Bjorn Lomborg, a Danish academic heads the Copenhagen Consensus, a group that focuses on “the international community’s effort to solve the world’s biggest challenges and how to do this in the most cost efficient manner.”

 Last month, Dr. Lomborg testified before congress, where he had this to say about global warming:

To put it very bluntly, the Kyoto Protocol would likely cost at least $180 billion a year and do little good. UNICEF estimates that just $70-80 billion a year could give all Third World inhabitants access to the basics like health, education, water, and sanitation. More important still is the fact that if we could muster such a massive investment in the present-day developing countries, this would also give them a much better future position in terms of resources and infrastructure from which to manage a future global warming.”