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But we’ve always said we’ll be led by the science and the oil and gas authority has made clear that the seismic activity that we saw in Preston New Road recently where there was shale gas being explored for, was unpredictable and unexpected. And we can’t guarantee that it wouldn’t be even worse than that. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/andrea-leadsom/ | en | null | null | 5,350 |
The problem with the expertariat that runs our country now or wants to or continue to run our country is that they can see the future. They know exactly what’s going to happen and they know the ideal policies, the perfect economic setup […] in fact, those policies, once they entered the political realm, no matter how good they sound in theory are always made as inefficient, and in many cases as criminal as possible. So what we have now as the result of this expertariat that has been driving global warming policy since the early 1990s is a climate industrial complex that is sucking our economy dry for no benefit. | 6_proponents_biased | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/myron-ebell/ | en | null | null | 5,351 |
The Conservative Party should go even further and scrap all of net zero. Only Reform UK will scrap all of net zero. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/reform-uk/ | en | null | null | 5,352 |
Our nation was anointed at birth by a loving and forgiving Savior. The founding fathers were spoken to in their very heart and soul as they created the nation we love and serve. My father used to say the ocean floats all boats. And the ocean of the world, economically, is the American economic engine. And what drives that engine? Fossil fuel Now, we were given stewardship over the world and the creatures therein, by our Creator long ago. This means to nurture and to care for. So, from our very essence, from the principles that drive us, we of course are encouraged to care for our planet. All of us do. And as I speak across the state and the country and Americans ask me, after an address, that what does this mean? Shall I become supportive of the conservative agenda? Shall I vote Republican? I say you’re damn right you should vote for Republican. | 7_fossil_fuels_needed | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/clay-higgins/ | en | null | null | 5,353 |
The good news is that the Malthusian bad news is wrong. May the Church of Climate find its pews increasingly empty. | 6_proponents_biased | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/robert-l-bradley-jr/ | en | null | null | 5,354 |
A really truly clean energy source will make the environment cleaner than if it weren’t being used. Well, if we weren’t using oil, if we weren’t using natural gas, what would we be using? | 7_fossil_fuels_needed | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/mark-mathis/ | en | null | null | 5,355 |
I fear, however, that sinister forces and the dark arts are being mustered to make sure [the farmers’ protests] lose. Which is why, if you can actually find a report about the dispute, there’s no sympathy for poor old Farmer Giles. Because he’s being labelled as Hitler in a tractor veryone from the BBC to The Guardian is saying that the farmer protests in Germany have nothing to do with fuel prices and are, in fact, a smokescreen for a resurgence of the far right. They imply that if you peer over the steaming piles of manure being left at the Brandenburg Gate, you can see lots of weird rural boys in brown shirts with daggers and suspiciously neat hair. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/jeremy-clarkson/ | en | null | null | 5,356 |
There is compelling evidence of a direct relationship and a coordinated communications strategy between the Ethical Oil Institute and the CPC, including mirrored messaging from the Ethical Oil Institute and Conservative Cabinet Ministers, and crossover between the Ethical Oil Institute staff and Ministerial staff he Ethical Oil Institute claims that it is an independent, grassroots organization. It states that its website, EthicalOil.org, “began as a blog created by Alykhan Velshi” in July 2011 to promote ideas espoused by journalist Ezra Levant in his book Ethical Oil: The Case for Canada’s Oil Sands owever, the organization’s Articles of Association name prominent pro-oil sands lawyer Thomas Ross, and Ezra Levant himself, as its two officers s for Alykhan Velshi, immediately prior to “creating” EthicalOil.org, Mr. Velshi was Director of Communications and Parliamentary Affairs for then-Minister of Citizenship and Immigration, Jason Kenney. Just months after launching EthicalOil.org, he returned to government, accepting a senior position with the Prime Minister’s Office athryn Marshall took over from Mr. Velshi as spokesperson for Ethical Oil in September 2011.1 Ms. Marshall also has Conservative Party connections and is married to Hamish Marshall, a former manager of strategic planning in Stephen Harper’s PMO. Mr. Marshall’s company, Go Newclear Productions, both created and hosted websites for both Ethical Oil and Conservative cabinet ministers Joe Oliver, Pierre Poilievre and Jason Kenney. There are indications that these web-sites were programmed by Travis Freeman, who was simultaneously a member of the Go Newclear team and an employee of the Conservative Caucus Research Bureau amie Ellerton, the next Ethical Oil Institute Spokesperson and Executive Director from January 2012 to April 2013, also has a close association with Minister Kenney, having been his Executive Assistant from July 2008 to September 2010. After working for Minister Kenney, Mr. Ellerton was Executive Assistant to Ontario Conservative Party leader Tim Hudak he employees of the Ethical Oil Institute are not the only physical link between the organization and the Conservative Party of Canada. As has been pointed out in the media, the Ethical Oil Institute’s mailing address was previously used by Treasury Board President and Conservative MP Tony Clement’s re-election campaign eyond this apparent coordination of resources, the Ethical Oil Institute and its spokespeople have consistently both anticipated and echoed Conservative Party messaging about the oil sands. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/ethical-oil-institute/ | en | null | null | 5,357 |
