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Northern Australia, indeed all of Australia, would benefit with such [special economic] zones where government burdens are reduced, | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/gina-rinehart/ | en | null | null | 3,400 |
If people want this, they can have it, this is being imposed without any proper debate between parties. Final thought, the proposals in Canterbury and Oxford that you basically would not be allowed to drive your car out of a very local neighbourhood without a form of charge, this almost feels like a sort of climate lockdown, or am I exaggerating? | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/nigel-farage/ | en | null | null | 3,401 |
We need a strong state to compete in a free market sets the rules, monitors compliance with these rules, but otherwise out stops. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/gunter-ederer/ | en | null | null | 3,402 |
The issue of the climate sensitivity of the atmosphere to increasing GHG concentrations is nowhere near resolution. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/american-enterprise-institute/ | en | null | null | 3,403 |
We would not support a campaign that denies the existence and the threat posed by climate change, or efforts to obstruct regulations cutting greenhouse gas emissions and/or renewable energy standards. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/weber-shandwick/ | en | null | null | 3,404 |
I know there are very large numbers of young people in this country who are scared. They’ve got convictions but in many ways they lack the courage to say them. And that’s where Turning Point UK comes in. You can join this organisation. You can know that you’ve got strength in numbers. You can know that you’re not alone. Turning Point UK is going to make us a more democratic society. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/turning-point-usa/ | en | null | null | 3,406 |
Global climate damage as a percentage of GDP keeps declining […] Remember, by the UN’s own estimates the average person in 2100 will be 450% richer than today. Global warming means that person will ‘only’ be 434% as rich. | 3_not_bad | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/bjorn-lomborg/ | en | null | null | 3,407 |
We would appreciate if statements made by the Chamber would reflect the full range of views, especially those of Chamber members advocating for congressional action,” Clifford Holland, Johnson Johnson’s corporate vice president of government affairs and policy, wrote in an April 16 letter. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/us-chamber-commerce/ | en | null | null | 3,408 |
If we’re concerned about a particular member [of Congress], we will educate that constituency and encourage people to weigh in with their elected official, | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/jack-n-gerard/ | en | null | null | 3,409 |
The reality is that politicians who say government ‘can do something about droughts, floods, sea levels, hurricanes, and tornadoes are practicing the equivalent of medieval witchcraft. | 6_proponents_biased | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/committee-constructive-tomorrow/ | en | null | null | 3,410 |
We should be exhaustively searching through the universe of possible sources of energy so that we can provide a diversity of possibilities on the energy front. But we do not believe that anyone has the right to compel people into absolute poverty by increasing energy prices to hypothetically achieve some environmental goal. e went on: “Maximize the short term return and you’re going to produce environmental devastation. That’s exactly what happened, by the way, in Sri Lanka and certainly happened to Germany to some degree as they pursued idiot green policies. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/alliance-for-responsible-citizenship-arc/ | en | null | null | 3,411 |
The climate emergency is not an emergency at all. Why? Because the problem is easy to solve. There are two simple solutions if we are only willing to consider them rationally. First, engineers have shown that it is possible to remove CO2 from the atmosphere by direct air capture, and then store it. Initially, the cost will be expensive, but nothing even close to what the coronavirus will cost. Further, while the technology develops, we can wait to see how fast temperatures are rising, and what sorts of damages we might expect Second is an option that would need to be implemented sooner, but would benefit society nonetheless. Working with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, a group of nuclear engineers at TerraPower has developed a Traveling Wave nuclear Reactor (TWR) that is absolutely safe to use. If significant numbers of TWRs could be built, costs would be competitive with other sources of power generation. Indeed, as my own research (and that of others) has shown, any serious effort to reduce CO2 emissions from the generation of electricity will require a shift toward nuclear energy. If environmentalists oppose nuclear energy, they will have no other way to retain an economic standard of living that is even close to what we enjoy now and, at the same time, reduce CO2 emissions by even half nfortunately, the main obstacle to the avoidance of catastrophes, such as COVID-19, occurs when (1) our focus shifts from immediate, real threats to future questionable ones; and, (2) all current problems are blamed on the questionable future threat. By putting all of our preparedness eggs in the climate-change basket, we are left not only to weather the storms associated with those threats for which we are unprepared. By attributing all our problems to climate change, we also assume there is one single solution to all our problems and that is to stop burning fossil fuels. How naïve have we become? | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/gerrit-cornelis-van-kooten/ | en | null | null | 3,413 |
The many objections from real scientists will be countered with fictitious claims of ‘consensus.’ (Should that, too, be questioned — based on studies that show widely divergent scientific opinions — the political formula calls for stonewalling.) Never mind that science proceeds from openly discussed logic and evidence. The scientifically illiterate will not understand and can be easily fooled with unsupportable claims that each succeeding year is the “warmest ever. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/gordon-fulks/ | en | null | null | 3,414 |
