False Alarm: How Climate Change Panic Costs Us Trillions, Hurts the Poor, and Fails to Fix the Planet

by Bjørn Lomborg

LEONARDO DICAPRIO’S 2016 climate change documentary was called Before the Flood. Rolling Stone published a 2019 article on climate change called “How to Survive a Flooded World.” In the same year, the New York Times declared: “Flooding Offers a Preview of Future Climate Havoc.”11 Unlike DiCaprio and the media, when the world’s best scientists worked together to examine evidence linking flooding and climate change, they could not find enough proof to even determine whether flooding was getting better or worse. The United Nations has carefully estimated the total amount of flooding around the world and found that it’s not clear whether it is even getting more or less frequent, much less if there is a human fingerprint involved.