{"id":943262,"date":"2021-10-30T22:13:34","date_gmt":"2021-10-31T02:13:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=943262"},"modified":"2021-10-30T22:13:36","modified_gmt":"2021-10-31T02:13:36","slug":"expert-on-u-n-s-cop26-climate-panic-is-bad-for-people-and-the-planet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/expert-on-u-n-s-cop26-climate-panic-is-bad-for-people-and-the-planet\/","title":{"rendered":"Expert on U.N.\u2019s COP26: Climate Panic Is Bad for People and the Planet"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fexpert-on-u-n-s-cop26-climate-panic-is-bad-for-people-and-the-planet%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=943262&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Lomberg-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">As the United Nation\u2019s COP26 summit gets underway on Sunday, a lone voice is pushing back on the existential threat of so-called climate change and most of the left-wing media, who will provide non-stop doomsday warnings.<\/p>\n<p>That voice is Bjorn Lomborg, a Dane who is president of the Copenhagen Consensus and a visiting fellow at Stanford University\u2019s Hoover Institute, \u201ca public policy think tank promoting the principles of individual, economic, and political freedom.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>Lomborg\u2019s latest book is <em>False Alarm: How Climate Change Panic Costs Us Trillions, Hurts the Poor, and Fails to Fix the Planet<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Wall Street Journal<\/em> is publishing commentaries from Lomborg leading up to and during the United Nation\u2019s event where leaders from around the world, including President Joe Biden and 13 members of his cabinet, will call for making climate change the greatest threat facing humanity and the planet:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"15\">\n<p>Looking at much of the media reporting ahead of this week\u2019s climate conference in Glasgow, you\u2019d think the world was subject to biblical plagues\u2014blasted by fires, floods, hurricanes, drought and disease. But as Bjorn Lomborg has explained recently in these pages, while global warming does pose problems, it is hardly the unmitigated disaster often portrayed. At times, the solutions activists propose can be far worse than what they\u2019re trying to prevent.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Lomborg argues that humanity has <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.md\/o\/Q6WMX\/https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/climate-change-world-doomed-gdp-warming-earth-11632338084?mod=series_lomborgcharts&amp;mod=article_inline\">solved much more dangerous problems<\/a> than climate change over the past century, and can continue to do so.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>In other words, \u201cthe climate changes, but so can we.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Journal<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/climate-activists-blow-smoke-on-wildfire-fears-adaptation-land-11635367688\">expanded<\/a> on that theory:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"29.244935543278\">\n<p>For instance, raising the height of dikes would protect 99.99% of the people global warming threatens with floods as sea levels rise. Innovations like this don\u2019t get rid of every risk that climate change poses, but the policies necessary to do that\u2014if they\u2019re possible to adopt at all\u2014can make things worse.<\/p>\n<p>The poor would suffer most from the effects of global warming\u2014such as starvation, disease, heat death and flooding. But the regulations that climate activists advocate would <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.md\/o\/Q6WMX\/https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/climate-change-malnutrition-regulation-economic-growth-glasgow-conference-11633551187?mod=series_lomborgcharts&amp;mod=article_inline\">hit them even harder<\/a>, as Mr. Lomborg details. Take malnutrition deaths: Economic growth has lowered such deaths dramatically over the past 30 years and likely will continue to do so over the next 30. Climate change slightly slows that descent by shrinking crop yields, which even stringent climate regulations couldn\u2019t prevent entirely. In the process these measures would slow growth, keeping as many as 80 million people in poverty in 2030 who otherwise wouldn\u2019t be\u2014causing even more malnutrition deaths.<\/p>\n<p>This high cost to the world\u2019s poor is a large part of why carbon emissions <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.md\/o\/Q6WMX\/https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/covid-lockdown-climate-fossil-fuels-electricity-energy-production-africa-carbon-emission-11632943155?mod=series_lomborgcharts&amp;mod=article_inline\">won\u2019t be eliminated<\/a> any time soon. The developing world wants access to consistent cheap energy, which means fossil fuels. Right now, the air pollution from the burning of renewable resources like wood, dung and cardboard kills 700,000 people in sub-Saharan Africa a year. And more than half a billion Africans lack access to electricity. To give a sense of how much electrifying Africa would increase emissions, each year California uses more electricity on its pools and hot tubs than the 44 million inhabitants of Uganda use for all purposes.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Take wildfires, for example, which have actually decreased, according to Lomborg\u2019s commentary on the U.N. and other climate change activists who are fear-mongering about the threat from wildfires.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEven <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.md\/o\/wmd2S\/https:\/\/wwfeu.awsassets.panda.org\/downloads\/wwf_fires_forests_and_the_future_report.pdf\">a report<\/a> from the World Wildlife Fund\u2014chillingly subtitled \u2018a crisis raging out of control?\u2019 \u2014concedes midway through that \u2018the area of land burned globally has actually been steadily declining since it started to be recorded in 1900,\u201d Lomborg wrote.<\/p>\n<p>His op-ed<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/the-real-risks-of-global-climate-change-lomborg-glasgow-summit-cop26-11635450213\"> continues<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"27.44678138942\">\n<p>As this year\u2019s United Nations climate report argued, fire weather\u2014conditions conducive to wildfires\u2014is going to become more common as temperatures continue to increase. But this doesn\u2019t mean people will sit idly by and let it happen.&nbsp;When models factor in human adaptation, it turns out that these increases in fire damage disappear. An April <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.md\/o\/wmd2S\/https:\/\/agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/full\/10.1029\/2020EF001786\">study predicts<\/a> that population growth and economic development will overwhelm the potential of global warming to encourage fires. Climate policies could achieve a greater reduction in burned land, but at the cost of many trillions of dollars.<\/p>\n<p>While the share of the U.S. burned by wildfires has risen since the 1980s, influenced in part by climate change, that\u2019s not the whole story. Fires in the U.S. today burn less than a fifth of the area that was scorched each year in the 1930s, and an expert panel found that the recent uptick is mostly the result of poor forest management.<\/p>\n<p>It is true that more people will probably be threatened by fires in the future, but this is because part of the world\u2019s growing population will settle where wildfires are more common. The number of homes in high-fire-risk zones in the Western U.S. has increased 13-fold over the past 80 years and is set to increase further by 2050. A <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.md\/o\/wmd2S\/https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/nclimate2999\">2016 Nature study<\/a> concludes this is true globally. \u201cContrary to common perception,\u201d the researchers write, \u201chuman exposure to wildfires increases in the future mainly owing to projected population growth in areas with frequent wildfires, rather than by a general increase in burned area.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>When addressing the challenges of uncontrollable climate changing it would be better to let people find solutions instead of global mandates that do more damage than good, he says.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt would be better for everyone\u2014in developed and developing nations\u2014if the Glasgow conference doesn\u2019t end with the adoption of radical climate regulations,\u201d the <em>Journal<\/em> concluded.<\/p>\n<p><i>Follow Penny Starr on <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PennyStarrDC\"><i>Twitter<\/i><\/a><i> or send news tips to pstarr@breitbart.com.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the United Nation\u2019s COP26 summit gets underway on Sunday, a lone voice is pushing back on the existential threat of so-called climate change and most of the left-wing media, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-943262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/943262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=943262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/943262\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=943262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=943262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=943262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}