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Natural gas is the cleanest of fossil fuels and can be used in many ways to help reduce the emissions of pollutants into the atmosphere. | 7_fossil_fuels_needed | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/empowerment-alliance/ | en | null | null | 4,376 |
Green plants need carbon dioxide for photosynthesis to create the food plants and animals need to survive. | 3_not_bad | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/ken-haapala/ | en | null | null | 4,378 |
If the Paris accords are just another catalyst to temperamental environmentalism, they will reinforce these counterproductive trends, we will lose more time, waste more money and squander more opportunity to help the environment,” Myers wrote at The Daily Herald of Everett, Washington. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/todd-myers/ | en | null | null | 4,379 |
The Earth has indeed warmed during the last few decades and may warm further in the future. But the pattern of climate change is not consistent with the greenhouse effect being the main cause. | 2_not_human | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/john-locke-foundation/ | en | null | null | 4,380 |
The time to consider the policy dimensions of climate change is not when the link between greenhouse gases and climate change is conclusively proven, but when the possibility cannot be discounted and is taken seriously by the society of which we are part. We in BP have reached that point. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/global-climate-coalition/ | en | null | null | 4,381 |
The science of climate change is far from settled. Arguably, it will never be settled. If climate is indeed a chaotic system, as it seems to be, then it is unlikely that we will ever be able perfectly to describe all the relationships between different variables in the system. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/julian-morris/ | en | null | null | 4,382 |
We’re getting the word out that Administrator Pruitt is doing a good job in implementing the president’s agenda and Administrator Pruitt is a key part of that agenda, | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/myron-ebell/ | en | null | null | 4,383 |
And let me be clear, as someone who worked in the slums of Guatemala for six years raising foreign funding, I have no problem with it. That’s not the problem. The problem is that these campaigns are not helping the environment. What they’re doing is hurting our economy and not helping. That’s the problem. And that’s why this activism is wrong, no matter who funds it. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/vivian-m-krause/ | en | null | null | 4,384 |
I completely agree with Fred [Singer] that there probably has been little or no warming since the 1940s. | 1_not_happening | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/steven-goddard/ | en | null | null | 4,385 |
What’s so troubling about these potential regulations? For electricity consumers, the rules will undoubtedly lead to an uncertain future for coal, but clear ramifications for consumers: less fuel diversity and higher electricity costs. ’s actions have the potential to shutter hundreds of coal-fired power plants across the nation, forcing utilities to switch generation fuel and invest billions in upgrades and new facilities. All this means higher costs for ratepayers With coal producing over 40% of our nation’s electricity, limiting its potential will present a significant set of challenges that need to be carefully analyzed before we move forward with anything as ambitious as the President has outlined. … The President has laid out an aggressive plan – a plan that includes measures which will significantly and adversely affect electricity consumers across the United States for decades to come. Every homeowner, business, manufacturer and electricity consumer will undoubtedly feel the painful effects of higher energy costs under the President’s proposed plan. Congress must take an active oversight role in order to prevent these negative ramifications for our nation’s electricity consumers. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/consumer-energy-alliance-cea/ | en | null | null | 4,386 |
That was an excuse. Look at even how they got the permit. And can I finish Simone? Will you just shut up for a minute and let me finish? | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/ken-cuccinelli/ | en | null | null | 4,387 |
This reroute of the project will merely delay the inevitable – oil flowing from the Bakken shale to consumers with no detectable effect on earth’s climate. | 2_not_human | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/grow-americas-infrastructure-now-gain/ | en | null | null | 4,388 |
So modest climatic improvement would be to have fewer and less severe big winter storms. Amazingly, that’s exactly what we should get if global warming theory turns out to be true. The models say that much of the warming will occur in the upper latitudes and in the winter. At the risk of further ridicule in kooky blogs in England, where global warming alarmism is now a religion, that sounds pretty good to me. Fewer people will die from the cold. | 3_not_bad | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/myron-ebell/ | en | null | null | 4,389 |
I don’t usually talk about myself so it’s not a comfortable thing, | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/robert-mercer/ | en | null | null | 4,390 |
