Lies, Damn lies and Climate Stats

Originally posted by walbrook: ↑

"I'm all for opposing views. That's why I like reading Bjorn Lomborg's stuff for example. There are plenty of arguments for and against."

False Alarm: How Climate Change Panic Costs Us Trillions, Hurts the Poor, and Fails to Fix the Planet
byBjorn Lomborg(Author)

Enough, argues political scientist and bestselling author Bjorn Lomborg. Climate change, while real, is not the apocalyptic threat that we've been told it is. There is no scientific evidence, for instance, that the world is suffering from more droughts, wildfires, or hurricanes than ever before. In fact, global death due the natural disaster is at an all-time low. The real problem is that with increasing affluence, more people are moving to riskier parts of the world - coastlines, areas with high wildfire risk - and building more expensive property there. So the costs of natural disasters are rising, even though their incidence isn't - contributing to the impression that the world has become a far more dangerous place.

Climate panic is based on bad science, and generates even worse policy. Around the world, we are currently spending about $500 billion annually on environmental issues and, with the many promises of zero carbon emissions soon, those costs could escalate to $10-20 trillion annually. But these policies are not paying dividends in terms of solving global warming. The Paris Agreement, for instance, is the most expensive treaty in the history of the world -- and a terrible investment in the human future, destined to return only eleven cents on the dollar.

Worse still, the money that goes to fund environmental initiatives crowds out other measures that could have a far more dramatic impact on human well-being, particularly in the developing world: by focusing on issues like immunization, education, birth control, and nutrition, we could increase GDP at a vastly higher rate than climate change threatens to lower it.

Measured and data-driven,False Alarmwill convince you that almost everything you think about climate change is wrong -- and points the way towards making the world a vastly better, if slightly warmer, world for all.

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Bjorn Lomborg believes that mmcc is real. He believes that bad things will happen if we don't reduce emissions. He is and advocate for emission reduction.

Unlike the coolists of HC which try and argue it's not.

He just argues there are other ways to tackle it. He argues that the politics of it make it more expensive and less effective. I certainly agree with that. It is because of the coolist trolls that are trying to control the conversation for their fossil masters that this has become so political.

" and generates even worse policy."

If the coolists got out of the way we would have made much more progress which what Lomborg is arguing for.