Category: Bjorn Lomborg

‘Climate change’ isn’t taking food off your table

By BJORN LOMBORG, National Post, July 23, 2026

Summary: Climate change is not threatening everyday staples like coffee and olive oil, nor is it causing supply shortages and price increases. In fact, warming is increasing planetary greening and helping feed eight billion people.

These days, no morning ritual is safe from climate alarm. The journal Nature has just declared that coffee is “critically threatened by climate change” and described . scientists racing to save your espresso from “extinction.” … Read more

A vindication of Bjorn Lomborg—the Skeptical Environmentalist was right all along…

Lomborg’s experience shows what happens when a researcher challenges a powerful narrative with inconvenient numbers. Eventually the narrative is revealed as false

By Marian L. Tupy, Quillette, March 3, 2026

Summary: When Bjorn Lomborg challenged environmental doomsday narratives, he was met not with open debate but with efforts to discredit and silence him. Two decades later, many of his core arguments have quietly entered the mainstream. The convergence of his views with those now voiced by leading figures offers a lesson about the cost of treating scientific disagreements as moral heresies rather than opportunities for empirical inquiry.… Read more

Media’s coral reef madness is barrier to good policy

News about health of Australian coral is always bad even though the data shows Great Barrier Reef at record levels. Consistent bad news prods governments to waste trillions on non-existent ‘disasters’

By Bjorn Lomborg, National Post, Oct. 21, 2025

Reading the news, you would believe the Great Barrier Reef — the aquatic wonder off Australia’s coast — is on its deathbed, bleached beyond recognition by climate change. Recent headlines shouted in unison: “Great Barrier Reef suffers worst coral decline on record.” Environmental journalists are in panic mode about irreversible damage. But this is advocacy campaigning from media who consistently tell a negative story whatever the data say.… Read more