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The Paris climate treaty was just the latest step in the wrong direction, pushing hopes for water supply development still further out of reach for those who need it most. And the apparent focus of the World Health Organisation on climate change – rather than more primary healthcare needs – is symbolic of this abandonment of the poor. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/mikko-paunio/ | en | null | null | 3,509 |
So it’s not going to have any effect on climate. I’m not quite sure what they’re trying to accomplish. I just assume this is more virtue signaling/resistance activity going on. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/steve-milloy/ | en | null | null | 3,510 |
On a global scale, there’s little to no evidence flooding events have been on the rise, | 1_not_happening | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/michael-bastasch/ | en | null | null | 3,511 |
It’s likely that CO2 has some warming effect, but real proof of that hypothesis is tricky. You have to confirm by observation exactly how the CO2 changes the situation at different altitudes in the atmosphere and in different regions of the world. For example, CO2 is supposed to warm the upper air faster than the surface, but the measurements don’t show that happening. When the CO2 effect is eventually pinned down, it will probably turn out to be weaker and much less worrisome than predicted by the global warming theorists. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/nigel-calder/ | en | null | null | 3,512 |
You look at the models used to predict future warming, and you take those models and go back one hundred years and plug in the data and predict the warming we have today, they way overpredict. They’re totally wrong with respect to the amount of warming we’ve had in the past one hundred years. And we see this over and over and over again. Hyperbole, using hysteria to get through a particular policy agenda. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/roy-cordato/ | en | null | null | 3,513 |
I’m a very small contributor – a four-figure number at the most. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/sir-james-spooner/ | en | null | null | 3,515 |
Frankly, we think that other points of view are well represented everywhere else. To have one point of view on an issue like telecom is something that we don’t have a problem with. e added, “We’re an advocacy group. There’s no doubt about that. I don’t think we ever had pretenses of being an academic think tank. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/james-k-glassman/ | en | null | null | 3,516 |
Obviously, the oil industry and the gas industry cause problems but hydraulic fracturing itself has not produced a single environmental problem, | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/matt-ridley/ | en | null | null | 3,517 |
ESG tactics that aren’t … rooted in reality — are a surefire way to attract the wrong kind of attention. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/group-sjr/ | en | null | null | 3,518 |
I don’t think it’s government’s function to be grossing out citizens. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/sam-kazman/ | en | null | null | 3,519 |
Nuclear power and offshore drilling would go a long way toward easing our energy shortfalls and financial instability. | 7_fossil_fuels_needed | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/tom-tanton/ | en | null | null | 3,520 |
Global warming will lead to impacts on weather, agriculture, species, ecosystems, fisheries, coastlines, low-lying areas, vegetation, and drinking water that are abrupt or irreversible. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/mike-pence/ | en | null | null | 3,521 |
COVID is the exact same playbook as climate,” Morano said. “First. The first thing you do with a virus is try to calm the public and make rational decisions. What’s the first thing our public health bureaucracy did? They came out and tried to instill as great a fear in everyone as possible. That’s how they got the lockdowns, mask mandates. These weren’t even in the CDC playbook for decades. They weren’t. They weren’t in the playbook for how to deal with the virus. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/marc-morano/ | en | null | null | 3,522 |
The chances that he will view Russia with Exxon Mobil DNA are close to 100 percent,” said Robert Weissman, the president of Public Citizen, a public interest group based in Washington. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/rex-tillerson/ | en | null | null | 3,523 |
Even the best vaccines for flu are only about 30-60% effective. Compare that with an effectiveness forimprovement ranging from 64% to more than 90% in more than 100 new studies showing early, outpatient treatment for COVID-19 with our existing medications. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/jane-m-orient/ | en | null | null | 3,524 |
The paper is laughable. It is so riddled with unsupported, fantastic and … or … unintelligible claims, arranged in a disorderly fashion and sprinkled liberally with innuendo. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/ned-nikolov/ | en | null | null | 3,525 |
