#339 – Climate Change Debate: Bjørn Lomborg and Andrew Revkin

Bjørn Lomborg is author of "False Alarm". Andrew Revkin is a
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the episode. On some podcast players you should be able to click
the timestamp to jump to that time. (00:00) - Introduction (06:59)
- Politics of climate change (24:01) - Greta Thunberg (30:31) -
Electric cars (37:53) - Economy (45:30) - Journalism (59:32) -
Human emissions (1:17:19) - Worst-case climate change scenario
(1:37:40) - Hurricanes (1:56:29) - Climate change vs Global warming
(2:00:35) - Climate alarmism (2:15:25) - Economic models (2:46:52)
- Climate change policies (3:02:54) - Nuclear energy (3:09:30) -
Alex Epstein (3:20:00) - Public opinion on climate change (3:41:57)
- US presidents (3:52:35) - Advice for young people (4:06:10) -
Meaning of life