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Catholic Church badges those that see climate change as a load old piffle as deniers. We are not deniers. We are masters of the truth. | 1_not_happening | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/katie-hopkins/ | en | null | null | 5,134 |
If we undermine our existing oil and gas producers, we undermine our ability to drive a home grown energy transition, and we will continue to simply import the transition with a bad outcome for jobs and our communities. | 7_fossil_fuels_needed | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/offshore-energies-uk/ | en | null | null | 5,135 |
Climate change is thus reality; global warming a dangerous myth. The sooner we recognize this, the safer for us all. | 1_not_happening | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/philip-stott/ | en | null | null | 5,137 |
Energy security and our climate are among the most important questions facing us. They deserve a calm and rational debate that needs to go wider than a vocal environmental movement, and that ensures the voices of ordinary constituents are heard. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/natascha-engel/ | en | null | null | 5,138 |
Global warming is not something that anybody will ever feel in their lifetime. | 1_not_happening | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/roy-spencer/ | en | null | null | 5,139 |
Climate change is a scientific debate. It is entirely legitimate for people of faith to disagree on the science of climate change and what, if anything, should be done about it,” said Father James. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/institute-public-affairs/ | en | null | null | 5,140 |
So little we cannot detect it. And if it’s that little, then it’s not going to have all kinds of disastrous effects. | 2_not_human | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/calvin-beisner/ | en | null | null | 5,141 |
I’ve been skeptical, but I don’t resist the reality that we’re heading toward or our goal is a more carbon-constrained world. […] | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/kevin-cramer/ | en | null | null | 5,142 |
In this presentation, we consider the reasons for the left’s alarmist statements on energy production, and we examine Epstein’s key arguments and explain how a turn away from fossil fuel use would ultimately be disastrous to humanity — especially the poorest of the poor. | 7_fossil_fuels_needed | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/americans-for-prosperity/ | en | null | null | 5,143 |
Given that he doesn’t provide links to any of the original materials, it’s hard to tell the difference between the dramatic hyperbole of Monckton’s writing – which is basically how an arrogant and lazy British person thinks a witty and brilliant British professor-turned-thesaurus-salesman talked in 1820 – and what’s actually happened here in 2020. But it sounds like the German state in which Seibt lives has a new law regulating media that lobbies for or against specific policies, and that includes some sort of product placement, which her videos apparently do. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/christopher-monckton/ | en | null | null | 5,144 |
No. And you don’t have to take our word for it. No fewer than two dozen scientific studies have concluded that fracking does not pose a major threat to groundwater. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/independent-petroleum-association-america-ipaa/ | en | null | null | 5,145 |
Wildfires are natural. Nature responds. Some of the trees In America need wildfires to reseed. Controlled regular human directed burns prevent the fires from getting out of hand. The environmental left fight controlled burns and decision makers stupidly cow-tow to them. Who is at fault? When people die and property is destroyed or disrupting black outs happen who is to blame? | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/frank-lasee/ | en | null | null | 5,146 |
Ultimately, your view on global warming, the extent to which it’s caused by our personal behaviour and what you think we’re obliged to do about it is a moral and political choice that each person is entitled to make themselves. It’s not a choice that should be imposed on them by their employers. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/toby-young/ | en | null | null | 5,147 |
Pursuing this 2C target is very costly and not guaranteed to be successful. Much better, then, to target a maximum of, say, 3C rise, which will cost about $40 trillion but avoid most damages If we insist on 2C, we will pay an extra $60,000 billion, but only prevent a stream of $100 billion damages that begins in 70 to 80 years. Moreover, all of these estimates assume cost-effective climate policies, whereas in real life they have often become many times more expensive. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/bjorn-lomborg/ | en | null | null | 5,148 |
Good people of Earth are spending thousands of billions of dollars to prevent a future predicted by models that we know don’t work. The debate is over, climate spending is an unscientific, pagan, theological quest to change the weather. Just another iteration of what Druids and Witchdoctors have been promising for eons. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/joanne-nova/ | en | null | null | 5,149 |
