Lomborg: Energy Price Spikes Are Causing Pain But Little Climate Gain
For three decades, climate campaigners have fought to make fossil fuels so expensive that people would be forced to abandon them. Their dream is becoming reality: Energy prices are spiraling out of control and will soon get even worse. Yet…
Lomborg: Be Afraid Of Nuclear War, Not Climate Change
Weeks before thermobaric rockets rained down on Ukraine, the chattering classes at the World Economic Forum declared “climate action failure” the biggest global risk for the coming decade. On the eve of war, U.S. climate envoy John Kerry fretted about…
Bjorn Lomborg On 50 Years Of Misguided Climate Panic
The recent UN climate summit in Glasgow was predictably branded as our “last chance” to tackle the “climate catastrophe” and “save humanity.” Like many others, US climate envoy John Kerry warned us that we have only nine years left to avert most…
Facebook, other tech giants censor inconvenient facts about climate change – New York Post
The online world has become a free-speech battleground. Tech platforms have sided with illiberal regimes to censor posts while flagging “misinformation” in free countries. We all share a legitimate interest in avoiding outright falsehoods, but much censorship today — whether at dictators’…
The comic cries of climate apocalypse — 50 years of spurious scaremongering – New York Post
The recent UN climate summit in Glasgow was predictably branded our “last chance” to tackle the “climate catastrophe” and “save humanity.” Like many others, US climate envoy John Kerry warned us that we have only nine years left to avert…
Lomborg: We’re Safer From Climate-Related Disasters Than Ever Before
Activists constantly talk about the existential threat climate change poses and the deaths natural disasters inflict—but they never quite manage to total up these deaths. (bold added) One reason is that it’s easier to bend the data about disaster frequency…
COP26 Climate Summit Is An Elite Farce — Innovation Is The Solution
At the UN Climate Summit in Glasgow (COP26), President Biden is projecting the image of a climate trailblazer: “The United States is not only back at the table, but hopefully leading by the power of our example.” [bold added] But a pledge of expensive…
Despite cutbacks, ExxonMobil continues to fund climate science denial
ExxonMobil has spent more than $39 million to manufacture doubt about climate science
Climate Change Calls for Adaptation, Not Panic – The Wall Street Journal
Editor’s note: As November’s global climate conference in Glasgow draws near, important facts about climate change don’t always make it into the dominant media coverage. We’re here to help. Each Thursday contributor Bjorn Lomborg will provide some important background so…
Climate Change Barely Affects Poverty – The Wall Street Journal
Editor’s note: As November’s global climate conference in Glasgow draws near, important facts about climate change don’t always make it into the dominant media coverage. We’re here to help. Each Thursday contributor Bjorn Lomborg will provide some important background so…
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