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Bjørn Lomborg

January 01, 1970

Bjørn Lomborg (Danish: [ˈpjɶɐ̯ˀn ˈlɔmˌpɒˀ]; born 6 January 1965) is a Danish author and the president of the think tank Copenhagen Consensus Center. He is the former director of the Danish government's Environmental Assessment Institute (EAI) in Copenhagen. He became internationally known for his best-selling book The Skeptical Environmentalist (2001).[1]

Bjørn Lomborg
Bjørn Lomborg
Born (1965-01-06) 6 January 1965 (age 59)
Frederiksberg, Denmark
Alma mater
Occupation(s)Author, professor, visiting professor, think tank director
Scientific career
FieldsPolitical science, environmental economics
InstitutionsAarhus University, Environmental Assessment Institute, Hoover Institution, Copenhagen Consensus Center
ThesisSimulating social science: the iterated prisoner's dilemma and computer simulations in political science (1994)
Websitelomborg.com

This book's claim that many environmental issues are overstated was criticized by the scientific community and brought Lomborg popular media attention. In 2002, Lomborg and the Environmental Assessment Institute founded the Copenhagen Consensus. In 2004, he was listed as one of Time's 100 most influential people.

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 but enumerates other disagreements with the scientific consensus.[2] In 2009, Business Insider cited Lomborg as one of "The 10 Most-Respected Global Warming Skeptics".[3]

Lomborg's views and work have attracted scrutiny from the scientific community.[4][5][6] The majority of scientists reacted negatively to The Skeptical Environmentalist,[7] and he was formally accused of scientific misconduct over the book; the Danish Committees on Scientific Dishonesty concluded in an evaluation of the book that "one couldn't prove that Lomborg had deliberately been scientifically dishonest, although he had broken the rules of scientific practice in that he interpreted results beyond the conclusions of the authors he cited."[8] His positions on climate change have been challenged by experts and characterized as cherry picking.[6][9]

Education edit

Lomborg was an undergraduate at the University of Georgia, earned an M.A. degree in political science at the Aarhus University in 1991, and a PhD degree in political science at the University of Copenhagen in 1994.[10][11]

Career edit

Lomborg lectured in statistics in the Department of Political Science at the Aarhus University as an assistant professor (1994–1996) and associate professor (1997–2005). He left the university in February 2005 and in May of that year became an adjunct professor in Policy-making, Scientific Knowledge and the Role of Experts at the Department of Management, Politics and Philosophy, Copenhagen Business School.[12]

Early in his career, his professional areas of interest lay in the simulation of strategies in collective action dilemmas, simulation of party behavior in proportional voting systems, and the use of surveys in public administration.[13] In 1996, Lomborg's paper, "Nucleus and Shield: Evolution of Social Structure in the Iterated Prisoner's Dilemma", was published in the academic journal American Sociological Review.[14]

Later, Lomborg's interests shifted to the use of statistics in the environmental arena. In 1998, Lomborg published four essays about the state of the environment in the leading Danish newspaper Politiken, which according to him "resulted in a firestorm debate spanning over 400 articles in major metropolitan newspapers."[15][non-primary source needed] This led to the Skeptical Environmentalist, whose English translation was published as a work in environmental economics by Cambridge University Press in 2001. The book brought him international prominence as an opponent of the scientific consensus on climate change.[16] He later edited Global Crises, Global Solutions, which presented the first conclusions of the Copenhagen Consensus, published in 2004 by the Cambridge University Press. In 2007, he authored a book entitled Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist's Guide to Global Warming.[16]

 
Lomborg speaking at the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship, London, 2023

In March 2002, the newly elected center-right prime minister, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, appointed Lomborg to run Denmark's new Environmental Assessment Institute (EAI). On 22 June 2004, Lomborg announced his decision to resign from this post to go back to the Aarhus University,[17] saying his work at the Institute was done and that he could better serve the public debate from the academic sector. As of 2020, Lomborg is a visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution, a conservative think tank.[18] In 2023 he was a mainstage speaker at the inaugural Alliance for Responsible Citizenship

Books edit

The Skeptical Environmentalist edit

Main article: The Skeptical Environmentalist

In 2001, he attained significant attention by publishing The Skeptical Environmentalist, a controversial book whose main thesis is that many of the most-publicized claims and predictions on environmental issues are wrong. The book received negative reviews among the scientific community, including from the Union of Concerned Scientists, Nature and Scientific American, with many scientists criticising its assertions as poorly supported, selectively using data and misrepresenting sources. However, it was well received in popular media and brought Lomborg to international attention.[7]

Formal accusations of scientific dishonesty edit

After the publication of The Skeptical Environmentalist, Lomborg was formally accused of scientific dishonesty by a group of environmental scientists, who brought a total of three complaints against him to the Danish Committees on Scientific Dishonesty (DCSD), a body under Denmark's Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation (MSTI). Lomborg was asked whether he regarded the book as a "debate" publication, and thereby not under the purview of the DCSD, or as a scientific work; he chose the latter, clearing the way for the inquiry that followed.[8] The charges claimed that The Skeptical Environmentalist contained deliberately misleading data and flawed conclusions. Due to the similarity of the complaints, the DCSD decided to proceed on the three cases under one investigation.