The CCC has been at the centre of the deception of the British public that Rishi Sunak referred to. They say that they are ‘disappointed’ not to be consulted about the recent policy changes, but what sane person would want to consult an organisation that is so wedded to trickery? | 6_proponents_biased | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/net-zero-watch/ | en | null | null | 5,150 |
And even if carbon dioxide, a naturally occurring trace gas that’s necessary for life, really is the main climate change villain, Australia’s contribution to mankind’s emissions is scarcely more than 1%. | 2_not_human | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/tony-abbott/ | en | null | null | 5,151 |
We continue to lobby the U.S. at all levels to continue to take climate change extremely seriously. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/boris-johnson/ | en | null | null | 5,152 |
Forget what global warming activists would lead you to believe – 2015 was not even close to the hottest year on record. | 1_not_happening | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/james-taylor/ | en | null | null | 5,153 |
The most powerful thing a woman can do is give birth, that is it. That is your power, really your power. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/laura-ingraham/ | en | null | null | 5,154 |
This ethics opinion is highly unusual and problematic in many respects,” said Noah Bookbinder, the executive director of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington It is not regular practice, and not okay, for a situation that presents the clear possibility of a conflict of interest to be evaluated and approved by an ethics officer after the fact when the story comes out publicly, rather than beforehand,” Bookbinder said. “Second, on the substance, there are many problems with the logic of the opinion. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/scott-pruitt/ | en | null | null | 5,155 |
I think it’s time some climate activists were glued to the inside of Pentonville prison, | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/martin-durkin/ | en | null | null | 5,156 |
Climate change remains both a threat and an opportunity, as we look to move towards a new, green, low carbon economic and energy future. Labour has promised to meet our carbon reduction targets, while seriously addressing energy efficiency and insulation and banning fracking t the same time, we must support consumers who have faced rising energy bills as the government have failed to ensure that the industry has enough working competition to keep prices low. We will cap the average duel fuel household energy bill remains below £1000 per year, and introduce public sector energy competitors to keep the market honest. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/kate-hoey/ | en | null | null | 5,157 |
The selection of Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt is an obvious commitment to a pro-environment, pro-energy, pro-jobs agenda. Pruitt has been a vocal critic of federal overreach and understands that state agencies are well-positioned to take on a larger role in protecting the environment while also allowing for responsible and necessary commerce and energy production. This pick will go a long way towards correcting the Obama administration’s regulatory overreach, which has cost us jobs, hurt farmers, and has had an insignificant effect on the environment. | 6_proponents_biased | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/john-nothdurft/ | en | null | null | 5,158 |
It would seem that this is highly unlikely [that the Antarctic ice sheet might melt due to global warming] given current and near-future levels of atmospheric CO2: at current rates of increase it will take a century at least to reach 600 ppm, the level at which the ice sheet formed itself, and higher levels would be needed to actually start it melting. | 1_not_happening | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/lewis-page/ | en | null | null | 5,159 |
Nikolov, a.k.a. Den Volokin, does not consider himself to be a climate skeptic. He does not deny the climate is changing. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/ned-nikolov/ | en | null | null | 5,160 |
I 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. | 2_not_human | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/joseph-bast/ | en | null | null | 5,161 |
It is misleading, and just plain incorrect, to claim that disasters associated with hurricanes, tornadoes, floods or droughts have increased on climate timescales either in the United States or globally. It is further incorrect to associate the increasing costs of disasters with the emission of greenhouse gases. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/roger-pielke-jr/ | en | null | null | 5,162 |
If [Dennis] McGinn is truly interested in taking “the politics out of something which is essentially a national security issue,” as he puts it, he should embrace the American shale revolution. | 7_fossil_fuels_needed | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/alex-fitzsimmons/ | en | null | null | 5,163 |
The science is settled? While I got the impression there’s plenty of consensus among the scientists at the Santa Fe conference on a warming planet, there wasn’t much agreement on points beyond that. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/franklin-centre-government-and-public-integrity/ | en | null | null | 5,164 |