Holy sh*t. This would be like giving a monkey a machete […] Letting Jim Ratcliffe loose on all the operators who feed into that pipeline is a dangerous, dangerous ploy. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/jim-ratcliffe/ | en | null | null | 4,391 |
Government shouldn’t play favorites in the energy industry. The best way forward would be to end all energy subsidies and let different sources of energy truly compete on price, reliability, and impact. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/grant-kidwell/ | en | null | null | 4,392 |
No country in the world has done more to combat emissions than the UK. Our carbon emissions have reduced by almost half since 1990. And they continue to reduce. They’d reduce even quicker if these eco-warriors stopped carping about nuclear power. A few more nuclear power stations and our emissions would reduce hugely. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/rod-liddle/ | en | null | null | 4,393 |
Flying, too, will become a preserve of the rich, since aviation is going to be one of the hardest sectors to decarbonise. Planes might even have to be relegated to museums. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/ross-clark/ | en | null | null | 4,394 |
We support urgent action to tackle the climate crisis through the Paris Climate Agreement and have been working to cut our carbon footprint since 2006. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/ogilvy/ | en | null | null | 4,395 |
Greenhouse gases are regulated by the Environmental Protection Agency under the Clean Air Act, even though the Clean Air Act never authorized such regulation. believes that using this 40-year-old law to control of greenhouse gases () emissions threatens our nation’s economic and energy security. The Clean Air Act applies only to companies and was never intended to regulate greenhouse gas emissions. Even the has admitted Clean Air Act emissions will do nothing to reduce global concentrations of these emissions, | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/american-fuel-petrochemical-manufacturers-afpm/ | en | null | null | 4,397 |
Ocean acidification was just – it was a made up terminology used to scare people. And the people that did it have admitted to that, | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/gregory-wrightstone/ | en | null | null | 4,398 |
I am not convinced that higher taxes are the answer. For example, something like the climate change levy, I have a concern in the way that it has impacted companies in the north of England. It has driven manufacturing jobs overseas to other countries that aren’t as stringent as we are in terms of cutting back CO2 emissions. I think the stick approach isn’t the right approach. I think we should look more at the cash approach, look to giving tax incentives to encourage companies to act in more green ways. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/matthew-elliott/ | en | null | null | 4,399 |
We aren’t going to put the carbon dioxide genie back in the bottle. There’s no going back. There is too much fossil fuel, it’s too cheap, and it’s too easy to get. | 7_fossil_fuels_needed | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/william-o-keefe/ | en | null | null | 4,400 |
We’re not in a crisis. There is no climate emergency. We are living in the best times you could ever live on planet Earth. And we are so fragile and we are so protected and we’re so wealthy that if someone drops a feather, we panic, | 3_not_bad | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/ian-plimer/ | en | null | null | 4,401 |
When it comes to fracking, they have decided to allow worries about modest traffic disruption and over-blown environmental claims to destroy the opportunity to access much cleaner, cheaper energy and create many thousands of new jobs. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/institute-economic-affairs/ | en | null | null | 4,402 |
Right now, a United Nations-led effort is moving toward decisions in 1997 to cut the use of fossil fuels, based on the unproved theory that they affect the Earth’s climate. | 2_not_human | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/lee-raymond/ | en | null | null | 4,403 |
The driving mechanism is exactly the opposite of what Al Gore claims, both in his film and in that book. It’s the temperature that, through those 650,000 years, controlled the CO2CO2 that controlled the temperature. | 2_not_human | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/robert-giegengack/ | en | null | null | 4,404 |
Donald Trump has said the first step in defeating our enemies is to identify them properly and see the connections between them,” Giuliani said. “To defeat Islamic extremist terrorism we must put them on defense. If they are at war against us ― which they have declared ― we must commit ourselves to unconditional victory against them. This includes undoing one of the worst deals America ever made ― Obama’s Nuclear Agreement with Iran that will eventually let them become a nuclear power and put billions of dollars back into a country that the world’s biggest state sponsor of terrorism. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/rudy-giuliani/ | en | null | null | 4,405 |
