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Bryce complained that the new rules would allow wind energy producers to kill or injure up to 4,200 eagles per year and hyped data showing that wind turbines were responsible for about 573,000 total bird deaths (not just eagles) in 2012. But as the Daily Kos piece explained, it is misleading to cite these figures without explaining that wind turbines are responsible for only ‘about 3 percent of human-caused eagle deaths’ and that other factors – including the oil and gas industry and climate change – are a much greater threat to birds than wind energy. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/robert-bryce/ | en | null | null | 3,721 |
Berman’s developed a cottage industry of setting up phony non-profit organizations to take in money from corporations that have a public relations problem,” Wayne Pacelle, the president of the Humane Society, which has been the target of Berman-led campaigns, said in an interview. “When you look at it in its full composition, it’s a very disturbing picture. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/center-organizational-research-and-education-core/ | en | null | null | 3,722 |
A vote for that politician [a climate change skeptic] is a vote against this sort of vicious price rise, this sort of stealth tax targeted on ordinary folk who find their energy bills a significant cost – the sort of hit that most of us will find pretty painful, given the current economic climate. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/lewis-page/ | en | null | null | 3,723 |
As a man who has studied the science of meteorology for over 60 years and received the [American Meteorological Society] Meteorologist of the Year award, I am totally offended that Nye gets the press and media attention he does, | 6_proponents_biased | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/john-coleman/ | en | null | null | 3,724 |
Human activities are not influencing the global climate in a perceptible way. Climate will continue to change, as it always has in the past, warming and cooling on different time scales and for different reasons, regardless of any human action. I would also argue that–should it occur–a modest warming would be on the whole beneficial. | 2_not_human | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/va-seee/ | en | null | null | 3,725 |
Instead of refusing to allow drilling for oil and natural gas on what it considers environmentally sensitive federal lands and coastal waters, Congress should open them up. Shutting away areas that hold a large part of the estimated 112 billion barrels of recoverable oil and 656 trillion cubic feet of natural gas in the United States is a luxury we can no longer afford, not when federal policy constrains energy production and contributes to rising energy costs for the American consumer. | 7_fossil_fuels_needed | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/michael-fox/ | en | null | null | 3,726 |
For instance, melting on the Greenland ice sheet. That happens every summer, but he makes it sound like it’s due to us, | 2_not_human | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/roy-spencer/ | en | null | null | 3,727 |
There is broad scientific agreement on many fundamental aspects of how human activities contribute to changes in the Earth’s climate. The radiative effect of increased levels of CO2 is well established. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/robert-mendelsohn/ | en | null | null | 3,728 |
Now I’m not a [climate] denier, I think we’ve got to leave our planet in a better condition than we found it in – look after your rivers, your seas, your oceans and stuff like that. But that said, it [net zero] is unfair on the poorest in society, because they’re paying the price. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/lee-anderson/ | en | null | null | 3,729 |
Government actions that unreasonably increase the cost of production and use of coal for limited environmental or health benefits are counterproductive. Unbalanced laws and regulations governing air, water and solid waste are currently the most crucial restraint on coal production and the use of coal by industry and utilities. Environmental policies should be reviewed and applied in a manner that balances reasonable environmental objectives with the need to have a diverse fuel portfolio, including continued cost-effective coal use. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/national-association-manufacturers/ | en | null | null | 3,730 |
Greenhouse effect – The warming of the Earth produced by the presence of certain gases in the atmosphere. The greenhouse effect is a natural phenomenon necessary for life on earth; without it the planet’s average temperature would be 0 degrees Fahrenheit, instead of 60 degrees. Greenhouse gases include nitrous oxides, chlorofluorocarbons, methane, tropospheric ozone and carbon dioxide. They trap heat that would otherwise escape into space and return some of it to the earth’s surface, causing a rise in temperature. These gases result from both natural (oceans, wetlands, lakes, volcanoes, tundra and decaying organic matter) and human (the burning of fossil fuels, deforestation, etc.) sources. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/national-mining-association/ | en | null | null | 3,731 |