The internal documents obtained under FOIA revealed the EPA and enviros were looking for a hook and decided the hook they were looking for was the health of children […] Why not? Nothing better to get politicians moving than marching and chanting women in matching t-shirts on a tear, worried about and advocating for their babies. | 6_proponents_biased | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/john-dale-dunn/ | en | null | null | 5,165 |
Meanwhile, the theory of man-made global warming is a myth. For example, the worldwide average temperature has not risen in the last 18 years. So the theorists changed the name to “climate change. | 1_not_happening | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/d-james-kennedy-ministries/ | en | null | null | 5,166 |
I think he has the confidence of the White House and the president for the good job he is doing, but on these personal issues, I have no idea. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/myron-ebell/ | en | null | null | 5,167 |
NOAA doesn’t get as much attention as EPA, but it is a pretty big target for people that want to shut down climate change science and findings they find objectionable,” The employee siad. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/ken-haapala/ | en | null | null | 5,168 |
Humanity has got to get off-world. We need access to the life-extension technologies. Talk about discrimination, forget skin color. I want the advanced life-extension! I want to go to space! I want to see interdimensional travel! I want what God promised us and I won’t sit here and watch Satan steal it! | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/alex-jones/ | en | null | null | 5,169 |
CO2 is so beneficial […] it would be crazy to try to reduce it, | 3_not_bad | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/freeman-dyson/ | en | null | null | 5,170 |
Well, I don’t like the language itself, especially the made-up ones, the manufactured word ze or zir and that sort of thing. I don’t regard them as legitimate words; I regard those as the ideological construct of radicals who hold a view of the world I find disturbing and dangerous as well as impractical and narrow-minded. So, I’m not using their words because that would make me a mouthpiece of their particular worldview and ideology, and I’m not going to do that. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/jordan-peterson/ | en | null | null | 5,171 |
Ezra Levant, a Sun media columnist and author of Ethical Oil, came to intern at the Fraser Institute after a fellowship with the Koch Foundation. Kathryn Marshall, political commentator and former Ethical Oil spokesperson, was a development associate at the Fraser Institute. Wildrose leader Danielle Smith took on an internship with the Fraser Institute during her twenties that ‘imbued her with a passion for Ayn Rand and charter schools’, according to a Walrus article. She became an intern with the encouragement of Tom Flanagan, a Fraser Institute senior fellow and Stephen Harper mentor. Vancouver Sun editorial pages editor and columnist Fazil Milhar is the former regulatory studies director at the Fraser Institute. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/fraser-institute/ | en | null | null | 5,172 |
Climate change is the result of human actions and choices. Limiting climate change – and protecting people and ecosystems to the degree possible from unavoidable changes in the climate – will require significant public engagement in the issue so that difficult decisions can be made by members of the public and policy makers. Our center was created to conduct unbiased social science research that will facilitate such public engagement. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/george-mason-university/ | en | null | null | 5,174 |
So why is it that the conversation about Alberta oil is always a negative one and the conversation about the green scheme or the green scam, as I call it, that always is spun in a positive way? And what I’ve discovered is that if you look at who’s benefiting with either scenario, Alberta energy: Albertans benefit. We benefit greatly, and so does the rest of the country. With the green initiatives, the people that benefit are those who receive subsidies and grants, etc., from the government. Money, from our pockets to shift into their pockets, because they’re pushing a fairy tale ideology that can’t replace what they’re trying to vilify, | 6_proponents_biased | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/alberta-prosperity-project/ | en | null | null | 5,175 |
I see over here: ‘Trump digs coal,’” he said. “That’s true. I do.” He went on to promise an increase in coal mining jobs by repealing Obama’s “ridiculous rules and regulations. | 7_fossil_fuels_needed | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/donald-trump/ | en | null | null | 5,176 |
Even if the apocalyptic vision painted by Al Gore and others is perfectly true—which it’s not—measures limiting the emissions from individual cities are utterly absurd. They epitomize the prevalence of symbolism over science in our climate change policy debates. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/american-energy-alliance-aea/ | en | null | null | 5,177 |
