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Many other countries that do not have sufficient domestic energy supplies or suitable conditions for renewable energy are concluding that the uncertain impacts of aggressive climate change policies are less threatening than the known consequences of a chaotic energy transition. Canada’s response should acknowledge this reality. We ignore an energy crisis in favour of the climate crisis at our peril, | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/macdonald-laurier-institute/ | en | null | null | 5,031 |
We have shunned the obvious answer of nuclear power in favour of vast, ugly, inefficient, bird-mashing wind farms which benefit none but those who take the subsidies from them, | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/ann-widdecombe/ | en | null | null | 5,032 |
Coal has always been more polluting in terms of particulate matter and sulfur oxide emissions than other hydrocarbons, and because it also has the highest CO2 emissions per unit of released energy, it is seen as the most undesirable choice. A closer look at coal’s attributes and the history of its use shows that this judgment is unfair and suggests that if the fuel’s conversion were done with the most efficient techniques available today, we would have no reason to view it so negatively. Crude oil—largely because of the continuing indispensability of refined fuels for the entire transportation sector occupies a more exalted place than coal. Although its considerable environmental impact is a concern, the main worry about oil is that its global extraction may peak in the very near future, and that this peak will not be followed by a prolonged production plateau but, rather, by a steep decline that will bring a multitude of economic and social hardships—in the most extreme versions, the end of modern civilization. That is why the first myth I debunk in this part of the book is the peak oil myth. | 7_fossil_fuels_needed | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/vaclav-smil/ | en | null | null | 5,033 |
I’m going to be surprised if a single Rebel supporter actually donates to you now, and if they have already they’re going to be taking their money back because of the way you just treated me” Bexte said, estimating it was already in “the five figure range that they’ve given you. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/vivian-m-krause/ | en | null | null | 5,034 |
If you want to live by the precautionary principle, then crawl up in a ball and live in a cave. | 6_proponents_biased | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/rex-tillerson/ | en | null | null | 5,035 |
One of his pet peeves is the great climate-change con,” Delingpole wrote of Bannon. “It’s partly why he recruited a notorious skeptic like myself. Basically,” Delingpole wrote, “we won. | 6_proponents_biased | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/james-delingpole/ | en | null | null | 5,036 |
Governments are trying to achieve unanimity by stifling any scientist who disagrees [with man-made global warming theory]. Einstein could not have got funding under the present system. | 6_proponents_biased | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/nigel-calder/ | en | null | null | 5,037 |
I support President Trump and the platform upon which he was elected,” Rebekah Mercer said. “My family and I have not communicated with Steve Bannon in many months and have provided no financial support to his political agenda, nor do we support his recent actions and statements. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/steve-bannon/ | en | null | null | 5,038 |
Advances in technology will undoubtedly continue to allow us to improve our carbon/ efficiency, but only if the current climate obsessions and fashions are subjected to proper scrutiny. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/neil-record/ | en | null | null | 5,039 |
Even though human influences could have serious consequences for the climate, they are physically small in relation to the climate system as a whole. | 2_not_human | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/steve-koonin/ | en | null | null | 5,040 |
So let’s drop the class warfare and recognise that high tax socialist policies don’t create jobs. Business and investment does, and we need a lot more businesses and investment and reinvestment to do a lot more of that creating. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/gina-rinehart/ | en | null | null | 5,041 |
It’s worth remembering why we are doing this. It’s certainly not going to make any difference to the Earth’s temperature: our carbon dioxide emissions are a tiny fraction of the global total, and smaller than annual increases in China and India. No, we are doing this as a gesture: a way to show our leadership on climate change, setting an example to the rest of the world. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/andrew-montford/ | en | null | null | 5,042 |
I think we need more oversight — not more censorship — just to make sure we’re really being on brand with what we believe, what we stand for. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/ezra-levant/ | en | null | null | 5,043 |
