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The Amazon blurb says that The New York Times-bestselling "skeptical environmentalist" argues that panic over climate change is causing more harm than good

Hurricanes batter our coasts. Wildfires rage across the American West. Glaciers collapse in the Artic. Politicians, activists, and the media espouse a common message: climate change is destroying the planet, and we must take drastic action immediately to stop it. Children panic about their future, and adults wonder if it is even ethical to bring new life into the world.

'What could possibly cause all this melting ice? My money's on all those long, hot stinkers you've been letting! Pee-yew! I mean, what else could it be?'

Enough, argues bestselling author Bjorn Lomborg. Climate change is real, but it's not the apocalyptic threat that we've been told it is. Projections of Earth's imminent demise are based on bad science and even worse economics. In panic, world leaders have committed to wildly expensive but largely ineffective policies that hamper growth and crowd out more pressing investments in human capital, from immunization to education.

False Alarm: How Climate Change Panic Costs Us Trillions, Hurts the Poor, and Fails to Fix the Planet will convince you that everything you think about climate change is wrong — and points the way toward making the world a vastly better, if slightly warmer, place for us all.

Lomborg does a service in calling out the environmental alarmism and hysteria that obscure environmental debates rather than illuminate them

As Lomborg tells it, "The science shows us that fears of climate apocalypse are unfounded." Unlike the message in panicky tomes like Only Love Remains: Dancing at the Edge of Extinction, "global warming is real, but it is not the end of the world—it is a manageable problem." says Lomborg. "Life on Earth is better now than it was in any time in history. . . . Between 1990 and 2015, the percentage of the world practicing open defecation dropped from 30 to 15 percent." Except in San Francisco, where the "woke" progressives support such activities in spite of them being the LEAST progressive activity imaginable!

Watch where you walk in San Francisco—it's no longer just dogs decorating sidewalks and streets; now the humans are doing it as well, given that those 'in charge' have told them it's okay!

Dancing at the Edge of Extinction—the cliff edge is much closer than we ever thought, say the alarmists

Lomborg says that "the Paris Agreement in its best-case scenario will achieve just one percent of what the politicians have promised and at huge cost. It is simply a bad deal for the world. . . . a recent study of the consequences of implementing the Paris Agreement showed that it will actually increase poverty."

California wind turbines slaughter birds by the tens of thousands—since when is bird genocide environmentalism?

Lomborg does a service in calling out the environmental alarmism and hysteria that obscure environmental debates rather than illuminate them—the Earth is NOT facing apocalypse!

Climate change is being overblown by media looking for readers, by politicians looking for votes, and by green organizations looking for subsidies and beneficial regulations. We should invest in green technologies and geoengineering. This is where False Alarm: How Climate Change Panic Costs Us Trillions, Hurts the Poor, and Fails to Fix the Planet is at its most interesting and most speculative. Each dollar invested in green technology could avoid $11 of climate change. Each dollar invested in geoengineering could see $2,000 worth of gains. Lomborg did his homework. He mentions the deliberately misleading actions of climate campaigners and activists who are intimately connected to politicians with pockets bulging with money. These are politicians who have their own agenda of seeking fame as world saviors battling climate change and, thereby, gain greater and greater political power.

There are politicians who have their own agenda of seeking fame as world saviors battling climate change and, thereby, gain greater and greater political power

"Lomborg does not lack solutions. In False Alarm: How Climate Change Panic Costs Us Trillions, Hurts the Poor, and Fails to Fix the Planet, he advocates a range of cost-benefit tested policies to address both climate change and global poverty.... Lomborg does a service in calling out the environmental alarmism and hysteria that obscure environmental debates rather than illuminate them."—National Review

Climate change panic will lead us to go bankrupt chasing frauds like the Green New Deal, much of which is a liberal wish list of socialistic nonsense such as guaranteed jobs for everyone and universal health care which there's no way to pay for; Cost: $51–$93 trillion over the next decade when we are already 30 trillion dollars in debt!

On February 9, 2019, United States President Donald Trump voiced his opposition using sarcasm via Twitter as follows: "I think it is very important for the Democrats to press forward with their Green New Deal. It would be great for the so-called "Carbon Footprint" to permanently eliminate all Planes, Cars, Cows, Oil, Gas & the Military – even if no other country would do the same. Brilliant!" Unlike the Marxist socialist liberal nutjobs, Trump displays common sense, not pie-in-the-sky idealism. We miss him!