In January 2003, the DCSD released a ruling that sent a mixed message, finding the book to be scientifically dishonest through misrepresentation of scientific facts, but Lomborg himself not guilty due to his lack of expertise in the fields in question.[19] That February, Lomborg filed a complaint against the decision with the MSTI, which had oversight over the DCSD. In December, 2003, the Ministry annulled the DCSD decision, citing procedural errors, including lack of documentation of errors in the book, and asked the DCSD to re-examine the case. In March 2004, the DCSD formally decided not to act further on the complaints, reasoning that renewed scrutiny would, in all likelihood, result in the same conclusion.[8][20]

The original DCSD decision about Lomborg provoked a petition[21] signed by 287 Danish academics, primarily social scientists, who criticized the DCSD for evaluating the book as a work of science, whereas the petitioners considered it clearly an opinion piece by a non-scientist.[22][23] The Danish Minister of Science, Technology, and Innovation then asked the Danish Research Agency (DRA) to form an independent working group to review DCSD practices.[24] In response to this, another group of Danish scientists collected over 600 signatures, primarily from the medical and natural sciences community, to support the continued existence of the DCSD and presented their petition to the DRA.[22]

Cool It edit

Main article: Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist's Guide to Global Warming

Lomborg's follow-up to The Skeptical Environmentalist, Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist's Guide to Global Warming, was published in 2007. In it, Lomborg expanded on his views of climate change.[25] Lomborg starts with the premise "Global warming is real and man-made. It will have a serious impact on humans and the environment toward the end of this century."[2] Lomborg argues at length that warming will result in reducing total deaths from extreme temperatures, due to warming in cold climates.[16] The main theme is that then-current approaches for addressing climate change, such as the Kyoto Protocol on reducing greenhouse gas emissions, were not economically cost-effective.[16]

The Lomborg Deception, a 2010 Yale University Press book by Howard Friel, analyzed the ways in which Lomborg has "selectively used (and sometimes distorted) the available evidence",[5] and alleged that the sources Lomborg provided in the footnotes did not support and, in some cases directly contradicted, Lomborg's assertions in the text of the book.[26] Lomborg denied those claims in a 27-page argument-by-argument response.[27] Friel wrote a reply to that response, in which he admitted two errors but otherwise rejected Lomborg's arguments.[28]

Documentary film edit

Main article: Cool It (film)

Bjørn Lomborg was the subject of documentary feature film Cool It, adapted from his book of the same name. It was released on 12 November 2010 in the US.[29][30] The film in part explicitly challenged Al Gore's 2006 Oscar-winning environmental awareness documentary, An Inconvenient Truth."[31][32] The film received a media critic collective rating of 51% from Rotten Tomatoes[33] and 61% from Metacritic.[34]

Copenhagen Consensus edit

 
Lomborg (right) with DeAnne Julius (center) and Stephen Sackur (left), at WTTC Global Summit 2014

Lomborg and the Environmental Assessment Institute founded the Copenhagen Consensus in 2002, which seeks to establish priorities for advancing global welfare using methodologies based on the theory of welfare economics. A panel of prominent economists was assembled to evaluate and rank a series of problems every four years. The project was funded largely by the Danish government and was co-sponsored by The Economist. A book summarizing the conclusions of the economists' first assessment, Global Crises, Global Solutions, edited by Lomborg, was published in October 2004 by Cambridge University Press.

In 2006, Lomborg became director of the newly established Copenhagen Consensus Center, a Danish government-funded institute intended to build on the mandate of the EAI, and expand on the original Copenhagen Consensus conference.[35] Denmark withdrew its funding in 2012 and the Center faced imminent closure.[36][37] Lomborg left the country and reconstituted the Center as a non-profit organization in the United States.[38][39] The Center was based out of a "Neighborhood Parcel Shipping Center" in Lowell, Massachusetts, though Lomborg himself was based in Prague in the Czech Republic.[40] In 2015, Lomborg described the center's funding as "a little more than $1m a year ... from private donations",[37] of which Lomborg himself was paid $775,000 in 2012.[40]

Australian Consensus Centre edit

In 2014, the Australian Government offered the University of Western Australia $4 million to establish a "consensus centre", with Lomborg as director. The university accepted the offer, setting off a firestorm of opposition from its faculty and students, and from climate scientists around the world. In April 2015, the university reversed the decision and rejected the offer. The government continued to seek a sponsor for the proposed institution.[41] On 21 October 2015, the offered funding was withdrawn. In April 2015, it was announced that an alliance between the Copenhagen Consensus Center and the University of Western Australia would see the establishment of the Australian Consensus Centre, a new policy research center at the UWA Business School. The University described the Center's goals as a "focus on applying an economic lens to proposals to achieve good for Australia, the region and the world, prioritizing those initiatives which produce the most social value per dollar spent.".[42] This appointment came under intense scrutiny, particularly when leaked documents revealed that the Australian government had approached UWA and offered to fund the Consensus Centre, information subsequently confirmed by a senior UWA lecturer.[43] Reports indicated that Prime Minister Tony Abbott's office was directly responsible for Lomborg's elevation.[44] $4 million of the total funding for the Center was to be provided by the Australian federal government,[37] with UWA not contributing any funding for the centre.[45]

On 8 May 2015, UWA cancelled the contract for hosting the Australian Consensus Centre as "the proposed centre was untenable and lacked academic support".[46][47][48] The Australian federal education minister, Christopher Pyne, said that he would find another university to host the ACC.

In July 2015, Flinders University senior management began quietly canvassing its staff about a plan to host the renamed Lomborg Consensus Centre at the University, likely in the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences. A week later the story was broken on Twitter by the NTEU (National Tertiary Education Union)[49] and Scott Ludlam.[50] The story appeared the next day in The Australian,[51] but described as "academic conversations" with no mention of Bjorn Lomborg's involvement and portrayed as a grassroots desire for the Centre by the University.[52] The following week, a story appeared in The Guardian quoting two Flinders University academics and an internal document demonstrating staff's withering rejection of the idea.[53] Flinders staff and students vowed to fight against the establishment of any Centre or any partnership with Lomborg,[54] citing his lack of scientific credibility, his lack of academic legitimacy and the political nature of the process of establishing the Centre with the Abbott federal government. The Australian Youth Climate Coalition and 350.org launched a national campaign to support staff and students in their rejection of Lomborg.[55]

On 21 October 2015, education minister Simon Birmingham told a senate committee the offered funding had been withdrawn.[48] It was subsequently unclear whether the Australian Government would honour its original commitment and transfer the funds directly to the Centre to cover the costs incurred.