We, I think we’re responsible—one of two or three groups that could genuinely claim responsibility for defeating cap and trade and carbon tax proposals at the national level for a ten year period, pretty much from 2007 until today. think we’re the reason President Trump discovered, or concluded that climate change is not a real problem and not a crisis facing the country, and that by running on that—by defending coal miners for example—he could appeal to a very big base in the United States. People who expected all along that global warming was junk science, that they would rather have good jobs and inexpensive energy than pursue some liberal dream of, you know, replacing all fossil fuel with wind and solar power. | 6_proponents_biased | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/heartland-institute/ | en | null | null | 5,044 |
Since scientists almost nowhere receive any moral training, are not required to read history or study philosophy, and cannot look on religion as anything but an abstract thing, they will be less equipped than non-scientists at forming moral judgments. A society in which science ruled would therefore almost certainly be a very scary place. | 6_proponents_biased | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/william-briggs/ | en | null | null | 5,045 |
Today’s biggest accomplishment is to brand this city a green business zone, | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/vincent-devito/ | en | null | null | 5,046 |
It’s no secret that most of the support that the PEGCC and the private equity industry gets is on the Republican side, but we have a lot of Democrats in this industry, | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/mike-sommers/ | en | null | null | 5,047 |
It is hostile and deceitful to claim that sceptics deny the reality of climate change. Everyone accepts that climates have changed over the centuries. The debate is about whether these changes are outside the regular patterns of the two Christian millennia, for example; and whether human activity is provoking a disastrous warming, or is even a powerful agent of temperature change. […] | 2_not_human | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/cardinal-george-pell/ | en | null | null | 5,048 |
While fossil fuels remain the very foundation of modern economic growth, spreading prosperity and a decent quality of life, they are no longer seen in that light. Rather, they are perceived as undesirable, outright dangerous, or even immoral, since their continuing use is thought to pose an unprecedented threat to the survival of modern civilization. Growing fears about rapid global warming caused by emissions of CO2 from the combustion of fossil fuels are behind this increasingly stringent judgment, and these fears feed (mostly unrealistic) visions of an accelerated global transition to nonfossil energies. | 7_fossil_fuels_needed | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/vaclav-smil/ | en | null | null | 5,049 |
Why on earth are they allowing these cretins to block up our streets? If you or I tried it, we’d be turfed off in minutes! | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/rupert-lowe/ | en | null | null | 5,050 |
Their prevailing mix of anger, resentment, self-pity, and self-assertion has undoubtedly achieved a short-term political success for the Black Lives Matter movement. They may mistake that as a reason for more of the same. But their campaign has futility built in. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/rachelle-peterson/ | en | null | null | 5,051 |
Where does Trump’s America First Energy Plan stand How much progress has been made in implementing it, and what remains to be done What scientific and economic evidence is there that the plan is putting the nation on the right path for economic growth, environmental protection, or both? | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/joseph-bast/ | en | null | null | 5,052 |
EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy declared that there was ‘not one single bit of evidence that [the EPA has] destroyed an industry or significantly impacted jobs other than in a positive way. his statement is clearly contradicted by reality and credible studies. For example, the economic consulting firm NERA found that the cost of EPA’s so-called ‘Clean Power Plan’ could total nearly $300 billion. Nearly $300 billion in compliance costs will significantly impact jobs. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/hubbel-relat/ | en | null | null | 5,053 |
Some measurements suggest that the Earth’s average temperature has risen about half a degree centigrade since the late 19th century. Yet sensitive satellite measurements have shown no warming trend since the late 1970s. In fact, the earth is cooler today than it was 20 years ago. | 1_not_happening | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/lee-raymond/ | en | null | null | 5,054 |
For the power industry, especially nuclear plants, public and media perception of the environmental impact of facility operations has always been a concern… . To achieve success in both the actual and perceived protection of the environment, the power industry would do well to address the entire ‘environmental system’. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/anthony-j-sadar/ | en | null | null | 5,055 |
