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The fact of the matter is the last sixteen years doesn’t fit any model. Even though we continue to put a lot of CO2 in, it doesn’t fit the climate model. […] So something’s going on. And so I think we need to be prudent. It doesn’t mean I think we need to be destructive on fossil fuels. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/ryan-zinke/ | en | null | null | 3,939 |
The evidence strongly suggests that humans have had an influence on higher CO2. However, the evidence is equally as strong that there are other factors, such as rising ocean temperatures, that have a greater influence. | 2_not_human | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/ryan-zinke/ | en | null | null | 3,940 |
We don’t have able bodied workers, enough of them in the economy to support our programs. Social Security and Medicare, for example. They’re all scheduled to go bankrupt in less than ten years, some of them. But why? Because we don’t have enough people paying into the system to support those programs. And why is that? Because 63 million of them were aborted, | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/mike-johnson/ | en | null | null | 3,941 |
One of the things that I don’t get in the description of me by the climate scientists is they portray me as a truck driver savant. I am well-educated. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/steve-mcintyre/ | en | null | null | 3,942 |
Scientists who dare question the almost religious belief in climate change, and yes, they do exist, are ignored or undermined in news reports as are policy makers and pundits who take similar views. | 6_proponents_biased | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/dan-gainor/ | en | null | null | 3,943 |
The idea that our climate hinges on small changes in CO2 – of which 97% is produced by natural causes and only 3% from human activity – is clearly nonsense. | 2_not_human | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/sammy-wilson/ | en | null | null | 3,944 |
The march of wokeism, like the march of Islamism, is more than an intellectual movement. It has already claimed many innocent victims, from university professors to stand-up comedians. And its victims include its supposed beneficiaries. Many mayors, police officials, and public prosecutors have responded to the ‘Black Lives Matter’ and ‘Defund the Police’ movements by handcuffing police protection in many neighborhoods and effectively decriminalizing looting, shoplifting, and similar offenses. These steps, taken in the name of ‘social justice,’ have produced a surge in urban crime and killing that has disproportionately afflicted black citizens. Similarly, the aggressive promotion of sex-change surgery on unwitting children has left many girls (and boys) permanently disfigured. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/christopher-demuth/ | en | null | null | 3,945 |
When a politician says, concerning an issue involving science, that the debate is over, you may be sure the debate is rolling on and not going swimmingly for his side. Obama is, however, quite right that climate change is a fact. The climate is always changing. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/george-will/ | en | null | null | 3,946 |
Scientists are floundering. Having worked at the Met Office, I can tell you their salaries depend on climate change being real. | 6_proponents_biased | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/katie-hopkins/ | en | null | null | 3,947 |
I would cancel the ban and I’d revisit the whole approach to net zero. You allow technology to work out how to let you get cleaner energy and then you let the market decide. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/jacob-rees-mogg/ | en | null | null | 3,949 |
I don’t know what [Ben Santer’s] complaint is. But I’ll give you the philosophy behind it […] I think people should be thanking me. I was doing a service. And people go like ‘oh, they’re death threats.’ Well, I get death threats. I enjoy them. I usually email back. So I think it was one of the healthiest things that could have happened in the climate debate. I make no apologies for it. I still do it and I enjoy doing it. | 6_proponents_biased | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/marc-morano/ | en | null | null | 3,950 |
Modest changes in temperature are not about to wipe them [coral reefs] out. Neither will increased carbon dioxide, which is a fundamental chemical building block that allows coral reefs to exist at all. It is their and our friend, generally, not the enemy. | 3_not_bad | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/gary-d-sharp/ | en | null | null | 3,951 |
We do not believe that past and current climates are sufficiently well understood to enable projections of future climate changes to be accurately predicted. Our purpose is to exchange scientific ideas and to encourage proper political and social debate on this intriguing subject. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/australian-climate-science-coalition/ | en | null | null | 3,952 |
Well-bred, polite narcissists every single one of them. And dim as a five-watt bulb in an aircraft hangar. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/rod-liddle/ | en | null | null | 3,953 |
I don’t agree with (same-sex marriage). I think marriage ought to continue to be between one man and one woman. So do most Kansans, for what it matters. I think when it was on the ballot (the state constitutional ban on same-sex marriage), 70 percent (voted in favor of the ban). There was overwhelming support for it in the state of Kansas. I think as you look back at civilization, look back at history, you find the strength of these families having a father and a mother is the ideal condition for childbearing,” Pompeo said. “Doesn’t mean there aren’t great families with single parents, great young men and women raised without either parent. If you’re asking for what is ideal, I think it’s being raised by a man and a woman. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/mike-pompeo/ | en | null | null | 3,954 |
