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Obamacare’s […] bullying decree that violates the religious conscience of employers by requiring them to provide birth control coverage. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/independent-womens-voice/ | en | null | null | 4,923 |
AFPM is committed to engaging in the discussion and development of sound climate change policies. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/edelman/ | en | null | null | 4,924 |
NASA scientists have a strong conflict of interest in that they expect to see warming, and they the more alarm they create, the more money they obtain. This is why climate scientists have no business touching the temperature data. They have no training in signal processing and they have shown repeatedly that they will alter data to suit their needs. | 6_proponents_biased | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/steven-goddard/ | en | null | null | 4,926 |
Many questions are raised by this partnership. What is the business purpose of Emerdata Limited? And what is the business relationship between Emerdata Directors Julian Wheatland and Alexander Nix who also head up Cambridge Analytica, and Erik Prince’s business partner, Mr. Ko Chun Shun? And, most interestingly, is there any direct connection between Cambridge Analytica and Erik Prince? | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/cambridge-analytica/ | en | null | null | 4,927 |
We can leave a little bit, but you can’t destroy businesses. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/donald-trump/ | en | null | null | 4,929 |
I have grave doubts about the climate-change industry: its shibboleths, its surreal pronouncements, its politically correct determination to stick it to the affluent West. And its lies, cavalier treatment of statistics, arrogance and self-righteousness. Its fatuous obsession with hideous bird-mincing wind farms, its insistence that Armageddon is upon us. | 6_proponents_biased | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/rod-liddle/ | en | null | null | 4,930 |
There is nothing astroturf or fake about my passion for my country, | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/cody-battershill/ | en | null | null | 4,931 |
Oversight hearings that dive into the economics and the impacts of the regulations are needed to explain the negative side to the public and the rank-and-file members of Congress. They need to better understand the regulations before they start trying to pass legislation. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/andrew-wheeler/ | en | null | null | 4,932 |
Global warming is a largely natural phenomenon. The world is wasting stupendous amounts of money on trying to fix something that can’t be fixed. | 2_not_human | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/david-bellamy/ | en | null | null | 4,933 |
We aim to raise public awareness of the issues and encourage informed debate regarding a structured energy policy that is both ecologically sensitive and practical. The issues of climate change and security of energy supply are complex and closely intertwined. REF contributes to the debate surrounding these issues by commissioning reports to provide an independent and authoritative source of information. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/renewable-energy-foundation/ | en | null | null | 4,934 |
A business as usual scenario will give you a warming over the 21st century, which is modest. How modest? Well within the goals set in Copenhagen or in Paris. What I want to emphasize is that it is not really important what the mechanism linking solar activity to climate it is because we see that such a link exists, and that it’s very large.” — See SkepticalScience Myth# There are basically two main arguments that are being used to ‘prove’ that humans are accountable for the global warming and these arguments are wrong. Science is not a democracy. If you have an argument with someone and they tell you, look, 97 percent of the people say that it’s this or that, it doesn’t imply that it’s so. It’s totally irrelevant. You know, 100 percent of the people who could have said the earth is flat, it wouldn’t have implied that they’re right.” — SkepticalScience myth # If you see a polar bear floating on an iceberg somewhere, it doesn’t mean that it has warmed, it doesn’t mean that it has warmed by humans, and it doesn’t even mean that they’re less polar bears. […] It’s just noise around us trying to interfere with the real science. As a result of the ClimateGate emails, We know that this hockey stick is a hockey stitch […] the hockey stick is nothing.” — SkepticalScience myth #1 The main argument of the IPCC is flawed and there is no other argument that can prove that CO2 has a large effect on the temperature.” — SkepticalScience myth #4 There is no fingerprint that proves that CO2 has a large effect on climate. In fact, as I’ll show you, there is the opposite.” — SkepticalScience myth #4 You find that CEO to tends to lag behind the temperature. Okay. I don’t think the effect of CO2 is so large that it can affect the temperature even before it starts increasing. “ — SkepticalScience myth #1 All the models telling you that the temperature will increase by a lot, that the Antarctica will melt, to that penguins s will find themselves—I don’t know where—they’re all based on models which are not taking the sun into account and are therefore highly exaggerated.” — SkepticalScience myth # Future climate change is going to be much more benign. […] There are no arguments, no valid arguments, that necessarily prove that a standard picture is correct. In the IPCC reports, they ignore the large effect that the sun has on climate.“ — SkepticalScience Myth# | 6_proponents_biased | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/nir-shaviv/ | en | null | null | 4,935 |