It was taking an American-style media approach. What they said early on was ‘facts don’t work’ and that’s it. The remain campaign featured fact, fact, fact, fact. It just doesn’t work. You have got to connect with people emotionally. It’s the Trump success. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/arron-banks/ | en | null | null | 5,056 |
Just because climate change has happened doesn’t mean AGW. Just because weather disasters happen doesn’t mean AGW. And an inconvenient truth that most of the media are speaking of, CAGW – that’s very important. They’re not just talking about AGW, but catastrophic [anthropogenic global warming]. If we just have a little bit of warming from manmade causes, nobody really cares, but they’re talking about it’s going to be catastrophic. | 2_not_human | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/stanley-goldenberg/ | en | null | null | 5,057 |
The truth about the catastrophic part of climate change is that we’ve already done what we needed to do to avoid it even if the direst original predictions were true. | 3_not_bad | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/adam-smith-institute/ | en | null | null | 5,058 |
Global climate change is real, and developing alternative energy sources and reducing global carbon-dioxide emission is essential. But the claim that action to slow climate change is justified by the rising toll of natural disasters–and, by extension, that reducing emissions can help stanch these rising losses–is both scientifically and morally insupportable. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/roger-pielke-jr/ | en | null | null | 5,059 |
By all means accept the scientific consensus: it doesn’t seem to me to depict ‘climate catastrophe’. But net zero 2050 isn’t science. It’s a political goal enshrining a particular view of the trade-offs facing us as a result of climate change. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/david-frost/ | en | null | null | 5,060 |
Even doubling our tripling the amount of carbon dioxide will virtually have little impact, as water vapor and water condensed on particles as clouds dominate the worldwide scene and always will. | 2_not_human | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/geoffrey-duffy/ | en | null | null | 5,061 |
I know what I’ve asked you. The whole world knows what I just asked you. You don’t need to repeat it. You’re burning my time. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/daniel-jorjani/ | en | null | null | 5,062 |
To renew the conservation movement of President Teddy Roosevelt and his sidekick, Forest Service chief Gifford Pinchot. Pinchot once said that conservation is the wise use of resources. It’s an attempt to revitalize the conservation movement against the ‘don’t use it at all’ thinking that has evolved in environmentalism. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/ron-arnold/ | en | null | null | 5,063 |
As a dissenting physicist, I simply can no longer buy the notion that CO2 produces any significant warming of the atmosphere at any rate. I’ve studied the atomic absorption physics to death, from John Nicol’s extensive development to the much longer winded dissertation by Gerlich & Tscheuschner and everything in between, it simply doesn’t add up. Even if every single IR photon absorbed by a CO2 molecule were magically transformed into purely thermal translational modes , the pitifully small quantity of CO2 in the atmosphere doesn’t add up to much additional heat. And if the aforementioned magical 100% transformation from radiation into “heat” were true, then all arguments concerning re-emission ( source of all the wonderful “greenhouse effect” cartoons with their arrows flying in all directions ) are out the window More and more, I am becoming convinced that atmospheric heating is primarily by thermal conduction from the surface, whose temperature is determined primarily by solar absorption. I get a lot of email from laymen seeking simple answers. My simple reply goes like this . The sun heats the earth.2. The earth heats the atmosphere3. After the sun sets, the atmosphere cools back dow With a parting comment: If we were to have 96 continuous hours without sunlight, temperatures would likely be below freezing over all the world’s land masses. The warmest place you could find would be to take a swim in the nearest ocean. There is no physical process in the atmosphere which ‘traps’ heat. The so-called ‘greenhouse effect’ is a myth. | 2_not_human | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/james-peden/ | en | null | null | 5,064 |
It’s a massive ideological tool by the globalists who are under massive pressure right now to justify the de-industrialisation agenda making super profits for the biggest corporations and more and more money for the super rich. | 6_proponents_biased | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/piers-corbyn/ | en | null | null | 5,065 |
How would you achieve a balance between the need for economic growth and protection of the environment? | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/ed-clark/ | en | null | null | 5,066 |
