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December 13, 2011

The Climate Extremists

Bjorn Lomborg, Project Syndicate


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Extreme weather is often said to be one of the main reasons for taking firm action on global warming. Nowadays, no hurricane or heat wave passes without a politician or activist claiming it as evidence of the need for a global climate deal, like the one that just got postponed until the end of the decade in Durban, South Africa. . .

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