The elimination of the proposed $8.7 billion for the Department of Energy would lower taxes and help revitalize our domestic energy industry. America needs free market energy. Instead, the Carter Administration proposes a windfall profits tax that will take over where stifling price controls and the perverse entitlement system left off. This new tax will continue to make it more difficult for domestic exploration and drilling operations to compete with foreign crude, and will help fund a corporate welfare package for synfuels and an Energy Security Corporation. We do not need a $13 billion Department of Education. We need tax credits for anyone who sends a child to a private, voluntary school. This will give the poor and middle class a choice for the better education of their children. | 7_fossil_fuels_needed | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/ed-clark/ | en | null | null | 5,178 |
The Chamber of Commerce claims to have millions of members and represent both large and small businesses, but its membership list isn’t public and as a trade association, the group has no legal obligation to disclose its donor [sic]. With this lack of transparency we have very little information about who supports the Chamber’s anti-science position on climate change and who funds its efforts to block policies that would address it. As a result, the Chamber can use its vast resources to influence public policy without any accountability for those behind it re the Chamber’s members in agreement with this climate policy and simply using the group to do their bidding without company affiliation (and potential reputational damage)? Or is the Chamber’s climate agenda controlled by a handful of powerful companies while the majority of members disagree? Without greater transparency around the political activities of companies and trade associations, we don’t know. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/us-chamber-commerce/ | en | null | null | 5,179 |
In truth, the Paris Accord was a voluntary agreement, with little teeth, and inadequate to do the heavy lifting that is necessary to deal with increasing greenhouse gases, | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/clifford-mass/ | en | null | null | 5,180 |
We deny that carbon dioxide—essential to all plant growth—is a pollutant. Reducing greenhouse gases cannot achieve significant reductions in future global temperatures, and the costs of the policies would far exceed the benefits. | 2_not_human | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/ross-mckitrick/ | en | null | null | 5,182 |
Alex Epstein has helped me re-frame my thinking, as Julian Simon set out to do, to take into account all facets of the human environment when dealing with environmental issues. He illustrates very effectively that the ‘natural’ environment is not conducive to human progress, and thus we must set out to improve it if we wish to improve ourselves. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/travis-fisher/ | en | null | null | 5,183 |
It appears that the judge’s decision may have been fueled by partisan politics rather than actual findings, | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/grow-americas-infrastructure-now-gain/ | en | null | null | 5,184 |
The motion of climate change is highly chaotic, poorly understood and at this point completely unpredictable within certain broad limits. In fact, there is strong evidence that the natural climate is capable of warming or cooling several degrees very quickly. […] | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/david-wojick/ | en | null | null | 5,185 |
The Environmental Protection Agency’s () own computer model easily shows that President Obama’s proposed regulations would reduce global warming by around 0.02 of a degree Celsius by the year 2100. Actually, the true number is probably even smaller because that calculation assumes a future rate of warming — there hasn’t been any for 17 years now — quite a bit higher than it is likely to be. | 1_not_happening | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/patrick-michaels/ | en | null | null | 5,186 |
The Pope has it exactly backwards. A prospering of the human condition requires full use of all of God’s Creation. Reliable, inexpensive energy is part of the solution which can lift billions of God’s creatures out of systemic poverty and disease. Instead of promoting fruitless and harmful policies to control global temperature, Christian leadership should embrace responsible environmental stewardship, make energy and all its benefits more affordable, and thereby free the poor to rise out of poverty, | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/gregory-wrightstone/ | en | null | null | 5,188 |
All of us were fairly peaceful. There were a couple undercover ANTIFA that were in the group. They were disguised. Some of them had red bandanas but most of them were wearing like Trump hats either backwards or like loosely fitted in order to kind of like stand themselves out. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/steven-goddard/ | en | null | null | 5,189 |
I’m worried about our country. I’m worried about the direction it’s going, | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/harold-hamm/ | en | null | null | 5,190 |
US Youth will be ticked realizing they’ve been duped by climate debate. | 6_proponents_biased | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/james-lankford/ | en | null | null | 5,191 |