These groups collectively are the heart and soul of climate denial,” said Kert Davies, founder of the Climate Investigation Center, who has spent 20 years tracking funding for climate denial. “It’s the broadest list I have seen of one company funding so many nodes in the denial machine. he company’s filings reveal funding for a range of organisations which have fought Barack Obama’s plans to cut greenhouse gas emissions, and denied the very existence of climate change. [… mong Peabody’s beneficiaries, the Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change has insisted – wrongly – that carbon emissions are not a threat but “the elixir of life” while the American Legislative Exchange Council is trying to overturn Environmental Protection Agency rules cutting emissions from power plants. Meanwhile, Americans for Prosperity campaigns against carbon pricing. The Oklahoma chapter was on the list. [… The breadth of the groups with financial ties to Peabody is extraordinary. Thinktanks, litigation groups, climate scientists, political organisations, dozens of organisations blocking action on climate all receiving funding from the coal industry,” said Nick Surgey, director of research for the Center for Media and Democracy We expected to see some denial money, but it looks like Peabody is the treasury for a very substantial part of the climate denial movement. | 6_proponents_biased | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/willie-soon/ | en | null | null | 3,732 |
The use of fossil fuels has been overwhelmingly positive for people’s lives, and instead of causing a catastrophe, fossil fuels have allowed people to adapt and to mitigate climate risk. In other words, the real catastrophe will be cutting our use of fossil fuels. | 7_fossil_fuels_needed | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/amanda-maxham/ | en | null | null | 3,733 |
The greening of the earth is a known fact, it’s being caused by fertilization. And not only does high increase the growth rate of all the plants on Earth, but it also improves their efficiency with water. It is. It makes them more drought tolerant,” he claimed, adding: “there is actually no concrete evidence that is causing any harmful warming whatsoever. If it causes a little bit of warming, we will be very lucky. | 3_not_bad | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/patrick-moore/ | en | null | null | 3,734 |
As municipalities, counties, and even countries declare a “climate emergency,” it is apparent that global warming is often being presented as an existential challenge requiring urgent and strong climate policies to avoid devastation This article has shown that these claims are misleading and often incorrectly describe the issue and its future. While climate change is real, human caused, and will have a mostly negative impact, it is important to remember that climate policies will likewise have a mostly negative impact. Thus, we must account for the effects of both to find the policies that will achieve the highest welfare gains. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/bjorn-lomborg/ | en | null | null | 3,735 |
For many Americans, scientific evidence about the virus’s relatively mild impact on the vast majority of the population only fuels their desire to return to work, school, and community. They see the virus as a large risk for a small segment of the population and a small risk for the vast majority of us, and, while there is no foolproof way to reopen society, the benefits of returning to some sense of normality are far less risky than the damage caused by prolonging economic shutdowns and social isolation. … onsumer confidence and financial spending power are not the only threat to businesses small and large—the fear of being hit with lawsuits by employees and customers who may come down with the virus also exists. This fear is well justified: hundreds of lawsuits have already been filed with mass-litigation firms working furiously to recruit clients for additional suits and potential class action litigation America is a litigation-friendly society and every consumer pays the price, not only for the lawsuits that go to court, but for the additional costs businesses incur to protect themselves from such litigation.Scientific evidence, of course, will be at the heart of these cases …]This is all new territory for the judicial system, the scientific community, and the economy. The Center for Truth in Science will be keeping a close eye on these developments and will ensure that unbiased and objective facts are part of any conversations on the matter. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/center-truth-science/ | en | null | null | 3,736 |
Consensus on global warming is varied and nuanced. As a general matter, the climate is changing, and humans have a role. That’s a serious issue that deserves our continued attention. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/mandy-gunasekara/ | en | null | null | 3,737 |
I have said there are no data to suggest that we as human beings are in danger of disappearing from the planet. […] If you look at the models and the predictions of species extinction, for example, those predictions are based on models. You cannot find data to support the predictions of the model. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/property-and-environment-research-center/ | en | null | null | 3,738 |
The tendency of those committed to the theory of catastrophic man-made global warming to unquestioningly adopt the assumptions, at every stage, that maximize the expectation of calamity should alert us that groupthink is driving the movement. | 6_proponents_biased | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/peter-lilley/ | en | null | null | 3,740 |
There are more than 11,000 students at DU and just a handful of them walked out of class today. That tells you the fossil-fuel divestment campaign, which is run by 350.org in New York, has almost no traction with DU students at all. We hope DU sees through the 350.org divestment campaign. It’s a costly political stunt that will hurt DU students and faculty without doing anything – on campus or off campus – to lower carbon emissions. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/simon-lomax/ | en | null | null | 3,741 |
