RE: https://mastodon.social/@joseph11lim/116320897491798193
#BangkokPost editors ought to be more discerning (or diligent?🤔) in fact-checking evidence-baseless hype-peddlers like #BjornLomborg who's spinning tales on the uncommercialized & unproven 4G nuclear #SMR #nuclearenergy tech:👇 […]
Do you mean climate denying #Epstein pal #BjornLomborg? bsky.app/profile/mich... #EpsteinFiles
#BjornLomborg #climatedenier & #climate_genocide advocate, in files with #BillGates
Glad you asked:
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#BjornLomborg
Since #BjornLomborg is back in the news...
Since #BjornLomborg is back in the news...
!e Pros 115 and climate scientists. Truth and consistency matter little to him. !at’s why one week he’s on Fox News insisting that President Joe Biden is “failing to ful#ll his green agenda,”15 while just weeks later he’s lambasting Biden for his climate- forward actions, which include “forcing” an energy transition16 and “halting” lique#ed natural gas.17 In his recent Fox News appearances, Morano has insisted that universities are trying to scare young people about climate change, that climate policy— rather than climate impacts— poses the real risk to society, that phasing out fossil fuels is an “insane goal,” and that renewable energy isn’t necessary and doesn’t work. All in a day’s work! Bjorn Lomborg Bjorn Lomborg calls himself the “skeptical environmentalist.” Of course, he’s neither. A true skeptic subjects both sides of a proposition to scrutiny without favor, critically evaluating and weighing the evidence, rather than indiscriminately rejecting #ndings that don’t comport with their ideologically driven preconceptions. And brandishing a Greenpeace T- shirt, as he’s wont to do, hardly establishes your environmental bona #des when you’re penning commentaries for the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, and USA Today dismissing the impacts of climate change, downplaying the role of renewable energy, and promoting the supposed virtues of fossil fuels. Lomborg’s “Copenhagen Consensus Center” does not disclose its funding or that its address is a parcel service based in Lowell, Massachusetts (in other words a virtual entity). Lomborg perfectly re%ects an insidious new form of climate denialism that has taken precedence as the reality of human- caused warming becomes clear to the person on the street and very di"cult to assail. He doesn’t dismiss human- caused climate change outright. Instead, he denies the seriousness of the threat and the need to take meaningful action. As Mike puts it: “With a smile and a professed
Science Under Siege 116 concern for the environment and the poor, he scolds those who would misguidedly wean us o$ fossil fuels and promote clean energy.”18 His claims might seem credible, but he understates climate projections and potential impacts, damages, and costs. In an opinion piece for Project Syndicate, he insisted that “a 20- foot rise in sea levels&.&.&. would inundate about 16,000 square miles of coastline, where more than 400 million people live. !at’s a lot of people, to be sure, but hardly all of mankind. In fact, it amounts to less than 6% of the world’s population— which is to say that 94% of the population would not be inundated.”19 !e plight of four hundred million people, after all, is minuscule compared to the potential billions of dollars in lost fossil fuel– industry pro#ts. On average, global warming is not going to harm the developing world. — Bjorn Lomborg A classic example of Lomborg’s modus operandi relates to the Canadian wild#res of summer 2023 that blanketed major East Coast cities with smoke, including Mike’s home city of Philadelphia, which had the worst air quality in the world for several days. !e wild#res were part of a trend toward more widespread, dangerous, and deadly wild#res in North America tied to warming and drying. Have no fear, Lomborg was quick to announce to Wall Street Journal readers in a full- length commentary on August 1 that climate change had nothing to do with it. Mike published a letter of response in the Journal
Since #BjornLomborg is back in the news, an excerpt from #ScienceUnderSiege by @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social & yours truly:
sea level rise curve w/ Bjorn Lomborg shown pointing to short time interval and claiming there's no trend, with Captain Jean-Luc Picard looking on in disbelief (meme)
exceprt on Bjorn Lomborg from "The Madhouse Effect" by Michael Mann and Tom Toles (cartoon by Toles)
Since #BjornLomborg is back in the news, re-upping these:
#BillGates Gave $3.5M to #ThinkTank Run by Climate Crisis Denier #BjornLomborg -according to U.S. tax records reviewed by @DeSmog
The donations made between 2017 & 2022, were listed on IRS 990 Forms filed by the #GatesFoundation. Those donations went to the Copenhagen Consensus Center, which […]
Carbon Capture ‘Not Going to Happen,’ Top Fossil Fuel Advocate #BjornLomborg Predicts in May 2025 at the Fraser Institute in Vancouver.
“What you can do is you can get a lot of subsidies,” he said.
" #BjornLomborg suggests that the only reason #BigOil is advocating for #CarbonCapture is so they can get massive government subsidies that'll enable them to keep producing more oil. It's a pretty frank admission from a key booster of the industry. He's not just some random guy." #ClimateChange #yyc
"Consistent #OilAndGas ally #BjornLomborg said 'in realistic terms, I don't think it's ever going to happen,' that deploying this technology, capturing emissions & burying them underground is so expensive that it's totally infeasible to do #CarbonCaptureAndStorage at scale."
Gosh, is climate "skeptic" Bjørn Lomborg still a thing?
This is the political scientist whom the Danish Committees on Scientific Dishonesty ruled could not be guilty of, er, scientific dishonesty as he was too much of an idiot to know what he was talking about.
#ARC #BjornLomborg #ClimateDenial
