Bjorn Lomborg Declares “False Alarm” on Climate Hysteria

<p>Recorded on July 24, 2020 </p> <p> </p> <p>This week, a conversation with <a href='https://www.hoover.org/profiles/bjorn-lomborg-0'>Bjorn Lomborg, a visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution</a>, the president of the <a href='https://www.copenhagenconsensus.com/'>Copenhagen Consensus Center</a>, and one of the foremost climate experts in the world today. His new book, <a href='https://www.amazon.com/False-Alarm-Climate-Change-Trillions/dp/1541647467'>False Alarm: How Climate Change Panic Costs Us Trillions, Hurts the Poor, and Fails to Fix the Planet</a>, is an argument for treating climate as a serious problem but not an extinction-level event requiring such severe and drastic steps as rewiring a large part of the culture and the economy. Bjorn responds directly to some of the most vociferous climate policy critics, including Greta Thunberg, author David Wallace-Wells (The Uninhabitable Earth: Life after Warming), and proponents of the Green New Deal. We also discuss some promising emerging technologies and why worst-case scenarios are often just that—scenarios that are used to motivate the public into action but are not in fact likely to occur. It’s a sobering and even-handed discussion on climate that does not include apocalyptic endings for the planet. </p>