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On average, global warming is not going to harm the developing world.

~Bjorn Lomborg

Topics: Average Developing Developing World Global Global Warming Going Harm Warming World

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Of course, the world is full of problems. But on the other hand it's important to get the sense... are we generally moving in the right direction or the wrong direction?

~Bjorn Lomborg

Topics: Course Direction Full Generally Get Hand Important Moving Other Problems Right Right Direction Sense World Wrong Wrong Direction

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Obviously any group that has to have funding also needs to get attention to their issues.

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Topics: Also Any Attention Funding Get Group Issues Needs Obviously

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Just because there is a problem doesn't mean that we have to solve it, if the cure is going to be more expensive than the original ailment.

~Bjorn Lomborg

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It seems incontrovertible to me that there is a global warming effect and that it is going to be serious, probably not in the amount of, say, six degrees warming, but it's likely that we'll get two to three degrees warming and that will be serious enough.

~Bjorn Lomborg

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I think it's great that we have organisations like Greenpeace. In a pluralistic society, we want to have people who point out all the problems that the Earth could encounter. But we need to understand that they are not presenting a full and rounded view.

~Bjorn Lomborg

Topics: Could Earth Encounter Full Great Greenpeace Like Need Organisations Out People Point Presenting Problems Rounded Society Think Understand View Want Who I Think

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I really try to say things as they basically are and it so happens that it is a good message that things are getting better, but there are still problems.

~Bjorn Lomborg

Topics: Basically Better Getting Getting Better Good Happens Message Problems Really Say Still Things Try

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Even if I was a bad right wing guy, to the extent of whether my arguments are right or wrong, they're right or wrong independently if I'm right or left.

~Bjorn Lomborg

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But this is an occupational hazard of being a scientist. You say this is the best information I have and then you realize that not everyone is going to read the footnotes or the whole book, so people are going to get the wrong impression.

~Bjorn Lomborg

Topics: Being Best Book Everyone Get Going Hazard Impression Information People Read Realize Say Scientist Then Whole Wrong You

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A review was published in Nature, very scathing, essentially calling me incompetent, though they didn't use that word. I am putting a reply on my Web site in a few days, where I go through their arguments, paragraph by paragraph.

~Bjorn Lomborg

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Biography

Nationality: Danish

Type: Scientist

Born: January 6th, 1965

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