“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
“Global temperature and GDP are both rising, and each affects the other… We have to find the right balance between the two… — 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
“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 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
“By making people richer, especially in the world’s poorest countries, freer trade would also lead to societies far more resilient to climate… — 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
“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
“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
“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
“I’m scraped and bruised from the fall, muscles tight and sore, but I’m alive and I’m free, I’m free, I’m free— Suddenly,… — Elizabeth Helen 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
“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
“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
“It will strike all countries. The global economic crisis could plunge 500 million people into poverty, so stated in a position paper… — Dr. Karina Reiss 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
“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
“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
“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
“The expanding bull’s eye effect means we’re likely to see much more costly disasters happen over time, even if the climate doesn’t… — Bjorn Lomborg Copy Share Image
“The jarring fact is that humanity just finished spending two centuries GETTING RID OF renewable energy and replacing it with fossil fuels.… — 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
“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
“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
“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