The pause in global warming—now going on 15 years—has become so obvious that many of the leading climate scientists are grudgingly admitting that global warming has stopped. | 1_not_happening | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/steven-f-hayward/ | en | null | null | 3,415 |
True, the climate is always changing. The fact is, however, that a very moderate amount of warming that we’ve seen in the last century is not a very sound basis to believe that we’re going to have a new ice age. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/myron-ebell/ | en | null | null | 3,416 |
Look at climate change: The public hears again and again that there is scientific consensus, that it’s happening now and that we are on the brink of disaster. This is nonsense. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/paul-reiter/ | en | null | null | 3,417 |
This is inevitably what happens when democratic governments with socialist programs mature,” Mathis claimed in the video. The protestors could see right through Macron’s carbon tax on motor fuel as just an excuse to raise money while claiming he was doing something noble about climate change. | 6_proponents_biased | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/mark-mathis/ | en | null | null | 3,418 |
I look back through human history and relate that to the other warming periods, if we see similar warming that we’ve seen in the past and I’m often asked what’s going to happen with the temperatures? And I’m, as a geologist, I like to look back at what’s happened in the past and say well it’s probably going to happen again. If this warming period is like the others, we’ll probably have another degree or two or whatever degree and a half of warming Maybe it’ll last another 80 years. On the other hand, there are people I respect greatly that that are promoting a cooling coming up here. But I’m a big, big, big proponent of the relationship between warming, and we’ve seen it in the past through historical relationships, the relationship between rising temperatures, increasing crop production. We didn’t see catastrophic events occur in the last four or five thousand years of history. And I don’t think we’re going to see them now. These are projections made on climate models about what might happen 50 or 80 or 100 years in the future. And I what I do is I look at what’s actually happening today and I see an Earth that’s thriving, prospering, greening and humanity’s benefiting because of it. | 3_not_bad | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/gregory-wrightstone/ | en | null | null | 3,419 |
The documents show the extent to which the E.P.A., which is the main federal agency charged with protecting human health and the environment, worked with groups like the Heartland Institute, which holds positions on climate change that are far outside the mainstream of scientific opinion, as opposed to the agency’s own chief scientists,” The New York Times reported. | 6_proponents_biased | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/rodney-nichols/ | en | null | null | 3,420 |
In eight weeks, on April 28–29, several hundred of America’s top business owners and CEOs will come together at an exclusive ‘Principals-only’ event hosted by Charles Koch in California. We Look forward to having you join us In Palm Springs, you’ll have the opportunity to join the most strategic market-oriented minds in the business world to advance a plan to defend our free-enterprise system Together, we’ll discuss how to effectively address short-term policy threats in 2013 while building toward free-market gains in 2014 and beyond. As a new participant, you will offer a valuable perspective on this group’s rigorous post-election assessment as well as the strategies presented at the meeting We have developed a program that we believe will not only maximize the value of your two days with us, but also your ability to effectively achieve what we believe to be your policy, political and philanthropic goals. Among other topics, in April, we’ll discuss how to more effectively engage growing demographic groups, such as Hispanic and Latino voters, and how to encourage principled and effective advocates of free enterprise to run for office You’ve likely heard many different takes on the 2012 election. And, as you may know from your experience, this type of analysis is not an end in and of itself. As we would within Koch companies, the post-election analysis must be geared toward productive next seps, particularly focusing on where and how we must innovate to achieve our challenging objectives We’ll be joined by a strong line-up of speakers, including several U.S. governors, senators, members of the U.S. House leadership and top political analysts and commentators. We all look forward d to hearing these leaders’ thoughts on the important issues facing our country, and invite your participation through question and answer sessions You’ll also hear strategies that will be central to these efforts going forward scuh as – Reaching the right people with the right message. Understanding key customer segments – and more importantly the issues that matter to them – will be crucial to educating and mobilization key constituencies in future educational and political battles – Hispanic, women and youth engagement. Allies will present an approach to more effectively communicate to these growing demographics, all of which will play a critical role in advancing free enterprise – Candidate recruitment and training. A plan will be shared to help recruit more principled and effective advocates of free-enterprise ot run for office Of course, these only cover a few of the many topics we’ll discuss in April Your efforts will not only effect positive change today, but for years and decades to come. After all, as you’ll see in April, it’s this group’s long-term focus that keeps us fighting for freedom, prosperity and opportunity – even when times are tough. look forward to seeing you at April’s meeting. […] | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/kevin-gentry/ | en | null | null | 3,421 |