All of us engage in activities that involve burning fossil fuels, and according to some self-proclaimed environmentalists we should feel guilty doing so due to the emission of carbon dioxide (CO2) which can lead to ever-dreaded global warming. However, the botanical literature is full of 1,000s of articles showing that elevated atmospheric concentrations of CO2 will be beneficial for plants throughout the world… . We see the forest and we see the trees, and they both thank us for the CO2 we’re adding to the atmosphere… .So drive out to the forest and feel good about the CO2 coming out of your tailpipe! | 3_not_bad | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/robert-c-balling-jr/ | en | null | null | 3,742 |
Those of us who have the pleasure of living in Weld County know just how vital oil and gas is to our local community. Our relationship with the oil and gas industry isn’t us versus them. They are us,” her column begins. Together, we serve as a role model for the rest of Colorado. We trust our friends, neighbors, and family members who work in the industry to extract our precious natural recourses while preserving the integrity of our water, air and way of life. And, so far, they haven’t let us down. …] “But oil and gas doesn’t just extract resources from the ground. Because they are us, they also give back. | 7_fossil_fuels_needed | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/amy-oliver-cooke/ | en | null | null | 3,743 |
Surface temperatures are indeed increasing slightly: They’ve been going up, in fits and starts, for more than 150 years, or since a miserably cold and pestilential period known as the Little Ice Age. Before carbon dioxide from economic activity could have warmed us up, temperatures rose three-quarters of a degree Fahrenheit between 1910 and World War . They then cooled down a bit, only to warm again from the mid-1970s to the late ’90s, about the same amount as earlier in the century. | 1_not_happening | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/patrick-michaels/ | en | null | null | 3,744 |
Facts, as they say, are facts. On the other hand, untrue representations presented as facts are either uninformed, intentionally disingenuous, or a combination of the two. Secretary of State Kerry’s statements attacking those who challenge the existence of a human-caused climate crisis likely fall into the third category. | 6_proponents_biased | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/larry-bell/ | en | null | null | 3,745 |
For years, I disseminated the hypotheses of the IPCC, and I feel duped. Renewable energy is near and dear to me, and I’ve been fighting for its expansion for more than 30 years. My concern is that if citizens discover that the people who warn of a climate disaster are only telling half the truth, they will no longer be prepared to pay higher electricity costs for wind and solar (energy). Then the conversion of our energy supply will lack the necessary acceptance. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/fritz-vahrenholt/ | en | null | null | 3,746 |
The long-term damage TPUSA could inflict on conservative students and the Conservative Movement can no longer be ignored lthough it runs counter to our instincts to advise students against becoming involved with other conservative organizations, students deserve to be warned about TPUSA. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/turning-point-usa/ | en | null | null | 3,747 |
We have always encouraged our employees to engage in political activities. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/jack-n-gerard/ | en | null | null | 3,748 |
Climate change is a major problem that we all must work together to solve–but it is inappropriate to blame it entirely on the manufacturing companies that we all rely on, | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/manufacturers-accountability-project/ | en | null | null | 3,749 |
While the general opinion supports the hypothesis about harmful global warming resulting from burning of fossil fuels, hard data do not support beyond all doubt the assertion that global warming is indeed happening and what is more, the theory does not prove that burning fossil fuels causes harm to the nature…[T]he theory of global warming is built on shaky foundations. It is, at least, questionable to set ourselves costly complying with regulatory requirements on the basis of a questionable hypothesis. Coal, oil and gas are gifts of nature and by burning them, we emit into the nature valuable carbon dioxide which serves as a source for renewal of life in the nature. No feeling of guilt should take place because of burning coal, oil and gas. Alternative energy sources will surely be competitive in future. For the time being, however, it is more efficient to produce energy by burning fossil fuels. Let us not waste resources – ten billion Czech crowns should rather stay in the pockets of our citizens, so that they may use the money more effectively than politicians influenced by momentary moods of environmental pressure groups. | 2_not_human | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/petr-mach/ | en | null | null | 3,750 |
I was kind of on the circuit with some of these guys, but there’s obviously a limit of what you can do in the Senate,” he said, noting a desire to do more media appearances. “I’d like to do more of that if possible. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/george-david-banks/ | en | null | null | 3,751 |
I used to be a ‘middle-grounder’ rather than a sceptic on climate change…until I realised the scale on which science is being manipulated into alarmist fake news. Me for @Telegraph. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/sherelle-jacobs/ | en | null | null | 3,752 |
If Trump truly wishes to create manufacturing jobs for Americans, he must make the United States more competitive on the global stage by reforming the tax code and rescinding jobs-killing environmental regulations,” Orr wrote Trump has already signed an executive order instructing the Environmental Protection Agency to rescind the Clean Power Plan and other Obama-era climate change regulations, but unless he instructs the agency to review and rescind the Endangerment Finding, he is simply treating the symptoms of this problem and not curing the disease. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/isaac-orr/ | en | null | null | 3,753 |
