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You know, when I saw – when I saw the New Green Deal, Sean, I thought it was a Saturday Night Live skit, you know, drunk uncles spouting off, like, we’re gonna build railroads across the ocean, let’s build one to the moon. We can put a restaurant up there, great food but no atmosphere, it’d be a vegan restaurant, though,” Bastardi said The whole thing is meant to get you to try fight against an extreme position, while there’s incremental creeping of this, and Patrick – Dr. Borges just described it, what they are doing to kids, they are indoctrinating kids Where would those kids be if we did not have the fossil fuel era? The true hockey sticks of the fossil fuel era are life expectancy, the amount of people on the planet, and personal GDP, they’re all skyrocketing. It’s almost like these people are ungrateful for what got them here.” (Emphasis added) | 6_proponents_biased | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/joe-bastardi/ | en | null | null | 5,566 |
The election of Donald J. Trump to be the next president will soon enable congressional advocates of pro-growth energy policy to go on the offense for the first time in eight years—and they should, for the sake of our Constitution, among other things. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/marlo-lewis-jr/ | en | null | null | 5,567 |
While they care about the environment and they want to protect Mother Earth, they do not feel that Southern California will burst into flames if we don’t pass this bill. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/melissa-melendez/ | en | null | null | 5,568 |
The implication is there is no longer a cost premium in replacing the output of today’s existing coal plants with power from wind and solar facilities, never mind the obvious reliability problems in attempting to do that. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/travis-fisher/ | en | null | null | 5,569 |
The Great Reset has been boosted by climate deniers, right-wing media and conservative think tanks that oppose regulations on fossil fuels,” E&E News‘s Scott Waldman added It all began in June 2020 during the depths of COVID-19 lockdowns […] Before long it was turned into a rallying cry against COVID-19 lockdowns and, then, as a warning against climate action. Conservative activists used it to claim that environmental laws and regulations were an attack on their personal freedoms, said John Cook, a postdoctoral research fellow at the Climate Change Communication Research Hub at Monash University in Australia and an expert on climate disinformation. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/alberta-prosperity-project/ | en | null | null | 5,570 |
AFPM believes that using this 40-year-old law [the Clean Air Act] to control of[sic] greenhouse gases (GHG) emissions threatens our nation’s economic and energy security. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/james-mahoney/ | en | null | null | 5,571 |
So clean energy would be actually […] It would be oil, gas, coal. Coal, ‘dirty coal.’” Mathis continued: “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 | 5,573 |
Trump has publicly voiced his support for the project,” Michaels wrote. “This reroute of the project will merely delay the inevitable – oil flowing from the Bakken shale to consumers with no detectable effect on earth’s climate. | 7_fossil_fuels_needed | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/grow-americas-infrastructure-now-gain/ | en | null | null | 5,574 |
Recent data and research supports the importance of natural climate variability and calls into question the conclusion that humans are the dominant cause of recent climate change…[C]limate models predict much more warming than has been observed in the early 21st century. | 2_not_human | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/judith-curry/ | en | null | null | 5,575 |
But the feedback from editors and readers was consistent: How can you call yourselves Watchdog.org when you are not purely an investigative news operation, and why does your 501(c)(3) sound like you’re running a think tank?” he added. “Point taken. Message received. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/franklin-news-foundation/ | en | null | null | 5,576 |
I know that there is a debate about [humans causing the warming of the planet] – that’s all I am prepared to say. I’m not a scientist but when someone tells me that all the scientists agree, I say no they don’t. They all agree that there’s a tendency for human emissions to heat the planet, but whether that’s responsible for all the heating is an open question. But I must say that once it was confidently predicted that there was run away warming and now we have had a pause for 16 years. Now please explain that. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/andrew-bolt/ | en | null | null | 5,577 |
Many Americans assume that research funded by the federal government is the most trustworthy form of research. However, nearly every aspect of the federal grant making process is full of political maneuvering and potential bias. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/center-accountability-science/ | en | null | null | 5,578 |