As a result of misplaced priorities of President Obama, who has consistently failed to partner with the states to address our nation’s real needs, stories are emerging in East Los Angeles, Baltimore, communities across Ohio, and elsewhere about lead pipes and other infrastructure problems that put the health of our citizens at risk. In my leadership role on the Committee, I have watched the Obama administration prioritize more than $120 billion for the president’s global warming agenda at the expense of real investment in critical infrastructure. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/james-inhofe/ | en | null | null | 3,956 |
With a parting comment: If we were to have 96 continuous hours without sunlight, temperatures would likely be below freezing over all the world’s land masses. The warmest place you could find would be to take a swim in the nearest ocean. There is no physical process in the atmosphere which ‘traps’ heat. The so-called ‘greenhouse effect’ is a myth. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/james-peden/ | en | null | null | 3,957 |
As this short history of failed predictions reveals, prominent environmentalists have been using fears of famine and ecological disaster to promote a population-control agenda for many years. Recent claims that man-made global warming might be yet another disaster to be laid at the feet of population growth are no more credible. … Climate forecasts going out more than a century are too unreliable to be credible. While presented as though they are scientific predictions, they are, in fact, little more than educated guesses put forward by a small number of scientists – and many of them have financial conflicts of interest and political agendas Inordinate fear of climate change has, unfortunately, already led to the adoption of a plethora of taxes, regulations, and subsidies aimed at reducing carbon emissions. It doesn’t need to lead to population control as well. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/tim-benson/ | en | null | null | 3,958 |
A true bubble is when something is overvalued and intensely believed, | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/peter-thiel/ | en | null | null | 3,959 |
There are more effective ways of tackling environmental problems – including global warming, proliferation of plastics, urban sprawl, and the loss of biodiversity – than by treaties, top-down regulations, and other approaches offered by big governments and their dependents,” Manning said in his state of the conservative movement speech, according to the prepared text published by Macleans. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/preston-manning/ | en | null | null | 3,960 |
Now they can abuse this crisis, basically. This crisis of the whole lockdown situation and that is exactly why I think there’s a huge incentive behind the lockdown and that is very dangerous because what they’re going to do is extend it as long as possible. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/naomi-seibt/ | en | null | null | 3,961 |
The scientific consensus holds that the climate is warming and human activity plays a substantial role. But there is no consensus about how much warming human activity has caused or will cause. | 2_not_human | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/oren-cass/ | en | null | null | 3,962 |
It’s extraordinary that anyone should think there is a climate crisis. Year after year our annual assessment of climate trends document just how little has been changing in the last 30 years. The habitual climate alarmism is mainly driven by scientists’ computer modelling, rather than observational evidence. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/benny-peiser/ | en | null | null | 3,963 |
We have a problem of overkill in some areas including, for instance, the coal phase-out in Ontario. That was a huge overkill in response to the air emissions issue. […] They didn’t need to phase out those coal-fired power plants, but its the alarmism that made it impossible to have that debate at the time. | 6_proponents_biased | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/canada-strong-and-free-network/ | en | null | null | 3,964 |
Tobacco is the growing demon – you say something for the tobacco industry and it must mean you’re in their pockets. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/jane-m-orient/ | en | null | null | 3,965 |
Fortunately, there is something the federal government can do to make private wildlife habitat more viable: eliminate the federal Renewable Fuel Standard,” she wrote. “This mandate promotes excessive planting of corn by creating artificial demand for biofuels such as ethanol. Corn, which self-pollinates, has limited nutritional value to bees and other pollinators. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/angela-logomasini/ | en | null | null | 3,966 |
What I think is this: Man is responsible for a PART of global warming. MOST of it is still natural. | 2_not_human | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/george-kukla/ | en | null | null | 3,967 |
