There is no doubt that we should take solar radiation into account. We have seen ground temperatures rising since 1975, and it is important to know to what extent that has been caused by the sun or by carbon dioxide. — 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
