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You would imagine these 11,000 scientists at least were able to put together a coherent argument for why there is "an emergency"
They don't — they just ramble what seems like 1970s limits-to-growth thoughts
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It is sad
bbc.com/news/science-e…
They show some graphs and literally worry about how people are being better off

The crucial graphs are just "linked at least in part to climate change"

Can't make this up
Compare scientists' concerns with people who are actually faced with the world's big problems

From the largest UN poll of global priorities: of almost 10m people, they — not surprisingly — care about education, health, jobs, no corruption and nutrition

data.myworld2015.org
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Bjorn Lomborg
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So, Denmark just passed its new climate law with everyone cheering

But no estimate of costs: Truth is, additional cost is 1-6% of GDP (>$120bn)

No estimates of benefits: Truth is, it will cut temperature in 2100 by a ten-thousandth of a degree Celsius

Nothing to celebrate
No official estimates. Costs estimated using Stanford Energy Modeling forum EMF28, and RICE

Temp benefit of 0.00001°C from UN standard estimate 1000GtCO₂=0.45°C, also from UN climate model MAGICC run

worldscientific.com/doi/abs/10.114…
google.com/books/edition/…
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Notice, this is only an estimate of the cost of the recent climate policies (i.e. going to 70% in 2030) and their increase in climate impacts,
here from my Danish article
berlingske.dk/kronikker/bjoe….
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Bjorn Lomborg
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Extreme weather not killing more

Each climate conference day, let's see the data

Today cold hazard:

Fewer people die from cold hazard, not more (because of higher wealth and resilience)

From this new peer-reviewed article:
sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
And tomorrow we'll see the heat wave impacts (also down!)
Everyone keeps saying extreme weather is having a greater impact. For every day of the climate conference, let's see how this is wrong
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Bjorn Lomborg
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The untruth that keeps coming back: global warming will be much costlier because of extreme weather: it will cost us 2.5%-7.5% just at 2°C

bloomberg.com/amp/news/artic…
Can we just realize that the global GDP cost of climate events has *decreased*, not increased
And is 'just' 0.26% down to 0.19%
graph updated from tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…
And that costs from pretty much *all* areas are declining across the world
sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
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