It’s the weirdest thing to sit there and say you have to practice six feet of separation from people because apparently this virus stops at five feet, 11 inches. Ok. and then if you can’t do that, please wear a mask. And then you find out that it can go through your eyes. I mean. People who are healthy, people who have physical [sic] healthy bodies are not going to die from this. From the facts, I read the statistics coming out, if you get it, you have a ninety nine point seven percent chance of surviving it, pretty much like the flu. In fact, I think the flu is probably even worse. Did you notice that the last season there was no deaths from flu? Everything was a Covid death. Everything. Look at the numbers. They say it’s going up. Of course it’s going up. If you open up something and everybody’s got a cold, then more people are going to get a cold. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/kevin-sorbo/ | en | null | null | 4,406 |
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/heartland-institute/ | en | null | null | 4,407 |
A distanced, journalistic commentary is hardly possible. Anyone who dares to risk being vilified as a ‘climate skeptic’ or even as a ‘climate denier’. | 6_proponents_biased | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/josef-reichholf/ | en | null | null | 4,408 |
I happen to believe that we’re being pushed out of Confederation, | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/w-brett-wilson/ | en | null | null | 4,409 |
Absolutely not. I don’t know any scientific organization, any serious credible scientific organization that makes such claims. It’s not even our most severe environmental problem. […] I don’t think there’s any evidence that climate change is our most serious environmental problem. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/michael-shellenberger/ | en | null | null | 4,410 |
And as for the temperature itself, it is striking, [Gore] made his previous film 10 years ago and—according, again, to the official figures—during this past 10 years, if anything, mean global temperature, average world temperature, has slightly declined. | 1_not_happening | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/global-warming-policy-foundation/ | en | null | null | 4,411 |
This agreement will not meaningfully alter the temperature of the Earth, even under the U.N.’s own computer models The bad news is that it plants the seeds of a new UN climate regime that left unchecked will swell into a bureaucratic behemoth. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/science-and-public-policy-institute/ | en | null | null | 4,412 |
We, speaking as one, believe in the restoration of the Scientific Method and the dismissal of ideological dogma at the United Nations. That means a healthy skepticism of data interpretation and policy conclusions and an end to the war on science and scientists by powerful state-backed forces. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/heartland-institute/ | en | null | null | 4,413 |
Global climate change presents one of the biggest energy and environmental policy challenges this country has ever faced. member companies are committed to addressing the challenge of climate change and have undertaken a wide range of initiatives over the last 30 years to reduce, avoid or sequester emissions. Policies to address climate change should seek to minimize impacts on consumers and avoid harm to industry and the economy. As of the end of 2016, electric power sector emissions had declined nearly 25 percent from 2005 levels, driven in part by low natural gas prices, increased deployment of renewable generation and customer demands. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/edison-electric-institute/ | en | null | null | 4,414 |
I’m all for foreign aid, but Canada should be giving foreign aid, not getting it, and that’s what bothers me. In Canada, we should be funding our own environmental movement. It’s too easy for our environmental movement to be depending on American foundations. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/vivian-m-krause/ | en | null | null | 4,415 |
The Green New Deal isn’t a serious proposal. Renewable energy sources like solar and wind have their place. But eliminating fossil fuels wholesale would prove prohibitively expensive. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/drew-johnson/ | en | null | null | 4,416 |
New research from the released today demonstrates how increasing Australian coal exports from the Galilee Basin by up to 120 million tonnes annually could allow at least 82 million Indian people to access a regular and reliable source of electricity each year. Coal is the world’s cheapest and most reliable source of electricity. | 7_fossil_fuels_needed | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/institute-public-affairs/ | en | null | null | 4,417 |
I do still think there’s plenty of disagreement on how much warming is man-made, how quickly the planet is warming, what a doubling of CO2 emissions will mean for global temperatures, | 2_not_human | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/nicolas-loris/ | en | null | null | 4,418 |
I reject the peak oil theory insofar as it refers to technological limits on human ingenuity. | 7_fossil_fuels_needed | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/robert-p-murphy/ | en | null | null | 4,419 |
The idea of a carbon dioxide tax fits in seamlessly with the romantic, often quixotic, worldview of the modern environmental movement. It’s a well-intentioned notion that’s untethered to reality, and which would produce few appreciable gains, while causing major damage, | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/tim-benson/ | en | null | null | 4,420 |