Views on climate change edit

 
Visualisation of the global warming "hiatus", which Lomborg highlighted in the 2010s.[56]

Lomborg has set out his views on climate change in several books, articles, interviews, and opinion pieces.[57][58][59][60] Lomborg believes that climate change is occurring and humans are responsible, but disputes that the effects and economic impacts will be negative. He argues that finances should be spent elsewhere, rather than on mitigation.[56][16] He does not support solar panels, saying they are "inefficient", which is "why you have to subsidise them", despite fossil fuels also being subsidized.[56] According to Reuters, "many nations, especially in the developing world where food and water supplies are most vulnerable to climate shifts projected by the U.N. panel of climate scientists, reject Lomborg’s views" that investment into technology is an adequate response to climate change.[61] He has opposed the Kyoto Protocol[62][16] and called the Paris Agreement a "charade".[63] He has been accused of exaggerating the economic costs of climate change mitigation policies.[9][64]

Several of Lomborg's articles, in newspapers such as The Wall Street Journal and The Daily Telegraph, have been checked by Climate Feedback, a worldwide network of scientists who assess the credibility of influential climate change media coverage. The Climate Feedback reviewers assessed that the scientific credibility of the articles ranged between "low" and "very low". The Climate Feedback reviewers came to the conclusion that in one case, Lomborg "practices cherry picking";[6] in a second case, he "had reached his conclusions through cherry-picking from a small subset of the evidence, misrepresenting the results of existing studies, and relying on flawed reasoning";[65] in a third case, "[his] article [is in] blatant disagreement with available scientific evidence, while the author does not offer adequate evidence to support his statements";[66] and in a fourth case, "The author, Bjorn Lomborg, cherry-picks this specific piece of research and uses it in support of a broad argument against the value of climate policy. He also misrepresents the Paris Agreement to downplay its potential to curb future climate change."[67]

Personal life edit

Lomborg is gay and a vegetarian.[68] As a public figure he has been a participant in information campaigns in Denmark about homosexuality, and states that "Being a public gay is to my view a civic responsibility. It's important to show that the width of the gay world cannot be described by a tired stereotype, but goes from leather gays on parade-wagons to suit-and-tie yuppies on the direction floor, as well as everything in between".[69]

Recognition and awards edit

Discussions in the media edit

After the release of The Skeptical Environmentalist in 2001, Lomborg was subjected to intense scrutiny and criticism in the media. As in the scientific community, his scientific qualifications and integrity were criticized, although some popular media outlets supported him.[7] The verdict of the Danish Committees for Scientific Dishonesty fueled this debate and brought it into the spotlight of international mass media. By the end of 2003 Lomborg had become an international celebrity, with frequent appearances on radio, television and print media around the world. He is also a regular contributor to Project Syndicate since 2005.

  • Scientific American published criticism of Lomborg's book. Lomborg responded on his own website, quoting the article at such length that Scientific American threatened to sue for copyright infringement. Lomborg eventually removed the rebuttal from his website; it was later published in PDF format on Scientific American's site.[78] The magazine also printed a response to the rebuttal.[79]
  • The Economist defended Lomborg, claiming the panel of experts that had criticized Lomborg in Scientific American was both biased and did not actually counter Lomborg's book. The Economist argued that the panel's opinion had come under no scrutiny at all, and that Lomborg's responses had not been reported.[80]
  • Penn & Teller: Bullshit! — the U.S. Showtime television programme featured an episode entitled "Environmental Hysteria" in which Lomborg criticized what he claimed was environmentalists' refusal to accept a cost–benefit analysis of environmental questions, and stressed the need to prioritise some issues above others.[81]
  • Rolling Stone stated, "Lomborg pulls off the remarkable feat of welding the techno-optimism of the Internet age with a lefty's concern for the fate of the planet."[82]
  • The Union of Concerned Scientists criticized The Skeptical Environmentalist, claiming it to be "seriously flawed and failing to meet basic standards of credible scientific analysis", accusing Lomborg of presenting data in a fraudulent way, using flawed logic and selectively citing non-peer-reviewed literature.[4] The review was conducted by Peter Gleick, Jerry D. Mahlman, Edward O. Wilson, Thomas Lovejoy, Norman Myers, Jeff Harvey, and Stuart Pimm.
  • The New York Times criticized False Alarm, stating "This book proves the aphorism that a little knowledge is dangerous. It's nominally about air pollution. It's really about mind pollution." The review was conducted by Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz.[83]

Publications edit

  • "Nucleus and Shield: Evolution of Social Structure in the Iterated Prisoner's Dilemma", American Sociological Review, 1996.
  • The Skeptical Environmentalist: Measuring the Real State of the World. Cambridge University Press. 2001. ISBN 0521010683.
  • Global Crises, Global Solutions, Copenhagen Consensus, Cambridge University Press, 2004. ISBN 0521606144, as editor
  • How to Spend $50 Billion to Make the World a Better Place, Cambridge University Press, 2006. ISBN 978-0521685719, as editor
  • Solutions for the World's Biggest Problems – Costs and Benefits, Cambridge University Press, 2007. ISBN 978-0521715973, as editor
  • Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist's Guide to Global Warming. Knopf Doubleday. 2007. ISBN 978-0307267795.
  • Smart Solutions to Climate Change, Comparing Costs and Benefits, Cambridge University Press, 2010, ISBN 978-0521763424.[84][85]
  • The Nobel Laureates Guide to the Smartest Targets for the World 2016–2030, Copenhagen Consensus Center, 2015. ISBN 978-1940003115
  • Prioritizing Development: A Cost Benefit Analysis of the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals Cambridge University Press, 2018, ISBN 1108415458, as editor
  • False Alarm: How Climate Change Panic Costs Us Trillions, Hurts the Poor, and Fails to Fix the Planet. Basic Books. 2020. ISBN 978-1541647480.
  • "Thinking Smartly About Climate Change". Imprimis. 52 (4/5). Hillsdale, MI: Hillsdale College: 1–7. April–May 2023. ISSN 0277-8432.
  • Best Things First: The 12 Most Efficient Solutions for the World's Poorest and Our Global SDG Promises, Copenhagen Consensus Center, 2023. ISBN 978-1940003481