If you dig into the data, there’s absolutely no climate crisis, and the weather’s not getting worse, and CO2 isn’t the climate control knob,” Nelson said. “Just about everything that they’re telling you is a lie. And anything alarming they’re telling you, everything is a lie. There’s nothing alarming at all happening with the weather or the climate. | 1_not_happening | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/tom-nelson/ | en | null | null | 3,754 |
If Ed Clark is elected President he will let the free market work…[H]e will eliminate all subsidies to energy producers. Oil companies and other energy firms should have to make it on their own without shifting their risks to the taxpayers. Specifically, a Clark administration will abolish the Department of Energy, whose only functions are to interfere with energy production and distribution and hand out subsides. We will repeal all price and import controls, allowing supply and demand to set energy prices. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/ed-clark/ | en | null | null | 3,756 |
One of his pet peeves is the great climate-change con,” Delingpole wrote of Bannon. “It’s partly why he recruited a notorious skeptic like myself. Basically,” Delingpole wrote, “we won. | 6_proponents_biased | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/donald-trump/ | en | null | null | 3,758 |
Since President Obama’s election three and a half years ago, he and his administration have done everything in their power to stop fossil fuel usage, including a carbon tax, increased federal regulations, delays in federal permitting, infrastructure permitting denials for the Keystone XL Pipeline, capital starvation for drilling by the elimination of intangible drilling costs, and depletion allowance. […] At the same time, there are billions of dollars in subsidies being given to solar, wind and all other alternative sources of energy. | 7_fossil_fuels_needed | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/harold-hamm/ | en | null | null | 3,759 |
I find it very surprising that already in the work of the IPCC, we ask scientists to reach consensus on the texts. Scientists lose all credibility if they are unanimous. | 6_proponents_biased | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/alain-preat/ | en | null | null | 3,760 |
All the carbon-spewing machinery the human race now possesses – powerplants, transportation, boilers, the lot – can be kept running for its entire designed life without any significant ill effects on the planetary ecosystem […] | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/lewis-page/ | en | null | null | 3,761 |
The problem I have with the whole environmental debate, is that it’s shifted away from being global warming because they couldn’t stand up global warming, and it’s now ‘climate change’, I mean climate changes every day, it’s called weather. | 1_not_happening | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/michael-o-leary/ | en | null | null | 3,762 |
The fluctuations in the carbon dioxide concentration appear to track those in temperature to a remarkable degree, but a closer look reveals that the fluctuations generally lag behind those in temperature. Never does a changing carbon dioxide concentration precede that of temperature. | 2_not_human | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/harry-n-a-priem/ | en | null | null | 3,763 |
There is no denying that wind and solar power are important to a balanced energy portfolio. But coal is the bedrock of affordable electricity, and it will remain so, no matter how much wishful thinking by environmental activists. Coal is abundant and reliable. Unlike wind and solar, coal generation can be dialed up and down in response to market conditions and to satisfy demand. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/charles-d-mcconnell/ | en | null | null | 3,764 |
Unfortunately, Canada doesn’t have a Nigel Lawson – certainly not in our opposition politicians like Erin O’Toole. There is no one holding our Prime Minister to account on climate alarmism, on the outrageous cost of the Net Zero transition, that he, of course, will never feel, but that will make life so much less affordable for Canadians still reeling from the economic costs of the Covid-19 pandemic. We wish we had similar voices here, holding our PM to task to stop punishing Canadians with more policies that make energy – and life in general – much less affordable. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/canadians-for-affordable-energy/ | en | null | null | 3,765 |
Despite the need for domestic energy, he [President Obama] closed federal lands to drilling and mocked those who call for more oil production,” Priebus wrote He killed the Keystone XL pipeline project, blocking an affordable, reliable source of energy—and jobs. Now, that oil will likely be sold to China instead of the United States. And we will continue to import from unstable regions in the world instead of Canada The president should welcome Keystone. He should open up energy production onshore and offshore, and he should end his efforts to increase taxes and onerous regulations on American energy Obama’s decisions have cost us—and not just at the pump. With the stimulus, he gambled billions in taxpayer money on green energy companies like Solyndra, the now-bankrupt California-based solar energy company. Solyndra’s bankruptcy has left taxpayers on the hook for over half a billion dollars and put 1,100 employees out of work For three years, the president has done nothing meaningful to keep energy prices low, and now that Americans are feeling the pain at the pump, they are rightfully going to hold him accountable. | 7_fossil_fuels_needed | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/reince-priebus/ | en | null | null | 3,766 |
