Bjorn Lomborg said global warming will not lead to the end of the world during a recent interview with Sky News Australia [1].
Lomborg's perspective challenges prevailing narratives of catastrophic climate collapse. By arguing that apocalyptic predictions are incorrect, he suggests that global policy should shift toward managing a predictable increase in temperature rather than preparing for a total planetary failure.
The president of the Copenhagen Consensus Centre said that the more realistic outcome is that the world will see almost three degrees Celsius of warming [1]. He said that predictions of a catastrophic collapse have become obviously wrong, making a modest warming scenario a more accurate expectation [1, 2].
Lomborg criticized those who have promoted extreme climate scenarios. "They’re implicitly also guilty, but I think the fundamental point is it became so obvious this is wrong now they had to take it back," Lomborg said [1].
He further dismissed the idea that current environmental policies have already significantly altered the projected temperature trajectory. "Now they’re saying oh, it’s because we did all this green stuff, which is just implausible again," Lomborg said [1].
Lomborg's approach emphasizes a data-driven assessment of risk over what he describes as alarmism. He suggests that while warming is occurring, the scale of the impact is often overstated by those forecasting an existential crisis [1, 2].
“"The more realistic outcome is we’re going to see almost three degrees warming."”
Lomborg's assertions represent a school of thought that seeks to decouple climate change from apocalyptic rhetoric. By projecting a specific warming figure of nearly three degrees, he shifts the debate from whether the world will end to how society can best adapt to a measurable increase in global temperatures.
