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Polygamists, polyamorists, pedophiles, and others will be next in line to claim equal protection. They already are. There will be no legal basis to deny a bisexual the right to marry a partner of each sex, or a person to marry his pet. If everyone does what is right in his own eyes, chaos and sexual anarchy will result. And make no mistake, the extremists who seek to redefine marriage also want to deny you the right to object to immoral behavior. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/mike-johnson/ | en | null | null | 5,460 |
My god, we’re a fossil-fuel-based society. And I think we’re going to have, if this continues, a big shortage of fuel to operate our economy. | 7_fossil_fuels_needed | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/david-koch/ | en | null | null | 5,461 |
In any event, it has never been true that we ignore mainstream science; and anyone who reads AEI publications closely can see that we are not ‘skeptics’ about warming. It is possible to accept the general consensus about the existence of global warming while having valid questions about the extent of warming, the consequences of warming, and the appropriate responses. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/steven-f-hayward/ | en | null | null | 5,462 |
Leftist groups argue that legislation outlawing wage discrimination, like the Paycheck Fairness Act, is needed to close pay gaps and stop discrimination in the workplace. But that’s not what this bill would do. It is just another bill that sounds good in name only, yet hurts those it is supposed to help. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/independent-womens-voice/ | en | null | null | 5,463 |
Their has been no statistically significant warming of the upper ocean since 2003. | 1_not_happening | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/roger-pielke-sr/ | en | null | null | 5,464 |
The Endangered Species Act does not regulate species but habitat, which is land-use control,” Arnold wrote. “The Fish and Wildlife Service uses its power to separate land from use. The Endangered Species Act does not regulate species but habitat, which is land-use control. The Fish and Wildlife Service uses its power to separate land from use. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/ron-arnold/ | en | null | null | 5,465 |
Unfortunately, such perspectives are often silenced by the muzzle of climate change doctrine, which is used as a cudgel to shut down debate around green energy mandates. Consider how activists routinely label good-faith opponents of even the most stringent environmental regulations as ‘climate deniers’ in an attempt to discredit them without engaging with their arguments.‘To provide space for this much-needed debate over energy and environment policy, Steamboat Institute is hosting a summit in Steamboat Springs on March 11 and 12 called ‘The Nexus of U.S. Energy Policy, Climate Science, Freedom and Prosperity.’ It features leading bipartisan policy experts in addition to [Bjorn] Lomborg, including Steven E. Koonin, undersecretary for science in the Obama administration; Aurelia Skipwith Giacometto, former Fish and Wildlife Service director; and Patrick Moore, co-founder and past president of Greenpeace. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/the-steamboat-institute/ | en | null | null | 5,466 |
Trump’s executive action to revisit the previous designations will be important in correcting past abuses, but executive action is not enough — indeed, an excess of executive authority is at the heart of the problem with the Antiquities Act,” Kidwell wrote Work by the House Natural Resources Committee under Chairman Bishop leadership’s will help ensure that similar abuses don’t happen in the future. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/grant-kidwell/ | en | null | null | 5,467 |
The EU has single-mindedly pursued an overly prescriptive interpretation of the “Precautionary Principle,” smothering opportunities for innovation in thrall to the emotions of vocal activists rather than scientific evidence and advice The green blob dominates thinking in Brussels, with generous grants given to green groups so that they will lobby it for regulations which then require large budgets to enforce. | 6_proponents_biased | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/owen-paterson/ | en | null | null | 5,469 |
Wait a minute, Charlie. Science isn’t – science is not a democratic process, where everybody gets together and votes. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/lee-raymond/ | en | null | null | 5,470 |
For the benefit of climate activists who live under the delusion that anyone who fails to share their belief must be in the pay of big oil, I am not part of the bonanza – I have avoided investing directly in fossil fuel companies for several years specifically so that no one can level that claim at me. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/ross-clark/ | en | null | null | 5,471 |
Climate alarmism has little to do with the radiative properties of CO2. Rather, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) scary projections derive from conjectured ‘positive feedbacks,’ mostly from water vapour, that are presumed to dangerously amplify the otherwise welcome effects of radiative warming by atmospheric CO2. But again there is no proven correlation between higher atmospheric CO2 concentrations and these hypothetical feedbacks, including moist vaporous ones. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/manning-foundation-for-democratic-education/ | en | null | null | 5,472 |
As a scientific matter, there is no question about what happens in an abortion: A living individual human organism is put to death at an early stage of development. No amount of metaphysical hand-waving about ‘personhood’ is going to change that. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/kevin-d-williamson/ | en | null | null | 5,473 |