I was shocked at the appalling condition of [climate] science. And I was saddened that this scare had become so completely identified with the environmental movement…and finally, I came to realise the danger to environmentalism of the back-lash when the bubble inevitably burst and the deception was exposed. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/bernie-lewin/ | en | null | null | 3,422 |
The climate’s been changing since time immemorial. Do I believe there is global warming? No, I believe it’s all a load of bullshit. But it’s amazing the way the whole fucking eco-warriors and the media have changed. It used to be global warming, but now, when global temperatures haven’t risen in the past 12 years, they say ‘climate change’. | 1_not_happening | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/michael-o-leary/ | en | null | null | 3,423 |
Interest in a renewable energy policy is based partly on a myth. We will never run out of non-renewable energy sources, and not just because we keep discovering more. | 7_fossil_fuels_needed | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/james-madison-institute/ | en | null | null | 3,424 |
Translation and publication of Climate Change Reconsidered by a division of the Chinese Academy of Sciences does not reflect endorsement of the book’s contents by the academy or any of its affiliates. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/jim-lakely/ | en | null | null | 3,425 |
People are dying from energy poverty, not due to a 1 degree change in temperature. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/canadian-oil-mafia-com/ | en | null | null | 3,426 |
Climate change has done more good than harm so far and is likely to continue doing so for most of this century. This is not a right-wing fantasy; it is the consensus of expert opinion. | 3_not_bad | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/national-center-policy-analysis/ | en | null | null | 3,428 |
What the country needs is energy security, which means encouraging developments in our strategic energy reserves in the North Sea, not taxing it out of existence and shutting down the basin he UK government’s so-called windfall tax is really primitive politics. There has been no thought given to the long-term consequences of this ‘tax it to death’ move. | 7_fossil_fuels_needed | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/offshore-energies-uk/ | en | null | null | 3,429 |
Climate sceptics insisted that the new figures showed the warming ‘pause’ had continued,” Rose quoted Dr David Whitehouse, of the Global Warming Policy Forum. Whitehouse said “there has been no statistically significant warming trend since 1997’ – because the entire increase over this period was smaller than the error margin. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/david-rose/ | en | null | null | 3,430 |
There’s little point to sweeping measures that over-protect the entire population against a single virus if the resulting damage is so severe that the nation in its weakened state can’t cope with future crises, whether those are health-related or otherwise. For such crises will surely occur, | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/manning-foundation-for-democratic-education/ | en | null | null | 3,432 |
The science [on tobacco smoke], of which the EPA avails itself, is that which happens to fit the political agenda of the moment …. the one certainty following the EPA’s report on tobacco smoke, is that the available science is inconclusive. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/bonner-cohen/ | en | null | null | 3,433 |
Calling CO2 a pollutant is doing a disservice the country, and I believe a disservice to the world, | 3_not_bad | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/rick-perry/ | en | null | null | 3,434 |
Heritage Research Impacts Trump’s Decision to Withdraw from Paris Climate Deal, | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/kevin-dayaratna/ | en | null | null | 3,435 |
Well, I can’t conclude there is something magical about 350 because that suggests these models are very competent and our examination about the models, are that they’re not competent […] | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/rex-tillerson/ | en | null | null | 3,436 |
Most adults consider security, potable water, education, etc., much more important than climate change. And when you consider about 5 million Africans die every year because they do not have fresh, drinkable water, you realize the kids are being totally propagandized. | 6_proponents_biased | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/tom-harris/ | en | null | null | 3,437 |
There is no basis for saying, as most do, that the ‘science is settled’. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/claude-all-gre/ | en | null | null | 3,438 |
Renewable energy schemes can no longer be justified by claims that we are rapidly running out of fossil fuels that are causing dangerous man-made global warming. Hydraulic fracturing has obliterated the depletion myth, while climate change fears are belied by a 16-year hiatus from planetary warming, historic lows in hurricane and tornado activity, and the abject failure of CO2-focused climate computer models. | 1_not_happening | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/craig-rucker/ | en | null | null | 3,439 |
The data has been corrupted, and we know that the 1930s were warmer than today. | 1_not_happening | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/malcolm-roberts/ | en | null | null | 3,441 |
Far be it for an economist to question legal dictum, but it seems odd to equate —something every human being releases into the atmosphere as a consequence of breathing—with the more noxious stuff that trains, planes, and automobiles emit. Perhaps the government will figure out a way to tax the air we breathe after all The could ban all forms of motor transport henceforth. The effect on global warming still would be negligible. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/jonathan-lesser/ | en | null | null | 3,442 |
