Bjørn Lomborg

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Bjørn Lomborg (Danish: [ˈpjɶɐ̯ˀn ˈlɔmˌpɒˀ]) is a Danish political scientist and climate change sceptic. He is the former director of the defunct Danish government's Environmental Assessment Institute (EAI) in Copenhagen, now the president of the Copenhagen Consensus Center, a think tank. He became internationally known for his best-selling book The Skeptical Environmentalist (2001). In 2002, Lomborg and the Environmental Assessment Institute founded the Copenhagen Consensus. In his subsequent book, Cool It (2007), and its film adaptation, Lomborg outlined his views on global warming, many of which contradict the scientific consensus on climate change. These views include the claim that the negative impacts are overstated and the opinion that too much emphasis is put on climate change mitigation at the expense of climate change adaptation. Lomborg agrees that global warming is real and man-made and will have a serious impact. In 2004, he was listed as one of Time's 100 most influential...

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