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Many scientists are predicting the onset of two or three centuries of cooler weather — which would mean bigger glaciers. That’s despite the world’s growing use of fossil fuels. No matter what humans do, temperature trends go up, and then down; glaciers expand and then recede; sea levels rise and then fall, explains Will Happer, professor emeritus of physics at Princeton. | 1_not_happening | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/frontiers-freedom/ | en | null | null | 4,486 |
Given that about half the nitrogen atoms in the average person’s body were fixed in an ammonia factory rather than a plant, to feed eight billion people with organic methods we would need to put more than twice as much land under the plough and the cow. That would consign most of the world’s wetlands, nature reserves and forests to oblivion. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/matt-ridley/ | en | null | null | 4,487 |
While the Biden administration continues to pursue regulatory policies based on a concept known as the ‘social cost of carbon,”’ increased carbon dioxide emissions have led to a ‘greening of the planet,’ Kevin Dayaratna, principal statistician and data scientist for The Heritage Foundation, said in his presentation at the Heartland Institute’s 14th International Climate Change Conference. | 3_not_bad | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/kevin-mooney/ | en | null | null | 4,488 |
Even if the costs of the spill exceed $15 billion (to be borne by BP) as now seems likely, the benefits of continued offshore oil production still exceed the costs by a wide margin. Economist Peter Passell estimates a net economic benefit of nearly a trillion dollars from continued offshore production. This will not be a popular position to hold so long as live streaming video of the oil spill continues and the media continue to cover the spill in a state of near hysteria. But it is at precisely such times that rational analysis needs to be heard. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/steven-f-hayward/ | en | null | null | 4,489 |
But what about other highly relevant scientific disciplines such as psychology, sociology and economics? | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/manning-foundation-for-democratic-education/ | en | null | null | 4,490 |
There is no convincing scientific evidence that any release of carbon dioxide, methane, or other greenhouse gases is causing or will in the foreseeable future cause catastrophic heating of the earth’s atmosphere and disruption of the earth’s climate,” Raymond began. He continued in his own words: “I’m not saying you’re wrong. What I am saying is there is a substantial difference of view in the scientific community as to what exactly is going on. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/lee-raymond/ | en | null | null | 4,491 |
The scientific evidence really is strong. Eleven of the last twelve years are the hottest on record since observations began in the 1850s, and climatologists say that based on what they know about global weather patterns, there is over a 90% likelihood that the increase in temperatures is traceable to human activity. Most of the climate models suggest a continued, gradual rise in surface temperatures and ocean levels, but the public debate seems to be informed by an unspoken fear in some quarters that an invisible threshold will be breached leading to environmental collapse. […] There is only one way left for conservatives to save America from the regulatory morass that global warming remediation will entail. They must develop scientific evidence that the theory has been oversold. The way to do that is to vigorously support programs like NASA’s Earth Observing System and the Air Force-NOAA National Polar-Orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS) — a next-generation weather satellite — that can close gaps in our understanding of the climate. There are enough of those gaps today so that truly draconian regulatory regimes can be justified on the basis of what might happen if warming continues. A more refined understanding of global climate patterns will probably undercut the alarmists, but until we orbit better instruments for observing the earth, the sky’s the limit in terms of what regulatory burdens might be imposed. Better science has become the last, best chance for preserving an unfettered economy. | 6_proponents_biased | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/lexington-institute/ | en | null | null | 4,492 |
Eliminating subsidies for wind and solar is not simply political theater, it is imperative to guarantee Americans have access to affordable, reliable electricity, | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/isaac-orr/ | en | null | null | 4,493 |
The UK Government has decided to become the world leader in low cost clean power generation – cheaper than coal and gas; and we believe that in ten years’ time offshore wind will be powering every home in the country. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/net-zero-scrutiny-group/ | en | null | null | 4,494 |
Proponents of the global warming theory say that higher levels of greenhouse gases — especially carbon dioxide — are causing world temperatures to rise and that burning fossil fuels is the reason. But scientific evidence remains inconclusive as to whether human activities affect global climate, | 2_not_human | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/lee-raymond/ | en | null | null | 4,495 |