A separate problem is presented by the Kyoto Protocol, the agreement placing sharp restrictions on greenhouse gas emissions that the administration negotiated but has said it will not submit to the Senate in its current form. The administration’s efforts to begin enforcing the Protocol by regulation, and Congress’s efforts to prevent enforcement pending Senate action, have obscured a more fundamental difficulty. If the Protocol, or anything like it, were ratified, it would commit the United States to costly environmental efforts under the continuing supervision of one or more international bodies. Compliance would presumably be subject to our domestic legislative and regulatory procedures—that is, to our constitutional form—but, once again, the Executive would have the upper hand in developing policy and presenting the Congress with political faits accomplis. It is important to notice in this respect that the crafting of international agreements involves the participation of “non-governmental organizations” (“NGOs”—the international euphemism for private interest groups) on more formal, quasi-official terms than in domestic rule-making under our administrative procedure laws. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/christopher-demuth/ | en | null | null | 3,968 |
Socialism fits nicely with sustainability’s triple bottom line, and at times it’s hard to tell where the one ends and the other begins. Citizens should take note—or else our constitutional republic may not find itself sustainable. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/rachelle-peterson/ | en | null | null | 3,969 |
The idea that climate change can be attributed to just one or two politically chosen factors, such as the so-called ‘greenhouse gases’, like carbon dioxide and methane, is simply very bad science. Climate change is controlled by millions of interlinked factors, ranging from the swish of a butterfly’s wing, through 11- and 22-year solar magnetic cycles, volcanism, ocean-atmospheric linkages, sunspot activity, shorter duration wobbles of the Earth, to 96,000-year orbital changes and even intermittent meteor impacts. The intrinsic complexity of all these myriad links still totally defeats our climate modellers, many of whom cannot even account for the variation of water vapour, the most important greenhouse gas of all, and this means that climate change remains largely unpredictable. Moreover, this inherent unpredictability should warn us that, when, God-like, we try to adjust one or two of the factors involved, such as greenhouse gas emissions, our very best intentions may bring about results we neither expect nor want. We have no knowledge of how the tiny changes we initiate may interact with all the other ever-changing cycles. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/philip-stott/ | en | null | null | 3,970 |
We’ve already got 250 of them and we’ve got 10,000 football-pitches’ worth of new solar farms in the pipeline. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/liz-truss/ | en | null | null | 3,971 |
And finally, there is another danger: the emergence of nonideological but very aggressive ‘isms,’ which are really quite new. Let me at least name them: We all care about human rights, but I am afraid of ‘human rightism.’ We all want to have a healthy environment, but I see the danger in environmentalism. To put it politically correctly, I admire the second gender, but I fear feminism. We all are enriched by other cultures, but not by multiculturalism. I am aware of the importance of voluntary associations, but I fear NGOism. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/vaclav-klaus/ | en | null | null | 3,972 |
What I object to about this report is some of the language in this is sort of almost Stalinistic, that there’s an unequivocal conclusion that it’s inarguable that this is happening, that there’s overwhelming agreement among the scientists. None of that is true. | 6_proponents_biased | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/stephen-moore/ | en | null | null | 3,973 |
I also took a patent on sunspot number anticipation, and did some contribution to the IPCC AR4 as an expert reviewer. This is no doubt surprising for an environmental physical chemist like me. I am now even feeling that my original expertise, metrology, was all along close to meteorology; that is, ‘meteorology’ is formed by putting ‘eo’ inside ‘metrology’. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/kiminori-itoh/ | en | null | null | 3,974 |
Besides, if global warming is settled science, like gravity or the Earth not being flat, why isn’t the agreement 100 percent? And since when is science settled by a survey or a poll? The hallmark of a good scientific theory is its ability to make good predictions. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/roy-spencer/ | en | null | null | 3,975 |
Drop the Kyoto Protocol and its ‘command-and-control’ economics which have no chance of working in the face of world economic growth, especially in the developing world. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/philip-stott/ | en | null | null | 3,976 |
I think there is man made climate change, I don’t think it’s as pressing as some people have suggested. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/rod-liddle/ | en | null | null | 3,978 |
You can go outside and spit and have the same effect as doubling carbon dioxide. | 2_not_human | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/reid-bryson/ | en | null | null | 3,979 |
This is a geological context that unfortunately is lost on many people like physicists who believe their formulae more than they believe the true facts. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/sebastian-luning/ | en | null | null | 3,980 |
As I have stated publicly on many occasions, there is no definitive scientific proof, through real-world observation, that carbon dioxide is responsible for any of the slight warming of the global climate that has occurred during the past 300 years, since the peak of the Little Ice Age, | 2_not_human | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/patrick-moore/ | en | null | null | 3,981 |
