Bjorn Lomborg’s Tweets

Oct 9

Renewables won't take over anytime soon Breathless climate campaigning makes us believe world will soon run on renewables No Past half-century, renewables 13-14% By 2050, 28% On current trends, world reaches 100% in almost two centuries twitter.com/BjornLomborg/s

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Sarah Dillard

@dillardsarah

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11/11: Closing a major rd in Paris didn't lead to substitution into alt transit, just sub'n into different rds, where pollution burden was shifted (90%) to poor. Important to read research whose findings you don't like. (Anti-car-centered cities here)

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Lea Bou Sleiman

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It's my #JMP thread Time!

I am excited to share my job market paper: "Displacing Congestion: Evidence from Paris" #EconTwitter #Econjobmarket I use a DiD and a theoretical model to answer the following question: What happens when we downsize the road network in a city?

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Joey Politano

@JosephPolitano

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(for people who don't get the steppe-nomad risk joke)

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misstates major hurricane risk, again...

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Patrick T. Brown

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In their coverage of the ongoing climate conference, the @nytclimate links to their "Definitive answers to the big questions" on climate change. But I am worried some of the claims come off as much more definitive than is scientifically justified. nytimes.com/article/climat

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The Science of Climate Change Explained: Facts, Evidence and Proof

Patrick T. Brown

@PatrickTBrown31

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In their coverage of the ongoing climate conference, the

@nytclimate

links to their "Definitive answers to the big questions" on climate change. But I am worried some of the claims come off as much more definitive than is scientifically justified.

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Definitive answers to the big questions.

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The Age of Social Media Is Ending

It never should have begun.

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Foreign Policy

@ForeignPolicy

The Obvious Climate Strategy Nobody Will Talk About

The world hasn’t, in recent decades, made much progress on cutting overall emissions. But it has become much more resilient to all kinds of climate extremes.

foreignpolicy.com

Economic development is the only proven path to climate resilience.

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Zeke Hausfather

@hausfath

Nov 11

Global CO2 emissions from fossil fuels hit a record high in 2022. This is up 1% from 2021, and beats the pre-pandemic highs of 2019, according to the new

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report.

@PFriedling

and I break down details over at

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: carbonbrief.org/analysis-globa A thread: 1/x

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Dishonest climate report Temperature rises cause heat death to kill 68%more old people No. Almost entirely because the world has many more old people The deceptive 68% claim flooded the news Intentionally misleading because they've been called out before 🧵

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Dishonest climate report: Temperature rises cause heat death to kill 68% more old people No. Almost entirely because the world has many more old people The deceptive 68% claim flooded the news Intentionally misleading because they've been called out before

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COP27: A Parade Of Climate Hypocrisy

At #COP27, the world’s rich are zealously lecturing poor countries about the dangers of fossil fuels—after devouring massive amounts of new gas, coal, and oil.

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The current UN climate summit in Egypt offers more breathtaking hypocrisy than usual, because the world’s rich are zealously lecturing poor countries about the dangers of fossil fuels—after devouring...

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Stephen Stapczynski

@SStapczynski

No transition from coal in foreseeable future in India: Pralhad Joshi

India won’t move away from coal in the foreseeable future due to its important role in the energy mix, says Coal Minister Pralhad Joshi 🇮🇳 ♥️ 🪨 💰Coal is an affordable source of energy for India, he said 🚀 It will play a role “till 2040 and beyond”

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For India, coal being an affordable source of energy, holds prime importance for meeting its energy needs being fuelled by rising economy, Joshi said

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Prof Dr Richard S.J. Tol MAE

@RichardTol

the effort to blame climate change on "others" continues unabated

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Joe Rogan & Bjorn Lomborg How To ACTUALLY Fix Climate Change

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With maps and data on 72,000 power plants, oil refineries, airports and more, the new website Climate Trace lets users compare major pollution sources. This article is free to read trib.al/lYTGQaJ

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We can't make a transition to #GreenEnergy happen just by wishing for it to replace fossil fuels. With current technologies, the cost would be phenomenal. The way we're going to fix #ClimateChange is by focusing on clean energy innovation.