Meanwhile in the real world, no convincing evidence whatsoever has emerged to support the threadbare theory that anthropogenic CO2 is causing the planet to warm in ways which are dangerous or unprecedented. Still, the theory rests entirely on computer models which, increasingly, appear to diverge from the actual observed data. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/james-delingpole/ | en | null | null | 5,358 |
I am not an expert on farming. I don’t have a lot of technology to add to moonshine. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/rex-tillerson/ | en | null | null | 5,360 |
The current nitrogen law has to go and be replaced with a broad view on nature policy, nature conservation and restoration of nature where necessary. The suffocating nitrogen regulations in the Netherlands act like a self-imposed lock-down for agricultural entrepreneurs, infrastructural projects (like road construction) and building projects and should be removed as quickly as possible. The above ministry is tasked with the preservation of all elements in the landscape and ensures that there will still be potatoes, vegetables, meat or fish on our plates in 50 years’ time. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/boerburgerbeweging-bbb/ | en | null | null | 5,361 |
Climate is changing and it is part of the normal cycle – not human-induced. You are actually correct that I support capitalism and freedom and am against authoritarianism and totalitarian systems. What you fail to understand is that climate change is an agenda to eliminate your freedom. The entire argument is to support a move toward an authoritarian state. You better wake up. This is not truly about the climate change, it is all about controlling society, eliminating democracy, and changing the entire economic model that changes society. There is far more at stake here than most people realize. | 2_not_human | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/martin-armstrong/ | en | null | null | 5,362 |
Our view is that the causes and consequences of climate change are very complex and future climate conditions are probably impossible to forecast, | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/joseph-bast/ | en | null | null | 5,363 |
For billions of people, the outcome of COP28 and following international climate negotiations will make the difference between life and death, chaos and solidarity,” said MEP Manon Aubry, one of the signatories. “Corporate greed and lobbyists’ lies have led us into this climate crisis. We must prevent private interests from interfering in politics and regain ownership of our future. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/sultan-ahmed-al-jaber/ | en | null | null | 5,364 |
For years, the U.S. government has held the position that atmospheric CO2 is a dangerous air pollutant that must be regulated to avoid the perils of global warming and climate change. I hope and trust that you also know that the scientific evidence supporting that position is tenuous at best and upheld primarily by inadequate and unvalidated computer model projections as opposed to real-world observations. This I know from having studied thousands of scientific papers on the topic. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/craig-idso/ | en | null | null | 5,365 |
Global warming, for instance, which remains speculative and based on incomplete computer models rather than on demonstrated science, might cost man and nature a great deal if we rush to impose dramatic limits on fossil-fuel use in a misguided attempt to solve a problem that may not even exist. Just twenty-five years ago, some of the current proponents of global warming were warning us about global cooling.33 Because ecology is still in its infancy, we need to utilize all that we know to help us find prudent solutions for these complex problems. We must also recognize that science alone is insufficient for resolving these matters, especially since these issues have moral implications. Thus, in recognizing that we will have to make unavoidable tradeoffs in striking a balance between human need and a clean environment, we must exercise prudence in addressing environmental concerns. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/acton-institute/ | en | null | null | 5,366 |
Policies to ‘stop climate change’ are based on climate models that completely failed to predict the lack of warming for the past two decades. Observational data show clearly that the predictions of unacceptable warming caused by more carbon dioxide are wrong. Economic discount rates aside, policies designed to save the planet from more carbon dioxide are based on failed computer models. […] Human emissions of carbon dioxide, a transparent, odorless, non-toxic gas, essential for plant growth and contained at about 40,000 parts per million (ppm) in our own breaths. Carbon dioxide has been mercilessly demonized as ‘carbon pollution’, when in fact it is a benefit to the planet. Agricultural production has increased substantially and the Earth is greener today with the 400 ppm current levels of carbon dioxide than it was with preindustrial levels of about 280 ppm. And two or three times higher levels would be even better. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/global-warming-policy-foundation/ | en | null | null | 5,367 |
