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In reality, there are dozens of prominent scientists who believe that climate change is driven by natural forces or that the United Nations’ climate projections are unreliable. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/paul-joseph-watson/ | en | null | null | 4,261 |
We saw the threat. To give the former president credit, he never hid what his intentions were with respect to the energy issues and the environmental issues. He made it absolutely clear he wanted to fundamentally transform this country. And he also made it clear in many a speech that he wanted to make ‘renewable’ or ‘clean’ energy become ‘profitable’ energy. That was code for using the government to make his pet energy sources more competitive with those that work better in the market. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/institute-energy-research/ | en | null | null | 4,262 |
We come now to COVID-19, the coronadoom. It cannot be considered unusual, | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/william-briggs/ | en | null | null | 4,263 |
The Omnicom report does not detail any of their policies on whether they accept clients with anti-environmental agendas or clients that promote climate change denial, | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/fleishmanhillard/ | en | null | null | 4,264 |
Federal pesticide laws are a substantial problem because unscientific and excessively restrictive standards have produced bans and forced useful products off the market,” she wrote. “If federal lawmakers are truly interested in fighting Zika and other emerging vector-borne infections, they need to revisit the standard to eliminate the regulatory burdens associated with its excessively cautious approach. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/angela-logomasini/ | en | null | null | 4,265 |
This is no time for political games. Climate change is not an immediate threat to humanity. Climate-related deaths have declined 98.9% in the last century, and humanity is growing more and more resilient thanks to the availability of affordable, reliable energy. On behalf of all Americans, we urge you to oppose any stimulus proposals that carve out special treatment for or bail out any energy companies and focus instead on stopping COVID-19. | 3_not_bad | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/media-research-center/ | en | null | null | 4,266 |
Increasing CO2 poses no direct hazard to human health, either. Concentrations in submarines can reach up to 25 times the normal atmospheric levels without causing harmful effects on the crew. Yet the CPP misleads readers by referring to CO2 as ‘carbon pollution,’ a huge deception. […] | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/tom-harris/ | en | null | null | 4,267 |
Public Policy and the Media: Do We Get the Whole Story? | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/manhattan-institute-policy-research/ | en | null | null | 4,268 |
Those who intensely oppose the energy sector and additional pipeline capacity are a very small minority, albeit a very loud one. Many of these elements are funded by foreign foundations, largely from the United States. Many are motivated solely by authentic concern for the planet and the environment. However, some of this foundation support is suspect Independent researcher Vivian Krause has highlighted how some groups have adopted a clear strategy of land-locking the ‘tar sands’ to ensure that Alberta crude cannot reach the international market (Krause 2018). They use inflammatory and erroneous slogans such as ‘Tars sands oil is blood oil’ to motivate donors and activists to their cause. Government must inform the public about the realities of our energy sector and shine a large spotlight on these foreign-funded environmentalist campaigns. | 6_proponents_biased | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/macdonald-laurier-institute/ | en | null | null | 4,269 |
A combination of subsidy changes–removing them from fossil fuels, enhancing them for new renewables–mandated production targets and intensified R&D could accelerate the transition to renewables, but it is unlikely to displace all fossil fuels in a few decades, particularly as many low income countries will rely on them for their development. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/vaclav-smil/ | en | null | null | 4,271 |
Some Senate Democrats are once again focused on expanding the tax credit despite its gross inequities. They are using the American Energy Innovation Act as a tool to enrich two auto companies, and Tesla, along with wealthy coastal elites, mainly from California and New York. It’s now time for all Senators, especially Republicans, to stand up for their constituents and stop this obvious handout. No amendments, no deals, and no extensions of the tax credit. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/american-energy-alliance-aea/ | en | null | null | 4,272 |
The 2010 answer to the question by Andy Revkin […] remains NO. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/roger-pielke-sr/ | en | null | null | 4,273 |
It has been a received wisdom among many in government, opposition and in the great green blob that switching from fossil fuels to renewable energy would make us better off. How laughable that claim seems now. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/ross-clark/ | en | null | null | 4,274 |
