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So now we know the result of the incessant scare campaign on climate for the last 30 years

About half of all people across the world believe humanity will go extinct because of climate!

This is totally against what the UN Climate Panel tells us

yougov.co.uk/topics/science…
By the 2070s, the total cost of climate change will be equivalent to losing 0.2-2% of the average income

By then, we'll be 300-500% richer

This is a problem, not the end-of-the-world

archive.ipcc.ch/pdf/assessment…
Literally, the UN Climate Panel tells us that almost all other challenges will have much greater impact than climate will

like changes in population, age, income, technology, relative prices, lifestyle, regulation and governance

ipcc.ch/site/assets/up…
This all-absorbing and mostly fictional scare has real impacts

It scares kids senseless, as in this new poll where 57% are afraid and 43% helpless
washingtonpost.com/science/most-a…
And it makes adults make really poor decisions

Climate is a real problem and we should tackle it smartly and effectively

But this absurdly exaggerated alarmism is rotting our brains

theglobeandmail.com/opinion/articl…
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Bjorn Lomborg
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Greta right: if you want 1.5°C, you must shut down world in 8 years

But should we? That is a political question, not a science one

Just like science tells us, if you want no traffic deaths, you must set speed limit at 5MPH

Whether you want that world, is a political question
Here is her quote from IPCC: we have about 420Gt CO₂ left for 1.5°C, used in around 2028 — then we have to cut off all fossil fuels

Without 81% of the world's energy, it will be cold, dark & back-breaking

(+half the world will die, bc fossil fertilizer produce 50% of food)
Yes, climate science should inform our decisions

But claiming science dictates our choices is scientism

- equivalent to claiming science dictates a 5MPH speed limit

For a fuller argument, see my replies to Greta's claims in Globe & Mail
theglobeandmail.com/opinion/articl…
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I'm misleading and wrong — because I'm right

(Greta worries climate leads to ever more death, but actually, deaths have "despite rising temperatures but because of less poverty and more resilience" declined 95%)
Then he claims that deaths from heat waves are increasing, but using an unreliable measure from the disaster database (most cold and heat deaths don't become public disasters, there are almost no heat and cold deaths before 1970)
The studies that have actually looked at all cold and heat deaths find that heat deaths are *declining*, because they're easy to prevent, whereas cold deaths are often not, as here from the UK

sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
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Bjorn Lomborg
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Greta Thunberg believes that climate change means "people are dying", but the fact is that the number of deaths due to weather-related disasters has decreased 95% over the past century.
theglobeandmail.com/opinion/articl…
Ever fewer people die from climate-related catastrophes
As population has quadrupled, deaths have dropped 20-fold (this graph)
Death risk from climate down 99% from 1920s (next graph)
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And this is the graph for death risk
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