If you look up at the Hollywood sign, you can see it's kind of hard to see sometimes.

We've seen some really low clouds coming down.

And again, just this hail really coming down here.

It's Tuesday of February the 28th, 2023, and welcome back to Goodfellows, a Hoover Institution broadcast examining social, economic, political, and geopolitical concerns.

I'm Bill Whalen. I'm a Hoover Distinguished Policy Fellow. I will be your moderator today, joined by two of our Goodfellows, the historian Neil Ferguson and the economist John Cochran, their Hoover Institution senior fellows.

Normally, we're also graced by the presence of Lieutenant General H.R. McMaster, but the good general had a scheduling conflict today. He sends

his regrets. He'll be back to us for our next episode, I hope. But joining us today for a sparyed

conversation about climate change and other matters of global importance is Bjorn Lomborg, a show

favorite. Bjorn Lomborg, in addition to being a visiting fellow here at the Hoover Institution,

as a Copenhagen Business School visiting professor and president of the Copenhagen Consensus Center,

which researches the smarter solutions to the world's biggest problems.

That's why he's returned to Goodfellists today to give Neil and John some smart solutions

to at least two big problems, a changing climate, and the world getting its priorities in order.

Bjorn, great to see you again.

That's good to be here.

Thank you very much.

Question, my friend.

Tell the viewers where you are today and what the weather is like outside and if it's

normal weather for this time of the year.

I'm in Sweden, and it was actually beautiful weather until the sunset and now it's just freezing as it

normally is. But yeah, little listener tip, don't ever go to Scandinavia in the winter. That's just

dreary. But do come the summer, it's wonderful. What about going to London in the winter, Neil?

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