Bjorn the Man on climate change

Lomborg's ranking work with the Copenhagen Consensus Group is basically the same thing I did with Cantor and all our bigwig guests atop World Trade Center 1 in June 2001 when we looked at global climate change: when we ranked the big choices, we came up with a number of easier and more impactful short-run fixes than tackling CO2 emissions per se.

The fact that Lomborg, a serious genius, did the same thing later with a bunch of Nobel Laureates, makes me believe in his thinking so much: it's a totally reproducible strategic concept that others can arrive at on their own.

Here is a great transcript of his appearance on Lehrer.

Thanks to Kevin Shook for this link.

Comments

[Phil Pohl]

I've followed Bjorn for 5 years, thinking that his approach was the best. It is hard for people to be disciplined enough to conduct long term research and development when our world is becoming more demanding of timely action. It's quite like the argument for savings - some people do it, others do not. People adn media identify the issues, scientists and engineers determine logical solutions, so all we need are government and industry to exhibit long term thinking.