Proposition 127 – constitutional mandate that – irrespective of cost to consumers. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/chad-guzman/ | en | null | null | 4,275 |
No link between man-made emissions and accelerated warming has been demonstrated with observational evidence. | 2_not_human | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/texas-public-policy-foundation/ | en | null | null | 4,276 |
The movement to convince the public of catastrophic global warming is fundamentally unscientific. Its leaders do not, as true scientists would, objectively study and relay the full evidence about what drives the climate, they fixate obsessively on CO2. They do not share how poorly understood climate drivers are; they act as if they can predict the climate with certainty. Through manipulation of government agencies, a credulous media, and many of their cloistered colleagues in academia, they have managed to take over much of the field of climatology and the vast majority of its public relations. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/center-industrial-progress/ | en | null | null | 4,277 |
The comment about ‘we shouldn’t question the science,’ no. We should encourage people to discuss the science, but do it in a deep way and not with slogans like the 97% consensus, which is another one of these phoney statistics that emerges. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/canada-strong-and-free-network/ | en | null | null | 4,278 |
In truth, the deal – an exercise in political hysteria – is a disaster for anyone who believes in preserving the prime values in American society: personal responsibility and freedom. | 6_proponents_biased | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/james-k-glassman/ | en | null | null | 4,279 |
The main implication is we have to protect ourselves from the inherently dangerous and volatile climate using lots of energy and lots of industry. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/alex-epstein/ | en | null | null | 4,280 |
What I see is a mass of misinformation going on right now about the implications of climate change on weather extremes. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/clifford-mass/ | en | null | null | 4,283 |
If the Democrats really wanted to take down Putin’s regime, they would abandon their anti-fossil fuel policies, give up on a “climate change” agreement that benefits our adversaries, and support the President-elect’s policies of growth and resource exploration and exploitation. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/accuracy-media/ | en | null | null | 4,284 |
Any kind of objective analysis of climate change is going to result in a conclusion that there is a national security impact. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/george-david-banks/ | en | null | null | 4,285 |
What we learned from the Obama administration is unless we find middle ground on these issues, we risk not having any policies. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/heather-zichal/ | en | null | null | 4,286 |
This is a historic moment in the global debate about climate change… The translation and publication of a comprehensive critique of the IPPC’s alarmist reports by a leading national academy of sciences is one more sign of the trend toward skepticism and away from alarmism. | 6_proponents_biased | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/joseph-bast/ | en | null | null | 4,287 |
Corporations can pay a premium rate RAGA membership fee of up to $125,000 for the privilege of holding private briefings with attorneys general and their staff, as well as attending the annual meeting. The conference provides ample opportunity for attorneys general to directly solicit campaign contributions from corporate representatives during private meetings, informal conversations and leisure activities—like kayaking, a five-hour golf game, and a National Rifle Association-sponsored shooting tournament. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/scott-pruitt/ | en | null | null | 4,288 |
Mine is not an appeal to the authority of any religious truth in the face of contrary scientific evidence. Neither is it even remotely tinged by a post-modernist hostility to rationality. I reject emphatically the claim that most science can be dismissed or at least downgraded as socially constructed by the great and the powerful, although the enduring power of a paradigm, of established patterns of reasoning can help the self-interested to distort science for a time My appeal is to reason and evidence and in my view the evidence is insufficient to achieve practical certainty on many of these scientific issues. Much less is there validation to justify huge public expenditure on these phantoms. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/cardinal-george-pell/ | en | null | null | 4,289 |
The Governor blames global warming, but you know, a lot of the problems we have or we can fix,” Dahle commented. “There’s three things you have to have to have a wildfire, you have to have ignition, oxygen and fuel. The one thing we can contain is fuel. We can thin our forests that are overgrown because of the bad policies out of this administration and many other administrations here in California. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/one-america-news-network-oann/ | en | null | null | 4,290 |
