{"id":21066,"date":"2015-04-23T12:04:43","date_gmt":"2015-04-23T17:04:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/?p=21066"},"modified":"2015-04-23T12:04:43","modified_gmt":"2015-04-23T17:04:43","slug":"lomborg-in-oz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2015\/04\/23\/lomborg-in-oz\/","title":{"rendered":"Lomborg in Oz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve written here about some of Bjorn Lomborg&#8217;s work, generally critical of it. But the Abbot Government in Australia apparently likes what Lomborg is doing well enough to have earmarked $4 million (in some currency or another) to ensconce a version of his academically questionable enterprise right in the middle of Australian academics.<\/p>\n<p>I would like to write this up for you so you can learn all you need to learn about it, but Graham Readfearn has already done an excellent job reporting this. I strongly urge you to go and read: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/planet-oz\/2015\/apr\/23\/australia-paying-4-million-for-bjrn-lomborgs-flawed-methods-that-downgrade-climate-change\">Australian taxpayers funding climate contrarian&#8217;s methods with $4m Bj\u00f8rn Lomborg centre<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>What are you doing here, you are supposed to have left by now to read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/planet-oz\/2015\/apr\/23\/australia-paying-4-million-for-bjrn-lomborgs-flawed-methods-that-downgrade-climate-change\">this<\/a>.  Go.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve written here about some of Bjorn Lomborg&#8217;s work, generally critical of it. But the Abbot Government in Australia apparently likes what Lomborg is doing well enough to have earmarked $4 million (in some currency or another) to ensconce a version of his academically questionable enterprise right in the middle of Australian academics. I would &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2015\/04\/23\/lomborg-in-oz\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Lomborg in Oz<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20962,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2784,5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-5tM","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21066"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21066\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}