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.