We have very little power to change the climate, it’s not a temperature knob in our house that we can turn. If you take the climate for the past 2000 years, there have been two instances in which the temperature has been much higher than now, and it had nothing to do with human emission of carbon dioxide. So you’re right to say that the climate has been changing all along. | 2_not_human | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/vijay-jayaraj/ | en | null | null | 3,982 |
Well, the first thing they try to do is try to change reality. They try to change the facts. So they try to reinterpret the data… What a number of the attorneys general here today have done is support our rights to free speech and freedom of association…we are very grateful and I think it had a big impact. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/myron-ebell/ | en | null | null | 3,983 |
The set an unattainable mandate with this new ozone standard that will slow economic growth opportunities,” said William Kovacs, senior vice president, Environment, Technology Regulatory Affairs for the Chamber of Commerce. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/us-chamber-commerce/ | en | null | null | 3,984 |
More CO2 is needed to bolster plant life, which turns the gas into oxygen while also providing food. | 3_not_bad | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/h-leighton-steward/ | en | null | null | 3,985 |
I have listened carefully, and I can inform Your Holiness that science is divided on the climate question. A small number of totalitarian profiteers of doom in various self-serving national academies have issued pompous statements about it, but a large number of papers from reputable scientists, and a larger amount of hard data, suggest that global warming is and will continue to be a non-event. | 1_not_happening | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/christopher-monckton/ | en | null | null | 3,986 |
But what it does is it slows down the process for Alberta to get in the game here, to get their oil down to the refineries in the United States. Well, we’d much rather be filling our gulf refineries with Alberta crude than, say, Venezuelan crude. Seems like a much better partner, don’t you think? So, we’ve got to get this pipe in the ground. | 7_fossil_fuels_needed | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/thomas-pyle/ | en | null | null | 3,987 |
The idea that Jesus Christ himself was degrading and demeaning is what they’ve come down to. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/tim-huelskamp/ | en | null | null | 3,988 |
Proponents of policies to control human-induced global warming cite science as the basis for their claims and proposals. There is only one problem – as much as they claim otherwise, there is no scientific consensus for their theories. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/h-sterling-burnett/ | en | null | null | 3,989 |
They have reached a breaking point after two years of massive government overreach of a prime minister who insults and degrades anyone who disagrees with his heavy-handed approach But let’s be honest, if Canadians are being inconvenienced, or in any way suffering from these protests, it is because Justin Trudeau made these protests happen and his intransigence is keeping the protests going. e added: “[T]he vast majority of truckers and their supporters have been peaceful, law abiding, joyful, decent patriotic people, despite the dishonest propaganda of the liberal press gallery on Parliament Hill. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/pierre-poilievre/ | en | null | null | 3,990 |
There is a strong case for reducing emissions as part of an insurance policy against climate change. However, the premium for that insurance policy must be affordable and proportional to the risk. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/john-constable/ | en | null | null | 3,991 |
I am positively convinced that the anthropogenic global warming theory is wrong. New developments in the physics of greenhouse effect and radiative transfer show that the accepted theory leads to largely exaggerated global warming projections. | 2_not_human | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/miklos-zagoni/ | en | null | null | 3,992 |
The war on fossil fuels isn’t based on science but on unreliable climate models. Rather than trying to correct the models, Team Obama is trying to ‘dispute the science’ by trying to manufacture scary warming trends. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/atlantic-legal-foundation/ | en | null | null | 3,993 |
It’s in the ocean water, usually at depth, and that any of the surface water or surface of the air that interacts with the surface, the that gets absorbed there, is rapidly used by algae and we get the big algal blooms and it really is driving -that’s the basis of the ocean life is this use of increased , | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/gregory-wrightstone/ | en | null | null | 3,994 |
There will always be challenges to humanity in the form of extreme weather, but we’ll be better positioned to handle natural disasters in the future if policymakers embrace technological innovation and responsible industrial development rather than unfounded global warming hysteria, | 1_not_happening | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/kevin-mooney/ | en | null | null | 3,995 |
Although the increase of atmospheric CO2 is well documented, it has not yet resulted in a measureable change in the earth’s climate, | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/roger-cohen/ | en | null | null | 3,996 |