Since 2018, Steamboat Institute has fearlessly entered the lion’s den of college campuses with compelling debates on the hot topics of the day, engaging conservatives, liberals and centrists. Our focus is on teaching students – and all who attend – how to think, not what to think. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/the-steamboat-institute/ | en | null | null | 3,526 |
Environmental extremist, notable politicians among them then teamed up with movie, media and other liberal, environmentalist journalists to create this wild ‘scientific’ scenario of the civilization threatening environmental consequences from Global Warming unless we adhere to their radical agenda. | 6_proponents_biased | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/john-coleman/ | en | null | null | 3,527 |
Fortunately, we have sufficient time to craft a course of action based on facts, hardheaded analysis, and objective assessment of the climate risks, | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/william-o-keefe/ | en | null | null | 3,528 |
The governor continues to keep an open mind about the science behind the cause of climate change but does not believe that it has been fully resolved yet. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/mike-pence/ | en | null | null | 3,529 |
Now, thanks in large part to the investment that this network has made, we have founded new university research centers around the country. We can take that model and expand economic freedom […] the freedom movement […] | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/brian-hooks/ | en | null | null | 3,530 |
In fact, there is good academic evidence that cataloguing and recording for archival purposes may be the best that can be hoped for the majority of Canada’s Indigenous languages. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/manning-foundation-for-democratic-education/ | en | null | null | 3,531 |
But why are things better? Because of the beneficial effects of releasing carbon-dioxide into the atmosphere. Craig Idso, a bona fide scientist who also spoke at the event, cataloged the good CO2 does. Plants grow not just a little better when CO2 is increased, but they are vastly improved. | 3_not_bad | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/william-briggs/ | en | null | null | 3,532 |
In that context, where there is no climate crisis and it’s this fiction created out of studies or timelines that have been manipulated or are incomplete, should politicians be doing anything at all to address the climate? | 1_not_happening | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/marc-morano/ | en | null | null | 3,533 |
Trump’s assistant denigrated the president’s position with respect to energy development when he attacked coal as a viable energy source, saying, ‘Coal doesn’t even make that much sense anymore as a feedstock. If Democrat Gary Cohn wants to be president, he can take his Wall Street resume back to New York City, build his own campaign, and try to convince the dominated party of his choice to nominate him. But as long as he works for a president who campaigned and won in states like Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia largely due to his support for the resource extraction industry, Cohn should avoid talking to the media about his opinions on energy. | 7_fossil_fuels_needed | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/americans-limited-government/ | en | null | null | 3,534 |
The climate is changing, but the question is, is climate changing because of natural cycles in the atmosphere over the span of history, or is it changing because we drive SUVs? I don’t believe in the latter. I don’t think that’s the primary driver. | 2_not_human | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/mike-johnson/ | en | null | null | 3,535 |
So I think all of those efforts together mean there is stronger advocacy, but it’s still not strong enough,” Kenney said. “And so I would like to see increased investment. Our oilpatch has invested a tiny fraction of a per cent of the profits that it’s generated from our resources [back into] public education and advocacy. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/modern-miracle-network/ | en | null | null | 3,536 |
Climate change disproportionately affects the health, economic and social well-being of African Americans. Changes in the Earth’s atmosphere are occurring due to the buildup of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. Power plants account for 38% of the most prevalent greenhouse gas, carbon dioxide, emitted from fossil fuel use in the U.S. Warming of the planet, together with more drought conditions in some regions and flooding in other regions, could induce crop failures, famines, flooding and other environmental, economic and social problems (Miller and Brown, 2000). In some regions, global climate change is also expected to exacerbate existing problems such as ozone formation and air pollution (Hansen, 2000). The potential health impacts of climate change include increased prevalence of infectious disease such as Dengue fever and West Nile virus, more heat-related stress and illness, and higher levels of ozone smog (EPA, 2001; IPCC, 2001). The African American community is particularly vulnerable to these. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/american-association-blacks-energy/ | en | null | null | 3,537 |
