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I am the rocket scientist who wrote the carbon accounting model (FullCAM) that measures Australia’s compliance with the Kyoto Protocol, in the land use change and forestry sector. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/david-evans/ | en | null | null | 4,153 |
The short version: It’s CO2 to the rescue. The more of it in the atmosphere, the better the Amazon’s chance of survival. | 3_not_bad | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/lawrence-solomon/ | en | null | null | 4,154 |
It should be clear that the science of global warming is far from settled,” Spencer writes in the report. “Uncertainties in the adjustments to our global temperature datasets, the small amount of warming those datasets have measured compared to what climate models expect, and uncertainties over the possible role of Mother Nature in recent warming, all combine to make climate change beliefs as much faith-based as science-based. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/roy-spencer/ | en | null | null | 4,155 |
It’s absolutely nonsense. I can’t believe these guys are buying into this kind of furore that this is the destruction of the planet, that we’re lost forever, that global warming is going to incinerate all of us. | 6_proponents_biased | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/katie-hopkins/ | en | null | null | 4,157 |
I was pleased to hear today that a government adviser is thinking of proposing that global warming is removed as part of the national curriculum. | 1_not_happening | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/john-redwood/ | en | null | null | 4,158 |
And not like the polar bears are disappearing, it’s not like the polar bears can’t survive if it’s two degrees warmer, whatever people are saying. So they have to move from one piece of ice to another or something. But you think about this priority, and the same thing with the caribou in Alaska. | 1_not_happening | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/alex-epstein/ | en | null | null | 4,159 |
If socialists care about people they should be loving nuclear power. […] Why are they so anti-nuclear? | 6_proponents_biased | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/jim-lakely/ | en | null | null | 4,160 |
And they can explode. Also leaves. When you have dried leaves on the ground, it’s just fuel for the fires. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/donald-trump/ | en | null | null | 4,161 |
But the better home for considering this discussion about carbon dioxide and climate is in the Department of Energy. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/kathleen-hartnett-white/ | en | null | null | 4,162 |
Climate changes naturally all the time, sometimes dramatically. The hypothesis that our emissions of CO2 have caused, or will cause, dangerous warming is not supported by the evidence. | 2_not_human | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/vijay-kumar-raina/ | en | null | null | 4,163 |
The letters detailing potential violations of [the Foreign Agents Registration Act] were also sent to the Natural Resources Defense Council, the Center for Biological Diversity, and Earthjustice. To date, none of the green groups that were the subject of the committee’s correspondence have agreed to register and all deny operating as foreign agents. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/kevin-mooney/ | en | null | null | 4,164 |
Burning natural gas in the place of other fossil fuels emits fewer harmful pollutants, and an increased reliance on natural gas can potentially reduce the emission of many of these most harmful pollutants atural gas can help to mitigate some of these environmental issues, including greenhouse gas emissions, pollution from transportation, industrial and electric generation emission, as well as smog and acid rain. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/empowerment-alliance/ | en | null | null | 4,165 |
DonorsTrust, where I work, serves donors dedicated to the ideals of limited government, personal responsibility, and free enterprise. These philosophical fund-providers may contribute to a wide range of grantees—everything from social welfare groups, arts and culture institutions, research centers, and more—but always with the goal of advancing the philosophy they share with their donors. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/whitney-ball/ | en | null | null | 4,166 |
The assertion of ‘man-made climate change’ is not justified as a science and therefore a fraud. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/european-institute-climate-and-energy/ | en | null | null | 4,167 |
There is an existential threat related to climate, as Climate Strike activists claim, but it comes from the radical political agenda being promoted under cover of ‘saving the planet.’ The evidence refutes the claim that human emissions of carbon dioxide can catastrophically disrupt the Earth’s climate. Continuing to spend trillions of dollars to ‘fight climate change’ will have no effect on the climate and cannot meet human energy needs with ‘renewables. The existential threat is to our freedom, our prosperity, our capacity to provide medical care, and the integrity of our science and our profession. Physicians need to evaluate evidence independently and shun groupthink. They must not sacrifice their patients’ welfare to serve an agenda. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/jane-m-orient/ | en | null | null | 4,168 |
