Bjørn Lomborg

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Lex Fridman Podcast · #339 – Climate Change Debate: Bjørn Lomborg and Andrew Revkin · 18 Nov 2022 podcast

Tokyo had the same thing in the 1930s.

They were also withdrawing lots of water way too fast.

And so one of the obvious things is maybe you should stop withdrawing water so fast.

And again, we seem to almost be intent on finding the most politically correct way to fix a problem or the thing that sort of gets the most clicks instead of the thing that actually works the best.

So a lot of these things are really not rocket science solutions.

Let me try to answer the questions slightly quicker before your friends have drunk too much.

Never enough.

Or not enough.

So if you look at the amount of the number of hurricanes, as Andy rightly pointed out, it doesn't look like it's changing.

So we see more because we have now much better detection systems with satellites.

But if you look since 1980, when we have good satellite coverage, for instance, last year was the year that had the lowest number of hurricanes in the world.

And you're sort of like, that's odd because it's probably the year where I heard the most about hurricanes.

And what that tells you is that just because you hear a lot about hurricanes doesn't actually mean that there is a lot of hurricanes.

You can't just go that way.

If you remember in the 1990s and 2000s,

There was an enormous amount of talk about how violence, how crime was getting worse in the US, while all the objective indicators showed that it was going down.

But there's sufficient amount of violence that you can fill every radio and TV show with a new crime.

And so if you get more and more TV shows that talk about crime, actually most people end up thinking that there's more crime while the real number is going down.

So the reality here is,

Yes, climate change will probably affect hurricanes in the sense that they'll be the same number or slightly fewer as Andy was mentioning, but they will likely be somewhat stronger.

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