The only thing that will really change global warming in the long run is if we radically increase the speed with which we get alternative technologies to deal with climate change.
From Bjorn Lomborg
I think it's great that we have organisations like Greenpeace. In a pluralistic society, we want to have people who point out all the problems that the Earth could encounter. But we need to understand that they are not presenting a full and rounded view.
A review was published in Nature, very scathing, essentially calling me incompetent, though they didn't use that word. I am putting a reply on my Web site in a few days, where I go through their arguments, paragraph by paragraph.
There is no doubt that we should take solar radiation into account. We have seen ground temperatures rising since 1975, and it is important to know to what extent that has been caused by the sun or by carbon dioxide.
The Kyoto treaty has an estimated cost of between US$150 and $350 billion a year, starting in 2010.
On average, global warming is not going to harm the developing world.
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