Hello and welcome to this episode of Kennedy Saves the World.

Today I'm talking with one of my very favorite climate scientists who is, he is a, I guess, rational skeptic.

I don't know how he described himself. That's how I describe him because I read his incredible articles and books. And I think to myself, that is how we should be looking at global climate change. Bjorn Lomborg is here. You are working with the Hoover Institution. You're the president of

Copenhagen Consensus. Yep. And you're also a decorated New York Times bestselling author.

I am. And one of the few people who's really rationally tackling climate change,

your most recent article in the New York Post was so great

because you touched on two things

that scare the bejesus out of people.

One is disappearing polar bears,

which, you know, RIP polar bears are all gone, apparently,

according to an inconvenient truth.

There's no way they could possibly be

living and uh coral reef yeah so how did polar bears become the scare animal of the climate change

movement well so there's been a lot of different stories uh coming around and polar bears were

obviously one of the big ones in the early 2000s.

Al Gore, as you mentioned, put them in this movie.

We were told that they were just going to be gone.

But the reality, of course, is that when you have the data and we do have the data for

how many there are, there's actually more than there's ever been.

We don't know, but

you know, certainly since the 1960s, yes, yes. Since we've been recording the number of polar bears, because before it was so cold, no one wanted to go up and count them. But now it's like, we have to, like, how else are we going to scare people? In the 1960s, we probably had, you know, around 12,000 are thereabouts, individuals.

Now we have 26,000 polar bears.

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