U-TURN BY TOP CLIMATE-CHANGE SCEPTIC
31 August 2010
Bjorn Lomberg, high-profile climate sceptic is to declare in a book to be published shortly that global warming is “undoubtedly one of the chief concerns facing the world today”, and “a challenge humanity must confront”.
In the book he will call for tens of billions of dollars a year to be invested in climate-change, and suggests that $100bn annually would resolve the problem by the end of this century.
Interviewed by the Guardian newspaper, he said he would finance investment through a tax on carbon emissions that would also raise $50bn to mitigate the effect of climate change, by for example building better sea defences, and extra finance for global healthcare.
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