When one looks at the data, we can see that it has, in fact, been manipulated. At least the temperature station records maintained by NASA’s Goddard Institute of Space Studies (GISS). Sometime between 2008 and 2012, temperature records in NASA’s GISS data base have been altered to show up to 2o more warming has actually occurred […] | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/robert-bob-c-shoup/ | en | null | null | 5,067 |
High self-esteem in children does not produce good character, and in fact is likely to produce a less moral individual, | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/dennis-prager/ | en | null | null | 5,068 |
That California’s catastrophic drought is a result of global warming has become a commonplace of contemporary political rhetoric That truism isn’t true: Most scientific accounts of California’s current dry spell link recent low precipitation to naturally occurring atmospheric cycles, not to global warming Indeed, most of the global-warming models relied upon by those advocating more-invasive environmental policies predict that warming would leave California with wetter winters — winter precipitation being critical to the snowpack-dependent state — rather than the drier winters at the root of the state’s current water crisis. | 2_not_human | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/kevin-d-williamson/ | en | null | null | 5,069 |
All at once, you’ve got a President that doesn’t stand up for the rule of law. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/harold-hamm/ | en | null | null | 5,070 |
We are here under false pretenses, wasting our time talking about a non-existent climate emergency. And It’s hard to understand how much further the shrillness can go, as this started out as global warming, then it was climate change or global weirding, now it is climate crisis and climate emergency, what next, but stick around, it will happen. I hope sooner or later enough people recognize the phoniness of this bizarre environmental cult and bring it to an end. | 1_not_happening | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/heartland-institute/ | en | null | null | 5,071 |
The study refutes the notion that there has been a slowdown or ‘hiatus’ in the rate of global warming in recent years. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/harry-c-alford/ | en | null | null | 5,072 |
Make no mistake, there will be a redoubled effort in the media in the coming months to tie outcomes of the coronavirus to climate change and to focus even more fear on any and all events that can be portrayed as being out of the ordinary. 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. | 2_not_human | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/gregory-wrightstone/ | en | null | null | 5,073 |
One thing is back off on some of the regulations,” he said. “It’s very costly to operate here in America compared to Mexico for sure. So back off on some regulations… a lot of those are punitive in nature… and make it where companies can produce their goods right here in America. And certainly taxes… I think that’ll be job number one as this administration goes forward. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/harold-hamm/ | en | null | null | 5,074 |
The climate change debate has been hopelessly politicized by organizations like Environment Minnesota that distort science in order to advance a narrow political agenda. | 6_proponents_biased | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/freedom-foundation-minnesota/ | en | null | null | 5,075 |
It’s not just oil and gas. It’s for everybody. It’s really more about freedom, free markets and rule of law than it is about energy. | 7_fossil_fuels_needed | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/thomas-pyle/ | en | null | null | 5,076 |
Remember, for the eco-elite, hair-shirt asceticism is a feature not a bug. Giving ordinary people unlimited energy would horrify these high priests. What they love about climate change is the excuse it gives them to disapprove of people having fun. Imagine the scowl on Greta’s face when we tell her electricity is going to be abundant, cheap, reliable and low-carbon. It’s shooting their fox. | 6_proponents_biased | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/matt-ridley/ | en | null | null | 5,077 |
We’re warmer than we’ve been in probably a few centuries, and I think some of that warmth is due to the CO2 we’re producing, but the warming is not nearly as fast as what has been predicted. I think about half of it’s natural, and from a policy standpoint there’s really nothing we could do about the human caused portion of it anyway, | 2_not_human | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/roy-spencer/ | en | null | null | 5,078 |
Scientific substantiation of a warming world is not necessarily reason for gloom. Greenhouse gases are an air pollution problem, and all air pollution problems of the past have cost significantly less to fix than critics projected, and the solutions have worked faster than expected. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/gregg-easterbrook/ | en | null | null | 5,079 |