More and more, the leaders of the environmental movement — the ‘Kings of Green’ — are emerging as a pathetic mix of liars, frauds, hucksters, and hypocrites who are more concerned with lining their pockets off environmental hysteria than actually protecting Mother Nature. | 6_proponents_biased | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/drew-johnson/ | en | null | null | 4,496 |
In my opinion, there is no real climate crisis. There is, however, a very real problem with providing a decent standard of living to the world’s large population and an associated energy crisis. | 1_not_happening | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/john-f-clauser/ | en | null | null | 4,497 |
Global temperatures are but one of several imperfect gauges to define the vague entity popularly termed climate, but they are widely referenced as the prime indicator. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/charles-battig/ | en | null | null | 4,498 |
Climate change will mean more extreme weather conditions and more water in the sea. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/annunziata-rees-mogg/ | en | null | null | 4,499 |
Voter caging is a tactic that jeopardizes eligible citizens’ ability to vote. The process involves efforts to identify and disenfranchise improperly registered voters solely on the basis of an undeliverable mailing. The most common method involves three steps:4 send mail to addresses on the voter rolls compile a list of the mail that is returned undelivered, an use that list to purge or challenge voters’ registrations on the grounds that the voters on the list do not legally reside at their registered addresses. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/reince-priebus/ | en | null | null | 4,500 |
The Australian government recently released an issues paper for the review of the renewable energy target. What everyone engaged in this debate should recognise is that policies such as the carbon tax and the have contributed to household electricity costs rising 110 per cent in the past five years, hitting the poor the hardest. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/bjorn-lomborg/ | en | null | null | 4,501 |
So what is it we know about human induced global warming? The most important emission is carbon dioxide, the atmospheric content of which has varied between 0.15 and 0.3 per cent over the past half million years. It is only harmful to humans or other animals at concentrations of over 10 per cent and life actually evolved when the atmospheric content was about 7 per cent A doubling of carbon dioxide content to about 0.6 per cent is likely over the coming century. Almost all scientists agree that the main direct effect of this is to increase average global temperatures by slightly over 1°C (beyond a doubling of its share, further carbon dioxide increases have a negligible climate effect) Most models estimate that this is compounded by feedbacks bringing 2-4°C temperature increases. But those feedback effects are unproven and their impact may even be negative. This is at the heart of the differences between ‘warmists’ and ‘deniers’ Higher temperatures stemming from carbon dioxide emissions are likely to compound what most scientists speculate is a trend recovery from the cooler climate experienced during the ‘Little Ice Age’ (which ended a century and a half ago) Each summer brings ‘the hottest day ever’ claims for some area. Sometimes we hear ‘the coldest day ever’ claims. And many cite these occurrences and well publicised storms as proof that ‘climate change’ (the new euphemism for ‘global warming’) is taking place. But these extreme weather events turn out to be unexceptional. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/alan-moran/ | en | null | null | 4,502 |
A foreign group’s creation of a US ‘shell’ charity to gather US funds and funnel them abroad is the most obvious of ‘foreign conduits’ in IRS parlance, #1 on its list of no-no’s. IRS revocation of 501(c)(3) status not only eliminates tax breaks for ordinary donors, but eliminates entirely crucial major gifts from private foundations like the Randolph Foundation, Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation and the Paul E. Singer Foundation CC seems to break many rules. Foreign citizen Lomborg is simultaneously CCC founder, president, and highest-paid employee. Most people are a little more subtle when trying to create conduits, as in this example, where the IRS determined someone was not eligible for 501(c)(3) status, despite various stratagems to obscure the relationships. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/copenhagen-consensus-center/ | en | null | null | 4,503 |
Al Gore is indeed correct that there is a correlation between carbon dioxide increased and temperature, but the connection is the opposite of what he assumes, | 2_not_human | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/daniel-simmons/ | en | null | null | 4,505 |
In the next century, poverty, ignorance, and protecting the environment will be the greatest challenges to the world community. Public education with three foci—literacy, the sciences, and critical thinking—is necessary for the elimination of poverty. And the elimination of ignorance and poverty is necessary for efficient protection of the environment. Excessive allocation of resources to deal with one of the three challenges will probably further complicate dealing with the other two. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/alan-moghissi/ | en | null | null | 4,506 |
