Author of 'Best Things First', 'False Alarm', and 'Skeptical Environmentalist', President Copenhagen Consensus: smart solutions through economic prioritization
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AFP ‘fact’-checks are really ideology checks
They debunk a meat ban I never claimed
But they ignore that Copenhagen politicians voted 6–4 to delete the line putting elderly residents’ wishes and freedom of choice always above climate goals
Awkward for AFP: even the Danish PM objects
This is the post, AFP don't want you to retweet
nitter.cf/BjornLomborg/status/21…
Heartbreaking 💔
Copenhagen climate politicians push elderly in retirement homes onto minimal meat to cut CO₂
Birthday wishes for beef are sometimes rejected “for the CO₂ accounts”
Residents pay for the food but often get organic vegetarian instead of what they want
archive.ph/wo9OV
Guidelines (p.45): max 500g meat/week, max 80g beef/veal/lamb (~one kid’s burger/week)
maaltider.kk.dk/sites/defaul…
Sources
AFP 'fact'-check: factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.co…
Comment on it here: yahoo.com/news/world/article…
Committee vote: kk.dk/dagsordener-og-referat…
City's BDO report, pp. 11, 12, 34: kk.dk/sites/default/files/ag…
PM: "That elderly people in care homes can't get the meat they want is, I think, simply wrong" instagram.com/p/DerkAhVjcDp/
Reef: nitter.cf/BjornLomborg/status/20…
AFP's EU project: afp.com/sites/default/files/…
AFP claims to “fact-check” my post: Great Barrier Reef five-year highest coral cover
But AFP never fact-checks the data it labels ‘inflated’
Instead, AFP simply changes the subject
In unrelated news: AFP part of EU-funded project to debunk climate misinformation
AFP “Fact check”: factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.co…
Member FactCRICIS/EuroClimateCheck, an EU-co-funded program afp.com/sites/default/files/…
Solar and wind: Double nothing is still nothing
Germany has built wind and solar at 3.8x its average use, yet they provide just half its power
Double solar and wind:
You get too much when it's worth nothing, and still too little almost half the time
"But batteries!"
Well, Germany's grid batteries can store just 9 minutes of its average electricity use,
very generously assuming they're already full
In its worst week this year, renewables fell short by 800 times that
Even adding all of Germany's pumped hydro, it's under an hour
In its worst week this year, renewables fell short by more than 100 times that
Grid, home and industrial batteries, and pumped hydro (39 GWh):
battery-charts.de/battery-ch…
Electricity use and renewables, every 15 minutes:
energy-charts.info/charts/po…
Excitement when Germany hit a record 115% renewables on Oct 24
But on many days, renewables falter, and prices soar:
€140/MWh on days under 40% renewables
Germany pays for wind and solar plus a whole backup system — because renewables only deliver some days
Refs at the end
Neuer Rekord!
Der tägliche Anteil erneuerbarer Energien an der Last (=Stromverbrauch+Netzverluste) erreichte am 24.10.2026 114,8 %. Der Stromverbrauch konnte im Durchschnitt zu 100 % aus EE gedeckt werden und es wurden zusätzlich 14,8 % exportiert.
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energy-charts.info/charts/re…
This is why Germany has some of the costliest power in the world
Germans pay for solar and wind that sometimes deliver too much and often way too little
So they also have to pay for the entire backup system as well
nitter.cf/BjornLomborg/status/21…
Climate policies have consequences
EU households pay 1.9x US prices and 4x China
And Germany has the highest household electricty cost in the world
iea.org/data-and-statistics/…
Alarmists: “World on fire!”
Reality: By Oct 28, global burned area likely never lower than 2026
Disasters in France, Spain & Canada are tragic—but climate is global. Cherry-picking isn’t science
Climate policy does near-nothing for fires
We need better fire policy (prescribed burns, let some burn) and better climate info
gwis.jrc.ec.europa.eu/apps/g…
The world is burning less
Despite breathless climate reporting of ever-more fire
Total area burned across the world has declined over past 125 years
By Oct 28, world has burned 40% less than normal (2012–25). We don't know the rest of the year, but extrapolating from the first 9+ months, 2026 is on track to burn historically little
The century-long reduction is entirely uncontroversial, mostly because more people (humans don't want fire near their houses) and more agriculture (farmers don't want their crops on fire)
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.…, earthdata.nasa.gov/data/cata…
Alarmists: “World on fire!”
Reality: By Oct 28, global burned area likely never lower than 2026
Disasters in France, Spain & Canada are tragic—but climate is global. Cherry-picking isn’t science
Climate policy does near-nothing for fires
We need better fire policy (prescribed burns, let some burn) and better climate info
unfccc.int/news/un-secretary…, newsweek.com/the-earth-is-on…, blog.ucs.org/rachel-cleetus/…
gwis.jrc.ec.europa.eu/apps/g…
