable solution: Bjorn Lomborg,” Fox Business, July 1, 2024. Archived .mp4 on file at DeSmog.
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“Proposed EV solutions are ‘costly’ and ‘won’t work very well’: Bjorn Lomborg,” Fox News. Archived .mp4 on file at DeSmog.
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“Proposed EV solutions are ‘costly’ and ‘won’t work very well’: Bjorn Lomborg,” Fox News. Archived .mp4 on file at DeSmog.
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Bjorn Lomborg. “Don’t let green dogma get in the way of climate science,” CityAM, July 22, 2024. Archived June 13, 2025. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/UHfV1
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Bjorn Lomborg. “Green activists don’t care how many people will die from zero fossil fuel use,” New York Post, May 23, 2024. Archived June 10, 2025. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/Zluuc
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Bjorn Lomborg. “Green activists don’t care how many people will die from zero fossil fuel use,” New York Post, May 23, 2024. Archived June 10, 2025. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/Zluuc
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Bjorn Lomborg. “Green activists don’t care how many people will die from zero fossil fuel use,” New York Post, May 23, 2024. Archived June 10, 2025. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/Zluuc
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Bjorn Lomborg. “Green activists don’t care how many people will die from zero fossil fuel use,” New York Post, May 23, 2024. Archived June 10, 2025. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/Zluuc
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Bjorn Lomborg. “Green activists don’t care how many people will die from zero fossil fuel use,” New York Post, May 23, 2024. Archived June 10, 2025. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/Zluuc
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Bjorn Lomborg. “Green activists don’t care how many people will die from zero fossil fuel use,” New York Post, May 23, 2024. Archived June 10, 2025. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/Zluuc
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Bjorn Lomborg. “Trillions in taxpayer subsidies haven’t made wind and solar power cheaper or better for Americans,” New York Post, April 9, 2024. Archived June 10, 2025. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/ftmY6
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Bjorn Lomborg and Jordan Peterson. “Commentary: We need a discussion about how we respond to crises before the next one,” The Post and Courier, March 18, 2024. Archived March 25, 2024. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/QtPW4
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Bjorn Lomborg and Jordan Peterson. “Commentary: We need a discussion about how we respond to crises before the next one,” The Post and Courier, March 18, 2024. Archived March 25, 2024. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/QtPW4
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Bjorn Lomborg and Jordan Peterson. “Commentary: We need a discussion about how we respond to crises before the next one
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Bjorn Lomborg and Jordan Peterson. “Commentary: We need a discussion about how we respond to crises before the next one,” The Post and Courier, March 18, 2024. Archived March 25, 2024. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/QtPW4
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Bjorn Lomborg and Jordan Peterson. “Commentary: We need a discussion about how we respond to crises before the next one,” The Post and Courier, March 18, 2024. Archived March 25, 2024. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/QtPW4
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Bjorn Lomborg. “‘Follow the Science’ Leads to Ruin,” Wall Street Journal, March 13, 2024. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/UF0Ai
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Bob Ward. “More misinformation and nonsense on climate from Lomborg and Tol,” Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, March 22, 2024. Archived June 24, 2025. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/Dy6E6
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“So, fossil fuel era is on its last legs …” post by user “@BjornLomborg” on x.com, February 8, 2024. Archived .png on file at DeSmog.
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Bjorn Lomborg. “World Bank eco policy shifts aid from poor,” New York Post, January 24, 2024. Archived June 24, 2025. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/sW2bV
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Bjorn Lomborg. “Twelve good causes to save the world this Christmas (and climate change isn’t one of them),” The Telegraph, December 23, 2023. Archived December 23, 2023. Archived .pdf on file at DeSmog.
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“Bjorn Lomborg. “Politicians should acknowledge the real cost of net zero policy,” Dhaka Tribune, Deember 4, 2023. Archived March 4, 2024. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/uDgwM
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“Bjorn Lomborg. “Politicians should acknowledge the real cost of net zero policy,” Dhaka Tribune, Deember 4, 2023. Archived March 4, 2024. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/uDgwM
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“Bjorn Lomborg. “Politicians should acknowledge the real cost of net zero policy,” Dhaka Tribune, Deember 4, 2023. Archived March 4, 2024. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/uDgwM
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Bjorn Lomborg. “Climate change is costly – but so is climate policy,” The Business Times, December 9, 2023. Archived February 8, 2024. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/zASnE
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Bjorn Lomborg and Jordan Peterson. “Don’t give In to gloom, the world Is getting better,” Waco Tribune-Herald, November 6, 2023. Archived November 23, 2023. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/6l04O
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Bjorn Lomborg. “Will the World Bank Choose Climate Change Over Poverty?” Wall Street Journal, October 6, 2023. Archived October 7, 2023.
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Bjorn Lomborg. “Will the World Bank Choose Climate Change Over Poverty?” Wall Street Journal, October 6, 2023. Archived October 7, 2023.
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Bjorn Lomborg. “Will the World Bank Choose Climate Change Over Poverty?” Wall Street Journal, October 6, 2023. Archived October 7, 2023.
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Bjorn Lomborg. “Will the World Bank Choose Climate Change Over Poverty?” Wall Street Journal, October 6, 2023. Archived October 7, 2023.
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“This is how crazy climate alarmism has becoming […],” Post by user “@BjornLomborg,” September 29, 2023. Archived .png on file at DeSmog.
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Graham Readfearn. “The world likely just had its hottest month on record. What a time to be a climate science denier,” The Guardian, August 3, 2023. Archived August 1, 2023. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/auvKD
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Bjorn Lomborg. “Climate alarmists scare us of ever more fire. But satellites show the world is burning ever 𝙡𝙚𝙨𝙨. In 2022, the world burned the least ever in the satellite era. Why haven’t you seen this?,” Tweet by user @BjornLomborg, August 1, 2023. Archived .png on file at DeSmog.
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“UN define two futures: Sustainable and Fossil fuels …” post on x.com by user “@BjornLomborg,” June 24, 2023. Archived .png on file at DeSmog.
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“12 Ways the Planet Could Truly Be Saved | Bjørn Lomborg | EP 345,” YouTube video uploaded by user “Jordan B Peterson,” April 3, 2023. Archived .mp4 on file at DeSmog.
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“Jordan Peterson and Bjorn Lomborg: Hunger is more pressing than climate change, elites have it backwards,” National Post, December 14, 2022. Archived December 14, 2022.
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Andy Kroll. “Exposed: The Dark-Money ATM of the Conservative Movement,” Mother Jones, February 5, 2012. Archived July 24, 2015. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/dP34U
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Bjorn Lomborg. “Facts on Hurricanes and Climate Are Blowing in the Wind”, Forbes, October 4, 2022. Archived October 21, 2022. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/UI4bI
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Bjorn Lomborg. “Net-zero climate policy offers much pain, little gain”, New York Post, October 2, 2022. Archived October 2, 2022. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/SDS9z
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Bjorn Lomborg. “The Rich World’s Climate Hypocrisy”, The Wall Street Journal, June 21, 2022. Archived June 21, 2022. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/XztBH
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Bjorn Lomborg. “Bjorn Lomborg: The left should stop scaring our kids witless”, Fox News, June 15, 2022. Archived June 15, 2022. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/HrzDc
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Bjorn Lomborg. “Lomborg: Want to alleviate world hunger? Ditch the organics”, Boston Herald, May 31, 2022. Archived May 31, 2022. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/TP6lh
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Bjorn Lomborg. “Ukraine crisis reveals the folly of organic farming”, Wall Street Journal, March 6, 2022. Archived May 9, 2022. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/D211m
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Bjorn Lomborg. “Opinion: Fracking, nuclear and research are Europe’s best energy bets”, Financial Post, March 15, 2022. Archived March 15, 2022. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/9Cvjj
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Bjorn Lomborg. “Exclusive: ‘Nuclear has a lot going for it while net zero will simply not happen’, says sceptical environmentalist Bjorn Lomborg”, City AM, February 22, 2022. Archived February 22, 2022. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/ytMLn
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“CO₂ and climate make world greener,” Tweet series by user “@BjornLomborg,” February 6, 2022. Archived .png on file at DeSmog.