Genesis 8:22 that I use [in The Greatest Hoax] is that as long as the Earth remains there will be springtime, harvest, cold and heat, winter and summer, day and night. My point is, God’s still up there, and the arrogance of people who think that we, human beings, would be able to change what he is doing in the climate is to me outrageous. | 2_not_human | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/james-inhofe/ | en | null | null | 5,474 |
So if we don’t want to perpetuate poverty in the name of preventing climate change, geoengineering may be our way out. Why? Because geoengineering would provide more time for the world’s economy to grow while inventors and entrepreneurs develop and deploy new carbon neutral energy sources to replace fossil fuels … It seems unlikely that fast-growing poor countries like India and China will agree cut back on their use of fossil fuels any time soon. If that’s the case, then emissions reductions in rich countries would have almost no effect on future temperature trends. Geoengineering could give humanity more time to resolve this collective action problem, too. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/ronald-bailey/ | en | null | null | 5,475 |
The actual overall split, funnily enough, is exactly the same as the vote for us leaving the European Union – 52-48, fancy that. So 52% of everybody, and that’s with all the propaganda and all the messaging that’s been thrown at us relentlessly over this whole period, 52% of everybody don’t want net-zero. We can’t afford it, the science is dodgy, nobody’s allowed to talk about the science and if you are, you’re a denier. The whole thing needs to be looked at again but the most important thing is that the next Tory leader needs to listen to the Tory voters, [and] the voters at the last election, do not want net zero – they can’t afford it and it’s complete nonsense anyway. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/car26/ | en | null | null | 5,476 |
It is the seismic activity that is the area that we need to closely regulate and we need that certainty. So as the science improves, we will be able to look at this again but that’s not for now. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/andrea-leadsom/ | en | null | null | 5,477 |
Taxing or regulating CO2 emissions is an unnecessary and detrimental policy option that should be shunned. Why would any government or religious institution advocate to increase regulations and raise energy prices based on flawed computer projections of climate change that will never come to pass? | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/craig-idso/ | en | null | null | 5,478 |
When it comes to foreign funding of green activism and opposition to our resource development, however, there’s been little coverage, let alone media sleuthing. Alberta’s investigation into foreign interference was relentlessly criticized and derided and called a waste of money. Yet the recent Allan Report, despite its low-key language and various caveats, confirmed the central charge of foreign meddling on the scale reported by Krause and Lyman, concluding that ‘there are large amounts of foreign funding flowing into Canada’ with the goal of influencing public policy on resource development. | 6_proponents_biased | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/manning-foundation-for-democratic-education/ | en | null | null | 5,479 |
Damaging hurricanes, tornadoes, and whatever […] are not linked to the buildup of greenhouse gases.” Increased CO2 worldwide with few exceptions means plants grow better, period. […] CO2 is something that plants love […] It’s hardly a pollutant at all. It’s a naturally occurring gas […] | 2_not_human | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/western-fuels-association/ | en | null | null | 5,480 |
The fact of the matter is that there does exist a growing body of scientific evidence that the climate changes in the coming decades will be modest and proceed at a rate that will lie somewhere near the low end of the IPCC projected temperature range. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/chip-knappenberger/ | en | null | null | 5,481 |
CO2 is a useful trace gas in the atmosphere, and the planet would actually benefit by having more, not less of it, because it is not a driver for Global Warming and would enrich our vegetation, yielding better crops to feed the expanding population, | 3_not_bad | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/james-peden/ | en | null | null | 5,482 |
Clearly, we do not yet have the necessary proven technologies or technologies having sufficient scale to dramatically cut CO2 emissions. Forging ahead without the needed technologies will cause severe economic harm by cutting our supply of electricity and reducing America’s standard of living. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/donn-dears/ | en | null | null | 5,483 |
Contrary to what the opposition wants you to believe, offshore energy exploration has occurred safely alongside marine life, commercial fishing, military activities, and tourism for decades in the Gulf Not only have these industries co-existed with energy production, but in many cases energy development has stimulated and bolstered investments, increased higher-paying jobs, and supported retail and tourism in coastal towns along the Gulf,’ Cornelia Horner, a spokeswoman with the American Petroleum Institute he choice is simple when you have the facts. Say yes to exploring our offshore resources in Florida. | 7_fossil_fuels_needed | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/american-petroleum-institute/ | en | null | null | 5,484 |
It’s just loaded with citations,” Cheryl Manning, a Colorado science teacher at Evergreen High School who received the mailing told Buzzfeed. “But it’s circular. It’s all self-citations. Citing their own stuff instead of citing other people’s work. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/heartland-institute/ | en | null | null | 5,485 |