Trump

“It’s precisely because the problem is so serious that [Lomborg] argues it is necessary to approach it cool-headedly….The alternative? In Lomborg’s view it is letting ourselves be panicked into the most expensive course—trying to fix the climate without having the necessary technology on hand. Lomborg argues powerfully that this is a fool’s errand….A corrective to many of the green assumptions that dominate the media.”—Financial Times

"Meticulously researched, and well worth a read."—Forbes

“An excellent summary of the madness, hypocrisy, and cynicism of the climate-alarm establishment.... Lomborg has done an excellent job pointing out that climate fears are indeed a ‘false alarm,’ misdirecting time and resources away from real, and soluble, problems.”—New Criterion

Lomborg has done an excellent job pointing out that climate fears are indeed a ‘false alarm,’ misdirecting time and resources away from real, and soluble, problems

"An important book. Mr. Lomborg is a long-standing environmentalist regarded as a heretic by hardliners in the movement because he is an optimist who says that humanity is not doomed."—Iain Martin, The Times (UK)

“Lomborg is persuasive on the vulnerability of Africa and need for greater emphasis on building climate resilience.”—The Irish Times

Lomborg is persuasive on the vulnerability of Africa and need for greater emphasis on building climate resilience

"The best way to deal with global warming is to increase global prosperity.... The choice we face, Lomborg writes, is between a human future driven by fear and one driven by ingenuity. On that, he is exactly right."—The Bulwark

“False Alarm: How Climate Change Panic Costs Us Trillions, Hurts the Poor, and Fails to Fix the Planet is a comprehensive analysis of the issues in climate change that represents a reasoned balance between the shrill voices demanding immediate change (without being aware of the practical issues involved) and those who see no problems at all with our current environmental situation.”—New York Journal of Books

"Lomborg's most basic premise remains that there are better ways to alleviate human misery than spending taxpayer subsidies on panic-driven, political non-solutions to a changing climate. Few would argue with that goal."—American Thinker

Lomborg brands climate change warnings as alarmist, and argues that a massive reduction in fossil fuels would exacerbate global poverty

“A detailed...human-centric, optimistic tome from an honest environmentalist.”—Capitalism Magazine

“Lomborg’s work is impossible for alarmists to ignore.”—Heartland Institute

“In between the cries of imminent apocalypse and outright denial that seems to be the daily fare of the mainstream and alternative news outlets on the issue of global warming, Bjorn Lomborg sounds a rare note of sanity and moderation in his new book, False Alarm: How Climate Change Panic Costs Us Trillions, Hurts the Poor, and Fails to Fix the Planet. Lomborg’s achievement is in providing a much-needed broader context to the climate debate, based on years of researching and writing on the topic....One hopes that this book will bring to the attention of the general public, specialists and policy-makers, not just the scale of the problem of climate change, but the most positive steps that can be taken by governments to address it.”—International Journal of World Peace

Of the five mass extinctions we've had on Earth, all but the one that killed the dinosaurs involved climate change produced by greenhouse gas

"Lomborg brands climate change warnings as alarmist, and argues that a massive reduction in fossil fuels would exacerbate global poverty, in this detailed account.... Lomborg is careful to back his cost-benefit analyses of climate policies with surveys and statistics."—Publishers Weekly

Lomborg is careful to back his cost-benefit analyses of climate policies with surveys and statistics

"[Lomborg] follows his previous critiques of climate change policy...with a hard-hitting analysis of failing strategies for addressing what he acknowledges is 'a real problem.'...A serious, debatable assessment of a controversial global issue."—Kirkus

"Bjorn Lomborg's new book offers a data-driven, human-centered antidote to the oft-apocalyptic discussion characterizing the effect of human activity on the global climate. Careful, compelling, and above all sensible and pragmatic."—Jordan Peterson, author of 12 Rules for Life

"This is a very important and superbly argued book. Those who have been persuaded that climate change is not happening, and those who think catastrophe is imminent should both read it and know they can rely on Lomborg's meticulous analysis to put them right. The rest of us can be alarmed by his relentless revelation that the world is spending a fortune on making the plight of the poor and the state of the environment worse with foolish and expensive policies."—Matt Ridley, author of How Innovation Works

Based on the latest scientific evidence and rigorous economic analysis, this book provides a welcome antidote to widespread, irrational panic about a coming climate apocalypse

