Dennis Prager Show - Bjorn Lomborg: Climate Change isn't Partisan
Aired: 2021-07-09
Duration: 02:35


=== Climate Change: Beyond Partisanship (02:21) ===

[00:00:00]  I was in New York Times last year, but that was mostly because a Nobel laureate guy I know actually had written some pretty terrible things about me for wrong reasons.
[00:00:14]  But no, they don't normally do that anymore.
[00:00:17]  And it is a big shame, because honestly, climate change, like pretty much all other issues, it's not a partisan issue.
[00:00:24]  It should be about being smart about our resources.
[00:00:28]  It should be about saying, look, climate change is a real problem, but we've got to fix it smartly.
[00:00:34]  We can't afford to fix it badly.
[00:00:37]  Well, for the record, being smart is a partisan issue, but I won't develop that.
[00:00:42]  Well, I would hope it's not.
[00:00:45]  I think there are smart people on both sides.
[00:00:47]  But again, I'm not American.
[00:00:48]  But, you know, I really think being smart is something that both Democrats and Republicans...
[00:00:54]  Ought to be able to agree on.
[00:00:55]  But yeah, sure, there's going to be differences.
[00:00:58]  The difference between ought and is is big.
[00:01:01]  Your column is very important about the deaths, and I cited it.
[00:01:07]  You will find this of interest.
[00:01:09]  I read from your column on my show a couple of days ago, and the excerpts were then posted.
[00:01:19]  On Media Matters and another left-wing site as an example of the idiocies of the right, that they would claim that more people are dying from cold than from heat.
[00:01:30]  In other words, it was a self-evident idiocy that only the right could believe.
[00:01:38]  And so I just want you to know, just reading your article got me into their...
[00:01:44]  A radar.
[00:01:47]  That's what I mean by smart is not partisan.
[00:01:52]  Okay, or is partisan, I should say.
[00:01:53]  So explain verbally what you wrote about.
[00:01:59]  So a lot of people have been talking lately about heat deaths from the heat dome in the Northwest.

=== Shows Need Action (00:29) ===

[00:02:06]  And obviously, that heat wave was terrible.
[00:02:09]  It's probably killed many hundreds of people.
[00:02:12]  And there's nothing good about a heat wave.
[00:02:16]  And certainly part of this is likely to be the kind of thing that we would see from climate change.
[00:02:22]  So people are pointing out, see, this is climate change.
[00:02:25]  This shows we need to do something about climate change.
[00:02:28]  We need to change course.
[00:02:30]  Right.
[00:02:30]  Hold it there.
[00:02:31]  Don't forget where you are.
[00:02:32]  Bjorn Lomborg and climate change.