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Bjorn Lomborg
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Author of 'False Alarm', 'Cool It' and 'Skeptical Environmentalist', president Copenhagen Consensus think tank: smart solutions through economic prioritization
Malmö, Swedenlomborg.comJoined December 2009

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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 🧵
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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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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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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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Thread misstates major hurricane risk, again...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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"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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To those at COP: development is adaptation.
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"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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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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"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 #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.
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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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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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“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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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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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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