Current climate observations indicate that the events which kill or injure the most people and have the biggest economic impact are not affected significantly by changing greenhouse gas concentrations. Insisting that these events must be caused or exacerbated by human activity reflects a denial of basic climate science. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/david-legates/ | en | null | null | 4,507 |
Healthy Oceans and Healthy Economies: The State of Our Oceans In the 21st Century, | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/david-legates/ | en | null | null | 4,508 |
The clear objective of the anti-smoking groups is economic rent, that is, the ability to obtain revenue and political power from the smoking issue, | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/benjamin-zycher/ | en | null | null | 4,509 |
A lot of people are searching for the right thing to believe in and [have been] captured by a corrupted ideology, a ‘green’ religion, | 6_proponents_biased | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/roy-innis/ | en | null | null | 4,510 |
Because 98 percent of Oregon is open space, largely covered with vegetation, it’s at least plausible that Oregon is actually a net sink for CO2 rather than a net source. If that turns out to be the case—and it’s currently being calculated by a multi-state task force known as Westcarb—there would be no policy basis for Gov. Kulongoski to impose additional regulations on Oregonians, such as the costly California automotive emissions standards he is advocating. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/john-charles/ | en | null | null | 4,511 |
Climate is one of the most challenging open problems in modern science. Some knowledgeable scientists believe that the climate problem can never be solved. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/christopher-essex/ | en | null | null | 4,512 |
Anything less than this would see the undoing of too much hard work – including the UK’s pioneering contributions to increasing transmission interconnections between countries in the North Sea region, which have so forcefully demonstrated our leading capabilities in offshore wind. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/alexander-temerko/ | en | null | null | 4,513 |
Fear may be the greatest motivator for humanity. It has been wielded very effectively by some who are at least as interested in damaging our economy as in blunting the spread of -19. Their efforts are a road map to promote ‘solutions’ for the non-existent problem of man-made climate change. | 1_not_happening | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/gregory-wrightstone/ | en | null | null | 4,514 |
Taxing air travel simply because you want to be seen to do something … it does nothing for the environment, nor will it do anything for the environment. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/michael-o-leary/ | en | null | null | 4,515 |
She’s already said that we’re going to be doing fracking or she’s going to be looking very closely at doing fracking again. She’s not into all the green stuff at all. We’ll put it this way. She might have to do it a little bit, but Rishi really believes it and really loves it and his 9-year-old is directing his policy. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/lois-perry/ | en | null | null | 4,516 |
Okay? So no note from the crowd please. We want to keep some level of decorum. Um, so, uh, where does the Heartland institute get its funding from? | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/jay-h-lehr/ | en | null | null | 4,517 |
Global warming activists claim a serious public concern presently exists and the overwhelming majority of scientists agrees humans are creating a global warming crisis. The survey of meteorologists, however, shows no such overwhelming majority exists. Indeed, to the extent we can assign a majority scientific opinion to whether all the necessary components of a global warming crisis exist, the survey shows the majority does not agree humans are creating a global warming crisis. | 6_proponents_biased | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/james-taylor/ | en | null | null | 4,519 |
The profligate demands of humankind are causing far reaching changes to the atmosphere of planet Earth, of this there is no doubt. Earth’s temperature is showing an upward swing, the so-called greenhouse effect, now a subject of international concern. The greenhouse effect may melt the glaciers and ice caps of the world causing the sea to rise and flood many of our great cities and much of our best farmland. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/david-bellamy/ | en | null | null | 4,520 |
The city lawyers from San Francisco and Oakland are clearly using global warming as a pretext to extort money from oil companies. It’s a nuisance lawsuit and hopefully the courts will treat it as such, | 6_proponents_biased | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/mark-mathis/ | en | null | null | 4,521 |
Why would I want to do that?” Raymond asked, as an executive recalled it to Steve Coll Because the United States needs it … for security,” the executive replied I’m not a U.S. company and I don’t make decisions based on what’s good for the U.S.,” Raymond said. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/lee-raymond/ | en | null | null | 4,523 |