See also edit

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  84. ^ Jowit, Juliette (30 August 2010). "Bjørn Lomborg: $100bn a year needed to fight climate change". The Guardian. Retrieved 10 June 2019. Although Pachauri once compared Lomborg to Hitler, he has now given an unlikely endorsement to the new book, Smart Solutions to Climate Change.
  85. ^ McKibben, Bill (7 April 2011). "Resisting Climate Reality". The New York Review of Books. Retrieved 10 June 2019.

Further reading edit

  • Sarvis, Will. Embracing Philanthropic Environmentalism: The Grand Responsibility of Stewardship, (McFarland, 2019).
  • Schneider, Stephen; Holdren, John P.; Bongaarts, John; Lovejoy, Thomas (January 2002). (PDF). Scientific American. Vol. 286, no. 1. pp. 61–71. Archived from the original (PDF) on 25 September 2020. Retrieved 10 June 2019 – via University of Texas at Austin.
  • Wade, Nichola (7 August 2001). "From an Unlikely Quarter, Eco-Optimism". The New York Times.

External links edit

 
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Bjørn Lomborg.
  • Lomborg's personal website, with own articles, links to related broadcasts on radio and TV, and Lomborg's opinion on the issues with the Danish Committees on Scientific Dishonesty
  • Column archive at The Guardian
  • Column archive at Project Syndicate
  • Bjørn Lomborg at TED  
  • Appearances on C-SPAN
  • Bjørn Lomborg at IMDb
  • "Lomborg Errors" compilation of claims of errors in Lomborg's work
  • Bjørn Lomborg collected news and commentary at The New York Times
  • Bjørn Lomborg publications indexed by Google Scholar
Interviews
  • Reiss, Spencer (1 June 2004). "You Can Cure Aids. Or End Hunger. Choose". Wired.
  • Kiil, Lennart (23 November 2007). . ZenSci. Archived from the original on 9 May 2008.
  • Trauzzi, Monica (12 December 2007). "Skeptical enviro Bjorn Lomborg discusses post-Kyoto roadmap, calls Kyoto "feel good strategy"". E&E TV.
Articles
  • "A skeptical look at 'The Skeptical Environmentalist'". Grist. 12 December 2001.
  • . HAN website. Archived from the original on 7 February 2005.
  • Norton, Jim. . Info-pollution.com. Archived from the original on 9 June 2002.
  • Fisher, Richard M. (December 2002). "Review: 'The Skeptical Environmentalist', Measuring The Real State of the World". Skeptical Inquirer. Vol. 26, no. 6.
  • Wilson, Edward O. (12 December 2001). "On Bjorn Lomborg and extinction". Grist.
  • Ridley, Matt. (PDF). Lomborg.com. Archived from the original (PDF) on 21 February 2006.
  • Lomborg, Bjørn (23 April 2012). "An Economic Approach to the Environment". The Wall Street Journal.
  • Lomborg, Bjørn (28 September 2012). . Foreign Policy. Archived from the original on 12 October 2014. Retrieved 5 March 2017.