In 1992 EPA published its report, ‘Respiratory Health Effects of Passive Smoking,’ claiming SHS is a serious public health problem, that it kills approximately 3,000 nonsmoking Americans each year from lung cancer, and that it is a Group A carcinogen (like benzene, asbestos, and radon)… .EPA’s 1992 conclusions are not supported by reliable scientific evidence. …influential anti-tobacco activists, including prominent academics, have unethically attacked the research of eminent scientists in order to further their ideological and political agendas The abuse of scientific integrity and the generation of faulty ‘scientific’ outcomes (through the use of pseudoscience) have led to the deception of the American public on a grand scale and to draconian government overregulation and the squandering of public money. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/jerome-arnett/ | en | null | null | 5,192 |
Here’s the problem – carbon dioxide doesn’t contribute to smog and isn’t a health threat. All of this is being done because some people believe carbon dioxide is causing global warming, and that preventing carbon dioxide from entering the air is the only answer. Never mind that there is still an ongoing scientific debate about global warming itself, and that some respected climate scientists believe that methane is a better target, California legislators have locked their sites on carbon dioxide. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/kenneth-green/ | en | null | null | 5,193 |
If we’re right, then nature will take its course as it always has, and normal life will go on by adapting to climate change, rather than freaking out over a pending climate catastrophe. | 3_not_bad | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/james-peden/ | en | null | null | 5,194 |
The word consensus, when used in a sentence with science, is false because consensus is a political and social work and that is a different arena than science. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/patrick-moore/ | en | null | null | 5,195 |
The Earth has supported abundant life many times in the geological past when there were much higher levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. It is quite likely that future generations will benefit from the enrichment of Earth’s atmosphere with more carbon dioxide Make no mistake, the agitators are not defending science from quackery — quite the contrary! | 3_not_bad | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/david-legates/ | en | null | null | 5,196 |
Any speaker, any authority, any journalist or bureaucrat asserting the catastrophic danger of supposed man-caused global warming needs to be asked for their response to Climate Change Reconsidered. If they have none, then they are not qualified to address the subject. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/peter-ferrara/ | en | null | null | 5,197 |
I am not part of a conspiracy and am not directed by anyone. I have never received money from fossil fuel interests, as Mann states is true of all sceptics. On the contrary, I work for the US wood products industry (which has no official position on climate change and does not tell me what to say or think). This industry is the largest single renewable fuels user because it uses wood waste to generate steam and power at paper mills. It is also the largest recycler (of paper), plants millions of trees every year, and manages millions of acres of forest land to ensure protection of wildlife. Only a fraction of my work concerns climate change. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/craig-loehle/ | en | null | null | 5,198 |
No, certainly not. Is climate change happening? Certainly. It has been happening for millennia, | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/edison-electric-institute/ | en | null | null | 5,199 |
But is it possible that the particular temperature increase observed in the last 100 years is the result of carbon dioxide produced by human activities? The scientific evidence clearly indicates that this is not the case … measurements of atmospheric temperatures made by instruments lofted in satellites and balloons show that no warming has occurred in the atmosphere in the last 50 years. This is just the period in which humanmade carbon dioxide has been pouring into the atmosphere and according to the climate studies, the resultant atmospheric warming should be clearly evident. | 1_not_happening | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/sallie-baliunas/ | en | null | null | 5,200 |
The rush to declare scientific proof of green doctrine and secure related research funds has led to a false cry of consensus. | 6_proponents_biased | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/mackinac-center-public-policy/ | en | null | null | 5,201 |
The divestment of fossil-fuel stocks is both ineffectual against its corporate targets and hurtful to ordinary people, | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/robert-l-bradley-jr/ | en | null | null | 5,202 |
Act NOW before a reliable, clean, abundant, and affordable source of energy is banned in San Luis Obispo n September 3rd, the San Luis Obispo City Council will vote on an ordinance to ban natural gas from all new buildings and homes, including a ban on natural-gas appliances such as stoves — a move that could leave San Luis Obispo residents broke and in the dark with skyrocketing energy bills and potential trouble with the energy grid. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/californians-affordable-reliable-energy-care/ | en | null | null | 5,203 |
