After what seems like an uncharacteristic lull in recycled opeds, Bjorn Lomborg is back with a piece in the Wall Street Journal where he advocates, yet again, for inaction on climate. (Unsurprisingly, Daily Caller was quick to publish a story about the oped.)
Why anyone takes Lomborg seriously after being so thoroughly debunked by a full length book and formally criticized by the Danish government for his "perversion of the scientific method" would be a good question, if it weren't for the fact that everyone knows the answer—people take him seriously because he serves their purpose of stalling action.
So in this most recent piece, he trots out the usual distortions saying the past 15 years haven't warmed as much as expected; sea level rise isn't so bad; and of course the distortion where he expresses faux concern for the poor, arguing we need to worry about pulling people out of poverty instead of cutting carbon emissions (which, of course, wrongly assumes the two are mutually exclusive). For a full rebuttal of Bjorn's blunders,see DeSmog and Greg Laden.
But this is a man who got paid $775,000to run the Copenhagen Consensus Center, which is actually just a P.O. Box in Lowell, Massachusetts. So not only does he habitually fudge the facts on climate, he also gets away with running a million-dollar Consensus Center out of a "Neighborhood Parcel Shipping Center."
To his credit, the shipping center IS a center, at least in name.
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