Tom Ritchford
1 min readNov 20, 2019

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Passing on other people’s lies about matters of desperate importance and never checking whether they are true or not is highly morally questionable.

Bjørn Lomborg’s issues with climatologists are “not with the reality of climate change, but rather with the economic and political approaches being taken (or not taken) to meet the challenges of that climate change.” Source.

If you don’t believe that, here is Lomborg in his own words:

Each year, the world spends $548-billion subsidizing fossil fuels, according to the International Energy Agency. That’s $548-billion that could have been spent much better.

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A disproportionate share of the subsidies goes to the middle class and the rich — after all, they are the ones who can afford a car in poor countries. And the subsidies make fossil fuels so inexpensive that consumption increases, thus exacerbating global warming.

Given that your comment is false, can we please get a correction from you?

Given the gravity of this matter, you might want to avoid having your name attached to provable falsehoods. You might not care what people think about you, but I personally want people to think that I care about what is actually true and not think that I just make things up or spread random falsehoods some random person told me.

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