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This biography of a living person relies too much on references to primary sources Please help by adding secondary or tertiary sources Contentious material about living persons that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately especially if potentially libelous or harmful Find sources Bjorn Lomborg news newspapers books scholar JSTOR September 2022 Learn how and when to remove this message Bjorn Lomborg Danish ˈpjɶɐ ˀn ˈlɔmˌpɒˀ born 6 January 1965 is a Danish author and the president of the think tank Copenhagen Consensus Center He is the former director of the Danish government s Environmental Assessment Institute EAI in Copenhagen He became internationally known for his best selling book The Skeptical Environmentalist 2001 1 Bjorn LomborgBjorn LomborgBorn 1965 01 06 6 January 1965 age 59 Frederiksberg DenmarkAlma materUniversity of GeorgiaAarhus University MA University of Copenhagen PhD Occupation s Author professor visiting professor think tank directorScientific careerFieldsPolitical science environmental economicsInstitutionsAarhus University Environmental Assessment Institute Hoover Institution Copenhagen Consensus CenterThesisSimulating social science the iterated prisoner s dilemma and computer simulations in political science 1994 Websitelomborg wbr com This book s claim that many environmental issues are overstated was criticized by the scientific community and brought Lomborg popular media attention In 2002 Lomborg and the Environmental Assessment Institute founded the Copenhagen Consensus In 2004 he was listed as one of Time s 100 most influential people 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 but enumerates other disagreements with the scientific consensus 2 In 2009 Business Insider cited Lomborg as one of The 10 Most Respected Global Warming Skeptics 3 Lomborg s views and work have attracted scrutiny from the scientific community 4 5 6 The majority of scientists reacted negatively to The Skeptical Environmentalist 7 and he was formally accused of scientific misconduct over the book the Danish Committees on Scientific Dishonesty concluded in an evaluation of the book that one couldn t prove that Lomborg had deliberately been scientifically dishonest although he had broken the rules of scientific practice in that he interpreted results beyond the conclusions of the authors he cited 8 His positions on climate change have been challenged by experts and characterized as cherry picking 6 9 Contents 1 Education 2 Career 3 Books 3 1 The Skeptical Environmentalist 3 1 1 Formal accusations of scientific dishonesty 3 2 Cool It 3 2 1 Documentary film 4 Copenhagen Consensus 4 1 Australian Consensus Centre 5 Views on climate change 6 Personal life 7 Recognition and awards 8 Discussions in the media 9 Publications 10 See also 11 References 12 Further reading 13 External linksEducation editLomborg was an undergraduate at the University of Georgia earned an M A degree in political science at the Aarhus University in 1991 and a PhD degree in political science at the University of Copenhagen in 1994 10 11 Career editLomborg lectured in statistics in the Department of Political Science at the Aarhus University as an assistant professor 1994 1996 and associate professor 1997 2005 He left the university in February 2005 and in May of that year became an adjunct professor in Policy making Scientific Knowledge and the Role of Experts at the Department of Management Politics and Philosophy Copenhagen Business School 12 Early in his career his professional areas of interest lay in the simulation of strategies in collective action dilemmas simulation of party behavior in proportional voting systems and the use of surveys in public administration 13 In 1996 Lomborg s paper Nucleus and Shield Evolution of Social Structure in the Iterated Prisoner s Dilemma was published in the academic journal American Sociological Review 14 Later Lomborg s interests shifted to the use of statistics in the environmental arena In 1998 Lomborg published four essays about the state of the environment in the leading Danish newspaper Politiken which according to him resulted in a firestorm debate spanning over 400 articles in major metropolitan newspapers 15 non primary source needed This led to the Skeptical Environmentalist whose English translation was published as a work in environmental economics by Cambridge University Press in 2001 The book brought him international prominence as an opponent of the scientific consensus on climate change 16 He later edited Global Crises Global Solutions which presented the first conclusions of the Copenhagen Consensus published in 2004 by the Cambridge University Press In 2007 he authored a book entitled Cool It The Skeptical Environmentalist s Guide to Global Warming 16 nbsp Lomborg speaking at the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship London 2023 In March 2002 the newly elected center right prime minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen appointed Lomborg to run Denmark s new Environmental Assessment Institute EAI On 22 June 2004 Lomborg announced his decision to resign from this post to go back to the Aarhus University 17 saying his work at the Institute was done and that he could better serve the public debate from the academic sector As of 2020 Lomborg is a visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution a conservative think tank 18 In 2023 he was a mainstage speaker at the inaugural Alliance for Responsible CitizenshipBooks editThe Skeptical Environmentalist edit Main article The Skeptical Environmentalist In 2001 he attained significant attention by publishing The Skeptical Environmentalist a controversial book whose main thesis is that many of the most publicized claims and predictions on environmental issues are wrong The book received negative reviews among the scientific community including from the Union of Concerned Scientists Nature and Scientific American with many scientists criticising its assertions as poorly supported selectively using data and misrepresenting sources However it was well received in popular media and brought Lomborg to international attention 7 Formal accusations of scientific dishonesty edit After the publication of The Skeptical Environmentalist Lomborg was formally accused of scientific dishonesty by a group of environmental scientists who brought a total of three complaints against him to the Danish Committees on Scientific Dishonesty DCSD a body under Denmark s Ministry of Science Technology and Innovation MSTI Lomborg was asked whether he regarded the book as a debate publication and thereby not under the purview of the DCSD or as a scientific work he chose the latter clearing the way for the inquiry that followed 8 The charges claimed that The Skeptical Environmentalist contained deliberately misleading data and flawed conclusions Due to the similarity of the complaints the DCSD decided to proceed on the three cases under one investigation In January 2003 the DCSD released a ruling that sent a mixed message finding the book to be scientifically dishonest through misrepresentation of scientific facts but