Bjorn Lomborg @BjornLomborg
Author of 'Best Things First', 'False Alarm', and 'Skeptical Environmentalist', President Copenhagen Consensus: smart solutions through economic prioritization lomborg.com Malmö, Sweden Joined December 2009-
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Half the world now believe that humanity will go extinct from climate change The reality? The UN expects the average person by 2100 to earn 450% of today’s income. Climate will reduce that to 434%. Problem, not end-of-world basicbooks.com/titles/bjorn-l… (free first 25 pages)
California leads on climate policy, says Governor Newsom California also leads on increases in residential electricity prices, with a 43% price hike over the past decade Compare this to a slight decline in US kWh price eia.gov/electricity/da… bls.gov/cpi/data.htm
It seems dubious whether renewables will dominate the 21st century. When measuring renewables in percent of global energy, almost all energy was renewable in 1800 Read my peer-reviewed article: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
Unaffordable climate policies have consequences Scotland promised unrealistic 75% cut by 2030 This year it became obvious they couldn't be reached And now, it has led to the resignation of Scotland's first minister bbc.com/news/uk-scotla…
Much of the world lacks land tenure security: A billion people believe they will be evicted from their land or their property in the next five years. New, peer-reviewed #SDGs research published by Cambridge University Press: cambridge.org/core/journals/…
Greenpeace's campaign to get golden rice banned in the Philippines will result in the blinding and killing of vitamin A–deficient children. reason.com/2024/04/25/gre…
Let's examine this chart in a bit more detail. While the fossil fuel minimum load has fallen, the maximum has barely changed since 2016, despite lower overall demand. The volatility has also increased, meaning gas plants are cycling up and down more to cover for when the wind…
Let's examine this chart in a bit more detail. While the fossil fuel minimum load has fallen, the maximum has barely changed since 2016, despite lower overall demand. The volatility has also increased, meaning gas plants are cycling up and down more to cover for when the wind… https://t.co/BSHnn1oJog
California celebrating 🍾 major accomplishment: electricity rates on par with Hawaii for most expensive. Rates have doubled in 5 years. Of course, no one said tackling climate change would be cheap. nbcbayarea.com/investigations…
You think housing prices will keep going up because you've seen it all your life. But this is a historic anomaly that is likely to reverse soon: Prices might start shrinking in many places. This thread is the case against investing in housing:
Focus on bang for buck to end global poverty and disease The UN's global development agenda is failing the world’s poor due to a lack of prioritization. From my latest newsletter: us5.campaign-archive.com/?u=40608ac9388… Sign up here: us5.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=40…
News are erupting in Germany that the parliament's decision to go through with the nuclear phase-out was partly based on false information that seems to have been deliberately falsified. cicero.de/innenpolitik/r…
Clean tech is not China's most significant export bloomberg.com/opinion/articl… archive.ph/4Ouqh
I stand with @mark_lynas, who writes: Activists against Golden Rice are ignoring decades of scientific peer-reviewed research which shows conclusively that genetically-engineered crops and foods are safe. Still, they continue to spread myths and misinformation, claiming that GM…
I stand with @mark_lynas, who writes: Activists against Golden Rice are ignoring decades of scientific peer-reviewed research which shows conclusively that genetically-engineered crops and foods are safe. Still, they continue to spread myths and misinformation, claiming that GM…
Sometimes the climate models work, other times they don't. But it doesn't really matter because our conclusions would remain the same. More pseudoscience from the attribution crowd. worldweatherattribution.org/heavy-precipit…
Note to journalists covering extreme events (or citizens grappling with them): When someone flashes the shiny word unprecdented in front of you, always ask, "Since when?" As true for atmospheric rivers as it is for hurricanes and wildfire smoke, extreme droughts and the rest.…
Note to journalists covering extreme events (or citizens grappling with them): When someone flashes the shiny word unprecdented in front of you, always ask, "Since when?" As true for atmospheric rivers as it is for hurricanes and wildfire smoke, extreme droughts and the rest.… https://t.co/i92UQE4feW
Vietnam is calling for more coal production to avoid blackouts this summer 🇻🇳⛏️ 💦 Low water reserves threaten to curb hydropower 🚢 Recent jump in LNG prices made it too expensive 🪨 Asian emerging nations are relying on coal to boost energy security bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
New paper from Norway: Banning smartphones in school - significantly decreased doctors visits for psychological symptoms and diseases among girls - reduced bullying among both genders - improved girls’ GPA and attendance rates - largest effect sizes were among the poorest kids
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This 🧵 Is “event attribution” meaningful at all?