Sometimes in speeches, I have compared the endangered species list to the Hotel California, where ‘you can check out but you can never leave.’ It is a short way of explaining the problem of a system that adds hundreds of species to the endangered list, but never takes any off, | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/greg-walcher/ | en | null | null | 5,080 |
The planet is warming. Human beings are playing a substantial role in that warming. How large that warming is going to be and how we ought to respond to it is still an open question. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/steven-f-hayward/ | en | null | null | 5,081 |
So we need to ensure that the final strategy acknowledges the continuing role of oil and gas in Scotland’s energy security and economy – as well as our sector’s role in a rapid transition to a low-carbon future. | 7_fossil_fuels_needed | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/offshore-energies-uk/ | en | null | null | 5,082 |
Damaging hurricanes, tornadoes, and whatever […] are not linked to the buildup of greenhouse gases. | 1_not_happening | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/western-fuels-association/ | en | null | null | 5,083 |
Climate change – Sun & the stars vs C02 – I, | 1_not_happening | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/deepak-lal-1940-2020/ | en | null | null | 5,084 |
I believe that making it easier to drill for and use domestic resources, build nuclear power plants, and develop new technologies is the best formula for ending the current energy regime, which essentially has us empowering governments and groups that are markedly anti-American. | 7_fossil_fuels_needed | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/mick-mulvaney/ | en | null | null | 5,085 |
I am a leader in the fight against the national energy tax proposal some Congressional leaders are advocating. I call this bad idea ‘cap-and-tax’ because of the damage it will do to jobs, manufacturing and our economy. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/jim-sensenbrenner/ | en | null | null | 5,086 |
The aspiration to reduce emissions is right, but there is a better way to get there: encouraging innovation in fission, fusion, shale gas and carbon capture rather than forcing today’s thermodynamically inadequate renewable energy systems on us and further ruining our competitive edge. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/matt-ridley/ | en | null | null | 5,087 |
When you look at the homosexual agenda, I cannot support something that I believe brings nothing but self-destruction, not only physically but of their soul, | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/ken-cuccinelli/ | en | null | null | 5,089 |
What is needed is not a massive rewrite, but a rifle shot at the Achilles heel of a broken system. […] No species should be listed without a clear understanding of what would constitute recovery, and firm delisting goals for all species already listed should be published soon. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/greg-walcher/ | en | null | null | 5,090 |
Historically we have dealt with climate issues extreme weather, extreme heat extreme cold through a capital stock and growth of the economy and prosperity, which has brought us air conditioning and central heating, and all the good things that we have now that they didn’t have 100 years ago to shelter us from the vagaries of weather. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/roy-cordato/ | en | null | null | 5,091 |
This administration has been defined so far by historic legislative, regulatory and foreign policy accomplishments interrupted by unfortunate distractions. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/mike-sommers/ | en | null | null | 5,092 |
She and her environmental followers killed millions of human beings around the World with the ban on DDT, which has since been found by the World Health Organization to be very safe to humans in controlling global epidemics. | 6_proponents_biased | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/robert-murray/ | en | null | null | 5,093 |
All right. What are the implications of climate change, in your opinion? | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/alex-epstein/ | en | null | null | 5,095 |
No. Personally, I’m even looking forward to a milder climate. But it will also not pose any major problems for mankind as a whole. | 3_not_bad | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/josef-reichholf/ | en | null | null | 5,096 |
The central lie is that we are experiencing a known human-caused climate crisis, a claim based on speculative theories, contrived data and totally unproven modeling predictions. And the evidence? Much is revealed by politically corrupted processes and agenda-driven report conclusions rendered by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which are trumpeted in the media as authoritative gospel. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/larry-bell/ | en | null | null | 5,097 |
