Lomborg's Misdirection Defined and Dismissed

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This analysis in the Scottish Sunday Herald gets nicely to the point of why the mischievously misdirecting Bjorn Lomborg is damaging the global conversation about climateย change.

โ€œLomborg says Kyoto is a misallocation of resources which should have gone to the Third World. But Americaโ€™s boycott of Kyoto in 1998 didnโ€™t lead to more resources for the wretched of the earth.

There have been no petrodollars flooding into sub-Saharan Africa. The US still allocates the lowest percentage of GDP to development of any industrialised country. All Lomborgโ€™s arguments do is delay any action about climate change, which is why he is so popular with American corporateย interests.โ€

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