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Bjorn Lomborg. “World will go green only when the price is right,” The Australian, November 26, 2021. Archived November 27, 2021. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/gBctB
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Graham Readfearn. “Climate cost study authors accuse Bjørn Lomborg of misinterpreting results,” The Guardian, December 2, 2021. Archived December 17, 2021. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/k7VNR
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Bjorn Lomborg. “World Leaders Need To Unleash Green Innovation At COP26”, Forbes, November 5, 2022. Archived October 17, 2022. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/BX3xP
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Marc A. Thiessen. “Opinion: Climate change is not an ‘existential threat’,” The Washington Post, November 2, 2021. Archived November 5, 2021. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/ggBto
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“Want to Lock Down for the Climate?” Wall Street Journal, September 30, 2021. Archived October 15, 2021. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/b3XRu
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“Climate Change Doesn’t Cause All Disasters,” Wall Street Journal, August 5, 2021. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/6rK9E
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Bjorn Lomborg. “Green activists are courting a humanitarian catastrophe,” The Australian, May 22, 2021. Archived May 24, 2021. Archive.ph URL: https://archive.ph/vMKud
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Bjorn Lomborg. “Don’t make the poor pay for climate change,” The Australian, April 24, 2021. Archived April 26, 2021. Archive.ph URL: https://archive.ph/QMXxl
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“Leaders ‘went out of their way to scare us’ at climate change summit,” Sky News Australia, April 25, 2021. Archived April 26, 2021. Archive.ph URL: https://archive.ph/EWvMJ
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Bjorn Lomborg. “Don’t make the poor pay for climate change,” The Australian, April 24, 2021. Archived April 26, 2021. Archive.ph URL: https://archive.ph/QMXxl
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Bjorn Lomborg. “Bjorn Lomborg: This Earth Day let’s replace alarmism with smarter policy,” The Financial Post, April 22, 2021. Archived April 26, 2021. Archive.ph URL: https://archive.ph/Y86ty
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“Democrats to reintroduce Green New Deal: ‘We need a smarter approach,’” Yahoo News, April 20, 2021. Archived April 20, 2021. Archive.ph URL: https://archive.ph/EceAF
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Bjorn Lomborg. “Bjorn Lomborg: Climate change and cancel culture – here’s how left uses fear to push costly, radical policies,” Fox News, March 15, 2021. Archived March 15, 2021. Archive.vn URL: https://archive.ph/fspLj
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Bjorn Lomborg. “Let’s put our energy into innovation to help fix the planet,” The Australian, March 6, 2021. Archived March 8, 2021. Archive.vn URL: https://archive.vn/wsxlT
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Joseph Vazquez. “WATCH: Hoover Visiting Fellow Bjorn Lomborg Slaps Down Leftist Climate Alarmism on Kudlow,” NewsBusters, February 26, 2021. Archived March 2, 2021. Archive.vn URL: https://archive.vn/3lhj5
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“Texas winter storm freezes wind turbines, causes blackouts,” Fox News, February 16, 2021. Archived.mp4 on file at DeSmog.
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“Fact check: The causes for Texas’ blackout go well beyond wind turbines,” Reuters, February 19, 2021. Archived March 3, 2021. Archive.vn URL: https://archive.vn/qKzjR
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Bjorn Lomborg. “Biden’s climate ‘fix’ is fantastically expensive and perfectly useless,” The New York Post, February 9, 2021. Archived February 15, 2021. Archive.vn URL: https://archive.vn/SF27G
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Nikolas Lanum. “John Kerry’s private jet use shows how hard it is to actually cut emissions: Climate author,” Fox News, February 5, 2021. Archived February 8, 2021. Archive.vn URL: https://archive.vn/45OWd
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“Joe Biden’s climate plan will do ‘virtually nothing’: Bjorn Lomborg,” Sky News Australia, February 2, 2021. Archived February 8, 2021. Archive.vn URL: https://archive.vn/MdzGS
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Rich Lowry. “Joe Biden’s climate agenda is all about creating a crisis — not actually fixing one,” The New York Post, December 21, 2020. Archived December 22, 2020. Archive.vn URL :https://archive.vn/nqRPw
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Bjorn Lomborg. “How climate change alarmists are actually endangering the planet,” The New York Post, July 11, 2020. Archived December 22, 2020. Archive.vn URL: https://archive.vn/EbjML
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Bjorn Lomborg. “The electric car won’t get us very far,” The Financial Post, November 26, 2020. Archived November 30, 2020. Archive.vn URL: https://archive.vn/a1NBe
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Bjorn Lomborg. “EU must get smarter to lead on climate change”, Euractiv, November 2, 2020. Archived November 3, 2020. Archive.vn URL: https://archive.vn/t0h6E
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Kate Andrews, Matt Ridley, Bjorn Lomborg. “A question of priorities: should tackling climate change trump all else?,” The Spectator, September 8, 2020. Archived.mp3 on file at DeSmog.
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“Don’t Panic! How to talk about climate change – episode 1,” The Spectator, August 25, 2020.
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Bjorn Lomborg. “Welfare in the 21st century: Increasing development, reducing inequality, the impact of climate change, and the cost of climate policies,” Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Volume 156 (July 2020) 119981, ISSN 0040-1625. Archived November 5, 2020. Archive URL: https://archive.vn/8RQ0Y
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“Bjorn Lomborg Argues Genocidal Levels Of Warming Is The Optimal Climate Policy,” Daily Kos, April 30, 2020. Archived November 5, 2020. Archive URL: https://archive.vn/znBai
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Joseph E. Stiglitz. “Are We Overreacting on Climate Change?” The New York Times, July 16, 2020. Archived July 31, 2020. Archive URL: https://archive.vn/IgUoF
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Joseph E. Stiglitz. “Are We Overreacting on Climate Change?” The New York Times, July 16, 2020. Archived July 31, 2020. Archive URL: https://archive.vn/IgUoF
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David Kreutzer. “Book Review: False Alarm by Bjørn Lomborg,” Institute for Energy Research, July 7, 2020. Archived July 31, 2020. Archive URL: https://archive.vn/Xd1k1
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“Bjorn Lomborg Declares ‘False Alarm’ on Climate Hysteria,” Hoover Institution, July 28, 2020. Archived .mp3 on file at DeSmog.
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“Facebook post by @bjornlomborg, January 16, 2020,” Facebook. Archived .png on file at DeSmog.
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Allister Thomas. “Activist investor and ‘skeptical environmentalist’ face off on climate change,” Energy Voice, October 10, 2019. Archived October Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/dgDfd
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Graham Lloyd. “No place in debate for climate contrarians,” The Australian, September 21, 2019. Archive URL: https://archive.vn/qIzvs
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Petersen, A.M., Vincent, E.M. & Westerling, A.L. Discrepancy in scientific authority and media visibility of climate change scientists and contrarians. Nat Commun 10, 3502 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-09959-4
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Roger Harrabin. “Climate change: UK government to commit to 2050 target,” BBC News, June 12, 2019. Archived June 12, 2019. Archive.fo URL: https://archive.fo/Y2qwS
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Bjorn Lomborg. “Theresa May is about to spend £1 trillion on a pointless policy. This climate madness has to end,” The Telegraph, June 10, 2019. Archived June 19, 2019. Archive.fo URL: https://archive.fo/0BKhF
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“Theresa May’s net-zero target is the wrong approach to climate change,” The Telegraph, June 13, 2019. Archived June 19, 2019. Archive.fo URL: https://archive.fo/fc0rn
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Bob Ward. “UK newspaper ‘The Daily Telegraph’ duped by Bjorn Lomborg’s climate propaganda,” LSE, June 17, 2019. Archived June 19, 2019. Archive.fo URL: https://archive.fo/i4VpN
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Bjorn Lomborg. “Another climate summit means more expensive, ineffective promises,” CapX.com, December 6, 2018. Archived December 12, 2018. Archive.is URL: http://archive.is/gdfMD
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Bjorn Lomborg. “U.N. Ignores Economics Of Climate,” Wall Street Journal, October 9, 2018. Archive.fo URL: https://archive.fo/QTQhN
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Robert P. Murphy. “The IPCC Should Heed the Work of Nobel Laureate William Nordhaus,” Institute for Energy Research, October 9, 2018. Archived October 23, 2018. Archive.fo URL: https://archive.fo/DOtdZ
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“PROJECTIONS AND UNCERTAINTIES ABOUT CLIMATE CHANGE IN AN ERA OF MINIMAL CLIMATE POLICIES” (PDF), Cowles Foundation, December 2016. Archived .pdf on file at DeSmog.