If chlorflourocarbons really destroy ozone, why isn’t there a hole over chlorflourocarbon factories? As for the greenhouse effect, he was emphatic. ‘There isn’t any such thing’. | 1_not_happening | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/ron-arnold/ | en | null | null | 4,293 |
Hiroshima and Nagasaki weren’t merely horrific, war-ending events. They were lifesaving. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/bret-stephens/ | en | null | null | 4,294 |
It is sheer hypocrisy to curb domestic oil and gas production yet import fossil fuels instead. Worse than hypocritical, it is perverse – since importing LNG involves far higher emissions to liquefy, transport and regasify than using our own gas. So, it slows achieving Net Zero. | 7_fossil_fuels_needed | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/peter-lilley/ | en | null | null | 4,295 |
I was at the table with three Europeans, and we were having lunch. And they were talking about their role as lead authors. And they were talking about how they were trying to make the report so dramatic that the United States would just have to sign that Kyoto Protocol. | 6_proponents_biased | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/john-christy/ | en | null | null | 4,296 |
Whether you believe in alternative energy or not, one thing we can tell you for a fact—whether it works or not, that’s all to be seen in the progress of time—it’s up to its neck in crony capitalism, | 6_proponents_biased | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/steve-bannon/ | en | null | null | 4,297 |
I vaguely remember responding to a survey as to whether or not the affordability of food for my family was important to me,” one participant said, “But that is far different than setting myself up as an authority on specific genetically engineered crops and authorizing my name for submission on form letters. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/institute-liberty/ | en | null | null | 4,298 |
I think there is a man-made impact on climate change; there is a scientific consensus that is the case, but there is no scientific consensus on how much human action impacts the climate, | 2_not_human | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/jim-sensenbrenner/ | en | null | null | 4,300 |
Climate-change skeptics might be regarded as modern-day witches because they think that global warming comes from natural forces. However, it’s superstitious alarmists, who believe that extreme weather originates in our CO2 emissions and who have a dread of impending disaster, who are really the witches. | 6_proponents_biased | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/ralph-b-alexander/ | en | null | null | 4,301 |
We can debate this forever. George Will had a column in the last year or so pointing out that in the 70s, we were concerned the ice age was coming. I’m not a scientist. I’m interested in protecting Kentucky’s economy. | 6_proponents_biased | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/mitch-mcconnell/ | en | null | null | 4,302 |
As things have continued to evolve, we know that more needs to be done,” Mr. Sommers said. “We also know that climate change is real and we need to do more to address one of the marquee issues of our time. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/american-petroleum-institute/ | en | null | null | 4,303 |
Demonization of is irrational at best and even modest warming is mostly beneficial. […] When someone says this is the warmest temperature on record. What are they talking about? It’s just nonsense. This is a very tiny change period, | 3_not_bad | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/richard-lindzen/ | en | null | null | 4,304 |
You can dress it up and put fancy clothes on it, but it’s still a massive tax on American motorists and families, which will hit the poorest among us the hardest no matter what they claim they can do to make them whole, | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/thomas-pyle/ | en | null | null | 4,305 |
Thanks — it sounds like you are attributing the blizzard to global warming (or if you prefer, ‘climate change’), is that correct? | 1_not_happening | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/matt-dempsey/ | en | null | null | 4,306 |
I don’t want to say it’s a disaster, but I think it is potentially a disaster for humankind and not necessarily any good for the planet. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/myron-ebell/ | en | null | null | 4,307 |
Well, yeah, I mean, of course, I think climate change is happening. I think it’s being caused by humans. I’ve dedicated the last 20 years of my life to addressing it. My concern is with the just gross misrepresentation of what the best available science says that’s having these severe mental health impacts. So I think it’s possible to be somebody that’s very concerned and wants to take action on climate change and also pushes back against the extreme alarmism that we’ve been seeing. | 6_proponents_biased | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/michael-shellenberger/ | en | null | null | 4,308 |
Even if President Trump reverses President Obama’s efforts, the marginal effect on future climate change will be minimal because Obama’s efforts were so inconsequential, | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/oren-cass/ | en | null | null | 4,310 |
I think the provider should be punished if there were a personhood amendment, | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/joni-ernst/ | en | null | null | 4,311 |
