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On its website, the group argues that climate policy is a ‘pretense’ for leaders to ‘control the economy and the population’ and to “burden people with taxes,” Spiegel ads. “It tries to stir up hatred against the ‘Friday for Future’ demonstrations and against Greta Thunberg, who some EIKE members refer to as ‘Greta Tuna’ or that ‘climate protection hussy.’ As far as institutes go, this one only seems to churn out unsophisticated propaganda. | 6_proponents_biased | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/european-institute-climate-and-energy/ | en | null | null | 4,599 |
The truth is that climate change research is still in its infancy, and that consensus extends only to issues of little relevance to policy. Climate change is poorly understood, and industrial emissions of greenhouse gases may be a small, even negligible, factor. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/lavoisier-group/ | en | null | null | 4,600 |
The Green New Deal wouldn’t affect global emissions. The UN Paris agreement would not even affect emissions. Assuming all the countries adopted it, there would be an imperceptible temperature difference It’s all virtue signaling and essentially restructuring the economy, causing a lot of pain and giving progressives that ideological vision that would do nothing for the climate To answer your question, we should actually promote prosperity, technology, and wealth. […] | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/marc-morano/ | en | null | null | 4,601 |
Based on the paleoclimatic data I and others have collected, it’s obvious that climate is and always has been variable. In fact, the only constant about climate is change; it changes continually. We certainly have no chance of stopping this natural phenomenon. | 2_not_human | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/r-timothy-patterson/ | en | null | null | 4,602 |
I personally—I’m a physicist by training, long ago—accept that doubling the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere will produce a modest warming in the climate, but nothing like the alarmist fears which these scientists have been trying to generate or that lie behind the Copenhagen conference. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/peter-lilley/ | en | null | null | 4,603 |
Manmade global warming is now said to cause more snow and less snow, higher temperatures and lower temperatures, more rain and less rain, more extreme weather events and fewer extreme weather events, increased prosperity and increased poverty—not to mention a global refugee crisis and regional wars. (Because none of these things, of course, ever occurred before people began driving SUVs! | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/vijay-jayaraj/ | en | null | null | 4,605 |
Without a doubt, the warming of the past 100 years has been a welcome respite from a long and deadly Little Ice Age. The possibility that humans may have contributed to the recent warming does not make it any less welcome. | 3_not_bad | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/james-taylor/ | en | null | null | 4,606 |
Anyone who thinks this is how you start a revolution surely needs a truncheon to the head? | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/ben-pile/ | en | null | null | 4,607 |
So, what is the bottom line? If global warming will only reduce the annual growth rate in our standard of living by 0.13% per year, what should we do? The most plausible economic answer is: nothing. Because the cure is worse than the disease and likely to hurt the economy by much more than that Moreover, the ‘cure’ will provide a huge new pot of revenue for the government to spend and dissipate, reducing our standard of living even further If global warming has such a small effect, as described by the experts cited in the , then the only responsible conclusion is that we should do nothing. Wealth creation is the answer to global warming. A society that is 18x (!) wealthier 82 years from now — or even 6x or 3x wealthier — will probably be able to air condition entire cities in domes — just like in a science fiction novel — if the world were 1.4–5.8 degrees warmer then, as predicted by the consensus of global warming scientists Economics and statistics matter. They are embarrassingly absent from the scaremongering “scientific” research and general media articles on global warming today. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/american-institute-economic-research/ | en | null | null | 4,608 |
The currently fashionable claim… [is] that we must eviscerate modern society right now and retreat back to a much lower standard of living as our method of reducing those emissions. For that is what a ‘zero carbon’ society by 2030, or even 2050 is liable to mean in real terms – the guarantee of immediate penury for millions of people. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/tim-worstall/ | en | null | null | 4,609 |
Predictions of the future can be more dangerous than ignorance, if they induce us to behave in ways that reduce our resilience in the face of inevitable uncertainties and contingencies. When predictions are made about events decades or centuries hence, such as the level of the stock market or the conditions of a changing climate, it is simply impossible to verify their accuracy , no matter how impressive the supporting science may be. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/roger-pielke-jr/ | en | null | null | 4,610 |
Aviation is the most efficient form of mass point-to- point transport, accounting for just 2% of EU man-made CO2 emissions. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/michael-o-leary/ | en | null | null | 4,611 |