Despite many efforts by EPA, state officials have not engaged in a meaningful discussion of sustainable mining practices that will create jobs while protecting the waters that Appalachian communities depend on for drinking, swimming and fishing. Earlier this year, at the request of the state, EPA issued clear guidance that ensures permits are reviewed using the best science available to protect residents from the significant and irreversible damage this practice can have on communities and their water sources. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/joe-manchin/ | en | null | null | 5,579 |
What these emails reveal is a detailed and systematic conspiracy to prevent other scientists gaining access to CRU data sets. Such obstruction strikes at the very heart of the scientific method, that is the scrutiny and verification of data and results by one’s peers. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/don-keiller/ | en | null | null | 5,580 |
It seems like this climate thing is a very rigid ideology that one must subscribe to wholesale. You can’t have any nuanced opinions on it and you can’t have any…. | 6_proponents_biased | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/joe-rogan/ | en | null | null | 5,581 |
You are about the dumbest ass I’ve ever met in my life,” Alford said. “You’ve come to Columbus to harass me. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/harry-c-alford/ | en | null | null | 5,582 |
Abundant, affordable, reliable energy, most of it now and in the foreseeable future provided by burning fossil fuels, which are the primary source of CO2 emissions, is indispensable to lifting and keeping people out of poverty. | 7_fossil_fuels_needed | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/lawson-bader/ | en | null | null | 5,583 |
A win for Keystone XL is a defeat for the global warming movement. Green groups view Keystone as an opportunity to regain momentum and offset their losses after the death of cap-and-trade. If friends of affordable energy win this fight, which seems likely, the greenhouse lobby will take another hit to its prestige, morale, and influence eystone XL strains relations between Obama and his environmentalist base. If Obama approves the pipeline, greenies will be less motivated to work for his re-election. If he disapproves, Republicans and moderate Democrats will hammer him for killing job creation and increasing pain at the pump. Either way, the prospects for new anti-energy legislation should be dimmer eystone XL is bringing aging, New Lefties out of the woodwork, where they can misbehave and get themselves arrested. | 7_fossil_fuels_needed | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/marlo-lewis-jr/ | en | null | null | 5,584 |
Climate science is not ‘settled;’ it is both uncertain and incomplete. The available observations do not support the mathematical models that predict a substantial global warming and form the basis for a control policy on greenhouse (GH ) gas emissions. We need a more targeted program of climate research to settle major scientific problems. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/science-and-environmental-policy-project/ | en | null | null | 5,586 |
I want to reiterate what API has stated in previous letters to DOS: it is in the best interests of all Americans to build the pipeline to ensure our long-term energy security, a dependable supply of Canadian oil to U.S. refineries and the creation of thousands of American jobs,” Gerard wrote ith regards to the final environmental impact statement (FEIS), Gerard added, “Additionally, given the extensive examination already given to the potential climate impacts in the prior FEIS, additional analysis of this topic is not warranted. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/jack-n-gerard/ | en | null | null | 5,587 |
What Do We Know About the Science of Climate Change? Climate science is extremely complex for three reasons, according to the climate scientists at our conference—Carl Wunsch (Professor of Oceanography at ), David Chapman (Professor of Geology and Geophysics at the University of Utah), William Gray (Professor Emeritus of Atmospheric Science at Colorado State) and Richard Lindzen (Professor of Meteorology at ). First, it is an immature science. The observational records cover a time period that is dwarfed by the relevant geologic time scales. Given the current state of understanding, accurate prediction is not possible. … [M]odern climate science relies on large, complicated models that seek to describe and predict the climate system, but these models are inherently unreliable and unstable. … Evidence abounds to suggest that is far from the most important contributor to global warming. Previous interglacial periods were much warmer and had far lower concentrations of in the atmosphere; and it might eventually be demonstrated that concentrations lag temperature increases. When the temperature change is within a few tenths of a degree, it is difficult to identify the particular causes. … The ’s views on global warming are widely portrayed as representing an objective, scientific consensus, but David Henderson (a former chief economist at the , now at the University of Westminster, ) demonstrated that the reporting process is flawed and lacks rigor, inclusiveness, and impartiality… . Environmental economist Ross McKitrick (University of Guelph, Ontario) affirmed Henderson’s analysis with an account of his own experience with the . … The challenge is not, ‘Either we believe in global warming and rescue the planet or we all die.’ It is largely a choice between how much action to take now and how much in the future; and a choice between preventing or adapting to it. The science is still young. Some people take uncertainty as a reason to act, others take it as a reason to proceed slowly. Future generations will have the benefit of greater scientific knowledge, better technology, and greater wealth… . . The range of views expressed at our conference suggests that the debate is far from being over, and that there is still time for much-needed rational discussion. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/american-institute-economic-research/ | en | null | null | 5,588 |