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“Projections and Uncertainties about Climate Change in an Era of Minimal Climate Policies” (PDF), American Economic Journal Vol. 10 No. 3 (August 2018).
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Bjorn Lomborg. “Climate-Change Policies Can Be Punishing for the Poor,” The Wall Street Journal, January 4, 2018. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/qeWpD
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Bjorn Lomborg. “The Climate-Change Distraction,” The Wall Street Journal, September 7, 2017.
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“Donate to Climate Change: The Facts 2017,” Institute of Public Affairs. Archived October 31, 2016. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/KpLZh
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“Climate Change: The facts 2014,” Catallaxyfiles.com. Archived October 31, 2016. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/Trs4Y
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“NEW BOOK – CLIMATE CHANGE: THE FACTS 2017” (PDF), Institute of Public Affairs, July 25, 2017.
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“Climate Change,” Copenhagen Consensus Centre. Archived May 23, 2017. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/gOmt8
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“Climate Change Targets Benefits and Costs for the Post-2015 Development Agenda” (PDF), Copenhagen Consensus Centre. Archived .pdf on file at DeSmog.
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Paul Karp. “Experts reject Bjørn Lomborg’s view on 2C warming target,” The Guardian, May 20, 2017. Archived May 23, 2017. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/m5Ktx
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Bjorn Lomborg. “Geoengineering Climate Change,” Project Syndicate, January 18, 2017. Archived January 19, 2017. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/dSEnF
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“The Paris Agreement Won’t Change the Climate,” PragerU, January 16, 2016. Archived .mp4 on file at DeSmog.
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Bjorn Lomborg. “The Paris Climate Agreement Won’s Change the Climate,” (PDF), PragerU. Archived .pdf on file at DeSmog.
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Bjorn Lomborg. “The Paris Climate Agreement Won’s Change the Climate,” (PDF), PragerU. Archived .pdf on file at DeSmog.
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Bjorn Lomborg. “About Those Non-Disappearing Pacific Islands,” The Wall Street Journal, October 13, 2016. Archived .pdf on file at DeSmog.
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“Multi-decadal shoreline changes in response to sea level rise in the Marshall Islands,” Anthropocene, Volume 11 (September 2015), Pages 14–24. Abstract retrieved from ScienceDirect. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/z2jlp
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Bjorn Lomborg. “About Those Non-Disappearing Pacific Islands,” The Wall Street Journal, October 13, 2016. Archived .pdf on file at DeSmog.
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“Lives in the balance: climate change and the Marshall Islands,” The Guardian, September 15, 2016. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/bSybd
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Bjorn Lomborg. “About Those Non-Disappearing Pacific Islands,” The Wall Street Journal, October 13, 2016. Archived .pdf on file at DeSmog.
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Bjorn Lomborg. “Britain is now free to frack and slash energy bills,” The Telegraph, September 16, 2016. Archived September 19, 2016. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/pgejL
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“Opinion: Climate change is bad, but it comes with benefits too,” CBC Radio, June 19, 2016. Archived September 5, 2016. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/A5hpn
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Bjorn Lomborg. “An Overheated Climate Alarm,” The Wall Street Journal. Archived .pdf on file at Desmog. Archive .is URL: Archive .is URL: https://archive.is/YoA3H
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Bjorn Lomborg. “An Overheated Climate Alarm,” The Wall Street Journal. Archived .pdf on file at Desmog. Archive .is URL: Archive .is URL: https://archive.is/YoA3H
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“Bjorn Lomborg’s Deception About ‘Climate and Health Assessment’ in Wall Street Journal,” Desmog, April 8, 2016. Originally posted at Daily Kos.
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“Open letter to the Wall Street Journal editor: a scientists’ response to Lomborg’s misleading op-ed,” SkepticalScience, April 14, 2016. Archived September 1, 2016. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/6999w
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“Analysis of Bjorn Lomborg’s ‘An Overheated Climate Alarm’,” Climate Feedback. Archived September 1, 2016. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/Vn9Xx
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“Open letter to the Wall Street Journal editor: a scientists’ response to Lomborg’s misleading op-ed,” SkepticalScience, April 14, 2016. Archived September 1, 2016. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/6999w
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“Are Electric Cars Really Green?” PragerU, February 8, 2016. Archived May 31, 2016.
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“What We Do,” PragerU.com. Archived May 31, 2016.
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“Prager U,” Conservative Transparency. Search Performed May 31, 2016.
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Press Release. “Paris climate promises will reduce temperatures by just 0.05°C in 2100,” Bjorn Lomborg (undated). Archived February 24, 2018. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/16Y0I
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Press Release. “Paris climate promises will reduce temperatures by just 0.05°C in 2100,” Bjorn Lomborg (undated). Archived February 24, 2018. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/16Y0I
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(Press Release). “New paper by Bjorn Lomborg suffers from fundamental methodological flaw,” Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment. December 2, 2015. Archived February 24, 2018. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/n0Sfh
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Robert E.T. Ward. “Comment on ‘Impact of Current Climate Proposals’ by Bjorn Lomborg” (PDF), Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy Working Paper No. 244. Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment Working Paper No. 218 (December 2015).
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Giles Parkinson. “IEA says Lomborg claims on wind and solar energy are ‘rubbish’,“ RenewEconomy, December 2, 2015. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/O7iCU
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Giles Parkinson. “IEA says Lomborg claims on wind and solar energy are ‘rubbish’,“ RenewEconomy, December 2, 2015. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/O7iCU
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Bjorn Lomborg. “Paris climate summit: Bjorn Lomborg daily blog ,“ The Australian, November 30, 2015. Archived .pdf on file at DeSmog.
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Giles Parkinson. “Bjorn Lomborg, it’s time to check your numbers on wind and solar,” RenewEconomy, November 11, 2015. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/2YCQh
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“Is Climate Change Our Biggest Problem?” PragerU, November 30, 2015. Archived May 31, 2016.
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Lenore Taylor. “Bjørn Lomborg university funding tied to ‘rational conversation’ lectures,” The Guardian, June 25, 2015. Archived July 22, 2015. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/gPW3E
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Bjorn Lomborg. “The Honor of Being Mugged by Climate Censors,” The Wall Street Journal, May 13, 2015. Archived .pdf on file at Desmog.
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Lenore Taylor. “Abbott government gives $4m to help climate contrarian set up Australian centre,” The Guardian, April 16, 2015. Archived June 7, 2015. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/FqCsj
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Lenore Taylor. “Universities told to speak to Bjørn Lomborg if they want $4m in funding,” The Guardian. June 3, 2015. Archived July 22, 2015. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/SfhEZ
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Graham Readfearn. “Australian Government Withdraws $4 Million Grant For Climate Contrarian Bjorn Lomborg’s Consensus Project,” DeSmog, October 23, 2015.