While these forms of energy face challenges of cost and reliability, over time, additional research and development will bring prices down and deliver more reliable power—ultimately providing more clean energy to Americans. The government must phase out subsidies and reform its policies, which have fallen out of sync with the realities of their supply and the operation of power markets. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/us-chamber-commerce/ | en | null | null | 4,612 |
Do you discriminate against people based on sexual preference?” the director asked Of course not,” Raymond answered Then why don’t you say it? Well, it’s not required by law. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/lee-raymond/ | en | null | null | 4,613 |
World Climate Report is a research review edited by Patrick J. Michaels, Associate Professor of Environmental Sciences at The University of Virginia. Funding for this publication is provided by Western Fuels Association, Inc. with additional funding by associated companies. Western Fuels operates on a not-for-profit basis as a fuel supplier to consumer-owned electric utilities. Direct any correspondence or inquiries to World Climate Report, P.O. Box 455, Ivy, Virginia 22945. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/world-climate-report/ | en | null | null | 4,614 |
Many people have found the extent of adjustments to the data surprising. While we believe that the 20th century warming is real, we are concerned by claims that the actual trend is different from – or less certain than – has been suggested. We hope to perform a valuable public service by getting everything out into the open. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/global-warming-policy-foundation/ | en | null | null | 4,615 |
And humans might have caused a very slight amount of this warming. Very slight. But this warming trend is not going to keep on going. My belief is that three, four years from now, the globe will start to cool again, as it did from the middle ’40s to the middle ’70s’. | 1_not_happening | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/william-gray/ | en | null | null | 4,616 |
Here Prof Murry Salby comes to our rescue. With one deadly piece of precision science he has slain the giant phantom of CACC [Catastrophic Anthropogenic Climate Change]. | 2_not_human | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/philip-foster/ | en | null | null | 4,617 |
The president knows I like where I am,” Perry said. “He knows that we have done a really good job of keeping this agency focused, particularly in those areas he is interested in: selling American, running an agency effectively. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/rick-perry/ | en | null | null | 4,618 |
Considering that future generations will be far better off than current generations even after accounting for climate change, it would be more equitable for today’s industrialized world to help solve the real problems facing today’s poorer developing world than to mitigate climate change now to help reduce the burden on future populations that would not only be wealthier but also technologically superior. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/indur-m-goklany/ | en | null | null | 4,619 |
There is no problem with global warming. It stopped in 1998. The last two years of global cooling have erased nearly thirty years of temperature increase. | 1_not_happening | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/ian-plimer/ | en | null | null | 4,620 |
Climate change is a genuine problem that will eventually be a net detriment to society. Gradually rising temperatures across decades will increase the number of hot days and heat waves. If humans make no attempts whatsoever to adapt—a curious assumption that the report inexplicably relies on almost throughout—the total number of heat-related deaths will rise. But correspondingly, climate change will also reduce the number of cold days and cold spells. That will cut the total number of cold-related deaths. In pushing too hard for the case that global warming is universally bad for everything, the administration’s report undermines the reasonable case for climate action. Focusing on only the bad side of the ledger destroys academic and political credibility. | 3_not_bad | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/bjorn-lomborg/ | en | null | null | 4,621 |
We have taken action to repeal the ‘s so-called ‘Clean Power Plan’ and we have ended, finally, the war on clean, beautiful coal. | 7_fossil_fuels_needed | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/donald-trump/ | en | null | null | 4,622 |
Increased CO2 worldwide with few exceptions means plants grow better, period. […] CO2 is something that plants love […] It’s hardly a pollutant at all. It’s a naturally occurring gas […] | 3_not_bad | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/western-fuels-association/ | en | null | null | 4,623 |
From unnecessary state licensing regimes to expensive Obamacare health insurance mandates and our complicated tax code, government policy is making it increasingly difficult for businesses to get started and, ultimately, to offer people job opportunities. A true pro-woman agenda would start by modernizing these laws and sweeping away unnecessary red tape so that women have more and better job options. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/carrie-l-lukas/ | en | null | null | 4,624 |
Extreme climate policies like Net Zero rest on a series of highly contestable claims. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/together/ | en | null | null | 4,625 |
You’re doing God’s work. Every time you turn your car on, and you burn fossil fuels, and you put CO2 in the air, you’re doing the work of the lord. Absolutely. That’s the system, the ecological system we live in. | 3_not_bad | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/fred-palmer/ | en | null | null | 4,626 |
