To do better on climate, we must resist the misleading, alarmist climate narrative. Panic is a terrible adviser.
Bjorn Lomborg
Bjorn Lomborg is president of the Copenhagen Consensus and a visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. His new book is "False Alarm — How Climate Change Panic Costs Us Trillions, Hurts the Poor, and Fails to Fix the Planet."
Hypocrisy Abounds at COP27 Climate Summit
Every year, global climate summits feature a parade of hypocrisy as the world’s elite arrive on private jets to lecture humanity on cutting carbon emissions.
Good News, the World Is Getting Better
We are incessantly told about disasters, whether the latest heat wave, flood, wildfire or storm. Yet, the data overwhelmingly show that over the last century, people have become much safer from all these weather events.
Facts on Hurricanes and Climate are Blowing in the Wind
The best long-term data on hurricanes hitting the United States shows a decline, even for strong hurricanes.
Inconvenient Truths and Convenient Lies
Facebook’s vice president has admitted fact-checkers are not necessarily objective, and the company even acknowledged recently in a lawsuit that fact-check tags are “opinion,” not factual assertions.
How to Alleviate the Looming Global Hunger Crisis
Synthetic nitrogen fertilizers, mostly made with natural gas, are a modern miracle, crucial for feeding the world.
The Fuzzy Math Behind U.N. Report on Global Disasters
Climate-related disasters killed 99 percent fewer people than 100 years earlier.
Obsession With Climate Change Distorts our Priorities
Global climate damage in percent of GDP keeps declining and climate disaster deaths have dropped 99 percent in a century.
Energy Hypocrisy as Rich Countries Denying the Poor the Power to Develop
While the wealthy G7 countries admonish the world’s poor to use only renewables because of climate concerns, Europe and the United States are begging Arab nations to expand oil production.
Unhappy Anniversary: 50 Years of Misguided Climate Panic
50 years of stunningly incorrect predictions, climate campaigners, journalists and politicians still hawk an immediate apocalypse to great acclaim by ignoring adaptation.
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