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Shalailah Medhora and Daniel Hurst. “Government withdraws funding offer for Bjørn Lomborg centre“ The Guardian, October 20, 2015. Archived October 24, 2015. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/JB9Ly
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Paul Karp. “Federal grant to Bjørn Lomborg centre made in Turnbull era, documents show,” The Guardian, December 22, 2016. Archived December 27, 2016. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/ctdXT
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Bjorn Lomborg. ”The Alarming Thing About Climate Alarmism,” The Wall Street Journal, February 1, 2015. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/pR3nb
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“Analysis of Bjorn Lomborg’s ‘An Overheated Climate Alarm’,” Climate Feedback. Archived September 1, 2016. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/Vn9Xx
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Bjorn Lomborg. “How Indoor Stoves Can Help Solve Global Poverty,” TIME, October 3, 2014. Archived October 7, 2014. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/56BSm
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“Examining the Threats Posted by Climate Change: The Effects of Unchecked Climate Change on Communities and the Economy” (PDF), The Senate EWP Committee, Subcommittee on Clean air and Nuclear Safety. Archived .pdf on file at DeSmog.
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John Stossel. “Earth Daze,” Real Clear Politics, April 16, 2014. Archived September 1, 2016. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/WqOYe
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“Lomborg: Obama energy policy hurts African poor,” USA Today,February 8, 2014. Archived April September 1, 2016. Archive .is URL: https://archive.is/vKPyb
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Bjorn Lomborg. ”The Poor Need Cheap Fossil Fuels,” The New York Times The Opinion Pages, December 3, 2013. Archive .is URL: https://archive.is/WjSOP
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Bjorn Lomborg. “Of Course the World Is Better Now Than It Was in 1900,” Slate, October 20, 2013. Archived September 1, 2016. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/9fuaU
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Bjorn Lomborg. “Of Course the World Is Better Now Than It Was in 1900,” Slate, October 20, 2013. Archived September 1, 2016. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/9fuaU
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“Clean Slate? Asking Bjorn Lomborg to Help Figure Out ‘The Most Pressing Issue Facing’ America is Like…,” ThinkProgress, October 7, 2013. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/69gS3
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“How Much Have Global Problems Cost the World? A Scorecard from 1900 to 2050,” Cambridge University Press. Published October, 2013. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/ySOAg
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“Clean Slate? Asking Bjorn Lomborg to Help Figure Out ‘The Most Pressing Issue Facing’ America is Like…,” ThinkProgress, October 7, 2013. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/69gS3
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“John Stossel – Green Tyranny: In The Name of Protecting The Earth 4/04/13,” YouTube video uploaded by user “selfownership1,” April 27, 2013. Archived .mp4 on file at DeSmog.
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Robert Collier. “Bjorn Lomborg film offers new convenient truth,” San Francisco Chronicle, November 7, 2010. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/H7YS
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Bjorn Lomborg. ”We Need a Fresh Approach on Climate Change,” Reuters UK Analysis and Opinion, September 9, 2009. Archived September 1, 2016. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/ah9bB
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Bjorn Lomborg. ”We Need a Fresh Approach on Climate Change,” Reuters UK Analysis and Opinion, September 9, 2009. Archived September 1, 2016. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/ah9bB
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“Copenhagen Consensus on Climate” YouTube Video, Copenhagen Consensus, August 7, 2009.
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“V INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS ON MINING, OIL AND ENERGY Cartagena de Indias, Hilton Hotel Convention Center” (PDF – programme), Cinmipetrol, May 12, 2009. Archived .pdf on file at DeSmog.
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David Sassoon. “Global Warming’s Danish Denialist Coming to America: Part 1,” Solve Climate, April 2, 2008. Archived January 15, 2010. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/wMBip
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David Sassoon. “Global Warming’s Danish Denialist Coming to America: Part 2,” Solve Climate, April 3, 2008. Archived March 30, 2009. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/xPgi6
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David Sassoon. “Global Warming’s Danish Denialist Coming to America: Part 3,” Solve Climate, April 4, 2008. Archived January 5, 2009. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/WpVHL
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David Sassoon. “Bjorn Lomborg Delivers Nihilist Message at Manhattan Institute Climate Talk,” Solve Climate, April 11, 2008. Archived January 5, 2009. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/KDVvM
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Mitchell Anderson. “Bjorn Lomborg and the Anti-Climate Crowd,” DeSmog, April 10, 2008.
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ExxonSecrets Factsheet: Fraser Institute. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/OUpGs
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Allanna Mitchell. “The Pollyanna of global warming,” Globe and Mail, September 29, 2007. Archived March 7, 2016. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/l3f67
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Frank Ackerman. “Hot, It’s Not: Reflections on Cool It!, by Bjorn Lomborg” (PDF), Tufts University. Archived .pdf on file at DeSmog.
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“What Unites Us: The Principles of American Philanthropy,” The Philanthropy Roundtable. Archived April 6, 2005. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/MJfxa
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Frank Ackerman. “Hot, It’s Not: Reflections on Cool It!, by Bjorn Lomborg” (PDF), Tufts University. Archived .pdf on file at DeSmog.
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“No, fossil fuels won’t end soon …” post by user “@BjornLomborg” on x.com, December 20, 2024. Archived .png on file at DeSmog.
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Jordan Peterson and Bjorn Lomborg. “Elite groupthink put the West on the path to despair – but there’s another way,” The Telegraph, August 6, 2023. Archived August 6, 2023. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/FnKFM
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Bjorn Lomborg and Jordan Peterson. “Stop the panicked fearmongering if we want to make the world better,” New York Post, August 4, 2023. Archived August 6, 2023. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/kEf9L
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Jordan Peterson and Bjorn Lomborg. “Jordan Peterson and Bjorn Lomborg: How to save critical thinking and constructive debate,” National Post, August 10, 2023. Archived August 10, 2023. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/kHPNT
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Bjorn Lomborg and Jordan Peterson. “Enough panicked fear-mongering on climate change,” Jakarta Post, August 11, 2023. Archived August 12, 2023. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/L4bv9
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“Point: No Need to Panic on Climate Change,” NH Journal, September 18, 2023. Archived November 8, 2023. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/fNOfi
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Graham Readfearn. “The world likely just had its hottest month on record. What a time to be a climate science denier,” The Guardian, August 3, 2023. Archived August 1, 2023. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/auvKD
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Bjorn Lomborg. “Climate alarmists scare us of ever more fire. But satellites show the world is burning ever 𝙡𝙚𝙨𝙨. In 2022, the world burned the least ever in the satellite era. Why haven’t you seen this?,” Tweet by user @BjornLomborg, August 1, 2023. Archived .png on file at DeSmog.
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Bjorn Lomborg. “Climate change hasn’t set the world on fire,” Wall Street Journal, July 31, 2023. Archived August 1, 2023. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/WfDJh
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John Stossel. “Spend climate-change cash on better causes to save millions of lives,” New York Post, July 2, 2023. Archived July 2, 2023. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/TOhvf
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Bjorn Lomborg. “It is often claimed that the cost of climate change is very uncertain But the three main global models (ones used by Obama Admin) show surprisingly similar estimates Read more in my peer-reviewed article: https://sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0040162520304157,” Tweet by Bjorn Lomborg, Archived June 23, 2023. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/odyzr
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Bjorn Lomborg. “Welfare in the 21st century: Increasing development, reducing inequality, the impact of climate change, and the cost of climate policies,” Technological Forecasting and Social Change, July 2020.
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“Innovation in green technology is the key to fixing global warming: Bjorn Lomborg,” Fox Business, May 15, 2023. Archived May 15, 2023. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/CfiV9
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Saumya Joshi. “Paris Deal ‘less Effective’ As West Doesn’t Walk The Talk On Climate Change: Bjorn Lomborg,” RepublicWorld.com, April 26, 2023. Archived April 26, 2023. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/jpWkX
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Bjorn Lomborg. “Congrats: European flight costs will almost double because of climate policies. Costs €819 billion more to 2050. “waving goodbye to the low prices that made globetrotting accessible to millions of people”,” Tweet from user @BjornLomborg, April 18, 2023. Retrieved from Twitter.com. Archived .png on file at DeSmog.