The earth’s climate is a constantly changing, extremely complex chaotic system, driven by the sun and influenced by numerous external factors including the positions of the other planets in the solar system and cosmic radiation. Many of the factors which influence climate are not well understood. Therefore, while it is reasonable to assume that human activities can influence climate, it is not reasonable to assume that humans could effectively control a complex, chaotic system they do not understand. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/national-association-scholars/ | en | null | null | 3,538 |
I feel strongly that federal regulators need to correct past mistakes, ensure the long-term sustainability of our power grid and pursue a diverse portfolio that ensures resiliency, reliability, affordability and sustainability that keeps our country so strong and vibrant. I believe that should include coal and nuclear power. | 7_fossil_fuels_needed | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/charles-d-mcconnell/ | en | null | null | 3,540 |
At least half of the warming over the 20th century is because of the sun … it means we don’t have to worry about warming over the 21st century. | 2_not_human | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/nir-shaviv/ | en | null | null | 3,541 |
The Earth will be able to support enormously more people because a far greater land area will be available to produce food [due to climate change], | 3_not_bad | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/david-koch/ | en | null | null | 3,542 |
Human-induced climate change is not leading to mass species extinctions, nor should it in the future. | 3_not_bad | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/world-climate-report/ | en | null | null | 3,544 |
I don’t believe that there are thousands of people who are dying because of exposure to these small [particles],” i.e. particulate matter It is pretty hard to say that [mercury from coal-fired power plants] is a significant public health issue. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/jeffrey-r-holmstead/ | en | null | null | 3,545 |
There is no climate emergencyA global network of 500 scientists and professionals has prepared this urgent message. Climate science should be less political, while climate policies should be more scientific. Scientists should openly address the uncertainties and exaggerations in their predictions of global warming, while politicians should dispassionately count the real benefits as well as the imagined costs of adaptation to global warming, and the real costs as well as the imagined benefits of mitigation Natural as well as anthropogenic factors cause warmingThe geological archive reveals that Earth’s climate has varied as long as the planet has existed, withnatural cold and warm phases. The Little Ice Age ended as recently as 1850. Therefore, it is nosurprise that we now are experiencing a period of warming Warming is far slower than predictedThe world has warmed at less than half the originally-predicted rate, and at less than half the rate to be expected on the basis of net anthropogenic forcing and radiative imbalance. It tells us that we are far from understanding climate change Climate policy relies on inadequate modelsClimate models have many shortcomings and are not remotely plausible as policy tools. Moreover, they most likely exaggerate the effect of greenhouse gases such as CO2. In addition, they ignore the fact that enriching the atmosphere with CO2 is beneficial CO2 is plant food, the basis of all life on EarthCO2 is not a pollutant. It is essential to all life on Earth. Photosynthesis is a blessing. More CO2 is beneficial for nature, greening the Earth: additional CO2 in the air has promoted growth in global plant biomass. It is also good for agriculture, increasing the yields of crops worldwide Global warming has not increased natural disastersThere is no statistical evidence that global warming is intensifying hurricanes, floods, droughts and suchlike natural disasters, or making them more frequent. However, CO2-mitigation measures are as damaging as they are costly. For instance, wind turbines kill birds and bats, and palm-oil plantations destroy the biodiversity of the rainforests Climate policy must respect scientific and economic realitiesThere is no climate emergency. Therefore, there is no cause for panic and alarm. We strongly oppose the harmful and unrealistic net-zero CO2 policy proposed for 2050. If better approaches emerge, we will have ample time to reflect and adapt. The aim of international policy should be to provide reliable and affordable energy at all times, and throughout the world. | 1_not_happening | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/reynald-du-berger/ | en | null | null | 3,546 |
There is no question that global warming will have a significant impact on already existing problems such as malaria, malnutrition, and water shortages. But this doesn’t mean the best way to solve them is to cut carbon emissions. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/africa-fighting-malaria/ | en | null | null | 3,547 |
When the history books are written in 2050, people will ask why only five people voted against Second Reading of a ludicrous measure. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/christopher-chope/ | en | null | null | 3,548 |
Net Zero will take this government down, I can tell you that. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/craig-mackinlay/ | en | null | null | 3,549 |