We oppose a carbon tax because it would lead to less income and fewer jobs for American families. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/independent-womens-voice/ | en | null | null | 4,936 |
Some argue that burning oil, which releases carbon, contributes to climate change. Whether or not this is true, a 2-million-barrels-per-day reduction in American oil use would cut global carbon emissions by only 1 percent. […] People have a right to choose the car that is best for them. Tighter government efficiency standards will do more harm than good. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/bruce-everett/ | en | null | null | 4,937 |
Get serious about the environmental trade-offs that come with clean energy. You cannot support wind farms but hinder the transmission lines needed to bring their power to the markets where they are needed. You cannot support wind farms but sue to block them in places where they might block your view of Nantucket Sound. You cannot support wind farms but support environmental regulations that make mining for rare earths in the United States unprofitable and send the industry to China (where meaningful regulations are effectively nonexistent). And you cannot cheer U.S. reductions in greenhouse gas emissions but oppose the fracking revolution in natural gas that helped bring it about. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/bret-stephens/ | en | null | null | 4,938 |
As a skeptic of man-made global warming, I love our environment as much as anyone. I share the deepest commitment to protecting our planet for our children and grandchildren. However, I desperately want to get politics out of the climate debate. The Paris climate agreement is all about empowering the U.N. and has nothing to do with the climate. | 6_proponents_biased | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/john-coleman/ | en | null | null | 4,939 |
Inconvenient Facts: The Science that Al Gore doesn’t want you to know, | 6_proponents_biased | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/gregory-wrightstone/ | en | null | null | 4,940 |
Though environmental orthodoxy holds that Third World deforestation is caused by rapacious clear-cutters and ruthless cattle barons, penniless peasants seeking fuel wood may be the greatest threat to our forests. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/gregg-easterbrook/ | en | null | null | 4,942 |
Those who question alarmism are not ‘deniers’, as the BBC so insultingly calls them. Rather, it is they, the ‘deniers’, the anti-alarmists, who are heroes and heroines fighting to smash the deeply corrupt alarmist scam, which, on some estimates, is costing taxpayers trillions of dollars a year. | 6_proponents_biased | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/news-watch/ | en | null | null | 4,943 |
The inconvenient truth of the matter is that CO2 is not causing our Earth to get hot, it is not causing glaciers and ice caps to melt, and there is not a radical rise in sea level. | 1_not_happening | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/independent-committee-geoethics/ | en | null | null | 4,944 |
All of this combined with the lack of a warming planet since before rising seniors in high school were born, and it is clear that Mother Nature is making a pretty strong argument against those who insist the science is settled on the global warming debate Yet, President Obama persists on using this shaky science to impose crippling regulatory regimes on the nation. New regulations that are not only economically disastrous as evidenced by the contraction last quarter, but also more importantly, put our nation’s ability to produce enough electricity to meet our growing demand in jeopardy And that would be a global warming disaster – our nation devolved from the most developed in the world to a third world status all due to Obama’s fealty to an economic suicide pact on the green altar of climate change. | 1_not_happening | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/americans-limited-government/ | en | null | null | 4,945 |
Carbon dioxide emissions are not a pollutant, guys, it’s not a pollutant. […] It does not harm the atmosphere. Ultimately if they really are serious about this and really wanted to do it, our liberty and our freedom has to go. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/jim-lakely/ | en | null | null | 4,946 |
And then you add in the media, with people like Leonardo DiCaprio and Laurie David telling kids if you’re a global warming skeptic, you are not cool. I guess they’re afraid the kids will instantly become skeptics if they hear any opposing ideas. | 6_proponents_biased | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/marc-morano/ | en | null | null | 4,947 |
Policy Director Dave Stevenson prefers to focus on energy-related issues and keep away from the overall climate-change debate because it isn’t our main focus, with the exception of stopping the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) and carbon taxes. We are not suggesting alternative energies are bad or that we as humans don’t cause environmental problems we need to resolve. However, given the nature of the attacks and the source it comes from, we feel this should be addressed from our end. If you believe people like Dr. [Willie] Soon are wrong, then prove it with your own data and not just broad assumptions about who your opponents are. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/caesar-rodney-institute/ | en | null | null | 4,948 |
