Global warming is real - it is man-made and it is an important problem. But it is not the end of the… — Bjorn Lomborg Copy Share Image
On average, global warming is not going to harm the developing world. — Bjorn Lomborg Copy Share Image
The Kyoto treaty has an estimated cost of between US$150 and $350 billion a year, starting in 2010. — Bjorn Lomborg Copy Share Image
So it's mainly a question of helping the Third World overcome the effects of global warming. — Bjorn Lomborg Copy Share Image
Think on a 50-year scale, which is a much more natural time-scale for global warming. The US is right now spending about… — Bjorn Lomborg Copy Share Image
There is no question that global warming will have a significant impact on already existing problems such as malaria, malnutrition, and water… — Bjorn Lomborg Copy Share Image
There is no doubt that we should take solar radiation into account. We have seen ground temperatures rising since 1975, and it… — Bjorn Lomborg Copy Share Image
The total efforts of the last 20 years of climate policy has likely reduced global emissions by less than 1 percent, or… — Bjorn Lomborg Copy Share Image
“Adaptation is very effective at cooling cities, (e.g.) cool roofs and pavements… Adaptive actions can typically deliver much more protection much faster… — Bjorn Lomborg Copy Share Image
The main environmental challenge of the 21st century is poverty. When you don't know where your next meal is coming from, it's… — Bjorn Lomborg Copy Share Image
I think it's great that we have organisations like Greenpeace. In a pluralistic society, we want to have people who point out… — Bjorn Lomborg Copy Share Image
The second thing is, if you want to do something about global warming, you have to think much more long-term. There is… — Bjorn Lomborg Copy Share Image
“A carbon tax forces you to take into account the climate disbenefits that your purchase is responsible for, so you can weigh… — Bjorn Lomborg Copy Share Image
Even if every major government were to slap huge taxes on carbon fuels - which is not going to happen - it… — Bjorn Lomborg Copy Share Image
If we invest in researching and developing energy technology, we'll do some real good in the long run, rather than just making… — Bjorn Lomborg Copy Share Image
“The Paris Agreement will have no perceptible impact on malaria because it will lead to such small temperature changes; in fact, it… — Bjorn Lomborg Copy Share Image
“Climate policies often make life WORSE specifically for the poor...Choosing climate policies over growth policies doesn’t just do nothing. It means more… — Bjorn Lomborg Copy Share Image
To prepare adequately for the challenge of global warming, we must acknowledge both the good and the bad that it will bring.… — Bjorn Lomborg Copy Share Image
“We should be innovating tomorrow’s technologies rather than erecting today’s inefficient turbines and solar panels. We should explore fusion, fission, water splitting,… — Bjorn Lomborg Copy Share Image
“When a company (e.g. Enron) is calling for more environmental regulation, we need to look very carefully at what they might stand… — Bjorn Lomborg Copy Share Image
“We must rein in temperature increases and help ensure that the most vulnerable can adapt. But today’s popular climate change policies of… — Bjorn Lomborg Copy Share Image
“Biomass, which basically is a fancy-sounding name for wood, is one of the old, reliable renewables that can produce energy when it… — Bjorn Lomborg Copy Share Image
“The negative impacts (of biofuels) were much greater than most had anticipated...the amount of crops needed to fill an SUV’s fuel tank… — Bjorn Lomborg Copy Share Image
“We should not confuse the rising costs of flooding with flooding itself (or indeed with climate change). It is entirely caused by… — Bjorn Lomborg Copy Share Image
“One of the great ironies of climate change activism today is that many of the movement’s most vocal proponents are also horrified… — Bjorn Lomborg Copy Share Image
“Emissions of carbon dioxide are largely by-products of productivity-- of industry, governments, and individuals producing things that we want more of (including… — Bjorn Lomborg Copy Share Image
“The science shows us that fears of a climate apocalypse are unfounded. Global warming is real, but it is not the end… — Bjorn Lomborg Copy Share Image
