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The News Herald
July 28, 2017
Danish professor Bjorn Lomborg has made himself an enemy of radical greens by arguing that the failure to prioritize environmental spendingÃÂ ...
Los Angeles Times
July 22, 2017
To the editor: Bjorn Lomborg, the “skeptical environmentalist,” is really an economist first. He thinks our “carbon-cutting commitments will beÃÂ ...
Los Angeles Times
July 20, 2017
Gov. Jerry Brown has won praise for promising that California will live up to the Paris accord despite President Trump's withdrawal from theÃÂ ...
Project Syndicate
July 18, 2017
BERLIN – It is one of the best untold stories in the annals of development: great strides have been made against malaria, a disease that wasÃÂ ...
Reason (blog)
June 2, 2017
Bjorn Lomborg: Fundamentally, the two things you need to know about the Paris Agreement is one, it is not going to do very much to tackleÃÂ ...
The Australian
March 17, 2017
It was not so long ago that Danish academic Bjorn Lomborg was refused a government-funded position in a university here because he was supposed to be a climate change denier.
The Australian
March 17, 2017
In 2015, students at the University of Western Australia and at Flinders University in Adelaide protested against a proposed research centre to be run by the Danish climate science sceptic Bjorn Lomborg. That same year a pro-Palestinian group at theÃÂ ...
ScienceBlogs (blog)
March 9, 2017
Bjorn Lomborg, Roger Pielke, Jr., Cliff Mass, and Richard Lindzen. These four distinguished thinkers come from different backgrounds.
Northside Sun
March 8, 2017
One such potential technology - marine cloud whitening - is described in Bjorn Lomborg's article "Geoengineering Climate Change" column on the Project Syndicate website (www.
Scientific American (blog)
March 7, 2017
A perfect example of climate denial through minimization is the controversial economist Bjorn Lomborg. He acknowledges that humans are influencing the climate, but bemoans the costs of remedies.
The Mercury
March 6, 2017
Bjorn Lomborg. Danish environmental statistician, head of the Copenhagen Consensus Center, raises the question whether billions now spent on tendentious research aimed at "proving" man-made global warming might be more wisely spent on research forÃÂ ...
The Australian
March 5, 2017
But one wonders whether it will be controversial and become a target of the left-wing radical intelligentsia. It's unlikely to attract the fury of the Bjorn Lomborg centre, primarily because it doesn't come with government money. But with a board that ...
The Trentonian
March 5, 2017
Bjorn Lomborg. Danish environmental statistician, head of the Copenhagen Consensus Center, raises the question whether billions now spent on tendentious research aimed at "proving" man-made global warming might be more wisely spent on research forÃÂ ...
Washington Examiner
March 5, 2017
According to the Danish academic Bjorn Lomborg, 1.7 million children died from malnutrition in the first decade of this century.
Telegraph.co.uk
March 3, 2017
It's easy to overestimate the certainties, and to overlook areas where more research is needed. But areas like education, poverty eradication and gender empowerment are far too important for us to accept that good intentions might be enough.
Sunraysia Daily
March 1, 2017
And Bjorn Lomborg's PR study of Paris COP 21 is correct even after using a much higher climate sensitivity that can be justified when compared to the more recent studies.
The Australian
February 27, 2017
Those with good memories might recall last October Labor's Deborah O'Neill grilled, to great, effect, a departmental official over a $640,000 grant to Danish agent provocateur Bjorn Lomborg for a book which she described as "vanity publishing". During ...
Cambridge Network
February 23, 2017
Someone else who broke out of the pessimistic mind set and questioned the received wisdom is Bjorn Lomborg, author of The Skeptical Environmentalist.
Purdue Exponent
February 22, 2017
The series concludes with Bjorn Lomborg, author of "The Skeptical Environmentalist," on April 11. J.D. Vance, contributor to the New York Times and author of "Hillbilly Elegy," and Stan Druckenmiller, renowned investor and philanthropist, were previousÃÂ ...
Haitilibre.com
February 17, 2017
But such important topics are too vital to be left to any one group, so we are also asking young people, think tanks, development organizations, policy makers, the diaspora, and civil society to carry out similar prioritizations explainded Bjorn ...
90.5 WESA
February 15, 2017
Bjorn Lomborg is sort of the poster child for this kind of moderate approach. But he and the others in that realm are so much further toward the core of the thinking from what Dr.
Project Syndicate
February 14, 2017
NEW YORK - Everyone - from elected officials and bureaucrats to voters and taxpayers - can learn from the world's largest charitable foundation about effective development spending.
Business Insider
February 14, 2017
De 'klimaatmaatregelen' uit het akkoord van Parijs kosten (volgens schattingen van de Deense milieueconoom Bjorn Lomborg) tussen de 1.000 en 2.000 miljard dollar per jaar. Ze kosten dus enorm veel economische groei. Daarmee is 'groene groei' dusÃÂ ...
eco-business.com
February 10, 2017
... government's attempts to fire some 350 climate scientists from its Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) or to spend A$4 million on setting up a research centre headed by Danish climate contrarian Bjorn Lomborg in theÃÂ ...
The Adam Smith Institute (blog)
February 2, 2017
As Bjorn Lomborg pointed out two decades ago all that is necessary to avoid the terrors of climate change is that non-fossil fuels become competitive with fossil.