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Bjørn Lomborg. “Life after climate change,” National Review, March 30, 2023. Archived March 30, 2023. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/WJLl7
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Bjorn Lomborg. “Climate doomism: Higher temps: more people 𝗰𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗱 get malaria In real life, you get malaria if you’re poor Malaria endemic in 36 US states before 1940s bc poverty Malaria decreases bc development climate just slows improvement slightly,” Tweet by user @BjornLomborg, April 15, 2023. Archived .png on file DeSmog.
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Maureen McCall. “Discussing climate change strategy and climate policy with Bjorn Lomborg,” BOE Report, April 14, 2023. Archived April 14, 2023. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/WjJ1e
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“Democrat approach to climate change is deeply flawed: Bjorn Lomborg,” Fox Business, March 28, 2023. Archived March 29, 2023. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/pKtA1
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Bjørn Lomborg. “Bjorn Lomborg: A second green revolution is needed to feed the planet,” BusinessDay, February 22, 2023. Archived February 24, 2023. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/ywQym
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Bjorn Lomborg. “Bjorn Lomborg: The muddled reality of electric cars,” The Financial Post, December 1, 2023. Archived December 2, 2023. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/pW0nq
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Bjorn Lomborg. “What the new GCSE in global warming should teach”, Spectator, May 14, 2022. Archived May 16, 2022. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/v0ShS
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Bjorn Lomborg. “Bjorn Lomborg: Fracking could be the answer as Europe seeks energy independence”, The Herald, April 14, 2022. Archived April 14, 2022. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/X9zJx
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Bjorn Lomborg. “Bjorn Lomborg: Obsession with climate change distorts our priorities”, Business Live, April 13, 2022. Archived April 13, 2022. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/yutQ5
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Bjorn Lomborg. “If you think today’s energy prices are high, wait until net-zero”, Financial Post, March 1, 2022. Archived March 1, 2022. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/ZHXks
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Bjorn Lomborg. “Fewer and fewer people die from climate-related natural disasters”, January 1, 2022. Archived October 19, 2022. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/GE1Ar#selection-911.0-929.37
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Bjorn Lomborg. “U.N. Ignores Economics Of Climate,” Wall Street Journal, October 9, 2018. Archive.fo URL: https://archive.fo/QTQhN
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“Bjorn Lomborg: Climate change action has to be democratic,” Herald Sun, December 7, 2017. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/SUG6r
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“Opinion: Climate change is bad, but it comes with benefits too,” CBC Radio, June 19, 2016. Archived September 5, 2016. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/A5hpn
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Bjorn Lomborg. “An Overheated Climate Alarm,” The Wall Street Journal. Archived .pdf on file at Desmog. Archive .is URL: Archive .is URL: https://archive.is/YoA3H
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Climate change real, deadly says David Attenborough,” The Australian (sub. required), January 2, 2015. Archived .pdf on file at DeSmog.
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Bjorn Lomborg. ”Renewables pave path to poverty,” The Australian, April 29, 2014. Archived May 8, 2014. Archived .pdf on file at DeSmog.
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“Lomborg: Obama energy policy hurts African poor,” USA Today, February 8, 2014. Archived September 1, 2016. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/vKPyb
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Bjorn Lomborg. ”The Poor Need Cheap Fossil Fuels,” The New York Times, The Opinion Pages, December 3, 2013. Archived March 3, 2025. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/WjSOP
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Bjorn Lomborg. “What do global problems cost us?” TED Blog Videos, November 12, 2013. Archived .mp4 available at DeSmog.
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“Perspective on Climate Change” (PDF), Testimony prepared by Bjorn Lomborg for the Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality joint hearing with the Subcommittee on Energy and Environment of the Committee on Science and Technology on Wednesday March 21, 2007. Archived .pdf on file at Desmog.
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Bjorn Lomborg. “‘Cheap’ solar and wind is a lie, green countries pay more!” New York Post, May 7, 2025. Archived June 10, 2025. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/ZP9oZ
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Bjorn Lomborg. “Green energy has become a pricey delusion,” Bangkok Post, May 13, 2025. Archived June 12, 2025. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/mNa5B
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Bjorn Lomborg. “‘Cheap’ solar and wind is a lie, green countries pay more!” New York Post, May 7, 2025. Archived June 10, 2025. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/ZP9oZ
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Scott Waldman. “Meet the 4 influencers shaping Chris Wright’s worldview,” E&E News, May 7, 2025. Archived May 8, 2025. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/yAZX6
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Bjorn Lomborg. “‘Cheap’ solar and wind is a lie, green countries pay more!” New York Post, May 7, 2025. Archived June 10, 2025. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/ZP9oZ
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Bjorn Lomborg. “Flirting with green virtue-signaling,” Philippine Daily Inquirer, May 2, 2025. Archived June 12, 2025. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/HeCmJ
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Bjorn Lomborg. “Ignore the climate alarmism – the biggest polluter is poverty,” CITY AM, April 22, 2025. Archived May 28, 2025. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/Pcg2Y
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Bjorn Lomborg. “Environment improves as more nations prosper — the greatest polluter is poverty,” New York Post, April 20, 2025. Archived June 12, 2025. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/ykDz3
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Bjorn Lomborg. “Banks and business are talking sense on climate at last. But it must not be just talk,” The Telegraph, April 20, 2025. Archived June 12, 2025. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/MBEsR
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Bjorn Lomborg. “Bjorn Lomborg: Global warming policies hurt the poor,” Financial Post, April 15, 2025. Archived June 12, 2025. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/oQl1d
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“‘If we stopped using fossil fuels today, billions would die’,” Spiked, April 14, 2025. Archived June 12, 2025. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/eucHf
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“The stupidity of Net Zero | Bjorn Lomborg on how climate alarmism leads to economic crisis,” YouTube video uploaded by user “spiked,” April 9, 2025. Archived .mp4 on file at DeSmog.
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“‘If we stopped using fossil fuels today, billions would die’,” Spiked, April 14, 2025. Archived June 12, 2025. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/eucHf
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Bjorn Lomborg. “UN pushes awful green deal policies while also spreading eco lies,” New York Post, March 6, 2025. Archived June 12, 2025. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/rh7t6
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NET ZERO: ‘Has reduced economic growth dramatically… this is not sustainable’ – Bjorn Lomberg,” YouTube video uploaded by user “Together,” March 7, 2025. Archived .mp4 on file at DeSmog.
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Ed Miliband’s Green Agenda SHATTERED as ‘PROPAGANDA’ – Expert SLAMS ‘Costly’ Net Zero Plans,” YouTube video uploaded by user “GBNews,” February 18, 2025. Archived .mp4 on file at DeSmog.
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Bjorn Lomborg. “Climate change fanatics want to bankrupt the entire world for little to no reward,” New York Post, January 19, 2025. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/Qc4NM
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US spending trillions on climate efforts that will have a tiny impact in 100 years: Bjorn Lomborg,” Fox Business, January 16, 2025. Archived January 19, 2025. Archived .mp4 on file at DeSmog.
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Brendan O’Neill. “No, the LA inferno is not Mother Nature’s revenge,” Spiked, January 9, 2025. Archived June 13, 2025. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/ymMz6
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“Fossil fuels deliver ‘a lot of good’ for humanity” Sky News Australia, December 4, 2024. Archived .mp4 on file at DeSmog. Archived March 6, 2025. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/ZPfjW
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“Fossil fuels deliver ‘a lot of good’ for humanity” Sky News Australia, December 4, 2024. Archived .mp4 on file at DeSmog. Archived March 6, 2025. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/ZPfjW
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Bjorn Lomborg. “Redistributing the West’s wealth won’t solve climate change,” National Post, November 13, 2024. Archived November 13, 2024. Archived .pdf available at DeSmog.
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Bjorn Lomborg. “Bjorn Lomborg: Expensive climate policy is dead. That’s a big opportunity,” Financial Post, November 28, 2024. Archived June 13, 2025. Archive URL: https://archive.fo/OfykO
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Bjorn Lomborg. “Climate policies are getting far too expensive,” Bangkok Post, November 2, 2024. Archived June 28, 2025. Archived June 25, 2025.