Hubris is a Greek word that means dangerously overconfident. Based on my research, hubris fairly describes our current response to the issue of climate change Here’s what many people believe One: The planet is warming catastrophically because of certain human behaviors Two: Thanks to powerful computers we can project what the climate will be like 20, 40, or even 100 years from now Three: That if we eliminate just one behavior, the burning of fossil fuels, we can prevent the climate from changing for as long we like Each of these presumptions—together, the basis of our hubris regarding the changing climate—is either untrue or so far off the mark as to be useless Yes, it’s true that the globe is warming, and that humans are exerting a warming influence upon it. But beyond that, to paraphrase a line from the classic movie The Princess Bride, ‘I do not think “The Science” says what you think it says. For example, government reports state clearly that heat waves in the US are now no more common than they were in 1900 Hurricane activity is no different than it was a century ago Floods have not increased across the globe over more than seventy years Greenland’s ice sheet isn’t shrinking any more rapidly today than it was 80 years ago Why aren’t these reassuring facts better known Because the public gets its climate information almost exclusively from the media And from a media perspective, fear sells ‘Things aren’t that bad’ doesn’t sell Very few people, and that includes journalists who report on climate news, read the actual science. I have. And what the data—the hard science—from the US government and UN Climate reports say is that… ‘things aren’t that bad. Nor does the public understand the questionable basis of all catastrophic climate change projections: computer modeling Projecting future climate is excruciatingly difficult. Yes, there are human influences, but the climate is complex. Anyone who says that climate models are “just physics” either doesn’t understand them or is being deliberately misleading. I should know: I wrote one of the first textbooks on computer modeling While modelers base their assumptions upon both fundamental physical laws and observations of the climate, there is still considerable judgment involved. And since different modelers will make different assumptions, results vary widely among different models Let’s just take one simple, but significant assumption modelers must make: the impact of clouds on the climate Natural fluctuations in the height and coverage of clouds have at least as much of an impact on the flows of sunlight and heat as do human influences. But how can we possibly know global cloud coverage say 10, let alone 50 years from now? Obviously, we can’t. But to create a climate model, we have to make assumptions. That’s a pretty shaky foundation on which to transform the world’s economy By the way, creating more accurate models isn’t getting any easier. In fact, the more we learn about the climate system, the more we realize how complex it is Rather than admit this complexity, the media, the politicians, and a good portion of the climate science community attribute every terrible storm, every flood, every major fire to ‘climate change.’ Yes, we’ve always had these weather events in the past, the narrative goes, but somehow ‘climate change’ is making everything ‘worse. Even if that were true, isn’t the relevant question, how much worse? Not to mention that ‘worse’ is not exactly a scientific term And how would we make it better For the alarmists, that’s easy: we get rid of fossil fuels Not only is this impractical—we get over 80% of the world’s energy from fossil fuels—it’s not scientifically possible. That’s because CO2 doesn’t disappear from the atmosphere in a few days like, say, smog. It hangs around for a really long time About 60 percent of any CO2 that we emit today will remain in the atmosphere 20 years from now, between 30 and 55 percent will still be there after a century, and between 15 and 30 percent will remain after one thousand years In other words, it takes centuries for the excess carbon dioxide to vanish from the atmosphere. So, any partial reductions in CO2 emissions would only slow the increase in human influences—not prevent it, let alone reverse it CO2 is not a knob that we can just turn down to fix everything. We don’t have that ability. To think that we do is… hubris Hubris leads to bad decisions A little humility and a little knowledge would lead to better ones I’m Steve Koonin, former Undersecretary for Science in the Obama Administration, and author of Unsettled: What Climate Science Tells Us, What It Doesn’t, and Why It Matters, for Prager University. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/steve-koonin/ | en | null | null | 4,421 |
Have the models been successful in predicting anything? They, of course, predict substantial global warming. This is not surprising given the expressed belief of some of the model builders in the global warming Hypothesis and the many parameters in the model that need to be introduced. However, the models also predict unambiguously that the atmosphere is warming faster than the surface of the earth; but all the available observational data unambiguously shows the opposite! | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/david-douglas/ | en | null | null | 4,422 |