Since 2004. have not received a single penny from the government. […] Since 2004, I’m unable and then…first unable then I decided to not take even the money anymore, because it’s just very bad for me. My own personal viewpoint–to take money from government to do such work. So I’ve been trying to get funding from whoever, you know, foundation–anybody wants to give me money. Coal, anything–I don’t care. Really, I don’t. I don’t, because I know that I’m not being influenced by money. | 6_proponents_biased | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/willie-soon/ | en | null | null | 3,550 |
For polar bears… you do want to watch out for ice. Too much ice is really bad for polar bears. […] I would suggest that the current [ice] condition today is nowhere optimal for the polar bear, which means it can grow a little bit warmer. | 3_not_bad | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/willie-soon/ | en | null | null | 3,551 |
Tom Steyer is a billionaire based in California,” Institute for Liberty President Andrew Langer said. “He argues for greater regulation on his competitors and forces to get subsidies for his green energy boondoggles. | 6_proponents_biased | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/institute-liberty/ | en | null | null | 3,552 |
We [] created a sector of public opinion that didn’t used to exist. No one was aware that environmentalism was a problem until we came along. | 6_proponents_biased | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/ron-arnold/ | en | null | null | 3,553 |
The Cornwall Alliance can provide expert witnesses for legislative committees considering various legislation related to energy and climate […] we have some of the world’s top climate scientists, some of the world’s top energy economists and the like, among our network […] I would certainly welcome financial support for our efforts. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/calvin-beisner/ | en | null | null | 3,554 |
Climate activists have been gunning for me for years,” said Mr. Morano. “Any dissent is seen as an assault on their messaging. A one-party state view must be imposed! | 6_proponents_biased | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/marc-morano/ | en | null | null | 3,555 |
We still can’t say if CO2 is a pollution. But, you know, it’s definitely there’s a lot of fear mongering on on what CO2 is and and what it does. So, lot of questions still to be asked and to be answered, and I think First Nations really have to come together and unify, to take stance on on such a [emissions] cap. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/stephen-buffalo/ | en | null | null | 3,556 |
Greenhouse gases (GHG) from human activities are a significant contributor to climate change, | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/modern-miracle-network/ | en | null | null | 3,557 |
A lot of people like to say well Todd, you are in the hands of big oil or you’re an anti-environmentalist, but I consider myself an environmentalist of all sorts, I care about the beach, I care about the successful evolution of humankind and the planet. But the truth is you have to focus on environmental goals that are achievable cost effective and have a measurable benefit and if the cost outweigh the benefits it doesn’t make sense to charge ahead on an emotional and heart tugging issue like saving the planet. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/todd-wynn/ | en | null | null | 3,558 |
As I think Michael Fumento said, there is no good evidence that these [toxic waste] dumps are hurting anybody, it’s in the ground. [… esticide residues, again good scientists say there is no evidence that anybody has their life shortened by the residues that we consume on pesticides. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/john-stossel/ | en | null | null | 3,559 |
The difference in the global warming scare and the crash that started in 1998 was that had a definite end date which proved it to be a marketing ploy by software companies to sell unnecessary updates to data backup systems whereas the climate change hype could go on indefinitely and that is what allows it to build and fester. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/ronald-stein/ | en | null | null | 3,560 |
E&E has consistently striven to publish many ‘voices’ and to challenge conventional wisdoms. Perhaps more so than other European energy journal, the editor has made E&E a forum for more sceptical analyses of ‘climate change’ and the advocated solutions. We look for contributions that make energy technology a contributor to improving social and environmental conditions where this is most needed. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/energy-and-environment/ | en | null | null | 3,561 |
Here’s how we do it We have eyes and ears on the ground in Colorado tracking liberal special interest groups and the politicians they represent Not only are we keeping track of what left-wing politicians are saying now, we also keep a fact-checking record and hold politicians accountable Rapid Response. Timing is everything. We’ll be communicating in real time with reporters and directly with Coloradans with the latest and more relevant information. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/america-rising-llc-pac-america-rising-squared-definers-public-affairs/ | en | null | null | 3,562 |
