From Alex Epstein, host of Power Hour
On this week’s Power Hour I interview Dr. Bjorn Lomborg, author of False Alarm: How Climate Change Panic Costs Us Trillions, Hurts the Poor, and Fails to Fix the Planet.
As I discussed in my review of the book several weeks ago, I think this is an extremely valuable book, on two counts above all.
- It documents in case after case how the media and political leaders wildly distort the conclusions of mainstream climate research.
- It documents in case after case how human adaptation can neutralize climate danger.
The book was recently attacked in a New York Times “review” by the famous near-socialist economist Joseph Stiglitz. Bjorn systematically refuted the pseudo-review on this impressive LinkedIn article.
On the show we discuss:
- How trusted media sources manipulated a climate research paper to predict 187 million climate refugees when the number was actually around 300,000 (half the number of people who move out of California every year) * Why we always need to look for positive and negative impacts, not just one or the other
- How many seconds worth of electricity all of America’s batteries can store today
- The true state of solar and wind in the world today
- How people in developing countries around the world demand “real electricity,” not the meager, unreliable electricity provided by much-heralded solar installations
- The prospects for nuclear energy
- Some of the crude errors of the New York Times review of False Alarm
- How global capitalism will encourage energy progress even when specific technophobic countries reject it
