Bjorn Lomborg

Bjørn Lomborg is associate professor of statistics in the Department of Political Science at the University of Aarhus, Denmark. His formal education is political science. He earned his Ph.D. in game theory. From 2002 - 2004 he was head of the Environmental Assessment Institute. In 2004, following the Copenhagen Consensus, he resigned the post to return to academia.

References, Resource and Contact

Publications

• Bjorn Lomborg, The Challenges of Development and Environmental Sustainability in Africa: the case of Rwanda (MP3 Audio), LSE lecture, 4 October 2007.
• Bjorn Lomborg, Cool It: global warming and getting our priorities straight (MP3 Audio), LSE lecture, 2 October 2007. (The second part of the lecture has a critique by Simon Dietz)
• Bjorn Lomborg, Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist's Guide to Global Warming, Cyan-Marshall Cavendish, 2007 (ISBN-10: 0462099121)
• Bjorn Lomborg, The Skeptical Environmentalist: measuring the real state of the world, Cambridge University Press, 2001.
• Bjorn Lomborg, Trade & Environment", Presentation to World Trade Organization seminar“The Doha Development Agenda and Beyond” , 29 April to 1 May 2002. (Powerpoint presentation).
• Bjorn Lomborg, "Smearing a Skeptic: Something is rotten in the state of Denmark", Wall Street Journal, 23 January 2003.
• Bjorn Lomborg, "Time for the climate doomsters to face reality", The Times, 11 May 2004.
• Bjorn Lomborg, "Save the world, ignore global warming", The Telegraph, 12 December 2004.
• Bjorn Lomborg, "False Prophets, Bad Economics", Newsweek, 13 December 2004.
• Bjorn Lomborg, "Let's first tackle hunger and disease", The Australian, 23 December 2004.
• Bjorn Lomborg, "Tsunami disaster: Remember, Asia’s old stealthy killers claim more victims than any catastrophe", The Sunday Times (UK), 2 January 2005.
• "'We can do immense good': 2005: Challenges and Opportunites", San Francisco Examiner, 4 February 2005. (This is an interview with Lomborg).
• Bjorn Lomborg, "HIV-AIDS should be the top priority", Sydney Morning Herald, 5 July 2005.

Resources

• Bjorn Lomborg, Cool It: global warming and getting our priorities straight (MP3 Audio), LSE lecture, 2 October 2007.