Britain possesses abundant natural energy resources, a skilled workforce, and a track record of driving innovation. It is crucial that we capitalise on these strengths to deliver the lowest energy costs in Europe, ensure energy security, and achieve our climate goals. To undermine our home-grown oil and gas industry would jeopardise critical industries and jobs across the UK, including manufacturing and vital product supply chains. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/offshore-energies-uk/ | en | null | null | 5,098 |
Now, the Western Energy Alliance is spending thousands more to amplify the warnings in an ad campaign against Biden’s climate policies,” The Guardian reported. “The numbers have been cited dozens of times in local and national newspapers, including in the New York Times in a reference to Wyoming officials’ projections. The data has become core to Republican messaging opposing Biden’s climate plans even as critics suggest the study might exaggerate economic impacts by as much as 85%. The author even appeared at a meeting of the Congressional Western Caucus in February, alongside Cheney. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/western-energy-alliance/ | en | null | null | 5,099 |
I believe that , other things being equal, will make the planet warmer. The six million dollar question is how much warmer. I’m less of a sceptic than people think. My gut feeling is still sceptical but I don’t believe it’s beyond the realms of possibility that the hypothesis might be correct. It’s more the case that we don’t know and I haven’t seen anything credible to persuade me there’s a problem. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/andrew-montford/ | en | null | null | 5,100 |
In order to achieve energy dominance through responsible energy production, we need smart regulations, not punitive regulations. | 7_fossil_fuels_needed | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/joe-balash/ | en | null | null | 5,101 |
Carbon dioxide under the Clean Air Act of 1971 was never a pollutant, | 2_not_human | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/robert-murray/ | en | null | null | 5,102 |
I believe climate change is not a hoax and that man has an influence,” Balash said, as reported in Alaska Public Media. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/joe-balash/ | en | null | null | 5,103 |
There are many peer-reviewed scientific studies indicating that we should blame the 1980-98 warming blip on natural cycles, clouds, oceanic cooling, cosmic rays, sunspots and other solar influences. […] It may turn out that there is no world climate, only many local climates — and, like the weather, they may prove to be forever chaotic and unpredictable. | 2_not_human | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/barry-brill/ | en | null | null | 5,104 |
I spoke with Bill Hobbs [RJ Reynolds] about arranging an appointment for you with Dr. Fred Seitz, former head of Rockerfeller University and the principal scientific advisor to the RJ Reynolds medical research program. Bill told me that Dr. Seitz is quite elderly and not sufficiently rational to offer advice. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/frederick-seitz-dead/ | en | null | null | 5,105 |
What will Heartland Institute’s role be in that? I am optimistic. I think Heartland is going to grow. There’s a much bigger niche for what we do than what I was able to raise money for to fill. You know, I raised about six million dollars a year for the Heartland Institute. We should be at eight or ten. We should have twenty, twenty five guys working in our, just in our government relations office working with state legislators, giving them the information that they need, testifying when they need testimony, helping them draft legislation. I mean, this is all exciting stuff that they’re asking us to do and we don’t have the staff to do it. o I think under Tim Huelskamp’s leadership we’re going to raise that money. We’re going to expand the staff and fill that niche. So Heartland should be doing well in future years. I only hope and pray that freedom in the United States is going to continue rising while the Heartland Institute is performing its job. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/joseph-bast/ | en | null | null | 5,106 |
In other words mitigation to slow or halt emissions will be costly today with little payout over the next 100, if not 1000, years, making it unlikely that large mitigation projects have a positive net present value. And for these results to occur, the United States would have to be joined by the rest of the industrialized nations as well as the developing ones, something that is not going to happen. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/hoover-institution/ | en | null | null | 5,108 |
Climate change is a serious problem…But broadly speaking, the market system is perfectly capable of responding to these issues — without the need for apocalyptic predictions or the immiserating solutions demanded by Extinction Rebellion. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/adam-smith-institute/ | en | null | null | 5,109 |
As difficult as it may be to conceive, however, the prospect of handing over a massive swath of popular public lands along with a fabulous sum of money to a local Indigenous population of approximately 1,500 is not the greatest threat this case poses to Canada. At the risk of running out of superlatives, this particular land claim threatens far greater damage by striking at the very foundation of the Canadian system of private property ownership. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/manning-foundation-for-democratic-education/ | en | null | null | 5,110 |