In recent interviews, journalists often start by insisting on the fact that I am ‘close to Claude Allègre‘. This is certainly true and has been for 40 years. It does not mean we think alike on all matters, we both are free and independent scientists. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/vincent-courtillot/ | en | null | null | 4,949 |
It’s not to say that we’re not having an impact on the climate, because I think we are having some impact. But how sensitive is the global atmosphere and temperature to our carbon dioxide and greenhouse gas emissions? I just don’t think they’re necessarily as big a factor as some people say they are. | 2_not_human | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/isaac-orr/ | en | null | null | 4,950 |
A business as usual scenario will give you a warming over the 21st century, which is modest. How modest? Well within the goals set in Copenhagen or in Paris. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/nir-shaviv/ | en | null | null | 4,951 |
In the debates about global warming, a lot of you remember that the IPCC and some of the other advocates of man-made global warming alarmist theories believe that the most dangerous of all greenhouse gases is methane,” Walcher said. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/greg-walcher/ | en | null | null | 4,952 |
Despite what these fringe groups want you to believe, ALEC is not involved in any black helicopter conspiracy. ALEC is in fact a very effective and respected public-private partnership that brings together state legislators, members of the private sector, the federal government, and general public to openly discuss public policy and free-market solutions. It does not hide that its stated mission is to advance “Jeffersonian principles of free markets, limited government, federalism, and individual liberty. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/john-nothdurft/ | en | null | null | 4,953 |
I’m a very small contributor – a four-figure number at the most.” He added that the foundation received “no money from companies whatsoever, nor from anybody anywhere near the energy industry in its broadest sense. The foundation is funded by individuals, foundations and trusts, but their identity is confidential. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/sir-james-spooner/ | en | null | null | 4,954 |
Just to address a topic we didn’t talk about tonight, but I think is one of the most important topics that needs to be discussed, | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/vivek-ramaswamy/ | en | null | null | 4,955 |
Imposing excessive new regulations, or closing coal-fired power plants, would produce few health or environmental benefits. But it would exact huge costs on society – and bring factories, offices and economies to a screeching halt in states that are 80-98% dependent on coal: Indiana, Kentucky, Missouri, North Dakota, Ohio, Utah, West Virginia and Wyoming. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/paul-driessen/ | en | null | null | 4,956 |
Honeywell’s HFO products are roughly ten times as costly as HFCs, | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/arthur-viterito/ | en | null | null | 4,957 |
Gridlock is the greatest friend a global warming skeptic has because that’s all you really want. There’s no legislation we’re championing. We’re the negative force. We’re just trying to stop stuff. | 6_proponents_biased | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/marc-morano/ | en | null | null | 4,958 |
The question is how do we address it in a thoughtful way that doesn’t compromise economic growth, the affordability of energy or American jobs, | 7_fossil_fuels_needed | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/rick-perry/ | en | null | null | 4,959 |
I have two problems with that 97 percent claim, 1) common sense tells us that no large group of people on our planet could ever reach 97 percent agreement on anything, even the world being round, and 2) shockingly, none of the scientists of the 97 seem to have a name, it’s just a holistic group of no-names! | 6_proponents_biased | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/ronald-stein/ | en | null | null | 4,960 |
The final version of President Obama’s ‘Clean Power Plan’ is somehow more harmful than the proposed rule. It forces states to make even steeper cuts, it guts natural gas in favor of costly renewables, and it still has no effect on climate change. While the touts these adjustments to the rule as a sign of ‘flexibility’, it’s really an admission that Obama needs states to do his dirty work. But state leaders shouldn’t give in to the administration’s bribery schemes. Regardless of these cosmetic changes to the rule, the fundamental flaws remain t’s important to remember that President Obama’s carbon regulation, the crown jewel of his climate legacy, has no impact on climate change. ’s own models show that their carbon rule will limit global temperature rise by a mere 0.018 degrees Celsius by 2100. That’s a bad deal for the American people. State leaders should protect their citizens from Obama’s costly carbon rule by refusing to submit a plan. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/american-energy-alliance-aea/ | en | null | null | 4,962 |
In that they claimed that penises caused climate change,” Roberts said in his testimony. “So, the point I’m getting at, is that was published in a social sciences — admitedly — paper, but it has credibility because it’s been peer reviewed. So I’m very concerned about some of the peer-reviewed papers. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/malcolm-roberts/ | en | null | null | 4,963 |
