Guest essay by Eric Worrall
Bjørn Lomborg can trigger screaming climate hysteria by offering to talk to people. And he’s not even a climate skeptic.
When climate alarmism meets demolition culture
BJORN LOMBORG Follow @bjornlomborg
March 24, 2021, 12:00 a.m.
All over the world, politicians are now promising climate policies that cost tens of trillions of dollars – money we don’t have and resources badly needed elsewhere.
Climate fighters tell us, however, that if we don’t spend everything on climate now, nothing else matters because climate change threatens our civilization. As US President Joe Biden says: Climate change is “an existential threat”.
Yes, climate change is a real problem. However, it is usually grossly exaggerated, and the resulting alarmism is used to justify the wasteful spending of trillions.
If you point it out, you will be canceled. I should know because I’ve personally been on the receiving end of this enforcement of climate alarmism for years. Last week I was supposed to be giving a public lecture at Duke University in the United States when a group of climate policy professors – some who write for the UN climate panel – publicly asked Duke to cancel my appearance.
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Surely the Duke professors did not want anyone to hear dissenting facts.
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Read more: https://www.theaustralian.com.au/commentary/weathering-climate-change-and-cancel-culture/news-story/0a505c6547c194ed6314457f3607fe6d
I saw a dramatization of Galileo’s life once.
One of the most shocking scenes in the film was when Galileo asked the Pope and his learned advisers to see the moons of Jupiter with their own eyes through his telescope, and they refused.
Of course, we have no way of knowing exactly how historically the dramatization was, but the film director clearly wanted to demonstrate the great gap between the intellectually oppressed 16th and 17th centuries and our enlightened age by presenting a shocking scene of learned people facing each other refusing to examine evidence placed right in front of their eyes for fear of having to admit they was wrong.
I mean, that couldn’t happen today, could it?
h / t Izaak – I didn’t make it clear that Björn gave his talk at Duke – my review was there about trying to cancel him. Sorry for my mistake. Izaak also provided a link to the lecture.
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