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Joe Rogan & Bjorn Lomborg How To ACTUALLY Fix Climate ChangeBjorn Lomborg is a statistician and director of the Copenhagen Consensus Center. He is also the a...

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Here is the overview of the benefit-cost ratios we found for the UN's 2016-2030 Goals (#SDGs), as seen on The Joe Rogan Experience: copenhagenconsensus.com/sites/default/ Find out more about the project here: copenhagenconsensus.com/post-2015-cons Listen to my podcast with Joe Rogan: open.spotify.com/episode/5hnVaA

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Listen to this episode from The Joe Rogan Experience on Spotify. Bjorn Lomborg is a statistician and director of the Copenhagen Consensus Center. He is also the author of several books, among them...

It was a great pleasure discussing smart solutions to climate change and other global problems with

@joerogan

. The episode was just released, take a look:

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#1896 - Bjørn Lomborg

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Pushing the Same Old Climate Policies is Simply Insane.

Here is the "audiobook" of an essay I co-wrote with Dr. Jordan Peterson. Read by the both of us. We argue that global leaders at #COP27 need to change their climate policy approach and unleash innovation instead of continuing to push failed policies.

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Dr. Peterson's extensive catalog is available now on DailyWire+: https://utm.io/ueSXhDr. Peterson and Dr. Lomborg read their article most recently published ...

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Climate exaggerations ignore that life on the planet will continue to get better. Climate change is a real challenge, but it is not the end-of-the-world. We should fix it. Smartly. Learn how in my new book: basicbooks.com/titles/bjorn-l (free first 25 pages)

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Judith Curry

@curryja

Nov 8

Not difficult to understand why the world is such a mess with so-called leaders from the UN spewing apocalyptic nonsense. These political goals 1.5C have become completely detached from the issue of human well being and development.

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Aruna Chandrasekhar

@aruna_sekhar

"The 1.5C goal is on life support and the machines are rattling. We're getting close to that point of no return. Humanity has a choice: cooperate or perish It is either a climate solidarity pact or a collective suicide pact." @antonioguterres #COP27

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Prof Dr Richard S.J. Tol MAE

@RichardTol

We'll probably hit 1.5K before she turns 30, and 2K before her 50th birthday. She'll be fine -- perhaps apart from foretelling a disaster that did not happen.

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PoliticsJOE

@PoliticsJOE_UK

Tearful Just Stop Oil protestor explains why they halted traffic on the M25 this morning. "You’re entitled to hate me but I wish you would direct all that anger and hatred at our government."

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Garth Heutel

@GarthHeutel

Damn, air pollution makes you kill yourself.

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Air Quality and Suicide

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Charles Kenny

@charlesjkenny

To those at COP: development is adaptation.

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Alex Trembath

@atrembath

"Since the 1980s, the global death rate from these hazards has dropped by 85 percent, including by 52 percent for general floods, 55 percent for heat waves, and 87 percent for storms." via @vijramachandran @PatrickTBrown31 @TedNordhaus foreignpolicy.com/2022/11/06/cli

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Roger Pielke Jr.

@RogerPielkeJr

Nov 8

Journalists & scientists nod along (wink, wink) but young people take this hyperbole seriously Some develop mental health issues Some try to shut down highways, risking their lives & those of drivers When are adults who know better going to push back on the faux apocalypticism?

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Aruna Chandrasekhar

@aruna_sekhar

"The 1.5C goal is on life support and the machines are rattling. We're getting close to that point of no return. Humanity has a choice: cooperate or perish It is either a climate solidarity pact or a collective suicide pact." @antonioguterres #COP27

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The hypocrisy and illogic of the UN climate summit

Soren Anderson

@sorentanderson

Nov 8

(3) Voters disliked both policies MORE than can be explained by higher energy prices. Mean WTP for the policies: negative $300-$400 per year. Tax incidence: $80-$135. Voters just aren't buying the revenue recycling ... or REEAALLY hate higher energy prices.

