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☆ Davos Devotees Deindustrialize Europe
  + stars: | 2024-01-14 | by ( Peter Huntsman | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: +1 min
Journal Editorial Report: Paul Gigot interviews Bjorn Lomborg on COP28. Images: AP/EPA Composite: Mark KellyPolitical, business and security leaders gather in Davos next week under the mantra of “rebuilding trust.” Key topics include security cooperation, artificial intelligence, energy security and job growth “for a New Era.” Undoubtedly there will also be calls to phase out fossil fuels and aspirations for a hydrogen-based green economy. Amid this grand planning for the industries of 2050, leaders likely will pay little attention to how government pressure to reach this utopian vision is destroying the industries that made Europe the envy of the world. Over the past two years, dozens of energy-intensive manufacturers of our most basic materials—chemicals, steel, ceramics, glass and fertilizers—have ceased or slowed production in Europe. As the leader of a U.S.-headquartered chemical company that once had more than 50% of its revenue and employees in Europe, I have witnessed this devolution firsthand.
Persons: Paul Gigot, Bjorn Lomborg, Mark Kelly Locations: Davos, Europe, U.S
☆ The Earth Is Warming, but Is CO2 the Cause?
  + stars: | 2023-11-03 | by ( Holman W. Jenkins | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: +1 min
Journal Editorial Report: Paul Gigot Interviews Bjorn Lomborg. Images: AP/EPA Composite: Mark KellyIf this column has ever plagiarized itself, it’s by repeating the phrase “evidence of warming is not evidence of what causes warming.” A paper published by the Norwegian government’s statistical agency, written by two of its retired experts, touching on this very subject has called forth so many shrieked accusations of climate apostasy that you know it must be interesting. The authors ask a simple question: Are computerized climate simulations a sufficient basis for attributing observed warming to human CO2? After all, the Earth’s climate has been subject to substantial warming and cooling trends for millennia that remain unexplained and can’t be attributed to fossil fuels. As statisticians, their conclusion: “With the current level of knowledge, it seems impossible to determine how much of the temperature increase is due to emissions of CO2.”
Persons: Paul Gigot, Bjorn Lomborg, Mark Kelly Locations: Norwegian
☆ Ford Pays Dearly for Labor Peace With the UAW
  + stars: | 2023-10-26 | by ( The Editorial Board | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Journal Editorial Report: Paul Gigot Interviews Bjorn Lomborg. Images: AP/EPA Composite: Mark KellyPresident Biden praised what he called the “historic tentative agreement” that the United Auto Workers and Ford struck late Wednesday as a testament to collective bargaining. Perhaps, but the real test will be whether Ford can stay competitive, especially amid the government-forced electric-vehicle transition. UAW President Shawn Fain ’s strategy of staging strikes at select plants operated by all three Detroit auto makers appears to be paying off. The union was threatening to call off workers at a factory that builds Ford’s highly profitable F-150 pickup when the auto maker agreed to a generous deal that ends the nearly six-week walkout.
Persons: Paul Gigot, Bjorn Lomborg, Mark Kelly President Biden, Ford, Shawn Fain ’ Organizations: United Auto Workers, UAW, Detroit
☆ Chevron Bets on Peak Green Energy
  + stars: | 2023-10-24 | by ( The Editorial Board | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Images: AP/EPA Composite: Mark KellyThe climate lobby’s pronouncements that the end of fossil fuels is nigh appear as premature as warnings two decades ago that supply would soon run out. Chevron on Monday announced a $53 billion bid for Hess Corp. because it knows the world will need oil and gas for the foreseeable future no matter how much politicians subsidize green energy. Chevron’s Hess acquisition comes on the heels of Exxon Mobil ’s $60 billion tie-up with Pioneer National Resources this month. Higher interest rates are prompting consolidation across the U.S. economy, as smaller, less-capitalized companies struggle to borrow. Oil and gas giants are flush with cash owing to the run-up in prices over the past two years.
