Uncommon Knowledge with Peter Robinson

Bjorn Lomborg Declares “False Alarm” on Climate Hysteria

AUDIO ONLY This week, a conversation with Bjorn Lomborg, a visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution, the president of the Copenhagen Consensus Center, and one of the foremost climate experts in the world today. His new book, False Alarm: How Climate Change Panic Costs Us Trillions, Hurts the Poor, and Fails to Fix the Planet, 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.

Uncommon Knowledge with Peter Robinson•July 28, 2020
Bjorn Lomborg Declares “False Alarm” on Climate Hysteria

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