I’ve always taken the view that we should save our resources […] so it’s about using less, wasting less, particularly food waste, which I think is, you know, a massive problem in this country. But also the innovation that we need to get the new technology that can help us do things better, whether that’s electric vehicles, whether that’s insulation in our homes, we can all act. But what I don’t want to see is ordinary households penalised by our net zero target, so I would lift the green energy levy and cut money from people’s fuel bills, whilst looking for better ways to deliver our net zero target. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/liz-truss/ | en | null | null | 5,204 |
Net zero will make zero difference to climate change, as confirmed by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, that says if you get to net zero, it’ll make no difference to sea level rise for between 200 and 1,000 years. Actually, what we need to do with climate change – of course, we all care about the environment of the planet – we need to adapt to it. The idea that you can stop the power of the sun or volcanoes is simply ludicrous. Anyone who thinks you can, frankly, you’re misinformed. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/richard-tice/ | en | null | null | 5,205 |
A renewed focus on how public policy can make it more likely that children will grow up with both a mother and father gives conservatives a new vocabulary for talking about homosexuals, a vocabulary that recognizes their rights as citizens of a free country without according them special status or approval. Public policy gives special privileges and protections to marriage because it is the most important institution for the raising of children. Homosexuals are free to form their own lasting unions and to make their own personal commitments to each other, but it trivializes marriage to give such unions the special protections of the law or the subsidies that are intended to help mothers and fathers raise children into upstanding citizens.” (emphasis added) | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/adam-meyerson/ | en | null | null | 5,207 |
Preserving consumer choice does not harm consumers, period. […] Our rigorous economic analysis shows increasing standards on incandescent light bulbs would not be economically justified because consumers would not be able to recover the cost of their investment because more stringent standards would make these light bulbs 300 percent more expensive. More stringent standards would effectively regulate incandescent light bulbs out of existence and DOE is not in that business. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/alex-fitzsimmons/ | en | null | null | 5,208 |
Climate change fanaticism is a cynical and dangerous distraction, frightening children and adults alike, into believing that those who are opposed to the leftist agenda want the planet to die. The real crimes of asteroids, tsunamis and earthquakes are that they aren’t the fault of humans, and their solutions rely on science, not politics Magically, ‘climate change’ somehow can only be solved if we implement a leftist agenda, casting us back into the stone age. Ending the use of fossil fuels won’t stop an asteroid. Banning the eating of meat won’t make a difference with tsunamis. Banning plastic straws isn’t going to stop the football field-sized asteroid from slamming into Earth. And keeping you from being able to travel on an airplane isn’t going to alert citizens of an impending earthquake The reason the existential threat can only be climate change is because, as designed by its apostles, it’s our fault and requires political action aimed at controlling your entire life. In the meantime, we must decide to stop allowing Hollywood, misled adolescents and political charlatans from distracting us to death with nonsensical political theater. | 6_proponents_biased | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/independent-womens-voice/ | en | null | null | 5,209 |
The film Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed misappropriates the Holocaust and its imagery as a part of its political effort to discredit the scientific community which rejects so-called intelligent design theory,” the ADL statement read Hitler did not need Darwin to devise his heinous plan to exterminate the Jewish people and Darwin and evolutionary theory cannot explain Hitler’s genocidal madness Using the Holocaust in order to tarnish those who promote the theory of evolution is outrageous and trivializes the complex factors that led to the mass extermination of European Jewry. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/mark-mathis/ | en | null | null | 5,210 |
Today, the scientists and the research associated with global warming have lost the credibility and authority with which they have argued their point. By arguing forcefully and loudly for more than 20 years that the data are “certain” and that the world’s scientific community is ‘unified’ in its belief that global warming is a man-made phenomena and will lead to a global environmental apocalypse, they have destroyed their position as an honest, dispassionate broker of knowledge. They have done a disservice to themselves and to science at large. | 6_proponents_biased | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/james-madison-institute/ | en | null | null | 5,211 |
Get serous about why we haven’t licensed a new nuclear power plant in 30 years. Because people are afraid of nuclear power. […] Nobody’s died from nuclear power. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/rudy-giuliani/ | en | null | null | 5,212 |