Persons: Paul Gigot, Bjorn Lomborg, Mark Kelly, Chevron’s Hess Organizations: Chevron, Monday, Hess Corp, Exxon Mobil ’, Pioneer National Resources Locations: U.S
☆ How ‘Preapproved Narratives’ Corrupt Science
  + stars: | 2023-10-02 | by ( Allysia Finley | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Journal Editorial Report: Paul Gigot Interviews Bjorn Lomborg. Images: AP/EPA Composite: Mark KellyScientists were aghast last month when Patrick Brown , climate director at the Breakthrough Institute in Berkeley, Calif., acknowledged that he’d censored one of his studies to increase his odds of getting published. Credit to him for being honest about something his peers also do but are loath to admit.
Persons: Paul Gigot, Bjorn Lomborg, Mark Kelly Scientists, Patrick Brown Organizations: Breakthrough Institute Locations: Berkeley, Calif
☆ Opinion | An Economic Case Against Environmental Doomsayers
  + stars: | 2023-09-13 | by ( Peter Coy | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +3 min
The inverse of the fall in the time price is a huge increase in what the authors termed “personal resource abundance.” For their next step, they multiplied personal resource abundance by population change to get population resource abundance. For example, for U.S. blue-collar workers from 1919 to 2019, the personal resource abundance of food grew 1,032 percent while the population grew 212 percent, for an increase in population resource abundance of 3,436 percent. For one, I don’t think the authors took climate change nearly seriously enough. They also said that the carbon intensity of gross domestic product tends to fall as nations become rich, which is good but not a solution to global warming, since the actual amount of emissions per capita is still higher in rich countries than in poor countries. Tupy wrote in his email that the environmentalists he and Pooley like are “techno-optimists” such as Bjorn Lomborg, of Denmark, the self-described “skeptical environmentalist,” and Nordhaus, of Yale.
Persons: Tupy, Pooley, ’, “, ”, Bjorn Lomborg, Steve Jobs Organizations: Yale, Apple Locations: Waterloo, “ Superabundance, Denmark
☆ Climate Change Hasn’t Set the World on Fire
  + stars: | 2023-08-01 | by ( Bjorn Lomborg | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Journal Editorial Report: Progressive policies helped create the orange smoke storm. Images: AP/NurPhoto via ZUMA Press Composite: Mark KellyOne of the most common tropes in our increasingly alarmist climate debate is that global warming has set the world on fire. But it hasn’t. For more than two decades, satellites have recorded fires across the planet’s surface. The data are unequivocal: Since the early 2000s, when 3% of the world’s land caught fire, the area burned annually has trended downward.
Persons: Mark Kelly
☆ Partisan ‘Fact Checkers’ Spread Climate-Change Misinformation
  + stars: | 2023-01-27 | by ( Bjorn Lomborg | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Partisan “fact checks” are undermining open discourse about important issues, including climate change. Earlier this month I wrote an accurate post on Facebook about the growing polar-bear population. The post undercut alarmist climate narratives, so it was wrongly tagged as a falsehood. Activists have used polar bears as an icon of climate apocalypse for decades, but the best data show that far from dying out, their numbers are growing. That’s higher than the 5,000 to 19,000 polar bears scientists estimated were around in the 1960s.
☆ The Cold Reality of Buffalo
  + stars: | 2022-12-28 | by ( The Editorial Board | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Western New York State was hit with more snow on Tuesday, adding to the winter assault that has already killed 28 in Buffalo in the last week’s storm and deep freeze. The deaths underscore that even in this age of global warming anxiety, cold weather kills more people each year than does excessive heat. As readers of these pages know, that’s a point our contributor Bjorn Lomborg has been making for years. He wrote in November that between 2000 and 2019 in the U.S. and Canada, an average of 20,000 people died from heat each year compared to more than 170,000 from cold.
☆ Climate Change and the Lancet’s ‘Heat Death’ Deception
  + stars: | 2022-11-05 | by ( Bjorn Lomborg | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: +1 min
As the United Nations’ annual global climate summit, COP27, nears, it’s important to look with skepticism at the academic reports many news outlets cite as evidence supporting radical climate policies. Too often, they use highly skewed data that seem to have been carefully selected to support aggressive environmental regulations. The study offers a frightening statistic: Rapidly rising temperatures have increased annual global heat deaths among older people by 68% in less than two decades. U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres publicized the report, tweeting a link with a grave statement of his own, “The climate crisis is killing us. #COP27 must deliver a down-payment on climate solutions that match the scale of the problem.”
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