Tea parties reflect a spontaneous recognition by people that if they do not act, the government will bankrupt their families and their country. They’re absolutely right about that.” [The U.S. Tobacco Program] is unbefitting a society that holds such values as free enterprise, equal opportunity, and individual liberty. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/richard-fink/ | en | null | null | 4,524 |
I love the fact that the Justice Department, by the way, is going to be investigating what affirmative action has done to universities. In other words, shafting people who are not of the appropriate color, or background, or ethnicity, and I love that. Good for Sessions. I’d hit all these liberal – the Holy Grail of liberalism is abortion, and drugs, and affirmative action, and the culture wars they’re trying to push on our kids, all these new views of gender. I’d smash back on all of that. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/laura-ingraham/ | en | null | null | 4,525 |
True, Heartland’s board documents reveal seven-figure contributions for their climate work from one ‘anonymous donor,’ but environmental organizations take in many multiples of Heartland’s total budget in anonymous donations washed through the left-wing Tides Foundation. | 6_proponents_biased | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/steven-f-hayward/ | en | null | null | 4,526 |
It has been extremely difficult, frankly. I lived on a shoestring until I couldn’t do it anymore, I borrowed money from my family, even friends. Finally, I sold my house […] I had been living from my savings. I wish this had fallen in someone else’s lap, but I couldn’t look away. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/vivian-m-krause/ | en | null | null | 4,527 |
Earth’s temperature naturally warms and cools cyclically throughout time, and warmer periods are typically more conducive to human thriving than colder periods. 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. Rising atmospheric CO2 benefits all life on Earth by improving plant growth and crop yields, making food more abundant and affordable, helping the poor most of all. Abundant, affordable, reliable energy, most of it now and in the foreseeable future provided by burning fossil fuels, which are the primary source of CO2 emissions, is indispensable to lifting and keeping people out of poverty. Mandatory reductions in CO2 emissions, pursued to prevent dangerous global warming, would have little or no discernible impact on global temperatures, but would greatly increase the price of energy and therefore of everything else. Such policies would put more people at greater risk than the warming they are intended to prevent, because they would slow, stop, or even reverse the economic growth that enables people to adapt to all climates. They would also harm the poor more than the wealthy, and would harm them more than the small amount of warming they might prevent. | 2_not_human | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/lawson-bader/ | en | null | null | 4,528 |
Given the continuing uncertainties and disputes regarding the causes and possible effects of increased CO2 concentrations in the atmosphere, and the effectiveness and economic and societal consequences of any chosen response, Congress has held over 200 hearings, enacted at least a half dozen statutes, and taken other actions establishing a measured course of action for the Nation, designed to address concerns about potential global climate change through a greater understanding of the possible problems and solutions. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/washington-legal-foundation/ | en | null | null | 4,529 |
I think it’s important to see the problem with clear eyes: The rise of secular religions like wokeness and climateism in America,” he said As much as I’ve been complaining about woke culture and identifying that problem, I think the way we solve it is by delivering an American national identity that is so powerful that it dilutes those woke agendas to irrelevance. | 6_proponents_biased | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/vivek-ramaswamy/ | en | null | null | 4,530 |
This is the dirty little secret the anti-carbon tax folks would prefer you did not know. You can try to cut emissions by other ways: regulations on business are a particular favourite. But those come with costs just as surely as a carbon tax does — every dollar of which would be passed on to the same ‘hard-working families’ the critics pretend to care about, | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/andrew-coyne/ | en | null | null | 4,531 |
If you have 3800 fewer regulators, you’re going to have a lot less regulation,” Ebell said, adding that people should contact senators to urge for a 31% cut as opposed to the House vote for a 6% cut. For those of you who think the doesn’t have any legitimacy, tell your congressman or your senator that you prefer 31% rather than 6%. That’s a start. Let’s move towards a 1/3 cut in the , and then see where we are. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/myron-ebell/ | en | null | null | 4,532 |
To represent accurately, and without prejudice, facts regarding climate change; to provide considered opinion on matters related to both natural and human-caused climate effects; and to comment on the economic and socio-political consequences of climate change. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/new-zealand-climate-science-coalition/ | en | null | null | 4,533 |
Elevated levels of atmospheric CO2 are a boon to the biosphere. | 3_not_bad | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/craig-idso/ | en | null | null | 4,534 |