Lomborg himself not guilty due to his lack of expertise in the fields in question 19 That February Lomborg filed a complaint against the decision with the MSTI which had oversight over the DCSD In December 2003 the Ministry annulled the DCSD decision citing procedural errors including lack of documentation of errors in the book and asked the DCSD to re examine the case In March 2004 the DCSD formally decided not to act further on the complaints reasoning that renewed scrutiny would in all likelihood result in the same conclusion 8 20 The original DCSD decision about Lomborg provoked a petition 21 signed by 287 Danish academics primarily social scientists who criticized the DCSD for evaluating the book as a work of science whereas the petitioners considered it clearly an opinion piece by a non scientist 22 23 The Danish Minister of Science Technology and Innovation then asked the Danish Research Agency DRA to form an independent working group to review DCSD practices 24 In response to this another group of Danish scientists collected over 600 signatures primarily from the medical and natural sciences community to support the continued existence of the DCSD and presented their petition to the DRA 22 Cool It edit Main article Cool It The Skeptical Environmentalist s Guide to Global Warming Lomborg s follow up to The Skeptical Environmentalist Cool It The Skeptical Environmentalist s Guide to Global Warming was published in 2007 In it Lomborg expanded on his views of climate change 25 Lomborg starts with the premise Global warming is real and man made It will have a serious impact on humans and the environment toward the end of this century 2 Lomborg argues at length that warming will result in reducing total deaths from extreme temperatures due to warming in cold climates 16 The main theme is that then current approaches for addressing climate change such as the Kyoto Protocol on reducing greenhouse gas emissions were not economically cost effective 16 The Lomborg Deception a 2010 Yale University Press book by Howard Friel analyzed the ways in which Lomborg has selectively used and sometimes distorted the available evidence 5 and alleged that the sources Lomborg provided in the footnotes did not support and in some cases directly contradicted Lomborg s assertions in the text of the book 26 Lomborg denied those claims in a 27 page argument by argument response 27 Friel wrote a reply to that response in which he admitted two errors but otherwise rejected Lomborg s arguments 28 Documentary film edit Main article Cool It film Bjorn Lomborg was the subject of documentary feature film Cool It adapted from his book of the same name It was released on 12 November 2010 in the US 29 30 The film in part explicitly challenged Al Gore s 2006 Oscar winning environmental awareness documentary An Inconvenient Truth 31 32 The film received a media critic collective rating of 51 from Rotten Tomatoes 33 and 61 from Metacritic 34 Copenhagen Consensus edit nbsp Lomborg right with DeAnne Julius center and Stephen Sackur left at WTTC Global Summit 2014 Lomborg and the Environmental Assessment Institute founded the Copenhagen Consensus in 2002 which seeks to establish priorities for advancing global welfare using methodologies based on the theory of welfare economics A panel of prominent economists was assembled to evaluate and rank a series of problems every four years The project was funded largely by the Danish government and was co sponsored by The Economist A book summarizing the conclusions of the economists first assessment Global Crises Global Solutions edited by Lomborg was published in October 2004 by Cambridge University Press In 2006 Lomborg became director of the newly established Copenhagen Consensus Center a Danish government funded institute intended to build on the mandate of the EAI and expand on the original Copenhagen Consensus conference 35 Denmark withdrew its funding in 2012 and the Center faced imminent closure 36 37 Lomborg left the country and reconstituted the Center as a non profit organization in the United States 38 39 The Center was based out of a Neighborhood Parcel Shipping Center in Lowell Massachusetts though Lomborg himself was based in Prague in the Czech Republic 40 In 2015 Lomborg described the center s funding as a little more than 1m a year from private donations 37 of which Lomborg himself was paid 775 000 in 2012 40 Australian Consensus Centre edit In 2014 the Australian Government offered the University of Western Australia 4 million to establish a consensus centre with Lomborg as director The university accepted the offer setting off a firestorm of opposition from its faculty and students and from climate scientists around the world In April 2015 the university reversed the decision and rejected the offer The government continued to seek a sponsor for the proposed institution 41 On 21 October 2015 the offered funding was withdrawn In April 2015 it was announced that an alliance between the Copenhagen Consensus Center and the University of Western Australia would see the establishment of the Australian Consensus Centre a new policy research center at the UWA Business School The University described the Center s goals as a focus on applying an economic lens to proposals to achieve good for Australia the region and the world prioritizing those initiatives which produce the most social value per dollar spent 42 This appointment came under intense scrutiny particularly when leaked documents revealed that the Australian government had approached UWA and offered to fund the Consensus Centre information subsequently confirmed by a senior UWA lecturer 43 Reports indicated that Prime Minister Tony Abbott s office was directly responsible for Lomborg s elevation 44 4 million of the total funding for the Center was to be provided by the Australian federal government 37 with UWA not contributing any funding for the centre 45 On 8 May 2015 UWA cancelled the contract for hosting the Australian Consensus Centre as the proposed centre was untenable and lacked academic support 46 47 48 The Australian federal education minister Christopher Pyne said that he would find another university to host the ACC In July 2015 Flinders University senior management began quietly canvassing its staff about a plan to host the renamed Lomborg Consensus Centre at the University likely in the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences A week later the story was broken on Twitter by the NTEU National Tertiary Education Union 49 and Scott Ludlam 50 The story appeared the next day in The Australian 51 but described as academic conversations with no mention of Bjorn Lomborg s involvement and portrayed as a grassroots desire for the Centre by the University 52 The following week a story appeared in The Guardian quoting two Flinders University academics and an internal document demonstrating staff s withering rejection of the idea 53 Flinders staff and students vowed to fight against the establishment of any Centre or any partnership with Lomborg 54 citing his lack of scientific credibility his lack of academic legitimacy and the political nature of the process of establishing the Centre