Pierre Masselot Assistant Professor, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Expertise: Extreme heat, Climate change impacts on health Review Type Allclaim (1) Misleading Climate Posted on: 2024-08-28 Bjorn Lomborg’s claims about polar bears, coral, and cold deaths ignore scientists’ predictions of climate-change-affected futures Claim: Despite climate change, the global polar-bear population has increased substantially, the Great Barrier Reef has more coral cover than at any point since 1986, and extreme-heat deaths have declined. Source: The Wall Street Journal, Bjorn Lomborg, 2024-08-01
Misleading Climate Posted on: 2024-08-28 Bjorn Lomborg’s claims about polar bears, coral, and cold deaths ignore scientists’ predictions of climate-change-affected futures Claim: Despite climate change, the global polar-bear population has increased substantially, the Great Barrier Reef has more coral cover than at any point since 1986, and extreme-heat deaths have declined. Source: The Wall Street Journal, Bjorn Lomborg, 2024-08-01