I would like history to remember me as an honest scientist. Along with many like me, I am trying to explain to my fellow Americans the serious damage that will be done to us, and indeed to the whole world, by cockamamie policies to ‘save the planet’ from .”2 We have no more ability to prevent climate change than King Canute had to stop the tide from rising. All the observational evidence is that has a relatively small effect on temperature. Changes in the Earth’s temperature will continue to be dominated by natural causes, whether we increase concentrations, by continuing to burn fossil fuels, or whether we permit a nightmarish police state to stop emissions ,and punish ‘deniers’ as some in the alarmist camp demand. I can’t think of any benefits for reducing emissions. is not a pollutant. […] Almost all plants grow better and are more drought resistant with two to four times more than now. There is no “overwhelming consensus.” In spite of decades of propaganda, and even threats to their jobs, about half of meteorologists remain unconcerned about global warming. | 2_not_human | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/william-happer/ | en | null | null | 4,169 |
On that side of the House, they have the man who fathered the carbon tax, put it up for adoption to his predecessor and now wants a paternity test to prove the tar baby was never his in the first place, | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/pierre-poilievre/ | en | null | null | 4,170 |
Denying the world’s poor the very basis on which Britain and much of Europe became wealthy — largely due to cheap coal, oil and gas — amounts to an inhumane and atrocious attempt by green activists to sacrifice the needs of the world’s poor on the altar of climate alarmism. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/benny-peiser/ | en | null | null | 4,171 |
One of Donald Trump’s pledges to the American people when he was campaigning for the presidency was he would withdraw the United States from the Paris Climate Treaty. Now that he is president, it is time for him to make good on that promise. Simply, one cannot ‘Make America Great Again’ if America is still shackled to the Paris Climate Treaty, which seeks emissions reductions from the United States that are incompatible with economic growth and job creation Instead of keeping the United States tied to this albatross of an agreement that promotes even more taxes, regulations, and subsidies aimed at reducing carbon dioxide emissions, President Trump should withdraw the United States from the Paris Climate Treaty and support sound environmental stewardship that is pro-energy, pro-environment, and pro-jobs. Doing so would produce enormous economic dividends that would genuinely improve people’s lives. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/tim-benson/ | en | null | null | 4,172 |
There is no clear or compelling scientific evidence to support the conclusions in the Garnaut ‘Review of the Science of Climate Change Update 2011’. The Review overlooks recent analysis of the climate measurements which expose the fundamental problems at the heart of the climate models Mankind is simply returning to the atmosphere from whence it came. This is at a time when a low level of is limiting plant growth when more food is required for a growing world population. is essential for all plant life and thus not a pollutant. From the perspective of food production, a carbon tax or would also be inappropriate Scientific evidence based on past events demonstrates that the release of previously sequestered in fossil fuels will not cause dangerous global warming. Again it follows that a carbon tax or an which would impose a severe cost penalty for agriculture and for the economy overall is not required Scientific evidence supports the conclusion we need rather than fear it. To suggest otherwise, ignores our obligation to provide increasing food production for a growing world population and the best interests of the Australian community. | 2_not_human | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/climate-study-group/ | en | null | null | 4,173 |
The dirty little secret behind nearly all the alarmists’ policy proposals is that they will not have any noticeable impact on the climate,” Roy E. Cordato wrote in The Freeman. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/foundation-economic-education/ | en | null | null | 4,174 |
Some unfounded or undue concerns include fears of destructive manmade global warming, overpopulation, and rampant species loss. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/calvin-beisner/ | en | null | null | 4,175 |
There is not universal consensus when it comes to the above equation and catastrophic assertions. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/brownstone-institute/ | en | null | null | 4,176 |
It’s no secret today that fossil fuels are being blamed sometimes solely for global climate change. These attacks on resources that keep our energy cost reliable and are truthfully less environmentally impactful than today’s renewable sources at scale, this is a major challenge for us to address in coming future. Our goal is to provide Texans with facts and not fictions. Texas energy resources, including fossil fuels, will continue to provide reliable energy and economic prosperity for generations to come. | 7_fossil_fuels_needed | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/jim-wright/ | en | null | null | 4,177 |