If you look at the time period from 1900 to 2050, surprisingly, for a lot of people, the net impact of most global warming was actually positive. That’s because is actually fertilizer, that means it increases our agricultural production. Of course, in the long run increasing temperatures is also going to reduce agricultural production. We will also see more people die from heat, but many more people will avoid to die from cold, again with moderate global warming. We are also seeing the lower costs of heating outweigh the extra costs of cooling. So, actually, if you look at what the cost is [of global warming] it turns out to be a slight negative around 1900 at about 0.5% and across the most of the century, mostly a negative. | 3_not_bad | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/bjorn-lomborg/ | en | null | null | 5,486 |
It will be up to 15 years before it is possible to do commercially so it will be very expensive. But carbon capture has great potential so we urgently need to do it. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/philip-stott/ | en | null | null | 5,487 |
No one but an idiot would claim that man has had no effect on climate. But, also, no one but a numbskull would say that natural factors like continental drift, volcanoes, ocean currents and the earth’s tilt have had no impact. Thus, we should be able to place ‘climate deniers’ and the most mulish of climate-change advocates – like, for example, the New York Times and Al Gore – outside the room, so that an intelligent conversation and debate can be had within. Unfortunately, the decibels of the discourse on this subject have risen to such levels that there are very few left to quietly and civilly discuss climate change and to debate what actions man should take to limit emissions, but also to prepare for a changing future. In his 2007 classic, Cool It, Bjorn Lomborg made the same point: He asked: ‘Why [has] the debate over climate change stifled rational dialogue and killed meaningful dissent? As societies become wealthier, things inevitably happen regarding the environment: Emissions become reduced; rivers, oceans and streams become cleaner, and better land management allows for re-forestation. It is economic growth that should be our focus. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/austrian-economics-center/ | en | null | null | 5,488 |
If Trump truly wishes to create manufacturing jobs for Americans, he must make the United States more competitive on the global stage by reforming the tax code and rescinding jobs-killing environmental regulations, | 7_fossil_fuels_needed | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/isaac-orr/ | en | null | null | 5,489 |
That endangerment finding needs to be overturned. It’s on my list of what needs to be done, because carbon dioxide is not a pollutant. | 2_not_human | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/robert-murray/ | en | null | null | 5,490 |
Rather than continuing the current path to undermine and block America’s fossil fuel producers, the Trump Administration will encourage the production of these resources by opening onshore and offshore leasing on federal lands and waters. We will streamline the permitting process for all energy projects, including the billions of dollars in projects held up by President Obama, and rescind the job-destroying executive actions under his Administration. We will end the war on coal, and rescind the coal mining lease moratorium, the excessive Interior Department stream rule, and conduct a top-down review of all anti-coal regulations issued by the Obama Administration. We will eliminate the highly invasive ‘Waters of the ‘ rule, and scrap the $5 trillion dollar Obama-Clinton Climate Action Plan and the Clean Power Plan and prevent these unilateral plans from increasing monthly electric bills by double-digits without any measurable effect on Earth’s climate. Energy is the lifeblood of modern society. It is the industry that fuels all other industries. We will lift the restrictions on American energy, and allow this wealth to pour into our communities. […] | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/donald-trump/ | en | null | null | 5,491 |
We’ve had a pause in this so-called warming for now 21 years, | 1_not_happening | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/malcolm-roberts/ | en | null | null | 5,493 |
This is why I take your movement very, very seriously,” she said at the debate. “And why Justin Trudeau should take it very, very seriously, too. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/alberta-prosperity-project/ | en | null | null | 5,494 |
Over the thirty-one year span of ’s work, we have noted both the triumphs of contemporary science—and they are many—but also rising threats. Some of these threats are political or ideological. Some are, for lack of a better word, epistemic. The former include efforts to enforce an artificial ‘consensus’ on various fields of inquiry, such as climate science. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/national-association-scholars/ | en | null | null | 5,496 |
I think that climate change is not a threat, it is happening very gently at a fraction of a degree per decade which is something we can perfectly well live with. | 3_not_bad | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/nigel-lawson/ | en | null | null | 5,497 |
The Science and Public Policy Institute (SPPI) provides research and educational materials dedicated to sound public policy based on sound science. We support the advancement of sensible public policies rooted in rational science and economics. Only through science and factual information, separating reality from rhetoric, can legislators develop beneficial policies without unintended consequences that might threaten the life, liberty, and prosperity of the citizenry roposals demanding prodigious economic or political sacrifices for the sake of negligible benefits should be rejected in favor of policies to address graver, more immediate concerns PPI meets its educational objectives through timely online publication of white papers, reprints, briefings, blog entries, news stories and other educational materials. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/science-and-public-policy-institute/ | en | null | null | 5,498 |