I have worked hard to represent people of all backgrounds and I have always done so in a spirit of tolerance. My reference to the term ‘tar baby’ was a common reference that refers to issues that stick to one, | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/pierre-poilievre/ | en | null | null | 4,535 |
To what degree are human-induced greenhouse gases responsible for warming the atmosphere? The answer is unclear. Despite the certitude with which the media and politicians treat the issue, the science remains muddled. Temperatures fluctuate: they go up in some regions, down in others, and may be affected by naturally occurring phenomena, such as El Niño. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/manhattan-institute-policy-research/ | en | null | null | 4,536 |
Climate is changing, always has and most likely always will until that thermonuclear engine in the sky, the sun, goes out, | 2_not_human | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/gary-england/ | en | null | null | 4,537 |
According to a group of scientists brought together by documentary-maker Martin Durkin, if the planet is heating up, it isn’t your fault and there’s nothing you can do about it. e’ve almost begun to take it for granted that climate change is a man-made phenomenon. But just as the environmental lobby think they’ve got our attention, a group of naysayers have emerged to slay the whole premise of global warming. | 2_not_human | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/martin-durkin/ | en | null | null | 4,539 |
I want to use hair spray,” complained Trump. “They say, ‘Don’t use hair spray, it’s bad for the ozone.’ So I’m sitting in this concealed apartment, this concealed unit…It’s sealed, it’s beautiful. I don’t think anything gets out. And I’m not supposed to be using hair spray? e continued, “So Obama’s talking about all of this with the global warming and the—a lot of it’s a hoax, it’s a hoax. I mean, it’s a money-making industry, okay? It’s a hoax, a lot of it. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/donald-trump/ | en | null | null | 4,540 |
The biggest fact driving climate change is the sun and earth’s relationship to changes inits orbit, along with ocean currents, airstreams in the upper atmosphere, volcanic activityand the release of greenhouse gases from natural sources such as melting permafrostand decaying vegetation. | 2_not_human | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/sammy-wilson/ | en | null | null | 4,541 |
Public unease about safety and problems with costs, liability, and permanent storage do not make a flourishing nuclear industry impossible, but they do demonstrate the enormous influence that mistaken public risk perception can have on government policy and reveal the consistently inept bureaucratic handling of the challenge so far, | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/vaclav-smil/ | en | null | null | 4,542 |
We don’t dispute that climate changes, we dispute that we are on the verge of a climate catastrophy [sic]. | 3_not_bad | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/guido-fawkes/ | en | null | null | 4,543 |
Abortion rights advocates have criticized crisis pregnancy centers for showing women graphic simulations of abortions, providing medical misinformation, and opening offices near abortion providers in the hopes that women will confuse the two, | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/ken-cuccinelli/ | en | null | null | 4,545 |
During business hours today, 4,500 innocent American children will be killed. It is a holocaust that has been repeated every day for 32 years, since 1973’s Roe v. Wade. Nearly 45 million babies have been sacrificed in the name of ‘personal choice’, | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/mike-johnson/ | en | null | null | 4,546 |
I have found it necessary to go around the country pointing out that claims about green jobs are all phony. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/david-tuerck/ | en | null | null | 4,547 |
Addressing these and the other long-term issues we face will require that we do a better job of convincing others — Politicians and the public alike — of the merits of our case. To do that, we’ll need to draw on a third ‘C’ — cooperation. In dealing with important issues in the past, we’ve been most effective when we’ve kept a clear focus on our common interest. The coalition we formed to defeat with Btu tax is an excellent example. On that issue, we brought together various groups within the industry. We mobilized our employes. We gained the support of small business. We worked with other trade groups and associations. And we even picked up the support of a wide range of energy consumers. In the end, we all came together and cooperated to defeat an ill-conceived and onerous proposal. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/lee-raymond/ | en | null | null | 4,548 |
Scientists are still debating the dynamics and dangers of global warming. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/statistical-assessment-service/ | en | null | null | 4,549 |
The Liberal government is politically devoted to its climate change agenda, even though current plans will have little impact on the global carbon footnote [sic] and will get little notice outside of Canada. Even Greta Thunberg will not be overly impressed, | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/macdonald-laurier-institute/ | en | null | null | 4,551 |