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The #COP27 climate summit will offer more breathtaking hypocrisy than usual, because the world’s rich will zealously lecture poor countries about the dangers of fossil fuels—after devouring massive amounts of new gas, coal, and oil.

dailynews.com

Europe is scouring the world for more fossil fuels because the continent needs them for its growth and prosperity. That same opportunity should not be withheld from the world’s poorest.

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Business Day

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BJORN LOMBORG: Fossil fuel-guzzling rich world has the gall to lecture poor countries

BJORN LOMBORG: Fossil fuel-guzzling rich world has the gall to lecture poor countries

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Governments from the UK to Germany are banking on coal-fired plants as EU imports from Australia, SA and Indonesia rockets

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Climate Change and the Lancet’s ‘Heat Death’ Deception - WSJ

Too often, academic reports on climate use highly skewed data that seem to have been carefully selected to support aggressive environmental regulations. One recent and much-cited Lancet report appears deliberately deceptive. archive.ph/JPW6h wsj.com/amp/articles/t

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The world is getting safer from floods Although we frequently hear about expensive floods, the relative toll that floods take in property and lives has decreased over time. wsj.com/articles/flood archive.ph/GB0X1

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EAC-PM

@EACtoPM

Nov 4

The climate fight will be more effective if data is presented without sensationalism. The latest study published in Lancet and the reportage around it are great examples of how paranoia is peddled. Dr

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Africa will remain poor unless it uses more energy

Kinley Salmon

@kcsalmon

Nov 4

"Average electricity consumption per person in sub-Saharan Africa, excluding South Africa, is a mere 185 kWh a year, compared with 6,500kWh in Europe and 12,700kWh in America"

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& me in

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economist.com

Greenhouse-gas emissions south of the Sahara are tiny

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Ted Nordhaus

@TedNordhaus

A reminder that the terms “dangerous” and “catastrophe” are entirely tautological as used in climate discourse. Neither term is based on any actual impact on human societies that one might anticipate in event that thresholds are breached.

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David Wallace-Wells

@dwallacewells

“As billions of people worldwide can attest, human-caused climate disruption has passed the ‘dangerous’ threshold. …What we must now strive to avoid is climate catastrophe.” latimes.com/opinion/story/

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Judith Curry

@curryja

Gerald Kutney - a friend of #ClimateBrawl

Fact check. I have 190+ refereed journal publications, and have published 2 academic books (another one in press). Remind me how many peer reviewed publications you have? And did I miss your books?

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@GeraldKutney

Replying to @curryja and @elonmusk

More than Twitter that "thinks [you] have heretical views about climate change." You do not publish them in the peer-reviewed literature but in your own personal blog - hardly an appropriate venue for proper science. #ClimateBrawl #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency

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Here is the data

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Dishonest climate report: Temperature rises cause heat death to kill 68% more old people No. Almost entirely because the world has many more old people The deceptive 68% claim flooded the news Intentionally misleading because they've been called out before

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Gustavo Ventura

@King_ofSweden

Today is a very, very sad day. My colleague Ed Prescott died this morning. Needless to say, he was one of the great minds of modern economics. Ed influenced many of us in multiple ways. He will be missed greatly.

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Max Roser

@MaxCRoser

Nov 5

Tweeting data can save lives, finds this study. The authors study what happened after US embassies started tweeting air pollution statistics. They find that this very cheap investment led to substantial reductions in air pollution and better health. pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn

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Pushing the same old climate policies at COP27 is simply insane

Read my new op-ed with Jordan Peterson: Pushing the same old climate policies at COP27 is simply insane

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After decades of failure to curb emissions, let's accept that capitalist investment is not the problem: it's the solution

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Branko Milanovic

@BrankoMilan

Oct 23

Global income distribution has radically changed in the past 30 years. It now looks almost like a distribution of a single country which is normally bell-shaped (with income in logs on the x-axis). Leaving these niceties aside, it is clear that a global median class has emerged.

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Opinion: The climate hypocrisy of rich countries

The Globe and Mail

@globeandmail

Oct 31

The climate hypocrisy of rich countries

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At the coming COP27 climate summit, wealthy nations will lecture developing ones about climate change despite their significant challenges

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