I consider the part of the IPCC report, which I can really judge as an expert, i.e. the reconstruction of the paleoclimate, wrong, | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/augusto-mangini/ | en | null | null | 3,767 |
Again this doesn’t mean we don’t need EPAwe don’t need regulation; we’re already doing a good job. No. Just to maintain the achievements reached […] is a very important function for an administrative agency [like the EPA] | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/kathleen-hartnett-white/ | en | null | null | 3,768 |
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change does not seem to be an irresponsible organization, and I know of no obvious reason to suspect that it is involved in any shenanigans of the CRU variety. At the same time, IPCC does not do its own research; it is dependent upon the research of others, and therefore upon the scrupulousness of others. Nonetheless, they write: ‘The observed widespread warming of the atmosphere and ocean, together with ice mass loss, support the conclusion that it is extremely unlikely that global climate change of the past 50 years can be explained without external forcing and very likely that it is not due to known natural causes alone.’ (That ‘very’ is an escalation from their previous position of just ‘likely.’) Having no scientific basis to disregard this conclusion, and no strong basis to suspect IPCC’s honesty, we ought to consider this claim carefully and sympathetically. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/kevin-d-williamson/ | en | null | null | 3,769 |
A climate crisis, which you hear all of the time from the politicians and the NGOs, really has scant scientific support, | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/steve-koonin/ | en | null | null | 3,770 |
Unless ‘climate change’ becomes a non-issue, meaning that the Kyoto proposal is defeated and there are no further initiatives to thwart the threat of climate change, there may be do moment when we can declare victory for our efforts. It will be necessary to establish measurements for the science effort to track progress toward achieving the goal and strategic success. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/american-petroleum-institute/ | en | null | null | 3,771 |
Children will be taught, for example, the ‘impact of diet choices for land usage and environmental impact’ […] That isn’t educating children to think for themselves; it is trying to train them to be the next generation of environmental activists. | 6_proponents_biased | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/ross-clark/ | en | null | null | 3,774 |
Menschliche Aktivitäten verursachen nicht in entscheidender Weise den Klimawandel,” Translated: “Human activities do not cause climate change decisively. | 2_not_human | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/friedrich-karl-ewert/ | en | null | null | 3,775 |
If there is to be a ban on non-scientists discussing climate change issues (which I do not, of course, support), this should in the best tradition be an even-handed one. That is to say, they should also ban non-scientists such as energy secretary Ed Davey, Ed Miliband, Lord Deben (chairman of the government’s climate advisory committee), Lord Stern (former adviser to the government on the economics of climate change and development) and all the others who are regularly invited to appear. | 6_proponents_biased | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/global-warming-policy-foundation/ | en | null | null | 3,776 |
It’s normal to have cycles of climate. We are getting towards the end of a warm period. The peak of the warmth was about 5000 years ago, and we are heading for the next inevitable ice age. Now, I know it will be on a Tuesday I just can’t tell you what’s Tuesday. But climates are cyclical. And just because you live on planet Earth doesn’t mean that you are controlling major planetary systems. For you to think that you can actually control what happens on the planet means you to have an ego incommensurate with your knowledge. | 2_not_human | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/ian-plimer/ | en | null | null | 3,777 |
The modern world is full of old Christian ideas gone mad. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/toby-young/ | en | null | null | 3,778 |
If you want to know where to stop CO2 regulation in the quest to fix the weather, and you’re turning the CO2 climate control knob and you want to know what the correct setting is, there is no answer. EPA has not supplied one. The court did not require them to set a standard. So there is no concentration, there is no global average surface temperature at which you can say ‘at last we have averted disaster.’ So there’s no metric, there’s no standard you can look to to say this much is enough… . And obviously there is no amount of regulation that will ever fix the weather. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/harry-macdougald/ | en | null | null | 3,779 |
Number one was educate the public about the use of natural resources. Immediately develop petroleum resources in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Cut down remaining old-growth forests on public lands and replace with new trees. Cut down 30,000 acres of the Tongass National Forest each year to promote economic forestry practices. Open all public lands, including national parks, to mining and oil drilling. Construct roads into all wilderness areas for motorized wheel chair use. Stop protecting endangered species, such as the California condor, that were in decline before man arrived. Force anyone who loses litigation against a development to pay for the increase in costs for completing the project, plus damages. But the idea of wise use has become embedded. It’s no longer a list like that. | 7_fossil_fuels_needed | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/ron-arnold/ | en | null | null | 3,780 |
