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Bjorn Lomborg: Patient Zero of Climate Denial

Behind the Bastards

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The Bjorn's Tactical Tactics Have Gotten No Better in Recent Years

In 2014, John Stassel asked Bjorn Lumborg how much President Obama's goal of getting 1 million electric cars on the road by 2015 would slow down warming. In 2016, Bjorn's Copenhagen consensus center was paid $640,000 by Australia's education department to help produce report that called limiting world temperature increases to two degrees Celsius a poor use of money. Meanwhile, reducing world trade restrictions through the Doha trade round would yield $2,011 of benefit for every dollar spent. Universal contraception access would return $120 per dollar spent.

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