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“THIS ONE IDEA could save MILLIONS of lives | Bjorn Lomborg ARC Conversations,” YouTube video uploaded by user “Alliance for Responsible Citizenship,” October 8, 2024. Archived .mp4 on file at DeSmog.
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“THIS ONE IDEA could save MILLIONS of lives | Bjorn Lomborg ARC Conversations,” YouTube video uploaded by user “Alliance for Responsible Citizenship,” October 8, 2024. Archived .mp4 on file at DeSmog.
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“THIS ONE IDEA could save MILLIONS of lives | Bjorn Lomborg ARC Conversations,” YouTube video uploaded by user “Alliance for Responsible Citizenship,” October 8, 2024. Archived .mp4 on file at DeSmog.
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“THIS ONE IDEA could save MILLIONS of lives | Bjorn Lomborg ARC Conversations,” YouTube video uploaded by user “Alliance for Responsible Citizenship,” October 8, 2024. Archived .mp4 on file at DeSmog.
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Bjorn Lomborg. “Shrinking island, vanishing polar bears — the climate scare stories that turn out to be false,” New York Post, September 15, 2024. Archived June 13, 2025. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/HhnR6
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Bjorn Lomborg. “U.N. Climate-Change Alarms Cast Little Light on Heat,” Wall Street Journal, August 29, 2024. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/LF8kD
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“Cold kills eight times more than heat in Europe, study finds,” The Times, August 30, 2024. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/6OEfV
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Bjorn Lomborg. “We are wasting $2 trillion a year chasing ‘green’ fantasies,” New York Post, August 11, 2024. Archived June 13, 2025. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/HNzK6
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Bjorn Lomborg. “Net zero will only make you poorer and China richer,” The Telegraph, July 24, 2024. Archived June 13, 2025. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/5EXB9
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David Simon. “Repeal Biden’s entire destructive climate change program,” Washington Examiner, July 9, 2024. Archived June 13, 2025. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/yNmHs
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“EVs are ‘net negative’ and not part of renewable solution: Bjorn Lomborg,” Fox Business, July 1, 2024. Archived .mp4 on file at DeSmog.
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“Proposed EV solutions are ‘costly’ and ‘won’t work very well’: Bjorn Lomborg,” Fox News. Archived .mp4 on file at DeSmog.
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“Proposed EV solutions are ‘costly’ and ‘won’t work very well’: Bjorn Lomborg,” Fox News. Archived .mp4 on file at DeSmog.
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Bjorn Lomborg. “Don’t let green dogma get in the way of climate science,” CityAM, July 22, 2024. Archived June 13, 2025. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/UHfV1
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Bjorn Lomborg. “Green activists don’t care how many people will die from zero fossil fuel use,” New York Post, May 23, 2024. Archived June 10, 2025. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/Zluuc
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Bjorn Lomborg. “Green activists don’t care how many people will die from zero fossil fuel use,” New York Post, May 23, 2024. Archived June 10, 2025. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/Zluuc
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Bjorn Lomborg. “Green activists don’t care how many people will die from zero fossil fuel use,” New York Post, May 23, 2024. Archived June 10, 2025. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/Zluuc
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Bjorn Lomborg. “Green activists don’t care how many people will die from zero fossil fuel use,” New York Post, May 23, 2024. Archived June 10, 2025. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/Zluuc
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Bjorn Lomborg. “Green activists don’t care how many people will die from zero fossil fuel use,” New York Post, May 23, 2024. Archived June 10, 2025. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/Zluuc
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Bjorn Lomborg. “Green activists don’t care how many people will die from zero fossil fuel use,” New York Post, May 23, 2024. Archived June 10, 2025. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/Zluuc
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Bjorn Lomborg. “Trillions in taxpayer subsidies haven’t made wind and solar power cheaper or better for Americans,” New York Post, April 9, 2024. Archived June 10, 2025. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/ftmY6
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Bjorn Lomborg and Jordan Peterson. “Commentary: We need a discussion about how we respond to crises before the next one,” The Post and Courier, March 18, 2024. Archived March 25, 2024. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/QtPW4
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Bjorn Lomborg and Jordan Peterson. “Commentary: We need a discussion about how we respond to crises before the next one,” The Post and Courier, March 18, 2024. Archived March 25, 2024. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/QtPW4
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Bjorn Lomborg and Jordan Peterson. “Commentary: We need a discussion about how we respond to crises before the next one
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Bjorn Lomborg and Jordan Peterson. “Commentary: We need a discussion about how we respond to crises before the next one,” The Post and Courier, March 18, 2024. Archived March 25, 2024. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/QtPW4
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Bjorn Lomborg and Jordan Peterson. “Commentary: We need a discussion about how we respond to crises before the next one,” The Post and Courier, March 18, 2024. Archived March 25, 2024. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/QtPW4
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Bjorn Lomborg. “‘Follow the Science’ Leads to Ruin,” Wall Street Journal, March 13, 2024. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/UF0Ai
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Bob Ward. “More misinformation and nonsense on climate from Lomborg and Tol,” Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, March 22, 2024. Archived June 24, 2025. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/Dy6E6
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“So, fossil fuel era is on its last legs …” post by user “@BjornLomborg” on x.com, February 8, 2024. Archived .png on file at DeSmog.
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Bjorn Lomborg. “World Bank eco policy shifts aid from poor,” New York Post, January 24, 2024. Archived June 24, 2025. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/sW2bV
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Bjorn Lomborg. “Twelve good causes to save the world this Christmas (and climate change isn’t one of them),” The Telegraph, December 23, 2023. Archived December 23, 2023. Archived .pdf on file at DeSmog.
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“Bjorn Lomborg. “Politicians should acknowledge the real cost of net zero policy,” Dhaka Tribune, Deember 4, 2023. Archived March 4, 2024. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/uDgwM
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“Bjorn Lomborg. “Politicians should acknowledge the real cost of net zero policy,” Dhaka Tribune, Deember 4, 2023. Archived March 4, 2024. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/uDgwM
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“Bjorn Lomborg. “Politicians should acknowledge the real cost of net zero policy,” Dhaka Tribune, Deember 4, 2023. Archived March 4, 2024. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/uDgwM
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Bjorn Lomborg. “Climate change is costly – but so is climate policy,” The Business Times, December 9, 2023. Archived February 8, 2024. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/zASnE
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Bjorn Lomborg and Jordan Peterson. “Don’t give In to gloom, the world Is getting better,” Waco Tribune-Herald, November 6, 2023. Archived November 23, 2023. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/6l04O
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Bjorn Lomborg. “Will the World Bank Choose Climate Change Over Poverty?” Wall Street Journal, October 6, 2023. Archived October 7, 2023.
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Bjorn Lomborg. “Will the World Bank Choose Climate Change Over Poverty?” Wall Street Journal, October 6, 2023. Archived October 7, 2023.
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Bjorn Lomborg. “Will the World Bank Choose Climate Change Over Poverty?” Wall Street Journal, October 6, 2023. Archived October 7, 2023.
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Bjorn Lomborg. “Will the World Bank Choose Climate Change Over Poverty?” Wall Street Journal, October 6, 2023. Archived October 7, 2023.
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“This is how crazy climate alarmism has becoming […],” Post by user “@BjornLomborg,” September 29, 2023. Archived .png on file at DeSmog.
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Graham Readfearn. “The world likely just had its hottest month on record. What a time to be a climate science denier,” The Guardian, August 3, 2023. Archived August 1, 2023. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/auvKD
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Bjorn Lomborg. “Climate alarmists scare us of ever more fire. But satellites show the world is burning ever 𝙡𝙚𝙨𝙨. In 2022, the world burned the least ever in the satellite era. Why haven’t you seen this?,” Tweet by user @BjornLomborg, August 1, 2023. Archived .png on file at DeSmog.