Regardless of one’s opinions on the degree to which climate change is occurring, regulations associated with the Paris accord will have no meaningful impact on the planet’s temperature. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/heritage-foundation/ | en | null | null | 5,368 |
There is no agreement among climatologists as to the relative contributions of Man and Nature” to observed planetary warming, they claimed. As for the consensus view, it “says nothing about whether anthropogenic global warming was, is or will be catastrophic. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/willie-soon/ | en | null | null | 5,369 |
Trump 2020’s winning message is this: ‘My opponent supports the ‘Green New Deal.’,” Turner wrote Pundits and energy experts have rightly mocked the ‘Green New Deal’ as more a socialist manifesto than a policy. After all, it includes everything from forcing net-zero carbon emissions in a decade (impossible), to a government takeover of health care, to paying those ‘unwilling’ to work. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/daniel-turner/ | en | null | null | 5,370 |
The policies being promoted are insane… If you believe energy poverty is a good thing, you should support controls on carbon emissions. But most of the world disagrees with that. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/myron-ebell/ | en | null | null | 5,371 |
Patrick Moore has been a paid spokesman for a variety of polluting industries for more than 30 years, including the timber, mining, chemical and the aquaculture industries. Most of these industries hired Mr. Moore only after becoming the focus of a Greenpeace campaign to improve their environmental performance. Mr. Moore has now worked for polluters for far longer than he ever worked for Greenpeace. Greenpeace opposes the use of nuclear energy because it is a dangerous and expensive distraction from real solutions to climate change. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/patrick-moore/ | en | null | null | 5,372 |
Climate change is a perfect scapegoat for environmentalists. They can use that to change the behavior, the lifestyle, and the standard of living of every single citizen on the planet. We also have to look at the benefits of higher global temperatures, a lot of places that weren’t arable land before are now going to be. And I think that’s important, that you need to weigh those costs and benefits. I think that global warming could be a net benefit for the planet in fact. | 3_not_bad | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/todd-wynn/ | en | null | null | 5,373 |
We do not know if we are a small or large part of the present global warming. It is not possible through science to determine an exact answer to this question. Certainly the natural factors, and there are many, that have acted to change the climate many times through the history of the Earth, are still operating today. They have not gone away. But human emissions of is a new (natural) factor. So it is very unlikely that we are the only factor causing the present global warming but we may be one of the factors, | 2_not_human | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/patrick-moore/ | en | null | null | 5,375 |
I really don’t think that you can find or argue convincingly that there are any significant worries about the sea ice condition in the Arctic,” Soon told the group. “I would suggest that the current condition today is nowhere near optimal for the polar bear, which means it can grow a little bit warmer. | 3_not_bad | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/doctors-disaster-preparedness/ | en | null | null | 5,377 |
The problem, whether it’s Fed, Afghanistan, COVID, is that we’ve, we have this sort of, these machines for generating consensus, uniformity, you know, and not asking dissident questions even though they’re super urgent and as far as I can tell, the hour is late for all of these institutions, and it’s more urgent than ever that we find a way to have some of these dissident voices get heard in all these different contexts. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/peter-thiel/ | en | null | null | 5,378 |
Several indisputable facts appear evident in geological and climate science that make me a true ‘denier’ of human-caused global warming. | 2_not_human | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/harrison-schmitt/ | en | null | null | 5,379 |
The problem I have with though, this circles back to the whole issue of when we pay for gasoline at the pump. If you raise the taxes on gasoline and oil, the price of gasoline and oil isn’t going to go down. The price of gasoline and oil is going to go up, | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/stephen-moore/ | en | null | null | 5,380 |
There’s also a there’s also a thing that’s not being addressed about the climate is that it’s never been static, ever. Never in the history of the Earth. So this idea that climate change is going to be mitigated or that some somehow or another, we’re going to be able to control it, like, are you sure? Because it seems like ice ages have always existed in great periods of melting, and global warming have always existed. Like whether or not we’re having an effect on it, that’s what we should say. Well, what is our effect? Pollutants. What are we doing? What’s what are we doing that’s negative? But this idea that if you stop, the earth is going to stay like this. It’s not. | 2_not_human | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/joe-rogan/ | en | null | null | 5,381 |