During the last 100 years cosmic rays became scarcer because unusually vigorous action by the Sun batted away many of them. Fewer cosmic rays meant fewer clouds—and a warmer world. | 2_not_human | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/henrik-svensmark/ | en | null | null | 4,180 |
Some ‘me too’ statement from someone who is not a physicist but a chemist is not likely to carry very much weight in the councils of the world. The damage that would be done by a statement straying into the science of this question – on either side – would be to the church herself. For yet again, she would have gone beyond what she was founded to do… and yet again got the science 100 percent plumb wrong. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/christopher-monckton/ | en | null | null | 4,181 |
I never really call myself a ‘scientist.’ I’m certainly a researcher, and I certainly write a lot of technical stuff, but, as I make very clear in the preface of my book, I’m not a climate scientist, and I never played one in the movies… . .there’s probably some effect of human impact on everything in our environment. That doesn’t necessarily make it dangerous—and doesn’t even, necessarily, make it bad. | 3_not_bad | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/larry-bell/ | en | null | null | 4,182 |
While human addition of greenhouse gases, particularly carbon dioxide (CO2), to the atmosphere may slightly raise atmospheric temperatures, observational studies indicate that the climate system responds more in ways that suppress than in ways that amplify CO2’s effect on temperature, implying a relatively small and benign rather than large and dangerous warming effect. | 2_not_human | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/lawson-bader/ | en | null | null | 4,183 |
President-elect Trump, at whom the pontiff was preaching, should stick to his guns. He should announce that because President Obama never submitted the Paris treaty to the Senate for ratification, which the Constitution requires for the United States to be bound by any treaty, the is not a party to the treaty. Then, on the day he’s inaugurated, he should submit the treaty to the Senate, where it will die the ignominious death it deserves. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/calvin-beisner/ | en | null | null | 4,184 |
The Endangerment TSD completely neglects constant advancement in fossil-fuel powered societies in the quality and length of life, | 7_fossil_fuels_needed | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/cato-institute/ | en | null | null | 4,185 |
It’s high time to end talk about existential crises to be addressed with extraordinarily costly measures that make people poorer, weaken national and economic security and, instead, turn attention to tackling soluble problems with positive solutions. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/rupert-darwall/ | en | null | null | 4,186 |
The people who still believe in man-made global warming are mostly on the radical fringe of society. This is why the most prominent advocates of global warming aren’t scientists. They are murderers, tyrants, and madmen. | 6_proponents_biased | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/joseph-bast/ | en | null | null | 4,188 |
It is easy for feminists to forget this, but it was men who gave up their monopoly on political power and gave women the right to vote,” Bruce says in the video. “Men who invented birth control, the refrigerator, the washing machine, and so many other devices that liberated women. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/prageru/ | en | null | null | 4,189 |
Do private employers have the right to test their current and prospective employees to see whether they are infected with the virus, even if (as is often the case) they manifest no signs of or any associated disease? | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/richard-epstein/ | en | null | null | 4,190 |
Hurricanes, one of the favorite proofs that advocates of anthropogenic global warming use to validate their claims, have become earth’s biggest bogeyman Reporters can call names, senators can make unfounded pronouncements, the Terminator can pump his biceps, and the U.N. can hold conferences on impending doom, but the only consensus regarding the connection of hurricanes and global warming is that there is no connection between the two owever, like slick slip-and-fall lawyers, the Marxist elites pushing their social engineering agenda are not about to let a few facts thwart their plans. There’s too much wealth at stake that needs to be spread around. | 1_not_happening | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/brian-sussman/ | en | null | null | 4,191 |
I’m the only candidate for prime minister that will protect people’s paycheques and make life more affordable by cancelling the carbon tax, | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/pierre-poilievre/ | en | null | null | 4,192 |
If anything, it is [David] Suzuki who has abandoned science, not the scientists who question the IPCC, whether of the religious right or not. Suzuki has become post modern. | 6_proponents_biased | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/gerrit-cornelis-van-kooten/ | en | null | null | 4,193 |