My overall position on global warming is that, as a physicist — I studied physics at Cambridge — I am not one of those who deny that carbon dioxide emissions heat the planet. They do have that effect, although there is less certainty about how much the complex feedback effects that climate models seek to replicate may amplify the comparatively modest effect of increasing and other greenhouse gas emissions. Nonetheless, in my view it is wise to take measures to prevent and to adapt to global warming, and it is sensible to try to assess the costs and benefits of action and inaction to ensure that we adopt the most cost-effective approach. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/peter-lilley/ | en | null | null | 4,423 |
I have never seen an instance where there has been an effort to limit debate and discussion,” said Palmer. “To the extent people feel their voice is not being heard at the chamber, it’s not the chamber’s fault. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/us-chamber-commerce/ | en | null | null | 4,424 |
Well, actually, I’m a climate realist. I live in the real world. And I see what’s actually going on today. What we’re being told we’re being warned of a climate apocalypse events in the future, 50 or 80 years in the future, based from failed climate models. If we look at what’s actually going on today, we find that the Earth is thriving, prospering and greening and humanity’s benefiting from the rise, slight modest rise in temperature and the increase in . And that’s a good thing. | 3_not_bad | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/gregory-wrightstone/ | en | null | null | 4,425 |
If a carbon tax is implemented, it will likely be on top of the extensive regulation Canadians now contend with. Who’s offering to end regulation on carbon usage? Who’s offering to legalize certain kinds of incandescent light bulbs? Who’s offering to end the government’s mandates on energy efficiency in cars, trucks, washers, driers, refrigerators, air conditioners and other appliances? Who’s offering to get rid of expensive, market-distorting subsidies to solar and wind power? Anyone? Anyone? Bueller? | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/david-r-henderson/ | en | null | null | 4,426 |
Today’s crisis-mongering climate science is run like a shady business. It soaks the middle class and deprives the world’s poor of a better tomorrow. | 6_proponents_biased | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/anthony-j-sadar/ | en | null | null | 4,427 |
The theory that we caused the global warming with our emissions of carbon dioxide is based on two assumptions (guesses), made in the early 1980s when there was insufficient data. One assumption has since been disproved, and the second is looking dubious. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/david-evans/ | en | null | null | 4,429 |
Policy Recommendations: is: “the incoming administration should zero out the hundreds of millions of dollars of annual funding for the Paris Agreement’s foreign aid program, Green Climate Fund. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/angela-logomasini/ | en | null | null | 4,430 |
So how happy should we critics of the climate industry and the environmental Left and its myriad arguments and nostrums be? Answer: Sort of happy, no small achievement in the Beltway, but not nearly as much so as could have been the case, | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/benjamin-zycher/ | en | null | null | 4,431 |
So the Coalition Are you aware that they are primarily funded by the Mercer family and the Koch brothers? | 6_proponents_biased | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/mandy-gunasekara/ | en | null | null | 4,432 |
Climate change is a world that has come to be controlled by activists and campaigners who claim to be on the side of science and reason but who are really spinning narratives which suit ulterior motives […] We have somehow developed an atmosphere in which anyone who expresses scepticism is denounced as a ‘denier’, yet baseless narratives of doom are promoted as fact. To have succeeded in creating this atmosphere is an astonishing achievement on the part of climate activists. Their manipulation of public emotion is truly remarkable. | 6_proponents_biased | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/ross-clark/ | en | null | null | 4,433 |
It would, ahh, it would, ahh, from… from the, ahh, fossil fuel industry. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/bonner-cohen/ | en | null | null | 4,434 |
Look those people in the eyes that are starving and tell them you can’t have electricity, | 7_fossil_fuels_needed | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/rick-perry/ | en | null | null | 4,436 |
We’ve been working closely with Trans-Canada, which is now TC Energy. So they’ve just changed their name lately and we also work with the B.C. government and they help fund our organization. So and we bring out positive the information out for them and help them where they’re having troubles along the line. We try and be the advocacy group and and help the the other First Nations and get them involved …. and do the right thing for their people. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/first-nations-lng-alliance/ | en | null | null | 4,437 |
DDT remains the cheapest and most effective means for controlling mosquitoes. The time has come to start a massive programme of DDT house spraying to kill or deter mosquitoes in a new MMA – Macchar Maro Andolan. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/deepak-lal-1940-2020/ | en | null | null | 4,438 |
Americans never felt compelled to sign up to international folly in the past. I hope the United States once again shows the common sense of its people and walks away from the Paris Agreement. | 6_proponents_biased | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/clexit/ | en | null | null | 4,439 |