It’s a really silly policy. You’re talking, in rural areas, of communities that aren’t particularly well-off being expected to pay out significant amounts of money which they’re not going to have. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/jacob-rees-mogg/ | en | null | null | 5,382 |
This report is a pack of lies, it is anti-scientific nonsense based on fraud which is intended to regiment people into paying more in carbon taxes and help the oil companies increase profits by increasing prices. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/piers-corbyn/ | en | null | null | 5,383 |
The lack of warming for more than a decade—indeed, the smaller-than-predicted warming over the 22 years since the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) began issuing projections—suggests that computer models have greatly exaggerated how much warming additional CO2 can cause. Faced with this embarrassment, those promoting alarm have shifted their drumbeat from warming to weather extremes, to enable anything unusual that happens in our chaotic climate to be ascribed to CO2. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/rodney-nichols/ | en | null | null | 5,384 |
All of this [opposition] testimony is flawed to the extent it simply relies on … predictions by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change […] today the best evidence indicates that … a much lower climate sensitivity value of 1°C or 1.5°C is correct […] | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/william-happer/ | en | null | null | 5,386 |
The use of North Sea oil and gas is crucial, so there needs to be investment in that too. There also should be fracking in the UK. | 7_fossil_fuels_needed | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/liz-truss/ | en | null | null | 5,387 |
Believing that man-made climate change exists, as I do, does not necessarily mean that you think that it is rapid or a serious problem or that the policies to address it will actually do anything or that you are willing to pay the costs of those policies. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/myron-ebell/ | en | null | null | 5,388 |
The accreditation is only important for two reasons,” Peterson said. “One is it’s a path to graduate school and that’s going to be a problem for us. But the other pathway is to employment. And all sorts of corporations are already stating publicly that they no longer regard a university degree as a stamp of accreditation. So why the hell would I pursue that? | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/peterson-academy/ | en | null | null | 5,389 |
Man’s contribution to atmospheric CO2 from the burning of fossil fuels is small, maximum 4% found by carbon isotope mass balance calculations. The ‘Greenhouse Effect’ of this contribution is small and well within natural climatic variability […] The global climate is primarily governed by the enormous heat energy stored in the oceans and the latent heat of melting of the ice caps, not by the small amount of heat that can be absorbed in atmospheric CO2CO2 taxes’ to be paid by the public cannot influence on the sea level and the global climate. | 2_not_human | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/tom-segalstad/ | en | null | null | 5,390 |
Subjecting allegations of gravesites, serendipitous jawbones or accusations of murder by poisoned milk to the unblinking rigour of science, logic and archival proof is not ‘heartless cynicism,’ as some critics claim. It is a necessary process to ensure Canadian public policy and opinion based on the basis of facts and reliable evidence, rather than rumour and hearsay, | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/manning-foundation-for-democratic-education/ | en | null | null | 5,391 |
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. The climate of this planet has been changing since God put the planet here. It will always change, and the warming in the last 10 years is not much difference than the warming we saw in the 1930s and other decades. And, lets not forget we are at the end of the ice age in which ice covered most of North America and Northern Europe. | 2_not_human | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/james-spann/ | en | null | null | 5,392 |
There is no empirical evidence that directly links CO2 as the direct cause of any change in climate. | 2_not_human | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/malcolm-roberts/ | en | null | null | 5,393 |
We all accept that we’re in a period of global warming, but a lot of people are panicking aren’t they. Are they right to panic? | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/richard-tice/ | en | null | null | 5,394 |
There is no convincing scientific evidence that human contribution to greenhouse gases is causing dangerous global warming. | 2_not_human | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/cornwall-alliance-stewardship-creation/ | en | null | null | 5,395 |
In summary, the results of our research are in accord with the scientific consensus on the effect of increased atmospheric CO2 on climate. Our research appears to reconcile NewelI’s observations and proposed mechanism with the consensus opinion. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/roger-cohen/ | en | null | null | 5,396 |
We expect that solar activity should cool the Earth, and it could actually be why the temperatures are not increasing. I mean, they haven’t been increasing for the past twenty years,” Svensmark said. | 2_not_human | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/henrik-svensmark/ | en | null | null | 5,397 |