We hear of activist teachers misusing their position to push their politics of the Left – anti-capitalism, pro illegal immigration, global warming alarmism. We don’t hear of activist teachers pushing conservative politics or climate scepticism, | 6_proponents_biased | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/andrew-bolt/ | en | null | null | 4,194 |
Newspapers should think about the damage they are doing to many persons, particularly young kids, by spreading the exaggerated views of a human impact on climate. As far as I can see the IPCC ‘Global Temperature’ is wrong. Temperature is fluctuating but it is still most places cooler than in the 1930s and 1940s. It will take about 800 years before the water level has increased by one” meter. | 1_not_happening | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/wibjorn-karlen/ | en | null | null | 4,195 |
This is a media that in the last year has gotten out of control,” MRC President Brent Bozell says. “They’re so blatant in the way they slant the news. […] It’s as if people in newsrooms have just taken off the gloves, whether it’s foreign policy, economic news or political news, there’s a spin on everything that’s said. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/media-research-center/ | en | null | null | 4,196 |
I was embarrassed to have been left alone to deal with the aftermath of the safe space event, and even lied about by Turning Point national. You two approved the event but took zero responsibility to save face for yourselves. Not only did I invite you to attend our entire free speech week, but you even told me you would help me apply for a grant for the event. I was also made aware by other Turning Point chapters under your watch that you were fully aware that Young Americans for Liberty members were the ones who dressed up as children, and that instead of putting the blame where it belonged, you not only distanced yourself from the event, but you let my chapter face the consequences of online harassment. I am appalled that national headquarters lied about, and put one of their own chapters under the bus just so they wouldn’t upset another organization. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/turning-point-usa/ | en | null | null | 4,197 |
Financial support for the Institute is provided primarily by the small annual fees from several thousand sustaining members, by receipts from sales of its publications, by tax-deductible contributions, and by the earnings of its wholly owned investment advisory organization, American Investment Services, Inc. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/american-institute-economic-research/ | en | null | null | 4,198 |
A growing number of pro-development Indigenous organizations, including the Indian Resource Council (IRC), First Nations Major Project Coalition, the First Nations LNG Alliance, and many individual communities, have become alarmed at the tone of the discussion. Unfortunately, the media is drawn to conflict and controversy This has resulted in a disproportionate focus on pipeline opponents. First Nation blockades make for more interesting headlines than formal collaborations. The media have started to give some attention to the Indigenous side that is supportive of pipelines and the energy sector. But pipeline opponents still often get far more public attention than pipeline supporters. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/macdonald-laurier-institute/ | en | null | null | 4,199 |
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. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/jim-ratcliffe/ | en | null | null | 4,200 |
The Green New Deal is laughably unrealistic. If lawmakers implemented even a tenth of the plan, it would destroy the U.S. economy and impoverish tens of millions of people, | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/drew-johnson/ | en | null | null | 4,201 |
Svensmark and his physicist son set up a mini experiment in a basement of the Danish National Space Center in 2005, which found the physical causal mechanism by which cosmic rays facilitate the production of low clouds. When this is confirmed by the CERN CLOUD experiment, the final nail in the coffin of the CO2 theory of climate change will be in place. The sun and the stars will have been shown to control our climate and not the puny self-important inhabitants of planet Earth of current CO2 orthodoxy. | 2_not_human | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/deepak-lal-1940-2020/ | en | null | null | 4,202 |
I am dismantling this climate religion. We have been addicted to a climate religion that shackled the United States while leaving China untouched. So I think it’s about taking it to the next level as far as I see it. | 6_proponents_biased | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/vivek-ramaswamy/ | en | null | null | 4,203 |
True environmentalism from my perspective is using natural resources that God has blessed us with […] | 7_fossil_fuels_needed | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/scott-pruitt/ | en | null | null | 4,204 |
The models and forecasts of the UN IPCC “are incorrect because they only are based on mathematical models and presented results at scenarios that do not include, for example, solar activity. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/victor-manuel-velasco-herrera/ | en | null | null | 4,205 |
Which is it? Is climate change giving us floods in the [US] midwest or drought in southern England? I’m confused. | 1_not_happening | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/nigel-farage/ | en | null | null | 4,206 |