I’m a thorough carbon dioxide climate change denialist and I wouldn’t believe in carbon dioxide induced climate change at gunpoint – because it is physically impossible. | 2_not_human | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/brian-g-valentine/ | en | null | null | 5,499 |
We also included a panel of speakers to address a topic that has received little attention from the media: the theology and ethics of global warming. Views on the environment often have theological or spiritual undertones. For some, the guiding principle is God’s command in Genesis that man shall ‘have dominion over the fish of the sea, the birds of the air, and the cattle, and over all the wild animals and all the creatures that crawl on the ground.’ But many also view Nature as an expression of God’s handiwork and still others find in Nature a substitute for formal religion or a belief in God. Both of the latter groups tend to view Nature as something to be protected from mankind. This view, as much as scientific understanding, seems to drive fears and warnings that global warming could be a calamity for the planet and for mankind. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/american-institute-economic-research/ | en | null | null | 5,501 |
The UK, too, must focus on conventional gas and, alongside it, new nuclear capacity and a reorientation of policy towards interconnectors as the only feasible strategy for mitigating rising prices while meeting emissions targets. That’s not to say there isn’t room for shale or renewables; these industries have a role to play provided they are subject to the same tax and regulation as the rest of the energy sector. | 7_fossil_fuels_needed | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/alexander-temerko/ | en | null | null | 5,502 |
Scientists who refuse to cow to the orthodoxy of dangerous anthropogenic global warming have had a rough go of it in academia. | 6_proponents_biased | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/rachelle-peterson/ | en | null | null | 5,503 |
Poor communities will be hit hard by the Clean Power Plan. Working-class neighborhoods across the nation could see rising power costs if the Obama Administration’s plan is implemented. I hope that America’s next President will review our findings very carefully when charting our country’s energy future, and pursue free-market policies that will alleviate the problem of energy poverty. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/heartland-institute/ | en | null | null | 5,504 |
The impact of climate change is relatively small. The average impact on welfare is equivalent to losing a few per cent of income. That is, the impact of a century worth of climate change is comparable to the impact of one or two years of economic growth. | 3_not_bad | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/richard-tol/ | en | null | null | 5,505 |
One of my 12 commitments to the American people is to make our country energy independent and coal plays a big role in that. | 7_fossil_fuels_needed | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/rudy-giuliani/ | en | null | null | 5,506 |
The idea of a CO2-driven Global Warming has escalated ‘in absurdum’ become a religion and turned into an AGW monster (disgracing Science and Geoethics),” Mörner said. The purpose of the ICG is to counteract this “disgrace” of science. “CO2-driven (anthropogenic) Global Warming has become a religion and spread around the globe like a plague or revival movement,” Mörner adds. […] “what we now need is a total REFORMATION back to Science and away from “Anti-science. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/independent-committee-geoethics/ | en | null | null | 5,507 |
In 2015, roughly, I became a skeptic. And at first, not with regards to climate science, but rather with regards to the migration crisis in Germany. And once you start exploring these political topics that are more on the right, I guess, or in the libertarian department, things spiral out of control and you go down the path of understanding that many topics such as feminism, gender, socialism, post-modernism, and climate change hysteria, they’re all related in some way, and paved the way for a very bad kind of totalitarianism. And I’d always loved science as well. So, naturally, I had to become a climate change denier. A skeptic. | 6_proponents_biased | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/naomi-seibt/ | en | null | null | 5,508 |
Well let me tell you. I think the science is very mixed on the subject of global warming, Chris. […] I’m all for clean air, I’m all for clean coal technology. I’m sure reducing emissions, that’d be a positive thing. You’re going to see Republicans like at our Energy Summit today, you’re going to see us oppose this massive national energy tax and the cap-and-trade. But you’re also going to see, Chris, republicans come out with an all-of-the-above strategy. In the mainstream media, Chris, there is a denial of the growing skepticism in the scientific community about global warming. We’re going to promote clean coal technologies, give incentives, but we’re not going to raise a national energy tax. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/mike-pence/ | en | null | null | 5,509 |
If any and all climate conditions are being attributed to climate change, then how can we design any observation or experiment that would make climate change falsifiable? We can’t if it’s not falsifiable. It’s not science. Today, a sort of climate astrology has taken over. Many climate claims have descended into the realm of the predictions of Nostradamus or the Mayan calendar. There’s no way anyone can falsify global warming theory now because any weather event that happens proves their case. And if that isn’t confusing enough already, how do we design an experiment to know what changes in climate are due to human activities or part of the natural order of things …] In other words, is there any experiment or observation that can distinguish what is man caused climate change and what is simply just natural climate? There isn’t one today and there may never be one. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/marc-morano/ | en | null | null | 5,510 |
