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Bjørn Lomborg

March 2023

  • Graham Readfearn

    Temperature Check
    Russell Brand is the latest to platform climate conservative Bjørn Lomborg’s ‘reckless’ net-zero cost claims

    Graham Readfearn
    The Danish commentator has been accused of continuing to misrepresent findings about the costs of cutting emissions, despite pleas from scientists

December 2021

  • Graham Readfearn

    Temperature Check
    Climate cost study authors accuse Bjørn Lomborg of misinterpreting results

    Graham Readfearn
    A key claim in a column by the Danish thinktank head frustrates scientists who modelled reducing emissions

May 2017

  • Bjørn Lomborg

    Experts reject Bjørn Lomborg's view on 2C warming target

    Lomborg’s Copenhagen Consensus Centre says investment in keeping temperature rises below 2C would return less than $1 for every $1 spent

October 2015

  • Canberra, October 2, 2003. Danish environmental scientist Professor Bjorn Lomborg speaking at the National Press club in Canberra today. Author of 'The Sceptical Environmentalist' Lomborg states that 'contrary to common wisdom, the globe and the environment is not doomed'. (AAP Image/Alan Porritt) NO ARCHIVING

    Government withdraws funding offer for Bjørn Lomborg centre

    Education minister Simon Birmingham tells Senate estimates the decision was taken by predecessor Christopher Pyne

September 2015

  • Bjørn Lomborg in 2009. It is understood heads of three of four Flinders University faculties have rejected hosting the research centre.

    Flinders University staff and students keep fighting Bjørn Lomborg centre

    An open letter signed by 6662 students, teachers and alumni rejects any plan for the university to host a Lomborg-run research centre

August 2015

  • Bjørn Lomborg

    Bjørn Lomborg consensus centre may have had up to $800,000 in public funds for marketing

    FOI documents also show centre rejected by University of Western Australia might have spent up to 50 per cent of its budget on events

July 2015

  • Bjørn Lomborg

    Bjørn Lomborg's $4m centre rejected by Flinders University academics

  • ALL<br>COP90 - 20020226 - COPENHAGEN, SJAELLAND, DENMARK : (FILES) A file photo dated 26 February 2002 of Bjorn Lomborg, director of the Danish Environmental Assessment Institute and author of the book "The Skeptical Environmentalist". A panel of senior Danish scientists 08 January 2003 has accused Bjorn Lomborg, controversial author of the best-selling anti-green critique "The Skeptical Environmentalist", of scientific dishonesty. The Danish Committees on Scientific Dishonesty (DCSD), which launched a review of the book after receiving a number of complaints from leading scientists, said Lomborg had "clearly acted at variance with good scientific practice." (DENMARK OUT) EPA PHOTO SCANPIX DK FILES /SOEREN BIDSTRUP Bjoern Lomborg

    Bjørn Lomborg consensus centre could be set up at Flinders University

May 2015

  • Bjorn Lomborg

    Science Weekly
    'Sceptical environmentalist' Bjorn Lomborg on climate change - podcast

    We take a closer look at some of Lomborg's arguments on fracking, emissions and green energy

  • Joyce on the Bolt Report

    Barnaby Joyce tells Andrew Bolt that UWA's Bjørn Lomborg decision down to 'consultancy fees' – video

    Barnaby Joyce and Andrew Bolt say the University of Western Australia's decision on Bjørn Lomborg centre a 'disgrace'

  • Canberra, October 2, 2003. Danish environmental scientist Professor Bjorn Lomborg speaking at the National Press club in Canberra today. Author of 'The Sceptical Environmentalist' Lomborg states that 'contrary to common wisdom, the globe and the environment is not doomed'. (AAP Image/Alan Porritt) NO ARCHIVING

    Christopher Pyne vows to find new home for Bjørn Lomborg centre

    Education minister and Lomborg say ‘Australia consensus centre’ will go ahead in a new home after WA university handed back $4m in funding

April 2015

  • Climate change contrarian Bjorn Lomborg, who is launching an Australian arm of his Copenhagen Consensus Center think tank after a $4million grant from the Australian Government

    University of WA academics demand end to deal with climate change contrarian

    Staff and students angry after revelations the university accepted $4m from the Abbott government for Bjørn Lomborg to set up a ‘consensus centre’
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