Author of 'Best Things First', 'False Alarm', and 'Skeptical Environmentalist', President Copenhagen Consensus: smart solutions through economic prioritization
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Despite breathless climate reporting,
As we have come to expect from studies of heat and cold, they use unequal scales, which makes heat and cold look about the same
EU climate policy causes high electricity costs
WHO wrongly claimed that 175,000 Europeans die from extreme heat every year
Acid rain scare in the 1980s delivered full-on panic
Official, reef-wide average widely published as the Great Barrier Reef got worse
Not just the New York Times misinforming on heat deaths:
After manipulating their stats, they have the temerity to claim “Misinterpreting statistics could be harmful if it supports a discourse minimizing the importance of climate action”
CO₂ makes world greener
Electric cars: Consumers worry
Cost of climate-related disasters has dropped nearly 5-fold since 1980
Why is cold dangerous?
We actually have good decadal estimates of US burned area from 1900
Germans pay ever more for power
The risk of dying from climate-related disasters has declined 99.4%
The International Energy Agency has gone all-in claiming/hoping that the end of fossil fuels is just around the corner
Data: Fire has burned 𝙡𝙤𝙬𝙚𝙨𝙩 area in Europe in a decade
Apparently, a climatologist claims that the China cold fits with climate change, because we'd expect more extreme cold waves
Lots of people suggest batteries can fix intermittency