God has said that all of the various cycles on which life depends are going to be sustained by his providential care from now until God ends heaven and Earth themselves in the last judgment. Now that too, I think, is contrary to fears that man-made climate change could bring an end to the various different climate cycles on which we depend and on which other forms of life depend for our thriving. | 6_proponents_biased | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/calvin-beisner/ | en | null | null | 4,440 |
Open the secondary schools. There have been zero deaths of children under age 16 in Canada, | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/manning-foundation-for-democratic-education/ | en | null | null | 4,441 |
I think part of Roger’s goal was to keep the issue of global warming in the public mind,” Grossman said”It was certainly part of mine in accepting. I believe there is strong evidence of global warming and that much of it is caused by humans. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/roger-cohen/ | en | null | null | 4,442 |
Dr. Mann has transgressed scientific norms and offended First Amendment principles by bringing a defamation claim against Appellants for their pointed criticism of his scientific methodology,” Curry claimed in the brief. “As it relates to this case, Dr. Curry has been critical of Appellee Michael Mann’smethodological approach to climate science and the conclusions he has reached. | 6_proponents_biased | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/judith-curry/ | en | null | null | 4,443 |
If you don’t have strong rule of law, you know, it deteriorates very, very quickly. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/harold-hamm/ | en | null | null | 4,444 |
One of the most important goals of government-financed research is not so much to get answers as it is to consume the computer budget, | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/robert-mercer/ | en | null | null | 4,446 |
What is now regarded as human-induced climate change, any scientist will say well that’s just normal variability. Climate varies, temperatures vary, sea levels go up and down like a yo yo. | 1_not_happening | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/ian-plimer/ | en | null | null | 4,447 |
I view the anti-GMO movement is kind of a, you know, an offshoot or a part of the environmentalist movement. I really think it shows obviously and horribly what they’re, what they’re about or, or what they’re not about, | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/amanda-maxham/ | en | null | null | 4,448 |
I define clean energy as something that is producing significant amounts of power to run human societies and they make the environment cleaner than if they were not being used. And under that definition, coal, oil, natural gas, nuclear power, hydro, they’re all clean. Solar and wind, dirty. | 7_fossil_fuels_needed | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/mark-mathis/ | en | null | null | 4,449 |
Carbon dioxide is a trace gas with a concentration of 0.04 percent of the atmosphere. It has the ability to absorb a narrow band of energy and prevent that particular wavelength of heat from escaping to space. It can, therefore, be called a greenhouse gas. However, its effect on the climate is so small as to be insignificant when compared with water vapour and, more importantly, the sun. | 2_not_human | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/conservative-woman/ | en | null | null | 4,450 |
And then while you’re maybe finishing your cappuccino in a cafe, or having a drink, someone will put a knife to your throat and slit it with the attempt, perhaps, to behead you. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/laura-ingraham/ | en | null | null | 4,451 |
Anything beyond a mild warming is predicated upon the idea of ever more fossil fuel use. If that’s not true because of what we’ve already done then anything beyond a mild warming is not true either, | 2_not_human | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/adam-smith-institute/ | en | null | null | 4,453 |
They’re becoming more militaristic. They are young Stalinists. I can’t go on college campuses today even question their religion of global warming — and it is a religion by the way. | 6_proponents_biased | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/stephen-moore/ | en | null | null | 4,454 |
Here is what I am recommending that you stand up and say (and this should berestated as often as needed, as opponents will try to move you away from this):1 – We believe that we have environmental and energy issues, and2 – We believe that these technical matters should be solved using real science. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/john-droz/ | en | null | null | 4,455 |
The actual climate change in many locations has been relatively small and within the range of known natural variability. There is no compelling evidence that dangerous or unprecedented changes are underway. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/fraser-institute/ | en | null | null | 4,456 |
There needs to be a properly funded group of scientists whose sole job is to find fault in the science with which we are basing expensive public policy decisions, | 6_proponents_biased | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/peter-ridd/ | en | null | null | 4,457 |