The choice facing us as a country, then, is rather like that facing a company under a carbon tax: to reduce emissions, so long as it is less costly than the alternative. One implication of that is we should do so in the least costly way possible, namely by taxing carbon. At some point, if we keep piling on unnecessary costs, it will be cheaper to renege. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/andrew-coyne/ | en | null | null | 4,627 |
Today’s action by Pruitt is a wake-up call for those who continue to falsely claim carbon dioxide is a pollutant. It isn’t, so get over it! Carbon dioxide is a colorless, odorless, and tasteless gas that is essential for life on Earth. It will never cause the dangerous global warming that climate alarmists and their failed models predict. Future legal challenges to reverse Pruitt’s action are welcomed, as they will only fail in the end. | 2_not_human | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/craig-idso/ | en | null | null | 4,628 |
I am not a global warming sceptic. I accept that rising human-caused CO2 from fossil sources could ‘change the climate’. The basic physics is there to support this view. But where is the evidence that the putative change would be large or damaging? | 3_not_bad | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/chris-de-freitas/ | en | null | null | 4,629 |
This warming is directly linked to human activity. Most of the observed increase in global average temperatures since the mid-20th century is very likely due to the observed increase in greenhouse gas concentrations. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/mike-pence/ | en | null | null | 4,630 |
The information that I have so far reviewed leaves it unclear whether the glass is half empty or half full. On the one hand, I think that there is good reason to believe that the threat from global warming is overstated, which would be welcome news if true. On the other hand, if it is not overstated, I have sought to explain what I believe to be the major shortfalls of all current and proposed solutions. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/richard-epstein/ | en | null | null | 4,633 |
In other words, just as economists cannot tell us how to abolish boom and bust, so scientists do not yet know how to fix the climate — or even if it’s broken. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/dominic-lawson/ | en | null | null | 4,634 |
I think he’s also said, and we believe, that humans have a part in that. I think what the real question is […] what are we going to do about it? | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/koch-industries-inc/ | en | null | null | 4,635 |
People don’t drive climate; it’s the Sun. Instead of manning the barricades in defence of an implausible hypothesis, humanity would be better served if the Society were to lead an open-minded search for improved understanding of our ever-varying climate. | 2_not_human | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/bob-foster/ | en | null | null | 4,636 |
My past statements made over five years ago about abolishing the Department of Energy do not reflect my current thinking,” Perry said during his confirmation hearing. “In fact, after being briefed on so many of the vital functions of the Department of Energy, I regret recommending its elimination. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/rick-perry/ | en | null | null | 4,637 |
As far as I am concerned man-made global warming is nothing more than a hypothesis that hasn’t got any basis in fact. | 2_not_human | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/godfrey-bloom/ | en | null | null | 4,638 |
More and more people are realising that green taxes have nothing to do with being green. They’re just an excuse to tax us more. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/philip-davies/ | en | null | null | 4,640 |
If you are opposed to the continued use of fossil fuels in the world, then you are not in the position to embrace the modern-day renaissance of oil and natural gas in America,” Hamm wrote at his now-defunct website.2 Since President Obama’s election three and a half years ago, he and his administration have done everything in their power to stop fossil fuel usage, including a carbon tax, increased federal regulations, delays in federal permitting, infrastructure permitting denials for the Keystone XL Pipeline, capital starvation for drilling by the elimination of intangible drilling costs, and depletion allowance. […] At the same time, there are billions of dollars in subsidies being given to solar, wind and all other alternative sources of energy. […] The Keystone XL Pipeline and others need approval now, not continued delays. Producers need regulatory stability, not threats and lawsuits by the Department of Justice, nor increased regulations from all governmental agencies. | 7_fossil_fuels_needed | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/harold-hamm/ | en | null | null | 4,641 |
But don’t be too frightened: the same governments who authorize the UN reports never take the steps needed to reduce the supposedly horrifying carbon dioxide level. Hidden behind their teeth-chattering fear of fossil fuels is their awareness that oil, gas, and coal have helped bring dramatic improvements in health, welfare, and life expectancy, and that alternative methods of generating power are currently available only at unacceptable economic (and hence political) cost. | 7_fossil_fuels_needed | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/caleb-rossiter/ | en | null | null | 4,642 |
I believe that the movement against asbestos was led by the mob, because it was often mob-related companies that would do the asbestos removal. Great pressure was put on politicians, and as usual, the politicians relented. Millions of truckloads of this incredible fire-proofing material were taken to special ‘dump sites’ and asbestos was replaced by materials that were supposedly safe but couldn’t hold a candle to asbestos in limiting the ravages of fire. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/donald-trump/ | en | null | null | 4,643 |