Actual climate change in my part of the country, there’s not much, 1 degree Fahrenheit in the last few years. | 1_not_happening | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/todd-wynn/ | en | null | null | 5,111 |
I said before I took this job that I believe in climate change and man has an impact on climate change. But I believe the number one issue facing our planet today is water. I’ve been saying that for a number of years. I said that at a climate conference at back in the early 2000s. It wasn’t well received then and it’s not always well received now. But it’s the truth. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/andrew-wheeler/ | en | null | null | 5,112 |
We are at the top of the food chain insofar as CO2 emissions are concerned. So if you get in the business of limiting CO2 emissions, of taxing CO2 emissions, of creating a value in CO2 emissions where people trade them in this emissions trading scheme, you go to the coal plants first because of the fact that that’s the greatest source –single source–of CO2 that there is. [T]he science to me–and I have been involved, not as a scientist but as a lawyer–the science to me suggests, in the ten years I’ve been involved in it, that there is no basis, no mechanism that anybody can point to or look at to say that more CO2 in the air is going to lead to catastrophic global warming or apocalyptic global warming, as opposed to some mild warming, which is nothing to be concerned about at all. [T]he precautionary principle might say that we should put more CO2 in the air to prevent CO2 levels from being driven down to such low levels in the future by an ice age that it extinguishes plant life. And there are scientists that believe this. | 2_not_human | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/fred-palmer/ | en | null | null | 5,113 |
There is no convincing scientific evidence that human 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. Moreover, there is substantial scientific evidence that increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide produce many beneficial effects upon the natural plant and animal environments of the Earth. | 2_not_human | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/arthur-viterito/ | en | null | null | 5,114 |
No, that’s OK. We don’t have enough time to get into all of it, I just wanted to make sure. It’s not that you think that climate change is not real, but you believe that humans have no contribution to climate change? | 2_not_human | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/naomi-seibt/ | en | null | null | 5,115 |
The point is, who knows, are the temperatures going to go up, down or sideways? Nobody knows. I mean, there is a theory attached to the increase in carbon dioxide that they would go up somewhat a little bit. That theory is not being sustained by the evidence over the past 18 years. It may well be true, the theory. But then again, if it is true, the answer is that there would be a slight increase anyway. It will only be an increase of over one and a half or two degrees centigrade. And that increase will have a trivial cost to the economies of the world. By trying to combat it, as we found out in Australia with, you know, you talked about energy poverty or we’re seeing industries disappearing because the costs have gotten too high, trying to combat it will have a catastrophic effect on the economy. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/alan-moran/ | en | null | null | 5,116 |
New Hope Environmental Services is an advocacy science consulting firm that produces cutting-edge research and informed commentary on the nature of climate, including patterns of climate change, U.S. and international environmental policy, seasonal and long-range forecasting targeted to user needs, and the relation between the earth’s atmosphere and biology. The company also consults on legal matters related to weather and climate. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/new-hope-environmental-services/ | en | null | null | 5,117 |
So, it’s very alarming how this propaganda campaign, that they made this stuff out of, almost completely out of thin air and they’ve convinced millions and millions of thought leaders that this stuff is real. | 6_proponents_biased | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/stephen-moore/ | en | null | null | 5,118 |
Lindzen’s fastidious reliance on science, positions him as estimating that a (human-induced) doubling of atmospheric CO2 will mean a 1.1°C global temperature rise. On his estimates, almost all of this has already occurred and it will not markedly shift the climate’s hospitability to man, beast and flora. | 3_not_bad | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/alan-moran/ | en | null | null | 5,119 |