Climate has forever been changing and will continue to do so. The major driver is the sun and the radiation from it. The main atmospheric ‘intermediary’ between the sun and earth is water, and thus it dictates the behaviour of the earth’s climate. | 2_not_human | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/geoffrey-duffy/ | en | null | null | 3,997 |
The earth’s climate has always been susceptible to changes caused by natural factors over which human beings have no control. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change uses its monopoly power in the dissemination of its own politically edited version of climate science to advance the hypothesis that climate change is caused by fossil-fuel use. | 2_not_human | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/alternate-solutions-institute/ | en | null | null | 3,998 |
Is the Earth really warming? Does burning fossil fuels cause global warming? And do we now have a reasonable scientific basis for predicting future temperature? | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/lee-raymond/ | en | null | null | 3,999 |
To put a limit on the use of fossil fuels without adequate economically viable alternatives is to condemn the Third World to perpetual structural poverty. | 7_fossil_fuels_needed | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/deepak-lal-1940-2020/ | en | null | null | 4,000 |
Nature’s regulatory instrument is water vapor: more carbon dioxide leads to less moisture in the air, keeping the overall GHG content in accord with the necessary balance conditions. | 2_not_human | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/miklos-zagoni/ | en | null | null | 4,001 |
So what do we really know? We Know that climate is far too complex and too insensitive to greenhouse gases to pretend that we can ‘stabilize’ it by marginal changes in CO2 emissions, whether it is California’s AB32, or the many incarnations of national legislation or global proposals. We know that government policies offer great economic pain and no environmental gain. We also know that the global warming issue has produced intellectual deception and the subversion of the scientific process, widespread corporate rent seeking, and the gross waste of resources that could have gone to improve our environment. But we still have it within our grasp to restore integrity to the science process and to avert unnecessary economic hardship, especially for the world’s poorest who might otherwise aspire to make great strides this century. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/roger-cohen/ | en | null | null | 4,002 |
Throughout human history, warmer climates have always been more beneficial to human health and welfare. Just because we have a little warming, even if humans are causing it, doesn’t mean we have to totally restructure our economy, restructure our society to fight this phantom menace [global warming]. | 3_not_bad | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/james-taylor/ | en | null | null | 4,003 |
There has not been warming significantly, if at all, since 2003, as most everyone on all sides of the climate issue agree. | 1_not_happening | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/roger-pielke-sr/ | en | null | null | 4,004 |
Met Office view of climate change, ‘there is currently no clear evidence of a link to recent dry periods in the UK.’ No evidence for CC. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/katie-hopkins/ | en | null | null | 4,005 |
The problem is that 71.3% of what passes as peer reviewed climate science is simply junk science, as false as the percentage cited in this sentence. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/willis-eschenbach/ | en | null | null | 4,006 |
It’s got to be heat. You can live longer without food than you can without heat — it’s just simple biology. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/lee-anderson/ | en | null | null | 4,008 |
Of course we must protect the planet, but not by taking Britain back to the dark ages, | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/institute-economic-affairs/ | en | null | null | 4,009 |
I’m all for the coal industry, the fossil-fuel industry. Wealth is what makes people happy, not pristine air, which you’ll never get. | 7_fossil_fuels_needed | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/steve-milloy/ | en | null | null | 4,010 |
My view is that this is so extraordinarily important to people the world over, that to not have a debate on it is irresponsible. To suggest that we know everything we need to know about these issues is irresponsible. And I will take all the criticism that comes with it. Anybody that tells you that they got this figured out is not being truthful. There are too many complexities around climate science for anybody to fully understand all of the causes and effects and consequences of what you may chose to do to attempt to affect that. We have to let scientists to continue their investigative work, unencumbered by political influences. This is too important to be cute with it. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/rex-tillerson/ | en | null | null | 4,011 |
It’s extraordinary that we are ruining our economy in an utopian attempt to achieve Net Zero at any cost, when the UK’s long-term climate trends have remained relatively stable and pleasant. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/global-warming-policy-foundation/ | en | null | null | 4,013 |
You’d expect these headbangers to be all in favour of brainwashing schoolkids and encouraging them to strike. What you might not expect is to find the National Association of Head Teachers supporting the action. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/richard-littlejohn/ | en | null | null | 4,014 |