Net Newsledger
January 31, 2017
These extraordinary costs are set to increase still further. Bjorn Lomborg, director of the Copenhagen Consensus Center, wrote in the Walls Street Journal on October 13: "At a cost of between $1 trillion and $2 trillion annually, the Paris climate ...
News Talk 770 Calgary
January 26, 2017
Now imagine that same environmentalist saying that the Paris Accord will do next to nothing to halt global warming and it should be tossed out.
The Boston Globe
January 25, 2017
With a stroke of the pen, President Trump has eliminated one of the most significant poverty-reduction measures that would have been enacted this decade.
Purdue Exponent
January 24, 2017
The series continues with Stan Druckenmiller, renowned philanthropist and hedge fund manager, on Feb. 1; Doug Brinkley, historian, professor and author of "The Reagan Diaries," on March 1; and Bjorn Lomborg, author of "The Skeptical Environmentalist,"ÃÂ ...
RenewEconomy
January 23, 2017
Energy and Environment Minister Josh Frydenberg has insisted that the federal government has no plans to change or walk away from the Renewable Energy Target (RET), despite a strong push from the far-right rump of his Coalition, led by former primeÃÂ ...
York Daily Record/Sunday News
January 19, 2017
To steal a phrase from Danish statistician Dr. Bjorn Lomborg, the letter exuded "grand pronouncements and vague specifics.
The Desert Sun
January 18, 2017
Environmental statistician Bjorn Lomborg modeled the program assuming that it was 100 percent effective including even the undefined parts - and there are many.
mySanAntonio.com
January 17, 2017
Climate change denier Bjorn Lomborg misses the point on the objective of the Paris accord. He may be correct that the accord will reduce average temperature by less than 1 degree, but that is great news and a worthy objective.
The Australian
January 17, 2017
The appointment of Professor Freshwater comes after a rocky five-year period that included national outrage over a proposal to establish a centre focused on the work of controversial Danish writer Bjorn Lomborg. No sooner had the proposal beenÃÂ ...
The Transcontinental
January 15, 2017
Then he withdrew funding for a research centre headed by climate contrarian Bjorn Lomborg. In the December budget update he terminated Abbott's "Green Army" and nannies pilot program.
The Sydney Morning Herald
January 13, 2017
He hasn't received much credit for it, but Malcolm Turnbull has been gradually killing off Tony Abbott's pet projects since he took over the prime ministership.
Vox
January 11, 2017
The confirmation hearings for ex-Exxon CEO Rex Tillerson are likely to be dominated by questions about his ties to Russia, the subject on everyone's mind these days.
De Morgen
January 5, 2017
Zo noemt de Deense milieuactivist Bjorn Lomborg klimaatverandering een wezenlijk gevaar. Hij vindt echter dat het geld te veel naar bedrijven gaat en te weinig naar onderzoek. De VS moeten volgens het klimaatakkoord bijna 2,9 miljard euro in het groenÃÂ ...
De Morgen
January 5, 2017
In het Westen daarentegen was het klimaatakkoord niet de ultieme doodsteek voor figuren als Scott Pruitt, Myron Ebell en Bjorn Lomborg. Zij krijgen opnieuw de kans om bij de nieuwe beleidsmakers hun verhaal te brengen. Daarnaast drijft ook een stevigeÃÂ ...
Competitive Enterprise Institute (blog)
January 3, 2017
It simply makes no sense to preclude consideration of costs and feasibility. Imagine if we did that for cars and public safety. We'd have 5 mph speed limits (this analogy was made before in the context of climate policy by Bjorn Lomborg in his book ...
The Boston Globe
December 31, 2016
Climate policy iconoclast Bjorn Lomborg urged readers to look beyond slogans about global warming. Jeffrey Sachs, director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University, wrote a weekly series analyzing the economic choices facing theÃÂ ...
Herald Sun
December 29, 2016
GIANT pandas are one of the world's favourite animals, becoming viral video sensations simply for sneezing or rolling around cutely.
The Australian
December 29, 2016
And we should continue to advance that progress by focusing on the smart development investments needed to resolve the real problems we face.
Financial Post
December 19, 2016
Bjorn Lomborg, the self-styled skeptical environmentalist, made the case that while climate change is happening, its costs pale by comparison with the enormous burden of stopping it, which he estimates at US$1 trillion a year for the global economy.
The Boston Globe
December 16, 2016
Bjorn Lomborg's unease about climate rhetoric focuses primarily on weather pattern changes such as drought and hurricanes.
The Boston Globe
December 16, 2016
Bjorn Lomborg presents a deeply misleading picture of the scientific consensus view on how extreme weather events are expected to respond to global warming ("Climate rhetoric does real damage," Opinion, Dec. 12).
Chinadaily USA
December 14, 2016
Thanks to the election of Donald Trump as the next United States president, diplomats and governments around the world are wondering what to expect from the next four years.
The Sun Star
December 14, 2016
One person advocating this view is Bjorn Lomborg. "Speaking of climate change in catastrophic terms easily makes us ignore bigger problems, including malnutrition, tuberculosis, malaria and corruption," Lomborg wrote in an article published in theÃÂ ...
Saanich News
December 13, 2016
If readers complain about what Fletcher writes in the Saanich News, simply ask if they have read: Heaven and Earth, global warming, the missing science, by Dr.
The Conversation AU
December 11, 2016
In 2008, Bjorn Lomborg in The Guardian noted "a slight drop" in sea levels, and concluded that we "urgently need balance.
