As described by Lenore Taylor at the Guardian, Australia is giving Bjorn Lomborg $4 million to set up an Australian version of his Consensus Center, even as the country struggles to make ends meet for higher education funding. Lomborg's new center is being set up at Western Australia University, where Lomborg last sought funding after the Dutch stopped supporting him and his US endeavor failed to gain traction.
As unfortunate as this news is (since $4m could have paid for some actual research) we must admit, we're excited to see if this bounty will allow Lomborg to set up shop in a building slightly fancier than his US Consensus Center, which is run out of a P.O. Box in Massachusetts. But given his penchant for getting paid $775,000 a year for "work," we're not holding our breath.
Regardless of how he spends this money, Australia is getting the short end of the stick. After all, since Lomborg first arrived on the scene, he's been a broken record. So, in what's undoubtedly a futile attempt to save Australia $4 million, we'll sum up here what they're going to get out of Lomborg down under:
"Sure climate change is real and man-made, but that doesn't mean we should do anything about it."
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