CO2 levels have been much higher than currently over the millennia. The Global Warming crowd has an agenda and the core of that is to reduce the population. They remain influenced by the Malthus theory and have been hell-bent on stopping population growth Over the past 100 million years, we have been in a decline in CO2 level dropping from 500 ppm to 200 ppm with an average of about 300 ppm. They refuse to address any of the historical evidence no less the cycle of life itself Humans exhale typically consists of 40,000 ppm to even 50,000 ppm of CO2. Should we be fined or extinguished because we are a major contributor to COs levels? Those who are demonizing CO2 as a ‘pollutant’ fail to explain that in a room filled with people CO2 levels can commonly reach 2000 ppm with no apparent ill effects. | 2_not_human | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/martin-armstrong/ | en | null | null | 4,964 |
The fact is that the global temperature of 2007 is statistically the same as 2006 as well as every year since 2001,” Whitehouse writes. “Global warming has, temporarily or permanently, ceased. Temperatures across the world are not increasing as they should according to the fundamental theory behind global warming – the greenhouse effect. Something else is happening and it is vital that we find out what or else we may spend hundreds of billions of pounds needlessly. | 1_not_happening | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/david-whitehouse/ | en | null | null | 4,965 |
Do you stand by your statement that carbon dioxide, greenhouse gases, are not dangerous at all to our environment? | 2_not_human | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/kathleen-hartnett-white/ | en | null | null | 4,966 |
Once filed at , ‘Saving Coal’ will engage virtually at the state level with regulators directly and through to educate on the benefits of to the biosphere and the human environment. At the same time Craig will develop additional, original research showing the truth of which will be distributed as generated to the regulators. By doing so, coal suppliers can then engage directly with the regulators with challenges to the announced closures; rep-opening previous announcements where the plants are still operating is not out of the question. | 7_fossil_fuels_needed | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/american-coalition-clean-coal-electricity/ | en | null | null | 4,967 |
I do not know of a single TV meteorologist who buys into the man-made global warming hype. I know there must be a few out there, but I can’t find them. | 6_proponents_biased | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/james-spann/ | en | null | null | 4,968 |
To prevent any more attempts to regulate carbon nationally, Congress must reform and amend the Clean Air Act to foreclose the possibility of carbon emissions regulations. Otherwise, it’s just a matter of time and an election cycle or two and the War on Coal will begin again — with the Green New Deal not too far behind. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/americans-limited-government/ | en | null | null | 4,969 |
Cop28 is committed to building on the progress made at Cop26 and Cop27 to inject a business mindset, concrete KPIs [key performance indicators, a cornerstone of most commercial strategies] and an ambitious action-oriented agenda, | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/sultan-ahmed-al-jaber/ | en | null | null | 4,970 |
The science is not ‘settled.’ The debate is not over. The climate is always changing. It always has. And it always will. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/dan-wilks/ | en | null | null | 4,971 |
It’s been changing, as others pointed out, it’s been changing for millennia. | 2_not_human | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/jd-vance/ | en | null | null | 4,972 |
The next economic boom is right under our feet. Our own oil resources alone are vast enough to meet the next 300 years of energy demand at today’s levels, | 7_fossil_fuels_needed | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/rick-perry/ | en | null | null | 4,973 |
Reframing the climate problem could mobilize this constituency [those subject to the effects of the weather] and revitalize the Framework Convention. The revitalization could concentrate on coordinating disaster relief, debt relief, and development assistance, and on generating and providing information on climate that participating countries could use in order to reduce the vulnerability. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/roger-pielke-jr/ | en | null | null | 4,975 |
The more we replace LNG for the types of coal burned in China, with net-zero LNG produced in Canada, we think we can. And we want to partner with you to make this happen. | 7_fossil_fuels_needed | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/first-nations-lng-alliance/ | en | null | null | 4,976 |
We operate at the heart of the energy transition, consulting clients to ensure they have a licence to operate, | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/burson/ | en | null | null | 4,977 |
I don’t know who is going to invest in a new coal fired power plant, but we’re leveling the playing field to allow that investment to occur. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/andrew-wheeler/ | en | null | null | 4,978 |
George Monbiot said in 2002 that Britain would suffer a ‘famine’ within 10 years. Al Gore warned in 2008 of an ‘ice-free’ Arctic by 2013. Prince Charles said we had ‘eight years to save the planet’ — in 2009. Why do we still listen to these soothsayers? | 6_proponents_biased | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/toby-young/ | en | null | null | 4,979 |
