Don’t just “Follow the science” You also need economics - Bjorn Lomborg

Yes, there are costs to climate change. But there are also costs to climate policy

• Climate-concerned politicians and activists often repeat the claim that we have to "follow the science" on climate change, meaning we must magically abandon fossil fuels rapidly.
• But this conflates climate science with climate policy.
• Yes, there are costs to climate change. But there are also costs to climate policy: It would have huge consequences to “just stop” oil, gas and coal for a world that gets almost four-fifths of all its energy from fossil fuels. 
• If we quickly ended our use of fossil fuels, billions would die...