I’m just saying I’m saying what it is. The Great New Reset. The new normal that is is what it is. So governments, elites of all nations are going to work together. It’s no longer one country against another country. It’s no longer nations against each other. It’s the people, the people who strive for freedom, us, against the people who want to oppress us. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/naomi-seibt/ | en | null | null | 5,589 |
Climate change driven partly by human-generated CO2 emissions is a huge risk ― agree or disagree?” Kaine asked fter trying to avoid the question, claiming that climate change was not part of the responsibilities of the OMB director, Kaine still demanded an answer. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/mick-mulvaney/ | en | null | null | 5,590 |
Erratum to: SpringerPlus (2014) 3:723 DOI 10.1186/2193-1801-3-723As authors of this article (Volokin and ReLlez 2014) we would like to clarify that our real names are Ned Nikolov and Karl Zeller. We created the pseudonyms Den Volokin and Lark ReLlez by spelling our names backward. Ned Nikolov is a physical scientist with the USDA Forest Service; he had been instructed by his employer not to engage in climate research during government work hours, nor to reveal his government affiliation when presenting results from his climate studies. Karl Zeller is a retired USDA Forest Service research scientist with no restrictions. Ned Nikolov worked on this manuscript outside of his assigned official work duty hours. Because of the controversial subject matter and the novel findings previously associated with Nikolov and Zeller, we felt that the use of pseudonyms was necessary to guarantee a double-blind peer review of our manuscript and to assure a fair and unbiased assessment. We are sorry for any inconvenience this may have caused the Editorial Board and the readership of SpringerPlus. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/ned-nikolov/ | en | null | null | 5,592 |
If people are only hearing one side of the story – that being the bogus narrative pushed by extreme environmentalist protestors – then we should not simply accept that, but challenge and refute it. | 6_proponents_biased | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/craig-mackinlay/ | en | null | null | 5,593 |
It’s time to phase out these unjustifiable tax breaks for the wealthy. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/drew-johnson/ | en | null | null | 5,594 |
If followed, this amounts to an aboriginal veto over nearly any development, and an at-times-tiny minority-within-a-minority would be able to nix projects that other Indigenous groups favoured. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/manning-foundation-for-democratic-education/ | en | null | null | 5,595 |
A reliable and resilient electrical grid is critical not only to our national and economic security, but also to the everyday lives of American families,” Perry said in a letter accompanying the rule. “A diverse mix of power generation resources, including those with on-site reserves, is essential to the reliable delivery of electricity — particularly in times of supply stress such as recent natural disasters. My proposal will strengthen American energy security by ensuring adequate reserve resource supply and I look forward to the Commission acting swiftly on it. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/rick-perry/ | en | null | null | 5,596 |
Recently, a writer from USA Today wanted to know if the National Black Chamber of Commerce receives money from fossil fuel companies (coal, oil, natural gas, petrochemicals, etc.). That is a ‘no brainer’. Of course we do and it is only natural. The legacy of Blacks in this nation has been tied to the miraculous history of fossil fuel and the economic growth in communities because of the successful harvest of fossil fuels. Consistent with the emergence of the Industrial Revolution and the availability of the Homestead Act for freed slaves, fossil fuels have been our economic friend. | 7_fossil_fuels_needed | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/national-black-chamber-commerce/ | en | null | null | 5,597 |
We’re also ignoring certain things like regenerative farms that sequester carbon. And then you have people like Bill Gates saying that planting trees to deal with carbon is ridiculous. That’s a ridiculous way to do it. Like, how is that ridiculous? It’s, they literally turn carbon dioxide into oxygen. It is their food. Their food. That’s what the food of plants is. That’s, that’s what powers the whole plant life and the way we have this symbiotic relationship with them, like, and the more carbon dioxide is, the greener it is, which is why it’s greener today on Earth than has been in 100 years. These are all facts that are inconvenient to people that have a very specific, narrow window of how to approach this. | 3_not_bad | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/joe-rogan/ | en | null | null | 5,598 |