At times the temperature has gone up and at times it has gone down. Even with carbon dioxide levels increasing there has been no rise in global temperature for 10 years. | 1_not_happening | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/art-horn/ | en | null | null | 4,313 |
What we really don’t want to do, I think, is impose policies that would deny [Catholics in parts of the world vulnerable to climate change] access to electricity or make their access to electricity more difficult. And that’s were I think that’s where the Pope needs to be very, very careful here because if he favors policies that will ultimately put some of the good things about modern life out of reach of the most vulnerable, he will ultimately wind up perpetuating poverty and putting himself behind policies that will lead to shorter life expectancies and that that’s something I don’t think any of us want. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/bonner-cohen/ | en | null | null | 4,314 |
Just because you’re a member of a group doesn’t mean you’re supporting and involved in every aspect of the group, | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/mark-holden/ | en | null | null | 4,315 |
During his tenure as Attorney General of Oklahoma, Mr. Pruitt has blurred the distinction between official and political actions, often at the behest of corporations he will regulate if confirmed to lead EPA,” the letter said. “Public reporting based on documents produced by Freedom of Information Act requests illustrate how Mr. Pruitt and members of his staff have worked closely with fossil fuel lobbyists to craft his office’s official positions. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/anthony-lupo/ | en | null | null | 4,316 |
The one huge consolation from all this is that nothing said or done in Paris last December will have the slightest effect on the world’s climate. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/christopher-booker/ | en | null | null | 4,317 |
Science does not function by consensus and most certainly not by politically driven consensus. In fact, the history of consensus in science is terrible from Galileo right the way through the beginning of the 20th century when 95% of scientists, for goodness sake, believed in eugenics. Science has to by its very nature be skeptical.' | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/philip-stott/ | en | null | null | 4,318 |
In 1992 EPA published its report, ‘Respiratory Health Effects of Passive Smoking,’ claiming SHS is a serious public health problem, that it kills approximately 3,000 nonsmoking Americans each year from lung cancer, and that it is a Group A carcinogen (like benzene, asbestos, and radon)… .EPA’s 1992 conclusions are not supported by reliable scientific evidence. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/jerome-arnett/ | en | null | null | 4,319 |
The difference between a healthy environment and an unhealthy environment can be summed up in one word, and it’s not ‘‘ or ‘climate’ or ‘temperature.’ It’s ‘development.’ […] Whether you’re drinking clean drinking water, listening to a thunderstorm with pleasure instead of fear, or going to the Grand Canyon, you should be thanking Big Coal, Big Oil, and Big Gas. | 7_fossil_fuels_needed | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/alex-epstein/ | en | null | null | 4,320 |
We think that, at least from the Trump administration’s perspective, and I agree with this, this is my personal perspective as well, is that climate is certainly a challenge and is a major problem that we need to work together to address. But there are other big issues out there that I would certainly argue are much more challenging, much more immediate, | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/george-david-banks/ | en | null | null | 4,321 |
If [Mirjam] Heine’s arguments do not seem familiar, they ought to. Heine cribbed her script from the ‘gay’ ‘rights’ movement. She had only to substitute ‘pedophilia’ for ‘homosexuality. It was bound to happen. Once we began identifying ourselves as our sexual desires — you are not a man but a ‘gay’ or a ‘straight’ or one of dozens of other ‘orientations’ — it was only a matter of time before every sexual desire got its own ‘rights’ and in the same way Heine began at ‘anger and disgust’ over pedophilia, but her ‘perspective [was] completely changed’ after she heard of Jonas’s ‘cruel fate. It took between thirty and forty years for homosexuality to turn from revulsion to Pride. It took Heine only a fraction of the time for her conversion. How long will it take us? | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/william-briggs/ | en | null | null | 4,324 |
In the view of Piers and his colleagues at WeatherAction, it is all about sun spots, and he is on record as believing that we are now due for a new ‘Maunder Minimum’ – like the famous cold spell in the 17th century, when the Thames froze several times, | 1_not_happening | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/boris-johnson/ | en | null | null | 4,325 |
Just give a green a sniff of a few dollars and they change very quickly. | 6_proponents_biased | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/ian-plimer/ | en | null | null | 4,326 |
Sorry for misleading you, but I cried wolf on the global dangers of climate change, | 1_not_happening | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/michael-shellenberger/ | en | null | null | 4,327 |