“Choosing expensive carbon-cutting policies or insisting on green development approaches might seem like an easy choice for the world’s elite in Washington,… — Bjorn Lomborg Copy Share Image
The saddest fact of climate change - and the chief reason we should be concerned about finding a proper response - is… — Bjorn Lomborg Copy Share Image
Winter regularly takes many more lives than any heat wave: 25,000 to 50,000 each year die in Britain from excess cold. Across… — Bjorn Lomborg Copy Share Image
We need to invest dramatically in green energy, making solar panels so cheap that everybody wants them. Nobody wanted to buy a… — Bjorn Lomborg Copy Share Image
We have to be aware that the scientific community throws up tons of different hypotheses and at a certain point we'll find… — Bjorn Lomborg Copy Share Image
It seems incontrovertible to me that there is a global warming effect and that it is going to be serious, probably not… — Bjorn Lomborg Copy Share Image
“Cold homes are one of the leading causes of deaths in winter… A climate policy reversing the price reduction due to fracking… — Bjorn Lomborg Copy Share Image
“What matters most is that we make sure that the most vulnerable, worst-off people living in shantytowns are lifted out of poverty.… — Bjorn Lomborg Copy Share Image
If every country committed to spending 0.05 per cent of GDP on researching non-carbon-emitting energy technologies, that would cost $25 billion a… — Bjorn Lomborg Copy Share Image
The only thing that will really change global warming in the long run is if we radically increase the speed with which… — Bjorn Lomborg Copy Share Image
Listen, global warming is a real problem, but it's not the end of the world. A 30-centimetre sea level rise is just… — Bjorn Lomborg Copy Share Image
In the rich world, the environmental situation has improved dramatically. In the United States, the most important environmental indicator, particulate air pollution,… — Bjorn Lomborg Copy Share Image
“The Paris Agreement will cost a fortune to carry out and do almost no good… Every single major industrialized country is failing… — Bjorn Lomborg Copy Share Image
If every country committed to spending 0.05 per cent of GDP on researching non-carbon-emitting energy technologies, that would cost $25 billion a year, and… — Bjorn Lomborg Copy Share
For the longest time in Denmark I didn't want to say what I was politically. I thought it was irrelevant. — Bjorn Lomborg Copy Share
It seems incontrovertible to me that there is a global warming effect and that it is going to be serious, probably not in the… — Bjorn Lomborg Copy Share
I'm an old member of Greenpeace. I worried intensely, as I think most of my friends did, that the world was coming apart. — Bjorn Lomborg Copy Share
Even if I was a bad right wing guy, to the extent of whether my arguments are right or wrong, they're right or wrong… — Bjorn Lomborg Copy Share
Lots of people say we should fly less, heat less, and put on a sweater. But it's not going to happen. People are happy… — Bjorn Lomborg Copy Share
“One of the great ironies of climate change activism today is that many of the movement’s most vocal proponents are also horrified by global… — Bjorn Lomborg Copy Share
“Global temperature and GDP are both rising, and each affects the other… We have to find the right balance between the two factors. If… — Bjorn Lomborg Copy Share
The obvious issue is providing clean drinking water and sanitation to every single human being on earth at the cost of little more than… — Bjorn Lomborg Copy Share
My suggestion is that we should first work to ensure the Third World has clean drinking water and sanitation. — Bjorn Lomborg Copy Share
“We should not confuse the rising costs of flooding with flooding itself (or indeed with climate change). It is entirely caused by more houses… — Bjorn Lomborg Copy Share
Money spent on carbon cuts is money we can't use for effective investments in food aid, micronutrients, HIV/AIDS prevention, health and education infrastructure, and… — Bjorn Lomborg Copy Share
“The negative impacts (of biofuels) were much greater than most had anticipated...the amount of crops needed to fill an SUV’s fuel tank with biofuel… — Bjorn Lomborg Copy Share
But this is an occupational hazard of being a scientist. You say this is the best information I have and then you realize that… — Bjorn Lomborg Copy Share
