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Bjorn Lomborg
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Working on Sunday, grateful for everyone realizing climate change not a horror-story but problem (2-4%), and doing the single-soul best to make the world better through effective policies (like tb, malaria, contraception, free trade) and not just making energy more expensive
(And yes, global warming is real, but the alarmist codswallop of 'horror' simply scares kids and adults, makes them accept hugely costly policies, while being untrue — cost about 2-4%, as shown by UN Climate Panel, here updated by Nobel Laureate Nordhaus, nber.org/reporter/2017n…)
here are many of the best policies to help fix the world, from our study on the best SDG targets, with 50 teams of top economists, and several Nobel Laureates
The longer the line, the better the bang-for-the-buck
copenhagenconsensus.com/post-2015-cons…
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Bjorn Lomborg
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Depressing how climate makes good organizations lose their proportion

Medical organizations claim unsupportably that climate biggest public 21st century *health* challenge

Just obesity kills 409,000 Americans every year
Alcohol kills 88,000 each year

thehill.com/policy/energy-…
Yes, climate change is a problem, but not a catastrophe. UN Climate Panel estimate total impact (not just health) by 2070s equivalent to 0.2-2% reduction in income

These smart organizations (like American Medical Organization) should know better.

climatehealthaction.org/cta/climate-he…
Correct air pollution big killer (not 200K+, but 70-100K)

but about better regulation of power plants, industrial processes & cars, not more renewables

(and even then, much PM2.5 from car tires)

weasely/no link to climate

atmos-chem-phys.net/18/15003/2018/
climatehealthaction.org/media/cta_docs…
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Bjorn Lomborg
@BjornLomborg
Clickbait vs truth:

2018 Nature study shows Tuvalu *increased* in size despite sea level rise and 'will persist for habitation over next century'

Cover of Time with UN Secretary-General in water outside Tuvalu 'Our Sinking Planet'
time.com/longform/sinki…
nature.com/articles/s4146…
Story talks about all the 'vulnerable nations' like Kiribati and the Marshall Islands
Both have seen *increasing* land area

Indeed, lastest meta-overview shows "no atoll exhibited a decrease in land area over the past decades to century"
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10…
How is this possible?
Bc small islands are dynamic:
Storms breaking up surrounding coral, washing up on beach, slightly increasing/rising area
Sea level rise reducing area
(& humans both increasing area and destroying it through destabilization)
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10…
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Bjorn Lomborg
@BjornLomborg
One of the reasons climate alarmism works so well:
When something bad happens, it gets blamed on climate
When nothing bad happens — you don't hear about it

For instance: the US is right now experiencing the lowest amount of drought since 2000
droughtmonitor.unl.edu/Data/DataDownl…
Of course, instead, we're talking about flooding in the Mid-west.
And yes, that is a problem.

But remember, 1) even the US Climate Assessment says that flooding has both increased and decreased, and can't be attributed to climate
p231, science2017.globalchange.gov
2) The fractional cost of US flooding has been decreasing since 1903 from 0.5% of GDP to less than 0.1%
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Just returned from Bangkok, where nations made little progress towards finalising the Paris agreement on climate change that aims to limit global temperature rises over the next 80 years.

It was my first @UN #climate change rodeo and there were a few things I wasn't aware of
Under Paris, countries agreed to a fairly detailed set of promises to keep global temperature rises under 2C by 2100.

It was the first time all nations - both developed and developing economies - signed up to the same set of climate rules. But they weren't binding
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@JesseJenkins
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