On the one hand, it warns that the UK is being far too slow at building the infrastructure vital for generating low carbon electricity … But the same report also supports a ban on exploring UK waters for new sources of gas and oil, so depriving the UK of that resource too. Put together, these policies mean the UK risks creating its own home-grown energy crisis – and that will hit home around 2028. That’s likely to be when the next government is seeking re-election. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/offshore-energies-uk/ | en | null | null | 4,980 |
The Competitive Enterprise Institute did not cast doubt on the dubious climate science. The actual data cast the doubt. The think tank and others have simply pointed out what the data show, | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/david-kreutzer/ | en | null | null | 4,981 |
Brits will be relieved by these sensible moves to take the heat off household budgets Families and businesses want solutions to the real problem of climate change that go beyond asking them to dig ever deeper into shrinking pockets The prime minister is right to approach this issue with hard-pressed households in mind. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/taxpayers-alliance/ | en | null | null | 4,982 |
As part of our First Nation LNG alliance, that’s what we do is advocate all the good things that is happening to our communities and why we’re doing it for our communities and all the good stuff that happened. So as an advocacy group, same with in Calgary, I speak at lots of energy events in Calgary and they’re always saying, Well, we never hear nothing good from B.C., so they always ask us to come and speak and we can reinforce to all of the big energy leaders that are in Calgary that we there is First Nations that support the LNG industry and the oil industry But if you really look at the oil industry, everything we do is attached to the oil industry. If we drive a vehicle, we’re attached to the oil industry. A lot of the clothes that we wear is part of the oil industry. So there’s just no way to get around it. And I just can’t see why some people are totally against it. | 7_fossil_fuels_needed | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/first-nations-lng-alliance/ | en | null | null | 4,983 |
We have an inspiring European vision of confident democracies devoted to the liberty and prosperity of their people, of free nations, competing and collaborating, admiring, criticizing, nudging and learning from their neighbors, and the occasional ethnographic joke will be permitted too, so long as it is in good taste. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/christopher-demuth/ | en | null | null | 4,984 |
We are funded by the natural gas industry, and make no secret of that fact Our membership includes major exploration and production companies, along with companies that support the responsible development of Australia’s natural gas industry. ith support from industry participants, the Energy Resource Information Centre builds on the deep expertise of the -based Energy In Depth campaign, the Shale Resource Centre Canada, and Shale Gas Europe. | 7_fossil_fuels_needed | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/fti-consulting/ | en | null | null | 4,986 |
Mrs Rinehart points out that some people received notoriety claiming only a few decades ago that the earth was about to enter an ice age and understands some of those same people are now claiming, global warming instead. Mrs Rinehart admires people like Ian Plimer who have independently chosen on their own accord to stand up against this tidal wave, which has caused fear, and despite substantial attacks by some of the media and extremists for so doing. It is noted Professor Plimer had his own views on climate change long before he knew Mrs Rinehart and had given many such informative speaking tours prior to meeting Mrs Rinehart. | 6_proponents_biased | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/gina-rinehart/ | en | null | null | 4,987 |
The industry leaders that I engage with seem hungry for a bipartisan pragmatic approach to climate policy. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/judith-curry/ | en | null | null | 4,988 |
I don’t know the science behind climate change. I can’t say one way or another what is the direct impact, whether it’s man-made or not. I’ve heard arguments from both sides. I do believe in protecting our environment but without the job killing regulations that are coming out of the EPA. | 2_not_human | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/joni-ernst/ | en | null | null | 4,989 |
There is a well-funded group out there that is pushing this agenda […] that want to get into your pocketbooks,” said Palmer. “They want to sell you the high-priced spread, and to do that, they’ve got to take out (Ameren Missouri’s) power plants, and they have to get people to quit using my product. | 6_proponents_biased | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/fred-palmer/ | en | null | null | 4,990 |
Nothing from ExxonMobil for sure. I don’t know anything about funding from the Mercer Family and I don’t think they’re in the oil business. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/jay-h-lehr/ | en | null | null | 4,991 |
I’m sure the majority (but not all) of my colleagues cringe when I say this, but I see neither the developing catastrophe nor the smoking gun proving that human activity is to blame for most of the warming we see. | 2_not_human | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/john-christy/ | en | null | null | 4,992 |
