Winter regularly takes many more lives than any heat wave: 25,000 to 50,000 each year die in Britain from excess cold.
BJORN LOMBORGSo it’s mainly a question of helping the Third World overcome the effects of global warming.
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Listen, global warming is a real problem, but it’s not the end of the world. A 30-centimetre sea level rise is just not going to bring the world to a standstill, just like it didn’t over the last 150 years.
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If our starting point is to prove that Armageddon is on its way, we will not consider all of the evidence, and will not identify the smartest policy choices.
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I found university a little dispiriting. I thought I would enter the great halls of Plato, but instead I entered the halls of an intellectual sausage factory. I wanted to do something not on the main course, and chose the environment.
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The Kyoto treaty has an estimated cost of between US$150 and $350 billion a year, starting in 2010.
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The second thing is, if you want to do something about global warming, you have to think much more long-term.
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I think it’s great that we have organisations like Greenpeace. In a pluralistic society, we want to have people who point out all the problems that the Earth could encounter. But we need to understand that they are not presenting a full and rounded view.
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On average, global warming is not going to harm the developing world.
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I really try to say things as they basically are and it so happens that it is a good message that things are getting better, but there are still problems.
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The fact that we’re catching more fish per person than we’ve ever done before doesn’t mean that there are not particular places where we’ve managed fisheries badly.
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Nobody wanted to buy a computer in 1950, but once they got cheap, everyone bought them.
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To prepare adequately for the challenge of global warming, we must acknowledge both the good and the bad that it will bring.
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The only thing that will really change global warming in the long run is if we radically increase the speed with which we get alternative technologies to deal with climate change.
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My suggestion is that we should first work to ensure the Third World has clean drinking water and sanitation.
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We need to invest dramatically in green energy, making solar panels so cheap that everybody wants them.
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We worry about the seemingly ever-increasing number of natural catastrophes. Yet this is mainly a consequence of CNN.
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