Investigative journalist Graham Readfearn has a
post on DeSmog that takes a critical look at Lomborg's oft-repeated claim that his Copenhagen Consensus Center works with seven Nobel laureates. Turns out that—unless Lomborg can speak to the dead—the number is inflated, because Robert Fogel died two years ago. Realistically, the number of laureates Lomborg actually works with is closer to two, and those two probably aren't so reliable.
Let's take a look at the six laureates other than Fogel who Lomborg cites. One only participated in the Rethink HIV project back in 2010, and another hasn't worked with CCC since 2008. As for the "Post 2015 Consensus" (CCC's most recent project), there were only two Nobel laureates on its expert panel, suggesting that Lomborg can claim two current laureates at most.
And those two, smart as they may be, probably aren't the best positioned to talk about climate change. One's a senior fellow at the Koch-created and Koch-funded, free-market-idolizing Cato Institute, and the other is Thomas Schelling, who at 94 has maintained the same stance on climate (faith in the free market, no need for emissions reductions) since the late 1970s, despite the decades of new evidence since then.
So, it turns out Lomborg's Nobel laureate panel isn't quite as robust as he'd like you to believe, considering the seven experts he cites are either dead, no longer working with CCC, or blinded by their devotion to free market ideology.
Perhaps Bjorn's intentionally keeping the staff to a minimum, given the difficulty of holding meetings in the CCC's PO box-based headquarters.
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