I have never met a geologist or leading scientist who believes adding more carbon dioxide to the atmosphere will have any significant effect on climate change, especially not from a relatively small country like Australia. | 2_not_human | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/gina-rinehart/ | en | null | null | 4,207 |
We don’t think or organizations like it are done attacking progress on climate change,” said Kert Davies, an environmental activist running the nonprofit Climate Investigations Center. “It is hard to imagine these organizations turning a corner and suddenly being open to an honest discussion of real environmental policy. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/american-legislative-exchange-council/ | en | null | null | 4,208 |
There is no monopoly on becoming a millionaire. If you’re jealous of those with more money, don’t just sit there and complain. Do something to make more money yourself – spend less time drinking or smoking and socialising, and more time working. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/gina-rinehart/ | en | null | null | 4,210 |
Our goal is to destroy, to eradicate the environmental movement […] We’re mad as hell. We’re not going to take it anymore. We’re dead serious – we’re going to destroy them, | 6_proponents_biased | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/ron-arnold/ | en | null | null | 4,211 |
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, | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/george-david-banks/ | en | null | null | 4,212 |
The Philanthropy Roundtable is also committed to protecting your right as an individual to give anonymously, a right Americans have enjoyed throughout our history … his historic right is under attack now, including from the attorneys general of California and New York as well as state legislators of both parties across the nation. The Roundtable has filed amicus briefs in three important cases designed to confirm and build on the decision. We are working closely with organizations such as State Policy Network, the American Legislative Exchange Council, and the Center for Competitive Politics. And we hope that our friends in the progressive and social justice communities will join us in building a broad coalition to protect this fundamental freedom. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/adam-meyerson/ | en | null | null | 4,214 |
I don’t believe that there are thousands of people who are dying because of exposure to these small [particles], | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/jeffrey-r-holmstead/ | en | null | null | 4,215 |
We are entering a solar cycle of much reduced sunspots, very similar to that which accompanied the change from the Medieval Warm Period to the Little Ice Age, which virtually all scientists agree was caused by solar variation. Thus, we seem to be headed for cooler temperatures as a result of reduced solar irradiance. | 1_not_happening | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/don-easterbrook/ | en | null | null | 4,216 |
I assert that warm is good for human health and that global warming, even the most extreme estimates, will not create heat illness or death increases and certainly no changes that are more important than the basic public health measures of vector control, water, nutrition, sewage and water quality, and housing quality. | 3_not_bad | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/john-dale-dunn/ | en | null | null | 4,217 |
Significant grid improvements are needed and encouraged to ensure manufacturers have secure, flexible and competitive energy options. As the nation’s energy mix expands and diversifies, government policies must place a priority on energy reliability. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/national-association-manufacturers/ | en | null | null | 4,218 |
Cold periods will come again. When they do, modern technology can mitigate the effects, if there is a very plentiful supply of extra energy. Unwarranted and unwise suppression of hydrocarbon energy and nuclear-electric energy that leaves humanity without plentiful energy when natural changes in climate occur is now a significant danger. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/art-robinson/ | en | null | null | 4,220 |
We’re about assuaging the concerns of the 63 million people who voted for Donald Trump. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/mike-mckenna/ | en | null | null | 4,221 |
Why in the world would you need to reduce fossil-fuel use?” Sununu said. Because of climate change,” the staff member replied. ununu responded: “I don’t want anyone in this administration without a scientific background using ‘climate change’ or ‘global warming’ ever again,” he said. “If you don’t have a technical basis for policy, don’t run around making decisions on the basis of newspaper headlines. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/john-h-sununu/ | en | null | null | 4,222 |
Thanks to Google we are reminded that Diversity is the dumbest idea in the West, bar none. Even communism, even atheism, makes more sense. Diversity is our weakness. Diversity, based on the false ideology of Equality, will if it is not stopped destroy us. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/william-briggs/ | en | null | null | 4,223 |