The notion that wind and solar power are becoming cheaper than sources like coal and nuclear is patently false, | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/travis-fisher/ | en | null | null | 4,644 |
Current climate policies pointlessly and grievously undermine the economic system, putting lives at risk in countries denied access to affordable, reliable electrical energy e urge you to follow a climate policy based on sound science, realistic economics and genuine concern for those harmed by costly but unnecessary attempts at mitigation. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/reynald-du-berger/ | en | null | null | 4,645 |
Local, state and federal governments should take action to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/mike-pence/ | en | null | null | 4,646 |
There is good news as good science drives out bad. The discrepancy between model-predicted warming and (lower) real-world observations has inspired new respect for natural climate variability relative to greenhouse-gas forcing. […] The real news is good news in contradiction to doom-and-gloom. It is time for energy and climate planners to lay down their government arms. Let consumers and taxpayers be. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/robert-l-bradley-jr/ | en | null | null | 4,647 |
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From what we’ve seen, global warming theory is definitely lacking in this regard. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/roy-spencer/ | en | null | null | 4,649 |
What I find that is far too prevalent among climate scientists is that if they don’t persuade somebody of something, they blame the audience, not the presentation. I think part of that is being in the university environment where people are important in their departments – they’re mostly dealing with graduate students (and) sympathetic audiences, by and large, or audiences that criticize them differently than in a business organizations. | 6_proponents_biased | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/steve-mcintyre/ | en | null | null | 4,650 |
This is inevitably what happens when democratic governments with socialist programs mature,” Mathis claimed in the video. The protestors could see right through Macron’s carbon tax on motor fuel as just an excuse to raise money while claiming he was doing something noble about climate change. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/clear-energy-alliance/ | en | null | null | 4,651 |
If there were no in the atmosphere there would be no life on this planet. Surely that should be enough to permit questioning the certainty of those who demonize this key molecule, | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/patrick-moore/ | en | null | null | 4,652 |
Committee changes happen at the start of every session as we look at how to incorporate the abilities and interests of new and returning members. There are 80 Assemblymembers and only 32 standing committees so not everyone’s preferences can be accommodated. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/melissa-melendez/ | en | null | null | 4,653 |
In short, rising population and expanding industry and agriculture were greater causes of Syrian conflict than climate change—not to mention centuries-old religio-political conflicts, which dwarf them as causes of Syria’s civil war, the rise of , and the refugee crisis. And that was but one among many reasons for Brexit. | 6_proponents_biased | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/calvin-beisner/ | en | null | null | 4,654 |
Which parts of the world are leading the way on energy production and global-warming policy? Clearly the United States. Through technological innovation and private-sector investment, the US is threatening the energy dominance of OPEC and Russia, with all the associated positive geo-political implications. Along with the increased production comes job and economic growth; the oil and natural gas industry is responsible for one out of every five new private-sector jobs and contributes $1.1 trillion to U.S. GDP annually We’re also leading on global warming policy. Because of abundant natural gas, the United States has increased natural gas electricity generation which has enabled us to reduce our greenhouse gas emissions to 1992 levels. No other industrialized countries have come close to meeting Kyoto-style GHG reductions targets, and we did it through thousands of market decisions, not top-down federal government fiat That free-market approach has enabled the US to avoid the mistakes of Europe, where misguided “green” energy policies have caused more harm than good by saddling consumers and industry with high energy costs without delivering real environmental benefits. For example, Germany is actually increasing GHG emissions while, as Bjorn Lomborg reports, spending $110 billion for 37 hours of delay in global warming by the end of the century. Clearly that is a bad cost-benefit ratio that is harming German consumers and making its industry considerably less competitive Luckily, America’s adversarial democracy enabled us to avoid making the same mistakes as Europe and other countries by avoiding signing onto the Kyoto treaty and adopting similar big government policies such as cap-and-trade. There are those on this blog who will lament that we’re falling behind other countries by not adopting more government imposed “investment” strategies in green energy. How many more Solyndras do we need before we convince everyone that that type of government policy is also misguided? There are plenty of examples overseas as well. Spain and Germany again come to mind, where taxpayer money has been wasted on non-sustainable subsidies to energy sources that can’t compete in the market, saddling consumers with high-priced energy and taxpayers with debt. We’re lucky that we have a strong democracy with a solid free-market tradition that has enabled us to avoid those same command-and-control policies that continue to fail. Other countries should follow. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/western-energy-alliance/ | en | null | null | 4,655 |