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“UN define two futures: Sustainable and Fossil fuels …” post on x.com by user “@BjornLomborg,” June 24, 2023. Archived .png on file at DeSmog.
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“12 Ways the Planet Could Truly Be Saved | Bjørn Lomborg | EP 345,” YouTube video uploaded by user “Jordan B Peterson,” April 3, 2023. Archived .mp4 on file at DeSmog.
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“Jordan Peterson and Bjorn Lomborg: Hunger is more pressing than climate change, elites have it backwards,” National Post, December 14, 2022. Archived December 14, 2022.
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Andy Kroll. “Exposed: The Dark-Money ATM of the Conservative Movement,” Mother Jones, February 5, 2012. Archived July 24, 2015. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/dP34U
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Bjorn Lomborg. “Facts on Hurricanes and Climate Are Blowing in the Wind”, Forbes, October 4, 2022. Archived October 21, 2022. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/UI4bI
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Bjorn Lomborg. “Net-zero climate policy offers much pain, little gain”, New York Post, October 2, 2022. Archived October 2, 2022. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/SDS9z
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Bjorn Lomborg. “The Rich World’s Climate Hypocrisy”, The Wall Street Journal, June 21, 2022. Archived June 21, 2022. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/XztBH
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Bjorn Lomborg. “Bjorn Lomborg: The left should stop scaring our kids witless”, Fox News, June 15, 2022. Archived June 15, 2022. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/HrzDc
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Bjorn Lomborg. “Lomborg: Want to alleviate world hunger? Ditch the organics”, Boston Herald, May 31, 2022. Archived May 31, 2022. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/TP6lh
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Bjorn Lomborg. “Ukraine crisis reveals the folly of organic farming”, Wall Street Journal, March 6, 2022. Archived May 9, 2022. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/D211m
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Bjorn Lomborg. “Opinion: Fracking, nuclear and research are Europe’s best energy bets”, Financial Post, March 15, 2022. Archived March 15, 2022. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/9Cvjj
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Bjorn Lomborg. “Exclusive: ‘Nuclear has a lot going for it while net zero will simply not happen’, says sceptical environmentalist Bjorn Lomborg”, City AM, February 22, 2022. Archived February 22, 2022. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/ytMLn
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“CO₂ and climate make world greener,” Tweet series by user “@BjornLomborg,” February 6, 2022. Archived .png on file at DeSmog.
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Bjorn Lomborg. “World will go green only when the price is right,” The Australian, November 26, 2021. Archived November 27, 2021. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/gBctB
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Graham Readfearn. “Climate cost study authors accuse Bjørn Lomborg of misinterpreting results,” The Guardian, December 2, 2021. Archived December 17, 2021. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/k7VNR
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Bjorn Lomborg. “World Leaders Need To Unleash Green Innovation At COP26”, Forbes, November 5, 2022. Archived October 17, 2022. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/BX3xP
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Marc A. Thiessen. “Opinion: Climate change is not an ‘existential threat’,” The Washington Post, November 2, 2021. Archived November 5, 2021. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/ggBto
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“Want to Lock Down for the Climate?” Wall Street Journal, September 30, 2021. Archived October 15, 2021. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/b3XRu
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“Climate Change Doesn’t Cause All Disasters,” Wall Street Journal, August 5, 2021. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/6rK9E
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Bjorn Lomborg. “Green activists are courting a humanitarian catastrophe,” The Australian, May 22, 2021. Archived May 24, 2021. Archive.ph URL: https://archive.ph/vMKud
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Bjorn Lomborg. “Don’t make the poor pay for climate change,” The Australian, April 24, 2021. Archived April 26, 2021. Archive.ph URL: https://archive.ph/QMXxl
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“Leaders ‘went out of their way to scare us’ at climate change summit,” Sky News Australia, April 25, 2021. Archived April 26, 2021. Archive.ph URL: https://archive.ph/EWvMJ
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Bjorn Lomborg. “Don’t make the poor pay for climate change,” The Australian, April 24, 2021. Archived April 26, 2021. Archive.ph URL: https://archive.ph/QMXxl
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Bjorn Lomborg. “Bjorn Lomborg: This Earth Day let’s replace alarmism with smarter policy,” The Financial Post, April 22, 2021. Archived April 26, 2021. Archive.ph URL: https://archive.ph/Y86ty
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“Democrats to reintroduce Green New Deal: ‘We need a smarter approach,’” Yahoo News, April 20, 2021. Archived April 20, 2021. Archive.ph URL: https://archive.ph/EceAF
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Bjorn Lomborg. “Bjorn Lomborg: Climate change and cancel culture – here’s how left uses fear to push costly, radical policies,” Fox News, March 15, 2021. Archived March 15, 2021. Archive.vn URL: https://archive.ph/fspLj
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Bjorn Lomborg. “Let’s put our energy into innovation to help fix the planet,” The Australian, March 6, 2021. Archived March 8, 2021. Archive.vn URL: https://archive.vn/wsxlT
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Joseph Vazquez. “WATCH: Hoover Visiting Fellow Bjorn Lomborg Slaps Down Leftist Climate Alarmism on Kudlow,” NewsBusters, February 26, 2021. Archived March 2, 2021. Archive.vn URL: https://archive.vn/3lhj5
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“Texas winter storm freezes wind turbines, causes blackouts,” Fox News, February 16, 2021. Archived.mp4 on file at DeSmog.
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“Fact check: The causes for Texas’ blackout go well beyond wind turbines,” Reuters, February 19, 2021. Archived March 3, 2021. Archive.vn URL: https://archive.vn/qKzjR
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Bjorn Lomborg. “Biden’s climate ‘fix’ is fantastically expensive and perfectly useless,” The New York Post, February 9, 2021. Archived February 15, 2021. Archive.vn URL: https://archive.vn/SF27G
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Nikolas Lanum. “John Kerry’s private jet use shows how hard it is to actually cut emissions: Climate author,” Fox News, February 5, 2021. Archived February 8, 2021. Archive.vn URL: https://archive.vn/45OWd
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“Joe Biden’s climate plan will do ‘virtually nothing’: Bjorn Lomborg,” Sky News Australia, February 2, 2021. Archived February 8, 2021. Archive.vn URL: https://archive.vn/MdzGS
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Rich Lowry. “Joe Biden’s climate agenda is all about creating a crisis — not actually fixing one,” The New York Post, December 21, 2020. Archived December 22, 2020. Archive.vn URL :https://archive.vn/nqRPw
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Bjorn Lomborg. “How climate change alarmists are actually endangering the planet,” The New York Post, July 11, 2020. Archived December 22, 2020. Archive.vn URL: https://archive.vn/EbjML
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Bjorn Lomborg. “The electric car won’t get us very far,” The Financial Post, November 26, 2020. Archived November 30, 2020. Archive.vn URL: https://archive.vn/a1NBe
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Bjorn Lomborg. “EU must get smarter to lead on climate change”, Euractiv, November 2, 2020. Archived November 3, 2020. Archive.vn URL: https://archive.vn/t0h6E
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Kate Andrews, Matt Ridley, Bjorn Lomborg. “A question of priorities: should tackling climate change trump all else?,” The Spectator, September 8, 2020. Archived.mp3 on file at DeSmog.
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“Don’t Panic! How to talk about climate change – episode 1,” The Spectator, August 25, 2020.
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Bjorn Lomborg. “Welfare in the 21st century: Increasing development, reducing inequality, the impact of climate change, and the cost of climate policies,” Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Volume 156 (July 2020) 119981, ISSN 0040-1625. Archived November 5, 2020. Archive URL: https://archive.vn/8RQ0Y
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“Bjorn Lomborg Argues Genocidal Levels Of Warming Is The Optimal Climate Policy,” Daily Kos, April 30, 2020. Archived November 5, 2020. Archive URL: https://archive.vn/znBai
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Joseph E. Stiglitz. “Are We Overreacting on Climate Change?” The New York Times, July 16, 2020. Archived July 31, 2020. Archive URL: https://archive.vn/IgUoF
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Joseph E. Stiglitz. “Are We Overreacting on Climate Change?” The New York Times, July 16, 2020. Archived July 31, 2020. Archive URL: https://archive.vn/IgUoF
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David Kreutzer. “Book Review: False Alarm by Bjørn Lomborg,” Institute for Energy Research, July 7, 2020. Archived July 31, 2020. Archive URL: https://archive.vn/Xd1k1
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“Bjorn Lomborg Declares ‘False Alarm’ on Climate Hysteria,” Hoover Institution, July 28, 2020. Archived .mp3 on file at DeSmog.