Third, even if humans are undesirably affecting global climate, the best path forward may be adaptation to that climate change rather than harming the global economy through the expenditure of hundreds of billion dollars under the questionable rationale that greenhouse gas regulation can act as some sort of global thermostat. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/steve-milloy/ | en | null | null | 4,224 |
It’s perfectly reasonable that adding CO2 to the atmosphere could cause some warming, probably minor. This perfectly reasonably supposition was turned into unreasonable dogma by certain scientific disciplines that sensed an opportunity. They realized that if CO2 were inflated into the great Satan, it would be very beneficial for their careers, | 6_proponents_biased | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/norman-rogers/ | en | null | null | 4,225 |
COVID is the exact same playbook as climate,” Morano said in an interview at NewsMax for the Howie Carr show.1 There’ve been studies recently, the last few years showing that mask wearing is associated with higher incidence of flu and influenza because you end up touching your mouth, more, adjusting it and getting the virus in. It’s it’s an amazing thing. But this is about obedience to government. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/marc-morano/ | en | null | null | 4,226 |
I seriously believe we should kick them while they’re down. They deserve to be publicly flogged. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/marc-morano/ | en | null | null | 4,227 |
At this point there is little doubt that the IPCC position is seriously flawed in its central position that humanity is responsible for most of the observed warming of the last third of the 20th century, and in its projections for effects in the 21st century. | 2_not_human | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/roger-cohen/ | en | null | null | 4,228 |
This is a a deception. It’s the greatest deception in history because there have been deceptions in the past, but this is the first one on a global scale that affects every single person and every single thing,” Ball began The public simply don’t understand the science of climate change; therefore, they are easily fooled. And that’s what’s been going on. | 6_proponents_biased | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/tim-ball/ | en | null | null | 4,229 |
The reason the existential threat can only be climate change is because, as designed by its apostles, it’s our fault and requires political action aimed at controlling your entire life. In the meantime, we must decide to stop allowing Hollywood, misled adolescents and political charlatans from distracting us to death with nonsensical political theater. | 6_proponents_biased | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/independent-womens-voice/ | en | null | null | 4,230 |
The UK climate remains absolutely benign. The changes we have seen have been small, and mostly thoroughly welcome. | 3_not_bad | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/global-warming-policy-foundation/ | en | null | null | 4,231 |
The worldwide drive to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to control climate is not backed by reputable science. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/international-climate-science-coalition/ | en | null | null | 4,232 |
There is less than zero evidence of negative consequences of climate change: people are wealthier, healthier, and better protected from nature than at any point in human history – because of wealth, not the climate. | 3_not_bad | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/godfrey-bloom/ | en | null | null | 4,233 |
There’s no doubt that a lot of the problems we’ve got in terms of high energy prices and the issue we’ve got now, is a failure to do long term investment in energy, other than renewables which are unreliable and still, pretty unaffordable. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/julia-hartley-brewer/ | en | null | null | 4,234 |
Debates about chemicals are mostly one-sided, because all the dubious hype about health concerns invariably ignores the clear public health benefits they provide. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/greg-walcher/ | en | null | null | 4,236 |
I’ve discovered that if a person is committed to green ideology it is very difficult to change their mind about global warming alarmism. This is true even if they are technically qualified and able to understand scientific arguments. You can’t change their thinking because their thinking is faith based. In other words they have come to believe in a green religion. Even though these believers could have a green religion without global warming they are very reluctant to let go of global warming because it is a justification for other tenets of the green religion like using less energy. However scientific arguments and facts are very important for informing people who are open minded on the subject of global warming. | 6_proponents_biased | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/norman-rogers/ | en | null | null | 4,237 |