"False Alarm: How Climate Change Panic Costs Us Trillions, Hurts the Poor, and Fails to Fix the Planet is a timely and important book. Based on the latest scientific evidence and rigorous economic analysis, it provides a welcome antidote to widespread, irrational panic about a coming climate apocalypse. Instead, it provides a set of smart, rational policies for addressing global warming — while not losing sight of the myriad other problems that beset our planet, including poverty and inequality. This book is essential reading for anyone who cares about our shared human future."—Justin Yifu Lin, former chief economist, the World Bank

False Alarm: How Climate Change Panic Costs Us Trillions, Hurts the Poor, and Fails to Fix the Planet provides a welcome antidote to widespread, irrational panic about a coming climate apocalypse

"This is a fantastic book. In it, Bjorn Lomborg examines through the lens of statistics the apocalyptic projections of the future of climate change. He points out, rightly, that the doomsday scenarios are misguided and that policy decisions driven by panic have real costs, particularly for the poor. False Alarm: How Climate Change Panic Costs Us Trillions, Hurts the Poor, and Fails to Fix the Planet is a must-read."—Bibek Debroy, Chairman, Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister of India

Lomborg says that doomsday scenarios about climate change are misguided and policy decisions driven by panic have real costs, particularly for the poor

"Bjorn Lomborg is that rare thing: a clear-sighted realist about climate change. In False Alarm: How Climate Change Panic Costs Us Trillions, Hurts the Poor, and Fails to Fix the Planet, he argues that it would be foolish to do nothing to prepare for a warmer planet, but it would be more foolish to pretend that we are doing things that will significantly reduce carbon dioxide emissions when we are not. At the same time, getting serious about cutting CO2 emissions will have a cost. As Lomborg says, vastly more people die as a consequence of poverty and disease each year than die as a consequence of global warming. As in the past, we humans are capable of adapting to climate change in ways that can significantly mitigate its adverse effects, without choking off economic growth. To learn how, you must read False Alarm: How Climate Change Panic Costs Us Trillions, Hurts the Poor, and Fails to Fix the Planet."—Niall Ferguson, the Hoover Institution, Stanford University

It would be foolish to do nothing to prepare for a warmer planet, but it would be more foolish to pretend that we are doing things that will significantly reduce carbon dioxide emissions when we are not

Bjorn Lomborg is the best-selling author of The Skeptical Environmentalist and Cool It. He is a visiting professor at Copenhagen Business School and at the Hoover Institution at Stanford. His work appears regularly in New York Times, Wall Street Journal, the Economist, the Atlantic, and Forbes. His monthly column appears in around 40 papers in 19 languages, with more than 30 million readers. In 2011 and 2012, Lomborg was named Top 100 Global Thinker by Foreign Policy. In 2008 he was named "one of the 50 people who could save the planet" by the Guardian. He lives in Prague.

The climate apocalypse, according to climate alarmists, will send our planet off a cliff

All over the Western world, green protestors are blocking traffic, disrupting the daily lives of innocent civilians, and more

All over the Western world, green protestors are blocking traffic, disrupting the daily lives of innocent civilians; in extreme cases even preventing ambulances and first responders from doing their jobs. Again, having sufficient faith in the axiom of the climate apocalypse, none of this behavior is irrational.

The middle class had/has to pay for all these crazy neocon wet dreams of endless power and wealth—not for our nation's people, mind you, but for the oligarchs of our shadow government

The middle class had/has to pay for all the crazy neocon wet dreams of endless power and wealth—not for our nation's people but for the oligarchs of our shadow government. The liberals in charge under Biden, the insanely bad, doddering presidential puppet, fronting for and lying for the liberal elites and their techie oligarchs, stopped our useless wars in the Middle East because they saw trillions of dollars wasted on useless boondogles and they wanted the money for themselves. So they ginned up climate alarmism panic they hoped would loosen pocketbooks out of fear and then called it the Green New Deal, which scientists say would not really address or halt global warming more than 1%, but it would surely line their pockets nicely! Green New Fraud is the truth they don't want you to learn!

The liberals in charge under Biden, the insanely bad, doddering presidential puppet, fronting for and lying for the liberal elites and their techie oligarchs, saw trillions of dollars wasted on useless wars and they wanted the money for themselves

Biden, the insanely bad, doddering presidential puppet, fronting for and lying for the liberal elites and their techie oligarchs, supported the Green New Fraud

Democrats and their friends in the media attempting to push Biden’s agenda forward resemble nothing so much as the cast of the 1989 comedy Weekend at Bernie’s, hauling around their dead boss’s corpse and trying to pretend he’s still alive—Robert Stacy McCain in The American Spectator