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“Facebook post by @bjornlomborg, January 16, 2020,” Facebook. Archived .png on file at DeSmog.
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Allister Thomas. “Activist investor and ‘skeptical environmentalist’ face off on climate change,” Energy Voice, October 10, 2019. Archived October Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/dgDfd
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Graham Lloyd. “No place in debate for climate contrarians,” The Australian, September 21, 2019. Archive URL: https://archive.vn/qIzvs
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Petersen, A.M., Vincent, E.M. & Westerling, A.L. Discrepancy in scientific authority and media visibility of climate change scientists and contrarians. Nat Commun 10, 3502 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-09959-4
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Roger Harrabin. “Climate change: UK government to commit to 2050 target,” BBC News, June 12, 2019. Archived June 12, 2019. Archive.fo URL: https://archive.fo/Y2qwS
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Bjorn Lomborg. “Theresa May is about to spend £1 trillion on a pointless policy. This climate madness has to end,” The Telegraph, June 10, 2019. Archived June 19, 2019. Archive.fo URL: https://archive.fo/0BKhF
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“Theresa May’s net-zero target is the wrong approach to climate change,” The Telegraph, June 13, 2019. Archived June 19, 2019. Archive.fo URL: https://archive.fo/fc0rn
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Bob Ward. “UK newspaper ‘The Daily Telegraph’ duped by Bjorn Lomborg’s climate propaganda,” LSE, June 17, 2019. Archived June 19, 2019. Archive.fo URL: https://archive.fo/i4VpN
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Bjorn Lomborg. “Another climate summit means more expensive, ineffective promises,” CapX.com, December 6, 2018. Archived December 12, 2018. Archive.is URL: http://archive.is/gdfMD
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Bjorn Lomborg. “U.N. Ignores Economics Of Climate,” Wall Street Journal, October 9, 2018. Archive.fo URL: https://archive.fo/QTQhN
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Robert P. Murphy. “The IPCC Should Heed the Work of Nobel Laureate William Nordhaus,” Institute for Energy Research, October 9, 2018. Archived October 23, 2018. Archive.fo URL: https://archive.fo/DOtdZ
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“Projections and Uncertainties about Climate Change in an Era of Minimal Climate Policies” (PDF), American Economic Journal Vol. 10 No. 3 (August 2018).
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Bjorn Lomborg. “Climate-Change Policies Can Be Punishing for the Poor,” The Wall Street Journal, January 4, 2018. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/qeWpD
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Bjorn Lomborg. “The Climate-Change Distraction,” The Wall Street Journal, September 7, 2017.
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Paul Karp. “Experts reject Bjørn Lomborg’s view on 2C warming target,” The Guardian, May 20, 2017. Archived May 23, 2017. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/m5Ktx
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Bjorn Lomborg. “Geoengineering Climate Change,” Project Syndicate, January 18, 2017. Archived January 19, 2017. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/dSEnF
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“The Paris Agreement Won’t Change the Climate,” PragerU, January 16, 2016. Archived .mp4 on file at DeSmog.
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Bjorn Lomborg. “The Paris Climate Agreement Won’s Change the Climate,” (PDF), PragerU. Archived .pdf on file at DeSmog.
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Bjorn Lomborg. “The Paris Climate Agreement Won’s Change the Climate,” (PDF), PragerU. Archived .pdf on file at DeSmog.
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Bjorn Lomborg. “About Those Non-Disappearing Pacific Islands,” The Wall Street Journal, October 13, 2016. Archived .pdf on file at DeSmog.
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“Multi-decadal shoreline changes in response to sea level rise in the Marshall Islands,” Anthropocene, Volume 11 (September 2015), Pages 14–24. Abstract retrieved from ScienceDirect. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/z2jlp
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Bjorn Lomborg. “About Those Non-Disappearing Pacific Islands,” The Wall Street Journal, October 13, 2016. Archived .pdf on file at DeSmog.
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“Lives in the balance: climate change and the Marshall Islands,” The Guardian, September 15, 2016. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/bSybd
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Bjorn Lomborg. “About Those Non-Disappearing Pacific Islands,” The Wall Street Journal, October 13, 2016. Archived .pdf on file at DeSmog.
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Bjorn Lomborg. “Britain is now free to frack and slash energy bills,” The Telegraph, September 16, 2016. Archived September 19, 2016. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/pgejL
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“Opinion: Climate change is bad, but it comes with benefits too,” CBC Radio, June 19, 2016. Archived September 5, 2016. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/A5hpn
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Bjorn Lomborg. “An Overheated Climate Alarm,” The Wall Street Journal. Archived .pdf on file at Desmog. Archive .is URL: Archive .is URL: https://archive.is/YoA3H
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Bjorn Lomborg. “An Overheated Climate Alarm,” The Wall Street Journal. Archived .pdf on file at Desmog. Archive .is URL: Archive .is URL: https://archive.is/YoA3H
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“Bjorn Lomborg’s Deception About ‘Climate and Health Assessment’ in Wall Street Journal,” Desmog, April 8, 2016. Originally posted at Daily Kos.
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“Open letter to the Wall Street Journal editor: a scientists’ response to Lomborg’s misleading op-ed,” SkepticalScience, April 14, 2016. Archived September 1, 2016. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/6999w
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Press Release. “Paris climate promises will reduce temperatures by just 0.05°C in 2100,” Bjorn Lomborg (undated). Archived February 24, 2018. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/16Y0I
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(Press Release). “New paper by Bjorn Lomborg suffers from fundamental methodological flaw,” Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment. December 2, 2015. Archived February 24, 2018. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/n0Sfh
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Giles Parkinson. “IEA says Lomborg claims on wind and solar energy are ‘rubbish’,“ RenewEconomy, December 2, 2015. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/O7iCU
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Giles Parkinson. “IEA says Lomborg claims on wind and solar energy are ‘rubbish’,“ RenewEconomy, December 2, 2015. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/O7iCU
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Lenore Taylor. “Bjørn Lomborg university funding tied to ‘rational conversation’ lectures,” The Guardian, June 25, 2015. Archived July 22, 2015. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/gPW3E
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Bjorn Lomborg. “The Honor of Being Mugged by Climate Censors,” The Wall Street Journal, May 13, 2015. Archived .pdf on file at Desmog.
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Paul Karp. “Federal grant to Bjørn Lomborg centre made in Turnbull era, documents show,” The Guardian, December 22, 2016. Archived December 27, 2016. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/ctdXT
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Bjorn Lomborg. “How Indoor Stoves Can Help Solve Global Poverty,” TIME, October 3, 2014. Archived October 7, 2014. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/56BSm
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“Examining the Threats Posted by Climate Change: The Effects of Unchecked Climate Change on Communities and the Economy” (PDF), The Senate EWP Committee, Subcommittee on Clean air and Nuclear Safety. Archived .pdf on file at DeSmog.
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“Lomborg: Obama energy policy hurts African poor,” USA Today,February 8, 2014. Archived April September 1, 2016. Archive .is URL: https://archive.is/vKPyb
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Bjorn Lomborg. ”The Poor Need Cheap Fossil Fuels,” The New York Times The Opinion Pages, December 3, 2013. Archive .is URL: https://archive.is/WjSOP
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“How Much Have Global Problems Cost the World? A Scorecard from 1900 to 2050,” Cambridge University Press. Published October, 2013. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/ySOAg
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