First, carbon dioxide, , is emphatically a ‘pollutant.’ All living things are built of carbon that comes from . An increase in essential in the atmosphere will be a huge benefit to plants and agriculture. Satellite measurements show that the increase of over the last few decades has already caused a pronounced greening of the planet — especially in arid regions or tens of millions of years, plants have been coping with a ‘ famine.’ Current concentrations of a few hundred parts per million (ppm) are close to starvation levels compared to the several thousand ppm that prevailed over most of history e support the cost-effective control of real pollutants associated with the use of fossil fuels — for example, fly ash, oxides of nitrogen and sulfur or smog-forming volatile hydrocarbons. But isn’t a pollutant, and there’s no reason to control it econd, the “warming” from — and yes, is a ‘greenhouse gas’ — has been much less than predicted by the climate models Obama bases his policies on. For 20 years, the temperature has been virtually unchanged, in stark contrast to model predictions. | 2_not_human | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/william-happer/ | en | null | null | 4,238 |
I was fortunate to serve on President Trump’s transition team managing his Department of Energy work and some other issues within the transition team,” he said. “And that was great because we were able to give our ideas and our blueprint for how to make this country great again, and how to make American Energy great again. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/thomas-pyle/ | en | null | null | 4,239 |
Even after all these years of propaganda and browbeating, Canadians are roughly evenly split on whether global warming is mostly anthropogenic, but so is the scientific community. | 2_not_human | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/canada-strong-and-free-network/ | en | null | null | 4,240 |
Climate change does pose some risks; yet those risks do not imply that massive social engineering for GHG control is either possible or desirable. Only when an awareness of this reality sinks in among public intellectuals is a more serious policy discourse likely to emerge. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/hudson-institute/ | en | null | null | 4,241 |
By the UN’s own estimates, the average person in 2100 will be 450 per cent richer than today. Global warming will make this increase 4 per cent smaller, reducing it by 16 percentage points. It means that the average person in 2100 will ‘only’ be 434 per cent as rich. This is not a disaster. | 3_not_bad | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/bjorn-lomborg/ | en | null | null | 4,242 |
The methods used to predict future global warming are based on computer models, not actual temperature readings. And even the models are changing their forecasts. In 1990 the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change said global temperatures would climb more than 3 degrees C by the year 2100 if we didn’t make radical cuts in greenhouse gas emissions such as carbon dioxide and methane. Now the same group says the earth might only warm 1 degree C. One degree? But the earth was that warm a thousand years ago during the last climactic optimum! So why the alarm? The chief hothouse gas is water vapor-not carbon dioxide or methane. It accounts for over 90% of global heat retention. Currently, human activity puts about 6 billion tons of CO2 into the atmosphere per year. Non-human activity, mostly volcanoes, accounts for about 200 billion tons. Human activity, then, constitutes 2-3% of carbon dioxide, which itself is less than 10% of the total. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/john-loeffler/ | en | null | null | 4,243 |
Government intervention in the name of energy sustainability is the major threat to real energy sustainability and the provision of affordable, reliable energy to growing economies worldwide. Free-market structures and the wealth generated by markets help communities to best adapt to climate change. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/institute-economic-affairs/ | en | null | null | 4,244 |
How do we provide the energy and other resources upon which all economies depend in a manner that is inexpensive, reliable, safe and efficient, including in the developing world? | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/alliance-for-responsible-citizenship-arc/ | en | null | null | 4,245 |
To inform and draw together all those who depend on tobacco products for their livelihood To help put forward the case for individual freedom to counter any moves that might further restrict the right of individuals to enjoy smoking. To help put the record straight by providing facts and figures, devoid of emotional comment, to Alliance supporters. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/edelman/ | en | null | null | 4,246 |
To realize, yes, climate change is a real problem, but it’s not this catastrophic end of the world. There is nothing in the UN climate panel, the new report that came out from 2021–2022, these 1600 pages. No apocalypse in there. | 3_not_bad | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/jordan-peterson/ | en | null | null | 4,247 |
At ExxonMobil, we share the view that the risks of climate change are serious and warrant thoughtful action. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/rex-tillerson/ | en | null | null | 4,248 |
