In a recent interview with the online Berliner Zeitung (BZ) here, economist Björn Lomborg said that 16-year old Greta Thunberg’s demands “will put people in danger”.
Greta, the Swedish teenage activist is calling for radical cuts in CO2 emissions – on a scale that would have profound impacts on the world’s market system.
Moreover, Lomborg calls the demands immoral. Lomborg says it would be far wiser to invest money in bringing the world’s poor out of grinding poverty rather than to try to mitigate climate change.
Fear-based on 30 years of lies and exaggerations
“Rich countries that tell poor countries not to use fossil energy for the benefit of the environment are acting immorally,” Lomborg told the BZ.
Lomborg also sharply criticized Thunberg, telling BILD news daily: “Greta Thunberg fears the end of the world due to climate change. This fear is the result of three decades of alarmist rhetoric based on exaggerations and lies.”
€43 billion for 0.00001°C of temperature reduction yearly
Lomborg also called Germany’s “Energiewende” – transition to green energies – “the best example of a failed climate policy” which has proven to be “incredibly costly and ineffective.”
“Global warming will be reduced by 0.001 degrees at most by 2100 for 43 billion euros a year,” he told the BZ. Lomborg blames the adults for panicking Ms. Thunberg and using her “to push through an agenda that costs trillions but brings almost no benefits.”
Rather, for the trillions, we will likely get us far graver problems. What a deal.
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Something that the climate change movement always ignores and actually censors is the cost benefit analysis of action on climate change. €43 billion for 0.00001°C of temperature reduction yearly obviously isn’t worth it. Though the exact numbers of other programs such as the Green New Deal would be different, the magnitude is the same. This assumes that the climate models are right. However, they are not. The actual temperature reduction for all of these billions is even lower.
Could we please just dispatch some truth . As bright a bulb as Ms. Thunberg
may be is there are some adults she is fronting who have their own agenda .
AOC also claims the earth is in imminent danger and has less than 12 years .
Now wouldn’t a bar tender with a degree in eco something be even more qualified than a well intentioned 16 year old to advise on tearing down the
the most significant thing (fossil fuel ) to produce the highest standard of life in a billion years ?
What have they got against that ? Sorry kid, a trace gas who’s abundance greens the earth is not driving climate change . Never has, never will .
Greta Thunberg, the mentally deficient Swedish teenager who was allowed to speak before the U.S. Congress, submitted an IPCC report which she said she could not read and did not understand. She wanted everyone to “follow the science.” OK, ……
Do an Internet search for “Swedish Scientist promotes return to CANNIBALISM!! to fight Climate Change” and verify that it is a true statement.
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Swedish+Scientist+promotes+cannibalism+to+fight+climate+change&t=opera&ia=news
Is THIS the “Science” little Greta the GlowBULL Warming Alarmist Oracle wants the world to pursue?