Coal is the moral choice, particularly for the developing world… The model for the world right now should be Australia. Australia gets it. Scientifically they get it, politically they get it and particularly when it comes to the United Nations, they get it. They are pulling out of this, they are repealing their carbon tax and Canada seems to be intrigued by what Australia is doing. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/marc-morano/ | en | null | null | 5,213 |
Man indeed may be a pygmy before nature and incapable of causing or reversing a global warming or climate change. To err on the side of caution let us presume man may be contributing a minor fraction towards warming of the earth. The planet has a great resilience we must not however forget. | 2_not_human | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/arun-ahluwalia/ | en | null | null | 5,214 |
Let’s consider climate change – the world has constantly changed climate and will continue to do so. Even before human civilisation, the world went through ice ages and periods of global warming There will always be changes that affect our climate, even if we close down all thermal-fired power stations, steel mills and other manufacturing operations, putting employees out of work and drastically changing our way of life. Furthermore, there will always be geothermal activity that spew out heat and ash and this activity does affect the climate I am yet to hear scientific evidence to satisfy me that if the very, very small amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere (approximately 0.38 per cent) was increased, it could lead to significant global warming I have never met a geologist or leading scientist who believes adding more carbon dioxide to the atmosphere will have any significant effect on climate change, especially not from a relatively small country like Australia. I have, however, had the benefit of listening to leading scientists and reading their work. | 2_not_human | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/gina-rinehart/ | en | null | null | 5,215 |
So much for climate change or global warming endangering human lives…but what about the snow and cold weather? Global freezing, anyone? | 1_not_happening | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/accuracy-media/ | en | null | null | 5,216 |
From carbon capture to fracking to climate change to coal production, the EPA is interested more in pursuing the Obama administration’s desire to regulate out of business industries it doesn’t like, rather than ensure proper environmental stewardship. | 6_proponents_biased | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/lawson-bader/ | en | null | null | 5,217 |
On Earth Day, The Heritage Foundation published, ‘The State of Climate Science: No Justification for Extreme Policies.’ The report reviews much of what climate apologists insist is true including the myth that 97 percent of all climate scientists agree on global warming. That is a powerful rhetorical point and often quoted by the President, but it is also false and based on a faulty review of the abstracts of a limited number of papers, | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/doug-domenech/ | en | null | null | 5,218 |
Journalists have repeatedly shown a propensity for believing alarmist claims about global warming based primarily on computer modeling of the future. But the only thing that really matters for public policy is empirical data. If the evidence shows that Oregon is a net emitter of greenhouse gases and that reducing those gases would demonstrably make us better off, then policy makers should consider taking action. But that evidence does not yet exist. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/john-charles/ | en | null | null | 5,219 |
What he was getting at, of course, was his own support for abortion, the dogma that lives loudly within almost all elected Democrats these days, and it was hardly made better by Durbin’s declaration that he was the product of 19 years of Catholic education. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/ann-corkery/ | en | null | null | 5,220 |
We must always remember that it is not bigotry to make moral distinctions. City officials can be opposed to elevating homosexuality/transgendered identity to a protected legal status without being labeled ‘anti-homosexual’ or ‘intolerant.’ We’ve got enough legitimate, urgent problems to address in this community without wasting city officials’ time in wrangling with politically correct, superfluous legislation. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/mike-johnson/ | en | null | null | 5,221 |
And there was, I have to say, a lot of wishful thinking in his comments. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/james-inhofe/ | en | null | null | 5,222 |
We believe this proposed rule strikes that balance and will allow job growth in rural America. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/joe-balash/ | en | null | null | 5,223 |
The Kyoto Protocol calls for mandatory carbon reductions of 30% from developed countries like the Reducing man-made emissions this much would have an undetectable effect on climate while having a devastating effect on the economy. Can you drive your car 30% less? Reduce your water heating 30%? Pay 20 – 50% more for everything from automobiles to zippers? And that is just a down payment with more sacrifices to come later. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/intermountain-rural-electric-association/ | en | null | null | 5,224 |