They don’t talk about global warming anymore,” Epstein said. “They talk about climate change, and it turns out that carbon dioxide is a very weak driver of climate change. […] There’s so many solar phenomena out there which make a great deal more … remember, Greenland was green when it was taken over. […] It wasn’t global warming that made those places warm and cold. hat you have to understand is given these huge cycles that we’ve had over the last even 10,000 years, this global warming stuff is, you know, doesn’t matter very much relative to the other forces that we don’t understand them. You could spend fortunes in time wasting your efforts stopping things that may never occur t’s very difficult to hit the sweet spot of spending money which isn’t wasted either way. Either, of course you don’t need it, or because even if you do it the Armageddon’s going to happen anyhow. | 2_not_human | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/federalist-society-law-and-public-policy-studies/ | en | null | null | 5,599 |
And if that means that climate change occurs and we’ll deal with that, but I think nuclear war is much more significant. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/corey-lewandowski/ | en | null | null | 5,600 |
If the Paris climate accord is ratified, or enforced locally by compliant governments, it will strangle the leading economies of the world with pointless carbon taxes and costly climate and energy policies, all with no sound basis in evidence or science […] The is a driving force promoting green energy, environmental extremism, world carbon taxes and global control by unelected bureaucrats. Brexit was Britain’s answer to the growing over-reach of bureaucracies. Clexit is our answer to the push for global control through climate hysteria. [… This vicious and relentless war on carbon dioxide will be seen by future generations as the most misguided mass delusion that the world has ever seen. Carbon dioxide is a dangerous pollutant – it is a natural, non-toxic and beneficial gas which feeds all life on earth. Its increasing concentration is improving the environment, not harming it. Carbon dioxide is also an insignificant player in global warming. Its so-called ‘greenhouse effect’ is far smaller than that of atmospheric water vapour and, because this effect declines logarithmically as carbon dioxide levels rise, most of its small impact on surface temperature is already exhausted. The Clexit Campaign aims to prevent ratification or local enforcement of the climate treaty. Nations should not tolerate and bureaucrats manipulating science in order to justify their dreams to redistribute wealth and revert to the central planning that enslaved and impoverished the old command economies […] Global warming has occurred naturally many times in the past and is not to be feared – it is not controlled by carbon dioxide or humans […] | 2_not_human | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/clexit/ | en | null | null | 5,601 |
Renewable energy is not renewable energy. It’s only renewable electricity. Wind and solar can only produce electricity. They can’t produce the thousands and thousands of products that come out of fossil fuels. […] The situation is electrical is fine for some items, but electrical doesn’t support aviation, the military cruise ships, merchant ships. | 7_fossil_fuels_needed | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/ronald-stein/ | en | null | null | 5,602 |
The treaty won’t work, and should be opposed by those who recognize that economic growth and a sound environmental must go hand in hand. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/national-association-manufacturers/ | en | null | null | 5,603 |
I am not a climatologist, but I don’t think any of the other witnesses are either. I do work in the related field of atomic, molecular and optical physics. I have spent my professional life studying the interactions of visible and infrared radiation with gases – one of the main physical phenomena behind the greenhouse effect. I have published over 200 papers in peer reviewed scientific journals. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/william-happer/ | en | null | null | 5,605 |
David Bernhardt has worked on Endangered Species Act matters for over twenty years; including while serving as the Solicitor of the Department of the Interior, as an attorney in private practice, and as a congressional aide. David has counseled the Secretary of the Interior and other Interior policymakers to help make challenging ESA decisions. He was also tasked with implementing and defending those decisions. In private practice, David has litigated against the federal agencies when failing to administer the act to protect species, as well as when administering the law in an arbitrary and capricious way. He also has extensive experience working with the Services to develop conservation plans, habitat conservation plans, and multi- species conservation plans. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/david-bernhardt/ | en | null | null | 5,606 |
The Heartland Institute’s Center on Climate and Environmental Policy, for one, has repeatedly challenged those findings…Does the NCSE mention any of this in their effusive praise of the IPCC report? Not a word!… We see the same pattern of denial when it comes to Darwinism and the scientific challenges to it. I have highlighted some of the recent blogs by Josh Rosenau where he tosses the tag ‘evolution denial’ at anyone who dares to question the official Darwinian story. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/discovery-institute/ | en | null | null | 5,607 |
