Remember this next time somebody tries to tell you that climate change and unrestrained economic growth is probably not that bad in the medium term. Because they read something that refers back to the Copenhagen Consensus Center, Bjørn Lomborg and Richard Tol. Because it turns out the Copenhagen think tank probably accepted money from Paul Singer, billionaire funder of the Republicans and one step removed from the Koch brothers.
Tainted by association? I think so.
http://www.desmogblog.com/2015/02/09/exclusive-bjorn-lomborg-think-tank-funder-revealed-billionaire-republican-vulture-capitalist-paul-singer
Of course this is just one news report and might be an inaccurate smear. But it has the smell of truthiness.
Exclusive: Bjorn Lomborg Think Tank Funder Revealed As Billionaire Republican 'Vulture Capitalist' Paul Singer
The case that received most publicity in 2003 was the one concerning Bjørn Lomborg's book The Skeptical Environmentalist. DCSD's ruling in this case was made during the previous reporting period, but since DCSD's decision was appealed to the Ministry of Science, which made the ruling in December 2003, the case has been discussed in this annual report.
Further in the 2003 report(http://ufm.dk/en/publications/2004/files-2004/annual-report-2003-danish-committees-scientific-dishones.pdf):
DCSD made its decision in January 2003. In it, DCSD found that, by customary scientific standards, the defendant had acted at odds with good scientific practice in his systematically one-sided choice of data and in his arguments. If the book was intended to be evaluated as science and not as a contribution to the general debate, then in addition the scientific message had been so distorted that the objective criteria for establishing scientific dishonesty had been met.
(Annual Report 2003 The Danish Committees on Scientific Dishonesty)
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