The previous predictions about the horrendous warming the people expected has not come to pass… . so it’s just pure garbage. There’s no reason to believe any of it. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/howard-hayden/ | en | null | null | 4,552 |
It is still poorly understood, but our data show a correlation between solar activity and periods with warmer winters in the northern hemisphere. This correlation was confirmed by core samples taken place in the North Atlantic and Greenland. | 2_not_human | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/augusto-mangini/ | en | null | null | 4,555 |
Even in the Senate, I’d put up any of the stories we did against any pablum Time or Newsweek has put out on global warming. We’d link to the other side; we’d present their arguments. They do one-sided screeds. | 6_proponents_biased | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/marc-morano/ | en | null | null | 4,556 |
Calling this injection a ‘vaccine’ is like saying ‘clean energy’ or ‘wind farm’ — which are deceptive and inaccurate marketing (political science) terms,” the report claimed. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/john-droz/ | en | null | null | 4,557 |
As with Three Mile Island, the hysteria of the media and the political class over the Deepwater spill is likely to lead to increased risk and adverse environmental tradeoffs. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/steven-f-hayward/ | en | null | null | 4,558 |
We should take Russia’s invasion of Ukraine as a wake-up call. Standing up for Western civilization this time requires cheap, abundant, and reliable energy supplies produced at home or in allied nations. | 7_fossil_fuels_needed | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/michael-shellenberger/ | en | null | null | 4,559 |
We need to support everything that the Trump administration is doing that’s moving toward less regulation and more freedom, and we need to oppose them when they start going bad and the swamp starts taking over. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/myron-ebell/ | en | null | null | 4,560 |
In the field of energy, as in every other field, that government is best which governs least. I advocate the abolition of the Department of Energy — whose annual budget is greater than the after-tax profits of all the major oil companies combined — and an immediate end to energy subsidies, price controls, and all government allocation programs. If we ended price controls and allocation programs, allowing prices to reflect real conditions of scarcity in the world today, there would be no shortages of oil and gas, and individuals would be free to conserve energy in way that they — not the authoritarian government — find agreeable. For decades now, government involvement in energy has lead [sic] to a steady, progressive worsening of our energy problems. Only a sharp move away from government domination and towards a truly free market in energy can solve our energy crisis — a crisis made in Washington. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/ed-clark/ | en | null | null | 4,561 |
The government’s suppression of North Sea exploration and failure to develop the UK’s enormous shale gas wealth has been incentivising Putin’s energy wars and has become a major disaster for national security. | 7_fossil_fuels_needed | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/benny-peiser/ | en | null | null | 4,562 |
There are clear grounds for very serious concern. We therefore call upon the Secretary of State for Education and his counterparts in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland to undertake urgent inquiries into climate change education in our schools. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/andrew-montford/ | en | null | null | 4,564 |
Making this planet greener and cleaner is a goal shared by people across the political spectrum. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/institute-economic-affairs/ | en | null | null | 4,565 |
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,” Johnson wrote. Whatever is happening to the weather at the moment, he said, it is nothing to do with the conventional doctrine of climate change. | 2_not_human | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/boris-johnson/ | en | null | null | 4,566 |
We were not asked to assess the reality of global warming and indeed this is not an area of our expertise. We do not assume any position with respect to global warming except to note in our report that the instrumented record of global average temperature has risen since 1850 according to the MBH 99 chart by about 1.2º centigrade. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/edward-wegman/ | en | null | null | 4,567 |
Obama’s carbon regulation is a national energy tax that will burden Michiganders, especially the poor, with higher energy prices and fewer jobs, yet will have no impact on climate change. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/thomas-pyle/ | en | null | null | 4,569 |
The reality is that even after two decades of climate talks, we get a meagre 0.5% of our total global energy consumption from solar and wind energy, according to the leading authority, the International Energy Agency (). And 25 years from now, even with a very optimistic scenario, envisioning everyone doing all that they promise in Paris, the expects that we will get just 2.4 per cent from solar and wind. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/bjorn-lomborg/ | en | null | null | 4,570 |