with the Abbott federal government The Australian Youth Climate Coalition and 350 org launched a national campaign to support staff and students in their rejection of Lomborg 55 On 21 October 2015 education minister Simon Birmingham told a senate committee the offered funding had been withdrawn 48 It was subsequently unclear whether the Australian Government would honour its original commitment and transfer the funds directly to the Centre to cover the costs incurred Views on climate change edit nbsp Visualisation of the global warming hiatus which Lomborg highlighted in the 2010s 56 Lomborg has set out his views on climate change in several books articles interviews and opinion pieces 57 58 59 60 Lomborg believes that climate change is occurring and humans are responsible but disputes that the effects and economic impacts will be negative He argues that finances should be spent elsewhere rather than on mitigation 56 16 He does not support solar panels saying they are inefficient which is why you have to subsidise them despite fossil fuels also being subsidized 56 According to Reuters many nations especially in the developing world where food and water supplies are most vulnerable to climate shifts projected by the U N panel of climate scientists reject Lomborg s views that investment into technology is an adequate response to climate change 61 He has opposed the Kyoto Protocol 62 16 and called the Paris Agreement a charade 63 He has been accused of exaggerating the economic costs of climate change mitigation policies 9 64 Several of Lomborg s articles in newspapers such as The Wall Street Journal and The Daily Telegraph have been checked by Climate Feedback a worldwide network of scientists who assess the credibility of influential climate change media coverage The Climate Feedback reviewers assessed that the scientific credibility of the articles ranged between low and very low The Climate Feedback reviewers came to the conclusion that in one case Lomborg practices cherry picking 6 in a second case he had reached his conclusions through cherry picking from a small subset of the evidence misrepresenting the results of existing studies and relying on flawed reasoning 65 in a third case his article is in blatant disagreement with available scientific evidence while the author does not offer adequate evidence to support his statements 66 and in a fourth case The author Bjorn Lomborg cherry picks this specific piece of research and uses it in support of a broad argument against the value of climate policy He also misrepresents the Paris Agreement to downplay its potential to curb future climate change 67 Personal life editLomborg is gay and a vegetarian 68 As a public figure he has been a participant in information campaigns in Denmark about homosexuality and states that Being a public gay is to my view a civic responsibility It s important to show that the width of the gay world cannot be described by a tired stereotype but goes from leather gays on parade wagons to suit and tie yuppies on the direction floor as well as everything in between 69 Recognition and awards editThe Global Leaders of Tomorrow Class 2002 World Economic Forum 2002 70 The Stars of Europe category Agenda Setters BusinessWeek 17 June 2002 No matter what they think of his views nobody denies that Bjorn Lomborg has shaken the environmental movement to its core 71 The 2004 Time 100 in Scientists amp Thinkers Time 26 April 2004 Our list of the most influential people in the world today He just might be the Martin Luther of the environmental movement 72 Top 100 Public Intellectuals Poll 14 Foreign Policy and Prospect 2005 73 Top 100 Public Intellectuals Poll 41 Foreign Policy and Prospect 2008 74 50 people who could save the planet The Guardian 5 January 2008 75 Glocal Hero Award Transatlantyk Poznan International Film and Music Festival 2011 76 FP Top 100 Global Thinkers Foreign Policy 2012 For taking the black and white out of climate politics 77 Discussions in the media editAfter the release of The Skeptical Environmentalist in 2001 Lomborg was subjected to intense scrutiny and criticism in the media As in the scientific community his scientific qualifications and integrity were criticized although some popular media outlets supported him 7 The verdict of the Danish Committees for Scientific Dishonesty fueled this debate and brought it into the spotlight of international mass media By the end of 2003 Lomborg had become an international celebrity with frequent appearances on radio television and print media around the world He is also a regular contributor to Project Syndicate since 2005 Scientific American published criticism of Lomborg s book Lomborg responded on his own website quoting the article at such length that Scientific American threatened to sue for copyright infringement Lomborg eventually removed the rebuttal from his website it was later published in PDF format on Scientific American s site 78 The magazine also printed a response to the rebuttal 79 The Economist defended Lomborg claiming the panel of experts that had criticized Lomborg in Scientific American was both biased and did not actually counter Lomborg s book The Economist argued that the panel s opinion had come under no scrutiny at all and that Lomborg s responses had not been reported 80 Penn amp Teller Bullshit the U S Showtime television programme featured an episode entitled Environmental Hysteria in which Lomborg criticized what he claimed was environmentalists refusal to accept a cost benefit analysis of environmental questions and stressed the need to prioritise some issues above others 81 Rolling Stone stated Lomborg pulls off the remarkable feat of welding the techno optimism of the Internet age with a lefty s concern for the fate of the planet 82 The Union of Concerned Scientists criticized The Skeptical Environmentalist claiming it to be seriously flawed and failing to meet basic standards of credible scientific analysis accusing Lomborg of presenting data in a fraudulent way using flawed logic and selectively citing non peer reviewed literature 4 The review was conducted by Peter Gleick Jerry D Mahlman Edward O Wilson Thomas Lovejoy Norman Myers Jeff Harvey and Stuart Pimm The New York Times criticized False Alarm stating This book proves the aphorism that a little knowledge is dangerous It s nominally about air pollution It s really about mind pollution The review was conducted by Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz 83 Publications edit Nucleus and Shield Evolution of Social Structure in the Iterated Prisoner s Dilemma American Sociological Review 1996 The Skeptical Environmentalist Measuring the Real State of the World Cambridge University Press 2001 ISBN 0521010683 Global Crises Global Solutions Copenhagen Consensus Cambridge University Press 2004 ISBN 0521606144 as editor How to Spend 50 Billion to Make the World a Better Place Cambridge University Press 2006 ISBN 978 0521685719 as editor Solutions for the World s Biggest Problems Costs and Benefits Cambridge University Press 2007 ISBN 978 0521715973 as editor Cool It The Skeptical Environmentalist s Guide to Global Warming Knopf Doubleday 2007 ISBN 