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Bjørn Lomborg

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Name: Bjørn Lomborg

First reported May 22 2013 - Updated May 23 2013 - 1 reports

European Union

Soaring energy costs make Europeans poor (Opinion)

carbon capture and storage Clean coal clean energy coalAs more people are affected by rising energy costs across Europe it is time for EU leaders to finally re-balance the energy debate and put affordability and security of supply on a par with decarbonisation ... [Published EurActiv.com - May 22 2013]

Entities: Coal, European Union, Carbon Capture & Storage, Power Plant

First reported May 21 2013 - Updated May 21 2013 - 2 reports

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

Future Global Warming Likely Lower: Second Chance for Humanity?

A major new study published in NatureGeoscience reports that future global warmingis likely to be significantly less than many climate modelprojections have suggested. The authors cannot be characterized byopponents as climate change "deniers." Using ... [Published REASON Online - May 21 2013]

Entities: Climate, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Global Warming/Climate Change

First reported May 21 2013 - Updated May 21 2013 - 1 reports

Matt Ridley has joined the real climate debate | Myles Allen

The climate sceptic's interpretation of my study as final endorsement of his position means we can move on It isn't often, as a climate scientist, that you find your research being enthusiastically endorsed by climate sceptic Matt Ridley in the Times ... [Published Environment: Environment blog | guardian.co.uk - May 21 2013]

Entities: Matt Ridley, Climate, Myles Allen, Global Warming/Climate Change

First reported May 19 2013 - Updated May 19 2013 - 1 reports

Hugging a burning tree

Biomass is experiencing a revival, because it is considered CO2-neutral. The conventional wisdom is that burning wood only releases the carbon sucked up while the tree was growing, and hence the net climate effect is zero. But a growing number of voices ... [Published Philippine Daily Inquirer - May 19 2013]

Entities: Biomass, Carbon Dioxide, Barley

First reported May 16 2013 - Updated May 16 2013 - 2 reports

Why Lomborg is Wrong

As the world gathered on 22nd April to celebrate Earth Day , which in 2013 carried the message of climate change, people were encouraged to upload positive stories on social media. Danish provocateur and self proclaimed sceptical environmentalist, Bjørn ... [Published PluginEurope.com - May 16 2013]

Entities: Bjørn Lomborg, Fossil Fuel, Electric Car, Global Warming/Climate Change, Renewable Energy

First reported May 16 2013 - Updated May 16 2013 - 1 reports

Clark tackles climate change

Some say in ice – Robert FrostWorld climate change may be the most dangerous challenge to mankind since the great Ice Age 20,000 years ago. According to some researchers, the next century will bring ever more violent storms and hurricanes, more droughts ... [Published Worcester Telegram & Gazette - May 16 2013]

Entities: Global Warming/Climate Change, Alex Gardner, Permafrost, Carbon

First reported May 15 2013 - Updated May 15 2013 - 2 reports

Register Today for Reason’s 2014 Cruise, Featuring Bjorn Lomborg, Johan Norberg, Nick Gillespie, & Matt Welch!

All aboard for a sun-filled, intellectually stimulating week atsea! You won’t want to miss Fixing the World:Reason Seminar Cruise 2014! www.reasoncruise.comJoin Reason’s own Nick Gillespie, Matt Welch, and some of mostinteresting speakers you’ll ever ... [Published REASON Online - May 15 2013]

Entities: Matt Welch, Nick Gillespie, Bjørn Lomborg, Johan Norberg

First reported May 15 2013 - Updated May 15 2013 - 1 reports

My Turn: Human tragedy on a scale the world has never seen

Linda Thompson is a writer and editor in Taos County; for the past seven years, she has also taught professional editing courses online for UC Berkeley. Linda Thompson The Taos News | 0 commentsA recent My Turn in The Taos News puzzled and surprised ... [Published Taos News - May 15 2013]

Entities: Global Warming/Climate Change, James Hansen, Greenhouse Gas, Linda Thompson

First reported May 12 2013 - Updated May 12 2013 - 1 reports

Lomborg: Californians are paying ridiculous subsidies for electric cars

Guest post by Bjørn Lomborg I’ve said electric cars get subsidized too much. Turns out I was wrong. In California, they are subsidized ridiculously too much. Tesla gets $45,000 for each car it sells in state and federal subsidies. The … Continue reading ... [Published Watts Up With That? - May 12 2013]

Entities: Bjørn Lomborg, Electric Car

First reported May 05 2013 - Updated May 05 2013 - 1 reports

Don't fear the future

We made too many wrong mistakes. -- Yogi BerraLEEThe headline of the April 27 Berkshire Eagle warned of a "Foreboding Future," where our economy and way of life will be wiped out by climate change, that is, by the weather, in approximately 100 years. ... [Published Berkshire Eagle - May 05 2013]

Entities: Bjørn Lomborg, Global Warming/Climate Change, James Hansen, Climate

First reported May 03 2013 - Updated May 03 2013 - 1 reports

Guest editorial falls flat on proving cited facts | Letter

Initially I thought it was just another laissez-faire, free market, invisible hand, Koch Brothers funded effort worshipping at the feet of Adam Smith.But, as it turns out I was right.Though a voluminous diatribe there is not one article, one quote or ... [Published Whidbey News-Times - May 03 2013]

