Bjorn Lomborg ✓

@BjornLomborg

Author of 'Best Things First', 'False Alarm', and 'Skeptical Environmentalist', President Copenhagen Consensus: smart solutions through economic prioritization

268 748Followers

149Following

17 876Posts total

1.1MViews on collected posts

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Bjorn Lomborg ✓@BjornLomborg6 Sep

@latimes Here is the data, with a long thread https://t.co/hj58WrVihV 30.5K views · 189 likes · 27 reposts · 4 replies Open on X →

Bjorn Lomborg ✓@BjornLomborg6 Sep

@BjornLomborg @latimes I'm from Cairns, which is where you go to see the reef. I went recently, and the climate alarmist don't realize what damage their lies create on business in the area. I live in Wisconsin now, and some alarmist said to me "Well you know. Look at the GBR? L 3.3K views · 98 likes · 4 reposts · 4 replies Open on X →

Bjorn Lomborg ✓@BjornLomborg6 Sep

Good news you probably haven't heard: The Great Barrier Reef's five best years of coral cover in the 40-year record are the five most recent. After decades of predictions of its imminent demise, the reef stubbornly refuses to die. My new @latimes op-ed: https://t.co/YWYdK7CKuJ 514.4K views · 10.1K likes · 2.6K reposts · 184 replies Open on X →

Bjorn Lomborg ✓@BjornLomborg12 Aug

@BjornLomborg During the low point, "experts" were saying it would take millions of years to recover. It took 15 years 1.2K views · 41 likes · 1 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Bjorn Lomborg ✓@BjornLomborg12 Aug

This was one report offered in comments Parts of the reef has "slightly recovered" Wow, what deception https://t.co/Q7pKjtRhkj 10.5K views · 90 likes · 6 reposts · 2 replies Open on X →

Bjorn Lomborg ✓@BjornLomborg12 Aug

Official, reef-wide stat widely published as the Great Barrier Reef got worse But when it got better, official stat stopped Here is an alternate optimal average (least-square) based on their own estimates from 1986-2020 https://t.co/siAvj2dyiP https://t.co/CscFeTR6TC

7.9K views · 104 likes · 10 reposts · 2 replies Open on X →

Bjorn Lomborg ✓@BjornLomborg12 Aug

In 2014, the eco-worried Guardian wrote the obituary of the Great Barrier Reef Last five years, the Great Barrier Reef best on record Moral: Don't believe all scare stories https://t.co/siAvj2dyiP https://t.co/7NtRyC6kKy https://t.co/GESx2ddRZd

9.7K views · 213 likes · 37 reposts · 3 replies Open on X →

Bjorn Lomborg ✓@BjornLomborg12 Aug

Official, reef-wide stat widely published as the Great Barrier Reef got worse But when it got better, official stat stopped Here is the optimal average (least-square) based on their own estimates from 1986-2020 https://t.co/siAvj2dyiP https://t.co/ehxePXJfMG

10.1K views · 230 likes · 26 reposts · 2 replies Open on X →

Bjorn Lomborg ✓@BjornLomborg12 Aug

New 2026 data Great Barrier Reef: Last five years best on record Why doesn't the media tell you? https://t.co/siAvj2dyiP https://t.co/MT0sN4kuy8

526K views · 5.6K likes · 1.8K reposts · 121 replies Open on X →

Bjorn Lomborg ✓@BjornLomborg12 Aug

New research has shown that parts of the Great Barrier Reef have slightly recovered after suffering bleaching during a particularly hot summer last year. Dr Daniela Ceccarelli from the Australian Institute of Marine Science explains how a temperature drop helped the reef. https:

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13.1K views · 7 likes · 1 reposts · 4 replies Open on X →

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10 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 100K–1M follower range. shown far beyond its own audience, and the audience reacts.

Median views10 287this account4 851median for 100K–1M

Reach, %3.83%this account1.71%median for 100K–1M

Engagement, %2.01%this account1.25%median for 100K–1M

Metric	This account	Median for 100K–1M	Ratio
Median views per post	10 287	4 851	2.12×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	3.83%	1.71%	2.24×
Engagement rate	2.01%	1.25%	1.60×

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How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.

Views per post

13.1K12 Aug

526K

10.1K

9.7K

7.9K

10.5K

1.2K

514.4K6 Sep

3.3K

30.5K

Last 10 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.11%12 Aug

1.45%

2.62%

2.64%

1.48%

0.93%

3.46%

2.54%6 Sep

3.19%

0.72%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 100K–1M accounts is 1.25%.

What the audience does

Likes70.0%16 640 in total

Reposts19.0%4 521 in total

Replies1.4%327 in total

Quotes1.5%348 in total

Bookmarks8.2%1 951 in total

Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.

The follower curve appears once this account has two daily snapshots — we take one a day, and this one is on its first.

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