Workers in all sectors across the UK are feeling the impact of the cost-of-living crisis, however industrial action does not offer a solution, nor is it helpful for our sector, which is doing all it can to attract the investment essential to protect jobs and meet the UK’s energy needs. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/offshore-energies-uk/ | en | null | null | 4,328 |
Pork producers…are committed to conserving energy and helping reduce America’s dependence on foreign oil. The industry supports the development and use of alternative and renewable fuels but seeks a level playing field for producers to compete for finite resources. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/national-pork-producers-council/ | en | null | null | 4,329 |
It just makes me so angry, that for the past few years, the government has been beholden to the craven green lobby, and that odd little teenage Greta Thunberg who should have stayed at school instead of helping to create a ludicrous situation where the West has become dependent on Russia for our energy […] Other than the completely mad extremists like [Extinction Rebellion] and Insulate Britain, there is now wide acceptance that the UK must become energy independent. In 2022, the cost of living crisis trumps the so-called climate emergency which will be tackled over the next two decades with new technology and gradual change that doesn’t cripple our economy. Sadly the mistakes made by giving into the green lobby mean the financial pain in the short term is likely to be catastrophic actually, especially for the families and businesses hit hard by two years of unnecessary lockdowns. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/gb-news/ | en | null | null | 4,330 |
Personally, I think the issue of global warming or climate change gets far too much press, | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/mark-mathis/ | en | null | null | 4,331 |
While shale energy development holds a great deal of promise, the movement to restrict shale development with further regulations places it all in jeopardy,” said Karen Harbert, president and of the Chamber of Commerce’s Institute for 21st Century Energy. “By continuing to push unnecessary federal regulations when strong state regulations already exist, the federal government is risking the only reliable sector of job growth in the entire economy. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/us-chamber-commerce/ | en | null | null | 4,332 |
And I’m doing this pro bono. […] We spent about less than $5,000 this week and that money, about five grand came from Canada action, Cody Battershill. He’s a realtor in Calgary and […] he gave that money to a small group called The North Matters. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/vivian-m-krause/ | en | null | null | 4,334 |
I can tell you with the utmost confidence there will not be a health impact of anything that is going on at the Fukushima power plant. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/jay-h-lehr/ | en | null | null | 4,335 |
We are replacing a lot of perfectly good ways of generating electricity with gas and nuclear ways of generating it with wind and solar. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/david-frost/ | en | null | null | 4,336 |
Whatever we do makes not a jot of difference to global warming. The UK could shut down tomorrow completely and it still won’t make any difference and this idea we’re a global leader is for the birds 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 | 4,337 |
I believe the climate system is deterministic. Global warming, climate change, take your pick. Is my question unclear? | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/matt-dempsey/ | en | null | null | 4,338 |
I don’t like being called a denier because deniers don’t believe in facts. There are no facts linking the concentration of atmospheric carbon dioxide with imminent catastrophic global warming there are only predictions based on complex computer models. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/david-bellamy/ | en | null | null | 4,339 |
Apart from being slightly warmer, the UK’s climate appears to be little different to the Past. | 1_not_happening | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/paul-homewood/ | en | null | null | 4,340 |
While evidence seems to indicate that we have been warming up nicely for the past several hundred years, at present we may be in a slight cooling trend. There has been no global warming for almost 15 years. | 1_not_happening | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/james-wanliss/ | en | null | null | 4,341 |
Really? Do you think there’s actual serious difference of opinion on whether it’s below 50%? | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/kathleen-hartnett-white/ | en | null | null | 4,342 |
Well, there’s certainly ideology that’s connected to climate science. And then there’s certainly corporations that are invested in this, this prospect of green energy and the concept of green energy. And they’re profiting off of it and pushing these different things, whether it be electric car mandates or whatever it is. | 6_proponents_biased | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/joe-rogan/ | en | null | null | 4,343 |
Affordable power is not mutually exclusive of clean power. Colorado should expand the definition of clean resources to include clean coal, natural gas, hydroelectric and nuclear. We also should encourage a least-cost principle and let consumers decide nything else is just cruel. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/amy-oliver-cooke/ | en | null | null | 4,344 |