Indeed, it is impossible not to believe some culture is superior. Not necessarily on all matters, of course, but some,” Briggs wrote at The Stream. f some cultures are superior, it is not wrong in principle for one culture to assert its values over another’s. At least under certain conditions. And as sometimes happened during the colonial period. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/william-briggs/ | en | null | null | 4,993 |
We don’t run this company on emotions. We run it on science and principles. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/lee-raymond/ | en | null | null | 4,995 |
The danger from the Global Warming crowd is that they are misleading the entire world and preventing us from what is dangerously unfolding that sparks the rapid decline in civilization – GLOBAL COOLING. I previously warned that this is not my opinion, but simply our computer. If it were really conscious it would be running to store to buy heating pads. This year will be much colder for Europe than the last three. It will also be cold in the USA. We are in a global cooling period and all the data we have in our computer system warns that the earth is turning cold not warm This cooling is very serious. This decline in the energy output of the sun will manifest in a commodity boom in agriculture as shortages send food prices higher. We will see famine begin to rise as crops fail and that will inspire disease and plagues. We will see the first peak in agricultural prices come probably around 2024 after the lows are established on this cycle. We have been warning that this rise would begin AFTER 2017. | 1_not_happening | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/martin-armstrong/ | en | null | null | 4,996 |
I feel a bit of an imposter talking about the science. I’m not a scientist, you may be aware. I read English Literature, | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/james-delingpole/ | en | null | null | 4,997 |
Confronting the challenge of climate change and building a lower-carbon future will require a combination of government policies, industry initiatives and continuous innovation,” API President and CEO Mike Sommers said. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/american-petroleum-institute/ | en | null | null | 4,998 |
Man-made global warming is an alarmist scam promoted by billionaire elitists, banks and giant corporations who are getting filthy rich off it while lecturing us about lowering our standard of living and keeping the third world mired in poverty. | 6_proponents_biased | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/paul-joseph-watson/ | en | null | null | 4,999 |
The disclosures demonstrate that the peer review process can be subverted by a small but influential group of scientists. | 6_proponents_biased | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/andrew-montford/ | en | null | null | 5,000 |
Natural gas, when combusted, releases roughly 50% fewer carbon emissions than coal. But that doesn’t tell the whole story. Natural gas vents and leaks release unburnt methane, a potent greenhouse gas, into the atmosphere, and anxieties about that phenomenon are growing, | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/partnership-energy-progress/ | en | null | null | 5,001 |
There is no question that global warming will have a significant impact on already existing problems such as malaria, malnutrition, and water shortages. But this doesn’t mean the best way to solve them is to cut carbon emissions.” Money spent on carbon cuts is money we can’t use for effective investments in food aid, micronutrients, /Aids prevention, health and education infrastructure, and clean water and sanitation. This does not mean that we should ignore global warming. But it does raise serious questions about our dogmatic pursuit of a strategy that can only be described as breathtakingly expensive and woefully ineffective. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/africa-fighting-malaria/ | en | null | null | 5,002 |
From a selfish point of view I’d put my money into adaptation. We can adapt without having to seek cooperation from India and China. We would have much greater control over it. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/richard-tol/ | en | null | null | 5,003 |
There have been times in history when levels were high and temperatures very low. And times in which levels were very low and temperatures very high. This negative correlation indicates that global warming argument fails again and the hypothesis of causing much real-world temperature change is almost certainly wrong. | 2_not_human | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/jay-h-lehr/ | en | null | null | 5,004 |
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, | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/todd-myers/ | en | null | null | 5,005 |
Americans are tired of scare tactics and misleading information,” Smith said, adding that “”The Heartland Institute provided a fact-filled and evidence-based perspective that benefits the public and informs scientific debate. | 6_proponents_biased | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/lamar-smith/ | en | null | null | 5,006 |
I thought we defeated Communism on the other shores, and now it’s inside our own country. It’s been in the school systems and everywhere else, and now we have the fight right here, and it’s going to be the fight of our lifetime. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/craig-richardson/ | en | null | null | 5,007 |
Be it dust regulation, treating milk spills like oil spills, or greenhouse gas emissions, the White House and its EPA are on the prowl, in search of another way to insert itself in the affairs of America’s rural communities and in the way of American prosperity. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/tim-huelskamp/ | en | null | null | 5,008 |
