Discredited Bjorn Lomborg criticised in Science Blog

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jorn Lomborg has argued that we should not concern ourselves too much will global warming, rather concentrate on and apply our efforts other social matters.

The Danish director of the Copenhagen Consensus Center and former director of the Environmental Assessment Institute in Copenhagen has been in the public eye since writing his controversial and best-selling 2001 book, The Skeptical Environmentalist.

And now the largely discredited political scientist, whose philosophies and values fit with those of the Australian Government has been handed $4m to set up the “Australian Consensus Centre” at the University of Western Australia’s business school.

Writing on the Science Blog, Greg Laden, is rather forthright about what Lomborg says, simply declaring him as”wrong”.

In his post - “Bjorn Lomborg Is Wrong About Bangladesh And Sea Level Rise” – Laden says, “Lomborg seems to not know much about sea level rise. He once noted that sea level rise had stopped, or even decreased, by referring to a single year’s worth of data.”