As a species, we human beings have become so blind with conceit and self-love that we genuinely believe that the fate of the planet is in our hands — when the reality is that everything, or almost everything, depends on the behaviour and caprice of the gigantic thermonuclear fireball around which we revolve. I am all for theories about climate change, and would not for a moment dispute the wisdom or good intentions of the vast majority of scientists. But I am also an empiricist; and I observe that something appears to be up with our winter weather, and to call it “warming” is obviously to strain the language.” 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. Of course it still seems a bit nuts to talk of the encroachment of a mini ice age. But it doesn’t seem as nuts as it did five years ago. I look at the snowy waste outside, and I have an open mind. | 1_not_happening | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/boris-johnson/ | en | null | null | 5,511 |
Setting aside the questionable validity of the evidence suggesting a human contribution to climate change, both [Liberal and Conservative] plans would have only negligible impact on global greenhouse gas emissions. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/joel-wood/ | en | null | null | 5,512 |
Many people don’t realize that sixty-two percent of all the energy we consume in the United States today is oil and natural gas. The experts, even in the Obama administration, will tell you that 30 years from now, even with the most optimistic projections surrounding alternative and renewable forms of energy, 30 years from now we will still rely on oil and natural gas for 55% of all the energy consumed in the United States. | 7_fossil_fuels_needed | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/jack-n-gerard/ | en | null | null | 5,513 |
Accurate climate science is being suppressed, meaning the kids don’t get to hear opposing views, | 6_proponents_biased | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/marc-morano/ | en | null | null | 5,514 |
The fact about global climate change is that while there’s a consensus among scientists that the world has warmed in the last quarter century, there is tremendous scientific uncertainty about how much climate is likely to change in the future and what precisely humans role in that change is, | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/james-k-glassman/ | en | null | null | 5,515 |
Experts can all agree, but that doesn’t mean they are right. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/michael-bastasch/ | en | null | null | 5,516 |
This agreement was a scam that ultimately hurt U.S. economy and worker productivity. Thankfully, President Trump saw through the rhetoric of the climate change alarmists and withdrew America from the Paris agreement, just as he said he would. Keeping his campaign promises will Make America Great Again! | 6_proponents_biased | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/corey-lewandowski/ | en | null | null | 5,517 |
Climate has always changed. It always has and always will. Sea level has always changed. Ice sheets come and go. Life always changes. Extinctions of life are normal. Planet Earth is dynamic and evolving. Climate changes are cyclical and random. Through the eyes of a geologist, I would be really concerned if there were no change to Earth over time. In the light of large rapid natural climate changes, just how much do humans really change climate? | 2_not_human | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/ian-plimer/ | en | null | null | 5,518 |
The link between extreme weather and global warming has as much scientific basis as the pagan rite of human sacrifice to ensure a good harvest. Climate-change skeptics might be regarded as modern-day witches because they think that global warming comes from natural forces. However, it’s superstitious alarmists, who believe that extreme weather originates in our CO2 emissions and who have a dread of impending disaster, who are really the witches. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/ralph-b-alexander/ | en | null | null | 5,519 |
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.” … This thing is not over. We’re dealing with a massive bureaucracy, and the deep state is real. | 6_proponents_biased | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/clay-higgins/ | en | null | null | 5,520 |
Vote Leave is competing with the rival group Leave. to be designated as the official Brexit campaign by the Electoral Commission,” The Guardian reported. Mills said: “We are delighted that Lord Lawson has agreed to provide leadership to the board as we prepare for the start of the referendum campaign. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/nigel-lawson/ | en | null | null | 5,521 |
There is no problem with global warming. It stopped in 1998. The last two years of global cooling have erased nearly 30 years of temperature increase. | 1_not_happening | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/ian-plimer/ | en | null | null | 5,522 |
Every interview I do, when I’m asked about scientific issues, I say I’m not a climate scientist. I’m just giving you the informed layman’s perspective. […] | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/myron-ebell/ | en | null | null | 5,523 |
It is clear that oil, gas and coal resources will eventually be depleted someday and to be reasonably cautious about decreasing consumption is a necessity. It does not need to be related to a legal precautionary principle. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/vincent-courtillot/ | en | null | null | 5,524 |
