http://blog.ted.com/2008/10/15/bjorn_lomborgs/ The TED Blog shares interesting news about TED, TEDTalks video, the TED Prize and more. Thu, 23 May 2013 01:43:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://blog.ted.com/2008/10/15/bjorn_lomborgs/comment-page-1/#comment-972 Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://blog-staging.ted.com/2008/10/bjorn_lomborgs/#comment-972 Nice idea to take a rational approach to assessing climate change mitigation and other pressing world issues, but there are a few flaws in Lomborg’s approach. For one thing, his Copenhagen Consensus is comparing apples with oranges. You can’t just say that because one investment strategy gives a better ROI than another, that means you should start with the one with the better return. Even if you could, economists are renowned for finding different ways to slice the apple. Pick your fav economist, and go with it.

]]> http://blog.ted.com/2008/10/15/bjorn_lomborgs/comment-page-1/#comment-973 Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://blog-staging.ted.com/2008/10/bjorn_lomborgs/#comment-973 Lomborg makes many highly questionable assumptions. The link provided by Rory points out some of them. In addition, like most “skeptics” he scoffs at the climate models but when pointing out that they might be wrong his assumption is always that they are wrong on the cooler side when in fact they could be wrong in the other direction just as easily. He also tends to understate the potential problems that global warming could cause. Frankly, I just don’t have a lot of respect for him

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