CO2 is a Beneficial Gas, not a Pollutant. As a result, the Social Cost of Carbon is Negative since CO2 is so very critical to plant growth and therefore human life. | 3_not_bad | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/harry-macdougald/ | en | null | null | 3,563 |
So one thing that I think it’s lost in this whole climate change debate: climate change, for the record, I think is definitely real, and I think it’s definitely being, being affected by human beings and pollution and what we’re doing to the environment. I don’t think that’s deniable. But I think, that said, we should also look at, forget about what people have done. I think just we should also be aware that this fucking thing changes, and there’s ice ages back when people were knocking sticks together and hoping to start a fire, and still create an ice age. Had nothing to do with people. The thing fluctuates. It gets weird, and you can go through periods where North America is covered in a mile-high sheet of ice like was the case 10,000 years ago. | 2_not_human | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/joe-rogan/ | en | null | null | 3,564 |
Industries in rich countries face punitive and expensive measures against climate change. Many fear they will be unable to compete with countries that do not have such emissions restrictions, and fear manufacturing and jobs will move away to them. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/civil-society-coalition-climate-change/ | en | null | null | 3,565 |
If we insist on 2C, we will pay an extra $60,000 billion, but only prevent a stream of $100 billion damages that begins in 70 to 80 years. Moreover, all of these estimates assume cost-effective climate policies, whereas in real life they have often become many times more expensive. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/bjorn-lomborg/ | en | null | null | 3,566 |
Ozone is a naturally occurring gas that helps shield the Earth from the sun’s rays. But when ozone interacts with emissions from industrial factories, cars and electric utilities, it can cause serious health issues ortunately, those health issues are not a real concern these days. Air quality in America is the best it has been in decades. That’s what makes the EPA’s destructive new ozone regulations so senseless. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/drew-johnson/ | en | null | null | 3,567 |
George Pearson, a former member of the John Birch Society in Wichita, who served as Charles Koch’s political lieutenant during those years, expanded on this strategy in his own eye-opening paper. He suggested that libertarians needed to mobilize youthful cadres influencing academia in new ways. Traditional gifts to universities, he warned, didn’t guarantee enough ideological control. Instead, he advocated funding private institutes within prestigious universities, where donors could exert influence over hiring decisions and other academic matters while hiding the radicalism of their aims, | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/george-pearson/ | en | null | null | 3,569 |
While the benefits of carbon dioxide are proven, the alleged risks of climate change are contrary to observed data, are based on admitted speculation, and lack adequate scientific basis, | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/fred-palmer/ | en | null | null | 3,570 |
At RWE Innogy, we were confronted with the fact that the wind and the corresponding power generation were dipping by an appreciable extent. I investigated this phenomenon scientifically and found that it has nothing to do with CO2 and global warming, but that natural climate processes are responsible for it. The activity of the sun plays a major role. I have been working on the subject matter and then worked a year on this book. | 2_not_human | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/fritz-vahrenholt/ | en | null | null | 3,571 |
As with so many other regulatory initiatives, replacing HFCs with HFOs would slow economic growth, eroding the buying power of American consumers in the process. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/arthur-viterito/ | en | null | null | 3,572 |
I readily accept the main points of the greenhouse theory. Other things being equal, carbon dioxide emissions will produce some warming. The question always has been: how much? On that there is considerable uncertainty For, I also accept the unambiguous failure of the atmosphere to warm anything like as fast as predicted by the vast majority of climate models over the past 35 years, when measured by both satellites and surface thermometers. And indeed the failure of the atmosphere to warm at all over the past 18 years – according to some sources. Many policymakers have still to catch up with the facts I also note that the forecast effects of climate change have been consistently and widely exaggerated thus far. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/owen-paterson/ | en | null | null | 3,573 |
The Endangered Species Act has not saved a single species. The tiny number of species delisted were helped by other factors, not the Act. It is time to repeal the Endangered Species Act and replace it with an incentive-based law that will make property owners welcome endangered species to their land rather than fear them. Save the species, not the Act. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/center-defense-free-enterprise/ | en | null | null | 3,574 |