My own chapter (Alan Moran) sets the context of the debate by examining the costs of taking action (which are considerable and massively understated by the IPCC) and any benefits of doing so (which are slender and overstated by the IPCC),” Moran wrote in the introduction. “And the chapter notes that any gains rely on the unlikely event of a comprehensive international agreement. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/alan-moran/ | en | null | null | 4,345 |
The mayor’s plan to cut emissions by 80 percent extends out to the year 2050, meaning he’ll be long out of office once the true costs begin impact the people of Richmond. But the true costs of an unfeasible plan like this one will hurt minority and low income families every step of the way. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/derrick-hollie/ | en | null | null | 4,346 |
While the [’s] conclusion that the rate of ocean heat uptake has increased in recent years may probably be right, the evidence you cite for there being ‘high confidence’ and ‘high agreement’ is rather doubtful due to your inclusion of flawed evidence of the retracted paper by Resplandy et al. (2018). | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/global-warming-policy-foundation/ | en | null | null | 4,347 |
Governments are running huge deficits, but still spend billions on ‘climate research’ especially trying to model the effect of the atmosphere and its trace of carbon dioxide on surface temperature. Benefits are hard to find. It may have improved weather forecasts by a day or so, but official long-term predictions have not improved in the last fifty years. This is because carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is not the main driver of weather or climate. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/carbon-sense-coalition/ | en | null | null | 4,348 |
Only government reclassification of more and more disease types as AIDS cases has kept the numbers of victims at politically necessary levels. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/art-robinson/ | en | null | null | 4,350 |
The fact of the matter is that no overwhelming consensus exists among climatologists on the magnitude of future warming, man’s impact on the climate, or on the urgency to reduce carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions, | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/nicolas-loris/ | en | null | null | 4,352 |
By unlocking an abundant and low-cost fuel like natural gas, the fracking revolution has been a clear winner for the economy, our national security, and the climate. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/fti-consulting/ | en | null | null | 4,353 |
Extinction Rebellion. They’re worried they’ll become extinct. If only they would. | 6_proponents_biased | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/rod-liddle/ | en | null | null | 4,354 |
Global warming is a political movement disguised as a scientific movement. | 6_proponents_biased | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/norman-rogers/ | en | null | null | 4,355 |
I don’t think there is a catastrophic climate change happening at all. It’s just cyclical. What we have observed now and all the warming we have observed, pretty much ending in the late nineties, so we’re now at a plateau, right, in terms of temperature. […] People are looking at natural explanations, that it will be becoming cooler from now on. The climate change that we have been observing, it’s ah… in terms of temperature change, it’s very, very small compared to what has been happening geologically, | 1_not_happening | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/ned-nikolov/ | en | null | null | 4,356 |
Given the uncertainty in climate science, adaptation appears to be a more cost-effective approach than mitigation. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/national-center-policy-analysis/ | en | null | null | 4,357 |
We, I think we’re responsible—one of two or three groups that could genuinely claim responsibility for defeating cap and trade and carbon tax proposals at the national level for a ten year period, pretty much from 2007 until today, | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/joseph-bast/ | en | null | null | 4,358 |
Environmental Policy Advocates had sought to break loose the Obama-era Paris Agreement documents prior to the 2020 election so that voters could have insight into how the Obama administration sidestepped the Senate’s ‘advice and consent’ [sic] role. But in September, the district court denied a motion for a preliminary injunction to compel the State Department to release records pertaining to the Paris Climate Agreement. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/kevin-mooney/ | en | null | null | 4,359 |
If I were a Democrat strategist… and somebody said to me ‘who do you want to be the Democrat nominee for president of the United States?’ there’s only one name I would choose… and his name is Michael Bloomberg. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/corey-lewandowski/ | en | null | null | 4,360 |
At a certain point, the benefits from reduced pollution no longer outweigh the costs of achieving them, which is why it rarely makes sense to aim for zero pollution. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/joel-wood/ | en | null | null | 4,361 |