Overall, our committee believes that Dr. Mann’s assessments that the decade of the 1990s was the hottest decade of the millennium and that 1998 was the hottest year of the millennium cannot be supported by his analysis. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/edward-wegman/ | en | null | null | 3,443 |
The reason is that it’s a zero-sum game. What it does is limit carbon emissions and, with that, you’re going to see big jumps at the gas pump, the price of natural gas and the price of electricity. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/jim-sensenbrenner/ | en | null | null | 3,444 |
Climate is becoming increasingly warmer we hear almost every day. This is what has become known as Global Warming. The driving idea is that there is a linear relationship between CO2 increase in the atmosphere and global temperature. The fact, however, is that temperature has constantly gone up and down. From 1850 to 1970, we see an almost linear relationship with Solar variability; not CO2. For the last 30 years, our data sets are so contaminated by personal interpretations and personal choices that it is almost impossible to sort up the mess in reliable and unreliable data, | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/nils-axel-morner/ | en | null | null | 3,445 |
My Lords, this latest report clearly states that the impact of climate change by the latter years of the century is likely to be less than 2% of global income and will be small relative to other factors such as economic development. Given that the co-chair of that report, Chris Field, is on record as saying that the really big breakthrough in this report is the new idea of thinking about management of climate change, would my noble friend agree that the time has come to congratulate my noble friend Lord Lawson, who has been saying exactly this for eight years? I declare my energy interests as listed in the register, | 3_not_bad | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/matt-ridley/ | en | null | null | 3,447 |
This essay explores the history and consequences of scientific consensus building activities by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) on the topic of dangerous anthropogenic climate change. A broad view of consensus is provided in the context of the philosophy of science and the social and psychological issues that contribute to bias. The role of scientific consensus in policy making is discussed. An overview is provided of critiques of the IPCC consensus process. A summary of recommendations is provided aimed at improving the interface between climate science and policy in ways that can support decision making associated with growing implications of ‘messy wickedness’ of the climate change problem. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/judith-curry/ | en | null | null | 3,448 |
The model architecture was wrong. Carbon dioxide causes only minor warming. The climate is largely driven by factors outside our control. | 2_not_human | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/david-evans/ | en | null | null | 3,449 |
All know the acronym/phrase ‘LGBT’ is shorthand for an ever-expanding list of kinds of sexual desire. We began with LGBT and we are now at LGBTQWERTY, or whatever. I used to be derisive of lists like that, but I now believe this is the one thing sexual desire ideologues get right It really is true that sexual desire is broad, much broader than we used to understand. A man may desire sex, or more usually simulated sex, with himself, with another man, with a child, with a couch on the side of a road (a real case), with a goat, with another man’s wife, with a dead body, with those missing limbs because they are missing limbs, with only females of certain races, with men who pretend to be women, and on and on and on He may desire sex (or simulated sex) in one way today and another tomorrow. Desire can be fluid. For instance, many men do not realize that they desire simulated sex with other men until they are introduced to the concept from older men. And we recall that some men who were called ‘gay’ have fathered children. The number of possible propensities, or ‘orientations,’ is practically infinite … It is thus no surprise that the man who defines himself by his temptations is the man more likely to slip. Since desire is fluid and temptations are as many, as orientation ideologues say, it is also no surprise that this class of men is more likely to sin in many different ways. And that is precisely what is observed This is why the idea to fix the scandal by having priests openly define themselves as their temptations, as advocated by among others the Washington Post, will only make everything worse The Church instead needs to return to a proper understanding of the nature of man. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/william-briggs/ | en | null | null | 3,450 |
Branding matters. If you get a piece of mail, or you see an ad, or you get a phone call, and it’s from some group that you think you don’t like, you never pay attention to what they have to say. You’ve hung up on it or tuned it out before you ever get a chance to penetrate. So we have worked hard to create a branded organization that does not carry partisan baggage. It’s called Independent Women’s Voice. Being branded as neutral, but actually having the people who know know that you’re actually conservative puts us in a unique position. Either groups are conservative or they tend to be genuinely mushy middle, in which case you have no idea where they’re going to come out on a particular policy issue. Our value here (and what is needed in the Republican conservative arsenal) is a group that can talk to those cohorts that wouldn’t otherwise listen but can do it in a way that is taking a conservative message and packaging it in a way that will be acceptable and will get a hearing. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/heather-r-higgins/ | en | null | null | 3,451 |
All we need to do with nuclear waste is dilute it to a low radiation level and sprinkle it over the ocean or even over America after hormesis(ph) is better stood and verified with respect to more diseases. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/art-robinson/ | en | null | null | 3,452 |