Entities: Bjørn Lomborg, Environment, George Will, Adam Smith

First reported May 01 2013 - Updated May 01 2013 - 1 reports

Climate scientists struggle to explain warming slowdown

By Environment Correspondent Alister Doyle OSLO (Reuters) - Scientists are struggling to explain a slowdown in climate change Often focused on century-long trends, most climate models failed to predict that the temperature rise would slow, starting around ... [Published Yahoo! India - May 01 2013]

Entities: Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Climate, Rajendra Kumar Pachauri, Global Warming/Climate Change, Alister Doyle

Quotes

..."The climate system is not quite so simple as people thought," said Bjorn Lomborg, a Danish statistician and author of "the skeptical environmentalist" who estimates that moderate warming will be beneficial for crop growth and human health

Al Gore "We're Sleepwalking Toward Cliff"---Science-YOU'RE WRONG! [Published YID With LID - Apr 17 2013]

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Soaring energy costs make Europeans poor (Opinion) [Published EurActiv.com - May 22 2013]
Future Global Warming Likely Lower: Second Chan... [Published REASON Online - May 21 2013]
Future Global Warming Likely Lower: Second Chan... [Published Hit & Run - May 21 2013]
Matt Ridley has joined the real climate debate ... [Published Environment: Environment blog \| guardian.co.uk - May 21 2013]
Hugging a burning tree [Published Philippine Daily Inquirer - May 19 2013]
Why Lomborg is Wrong [Published PluginEurope.com - May 16 2013]
Anders Lorenzen: Why Lomborg is Wrong [Published Huffington Post UK - May 16 2013]
Clark tackles climate change [Published Worcester Telegram & Gazette - May 16 2013]
Register Today for Reason’s 2014 Cruise, Featur... [Published REASON Online - May 15 2013]
Register Today for Reason’s 2014 Cruise, Featur... [Published Hit & Run - May 15 2013]
My Turn: Human tragedy on a scale the world has... [Published Taos News - May 15 2013]
Lomborg: Californians are paying ridiculous sub... [Published Watts Up With That? - May 12 2013]
Geodynamics’ unfulfilled promise [Published Business Spectator - May 06 2013]
Don't fear the future [Published Berkshire Eagle - May 05 2013]
Guest editorial falls flat on proving cited fac... [Published Whidbey News-Times - May 03 2013]
Are renewables doomed to failure in Australia? [Published Renew Economy - May 03 2013]
Both Fisker's Collapse, And Tesla's Profits, Sh... [Published Forbes.com - May 01 2013]
Climate scientists struggle to explain warming ... [Published Yahoo! India - May 01 2013]
'God Bless' the abortion industry [Published U-T San Diego - Apr 29 2013]
April 25 News: Canada In DC To Lobby To Approve... [Published Think Progress - Apr 25 2013]
WATCH: HuffPost Live Panelists Talk Climate Cha... [Published Huffington Post - Apr 24 2013]
Earth Day's good news: Column [Published MuskegonPundit - Apr 24 2013]
We Don't Need No Stinking Sparky Cars [Published small dead animals - Apr 24 2013]
Celebrate Earth Day – come all ye carbonators [Published Watts Up With That? - Apr 22 2013]
What I’d like to see this Earth Day: More fracking [Published Globe and Mail - Apr 22 2013]
Bjorn Lomborg: The case against electric cars [Published National Post \| Full Comment » Full Comment - Apr 22 2013]
The environmentally safe electric car short cir... [Published Elp.com - Apr 18 2013]

Blogs

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Future Global Warming Likely Lower: Second Chan... [Published Hit & Run - May 21 2013] <p><img alt="globalwarmingquestion" height="195" src="http://cloudfront-assets.reason.com/assets/db/13691343755280.jpg" title="Deny this!\|\|\|Credit: Image191: Dreamstime" width="260" style="float: right;"/>A major new study published in NatureGeoscience ...
Matt Ridley has joined the real climate debate ... [Published Environment: Environment blog \| guardian.co.uk - May 21 2013] The climate sceptic's interpretation of my study as final endorsement of his position means we can move on It isn't often, as a climate scientist, that you find your research being enthusiastically endorsed by climate sceptic Matt Ridley in the Times ...
Register Today for Reason’s 2014 Cruise, Featur... [Published Hit & Run - May 15 2013] All aboard for a sun-filled, intellectually stimulating week at sea! You won’t want to miss Fixing the World: Reason Seminar Cruise 2014! www.reasoncruise.com Join Reason’s own Nick Gillespie, Matt Welch, and some of most interesting speakers you’ll ...
Lomborg: Californians are paying ridiculous sub... [Published Watts Up With That? - May 12 2013] Guest post by Bjørn Lomborg I’ve said electric cars get subsidized too much. Turns out I was wrong. In California, they are subsidized ridiculously too much. Tesla gets $45,000 for each car it sells in state and federal subsidies. The … Continue reading ...
April 25 News: Canada In DC To Lobby To Approve... [Published Think Progress - Apr 25 2013] Canada’s Minister of Natural Resources is in our nation’s capital today, lobbying Congress and the State Department to approve the Keystone pipeline. He will continue to face the reality that the pipeline will create only 35 permanent jobs, pump a ...

Audio/Video

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ECO:nomics: Better Ways to Combat Climate Change? [Published WSJ.com Video - Business - Mar 22 2013]
The Dirty Little Secret Behind Electric Cars? [Published FOX Business - Video - Mar 14 2013]
Will Technology Save the Day for Oil Companies? [Published FOX Business - Video - Mar 08 2013]
Is Fracking the Solution to U.S. Energy Indepen... [Published FOX Business - Video - Nov 30 2012]