Although, it’s a little tricky because, ah, and this is where my, I guess my philosophical training comes in, it’s not a question of saying it’s humans are not affecting the climate. It’s more a matter of saying we don’t know what affect humans are having on the climate. In other words, it’s not a claim, it’s a concern. It’s an open question. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/david-wojick/ | en | null | null | 3,782 |
The documents show Whatley using his insider status within the Trump administration to communicate on behalf of his client, a powerful electric utility industry association,” said Anderson. “So to connect the dots: here you have Whatley sharing a personal invite from Tom Kuhn, the president of EEI, for Trump’s Interior Department to discuss deregulation at the utility industry’s largest annual events. All the while, EEI is also working with the oil and gas industry on such campaigns as countering public concerns about pipelines and fracking. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/vincent-devito/ | en | null | null | 3,783 |
Despite media claims to the contrary, the debate is not over. There is no consensus among scientists concerning global warming. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/donna-laframboise/ | en | null | null | 3,784 |
Everything that we do has some form of impact on the environment and when you look at the global context and the global perspective of resource development and resource consumption, no country on earth, in my opinion, does it better then Canada when you take all factors into account. So we should be extremely proud of our country, we should speak up, we should let our voices be heard, so that we can overcome this mob mentality of fear and negativity of scarcity that exists when good people do not stand up for what they believe in. | 6_proponents_biased | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/cody-battershill/ | en | null | null | 3,785 |
We’re the world’s leading think tank on this issue,” Lakely said. “We’re here to provide help. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/jim-lakely/ | en | null | null | 3,786 |
The other thing is if this were really the terrible crisis that we can’t adapt to that they say, then the population shifts in the United States should have all been moving in the other direction, which is what my next slide shows. It shows that the states that are warmest are the states that have had the most rapid population growth over the last fifty years. People are voting with their feet by the millions to embrace and endure more climate warming in a short space of time than even these outlandish models predict will happen in a century. If you move from Albany to Florida or to Texas, the climate is really going to change for you. | 3_not_bad | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/marlo-lewis-jr/ | en | null | null | 3,788 |
These were BP’s meetings. They set them up and handled the invitations, and we were invited to come along, | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/joe-balash/ | en | null | null | 3,789 |
This is a great day for America, and I think it’s a great day for the world. And I think the world will see that eventually he United States under President Trump is trying to lead the world in a new direction. To lead to a brighter future. Our moral responsibility, as he pointed out, is to the workers and the consumers. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/myron-ebell/ | en | null | null | 3,790 |
It’s OK to be wrong, and [Richard Lindzen] is a smart person, but most people don’t really understand that one way of using your intelligence is to spin ever more clever ways of deceiving yourself. … He has made a career of being wrong in interesting ways about climate science. | 6_proponents_biased | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/competitive-enterprise-institute/ | en | null | null | 3,791 |
There was an effective embargo on alternative opinions, so making it official really does not change things. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/jan-breslow/ | en | null | null | 3,792 |
I do not believe, and I know this is a horrible thing to say, but I do not believe that the president [Barack Obama] loves America […] He doesn’t love you. And he doesn’t love me. He wasn’t brought up the way you were brought up and I was brought up, through love of this country. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/rudy-giuliani/ | en | null | null | 3,793 |
It is caused by lots of different things, and you can’t say that climate change is only caused by humans, | 2_not_human | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/us-chamber-commerce/ | en | null | null | 3,794 |
Can you imagine how we’d have coped during the war with those privileged, middle-class drips leading the fight against Hitler? It really would have been all over by Christmas – Christmas 1939. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/rod-liddle/ | en | null | null | 3,795 |
Contrary to these claims, governments cannot legislate the weather. Climate activists like Steyer think we need more taxes and regulations to somehow stop bad weather and a changing climate. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/marc-morano/ | en | null | null | 3,796 |
The bottom line is this: Global warming, by its very nature, requires global action. Action in one country, focused squarely on one energy source, is not the answer. Sound policy shouldn’t rest on the hope that other nations might follow our climate lead. Unless major emitting countries agree to sacrifice economic growth or energy security to reduce emissions, why should Americans? | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/60-plus-association/ | en | null | null | 3,797 |
Everything you’ve heard over the last 24 hours about the indispensability of a free market in energy, and a resistance to the alarmism and hysteria of the climate change cult, is absolutely correct, | 6_proponents_biased | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/brooke-rollins/ | en | null | null | 3,798 |