I think it is appropriate for particularly the federal government to encourage investment in new, clean, alternative technologies. But I think it should be done in a way that puts the broad interests of the American people first. If we were to embrace the more draconian proposals being advocated by some in Congress and the environmental movement we could see as much as a 20 percent increase in utility bills for Hoosiers. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/mike-pence/ | en | null | null | 3,453 |
When you look at the IPCC you have to, for those viewers who don’t know, that was the initial UN committee that started out in the early 90s. Discovering at that time, as you recall, it was global warming, and then the narrative didn’t fit so now it went to climate change because we’ve been in a 20 year pause in terms of temperature rise. […] It is a communist plan, essentially, to centralize one of the most important assets of our lives—and that’s energy. […] Everybody understands, who has a brain, that this whole thing is nothing but a series of talking points in order to try to control energy, like you said, but not just from the Marxist Communist point of view, but obviously the green energy people like Tom Steyer and others and the Rockerfellers […] | 6_proponents_biased | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/craig-richardson/ | en | null | null | 3,454 |
Of course, those isotopic measurements have been made by labs around the world. You know, it’s very, very well established science. But John Christie did not agree. And when Professor Koonin asked him, well, why don’t you agree? John Christie said, because I did not make the measurements myself. And again, you could sort of see the amazement in in the room, the the import of that statement is that I am not going to trust anyone else, no measurements unless I’ve made them myself. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/steve-koonin/ | en | null | null | 3,455 |
Is Global Warming a scientifically resolved matter? No. There is some very convincing evidence (and scientists) that indicate that there is such a thing as Global Warming. But there are some very qualified scientists (with good evidence) that suggest just the opposite ore importantly, statements often appearing in the media like ‘the majority of scientists’ believe in Global Warming, are meaningless. First of all, no legitimate survey has ever been done, and secondly, science is not about the number of people who advocate a position. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/john-droz/ | en | null | null | 3,456 |
Just wanted to let you know that I’m working with the Governor’s office about who will commission and pay for the analysis, so I’m making progress,” Sgamma emailed Considine, according to the records. The Guardian noted, “month earlier, Considine had shared his proposal with Sgamma and then offered to amend it based on her preferences if it would ‘help your fund raising [sic]’. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/western-energy-alliance/ | en | null | null | 3,457 |
The president sat on the Keystone pipeline throughout his entire eight years, even though his own State Department said it had no measurable impact on climate. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/mitch-mcconnell/ | en | null | null | 3,459 |
Steve Bannon has nothing to do with me or my Presidency. When he was fired, he not only lost his job, he lost his mind. Steve was a staffer who worked for me after I had already won the nomination by defeating seventeen candidates, often described as the most talented field ever assembled in the Republican Party Now that he is on his own, Steve is learning that winning isn’t as easy as I make it look. Steve had very little to do with our historic victory, which was delivered by the forgotten men and women of this country. Yet Steve had everything to do with the loss of a Senate seat in Alabama held for more than thirty years by Republicans. Steve doesn’t represent my base — he’s only in it for himself Steve pretends to be at war with the media, which he calls the opposition party, yet he spent his time at the White House leaking false information to the media to make himself seem far more important than he was. It is the only thing he does well. Steve was rarely in a one-on-one meeting with me and only pretends to have had influence to fool a few people with no access and no clue, whom he helped write phony books We have many great Republican members of Congress and candidates who are very supportive of the Make America Great Again agenda. Like me, they love the United States of America and are helping to finally take our country back and build it up, rather than simply seeking to burn it all down. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/steve-bannon/ | en | null | null | 3,461 |
I am of the opinion that this is one of the greatest hoaxes ever perpetrated on the American people. | 6_proponents_biased | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/william-gray/ | en | null | null | 3,462 |
I asked Bryce if he had financial ties to the fossil fuel industry after his debate appearance before the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners conference on Monday. Not only did Bryce refuse to answer the question, he also launched into an angry, finger-pointing tirade saying that I’d ‘made up’ the amount of fossil fuel support documented by Manhattan Institute records. | 6_proponents_biased | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/manhattan-institute-policy-research/ | en | null | null | 3,463 |
EPA had sought to expand regulation of greenhouse gases in the wake of the Court’s earlier decision in Massachusetts v. EPA, but WLF’s brief argued that EPA improperly seized on the Court’s narrow earlier ruling to enhance the agency’s regulatory authorit …] Although WLF would like to have seen the Court cut back even further on EPA’s power grab, the partial victory nonetheless established real constraints on whose emissions EPA may regulate. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/washington-legal-foundation/ | en | null | null | 3,464 |
Hysteria over global warming is now pervasive in the federal government, driving not just the Obama Administration’s energy and environmental policies, but also those of nearly every federal agency. | 6_proponents_biased | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/kevin-dayaratna/ | en | null | null | 3,465 |