My comment to the committee when something like that was asked to me a month ago was, ‘Mother Nature has within her all the necessary tools to generate extreme events that exceed what we have seen in the past 50 years.’ So, whatever we have seen out there, Mother Nature already has the ability to do it. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/steve-koonin/ | en | null | null | 5,398 |
We don’t take that position because they invest. It’s the other way around. And any environmental group that is honest and has any familiarity with us knows that to be the case. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/marlo-lewis-jr/ | en | null | null | 5,399 |
How can this be AND the year also be the hottest on record! Simply put the correction algorithms used to compensate for the urban heat island effects are wrong. As are the majority if not all of the climate models used by the UN IPCC which do not take into account celestial cycles, cloud formation impacts of comic [sic] rays and numerous other parameters that are a bigger driver than CO2, | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/joe-leimkuhler/ | en | null | null | 5,400 |
I started as an anthropogenic global warming believer, then I read the [UN’s IPCC] Summary for Policymakers and the research of prominent skeptics. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/hans-hj-labohm/ | en | null | null | 5,401 |
Rather than rely exclusively on IPCC for scientific advice, Idaho policymakers should seek advice from independent, nongovernment organizations and scientists. Much of what has been done to combat climate change has been wasteful and even counterproductive. Idaho could do much better to protect its environment by enacting policies that cost less and require fewer regulations, | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/tim-benson/ | en | null | null | 5,402 |
There has been no net warming of the planet since 1998, or if you want to pick a more fair baseline, since 2001. | 1_not_happening | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/marlo-lewis-jr/ | en | null | null | 5,403 |
What’s going to happen when their tanks run out of juice half-way up the Tora Bora mountains and there’s not a recharging point outside of Kabul? They’ll no doubt have green ammo to defend themselves, although plastic bullets are a non-starter, obviously. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/richard-littlejohn/ | en | null | null | 5,404 |
Those who promote the politically correct theory are favored with billions from government grants and neo-Marxist environmentalist largesse, and official recognition and award. Faked and tampered data and evidence has arisen in favor of the politically correct theory. Is not man-caused, catastrophic global warming now the only theory allowed to be taught in the West hose in positions of scientific authority in the West who have collaborated with this new Lysenkoism because they felt they must be politically correct, and/or because of the money, publicity, and recognition to be gained, have disgraced themselves and the integrity of their institutions, organizations and publications ut there is a more virulent strain at the root of Western Lysenkoism today. Scientists, like Holdren and Michael Mann, can be leftist ideologues as well, posing to manipulate and mislead for the good of the cause. Bottom line: green is the new red. That is why Obama at root is so committed to it. | 6_proponents_biased | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/peter-ferrara/ | en | null | null | 5,405 |
Of course, green policy wonks should be free to do what they like with their own boilers. But their agenda has no legitimacy and its advocates have no right to presuppose our agreement to it. | 6_proponents_biased | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/ben-pile/ | en | null | null | 5,406 |
Wind energy is environmentally harmful and costly to taxpayers. Furthermore, its expansion could adversely affect the nation’s electricity transmission system. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/tom-tanton/ | en | null | null | 5,407 |
The current enthusiasm over global warming is based on either unsound – or if you want to be more modest about it, unsettled – science. We don’t know much about climate. That’s the truth. [… am not scientist, [sic] but I strongly suggest that all of you make yourselves familiar with the science. It is not really so hard. A piece that I wrote with the Harvard astrophysicist Sallie Baliunas in the current issue of the Weekly Standard gives you the outlines. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/james-k-glassman/ | en | null | null | 5,408 |
Put aside that neither the Clean Power Plan nor the administration’s larger climate policy would have a measurable effect on temperatures. The reality is that the plan is so inflexible and costly that states heavily dependent on coal power will suffer an artificial competitive disadvantage, and will be forced to join regional cap-and-trade emissions trading systems. Since those states disproportionately are red ones—Mississippi, North Dakota and Texas, for example—the dominant effect will be payments for emissions credits from red states to blue ones, | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/benjamin-zycher/ | en | null | null | 5,409 |
Spain has already attempted to lead the world in a clean energy transformation. But our research shows that Spain’s policies were economically destructive. […] Deliberately pursuing more expensive and less efficient energy in order to create green jobs has been the source of social harm and net job destruction, and many citizens of a nation are hurt when such policies are pursued. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/gabriel-calzada/ | en | null | null | 5,411 |
