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Bjorn Lomborg: Al Gore’s inaccurate untruths distorted policy

Climate alarmism raised awareness but it skewed policy toward expansive emissions reductions rather than research into cheap clean energy

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Two decades ago, Al Gore’s movie “An Inconvenient Truth” thrust climate change into the global spotlight. Its dramatic imagery and dire warnings helped transform a niche concern into a front-page crisis, influencing rich-country leaders and elite jet-setters, and inspiring a generation of activists.

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Twenty years on is sufficient distance to reflect, not just on the film’s impact, but also on its accuracy. Many of Gore’s most alarming predictions have failed to........

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