It’s quite clear from the history of the last 100 years alone, that there is no correlation that can be discerned between the amount of carbon dioxide, which is being emitted, and the temperature of the planet. | 2_not_human | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/neil-hamilton/ | en | null | null | 3,466 |
The role of fossil fuels in the global economy is growing, and the U.S. must lead the world in pursuing the solutions that will allow us to burn fossil fuels in a cleaner, more cost effective and more efficient manner. | 7_fossil_fuels_needed | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/joe-manchin/ | en | null | null | 3,467 |
What will be the impact of Ottawa’s cap on oil-gas emissions? | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/stephen-buffalo/ | en | null | null | 3,468 |
Alarmists mindlessly condemn atmospheric CO2 as ‘carbon pollution,’ but carbon dioxide is essential to the health and growth of plant life. | 3_not_bad | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/jeff-jacoby/ | en | null | null | 3,469 |
This agreement will not meaningfully alter the temperature of the Earth, even under the U.N.’s own computer models The bad news is that it plants the seeds of a new climate regime that left unchecked will swell into a bureaucratic behemoth. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/texas-public-policy-foundation/ | en | null | null | 3,470 |
Some people interpreted our news release and a blog post describing this event as implying that the Chinese Academy of Sciences endorses the views contained in the original books. This is not the case, and we apologize to those who may have been confused by these news reports. To be clear, the release of this new publication does not imply CAS and any of its affiliates involved with its production ‘endorse’ the skeptical views contained in the report. Rather, as stated in the translator’s preface of the book, ‘The work of these translators, organizations and funders has been in the translation and the promotion of scientific dialogue, does not reflect that they agree with the views of NIPCC. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/heartland-institute/ | en | null | null | 3,471 |
The purpose of taxing carbon dioxide is not because of its impact on human health, but because of its alleged contribution to climate change. Taxing carbon dioxide emissions, however, will not result in any meaningful abated warming. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/nicolas-loris/ | en | null | null | 3,472 |
By the 1980s, nothing more needed to be done beyond monitoring our continuing success in cleaning up the environment. It was time to declare victory and go home. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/jay-h-lehr/ | en | null | null | 3,473 |
There is no clear evidence of warming in weather satellites and balloons in the 20th century. Predictions of warming depend on models involving arbitrary assumptions and science hypotheses. The relation between CO2, water vapour and putative warming seems very obscure,” he wrote in the letter. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/alister-mcfarquhar/ | en | null | null | 3,474 |
We have a world that is ready to blow up and disintegrate over energy and [John Kerry] is talking about global warming, the oceans may rise over the next 300 years one 100th of an inch, giving you slightly more seafront property, and this is his problem. […] | 3_not_bad | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/donald-trump/ | en | null | null | 3,475 |
Both sides are really fed up with the outrageous alarmists who are not representing science properly,” Whitehouse said. “Both don’t like those who shout about it and call people names and take a polarised point of view. | 6_proponents_biased | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/david-whitehouse/ | en | null | null | 3,476 |
Although I do not pretend to speak for the planet’s flora, I am quite certain that, if plants had a say in the matter, they would not lobby for reductions in levels. For plants, is food. They need more of it, not less. | 3_not_bad | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/gregory-wrightstone/ | en | null | null | 3,477 |
How is the IPCC 95% certain one side [of the graph] is caused by man and the other is not? | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/anthony-watts/ | en | null | null | 3,478 |
It seems to us that the leadership of this Congress, with the support of the Majority of this Committee and some Republicans, are intent in helping Mr. Gore and those of his ilk in achieving his unquestionable legacy, which will be the destruction of American lives and more death as a result of his hysterical global goofiness, with no environmental benefit, | 6_proponents_biased | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/robert-murray/ | en | null | null | 3,479 |
Schemes and fibs by environmental extremists like Al Gore, Tom Steyer, and leaders at Google are killing jobs, increasing the price of energy, devouring tax dollars, and threatening America’s energy independence — all in an effort to make a quick buck. | 6_proponents_biased | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/drew-johnson/ | en | null | null | 3,480 |
Since I am no longer affiliated with any organization nor receiving any funding, I can speak quite frankly….As a scientist I remain skeptical…The main basis of the claim that man’s release of greenhouse gases is the cause of the warming is based almost entirely upon climate models. We all know the frailty of models concerning the air-surface system. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/joanne-simpson/ | en | null | null | 3,481 |
There is nothing astroturf or fake about my passion for my country,” he added. “I’ve put my money, my time and my actions where my mouth is. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/cody-battershill/ | en | null | null | 3,482 |
Yet parents might want to pay a bit of extra attention to their child’s new hobby: blogging about environmentalism may be harmless, but your child deserves to know that a lot of what they are being told about climate change has no more basis in reality than The Hills. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/judicial-education-project/ | en | null | null | 3,483 |