At some point, however, advocates of non-falsifiable hypotheses end up sleeping on park benches muttering about how ‘the Man,’ or the CIA chip in his head, or international bankers, or … someone, is keeping the truth under wraps. […] Sometimes, such people get institutionalized, or medicated. And some become global warming advocates. | 6_proponents_biased | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/steven-f-hayward/ | en | null | null | 5,525 |
Given the uncertain prospects for drastic climate change in the immediate future and considering the potential for crippling costs of aggressive emissions-abatement policies, reasoned concern and continued study appear to be the responsible courses of action, | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/foundation-economic-education/ | en | null | null | 5,526 |
At the moment, seven times as many people die from cold as from heat in Britain. Rising temperatures are likely to be beneficial. | 3_not_bad | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/david-frost/ | en | null | null | 5,527 |
Fear of excessive warming from more CO2 in the atmosphere, including that released from human activity, has caused some people to advocate substantial and expensive reductions in CO2 emissions. But observations, such as those on our CO2 Coalition website, show that increased CO2 levels over the next century will cause modest and beneficial warming—perhaps as much as one degree Celsius (1.8 degrees Fahrenheit)—and that this will be an even larger benefit to agriculture than it is now. The costs of emissions regulations, which will be paid by everyone, will be punishingly high and will provide no benefits to most people anywhere in the world.” — Harrison H. Schmitt and Rodney W. Nichols, The Wall Street Journal. | 3_not_bad | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/harrison-schmitt/ | en | null | null | 5,528 |
The products that are made from oil and gas and basically coal that would fire electrical generators and all that kind of stuff, with that technology, we’d be able to conquer whatever climate change happened to be. If we rose by a couple of degrees or we lowered by a couple of degrees, we’d be able to do something with that, | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/alberta-prosperity-project/ | en | null | null | 5,529 |
Someone would need to tell the planet, as neither Gaia, nor indeed any of her inhabitants, would notice the difference. | 1_not_happening | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/dominic-lawson/ | en | null | null | 5,530 |
What should we as a nation do? Decisions have to be made on incomplete information. In this case, we must act on the recommendations of Gore and the IPCC because if we do not reduce emissions of greenhouse gases and the climate models are right, the planet as we know it will in this century become unsustainable. But as a scientist I remain skeptical. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/joanne-simpson/ | en | null | null | 5,531 |
I’m typically skeptical about proposals for massive, widespread deployment of wind and solar power. My problem with the idea is that these sources are intermittent, meaning we need to maintain 100 per cent backup power that we don’t intend to run much of the time, in the absence of better storage. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/kenneth-green/ | en | null | null | 5,532 |
We risk bad policy when all choices before us are bad ones. For instance, the Kyoto protocol on climate change has its supporters and opponents, but very few are willing to admit that debate over its implementation has considerably more symbolic value than practical effect. The debate over the war on Iraq may have been similarly misguided as better policy options may have been ignored. In both cases, a commitment to pre-emption enables the politicization of intelligence, which then serves as a constraint on options that may be more effective but, for certain ideologues, politically less desirable re-emption hurts the policy process when it results in a dearth of choice. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/roger-pielke-jr/ | en | null | null | 5,533 |
Mandatory reductions in CO2 emissions, pursued to prevent dangerous global warming, would have little or no discernible impact on global temperatures, but would greatly increase the price of energy and therefore of everything else. Such policies would put more people at greater risk than the warming they are intended to prevent, because they would slow, stop, or even reverse the economic growth that enables people to adapt to all climates. They would also harm the poor more than the wealthy, and would harm them more than the small amount of warming they might prevent. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/lawson-bader/ | en | null | null | 5,534 |
Average citizens ‘understand’ (recognize) uncertainties in climate science; recognition of uncertainties becomes part of the “conventional wisdom”Media ‘understands’ (recognizes) uncertainties in climate scienceMedia coverage reflects balance on climate science and recognition of the validity of viewpoints that challenge the current “conventional wisdom”Industry senior leadership understands uncertainties in climate science, making them stronger ambassadors to those who shape climate policyThose promoting the Kyoto treaty on the basis of extent science appears to be out of touch with reality Current Realit nless ‘climate change’ becomes a non-issue, meaning that the Kyoto proposal is defeated and there are no further initiatives to thwart the threat of climate change, there may be no moment when we can declare victory for our efforts. It will be necessary to establish measurements for the science effort to track progress toward achieving the goal and strategic success. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/david-rothbard/ | en | null | null | 5,535 |
