Danish Government Eliminates Bjorn Lomborg's Funding - Independent

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The world's most high-profile climate change sceptic is set to have his funding scrapped. Bjorn Lomborg, author of The Skeptical Environmentalist and bête noire of climate change activists around the world, has been told that the incoming Danish government will cut off his £1m a year funding.

Mr Lomborg, whose 2001 book suggested the planet should adapt to global warming rather than wasting resources trying to prevent it, has made his name by accusing scientists and others of exaggerating the extent and effects of climate change.

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Mr Lomborg has denied in the past that the 2010 book represented a volte-face. He was, he says, never a climate-change denier. Rather, he was hostile to governments' "bogus promises" to cut carbon emissions.

In his own words

"Climate change will not cause massive disruptions or huge death tolls. Actually, for the world in general, the direct impact of climate change in 2050 will mean fewer dead, and not by a small amount."

"We have looked extensively at what we can do about global warming. It turns out that we can do fairly little at fairly high costs."

"Many other issues are more important than global warming. We need to get our perspective back."

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http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/climate-change/worlds-leading-climate-sceptic-sees-his-funding-melt-away-fast-2362056.html

[GliderGuider]

1. It's about f'ing time.

:grr:

[Kolesar]

2. He got public money?

What a scandal.

[phantom power]

3. ....

:rofl:

[Betty Karlson]

4. Edit: deleted. n/t