Bjorn Lomborg Apparently Still Alive, Now Plagiarizes Himself, Along With Birther/Sandy Hook Truther
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Case in point is Bjorn Lomborg, who seems to publish a new op-ed every couple of weeks in some mid-tier publication. Not total blog spam stuff, but less than the WSJ pages he (dis)graced last fall. Apparently it’s gotten way too hard to find new ways to pretend to care about climate change while enabling fossil fuel consumption, because last week UK outlet CityAM published what it headlined an “exclusive” oped from Lomborg about “50 years of misguided climate panic” that was actually just a lightly edited version of a New York Post op-ed Lomborg got published last November, about “50 years of spurious scaremongering”!
One text-compare website showed an 97.3% match between the two pieces. They're not identical, but the editing is certainly minimal, especially given that CityAM’s preface read that Lomborg was “writing exclusively for City A.M. today.”
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After all, Lomborg has a long history of making false claims that have been critically fact checked. And this list is no different, essentially a mix of bad reporting from the past with misinterpretations, cherry-picking and other context-defying disinformation meant to make past warnings that often went heeded look like predictions that never came true (even though many parts warned about in the past 50 years, from hunger to heat waves and extreme weather, already have happened, with deadly results, as warned).
What’s worse? This disinfo narrative that Lomborg is self-plagiarizing isn’t even his own! He lifted the idea and examples from perhaps the only people more cravenly dishonest- industry-funded CEI’s Myron Ebell and tobacco-turned-fossil-fuel lawyer Steve Milloy, who themselves pulled most of the examples from Tony Heller, back in 2019! Heller, as you may recall from his regular appearances here, is full of climate disinfo, but is also multifaceted, and has been banned from twitter for spreading COVID disinfo, while in the past he’s also spread conspiracy theories about the Sandy Hook school shooting and Barack Obama's birthplace.
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https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/2/17/2080798/-Bjorn-Lomborg-Plagiarizes-Himself-Industry-Front-Groups-And-Conspiracy-Theorist-Tony-Heller#comment_82953515