Tom Nelson has an MS degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering. He was involved in tech and software for many years. In 2005, as an avid bird-watcher, he became heavily involved in debunking a high-profile, but bogus ‘Ivory-billed Woodpecker’ rediscovery that opened his eyes to the problems with blindly trusting ‘peer-reviewed science’. Then a meteorologist pointed out lots of parallels between that woodpecker debate and the climate change debate, and Tom has been debunking climate change claims online almost daily since then. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/tom-nelson/ | en | null | null | 5,537 |
How could the scientists involved in the National Climate Assessment, and the U.N.’s IPCC reports, get the basic global warming/climate change science so wrong, as discussed above? During the Soviet Communist era in Russia, under Stalin in the 1930s, the government promoted a peasant, non-scientist named Trofim Lysenko to be the Director of the Soviet Lenin All-Union Academy of Agricultural Sciences. Lysenko virulently rejected the rising Mendelian genetics of the time, holding that acquired characteristics of plants, and maybe of animals and even humans, during their lives could be inherited. This fit the reigning Marxist doctrine of the time that human character and traits were malleable, and that the Soviet government was in the process of creating the selfless, modern, new Soviet man, perfectly suited to life under Communism. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/peter-ferrara/ | en | null | null | 5,538 |
Around the world, environmentalism has become an unbalanced, radical movement. Something we call ‘The Green Dragon.’ And it is deadly, deadly to human prosperity, deadly to human life, deadly to human freedom and deadly to the gospel of Jesus Christ. Make no mistake about it, environmentalism is no longer your friend. It is your enemy. And the battle is not primarily political or material, it is spiritual… . As Christians, we must actively trust God and obey His word. So when it comes to environmental stewardship, we must reject the false world view, the faulty science and the counterfeit gospel that threatens to corrupt society and the church. | 6_proponents_biased | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/james-wanliss/ | en | null | null | 5,539 |
Obama’s science advisor Steven Koonin experienced first-hand how ‘any mention of geoengineering to governments or NGOs was met with tight-lipped silence, if not actual hostility.' | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/macdonald-laurier-institute/ | en | null | null | 5,540 |
Do not screw the commercial and social heartbeat of our economy to mollify the environmental lobby to pay off your post pandemic debt. The needs to recover big and fast, using incentives, not more punitive knee jerk draconian taxes. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/howard-cox/ | en | null | null | 5,541 |
It does not say this is the end of the scientific case for global warming but it does say that people at the centre of this research did some very bad science, | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/graham-stringer/ | en | null | null | 5,542 |
We also need to address environmental concerns, particularly as they interface with resource development, | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/canada-strong-and-free-network/ | en | null | null | 5,543 |
When the new government in Alberta speaks of an assertive, “war room” approach to communicating the province’s interests and countering biased criticisms, it’s fair to ask, who can blame them? Everything else has been tried. For the good of the environment and Canadian economic health, the task of standing strong cannot commence soon enough Too many people fail to appreciate Canada represents the good guys in the international oil business. Our product is ethical, our workers are well treated, law and environmental rules followed, and Canadian families benefit directly from oil sales. Too few of the world’s top oil exporters can say the same, and certainly not Saudi Arabia, Iran, Iraq, Russia or Venezuela. | 7_fossil_fuels_needed | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/stewart-muir/ | en | null | null | 5,544 |
Extinction Rebellion protesters are just privileged clowns whose fuelish [sic] stunt only served to make lives difficult for ordinary Londoners, | 6_proponents_biased | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/rod-liddle/ | en | null | null | 5,545 |
We’ve allowed our domestic gas production in the last decade to drop by 43 percent even though we’re sitting on huge energy owned by us all […] Brilliant, thanks for that you clueless civil servants, you useless politicians. | 7_fossil_fuels_needed | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/richard-tice/ | en | null | null | 5,546 |
More importantly, the hypothesis that carbon dioxide emissions from human activity is damaging the climate has been thoroughly debunked by reports such as those of the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change. So, the main reason the government funds wind power is no longer valid. | 2_not_human | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/heartland-institute/ | en | null | null | 5,547 |
Atmospheric CO2 is not a pollutant. It is the single most important chemical constituent of the cycles of plant and animal life,” they add. “CO2, by itself, is not a significant greenhouse gas, and there is no scientific evidence that it can raise global temperatures significantly. | 2_not_human | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/john-birch-society/ | en | null | null | 5,548 |
This particular pipeline is only being built to satisfy profiteers who want to export to Europe, | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/vincent-devito/ | en | null | null | 5,549 |
These are very exciting times for the fuel industry in America. We are at the point of being totally oil independent. We are finding new reserves in various parts of our great nation. Natural gas is now abundant thanks to a new process known as Fracturing or Fracking. In fact, we were once importers of natural gas but now, thanks to Fracking, we are exporting it for attractive profits. No longer do we have to rely on nations that don’t particularly like us for our energy needs. God blesses the child who has his own and we are certainly blessed. | 7_fossil_fuels_needed | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/harry-c-alford/ | en | null | null | 5,550 |