978 0307267795 Smart Solutions to Climate Change Comparing Costs and Benefits Cambridge University Press 2010 ISBN 978 0521763424 84 85 The Nobel Laureates Guide to the Smartest Targets for the World 2016 2030 Copenhagen Consensus Center 2015 ISBN 978 1940003115 Prioritizing Development A Cost Benefit Analysis of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals Cambridge University Press 2018 ISBN 1108415458 as editor False Alarm How Climate Change Panic Costs Us Trillions Hurts the Poor and Fails to Fix the Planet Basic Books 2020 ISBN 978 1541647480 Thinking Smartly About Climate Change Imprimis 52 4 5 Hillsdale MI Hillsdale College 1 7 April May 2023 ISSN 0277 8432 Best Things First The 12 Most Efficient Solutions for the World s Poorest and Our Global SDG Promises Copenhagen Consensus Center 2023 ISBN 978 1940003481See also editGlobal warming controversy Environmental skepticism Project Syndicate List of people who have been piedReferences edit Akhlaghi Reza 23 October 2013 A Candid Discussion with Bjorn Lomborg Foreign Policy Blogs Retrieved 12 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original on 17 January 2003 Retrieved 28 July 2015 a b Abbott Alison 13 February 2003 Social scientists call for abolition of dishonesty committee Nature 421 6924 681 Bibcode 2003Natur 421 681A doi 10 1038 421681b PMID 12610589 Tornbjerg Jesper Jastrup Morten Rubin Marcus 17 January 2003 Kun fa ingeniorer stotter Lomborg Few engineers support Lomborg Politiken in Danish Retrieved 28 July 2015 2002 Annual Report The Danish Committees on Scientific Dishonesty Archived from the original on 25 October 2007 Retrieved 13 February 2008 Ackerman Frank 1 August 2008 Hot it s not Reflections on Cool It by Bjorn Lomborg Climatic Change 89 3 435 446 Bibcode 2008ClCh 89 435A doi 10 1007 s10584 008 9403 3 ISSN 1573 1480 S2CID 62830936 Begley Sharon 22 February 2010 Book Review The Lomborg Deception Newsweek Retrieved 23 February 2010 Lomborg Bjorn A Response by Bjorn Lomborg to Howard Friel s The Lomborg Deception PDF Lomborg com Archived from the original PDF on 16 October 2011 Response by Howard Friel to Bjorn Lomborg s comments about The Lomborg Deception PDF Yale Press 26 February 2010 Archived from the original PDF on 12 April 2011 Retrieved 13 October 2013 Doyle Alister 12 October 2010 Cool It movie seeks climate solutions Lomborg Reuters Retrieved 14 September 2019 Liam 10 September 2010 TIFF Movie Review Cool It Empire Movies Archived from the original on 16 September 2010 Retrieved 14 September 2019 Kaufman Anthony 10 November 2010 Controversial Cool It Documentary Takes on An Inconvenient Truth The Wall Street Journal Retrieved 21 November 2014 Cieply Michael 22 January 2010 Filmmaker Seeks to Temper the Message of An Inconvenient Truth The New York Times Archived from the original on 1 January 2022 Retrieved 14 September 2019 Cool It 2010 Rotten Tomatoes Retrieved 21 November 2014 Cool It Metacritic Retrieved 21 November 2014 Our story Copenhagen Consensus Center Retrieved 21 November 2014 Bjorn Lomborg s climate sceptic thinktank to close The Guardian 23 January 2012 Retrieved 21 November 2014 a b c Taylor Lenore 16 April 2015 Abbott government gives 4m to help climate contrarian set up Australian centre The Guardian Retrieved 30 July 2015 Kloor Keith 21 October 2013 Bjorn Lomborg The resilient environmentalist Cosmos Archived from the original on 29 November 2014 Retrieved 21 November 2014 Press Contact Copenhagen Consensus Center Retrieved 21 November 2014 a b Holmes David 30 July 2015 Still no consensus for Bjorn Lomborg the climate change refugee The Conversation Retrieved 30 July 2015 Knott M 4 June 2015 Bjorn Lomborg saga Senate estimates hears consensus centre could still come to Australia The Sydney Morning Herald Retrieved 31 August 2015 New economic prioritisation research centre at UWA University of Western Australia 2 April 2015 Retrieved 30 July 2015 Cox Lisa Knott Matthew 23 April 2015 Bjorn Lomborg centre leaked documents cast doubt on Abbott government claims The Sydney Morning Herald Retrieved 30 July 2015 Massola James Knott Matthew 23 April 2015 Prime Minister Tony Abbott s office the origin for controversial Bjorn Lomborg centre decision The Sydney Morning Herald Retrieved 30 July 2015 Johnson Paul 8 May 2015 Message from the Vice Chancellor on the Australian Consensus Centre University of Western Australia Retrieved 10 May 2015 Students praise UWA for ditching controversial 4m Bjorn Lomborg Consensus Centre think tank ABC News 9 May 2015 Retrieved 30 July 2015 UWA cancels contract for Consensus Centre headed by controversial academic Bjorn Lomborg ABC News 8 May 2015 Retrieved 10 May 2015 a b Dayton Leigh 22 October 2015 Climate change contrarian loses Australian funding American Association for the Advancement of Science Archived from the original on 25 October 2015 Retrieved 25 October 2015 NTEU WA Division on Twitter NTEUSA NTEUNational NTEUVictoria NTEUNSW NTEUQld Do we need a new hashtag lomborgflinders since we hear he maybe heading there Twitter com Retrieved 12 November 2016 Scott Ludlam on 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Environmentalist Measuring the Real State of the World Cambridge University Press Archived from the original on 21 February 2006 Retrieved 26 February 2006 via lomborg com Stiglitz Joseph E 16 July 2020 Are We Overreacting on Climate Change The New York Times ISSN 0362 4331 Retrieved 22 July 2020 Jowit Juliette 30 August 2010 Bjorn Lomborg 100bn a year needed to fight climate change The Guardian Retrieved 10 June 2019 Although Pachauri once compared Lomborg to Hitler he has now given an unlikely endorsement to the new book Smart Solutions to Climate Change McKibben Bill 7 April 2011 Resisting Climate Reality The New York Review of Books Retrieved 10 June 2019 Further reading editSarvis Will Embracing Philanthropic Environmentalism The Grand Responsibility of Stewardship McFarland 2019 Schneider Stephen Holdren John P Bongaarts John Lovejoy Thomas January 2002 Misleading Math about the Earth PDF Scientific American Vol 286 no 1 pp 61 71 Archived from the original PDF on 25 September 2020 Retrieved 10 June 2019 via University of Texas at Austin Wade Nichola 7 August 2001 From an Unlikely Quarter Eco Optimism The New York Times External links edit nbsp Wikimedia Commons has media related to Bjorn Lomborg Lomborg s personal website with own articles links to related broadcasts on radio and TV and Lomborg s opinion on the issues with the Danish Committees on Scientific Dishonesty Column archive at The Guardian Column archive at Project Syndicate Bjorn Lomborg at TED nbsp Appearances on C SPAN Bjorn Lomborg at IMDb Lomborg Errors compilation of claims of errors in Lomborg s work Bjorn Lomborg collected news and commentary at The New York Times Bjorn Lomborg publications indexed by Google Scholar Interviews Reiss Spencer 1 June 2004 You Can Cure Aids Or End Hunger Choose Wired Kiil Lennart 23 November 2007 Interview with Bjorn Lomborg ZenSci Archived from the original on 9 May 2008 Trauzzi Monica 12 December 2007 Skeptical enviro Bjorn Lomborg discusses post Kyoto 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