Mr Hammond is right to highlight the cost – and in fact, he is likely to be underestimating the real price tag. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/bjorn-lomborg/ | en | null | null | 4,571 |
Exposure to small amounts of a toxic substance is often benign because the human body has a natural ability to repair itself. […] The fact that smoking in moderation has few, if any, adverse health effects has astounding importance in the tobacco debate. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/joseph-bast/ | en | null | null | 4,572 |
Climate change is one of the hottest topics, literally, in state and national public policy. Alarmism over human-induced climate change is one of many examples of the extreme environmental movement. Because astonishing news sells, media coverage on climate change is focused entirely on exaggerated claims of future catastrophe caused by carbon dioxide emitted from human activities. Unfortunately, misleading media reporting is making it difficult for citizens to discern fact from fiction. …] The truth is that the science of climate change is far from settled and there exists no consensus on the causes, effects, or future of climate change. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/cascade-policy-institute/ | en | null | null | 4,573 |
CO2 is said to be responsible for global warming that is not occurring, for accelerated sea-level rise that is not occurring, for net glacial and sea ice melt that is not occurring […] and for increasing extreme weather that is not occurring. | 1_not_happening | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/cascade-policy-institute/ | en | null | null | 4,574 |
The Cooch has been keeping an eye on your vagina, so now we’re going to keep an eye on him, | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/ken-cuccinelli/ | en | null | null | 4,576 |
I believe that our [man-made] contribution [to climate change] may be far less than has been postulated. Our measurement network has been compromised—not intentionally, but accidentally and through carelessness, | 2_not_human | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/anthony-watts/ | en | null | null | 4,577 |
Understanding the strengths and limits of predictions is important because our sense of certainty about events in the future influences the actions we take today,” Pielke Jr. and Sarewitz write. “For example, predictions of global warming have focused international environmental efforts on reducing greenhouse gas emissions. But future economic trends, geopolitical events, and technological advances — three variables that defy predictive accuracy — will have a much greater impact on emissions than any conceivable international agreements. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/roger-pielke-jr/ | en | null | null | 4,578 |
So, to sum up: (1) estimates of climate sensitivity suggest that global warming is likely to be milder than even the lowest forecast made by the Interagency Working Group; (2) humanity’s ability to adapt to climate change will almost certainly be greater than even the most optimistic forecasts of the Interagency Working Group; (3) while there will undoubtedly be losers from global warming, there will also be winners and it is quite possible that additional carbon dioxide emissions will generate net benefits for humanity, at least until the end of this century. | 3_not_bad | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/reason-foundation/ | en | null | null | 4,579 |
There are Medical Establishment insiders who claim that the actual data indicates that the COVID-19 bio-chemical injection has caused significant problems — e.g., 50,000± US deaths and here. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/john-droz/ | en | null | null | 4,580 |
An Inconvenient Truth is basically a lawyer’s brief for a political agenda. It’s completely one-sided. Gore only mentioned or cites studies that support his point of view, then he exaggerates in many cases the evidence that he presents, ” Lewis said. “He is presenting global warming as a planetary emergency […] and that is simply not based on science. | 6_proponents_biased | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/marlo-lewis-jr/ | en | null | null | 4,581 |
Mr. Trudeau is the incarnation of King Herod, and like King Herod, Trudeau also serves a Caesar. At the WEF, G7, G20, and other global meetings, Malthusian powers unite all other powers for a sinister purpose […] | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/alberta-prosperity-project/ | en | null | null | 4,582 |
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,” Loris wrote at The Daily Signal. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/nicolas-loris/ | en | null | null | 4,583 |
The global warming doomsday writers claim the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets are melting catastrophically, and will cause a sudden rise in sea level of 5 or more metres. This ignores the mechanism of glacier flow which is by creep. | 1_not_happening | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/cliff-ollier/ | en | null | null | 4,584 |
Yes, Sweden’s death rate per 1 million is higher than its Scandinavian neighbors, Norway and Denmark, which did lock down their economic life. But as of the latest report, in the past two days, Sweden, which has almost exactly the same number of people as Denmark and Norway combined, lost 20 of its citizens to the coronavirus, while its neighbors lost 18. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/dennis-prager/ | en | null | null | 4,585 |