Are carbon dioxide emissions linked to an industrialized world pushing the earth’s temperature to a tipping point, beyond which lies catastrophe and mayhem? If not, and the absence of any significant warming for more than 18 years suggests that the question is at least debatable, the ongoing international climate talks in Paris are unlikely to yield useful policies. | 1_not_happening | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/john-locke-foundation/ | en | null | null | 5,551 |
It’s because there’s a total lack of understanding of the pro-union community in Northern Ireland by most of the liberal media in this country and by the liberal establishment, | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/kate-hoey/ | en | null | null | 5,552 |
You haven’t answered my question yet, do you believe this blizzard is the result of global warming? | 1_not_happening | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/matt-dempsey/ | en | null | null | 5,554 |
Arctic ice changes are not ‘proof’ of manmade global warming, nor are they unprecedented, unusual, or cause for alarm, according to experts and multiple peer-reviewed studies. | 1_not_happening | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/committee-constructive-tomorrow/ | en | null | null | 5,555 |
The climate’s sensitivity to greenhouse gases is considerably lower than the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change claims—so much lower, in fact, that the warming we would expect from doubling the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere would be quite modest and offer very little risk. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/kenneth-green/ | en | null | null | 5,556 |
Dr. Boretti is a higher degree qualified (M. Sc. in Mechanical Engineering, Ph.D. in Energy Engineering) transport and power generation engineer. He has 20 years’ R&D experience in the automotive industry, program and man management competence, strong technical background, teaching ability, proficiency in technical presentation and reporting. He was Mechanical Engineering Professor for 4 years in Italy. He has solid qualifications and research interests in the areas of fluid dynamic, heat transfer and combustion, and a proven ability to teach and to develop research programs. His attention is increasingly focusing on environmental and sustainability issues related to transport, generation of power and cogeneration and the use of alternative fuels. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/albert-parker/ | en | null | null | 5,557 |
This is the most important project for helping to solve our energy gap. It could provide five to six per cent of the whole country’s energy and it has a bit of Victorian verve and vision about it. But I fear the bird lovers might kill it off. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/philip-stott/ | en | null | null | 5,558 |
The fossil fuel divestment movement promises that the problem of climate change can be ameliorated if investors in certain companies refuse to hold the securities of those companies in their portfolios. […] [F]ossil fuel divestment has minimal or no environmental impact because it is highly unlikely to affect the production or distribution of fossil fuels on the part of targeted companies. Moreover, not only is fossil fuel divestment ineffective, it is also costly to investors, | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/todd-kendall/ | en | null | null | 5,559 |
The anti-utility hit piece factory masquerading as a ‘watchdog’ schtick has been done so many times in AZ. @EnergyandPolicy and @DavidPomerantz are trying it again, but we’ve seen this movie before. Tactics have been overused here and are seen as boring. No one is intimidated. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/chad-guzman/ | en | null | null | 5,560 |
Our office has tried to work with the department of corrections to show them ways under which we could get these executions moving, and they have resisted, | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/jeff-landry/ | en | null | null | 5,561 |
While environmental extremists often celebrate the cancellation of natural resource projects in Canada, in many cases these cancellations have simply led to job losses without any environmental benefit. In some cases, they may have even caused more harm for the environment,” Craig claimed. “If governments worked to create a more investor-friendly regulatory environment, some of these projects could potentially be resurrected. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/secondstreet-org/ | en | null | null | 5,562 |
Part One of this three-part series considered the evidence supporting horrific claims made about the unmarked graves recently found at former Indian Residential Schools across Canada. Upon closer investigation, many of these allegations turned out to be exaggerated, unproven or simply wrong. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/manning-foundation-for-democratic-education/ | en | null | null | 5,563 |
Look, global warming is real, but it’s not the end of the world. We should not scare our kids witless. And likewise, it’s not going to be cheap. It’s going to be fantastically expensive. Almost all studies show this. And we need to be honest about this. Most people are not going to put up with actually doing that. And of course, it leads to bad policies that will ultimately both fail and not deal with climate change and of course, take money away from everything else. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/bjorn-lomborg/ | en | null | null | 5,564 |
The media and propaganda blogs like DeSmog should be proud to have the [CRU] dataset on line and pleased that Heartland would invest that money for the common good. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/jeff-condon/ | en | null | null | 5,565 |