Keeping Your Cool on the Climate Debate with Bjorn Lomborg

Uncommon Knowledge

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🗓️ 10 March 2021

⏱️ 66 minutes

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In this wide-ranging discussion with Peter Robinson, Bjorn Lomborg analyzes the Biden administration’s plan to address climate change, lauds a slew of new clean energy technologies that are coming in the next decade, and discusses the upsides—and the downsides—of migrating the world from a carbon-based economy to one based on electricity generated by clean energy sources.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Uncommon Knowledge, I'm Peter Robinson.
0:13.3	Bjorn Lomborg is president of the Copenhagen Consensus Center, a think-take dedicated to applying
0:19.1	economic analysis, including cost-benefit analysis, we'll be hearing more about that, I'm sure,
0:24.4	to the great issues of the day.
0:26.2	He's the author of a number of books, including his 2001 bestseller, The Skeptical Environmentalist.
0:34.0	Bjorn Lomborg's latest book published just last year, Faults Alarm, How Climate Change Panic
0:39.9	Costs us trillions hurts the poor and fails to fix the planet.
0:45.8	Today, the Biden administration has promised to place climate at the very center of all its
0:50.5	deliberations.
0:52.0	Bjorn Lomborg will tell us how the administration is doing.
0:56.5	Bjorn, welcome back.
0:57.5	Peter, it's great to be back.
0:59.5	You're in Sweden.
1:00.7	I am, yes, so virtually.
1:02.9	Virtually.
1:03.9	Yes, and I'm in California, so we are, I think that's pretty much where on opposite sides
1:08.0	of the planet right now.
1:09.3	Currently, yeah, well, one third or so, yeah.
1:13.0	Two quotations, here's, this is from the Biden plan, which is a campaign document that
1:18.8	laid out Joe Biden's climate agenda.
1:21.2	And it's best I can tell the administration now that he's in office there.
1:24.4	They're sticking to this quite closely.
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