As the average air temperature rises, so the seed gets warmer. As it expands, the mean sea level rises. As it rises, it floods low-lying land. Many of the world’s cities, including London, are on low-lying land. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/christopher-monckton/ | en | null | null | 3,799 |
Earth’s temperature naturally warms and cools cyclically throughout time, and warmer periods are typically more conducive to human thriving than colder periods. | 3_not_bad | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/lawson-bader/ | en | null | null | 3,800 |
The fact that we have an impact doesn’t even mean that it’s net negative. I think the jury is out because there’s a lot of beneficial warming and then greening is good. | 3_not_bad | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/alex-epstein/ | en | null | null | 3,802 |
Up until now, and the environmentalists have pretty much had the bully pulpit in terms of explaining why they think these regulations are good and necessary, | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/andrew-wheeler/ | en | null | null | 3,803 |
Climate alarmism validates the progressive impulse to micromanage others’ lives — their light bulbs, shower heads, toilets, appliances, automobiles, etc. | 6_proponents_biased | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/george-will/ | en | null | null | 3,804 |
Modern Japan is a testament to the benefits of total defeat, to stripping a culture prone to violence of its martial pretenses. Modern Hiroshima is a testament to human resilience in the face of catastrophe. It is a testament, too, to an America that understood moral certainty and even a thirst for revenge were not obstacles to magnanimity. In some ways they are the precondition for it. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/bret-stephens/ | en | null | null | 3,806 |
To that end, we have been working on the Murdoch press of late, with good initial results. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/rupert-murdoch/ | en | null | null | 3,807 |
By his plea, Mr. Gottlieb has admitted that he intentionally filed a United States Income Tax Return for the calendar year 1978, which he knew to understate his taxable income by approximately $49,000. The evidence which supported the plea and which was set forth in a written stipulation signed by the defendant, clearly established that the defendant set about to fraudulently misrepresent his taxable income. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/center-defense-free-enterprise/ | en | null | null | 3,808 |
If you want to share with me some compelling data that is not coming out of a left-wing, liberal institution or a liberal media professor, I’ll be happy to look at it… But let me say this, this is not the single biggest issue facing our country… If this was an issue then the American electorate would have been talking about it for the last 18 months and they have not uttered one word about it… Do I believe it’s a scam? Yes I do… I do not believe in global warming. | 1_not_happening | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/corey-lewandowski/ | en | null | null | 3,809 |
So many people are so discouraged when you have people on the fringe saying comments that are obviously offensive, saying things about ‘legitimate rape’. I don’t know what inspires anybody to say words like that. So yes, on one hand, part of me wishes that issue would just go away, but I’m sure I’m in the minority. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/heather-r-higgins/ | en | null | null | 3,810 |
HW: “[…] CO2 in the atmosphere has none of the characteristics of a pollutant that, you know, contaminates and fouls and all of that, that can have a direct impact on human health, as an atmospheric gas it’s a plant nutrient. | 3_not_bad | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/kathleen-hartnett-white/ | en | null | null | 3,811 |
There was nothing special about the temperature of the Earth in 2014. In fact, there has been no meaningful warming since last century. | 1_not_happening | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/david-rothbard/ | en | null | null | 3,812 |
There’s no science behind the arguments the vocal minority are making,” Ratcliffe claimed. “America is much more regulated than the UK and they’ve drilled a million wells and it’s been very successful, they’re not polluting things and I don’t understand it other than the vocal minority makes more noise than the majority who are in favour of shale in every survey that we do. | 6_proponents_biased | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/jim-ratcliffe/ | en | null | null | 3,813 |
The truth is, read any legitimate scientific study on climate – including IPCC’s – that suggests human influence is the dominant cause for global warming, and you will discover dozens of qualifiers like ‘could,’ ‘possibly,’ ‘potentially,’ and ‘may.’ For all the certainty and consensus that global warming fear-mongers assert, those sound a lot like weasel words. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/paul-chesser/ | en | null | null | 3,814 |
Colorado #climatechange activists get caught spreading #FakeNews, but this leaves unchallenged an obviously made-up ‘statistic’ that 99.9% of scientists say we’re in a ‘climate emergency.’ Real scientists don’t engage in such loaded language. | 6_proponents_biased | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/western-energy-alliance/ | en | null | null | 3,815 |
Al Gore is a prime example of the danger of seeking religious purpose in life through political interests and activism. Today, his declared central organizing life-principle is salvation of the environment. Yet for most of his life he was a member in good standing of the 16 million-member Southern Baptist Convention. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/james-wanliss/ | en | null | null | 3,816 |
