#bjorn lomborg

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Bjørn Lomborg

Gender: Male

Sexuality: Gay

DOB: 6 January 1965

Ethnicity: White - Danish

Occupation: Writer, professor, scientist

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[insidewarp]

The Australian wildfires are tragic. But the conversation around them has also been very alarmist. The fires were definitely different in that they have mostly happened in the states of New South Wales (home of Sydney) and Victoria (Melbourne). Here, the fires this year are much larger than they have been in the previous few decades. Indeed, New South Wales may be a record at 4.9 million hectares burnt, although it has seen almost similar sized fires in 1951-52 (more than 4 million hectares) and 1974-75 (4.5 million hectares). Victoria at 1.2 million hectares is also a record for the last decades, but it is vastly smaller than the 1851 Black Thursday fire, which in one day burnt a quarter of Victoria or 5 million hectares. But it is worth looking at the total hectares burnt in Australia, because it shows the absolute size of the problem for Australia. (Clearly, when it is claimed the problem is caused by global warming, one cannot just cherry-pick two states in Australia and ignore the other 87% of the area.)

Bjorn Lomborg

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'Global warming is real - it is man-made and it is an important problem. But it is not the end of the world.' -Bjorn Lomborg | See more daily motivational quotes at Jar of Quotes.

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Has anyone watched the documentary COOL IT? I watched it for class recently and after a bit of fact checking (most of it was reliable but there were a two parts in particular purposefully vague in the beginning of it), I found it incredibly eye-opening about global warming! You should really watch it!

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Bjorn Lomborg

Fewer and fewer people die from climate-related natural disasters. This is clearly opposite of what you normally hear, but that is because we're often just being told of one disaster after another – telling us how *many* events are happening. The number of reported events is increasing, but that is mainly due to better reporting, lower thresholds and better accessibility (the CNN effect).