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Bjorn Lomborg

I can imagine that your initial response to the name ‘Bjorn Lomborg,’ is ‘who the hell is he?’ Before last week I also did not know who he was, but in the past week I have read three interesting articles by Bjorn Lomborg. I can almost guarantee that anything written by Professor Lomborg will not be featured on MSNBC/CNN nor will be commented on by my local liberal “newspaper,” because he is identified as an environmental skeptic

The following is from Wikipedia:

Bjørn Lomborg is a Danish author, statistician and president of the think tank Copenhagen Consensus Center. He is former director of the Danish government’s Environmental Assessment Institute in Copenhagen. He became internationally known for his best-selling and controversial book The Skeptical Environmentalist. 

His 9/6 article from the NY Post talks about the “Inconvenient Truths” of Global Warming that are no longer talked about. For instance, weather disasters that are getting less damaging despite dire predictions. A decade ago, environmentalists loudly declared that Australia’s magnificent Great Barrier Reef was nearly dead, killed by bleaching caused by climate change. The UK Guardian even published an obituary.

This year, scientists revealed that two-thirds of the Great Barrier Reef shows the highest coral cover seen since records began in 1985. The good-news report got a fraction of the attention.

Not long ago, environmentalists constantly used pictures of polar bears to highlight the dangers of climate change. Have you noticed that pictures of polar bears are no longer being constantly paraded in front of us. Why? 

The reality is that polar bear numbers have been increasing — from somewhere between five and ten thousand polar bears in the 1960s, up to around 26,000 today. We don’t hear this news. Instead, political campaigners just quietly stopped using polar bears in their adds.

Humanity is getting more prosperous every day. In a separate report, the United Nations estimates that without global warming, the average person in 2100 would be 450% better-off than today. Global warming means people will only be 434% richer they say. That is not a disaster… just a 16% decline by the end of this century

Professor Lomborg also recently published an article in the Wall Street Journal entitled “If Electric Vehicles Are So Great, Why Mandate Them? As you could probably anticipate from the title, electric vehicles will actually take over the market only if innovation makes them better and actually cheaper than gasoline powered cars.

A new report from a U.S. Department of Energy laboratory found that even in 2025, EVs total lifetime costs will be 9% higher than gasoline cars.

So Houston, we have a problem! … EVs are more expensive to buy, and over the long run will cost more than gas powered cars. So tell me again why I need to buy an EV.

11/29/22

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