The climate changes for all sorts of reasons, I mean volcanic activity, the jet stream, water vapour in the atmosphere, cloud formation and the sun’s cycles as well as man-made carbon dioxide, which some people seem to think is the only driver of it. | 2_not_human | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/john-redwood/ | en | null | null | 5,412 |
There’s no question that burning fossil fuels is leading to a warmer climate and that addressing this problem is important. But doing so is a question of timing and priority. For many parts of the world, fossil fuels are still vital and will be for the next few decades, because they are the only means to lift people out of the smoke and darkness of energy poverty. | 7_fossil_fuels_needed | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/bjorn-lomborg/ | en | null | null | 5,413 |
It’s kind of obvious if you have a warmer world with more CO2, it’s a more tropical world with more life. It’s a more green world in the life sense of green. And yet the green movement hates it because we caused it. So they can see no good in anything we caused, even when it leads to more biological productivity. It’s fundamentally an anti-human movement, not a pro-life-of-any- kind movement. | 3_not_bad | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/alex-epstein/ | en | null | null | 5,416 |
What’s certain is for several decades now – and most especially since the Fall of the Berlin Wall supposedly won the capitalist argument – the left has been using environmentalism as a cloak to disguise its usual controlling, misanthropic, puritanical, big government agenda with a kindly aura of bunny-hugging caringness, | 6_proponents_biased | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/james-delingpole/ | en | null | null | 5,417 |
So who would oppose something that could save millions of children’s lives and millions of other children from blindness he answer is people who are more devoted to nature than to human life nd who might such people be hey are called environmentalists. | 6_proponents_biased | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/dennis-prager/ | en | null | null | 5,418 |
The Midwest delivered the White House to Trump, who dominated among the working class voters who care far more about how much they are paying to fill up the gas tank and keep their lights on than they do about what United Nations computer models predict about the climate in decades or centuries – the results of which show minimal change anyway,” Kerpen wrote at American Commitment e added: “The Paris treaty is a magnificent example of the bad deals made for America that ultimately paved Donald Trump’s path to the White House. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/phil-kerpen/ | en | null | null | 5,419 |
Atmospheric CO2 is not a pollutant. It is the single most important chemical constituent of the cycles of plant and animal life, | 2_not_human | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/john-birch-society/ | en | null | null | 5,420 |
The Clean Air Act was never intended to regulate carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions, | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/nicolas-loris/ | en | null | null | 5,421 |
First, the world isn’t warming. Second, even if it were, oil and gas wouldn’t be the cause. Third, no one can predict the likely future temperature rise, | 1_not_happening | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/lee-raymond/ | en | null | null | 5,422 |
Cambridge Analytica’s work on the Trump campaign is a clear example of how data-driven marketing techniques can change behavior in target populations. Applied to the commercial sector, these techniques can strategically engage your key audiences, improving conversion rates and boosting sales. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/cambridge-analytica/ | en | null | null | 5,423 |
Conventional wisdom on how to deal with climate change has failed us, according to Roger Pielke, and it’s time to change course. Using an arithmetic and logical explanation, Pielke explores the problem and practical ways of meeting growing energy demands. In this thought-provoking discussion of the interaction between science and politics, Pielke proposes a means for digging ourselves out of this climate change mess we’ve created. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/roger-pielke-jr/ | en | null | null | 5,424 |
We’ve supported every conceivable measure to breathe life back into an industry that has been injured by a decade of obstructionist regulation and executive decree. We’ve created an environment, and we continue to do so, where energy production, exploration, extraction, utilization, is encouraged. | 7_fossil_fuels_needed | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/clay-higgins/ | en | null | null | 5,425 |
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. | 2_not_human | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/nir-shaviv/ | en | null | null | 5,426 |
If you believe that global warming is man-made (and I am not even going to bother to discuss this contention on this occasion, for it is irrelevant to my argument, so please don’t try to tempt me), then Britain’s coal shutdown will make absolutely no difference at all to the outcome you fear. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/peter-hitchens/ | en | null | null | 5,427 |
