Bjørn Lomberg

Bjørn Lomberg is a political scientist and the Founder and President of Copenhagen Consensus Center in Denmark. He wrote The Skeptical Environmentalist, a controversial book that makes many disputed claims about the impact of a warming planet. Lomberg founded the Copenhagen Consensus Center, and though he has written a book and spoken on the topic many times, he does not have a background in climate change.

Lomberg does not deny that climate change exists, but he downplays the negative effects that it has on our environment. He claims that it has many positive effects and believes that we should be focusing on other issues instead.

Position on climate change: 

“Children are growing up terrified, with six in ten American teenagers now afraid of climate change. The scaremongering has reached such a crescendo that now half the world’s population really believes climate change will likely end the human race.This alarmism is not only false but morally unjust. It leads us to make poor decisions based on fear, when the world not only has gotten better, but will be even better over the century.”

“[J]ust like every other issue, there’s both positives and negatives to global warming. Overall, and in the long run, the negatives will outweigh the positives, but there is a lot of positives to global warming right now.”

Lomberg and Friends 

He has received the Julian L. Simon Memorial Award in 2003 from the Competitive Enterprise Institute in the United States of America, which has a long history of science denial.

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