The American people have spoken loud and clear that they want politicians to put aside partisan bickering… . The oil and natural gas industry stands ready to help put America’s vast energy resources to good use, strengthening our nation’s economy and energy security, and providing good jobs for Americans across the country. | 7_fossil_fuels_needed | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/jack-n-gerard/ | en | null | null | 5,009 |
We will still continue to need to use gas into the next decades as we decarbonize our system, and we will be able to import it from overseas, but it’s very disappointing. | 7_fossil_fuels_needed | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/andrea-leadsom/ | en | null | null | 5,010 |
And what is your view of the prognoses that global warming will cause up to 30 percent of all animal species to become extinct? | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/josef-reichholf/ | en | null | null | 5,011 |
The biggest threat to American energy independence comes from […] the environmental movement and the assortment of government agencies with which the environmental movement has been cooperating now for decades. You see, what is a blessing for landowners in the Marcellus Shale area (with the sad exception of New York, but we hope that changes), what has been a blessing for these communities in Pennsylvania and North Dakota and elsewhere is an absolute nightmare for the environmental movement. Indeed for them, the shale revolution has been a black swan. […] Now natural gas poses an enormous threat to the world view of the environmentalists, simply because there is so much of it. And so much of that natural gas, and as well as the oil in various formations, is on private land, meaning that the ability of the environmental movement to block exploitation of those natural resources is limited. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/bonner-cohen/ | en | null | null | 5,012 |
Sceptics like us are challenged to disprove their hypothesis,” Cunningham said. “Scientists are best qualified to deal with the scientific questions but we all have to deal with the financial consequences of any actions taken on bad science. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/committee-constructive-tomorrow/ | en | null | null | 5,013 |
I’d love to see Heartland on the other side of the pond, | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/nigel-farage/ | en | null | null | 5,014 |
Following is an update on recent activities of The Advancement of Sound Science Coalition (TASSC). During the past few months, TASSC has actively supported congressional efforts to enact regulatory reform legislation. This has included collaborating with Project Relief, drafting collateral communications materials for use by key members of Congress and helping to coordinate major events to build support for the reform movement. In addition, TASSC is currently: . conducting a state and local official outreach program to mobilize support for regulatory reform with policymakers and opinion leaders in key regions ; . collecting sound science “horror” and “success” stories from the membership for incorporation into communications materials ; and . coordinating production and placement of a series of opinion- editorials on behalf of selected TASSC scientists, state legislators and local officials ASSC is planning a two-pronged effort to generate earned media coverage of its mission, members and activities. In the near-term, TASSC will commission and disseminate a comprehensive review of the media coverage surrounding the regulatory reform effort. (Our initial assessment has revealed that during the first 100 days of the 104th Congress anti-reform editorial commentary has significantly outnumbered pro-reform pieces.) n the mid-term, TASSC will commission a broader study that will likely focus on popular media portrayal of environmental issues and its impact on public opinion . In addition, TASSC is revising its Model Sound Science and Public Policy Act (see attached draft). Once finalized, we plan to disseminate and actively build support for the new version of the model bill with member and non-member legislators prior to the 1996 legislative sessions. | 6_proponents_biased | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/advancement-sound-science-coalition/ | en | null | null | 5,015 |
I think we’re at the point where we need to get over the conversation of who believes and who doesn’t, and move to a conversation about solutions, | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/jack-n-gerard/ | en | null | null | 5,016 |
The forthcoming (Sept. 2013) IPCC report claims that the reported surface warming of 1978-2000 is sure (better than 95% — by IPCC’s own unsupported estimate) evidence for AGW. But the missing hotspot is sure (better than 96%, by my personal reckoning) evidence against the existence of any such warming. But before you dispose of the 2000-page-plus IPCC report, stop and consider: it makes a wonderful paper weight or door stop. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/s-fred-singer/ | en | null | null | 5,017 |
We raised a lot of money and mobilized an awful lot of people, and we lost, plain and simple. We’re going to study what worked, what didn’t work and improve our efforts in the future. We’re not going to roll over and play dead. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/david-koch/ | en | null | null | 5,018 |
