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
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
...children born today-in both the industrialized world and developing countries-will live longer and be healthier, they will get more food, a better… — 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
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
“Innovation has helped with problems in the past, e.g. whale oil use, horse manure in the streets, increasing grain yields. “When we… — 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“People are panicking about climate change in large part because the media and environmental campaigners tell us to, because politicians overhype the… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
My suggestion is that we should first work to ensure the Third World has clean drinking water and sanitation. — 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 more houses… — Bjorn Lomborg Copy Share Image
