Lomborg Hack Tank Cites Work W. "7 Nobel Laureates" - 1 Dead, 4 Occasionally Involved, 2 Cato
As a way to sell your think tank’s ideas, get people to fund it or even just collaborate with it, there could be few more enticing prospects than being able to rub shoulders with seven Nobel prize winning economists. In Australia, Danish climate change contrarian and head of the US-based Copenhagen Consensus Center (CCC) Bjorn Lomborg has been working overtime to respond to the fallout of the decision by one university to pull out of hosting an Australian arm of his project.
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When I gave the CCC the chance to respond to criticisms ahead of a post in The Guardian, the think tank’s vice president Roland Matthiason told me: “We work with more than 100 of the world's top economists, 7 Nobel Laureates and Cambridge University Press.” When the ABC’s Media Watch program made an enquiry to the CCC, its media manager David Lessman again stated that the centre “works with more than 100 of the world's top economists including seven Nobel Laureates”.
So who are these “seven Nobel laureates” waiting to collaborate with any other university willing to give the CCC think tank a home? As often turns out to be the case with matters of detail involving Bjorn Lomborg, not all is as it seems.
Firstly, it is highly unlikely that the CCC will be able to continue to work with these “seven Nobel laureates” because one of those laureates — Robert Fogel — died almost two years ago. Fogel had only worked on one project with the CCC, its very first Copenhagen Consensus project carried out in 2004.
Putting aside the not minor oversight of the death of a Nobel laureate two years previously, what of the remaining six? All six were awarded an economics Nobel, but the involvement of two of those laureates has been comparatively small.
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http://www.desmogblog.com/2015/05/26/seven-nobel-laureates-behind-climate-contrarian-bjorn-lomborg