Sometimes the climate models work, other times they don't. But it doesn't really matter because our conclusions would remain the same. More pseudoscience from the attribution crowd. worldweatherattribution.org/heavy-precipit…
This is the level of platitudes you get from a $500K/year salary at Michigan in climate science (good for him, Go Blue) “This work, when combined with theory and attribution studies associated with the increasingly frequent other extreme rain and flooding events around the…
Perspective on Electricity Storage in UK The 'Biggest Battery in Europe' is installed at Cottingham, nr Hull It cost £75,000,000 (say 90,000,000 Euros/Dollars) It takes 5 acres of land And could power the UK's national electricity grid for just 15 seconds before going flat
Do higher public debt levels reduce economic growth? My meta-analysis is out in the September issue of Journal of Economic Surveys. By analysing 816 estimates, I find - publication bias in favour of negative growth effects - no uniform public-debt-to-GDP threshold Summary 🧵
Every European country has various laws on the books that are just like “productivity is illegal now” and then people wonder why they are poor.
RCP8.5 is going to make athletes run faster and jump higher 😎 Warming climate is helping human beings run faster, jump higher and throw farther through less dense air nature.com/articles/s4161…
Except when it is too new to be peer reviewed: “scientists at World Weather Attribution said Thursday in a flash study that is too new to be peer-reviewed” 🤣 apnews.com/article/dubai-…
@RogerPielkeJr I cover peer-reviewed original research when it's newsworthy, done by smart respected academic researchers, makes sense and is in signficant scientific journals. You know, on merit. Quality timely work counts when I decide on what to cover.
Conversations That Matter: Is 2050 a realistic net-zero goal? When the cost of carbon mitigation increases the cost of living, voters turn away from protecting the environment and so do politicians vancouversun.com/news/conversat…
For the low low price of $300 these renowned luminaries will teach you how to cope with the climate emergency Act now and receive not one, not two, but three ginzu knives … #nottheonion
Greenpeace just got the Philippines to ban rice genetically engineered to include Vitamin A, making it likely more children in the third world will die. At what point does stupidity cross over into evil? Environmentalist activists are there. Should we just call them evil?
Is there a tension between doing the most useful studies and doing the studies most likely to be published in a high-profile venue?
The reason is that it has never been about the science or the "truth" — but a battle over competing visions of technology, economy, governance, and the "Good Society" — along with the mobilization on behalf of gaining greater power and influence over politics in the name of…
I stand with @mark_lynas, who writes: Activists against Golden Rice are ignoring decades of scientific peer-reviewed research which shows conclusively that genetically-engineered crops and foods are safe. Still, they continue to spread myths and misinformation, claiming that GM…
Hate to be *this* guy, but the p-values associated with these outcomes are p = .044, p = .011, p = .008, p = .076, p = .067, p = .094, p = .058, p = .039, p = .064, p = .05, p = .067, p = .014. These results are interesting, but need replicating.
New paper from Norway: Banning smartphones in school - significantly decreased doctors visits for psychological symptoms and diseases among girls - reduced bullying among both genders - improved girls’ GPA and attendance rates - largest effect sizes were among the poorest kids
It is pretty amazing that the first 1,000 words recovered from the charred scrolls at Herculaneum taught us two new things: where Plato was buried and that he was sold as a slave by the Spartans. Usually, most data you get is boring, a promising start! cnr.it/it/nota-stampa…
Are we sure automation is going to push developing countries away from manufacturing toward trade in services?
In an interview with the FT, the head of India's Tata Consultancy Services predicted the need for human call centre agents would become 'minimal' within a year on.ft.com/3QeMOY7
Big new report “Back in Stock” from our Russia team on the impact of sanctions on Russia’s defense industry. Bottom line: Russia has adapted with the vital help of Beijing. Note exports in dual use goods from China to Russia skyrocket after Putin and Xi met in March 2023. 1/