I get it, you disagree with me on climate change. This is one of those things we’re going to have to agree to disagree on, and people of good conscience and right mind can disagree. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/mike-johnson/ | en | null | null | 4,656 |
Sure, they’ll probably try to confuse us with trick questions: Like why, apart from natural 1998 and 2015 El Nino spikes, satellites haven’t recorded any statistically significant global warming for nearly two decades; why sea levels have been rising at a constant rate of 7 inches per century without acceleration; and why no category 3-5 hurricanes have struck the U.S. coast since October 2005 — a record lull since 1900 But don’t trust your lyin’ eyes; continue to be assured that the science is settled. Global warming is an imminent threat, we’re causing it, and ExxonMobil, the evil profiteering culprit, should have told us nstead, they callously continued to produce oil and gas without informing investors and the public of dire climate change consequences. | 1_not_happening | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/larry-bell/ | en | null | null | 4,657 |
One is that however strong the scientific case may have appeared at one time for alarm about global warming, there’s really nothing to it. | 1_not_happening | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/marlo-lewis-jr/ | en | null | null | 4,658 |
The erratic and highly variable nature of wind power has been found to increase rather than decrease emissions of pollutants regulated under the Clean Air Act. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/tom-tanton/ | en | null | null | 4,659 |
Not only do they assiduously promote the [non-existent] climate change ‘problem’ but they also shill on behalf of the extremely damaging solution: renewables (or ‘clean’ energy as they’ve laughably redesignated it). | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/james-delingpole/ | en | null | null | 4,660 |
Human activity that emits carbon dioxide,” he wrote, “will make the world warmer than it otherwise would be. That observation by itself does not mean there is a crisis nor does it justify a large carbon tax. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/robert-p-murphy/ | en | null | null | 4,661 |
My first heresy says that all the fuss about global warming is grossly exaggerated. Here I am opposing the holy brotherhood of climate model experts and the crowd of deluded citizens who believe the numbers predicted by the computer models. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/freeman-dyson/ | en | null | null | 4,662 |
We go one to three kilometers deep. The highly mineralized groundwater there will never be used as drinking water. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/klaus-angerer/ | en | null | null | 4,663 |
That is this climate change agenda that is shackling this country like a set of handcuffs. I said it at the first debate, and I stand by it. The climate change agenda is a hoax because it has nothing to do with the climate… If you thought COVID was bad, what’s coming with this climate agenda is far worse. We should not be bending the knee to this new religion. That is what it is. It is a substitute for a modern religion. We are flogging ourselves and losing our modern way of life bowing to this new god of climate, and that will end on my watch. | 1_not_happening | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/vivek-ramaswamy/ | en | null | null | 4,664 |
As far as this issue on climate change — the only thing he [Trump] was saying after being asked a few questions about it is, look, he’ll have an open mind about it but he has his default position, which most of it is a bunch of bunk, but he’ll have an open mind and listen to people. | 1_not_happening | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/donald-trump/ | en | null | null | 4,665 |
J: “How do you respond to critics who say you’re being influenced by Koch Industries, given its owners’ contributions to your campaign? OMPEO: “What do you think? I’d say [I’ve been] a small-government guy for an awful long time, and I’ll be a small-government guy when the good Lord calls me home. Koch Industries is an amazing business that has succeeded by building a product that customers love dearly. The folks who run Koch are very clear. They would love to have government just get out of the way and allow companies to compete, whether in their particular sectors or other sectors. They are true believers in small government. | 6_proponents_biased | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/mike-pompeo/ | en | null | null | 4,666 |
At my son’s little league game in Phoenix and freezing my tail off. Global warming? I think not. | 1_not_happening | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/sean-noble/ | en | null | null | 4,667 |
In short, Gov. Palin does an excellent job of embodying the zeitgeist and symbolizing the change we really want – a grounded real person (think Cincinnatus), who understands politics but isn’t about making a career of it, a doer not just a talker, who has high principle, a positive vision, and embodies our best selves. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/heather-r-higgins/ | en | null | null | 4,668 |
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 | 4,669 |
