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CNN/YouTube COP15 Climate Change Debate

December 15, 2009 by Tim Hurst
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CNN and YouTube conducted a live climate change debate in Copenhagen on December 15 at 8 a.m. EST. World leaders, activists, and leading thinkers debated the top-ranked video questions submitted by people from around the world. Fortunately, the panelists, including former U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan, journalist Thomas Friedman, U.... [read more]

Munk debate on climate change gets it wrong

December 2, 2009 by Tyler Hamilton
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I’ve just returned from the Munk Debate featuring Green Party Leader Elizabeth May, Guardian columnist and Heat author George Monbiot, the skeptical environmentalist Bjorn Lomborg, and British global-warming skeptic and author Nigel Lawson, who insists on having “Lord” precede his name. At debate was the following statement: “... [read more]

Wind Energy, The Case of Denmark: A Review

October 16, 2009 by Charles Barton
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The Danish Center for Political Studies, last month published a wide ranging critical study on the Danish wind generation power, titled Wind Energy: The Case of Denmark. The Danish Center for Political Studies would appear to be either conservative or Libertarian in orientation. Most of the Study was written by Hugh Sharman whose... [read more]

Can $9 Billion Really Stop Global Warming for Another 100 Years?

September 21, 2009 by Tim Hurst
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What’s the best way for humanity to reduce suffering from man-made global warming? Political scientist Bjorn Lomborg, author of The Skeptical Environmentalist and Cool It! has long been a vocal proponent of applying rational cost-benefit analysis to the climate problem. Criticized by some for being too economically deterministic,... [read more]

More on climate change adaptation

August 31, 2009 by Simon Donner
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In a Wall Street Journal op-ed a few days back, Bjorn Lomborg offered a list of ways that technology can fight global warming. Lomborg, the fingernail scratching across the climate scientist's blackboard, has rightfully upset a number of experts by once again playing loose with the facts and language. Bill Chamedies from Duke does a... [read more]

Bjorn Lomborg Wants to Make Clean Energy Cheap, Doesn't Know How

May 7, 2009 by Jesse Jenkins
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Originally posted at the Breakthrough Institute Bjorn Lomborg wants to make clean energy cheap. Unfortunately, the author of The Skeptical Environmentalist and Cool It doesn't seem to understand that making clean energy cheap is about much more than R&D. In an interview on Wednesday with the San Francisco... [read more]

Watch those assumptions

March 6, 2009 by Lou Grinzo
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Bjorn Lomborg: Let’s Spend Smarter to Save the World: If the global warming circus has a bad boy, it’s Bjorn Lomborg, the Danish author of “The Skeptical Environmentalist” and longtime foil of folks clamoring for big global schemes to tackle climate change, like former vice president Al Gore. Mr. Lomborg, speaking at the WSJ Eco:nomics... [read more]

From E&ETV -- Climate: Skeptical enviro Bjorn Lomborg discusses post-Kyoto roadmap, calls Kyoto "feel good strategy"

December 23, 2007 by Tim Hurst
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This E&ETV video was sent to you by: tbhurst@gmail.com Personal message: In case you haven't had enough of Bjorn Lomborg... An E&E Publishing Service Climate: Skeptical enviro Bjorn Lomborg discusses post-Kyoto roadmap, calls Kyoto "feel good strategy"  (Wednesday, December 12, 2007)As the international... [read more]