A cumulative change of less than 2°C by the end of this century will do no net harm. It will actually do net good […] rainfall will increase slightly, growing seasons will lengthen, Greenland’s ice cap will melt only very slowly, and so on, | 3_not_bad | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/matt-ridley/ | en | null | null | 4,362 |
This book proves the aphorism that a little knowledge is dangerous. It’s nominally about air pollution. It’s really about mind pollution. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/bjorn-lomborg/ | en | null | null | 4,363 |
Wind turbines, hybrid cars and solar panels require large quantities of these rare metals,” Legates contended. “Mine workers are exposed to highly toxic and dangerous working conditions, usually for low pay and often with child labor or exploitation water from the mines, contaminate soil and groundwater and the required process of strip mining involves significant environmental degradation. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/david-legates/ | en | null | null | 4,364 |
The Endangered Species Act is devastating the homes and farms of the small property owner by forcing strict ‘ ‘ zones where endangered species live. [… The Endangered Species Act has not saved a single species. The tiny number of species delisted were helped by other factors, not the Act. It is time to repeal the Endangered Species Act and replace it with an incentive-based law that will make property owners welcome endangered species to their land rather than fear them. Save the species, not the Act. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/center-defense-free-enterprise/ | en | null | null | 4,365 |
How would we—if we decided if we actually did know, which we don’t and don’t doubt we ever will—how much of an impact these hydrocarbons are having on the planet’s climate? Overwhelming whatever adaptive ability, which the planet has amazing adaptive abilities. Okay, well then what could we do? What should we do? What will we do? And the answers are pitiful. They’re either a terrible sell on something that is completely impractical or a complete ignoring of the issue. It’s like, oh, well we just have to. We just have to get off these things [fossil fuels]. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/mark-mathis/ | en | null | null | 4,366 |
While the Biden administration continues to pursue regulatory policies based on a concept known as the ‘social cost of carbon, | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/kevin-mooney/ | en | null | null | 4,367 |
Members may shake their heads, but I have raised this with the Met Office, and also with Professor Jim Skea. Scientists refer to it as the Pause, and they have come up with numerous explanations for it. I have heard about volcanoes, for instance, and the heat going into the ocean. At a meeting in this building, Professor Skea suggested that a pause over 16 or 17 years was statistically insignificant, which prompts an obvious question: if 17 years of temperatures not rising are insignificant, why are 30 or 35 years of temperatures increasing slightly so significant that we have to make radical changes to our economy and our industry to try and tackle that? | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/david-davies/ | en | null | null | 4,368 |
Although global warming alarmists believe carbon dioxide and other man-made greenhouse gases contribute to global warming, they’ve never documented that case with hard science. In fact, is a vital component in the air we breathe and a life-necessity for every plant and animal on Planet Earth. | 2_not_human | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/60-plus-association/ | en | null | null | 4,370 |
We will still continue to need to use gas into the next decades as we decarbonize our system, and we will be able to import it from overseas, but it’s very disappointing. …] “It is the seismic activity that is the area that we need to closely regulate and we need that certainty. So as the science improves, we will be able to look at this again but that’s not for now. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/andrea-leadsom/ | en | null | null | 4,371 |
We are about to incur a host of taxes, levies and incentives, all driven by T-shirt slogans, which are, in turn, driven by junk science and junk economics. Any technologies we develop will address the needs of only those markets suffering similar distortions. We are unlikely to develop anything of use to Europe’s nuclear sector or their waste-to-energy plants. We have already rejected both responses to the [Kyoto] protocol. The real costs of Kyoto will be our loss of freedoms as we travel down this second road to serfdom. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/owen-mcshane/ | en | null | null | 4,372 |
ExxonMobil is not interested in buying shares in other companies, because it does not allow us to fully do what we do best. We invest in Russia, not only money, | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/rex-tillerson/ | en | null | null | 4,374 |
The Obama Administration has made many efforts to support its climate religion (climatism). Since this viewpoint has no basis in the scientific method, it is not science and would seem best characterized as religion. | 6_proponents_biased | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/alan-carlin/ | en | null | null | 4,375 |