You’ve got to challenge the mainstream narrative on this. […] [Carbon dioxide] is not a problem. Stop worrying. Stop being scared. | 3_not_bad | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/richard-tice/ | en | null | null | 3,484 |
As MIT’s Richard Lindzen noted, ‘water vapor is a far more powerful greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide… .’ Given the continuing uncertainties and disputes regarding the causes and possible effects of increased CO2 concentrations in the atmosphere, and the effectiveness and economic and societal consequences of any chosen response, Congress has held over 200 hearings, enacted at least a half dozen statutes, and taken other actions establishing a measured course of action for the Nation, designed to address concerns about potential global climate change through a greater understanding of the possible problems and solutions. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/washington-legal-foundation/ | en | null | null | 3,485 |
At , we value high-quality, factual information in our news programming and we aim to present an array of voices that reflect our region We turn to our regular commentators for their expertise and points-of-view when it comes to sports, food and the weather. But if a commentator, even on his own independent platform, delivers rhetoric that is offensive and inaccurate, we cannot support it This is the case today with Cliff Mass. His post on his personal blog compares recent events in Seattle to Kristallnacht, the 1938 pogrom carried out by Nazi Germany, and draws distorted, offensive parallels between protesters and Nazi Brownshirts. We abhor the comparison and find it sensationalized and misleading — it does not reflect who we are and what we stand for at The segment Weather with Cliff Mass will no longer air on . | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/clifford-mass/ | en | null | null | 3,486 |
I really believe that this is an opportunity we can’t afford to miss – but safety will always be the most important thing and we aren’t taking any chances, | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/andrea-leadsom/ | en | null | null | 3,487 |
The same amount of evidence exists for man-made climate change as Russia ‘hacking’ the election. None whatsoever. | 2_not_human | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/paul-joseph-watson/ | en | null | null | 3,488 |
I respond by saying that if the same shoe fit the other foot and you disagreed with that policy and somebody else were picking up anecdotal data from the middle of Arkansas who didn’t go to Harvard, you’d be laughing them off the stage as a bunch of rubes who didn’t know how to follow data based on anecdotal evidence. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/vivek-ramaswamy/ | en | null | null | 3,489 |
The global-warming crusaders—who are fundamentally anti-capitalism anti-globalization, and sometimes anti-human rather than genuine environmentalists—have been very successful in shaping the rhetoric of the global-warming debate as a question of science vs. the anti-scientific, the ignorant, etc. But the most important questions in the debate are not scientific questions at all. | 6_proponents_biased | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/kevin-d-williamson/ | en | null | null | 3,490 |
To many of these people we have global blight and it consists of the fact that people are alive and living their lives and having kids and flourishing. And so, frankly, I see this entire campaign as something that in a roundabout way is aimed at reducing the ability of people, reducing the number of people, the ability of people to live the lives they like, the number of people in terms of children on this planet. It’s an anti-human campaign at its worst. Thank you. | 6_proponents_biased | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/sam-kazman/ | en | null | null | 3,491 |
Writes Glassman, Climate does change. It has changed for thousands of years, according to readings of ice cores and tree rings. The question is whether climate change will continue to be cyclical and out of the control of humans, or whether something utterly new is going on. | 2_not_human | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/tech-central-station/ | en | null | null | 3,492 |
Even the liberal newspaper The Washington Post cannot deny how cold it has been recently. | 1_not_happening | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/accuracy-media/ | en | null | null | 3,494 |
Clearly, there can be no America without the utilization of coal,” Alford writes at the PACE website (energyfairness.org) Coal is a vital component to our infrastructure and will remain a vital resource. God put it here for us to use and for hundreds of years in the future we will continue to produce with improvements and environmentally safe methods. | 7_fossil_fuels_needed | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/harry-c-alford/ | en | null | null | 3,495 |
As physicians, we find reprehensible the use of excessive government intrusion and control to force changes in behavior affecting health and well-being…What’s next? Fining auto makers for each speeding driver, nailing Hershey for every diabetic who eats a candy bar, or gouging McDonald’s for all obese people who order a Big Mac? Although anyone who doesn’t live on Mars knows that tobacco is bad for your health, concern about health does not justify using Third Reich measures against corporations engaged in a legal business. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/jane-m-orient/ | en | null | null | 3,496 |
The government needs to stop meddling in industries and create an atmosphere that allows business to prosper without pledging taxpayer support. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/citizens-for-the-republic/ | en | null | null | 3,497 |