But then it was pointed out to us by scientists with mad hair, and a Swedish proto-person called Greta, that actually, global warming would cause the ice caps to melt and all the coral in the sea to die nd again, we all thought, well we don’t live at the North Pole, or in the sea, so we remain unbothered ow though, we are starting to see an effect of global warming that really will make our lives extremely different ot in a hundred years. Or even in ten. But by tomorrow teatime. Massive human migration. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/jeremy-clarkson/ | en | null | null | 5,019 |
Reducing power plants’ air pollution would result in ‘14,100 fewer premature deaths,’ among other ‘significant health benefits,’ ‘by dramatically reducing fine particle pollution caused by SO2 and NOx emissions. EPA estimates that reducing power plants’ SO2 and NOx emissions by approximately 60% will deliver ‘particulate matter-related annual benefits’ that include 13,000-17,000 fewer premature fatalities every year. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/jeffrey-r-holmstead/ | en | null | null | 5,020 |
You could stop all greenhouse gas emissions from the United States today and keep them shut down until the year 2100 and it would hardly make any difference in terms of the amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/steve-milloy/ | en | null | null | 5,021 |
That last part may be true, but it’s also true that economic development has made us less vulnerable, which is why there was a 99.7% decline in the death toll from natural disasters since its peak in 1931. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/michael-shellenberger/ | en | null | null | 5,022 |
We live in a period of unprecedented progress — economic, social, technological — but not everyone has shared in that progress. While many people have gotten ahead, too many people are falling behind. Our charge is clear: we must stand together to help every person rise,” Koch wrote in a letter to supporters, shared first with The Washington Post. “In many ways, this new name already expresses who we are. … But this new name also marks a new chapter — and a new call to action. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/stand-together/ | en | null | null | 5,023 |
What we can say is that climate change has been a natural phenomena throughout the course of time. What impact do man’s activities have on the Earth’s natural climate cycles? That is still open to debate. Some would say none at all while others will say that it is dramatic. | 2_not_human | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/reason-foundation/ | en | null | null | 5,024 |
When all the scare talk is pushed aside, it is the science that should be the basis for the debate. And the hard cold truth is that the basic theory has failed. Many notable scientists reject man-made global warming fears. And several of them, including a Nobel Prize winner, are in the new Climate Hustle movie. The film is an informative and even humorous new feature length movie that is the ultimate answer to Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth. It will be shown one day only in theaters nationwide on May 2. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/john-coleman/ | en | null | null | 5,025 |
That the normally pragmatic and frugal-minded [Don] Drummond accepts the need to spend enormous sums in perpetuity pursuing a wholly undefined and unbounded effort to revive dozens of already-abandoned native languages may be seen as evidence of how sentiment, rather than science or evidence, has taken control of the Indigenous language debate. … In fact, there is good academic evidence that cataloguing and recording for archival purposes may be the best that can be hoped for the majority of Canada’s Indigenous languages. … Accepting the utility of a modern dominant language is not an exercise in cultural homogenization or linguistic colonialism. It is simply recognition of the tremendous benefits arising from barrier-free communication via a common language. … Attempting to fulfil the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s Calls to Action on Indigenous languages by permitting a host of new quasi-official languages few people can speak or by embarking on a doomed experiment to revive dying languages on reserves may be the latest attempt at expiating white guilt over the legacy of the residential schools system. But that doesn’t mean it’s a wise use of resources, time or effort. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/manning-foundation-for-democratic-education/ | en | null | null | 5,026 |
Regarding climate science there is at least one certainty: There is absolutely no reason to believe that Earth is any warmer now than it was during past periods when life flourished—times when agriculture was abundant, pyramids and cities were built, and world citizens became connected in trade and culture. | 1_not_happening | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/larry-bell/ | en | null | null | 5,028 |
Abundant, affordable energy is a key driver of prosperity. We must unleash resources by removing regulatory barriers and eliminating corporate welfare that favors certain energy sources over others. When energy prices increase or government distorts the market, it disproportionately affects low and middle income families. | 7_fossil_fuels_needed | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/americans-for-prosperity/ | en | null | null | 5,029 |
Just think about it: a few years ago, the conventional wisdom was that the United States would need to build more terminals to import natural gas overseas. And today, America is the world’s leading producer of natural gas and we’re actually exploring opportunities for exports. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/heather-zichal/ | en | null | null | 5,030 |