Simply put, substantial scientific evidence exists that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change () has exaggerated the amount of warming likely to occur, and that any warming that does occur is likely to be modest and cause no net harm to the environment or human well-being arming, cooling, and change are natural features of climate. Climate is always changing: Global temperatures are rising or falling, sea levels are rising or falling, and glaciers are retreating or advancing. […] | 3_not_bad | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/center-american-experiment/ | en | null | null | 4,249 |
A primary reason why we are involved in climate change is [that] assertions of a global warming crisis are being utilized to impose restrictions on the economy, on free choices across the economy, | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/james-taylor/ | en | null | null | 4,250 |
Well-devised and generously funded environmental campaigns are nothing new. But from the very beginning, the #ExxonKnew campaign has been different. It has brought together activists, rich donors (like the Rockefellers), academics, and even organizations that pass themselves off as news outlets. It has manufactured its own echo chamber not just as a vehicle for advocacy, but also to prod government officials to open investigations into entities that haven’t supported the kinds of policies that environmentalists want f you think that sounds like a threat to free speech, you’re right – and the #ExxonKnew activists have admitted they are doing exactly that. | 6_proponents_biased | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/energy-in-depth/ | en | null | null | 4,251 |
Science tells us that the climate is changing, and that human activity in some manner impacts that change. The ability to measure with precision the degree and extent of that impact, and what to do about it, are subject to continuing debate and dialogue, and well it should be. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/scott-pruitt/ | en | null | null | 4,252 |
It would be discriminatory and ill-advised to recharacterize carried interest from a long-held capital asset as anything other than a long-term capital gain for private-equity fund managers. Lawmakers are smart to avoid doing so, | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/mike-sommers/ | en | null | null | 4,253 |
If the world is divided into two factions – one that believes climate change is a serious problem and another that thinks human influence on the climate is so minimal it’s indistinguishable from background noise – one group [environmentalists] has pulled off a bank heist while the other [skeptics] has been panhandling in front of the liquor store. | 2_not_human | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/donna-laframboise/ | en | null | null | 4,254 |
I’ve spent tens of thousands of dollars out of my own pocket. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/cody-battershill/ | en | null | null | 4,255 |
The President’s Saudi trip was a bizarre Art of the Deal-esque foreign policy disaster: a sleazy mix of conflicted government-arranged corporate endorsement deals,” Slocum told DeSmog. “Most troubling of all was Tillerson’s presence and role in accommodating Exxon’s deal with the House of Saud, thereby violating the former CEO’s recusal agreement. Trump and Tillerson’s Riyadh embarrassment is just another sad indication of the administration’s prioritization of crony corporate access masquerading as a jumbled assembly of foreign policy and economic development. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/rex-tillerson/ | en | null | null | 4,256 |
We exist to help donors promote liberty which we understand to be limited government, personal responsibility, and free enterprise,” she said in an interview. “It won’t be going to liberals. Are there both sides of an environmental issue? Probably not,” she went on. “Here is the thing. If you look at libertarians, you tend to have a lot of differences on things like defense, immigration, drugs, the war, things like that compared to conservatives. When it comes to issues like the environment, if there are differences, they are not nearly as pronounced. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/whitney-ball/ | en | null | null | 4,257 |
Global temperatures will come off the current plateau into a sustained and significant cooling, beginning 2017 or maybe as late as 2021. The cooling will be about 0.3 °C in the 2020s, taking the planet back to the global temperature that prevailed in the 1980s. This was signaled (though not caused) by a fall in underlying solar radiation starting in 2004, one of the three largest falls since 1610 when records started. There is a delay of one sunspot cycle, currently 13 years (2004+13 = 2017). | 1_not_happening | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/david-evans/ | en | null | null | 4,258 |
These protestors are unhappy about carbon taxes, illegal immigration, wasteful government spending, and policies they say hurt the oil industry, which in turn hurts them. | 7_fossil_fuels_needed | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/mark-mathis/ | en | null | null | 4,259 |
The Institute of Public Affairs examines climate change and environmental policy from an evidence based perspective. The also prioritizes making rational assessments of the economics and practicalities of carbon dioxide reduction proposals. Knee-jerk government policies in response to activist campaigning can have far-reaching economic implications while achieving no environmental benefit. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/institute-public-affairs/ | en | null | null | 4,260 |