Closer to home, Suella Braverman — remember her? — tried to stop a pro-Hamas march in London and was accused of far rightery. And in all of the world’s elections this year, we’re told it’s a battle between the centrist left and the “far right”. This is the new racism and misogyny catch-all badge of disgrace, handed out by the left whenever they think they might lose a debate. “You’re far-right,” they scream. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/jeremy-clarkson/ | en | null | null | 3,498 |
Only the support of interested citizens will make this regional climate modeling project a reality. In a period where government support of climate research is collapsing, non-traditional funding mechanisms like this are essential,” the fundraising page reads Funds for this kind of work is not available from the Federal government, particularly since climate change research is now collapsing. Thus, crowdfunding is an essential approach for ensuring that society has the information it needs to be ready for climate change. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/clifford-mass/ | en | null | null | 3,499 |
Nigel Lawson has not been banned and nor is there a ban on non-scientists discussing climate change. We have also not apologised for putting him on air. The is absolutely committed to impartial and balanced coverage, whatever the subject, and would not bow to pressure from any quarter whatever the story. This ruling found a false balance was created in that the item implied Lord Lawson’s views on climate science were on the same footing as those of Sir Brian Hoskins Our position continues to be that we accept that there is broad scientific agreement on climate change and we reflect this accordingly. We do however on occasion offer space to dissenting voices where appropriate as part of the ’s overall commitment to impartiality. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/nigel-lawson/ | en | null | null | 3,500 |
ALEC is unique in the sense that it puts legislators and companies together and they create policy collectively. The actual stakeholders who are affected by policy aren’t at the table as much as they should be […] Serving with them is very beneficial, in my opinion. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/scott-pruitt/ | en | null | null | 3,501 |
CFACT students ventured outside the air conditioned comfort of the conference center yesterday and took to the Cancun streets spelling out, “stop energy poverty now! | 7_fossil_fuels_needed | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/craig-rucker/ | en | null | null | 3,502 |
Incredibly, the much-publicized United Nations climate change report, which blames global warming on people, has no published science to back it up. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/accuracy-media/ | en | null | null | 3,503 |
Together with Jean-Louis Le Mouël and some Russian colleagues, we have shown that some specific features of the magnetic field were remarkably well correlated with some variations in the sun’s activity – which in itself was not surprising – but the fact that it also correlated with the mean global temperature of the lower atmosphere came to us as a real surprise. This is how I started to get interested in climatology at the decadal to centennial time scale, an area which is not my specialty, though I had already encountered climatologists at the million year time scale with the Indian volcanism. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/vincent-courtillot/ | en | null | null | 3,504 |
I’ve got very good news for you. The world is not ending because of climate change. In fact, 12 years from now we will still be around casually taking photos on our iPhone 18s. We are currently being force-fed a very dystopian agenda of climate alarmism that tells us that we as humans are destroying the planet. And that the young people, especially, have no future – that the animals are dying, that we are ruining nature I really believe that many [members of left-wing environmental groups] have good intentions, that they are genuinely scared of the world ending, and that they are scared that their parents and grandparents are ruining the planet. It’s breaking relationships. It’s breaking up families. And we at The Heartland Institute, we want to spread truth about the science behind climate realism, which is essentially the opposite of climate alarmism Many people are now actually developing mental disorders and referring to them as eco-anxiety and eco-depression. I believe it’s important that we act now and change this entire mainstream narrative of fear-mongering and climate alarmism, because it’s basically just holding us hostage in our own brains Don’t let an agenda that is trying to depict you as an energy-sucking leech on the planet get into your brain and take away all of your passionate spirit. I don’t want you to panic. I want you to think. | 6_proponents_biased | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/naomi-seibt/ | en | null | null | 3,505 |
When all is said and done, what will we actually gain in our effort to preserve our environment, if this change takes effect? Right now, the President says we need to be a world leader in climate change mitigation. But will these changes actually improve our climate, or will they just cost struggling American families more money? | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/james-lankford/ | en | null | null | 3,506 |
In Australia we have to start cleaning up the mess which 15 years of playing at decarbonisation has created. The most pressing problem is the electricity supply industry. Australians have enjoyed one of the lowest cost electricity industries in the Western world – a situation enabled by easy access to vast reserves of very cheap brown coal, and large reserves of low cost black coal. We have been doing everything possible in recent years to destroy our coal-fired electricity industry in the superstitious belief that carbon dioxide is a pollutant. | 2_not_human | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/lavoisier-group/ | en | null | null | 3,507 |
The Attorney General’s office is a very reactive office. […] We wouldn’t be suing the EPA if the EPA did not abandon all semblance of science and law to put out its endangerment finding on the CO2. Now, let’s make them all happy just for a moment and everybody just hold your breath, | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/ken-cuccinelli/ | en | null | null | 3,508 |