I think if he were to see the science as it is, then he would understand that it is more important to raise people out of poverty and give them that opportunity rather than fighting a mythical global warming crisis. | 6_proponents_biased | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/james-taylor/ | en | null | null | 5,428 |
We’re not going to give time to climate deniers,” Chuck Todd said on the NBC program. “The science is settled even if political opinion is not.” We’re not going to debate climate change, the existence of it. The Earth is getting hotter and human activity is a major cause. Period. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/competitive-enterprise-institute/ | en | null | null | 5,429 |
I have never seen an instance where there has been an effort to limit debate and discussion, | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/fred-palmer/ | en | null | null | 5,431 |
Anti-development and anti-energy activist groups are attempting to deceive the public into believing that we can wean ourselves off of oil in the near future… . The United States cannot lose its ability to produce a significant percentage of oil for itself. Without enough petroleum, freedom itself could be in jeopardy. | 7_fossil_fuels_needed | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/citizens-alliance-responsible-energy/ | en | null | null | 5,432 |
The current warming trend began as Earth came out of the little ice age—an important fact that is all too often overlooked in the global warming debate. | 2_not_human | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/h-sterling-burnett/ | en | null | null | 5,433 |
Having many friends in the political and policy spheres, I do not know a single Republican who does not believe the climate is changing. If you remember your basic eighth grade earth science you will recall that the earth has a constantly changing climate from ice ages to warming periods, and our current climate is not some new objective standard that must be held constant. | 2_not_human | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/doug-domenech/ | en | null | null | 5,434 |
A lot of fairy stories are attached to and latched on to a genuine scientific concern. The first fairy tale, which the Government foster, is the idea that there is total consensus in science at the alarmist end of the spectrum. […] The simple fact is that the science is not resolved. A lot of serious scientists think that although there is a measure of impact—I agree with that—the alarmist views are not upheld by the science. A majority may well disagree with the scientists to whom I have referred. | 6_proponents_biased | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/peter-lilley/ | en | null | null | 5,435 |
Increased CO2 actually increases crop production. When CO2 drops to less than 150 (parts per million) plants will commence failing. If the plants die, then the livestock die and then guess who is next? | 3_not_bad | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/gary-england/ | en | null | null | 5,436 |
This new and growing scientific evidence that human CO2 emissions have little to do with climate change makes the current Western political obsession to curb carbon emissions at a vast economic cost extremely foolish. For India it would mean not only reversing the current trends in poverty alleviation, but a vast increase in the numbers of the poor who would otherwise be pulled out of poverty. India should have nothing to do with Copenhagen. If this means there is no climate change treaty, it might also save the West from its current path to committing economic hara-kiri. | 2_not_human | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/deepak-lal-1940-2020/ | en | null | null | 5,437 |
Canada can become a world leader on climate action through technology and innovation, and by continuing to develop natural gas responsibly. Electrification of upstream production is an important step in this process anadian natural gas presents opportunity for significant environmental benefit. Natural gas is the cleanest-burning hydrocarbon – emitting about 40% less carbon dioxide () when used in electricity generation. | 7_fossil_fuels_needed | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/canadian-association-petroleum-producers-capp/ | en | null | null | 5,438 |
There needs to be some sort of congressional action to decide how the United States is going to deal with climate change. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/jeffrey-r-holmstead/ | en | null | null | 5,439 |
Life has existed on our planet for billions of years, and the climate over that time has changed from ice ages to periods much warmer than today. There is little doubt that as our cities grow, heat waves will be more severe in the urban areas. If global warming does in fact add to the problem, we will adapt to the new world, just as humans have done for millions of years. | 3_not_bad | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/robert-c-balling-jr/ | en | null | null | 5,440 |
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/john-constable/ | en | null | null | 5,441 |
Continued use and development of natural resources will generate good jobs, provide government revenues and result in innovations that reduce their climate impact, | 7_fossil_fuels_needed | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/stewart-muir/ | en | null | null | 5,442 |
We all want to see a cleaner and better environment for future generations, but if climate and energy policies are rushed and their costs and implications not fully thought through, they will almost certainly do more harm than good. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/net-zero-watch/ | en | null | null | 5,443 |