It matters because there is no Climate Crisis. There is no Climate Emergency. Yes, irregular warming is occurring. Yes, it is at least partly due to human greenhouse gas emissions. But seldom are the benefits of a somewhat warmer climate system mentioned, or the benefits of more CO2 in the atmosphere (which is required for life on Earth to exist),” Spencer claimed in an article at the Global Warming Policy Forum. | 3_not_bad | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/roy-spencer/ | en | null | null | 4,015 |
I fear that that is where we are as a nation. We have been in the blessed part of our nation, but I think we’re coming to the point now…we’re going to reap what we have sown, and what we have sown has not been good…what it says here, that the earth lies polluted under its inhabitants. Think of all the murder that has happened in this country….all the babies that have been murdered…think of all the perversions in the realm of sexual perversion of all kinds…all the breaking of Yahweh’s covenant….and so you recognize that at some point Yahweh’s going to say it’s time to wrap up… it’s time to move on to a kingdom of people that want to serve me, that want to be redeemed, that want salvation…we have to draw some lines in the sand for ourselves…. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/farris-wilks/ | en | null | null | 4,017 |
There are no observations that we have been having catastrophic global warming — it’s sophistry. […] | 1_not_happening | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/fred-palmer/ | en | null | null | 4,018 |
Not only are evaluations of the earth’s temperature mixed, but the computer models that interpret them are questionable. Put simply, the extent to which man-made emissions contribute to climate change has not been proven. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/national-association-manufacturers/ | en | null | null | 4,020 |
If I believe I need to reduce my carbon footprint to save the planet, I should focus on efficiency, and not drive around an electric car,” Leimkuler said. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/joe-leimkuhler/ | en | null | null | 4,021 |
For some of us, it’s in the blood. We commit ourselves to public service and we never stop. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/david-schnare/ | en | null | null | 4,022 |
Catastrophic global warming is implied by computer models of the climate, but those models are badly flawed, | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/james-k-glassman/ | en | null | null | 4,023 |
I’ve made – I cannot remember what – quite a modest contribution and I think I look for a chance to support it if there is a debate… it definitely wasn’t big bucks, I can assure you. I think the religious fervour element is seriously dangerous. I like to think Lord Lawson is on the side of the angels. | 6_proponents_biased | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/lord-richard-hugh-cavendish/ | en | null | null | 4,024 |
What should Washington due about warming? Harken to Hippocrates and ‘first, do no harm.’ From CFACT’s considered perspective, Washington should find the courage to do nothing. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/craig-rucker/ | en | null | null | 4,025 |
In reality, the oil sands are more environmentally progressive and emit less waste than all sorts of other common industries in Canada and around the world. In just nineteen years, from 1990 to 2009, the intensity of greenhouse gases (GHGs) from the oil sands has plummeted by 38 per cent. | 3_not_bad | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/ezra-levant/ | en | null | null | 4,026 |
The only scientists who are capable of coming to a conclusion as barking mad as that [that climate change is man-made] are computer modelists. And these are typically zitty teenagers sitting in dark rooms with a can of Coca-Cola and too many doughnuts and playing on their Xbox 360. | 6_proponents_biased | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/christopher-monckton/ | en | null | null | 4,027 |
I am compelled to disagree that there is a consensus of scientists who agree that this [climate change] is the consequence of human activities. While the melting of permafrost, retreat of glaciers and waning of the permanent ice pack may be alarming, it is only alarming to those unfamiliar with past changes in climate in the North. Paleoclimatologists recognize such events as part of natural changes wholly unrelated to CO2 concentrations in the atmosphere. In fact, the waxing and waning of ice shelves, along with glaciers, ice caps and pack ice are largely related to changes in solar inputs. | 2_not_human | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/ian-clark/ | en | null | null | 4,028 |
This has gone on far too long,” Gerard said. “I’d like to point out that the now five-plus year evaluation process of the Keystone XL pipeline has lasted longer than America’s involvement in the second World War, longer than it took our nation to put a man in space, and almost as long as it took to build the Transcontinental Railroad 155 years ago. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/jack-n-gerard/ | en | null | null | 4,029 |
I have advertised this paper as ‘A Different View’ deliberately. I want the reader to know in advance thatI am well aware that the views expressed herein do not conform to what appears to be the prevailing consensus and that I do not consider recital of this circumstance to be a meaningful rebuttal to my argument, | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/hugh-ellsaesser/ | en | null | null | 4,030 |