When you don’t agree with them, what do they call you? They call you a denier. Or they said you don’t believe in it. Well, you believe in things that require faith. Some people don’t believe in Jesus. Some people don’t believe in Buddha. If it’s scientific, then belief doesn’t even enter into the conversation. And so even the language that the climate change activists use is completely unscientific. And so, you know, you find me a scientist and pay him to tell you ‘X’, I can find a scientist and pay him to tell me ‘Y’. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/daniel-turner/ | en | null | null | 5,120 |
The road to Hell, we all realize, is often paved with good intentions. The global warming debate illustrates that maxim very well; even a baby step on this destructive path should be avoided. | 6_proponents_biased | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/marlo-lewis-jr/ | en | null | null | 5,121 |
The existential threat is to our freedom, our prosperity, our capacity to provide medical care, and the integrity of our science and our profession. Physicians need to evaluate evidence independently and shun groupthink. They must not sacrifice their patients’ welfare to serve an agenda. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/jane-m-orient/ | en | null | null | 5,122 |
If man-made carbon dioxide concentrations in the earth’s atmosphere cause global warming, and these Russian scientists assert that the in the earth’s atmosphere has increased by 4 percent, but global warming has practically stopped. Then there is clearly zero correlation between and global warming. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/americans-limited-government/ | en | null | null | 5,123 |
By burning fossil fuels, man increased the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere which, for example, has raised the global mean temperature by half a degree in the last century. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/claude-all-gre/ | en | null | null | 5,124 |
It’s all one contrived phoney mess that is falling apart under its own weight, | 6_proponents_biased | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/rick-perry/ | en | null | null | 5,125 |
As a result of my experience and personal observation, I have great difficulty believing that hundreds, let alone thousands, of children died at residential schools and were buried in schoolyards without proper funerals or official documentation. (I remain prepared to change my mind if shown compelling evidence.) | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/manning-foundation-for-democratic-education/ | en | null | null | 5,126 |
Well, you have one, you know one-point four degrees in 150 years, and a little over half of that is since major emissions began. So you have a small amount of natural warming and a slightly less small amount of possibly man-made influenced warming. | 2_not_human | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/alex-epstein/ | en | null | null | 5,127 |
There are hundreds of published studies showing the safety of genetically modified organisms. Major health and regulatory agencies around the globe (including the World Health Organization, European Food Safety Authority, U.S. Food and Drug Administration, etc.) confirm there is no risk to human health from GMOS. Yet, anti-GMO activists continue to point to a handful of studies suggesting health problems from GMOs. Unfortunately for these activists, many of these studies have been widely criticized or retracted due to allegations of data manipulation or other procedural errors. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/center-accountability-science/ | en | null | null | 5,128 |
The Kyoto Protocol has no environmental benefits; natural variability, not fossil fuel emissions, is the overwhelming factor influencing climate change; satellite data, confirmed by balloon measurements, confirms that no meaningful warming has occurred over the last century; and climate models predicting dramatic temperature increases over the next 100 years are flawed and highly imperfect. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/james-inhofe/ | en | null | null | 5,129 |
Ironically, nowhere is that better demonstrated than by [Tuesday’s] environmental executive order from the president. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/sam-kazman/ | en | null | null | 5,130 |
I believe that climate is changing and humans play a role. However, I also believe significant questions remain as to the extent. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/lamar-smith/ | en | null | null | 5,131 |
I’m no investigative journalist, I’ve never taken a journalism class, and I don’t want to be a journalist when I grow up. I’m just a semi-retired idiot graphic artist who keeps asking how policymakers, environmentalists and mainstream news outlets justify their demand to regulate CO2 and why skeptic scientists should be silenced. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/russell-cook/ | en | null | null | 5,132 |
This is an inaccurate and misleading report. It only comments on the temperature in the troposphere (not at the surface of the Earth, where people live) and ignores most of the data available to discuss whether or not Earth’s climate is warming. It is based on a single, unpublished and contested record. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/james-taylor/ | en | null | null | 5,133 |