Bjorn Lomborg is a statistician and director of the Copenhagen Consensus Center. He is also the author of several books, among them "False Alarm: How Climate Change Panic Costs Us Trillions, Hurts the Poor, and Fails to Fix the Planet," "The Skeptical Environmentalist," and "Cool It." www.lomborg.com

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