The science of how the world’s climate works is very weak. The models used by the UN to predict changes have enormous gaps of knowledge. There is also very vigorous debate among scientists about whether or not levels of carbon dioxide cause global warming or are caused by it. In other words, we do not know if human generated carbon dioxide is significant or not. Many of us just want to think it is. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/australian-apec-study-centre/ | en | null | null | 4,670 |
On the long road to complete decarbonization natural gas remains –when properly produced, transported and distributed– the least carbon-intensive fuel and this advantage is strengthened by its high conversion efficiencies, | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/vaclav-smil/ | en | null | null | 4,671 |
We oppose any carbon tax,” the pledge reads. “We oppose a carbon tax because it would lead to less income and fewer jobs for American families. t concludes: “We support the House Concurrent Resolution in opposition to a job-killing carbon tax and urge members to vote for this resolution. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/independent-womens-voice/ | en | null | null | 4,672 |
Richard Lindzen, who’s , arguably the best authority in these circles, has said that all these things that they’re saying about the temperatures, these things, are not, are not accurate. The science is not real. And I think that the problem is that, you know, the scientists that are out there really concerned about doing the right thing are not being heard. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/james-inhofe/ | en | null | null | 4,673 |
The most serious problem with catastrophic global warming is– it may not be true.” “If the earth is getting warmer, why is Minneapolis getting colder?’ Who told you the earth was warming… Chicken Little?’ Some say the earth is warming. Some also said the earth was flat. | 1_not_happening | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/western-fuels-association/ | en | null | null | 4,674 |
As societies become wealthier, things inevitably happen regarding the environment: Emissions become reduced; rivers, oceans and streams become cleaner, and better land management allows for re-forestation. It is economic growth that should be our focus. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/austrian-economics-center/ | en | null | null | 4,675 |
As a parting thought, consider just what is ‘sexual orientation.’ Desire for sex with your dog? Your sister? A child? Dead body? Roller coasters coff if you like, but wait and see. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/william-briggs/ | en | null | null | 4,677 |
The e-mails do not disprove that the world has been warming, or that fossil fuels have something to do with it – but they do cast doubt on whether the current warming is in any way unusual, | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/iain-murray/ | en | null | null | 4,680 |
Interpreting the MBTA [Migratory Bird Treaty Act] to apply to incidental or accidental actions hangs the sword of Damocles over a host of otherwise lawful and productive actions, threatening up to six months in jail and a $15,000 penalty for each and every bird injured or killed, | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/daniel-jorjani/ | en | null | null | 4,681 |
The fossil fuel divestment movement is turning institutions of higher learning, along with their professors and students, into tools of political advocacy, | 6_proponents_biased | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/rachelle-peterson/ | en | null | null | 4,682 |
I think we should focus on adaptation and mastery of any change in the climate though technological advances powered by fossil fuels and other forms of energy. | 7_fossil_fuels_needed | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/vivek-ramaswamy/ | en | null | null | 4,685 |
The GCC believes that the preponderance of the evidence indicates that most, if not all, of the observed warming is part of a natural warming trend which began approximately 400 years ago. If there is an anthropogenic component to this observed warming, the GCC believes that it must be very small and must be superimposed on a much larger natural warming trend. | 2_not_human | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/global-climate-coalition/ | en | null | null | 4,687 |
I believe there is a human element to global warming and there is scientific consensus on that. There is no scientific consensus on how much human activity causes global warming or climate change. I can tell you that it’s not zero percent and I can tell you it’s not 100 percent I am not in favor of the bill you talked about and will oppose it and vote against it,” he continued. “The reason is that it’s a zero-sum game. What it does is limit carbon emissions and, with that, you’re going to see big jumps at the gas pump, the price of natural gas and the price of electricity. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/jim-sensenbrenner/ | en | null | null | 4,688 |
Who cares about the financial health of big, faceless power companies? We all should. If there aren’t enough traditional power plants to meet peak demand, the lights go out. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/mark-mathis/ | en | null | null | 4,689 |
As to the economic aspects of its work, I hold that the IPCC should not be viewed as a professionally representative and authoritative source; and I have come to feel similar doubts and concerns about aspects other than the economic one. | 6_proponents_biased | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/david-henderson/ | en | null | null | 4,690 |