We talked about a lot of different things,” Perry said. “What he didn’t talk about was me changing jobs. I know there is a lot of interest in that in the last 48 to 72 hours. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/rick-perry/ | en | null | null | 3,575 |
We dropped two atom bombs over Japan,” Prager said. “Why? Because the context morally demanded it and the moral demand in our time in America is the defeat of the Left. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/dennis-prager/ | en | null | null | 3,576 |
Protect Americans’ Access to Affordable Energy. Congress will likely consider reauthorizing a tax extenders package that includes production tax credits (PTC) for wind and solar energy. These credits deserve to go the way of the Model T. They amount to subsidies for politically connected energy firms that cannot compete in the energy marketplace on either price or reliability. Energy from wind, solar, and other renewable sources is more expensive than energy from fossil fuels. So-called renewables are costly, and those costs are ultimately passed on to consumers, for no discernable environmental benefit. Nine of the 11 largest wind power-producing states are experiencing skyrocketing electricity prices, rising more than four times the national average. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/lawson-bader/ | en | null | null | 3,577 |
Have disasters become more costly because of human-caused climate change? Only one answer to this question is strongly supported by the available data, the broad scientific literature and the assessments of the o here is exceedingly little evidence to support claims that disasters have become more costly because of human caused climate change. | 1_not_happening | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/roger-pielke-jr/ | en | null | null | 3,578 |
The Snyder administration’s decision to wave the white flag and implement EPA’s carbon regulation is bad news for Michigan families. The governor claims this approach ‘retains control’ for Michigan, yet the opposite is true. Implementing this regulation, when serious legal challenges persist, effectively hands over the keys to Michigan’s energy future to unelected bureaucrats in Washington. Once Gov. Snyder signs away Michigan’s control over its energy future to Obama’s EPA, there is no turning back Obama and EPA want states to think their only choices are to submit a state plan or have a federal plan imposed on them. Gov. Snyder has apparently fallen for this false choice. The real choice is between shielding Michigan from this harmful carbon regulation or helping President Obama carry it across the finish line as the sun sets on his presidency Obama’s carbon regulation is a national energy tax that will burden Michiganders, especially the poor, with higher energy prices and fewer jobs, yet will have no impact on climate change. Michigan voters made clear their stance on higher energy taxes when they overwhelmingly rejected Governor Snyder’s gas tax proposal earlier this year. The governor should listen to the citizens in his state and join the ranks of several of his fellow governors by rejecting the Obama administration’s carbon regulation. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/institute-energy-research/ | en | null | null | 3,579 |
In all reality, global warming is real–there’s no doubt about it […[ Climate change is real–there’s no doubt it […] And natural cycles are real […] And global cooling is real, | 1_not_happening | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/david-dilley/ | en | null | null | 3,580 |
Under President Joe Biden, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy has kept a tight lid on how the administration advances its climate agenda, Chris Horner, an attorney representing a government transparency group, told The Daily Signal Horner said the White House science office refuses to respond forthrightly to related open records requests from his client, a nonprofit called Energy Policy Advocates. Such answers, he said, would enlighten Americans on the White House’s recruitment of outside activists and academics to discredit dissenters on climate change. | 6_proponents_biased | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/kevin-mooney/ | en | null | null | 3,581 |
We should respect creation and be wise stewards, but we must be careful not to fall into the trap of secular environmentalists who believe that man is an afterthought on this Earth who is principally a polluter ather, we are made in God’s image and should use the resources God has given us. | 6_proponents_biased | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/james-inhofe/ | en | null | null | 3,582 |
I actually try not to learn a lot about climate change. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/scott-armstrong/ | en | null | null | 3,583 |
I’m really enjoying this global warming. Simply tropical for late April in London. | 1_not_happening | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/annunziata-rees-mogg/ | en | null | null | 3,584 |