The mainstream media, especially the leftist leaning media from the West, must stop treating school dropouts like climate experts and economists. In their sustained effort to promote climate alarmism, the positions Greta and the loony media are pushing might very well be destroying the hopes of those at the very verge of death in poor countries. | 6_proponents_biased | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/vijay-jayaraj/ | en | null | null | 4,458 |
Climate fraudsters say that glaciers melting is an ‘early sign of global warming.’ They are lying. Glaciers have been melting for a very long time, and were melting during NASA’s claimed coldest years ever. | 1_not_happening | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/steven-goddard/ | en | null | null | 4,459 |
The benefits of a modest warming would outweigh the costs – by $8.4 billion a year in 1990 dollars by the year 2060, according to Robert Mendelsohn at Yale University – thanks to longer growing seasons, more wood fiber production, lower construction costs, lower mortality rates, and lower rates of morbidity (illness). | 3_not_bad | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/joseph-bast/ | en | null | null | 4,460 |
Universities can have a major influence on the national conversation, but it doesn’t happen by accident. So as strategists, most of the research and teaching that’s done at universities throughout the country really does have an impact. And so as Ryan said, we’re outnumbered. Our job is to make sure that we’ve got a strategy for our work to have a disproportionate impact. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/brian-hooks/ | en | null | null | 4,461 |
If the Earth’s temperature is changing in unnatural and unusual ways, and those climate oddities are, in part, a result of human activity, would taking radical steps that result in demolishing the economy of the developed world and the loss of millions of human lives in developing nations be worth reducing the Earth’s temperature a fraction of a degree? Most reasonable people would say no. Given the exaggerations of the problems and the dangers of the policy remedies, it is clear that government solutions to climate change are a medicine far worse than the illness. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/beacon-center-of-tennessee/ | en | null | null | 4,462 |
Fundamental science has always identified that it is quixotic to attempt regulation of climate through management of carbon dioxide emissions. The pity is that community leaders have been beguiled by the mystery of powerful computers and have failed to critically assess the predictions within the context of Earth’s history. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/william-kininmonth/ | en | null | null | 4,463 |
The speed of transition from a predominantly fossil-fuelled world to conversions of renewable flows is being grossly overestimated: all energy transitions are multigenerational affairs with their complex infrastructural and learning needs. Their progress cannot substantially be accelerated either by wishful thinking or by government ministers’ fiats. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/vaclav-smil/ | en | null | null | 4,464 |
I and a few friends around Australia and overseas founded the Coalition. I have paid for the business registrations, web servers and all such related matters. No one has reimbursed me. A computer friend built the web site and has not sent a bill. He maintains our web site and has not sent a bill ther members have helped with research, editing and writing, and none have been paid for it y wife and I have paid for all email, phone, copying, postage and printing costs. And I have never sent a bill or been paid for my considerable contribution of time. Carbon Sense occupies an office under our home on a farm at Rosevale in Queensland. You are very welcome to visit, inspect and chat if you wish. We have never submitted a bill for office rent ne long acquaintance provided us, gratis, a second hand colour printer cousin who is a farmer sent two donations, totalling $1,500 to cover general expenses. A long term friend, who is a retired engineer, sent a donation of $250. There have been no other donations of any sort since Carbon Sense was formed. And we have not asked for them o, in summary, funding to date for the Carbon Sense Coalition is $1,750 cash and a second hand colour printer.””[…] However, since you have raised the subject of funding, it is time we raised some funds. Should anyone offer funds with no strings attached, we would take them, even from newspaper barons. My truthfulness, opinion, or reputation is not for sale. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/carbon-sense-coalition/ | en | null | null | 4,465 |
Both sides are really fed up with the outrageous alarmists who are not representing science properly. Both don’t like those who shout about it and call people names and take a polarised point of view. | 6_proponents_biased | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/david-whitehouse/ | en | null | null | 4,467 |
No climate change approach should be adopted unless it includes mechanisms to assure American natural gas can be produced. | 7_fossil_fuels_needed | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/independent-petroleum-association-america-ipaa/ | en | null | null | 4,469 |
