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- Bjørn Lomborg was born on January 9, 1965 in Frederiksberg, Denmark. He is a writer, known for Cool It (2010), Showtime: Udfordringen (2005) and Showtime (2005).
- From February 2002 to July 2004 Lomborg was director of Denmark's national Environmental Assessment Institute.
- Bjørn Lomborg is an associate professor of statistics in the Department of Political Science at the University of Aarhus. In 1998 he published four lengthy articles about the state of our environment in the leading Danish newspaper, which resulted in a firestorm debate spanning over 400 articles in major metropolitan newspapers.
- In April 2004, Lomborg was named one of the world's 100 most influential people by Time Magazine.
- Director, Copenhagen Consensus Center.
- Hoover Institution at Stanford visiting fellow.
- In the rich world, the environmental situation has improved dramatically. In the United States, the most important environmental indicator, particulate air pollution, has been cut by more than half since 1955, rivers and coastal waters have dramatically improved, and forests are increasing.
- Listen, global warming is a real problem, but it' s not the end of the world. A 30-centimetre sea level rise is just not going to bring the world to a standstill, just like it didn't over the last 150 years.
- Think on a 50-year scale, which is a much more natural time-scale for global warming. The US is right now spending about 200 million dollars annually on research into renewable energy.
- There is no question that global warming will have a significant impact on already existing problems such as malaria, malnutrition, and water shortages. But this doesn't mean the best way to solve them is to cut carbon emissions.
- Global warming is real - it is man-made and it is an important problem. But it is not the end of the world.
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