We do need a hub airport in the south-east of England… If you want to have a hub airport three runways probably isn’t enough. If we’re imaginative about Heathrow, I don’t see why we can’t build four runways there. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/liz-truss/ | en | null | null | 3,817 |
We believe that the world should come to terms with some realities and build this energy transition approach or roadmap on some realities. We believe that a parallel track is very much needed here, and it will be all sources. We know that fossil fuel will continue to play a role in the foreseeable future in helping meet global energy requirements.” [00:28:59] | 7_fossil_fuels_needed | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/sultan-ahmed-al-jaber/ | en | null | null | 3,818 |
Even if reducing emissions really is necessary to save the planet, our effort, however Herculean, is barely-better-than-futile; because Australia’s total annual emissions are exceeded by just the annual increase in China’s. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/tony-abbott/ | en | null | null | 3,819 |
One of the other things which Zac [Goldsmith, Conservative MP] scented about me is that he knew that I was one of those characters we call a ‘shy green’. We’re familiar with the concept of shy Tories – people who are naturally Conservative but don’t want to make a song and dance about it. One of the things that I’ve learnt throughout my life is that I’m an environmentalist but a lot of time I didn’t realise it. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/michael-gove/ | en | null | null | 3,820 |
The ice sheets have both gotten bigger. The planet’s going into a cold stage because the sun’s going partially dormant. It’s a known cycle. it was predicted by all the astrophysicists 50 years ago. […] The sun is the complete driver! | 1_not_happening | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/alex-jones/ | en | null | null | 3,821 |
Well, what’s going on is cycle,” Plimer said in the interview. “It’s normal to have cycles of climate. We are getting towards the end of a warm period. The peak of the warmth was about 5000 years ago, and we are heading for the next inevitable ice age. Now, I know it will be on a Tuesday I just can’t tell you what’s Tuesday. But climates are cyclical. And just because you live on planet Earth doesn’t mean that you are controlling major planetary systems. For you to think that you can actually control what happens on the planet means you to have an ego incommensurate with your knowledge. … No one has ever shown that human emissions of carbon dioxide drive global warming. If you think it has been shown, please give me the five scientific papers that show this. That question has never been answered. Show me that human emissions drive global warming. | 2_not_human | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/ian-plimer/ | en | null | null | 3,823 |
I absolutely stand by what I said. This is one of the most important subjects since the war. The whole thing has been a complete farce and a cover-up. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/godfrey-bloom/ | en | null | null | 3,825 |
No one has ever shown that human emissions of carbon dioxide drive global warming. If you think it has been shown, please give me the five scientific papers that show this. That question has never been answered. Show me that human emissions drive global warming. | 2_not_human | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/ian-plimer/ | en | null | null | 3,826 |
Homosexual relationships are inherently unnatural and, the studies clearly show, are ultimately harmful and costly for everyone. Society cannot give its stamp of approval to such a dangerous lifestyle. If we change marriage for this tiny, modern minority, we will have to do it for every deviant group Polygamists, polyamorists, pedophiles, and others will be next in line to claim equal protection. They already are. There will be no legal basis to deny a bisexual the right to marry a partner of each sex, or a person to marry his pet. If everyone does what is right in his own eyes, chaos and sexual anarchy will result. And make no mistake, the extremists who seek to redefine marriage also want to deny you the right to object to immoral behavior. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/mike-johnson/ | en | null | null | 3,828 |
You might have the recipe for making the most perfect and delicious pizza, but if the chef is hubristic, or crazy, or incompetent, you are not going to end up with a particularly tasty pizza. Does that mean you shouldn’t eat pizza again? No, it just means you shouldn’t eat pizza cooked by that chef. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/institute-economic-affairs/ | en | null | null | 3,829 |
The science of climate change is far from settled. Arguably, it will never be settled. I have argued that the relationship between human emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs) and global warming remains uncertain. Plausibly, increased emissions of GHGs during the 21st century will lead to mild warming – of perhaps 1–3° Celsius. To the extent that this warming occurs gradually, the best strategy is likely to be adaptation. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/institute-economic-affairs/ | en | null | null | 3,830 |
Parliament’s cushy consensus over climate change is dead. In 2008, when the Climate Change Bill had its third reading in the Commons, only five s voted against. But with doomsday predictions failing to materialize, and the planet failing to warm, s are starting to get more skeptical. | 1_not_happening | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/adam-smith-institute/ | en | null | null | 3,831 |
I can assure you, that’s one thing that, hand-in-hand, Scott Pruitt and I are going to try to do something to save our next generation. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/james-inhofe/ | en | null | null | 3,832 |