The founders were concerned that Australia might ratify the Kyoto Protocol without properly understanding either the scientific claims on which it is based, or the economic implications which would follow from the regime of decarbonisation which the Kyoto Protocol requires. The Group seeks to stimulate debate and discussion about the science, the politics and the economics of the Kyoto Protocol, so that even if many other countries ratify it, Australia will make a decision based wholly on our national interest. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/lavoisier-group/ | en | null | null | 4,691 |
We’re 100% coal. More coal. Everywhere. All the time. We don’t have a political allegiance,” he said. “We’re Americans and our political party is coal. | 7_fossil_fuels_needed | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/fred-palmer/ | en | null | null | 4,692 |
Even within the medical profession, there is NOT a consensus on the subject of public masking, | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/jennifer-fielder/ | en | null | null | 4,693 |
I like renewables & efficiency. I know that’s contrary to some of the things that have been written about me, but it’s true, | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/daniel-simmons/ | en | null | null | 4,694 |
Governments must immediately declare that the lockdowns will not be reinstated, | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/manning-foundation-for-democratic-education/ | en | null | null | 4,695 |
The State of the Union speech? Yeesh. The energy and climate stuff was disingenuous and dumb. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/marlo-lewis-jr/ | en | null | null | 4,696 |
Just about everything that they’re telling you is a lie. And anything alarming they’re telling you, everything is a lie. There’s nothing alarming at all happening with the weather or the climate. | 1_not_happening | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/tom-nelson/ | en | null | null | 4,697 |
As a proud resident of Oakton, Virginia, I can tell you that the Democrats have just come in from the District of Columbia and moved into northern Virginia, | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/nancy-pfotenhauer/ | en | null | null | 4,698 |
In reality, climate is constantly changing and will continue to change no matter what we do. | 1_not_happening | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/fred-michel/ | en | null | null | 4,699 |
The academies say that sustainability and resilience are being destroyed by over-consumption and that fossil fuels are to blame, yet almost every indicator of human well-being from life-expectancy to health to standard of living has improved beyond measure largely because of our use of fossil fuels. […]Climate change is a moral and ethical issue, but it is a strange ethical calculus that would justify wiping out the gains we have made in human well-being over the last few centuries at the same time devastating the natural world. The Vatican’s advisors appear to have lost their way. | 7_fossil_fuels_needed | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/global-warming-policy-foundation/ | en | null | null | 4,700 |
Josh Fox! Yeah, he’s saying Moore’s movie should be taken down because it’s ‘riddled with inaccuracies,’” Pyle commented. “‘Gasland,’ oh my gosh, are you kidding me? ‘Gasland’ is full of inaccuracies, outright lies, and they tried to use it to destroy the industry. And they were unable to do it. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/thomas-pyle/ | en | null | null | 4,701 |
He would have been definitely the star speaker at the conference, but then a cancel culture mob, including city officials and frankly, the local left wing media, they whipped up a fake frenzy and the city absolutely disgraced themselves by reneging on their invitation to him. n addition to basic event tickets, Levant also said they were selling an “exclusive VIP wine and cheese reception” as well as a “private dinner with Dr. Moore after the speech. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/patrick-moore/ | en | null | null | 4,702 |
The President should have approved the KXL long ago. The Keystone controversy is completely artificial — a fabrication of green politics. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/marlo-lewis-jr/ | en | null | null | 4,703 |
Banning fracking in California, which would be one of the safest and cleanest operations globally, denies natural gas supplies to the world that could lower natural gas prices. Lower natural gas prices would encourage greater use of natural gas and have positive impacts on emissions (from a global perspective). Though this process is more ‘unseen.’ it shows how California’s own global warming policies unintentionally undermine its own goals. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/pacific-research-institute/ | en | null | null | 4,704 |
In fact, after being briefed on so many of the vital functions of the Department of Energy, I regret recommending its elimination. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/rick-perry/ | en | null | null | 4,705 |
This idea that renewable fuels or alternative energy is the wave of the future is ridiculous, | 7_fossil_fuels_needed | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/marlo-lewis-jr/ | en | null | null | 4,706 |
Trump’s visit is critical to securing a successful trading relationship for the UK after Brexit. He wants to do business with the UK – Does the UK want to do business with the US? #FreeTrade #TrumpUKVisit #specialrelationship. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/sarah-elliott/ | en | null | null | 4,707 |
I don’t know I don’t know whether anyone knows whether the vaccines are causing autism,” Robinson said (see timestamp 10:50). “But with these adjuvants in there, I think the best policy is to vaccinate children if you have to as late as possible. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/art-robinson/ | en | null | null | 4,708 |