I’m proud to say that my home state of #Iowa is one of the nation’s leaders in renewable energy, with wind providing nearly 40% of our electricity, more than any other state. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/joni-ernst/ | en | null | null | 5,445 |
They’ve been brainwashing us for 20 years. Starting with the nuclear winter and now with the global warming. This scare will also run its course. In 15-20 years, we’ll look back and see what a hoax this was. | 1_not_happening | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/william-gray/ | en | null | null | 5,446 |
We face a culture war right now in this country. […] I mean a war over the culture of freedom. Free enterprise is the bedrock notion of American culture. It’s at the center of what mainstream Americans truly believe in, | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/arthur-c-brooks/ | en | null | null | 5,447 |
Listing decisions under the Endangered Species Act are meant to be entirely science-based decisions that result from – in some cases – years of review by experts in the field, not political appointees,” said Elizabeth Klein, a former associate deputy secretary at DOI A delay in and of itself might not be the end of the world – but then again it very well could be for an imperiled species. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/vincent-devito/ | en | null | null | 5,448 |
Ultimately, victory or defeat in fighting scourges like wind energy, comes down to how well we understand and utilize Public Relations (). […] may be perceived as ‘shady’ or worse, but actually it is no more than communication. To have a real chance to win a local challenge, community advocates go about this in the right way! | 1_not_happening | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/alliance-wise-energy-decisions/ | en | null | null | 5,450 |
The climate is changing. No one is denying climate change. The climate’s changed, we know that. We did move to climate change instead of global warming at one point when we didn’t see global warming. So everytime we see a fire, or there is a tornado, or there is a drought or there is a hurricane, that is now blamed on global warming, even though a lot of these things, these extreme weather events, they’re actually not increasing at all are they, which surely they should be? | 1_not_happening | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/julia-hartley-brewer/ | en | null | null | 5,451 |
Be it resolved, climate change is mankind’s defining crisis, and demands a commensurate response, | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/aurea-foundation/ | en | null | null | 5,452 |
When it comes to [the Queen’s] son [Prince Charles], when it comes to Charlie Boy and climate change, oh dear, oh dear, oh dear. Her mother, Her Royal Highness the Queen’s mother was a slightly overweight, chain-smoking gin drinker who lived to 101 years old. All I can say is Charlie Boy is now in his 70s … may the Queen live a very, very long time. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/nigel-farage/ | en | null | null | 5,453 |
In any event, [temperatures are] not rising nearly as fast as the climate models say it should be rising. And those climate models are what are being used to dictate our future energy policy, | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/roy-spencer/ | en | null | null | 5,454 |
I wish I knew more about what is going on, and why. It is time to consult once again the learned astrophysicist, Piers Corbyn. Now Piers has a very good record of forecasting the weather. He has been bang on about these cold winters. Like JMW Turner and the Aztecs he thinks we should be paying more attention to the Sun. According to Piers, global temperature depends not on concentrations of CO2 but on the mood of our celestial orb. | 2_not_human | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/boris-johnson/ | en | null | null | 5,455 |
The lust for power is at the heart of environmentalism. Fearmongering is simply the quickest way to convince Americans to surrender their freedom—hence, the ever-looming ‘climate crisis’ that’s been hanging over our heads since the 1970s ndoubtedly, the Earth’s climate is always changing, and there’s much more we have yet to learn about it. People who are pro-science and understand the scientific method won’t rest on fake claims about a ’97 percent consensus’ or falsely state that the ‘science is settled.’ Truth—not unanimous agreement—is the object of science. | 6_proponents_biased | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/capital-research-center/ | en | null | null | 5,456 |
Everybody should be part of the John Birch Society, or at least get their materials, because they’re the best you’re going to find anywhere. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/alex-jones/ | en | null | null | 5,457 |
Setting unrealistic climate goals risks making poor policy choices that lead to unwanted outcomes for both the economy and the environment, | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/macdonald-laurier-institute/ | en | null | null | 5,458 |
The Trump administration has placed a former Koch Industries official in charge of research that will shape how the government regulates a class of toxic chemicals contaminating millions of Americans’ drinking water — an issue that could have major financial repercussions for his former employer David Dunlap, a deputy in EPA’s Office of Research and Development, is playing a key role as the agency decides how to protect people from the pollution left behind at hundreds of military bases and factories across the country. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/david-dunlap/ | en | null | null | 5,459 |