The weather always changes. And weather over 30 years, you then start to call climate. Just because you’ve got one hot year doesn’t mean you have climate change. The weather always changes. If you move from say Helsinki to Florida, then you have a temperature change of about 30 degrees Celsius upwards. You do not die from that temperature change. | 1_not_happening | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/ian-plimer/ | en | null | null | 5,225 |
In reality, the Canadian oil will be produced, and the only questions are where it will be refined and at what higher cost, | 7_fossil_fuels_needed | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/benjamin-zycher/ | en | null | null | 5,226 |
U.S. surface records […] show no significant warming over the past 80 years. There have been more all-time U.S. cold records than heat records since the 1940s. | 1_not_happening | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/larry-bell/ | en | null | null | 5,227 |
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. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/nir-shaviv/ | en | null | null | 5,228 |
There is no climate change, hasn’t anybody looked out of their window recently? | 1_not_happening | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/ann-widdecombe/ | en | null | null | 5,229 |
But poor people need sustained development – not sustainable development. They need to protect their families from real, immediate, life-threatening risks – instead of being condemned to squalor and premature death, to address distant, hypothetical dangers like global warming. | 3_not_bad | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/liberty-institute/ | en | null | null | 5,232 |
How do you respond to critics who say you’re being influenced by Koch Industries, given its owners’ contributions to your campaign? | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/mike-pompeo/ | en | null | null | 5,233 |
I am not a ‘denier’. I fully accept that carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas, the climate has been warming and that man is very likely to be at least partly responsible. […] you can accept all the basic tenets of greenhouse physics and still conclude that the threat of a dangerously large warming is so improbable as to be negligible, while the threat of real harm from climate-mitigation policies is already so high as to be worrying, that the cure is proving far worse than the disease is ever likely to be, | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/matt-ridley/ | en | null | null | 5,234 |
All too often we hear that there is a scientific ‘consensus’ on climate change and its causes. If this were the case why then is increasing evidence to the contrary being published in peer-reviewed scientific journals? | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/don-keiller/ | en | null | null | 5,236 |
Fear of Global warming – aka “climate change” – led to the adoption of numerous taxes, regulations, and subsidies aimed at reducing carbon dioxide emissions. Real-world observations and improved scientific methods, however, reveal the threat of global warming was exaggerated. Laws discouraging or restricting carbon dioxide emissions have almost zero impact on climate and temperature. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/john-nothdurft/ | en | null | null | 5,237 |
Yes, there is a greenhouse effect. Yes, CO2 contributes to it. Yes, it causes warming. Yes, we emit CO2. Yes, warming will result. But not a lot. | 2_not_human | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/christopher-monckton/ | en | null | null | 5,238 |
What is particularly concerning to me is that one of our witnesses here today, Judith Curry, supported [Pruitt’s] statement. She said, I do not find any thing to disagree with in what he said. Which means that she is clearly going against what the National Academy of Sciences has said—what every academic, scientific organization in the that has weighed in on the matter has said—and I find that distressing. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/judith-curry/ | en | null | null | 5,239 |
Is it clear that whatever agreement might arise out of the 21 meeting is morally obligatory for governments to adhere to and or churches to bless? Church advocacy to this effect would lead us to conclude as much. But it is not at all clear that there is only one morally acceptable path forward for different nations and peoples to undertake with regard to stewardship of the climate. So despite intentions to the contrary, this level of church advocacy only deepens the uncertainty surrounding climate change and responsible Christian stewardship. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/acton-institute/ | en | null | null | 5,241 |
CO2 is an odorless, invisible, and non-flammable gas. It is also safe for humans in the maximum concentrations recommended for plant growth. The average level of CO2 in the atmosphere is about 390 PPM (parts per million). If the level decreases down below 200 PPM in an enclosed growing area, ps, plant growth rates and flowering will increase 20-100%. CO2 can be used from seedling right through harvest. It may take a hundred years for CO2 to get up to 1500 PPM. During that time, plant growth will flourish. | 3_not_bad | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/arthur-middleton-hughes/ | en | null | null | 5,242 |