“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
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