That isn’t true at all. That ninety-nine percent, ninety-seven [percent], that’s ridiculous. That’s ridiculous. Ninety seven percent of nobody agrees with everything. We have a… We sent out a, a statement to 33,000 scientists that all said, uh, you know, man-caused global warming is ridiculous. And it is ridiculous. | 6_proponents_biased | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/jay-h-lehr/ | en | null | null | 4,470 |
In my opinion it is inaccurate to call it a debate, and it is especially inaccurate to say that there was no call for changes to the policy when there were a number of members who stated the chamber policy did not represent their corporate position and they were therefore interested in how to change that policy, | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/us-chamber-commerce/ | en | null | null | 4,472 |
Global warming started 200 years ago, but human emissions of CO2 were bugger-all-of-nothing until after World War II. Humans have put out nearly 90% of all our CO2 molecules ever since the War started. We’ve put out 30% of all our emissions ever since the year 2000. The message hammered home over and over, is that temperatures don’t correlate at all well with our CO2 emissions and never have, | 2_not_human | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/joanne-nova/ | en | null | null | 4,473 |
We do not have a climate change or global warming problem, we have an energy cost problem. | 1_not_happening | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/robert-murray/ | en | null | null | 4,474 |
The evidence in my paper is consistent with the hypothesis that the Sun causes climatic change in the Arctic […] It invalidates the hypothesis that CO2 is a major cause of observed climate change – and raises serious questions about the wisdom of imposing cap-and-trade or other policies that would cripple energy production and economic activity, in the name of ‘preventing catastrophic climate change’. | 2_not_human | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/willie-soon/ | en | null | null | 4,475 |
That’s the politics of Trump, the politics of Mitch McConnell, and the politics of Big Polluters. It’s their way or the highway. We shouldn’t join them in a burn-it-down march to the ideological sea. But when I close my eyes and listen to some Sanders supporters outrage about the environmental planks of the Democratic Party Platform, I hear echoes of the Tea Party. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/heather-zichal/ | en | null | null | 4,476 |
Since the Lord rested on the 7th day, there’s been climate change. The question is how much of it is man-made, how much of it can we can control, and what are the unintended consequences or the ramifications. | 2_not_human | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/charles-drevna/ | en | null | null | 4,477 |
Because energy use and economic growth go hand in hand, policymakers should develop a flexible, long-term approach to reducing the growth of greenhouse gases (GHGs). This will require a global effort based on technological innovation and technology transfer to developing countries where GHG emissions growth is most rapid. In addition, U.S. tax policies should be reformed to reduce the cost of capital for new energy efficient and pollution control technologies. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/american-council-for-capital-formation/ | en | null | null | 4,478 |
James Hansen and I share a background in astrophysics…we even agree on many things. But that does not include atmospheric carbon dioxide. Hansen sees carbon dioxide as diabolical. Many others including me see it as the gas of life, with little climate significance. | 2_not_human | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/gordon-fulks/ | en | null | null | 4,479 |
Climate Hustle is the perfect antidote to the destructive, demoralizing climate alarmism that dominates political decisions and obsesses the Obama White House and . You owe it to yourself to see it. | 6_proponents_biased | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/paul-driessen/ | en | null | null | 4,480 |
I fear that our climate science curriculum has been co-opted, to satisfy the climate change fear-mongering agenda that pervades our society today. Instead of teaching the science behind Earth’s climate, advocates have taken the initiative to convert it to a social agenda of environmental activism. | 6_proponents_biased | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/david-legates/ | en | null | null | 4,482 |
The White House reached out to The Heartland Institute a few weeks ago and asked if we had other suggestions for President Trump’s State of the Union Address. We urged President Trump to address something outside the partisan box: giving millions of patients the ‘Right to Try’ life-saving, life-enhancing drugs they are denied by the antiquated drug approval process at the Food & Drug Administration. […] | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/tim-huelskamp/ | en | null | null | 4,483 |
For all of 2021, there were about 4,700 non-COVID excess deaths. That is equivalent to the deaths from the record-breaking heatwave every three weeks for an entire year, | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/todd-myers/ | en | null | null | 4,484 |
I’m going to leave some of this at the feet of the corporations, because I think they are as much to blame for what’s going on today — in fact, they’re funding a lot of what’s going on and using environmental groups as sort of the front page, | 6_proponents_biased | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/craig-richardson/ | en | null | null | 4,485 |