After talking with Secretary Perry this week and after today’s executive order, I am more confident than ever that the Administration is serious about being a partner in helping us develop the Appalachian Storage Hub. Since 2017, I have been working with the Administration and Secretary Perry to make sure they understood the positive economic impact and the potential energy security an Appalachian Storage Hub will bring to West Virginia and the country,” Manchin said. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/joe-manchin/ | en | null | null | 3,585 |
And as far as evidence goes, surprisingly, I agree with the IPCC that carbon dioxide warms the planet. But few realize that the IPCC relies on feedback factors like humidity and clouds causing a major amplification of the minor CO2 effect and that this amplification simply isn’t there. […] Without this amplification from water vapor or clouds the infamous ‘3.5 degrees of warming’ collapses to just a half a degree—most of which has happened, | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/joanne-nova/ | en | null | null | 3,586 |
It’s one thing for a rule to be unlawful—which happens, and rarely merits a stay—but another for it to be lawless. This one was lawless. That is why the court had to act: to reassert the rule of law over an executive who believes himself above it,” Rivkin and Grossman write. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/free-speech-science-project/ | en | null | null | 3,587 |
There is now growing concern among scientists that we may indeed be heading into global cooling rather than warming. The concerns center on the apparent weakening of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation. This seems to be triggering a growing amount of speculation about abrupt cooling, | 1_not_happening | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/martin-armstrong/ | en | null | null | 3,588 |
So what are the key players in ‘Climate Change’? The major driver is the sun. Warming depends on the sun. Cooling is due to the lack of sun’s energy. | 2_not_human | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/geoffrey-duffy/ | en | null | null | 3,589 |
You know, I think that we’re going to have to take a stronger look at who’s allowed priority on our grid system. Right now, we’re saying that renewable energy has that priority, which is discouraging our reliable energy source which seems to be more natural gas, fossil fuel related, from coming in and building the plants needed to pick up this power demand in times like these. | 7_fossil_fuels_needed | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/jim-wright/ | en | null | null | 3,590 |
I am honored that he has chosen to join The Heartland Institute,” Huelskamp said. “His energy, experience and scientific expertise will make an enormous, immediate positive impact on the Heartland team. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/anthony-watts/ | en | null | null | 3,591 |
There are those who would advocate for no fossil fuels at all, which is frankly irresponsible, since the United States depends on fossil fuels to meet 80 percent of its energy needs. | 7_fossil_fuels_needed | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/jack-n-gerard/ | en | null | null | 3,592 |
Widespread claims that we are now living through a climate emergency or breakdown are just so much hot air. | 1_not_happening | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/paul-homewood/ | en | null | null | 3,593 |
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. | 1_not_happening | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/craig-richardson/ | en | null | null | 3,594 |
As I explained previously on the FOX Forum, the push for ‘green jobs’ has everything to do with funding the far-left political activities that Van Jones so adamantly believed in. Green jobs are not economic jobs but political jobs, designed to funnel vast sums of taxpayer money to left-wing labor unions, environmental groups, and social justice community organizers. | 6_proponents_biased | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/phil-kerpen/ | en | null | null | 3,595 |
There’s a huge amount of money and there are financial incentives for researchers to have public discussion cut off, to say, ‘We know all this. We must do something’. If the concern is people don’t have as much faith in science, I can see why. When I see what is said in the debate (over climate change) and the way people like me are demonized for being skeptical, it makes me think, ‘Well, then you’re manipulating society for political purposes.’ Why wouldn’t that apply in fields I know no nothing about, like cancer research? | 6_proponents_biased | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/cascade-policy-institute/ | en | null | null | 3,596 |
There were 1,016 words in the letter, and all but 37 words were written by Devon Energy,” said Merkley. “Do you acknowledge that you presented a private oil company’s position, rather than a position developed by the people of Oklahoma?” Merkley pushed, “How can you present that as representing the people of Oklahoma when you simply only consulted an oil company to push its own point of view for its private profit? | 6_proponents_biased | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/scott-pruitt/ | en | null | null | 3,598 |
CO2 has no effect on the temperatures. The levels of CO2 are driven by temperatures. | 2_not_human | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/piers-corbyn/ | en | null | null | 3,599 |
