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

by Bjørn Lomborg

When we hear politicians vowing to deliver “100 percent renewable energy” by 2030 or 2050, look at figure 7.1. We could call it the “narwhale chart”—it shows that such ideas are unmoored by historical reality or common sense.