Danish climate expert Björn Lomborg has denounced “weather porn” spread by those concerned about climate change, saying the facts tell a different story.
Lomborg, who runs the Copenhagen Consensus Center, said in his latest newsletter that the annual number of deaths from weather-related events has been consistently decreasing and is now at an all-time low. .
Lomborg said in a recent social media post that people concerned about climate change are “frustrated by the dramatic decline in deaths from climate-related disasters worldwide.” postThere, they learned how to cherry-pick the death toll to make it look like the death toll was going up: just remove the top 50 deadliest mega-disasters and manipulate the scales. It is.
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Lomborg insists he is not a climate change denier and advocates the use of cost-benefit analysis to determine the best political and social responses to global warming.
Strict net-zero climate policies would be “prohibitively expensive,” he wrote in a recent paper Editorial for wall street journalAnd the latest peer-reviewed climate economic research shows that the total cost will “average $27 trillion annually throughout this century, and reach $60 trillion annually by 2100.”
“Net zero will cost more than seven times as much as the climate problem we are trying to address,” he added.
By setting a goal for a net-zero emissions economy without considering costs, the Biden administration is “confusing climate science and climate policy,” he wrote.
“When politicians say ‘follow the science’ when it comes to extreme weather policy, they are actually trying to shut down debate about the huge and unsustainable costs,” he argues. “We shouldn’t forgive them.”
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Climate change is not “the looming existential crisis that the media and activist politicians have been warning about with bated breath,” and a UN panel of climate scientists has failed to document evidence that extreme weather events are worsening. he claims.
On the contrary, climate-related deaths from droughts, storms, floods, and fires “have fallen by more than 97% over the past century, from nearly 500,000 per year to less than 15,000 in the 2020s.”
“On average, more people die in road accidents,” he observes.