And many people have been led to believe that the so-called separation clause is actually part of the United States Constitution. And they cite it all the time to suggest that religion shouldn’t have any influence at all over our decisions in the legislatures and the public squares, etc. But that look, that’s not right at all. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/mike-johnson/ | en | null | null | 4,586 |
The developing countries must not allow their domestic energy policies be dictated by carbon imperialists from the West, especially those from the Biden administration…to ask India to forgo fossil fuels is suicidal. | 7_fossil_fuels_needed | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/vijay-jayaraj/ | en | null | null | 4,587 |
A transition to sustainable energy is required as a climate measure and to end the use of fossil fuels. During this transition, we will not phase out fossil energy sources as long as there are no affordable sustainable alternatives. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/boerburgerbeweging-bbb/ | en | null | null | 4,588 |
Yeah, I say that a lot of what is done by the climate lobby is anti-science. But there is some science behind it. Like, there are greenhouse gases, and they do contribute to warming. But if you look at the last, say, 160 years, the first 80 of that period, they went up four-tenths of a degree. And now, the second 80 that CO2 has gone up, what, 30 percent or something, it’s gone up five-tenths of a degree. And there’s been in the last 30 or 40 years, there’s been no real increase in storms or bad weather. So, let’s use the part that’s real science and then apply the Republic of Science to the rest of it. | 1_not_happening | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/charles-koch/ | en | null | null | 4,589 |
As someone who has taught college-level (Advanced Placement) environmental science for nine years, served on the Board for the Georgia Science Teachers Association, and has inspired dozens of my students to pursue scientific careers,” she wrote, “I do not take the condition of our planet, the tremendous importance of science education, or the accuracy of the information I purvey in my classroom lightly. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/heartland-institute/ | en | null | null | 4,590 |
Whilst the business case for government support for learning and innovation in a range of promising low carbon energy technologies is clear, | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/andrea-leadsom/ | en | null | null | 4,591 |
The Competitive Economy Foundation is a non-profit organization that works to build within the business community a deeper understanding of the economic, moral and political aspects of a free, competitive economy. Foundation activities include seminars, research and coalition development; our procedure clarifies the fundamentals of economic freedom and links these theories to practical yet innovative answers to vital business problems CEF challenges its business audience-executives, students, journalists, end policy-makers—with strategic alternatives based on market rather than political or special interest forces. The Competitive Economy Foundation contests those who use government power to escape the rigors of competition by reaffirming the sovereignty of consumer demand in the marketplace. The Competitive Economy Foundation, chartered In 1981, is an exempt organization under Federal Rule 501(c)(3) . As such, all donations to CEF are tax deductible. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/council-competitive-economy/ | en | null | null | 4,592 |
The Green New Deal is not a serious proposal. It reads like Karl Marx’s Christmas list and is a Soviet-style central planning document calling for a government takeover of the agriculture, transportation, housing and health care sectors. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/mandy-gunasekara/ | en | null | null | 4,594 |
Advocates of so-called ‘green power’ are comically utopian in their belief that America’s economy can be fueled almost entirely by wind, solar, and biomass. | 7_fossil_fuels_needed | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/mike-catanzaro/ | en | null | null | 4,595 |
From the oceans via the surface and the upper atmosphere to outer space, real-world measurements prove beyond reasonable doubt that there was not, is not, and will not be any ‘climate crisis’. All of the results we publish here are of direct relevance to the debate about ‘global warming’. Yet none of these results will likely be published in any mainstream news medium. The facts are not fitting the theory nor backing the scare, so the media simply suppress them. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/science-and-public-policy-institute/ | en | null | null | 4,596 |
A close examination of the Free Market Institute’s funding shows how often such funding comes with strings attached,” The Texas Observer wrote in 2016. “In a 2013 grant application for $1.7 million from the John Templeton Foundation, a philanthropic organization that advocates reconciling religion and science, Powell suggested that the institute staff could monitor how students changed their views as a result of their teachings. The funding, he wrote, would also further the foundation’s mission — to build a ‘freer and more prosperous society’ — and change the way “supporters of private enterprise and free markets agitate for more freedom.' | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/american-institute-economic-research/ | en | null | null | 4,598 |