We’ve seen 31,000 scientists just came out who are skeptical of global warming. And they’re worried that the policies people are proposing are actually going to harm the planet and they’re going to make people poorer. We also see some of the effects these regulations can have on the developing countries where serious poverty is a real problem. | 6_proponents_biased | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/acton-institute/ | en | null | null | 4,031 |
In a misguided effort to level the playing field, the owners of coal and nuclear power plants have recently tried to jump on the subsidy gravy train, lobbying state governments for their own handouts. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/grant-kidwell/ | en | null | null | 4,032 |
Let’s face it, environmentalism became the religion of the twenty-first century! | 6_proponents_biased | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/nathalie-elgrably-levy/ | en | null | null | 4,034 |
It all began in June 2020 during the depths of COVID-19 lockdowns […] Before long it was turned into a rallying cry against COVID-19 lockdowns and, then, as a warning against climate action. Conservative activists used it to claim that environmental laws and regulations were an attack on their personal freedoms, said John Cook, a postdoctoral research fellow at the Climate Change Communication Research Hub at Monash University in Australia and an expert on climate disinformation. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/alberta-prosperity-project/ | en | null | null | 4,035 |
While ostensibly exploring the nominee’s judicial temperament, Feinstein instead targeted Barrett’s fealty to Catholic teaching, | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/ann-corkery/ | en | null | null | 4,036 |
According to U.S. tax documents, The Fraser Institute received $150,000 from the Charles G. Koch Charitable Foundation in 2008, $175,500 in 2009, and another $150,000 in 2010. The grants were purportedly for “research support” and “educational programs. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/fraser-institute/ | en | null | null | 4,037 |
I was once in the coal business for a short period of time. I ran a company that had coal mines in Hazard, Ky., so we were able to share stories about the coal industry and some of the struggles it faces and the need for clean coal and carbon sequestration […] | 7_fossil_fuels_needed | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/rudy-giuliani/ | en | null | null | 4,038 |
There is a lot of confusion in Asia about Alaska and the opportunities here, so we felt it was important to do this with BP and for us to be seen standing alongside each other. It’s an important way of demonstrating alignment, | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/joe-balash/ | en | null | null | 4,039 |
There is research that indicates that the ice sheets are being reduced, but there are also studies that show the complete opposite… . As for polar bears, much points to that their numbers are increasing rather than diminishing. | 1_not_happening | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/fred-goldberg/ | en | null | null | 4,041 |
The United Nations is not telling the entire truth about what is happening to our planet,” Lakely claimed. Berliner interjected, asking if Lakely meant that the Pope should disregard everything that the U.N. says about climate change, to which Lakely responded “most of it. | 6_proponents_biased | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/jim-lakely/ | en | null | null | 4,042 |
The lion’s share of Planned Parenthood’s work is killing people. They ought to call it death care, not health care. But if they wanted to operate with impunity, they should do so without taxpayer support. You will find the scrutiny goes away completely once they decide we are an abortion industry and we enjoy killing as much as we can, | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/horace-cooper/ | en | null | null | 4,043 |
This is like your doctor telling you that cigarettes don’t cause cancer,” Jamie Henn, strategic communications director for 350.org, said in a statement. “Pruitt’s statement isn’t just inaccurate, it’s a lie. He knows CO2 is the leading cause of climate change, but is misleading the public in order to protect the fossil fuel industry. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/scott-pruitt/ | en | null | null | 4,044 |
There weren’t many cars in the Roman period when it was a lot hotter and we know that for a fact, and there weren’t many cars and there weren’t many coal-powered fire stations in the mediaeval period, in the Roman period.[…] Dr, I think it’s, Otto Weiss, has been talking about cyclical solar patterns which show that it’s absolutely nothing to do with CO2 whatsoever. The thing is, I should be allowed to think that, and it should be allowed to be debated. And physicists and scientists that believe that should be allowed to go on platforms. […] The other scientists’ arguments would be absolutely torn apart by anyone who has not been paid off to say this absolute nonsense. | 2_not_human | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/lois-perry/ | en | null | null | 4,045 |
Your donors know that, gee, if my name is publicized maybe I’ll be harassed the way the Koch brothers are, | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/brooke-rollins/ | en | null | null | 4,046 |
The warming since 1910 occurred at a nearly constant rate. Over the full length of the long Australian records since the end of the 1800s, there is no sign of warming or increased occurrence of extreme events. The monthly highest and mean maximum temperatures do not exhibit any positive trend. The differences between monthly highest and lowest, or monthly mean maximum and mean minimum temperatures, are all reducing because of urban heat island formation, | 1_not_happening | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/albert-parker/ | en | null | null | 4,047 |