Costa, I am saying exactly that. […] You’re nowhere near that, and you’re ignoring our own government agency. is as an outstanding agency, you’re, you’re ignoring, uh, a very liberal president that thought climate change was a problem. Who directed to really double their efforts in collecting data and the data they collected does not at all support your view of climate change, but we’re not talking about carbon dioxide. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/jay-h-lehr/ | en | null | null | 3,601 |
If science is to affect policymaking, an inherently political undertaking, research conducted or funded by government cannot be separated from politics, | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/benjamin-zycher/ | en | null | null | 3,602 |
The proselytisers for man-made global warming have long exercised a tight stranglehold over the contents of Wikipedia. | 6_proponents_biased | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/christopher-booker/ | en | null | null | 3,603 |
But the Coalition’s spokesman, physician and lawyer, Donald Palmisano, told OpenSecrets Blog he’d never heard of the other group, as did a publicist with Group. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/coalition-protect-patients-rights/ | en | null | null | 3,604 |
Tens or hundreds of millions of the world’s poor have died from malaria as a direct result of the multination ban on DDT use, driven by deeply disingenuous propaganda on its harmful effects on various bird species, vastly exaggerated on Earth Days past. This indifference to the death toll among the least fortunate is strangely reminiscent of Joseph Stalin’s view of the difference between one death and millions; and it is no accident, as Pravda used to put it, that the modern Earth Day mindset reflects that of the original. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/benjamin-zycher/ | en | null | null | 3,605 |
CARE supports coal as a responsible energy source. The United States possesses coal in great abundance, and there is no viable replacement for coal over the next several decades, if not longer. | 7_fossil_fuels_needed | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/citizens-alliance-responsible-energy/ | en | null | null | 3,606 |
I would call myself what some people describe as a ‘lukewarmer’ in that the CO2 effect that people have done thousands of studies on is in fact real. However, it is not a crisis. The reason it is not a crisis is because most people do not understand the logarithmic nature of the CO2 response in our atmosphere, | 3_not_bad | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/anthony-watts/ | en | null | null | 3,607 |
In warmer regions, it takes far less effort to ensure survival. How did the polar bear survive the last warm period? Whether bears survive will depend on human beings, not the climate. | 3_not_bad | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/josef-reichholf/ | en | null | null | 3,609 |
Delaware’s climate is not changing disastrously. Restricting carbon dioxide will have little impact on our climate . . . a carbon tax assumes that the harm done by carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuel use exceeds the benefits derived from the fuels and their emissions. There is good reason to think the benefits of the emissions — in enhanced plant growth and hence more abundant and affordable food and a general greening of the planet — could by themselves exceed the costs. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/david-legates/ | en | null | null | 3,610 |
The studies show that carbon dioxide follow temperature, not the other way around. | 2_not_human | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/daniel-simmons/ | en | null | null | 3,611 |
Like regular members, associate members are organizations that display a commitment to a market-oriented foundational public policy. They are also approved 501(c)(3) organizations primarily focused on education and operate independently of all government funding. However, unlike regular members, Associate Members can be national in scope and are not necessarily oriented towards a single state. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/state-policy-network/ | en | null | null | 3,612 |
During the last 100 years, temperature has both risen and fallen, including the present cooling. All the changes in temperature of the last 100 years are in normal historic ranges, both in absolute value and, most importantly, rate of change. | 1_not_happening | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/lee-c-gerhard/ | en | null | null | 3,613 |
Government should not be in the business of picking winners and losers in the energy space, and must not impede or impair the ability of energy-producing and energy-consuming segments of industry to obtain adequate funding for energy-related investments. The will identify and oppose overly restrictive regulations and the implementation of policies that limit or eliminate energy sources and production. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/national-association-manufacturers/ | en | null | null | 3,614 |
It’s not surprising that another member of Trump’s inner circle is hostile to women, | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/scott-pruitt/ | en | null | null | 3,616 |