It is well known that the world’s warmest oceans are in the region of Indonesia, the Philippines, and the Solomon Islands,” Moore wrote in the essay. “This area is called the Coral Triangle and it harbors the world’s largest number of coral species and the largest number of reef fish and other reef dwellers. Surely this puts to rest the assertion that the seas are ‘too hot’ for corals due to climate change. e added: “How is the average person in Europe or North America supposed to “see for themselves” what is really occurring? Not only is the reef thousands of miles away from most people and far offshore, it is below the surface of the sea. Hundreds of millions of people were told the reef was doomed when we now know much of the bleached coral has already recovered. But that fact was barely reported in major media outlets. Fake news flies, the real story dies. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/patrick-moore/ | en | null | null | 5,609 |
Hurricanes respond to their immediate environment, not a global average increase in heat! | 1_not_happening | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/roger-pielke-sr/ | en | null | null | 5,611 |
Ironically, burning coal simply returns carbon to carbon dioxide from where it came during formation of massive forests that later formed coal. Burning coal though cannot raise levels as levels are determined by Nature, | 2_not_human | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/malcolm-roberts/ | en | null | null | 5,612 |
Study after study demonstrate that the radical climate policies advocated by Al Gore, Jr. will hurt blacks and the poor most. Just as segregation and interracial marriage bans were purported to be for the good of all while clearly done to generate political support, today’s climate alarmism is pushed solely to get the support of a small group of so-called eco-warriors at the expense of blacks. Please spare us any more of this, | 6_proponents_biased | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/horace-cooper/ | en | null | null | 5,614 |
Now the price they have to pay for multiculturalism is the risk that you’re walking on the sidewalk and a man will – or a woman, will purposefully mow you down, | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/laura-ingraham/ | en | null | null | 5,615 |
The Premiere radio stations have chosen to go with Buck Sexton and Clay Travis. I don’t work for Premiere,” Bongino said on an episode of The Dan Bongino Show. “There’s no Limbaugh gig. He worked for Premiere. I don’t work for Premiere, I work for Cumulus. I am on the Cumulus Westwood One stations. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/dan-bongino/ | en | null | null | 5,616 |
I don’t want anyone in this administration without a scientific background using ‘climate change’ or ‘global warming’ ever again, | 6_proponents_biased | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/john-h-sununu/ | en | null | null | 5,617 |
It takes a Herculean effort to believe that national environmental groups are interested more in the environment than charlatanism. | 6_proponents_biased | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/mike-catanzaro/ | en | null | null | 5,618 |
No, no, no! No narratives sir. I asked for a specific pledge. If this was misapplied, if participation occurred where there should have been recusal, you’re the Solicitor of the Department of Interior. Are you gonna do something about it? | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/daniel-jorjani/ | en | null | null | 5,619 |
ExxonMobil is currently the worst of the oil giants fueling America’s oil addiction,” said Shawnee Hoover, campaign director of Exxpose Exxon. “Putting Exxon’s Lee Raymond in charge of solving America’s energy crisis is like putting Jack Abramoff in charge of solving political corruption. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/lee-raymond/ | en | null | null | 5,620 |
After year 2070, global warming will become a net cost to the world, justifying cost-effective climate action. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/copenhagen-consensus-center/ | en | null | null | 5,621 |
If the science is bogus and the economics don’t work, sooner or later policy makers will be forced to develop an exit strategy from their doom-and-gloom scenarios. I don’t see how they can reach any of their objectives at the upcoming UN climate conference in Copenhagen. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/holger-thuss/ | en | null | null | 5,622 |
One of the problems with the global-warming conversation is that it is a political and economic debate masquerading as a scientific debate, | 6_proponents_biased | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/kevin-d-williamson/ | en | null | null | 5,623 |
Jones will head the Institute for Energy, which is to present itself as a grassroots organization. The Chamber went a similar path with the creation of the Institute for Legal Reform. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/us-chamber-commerce/ | en | null | null | 5,624 |
These men and women are not torturers, they are patriots. The programs being used were within the law, within the constitution. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/mike-pompeo/ | en | null | null | 5,625 |
This language, which will appear on your ballot to describe #Prop127, is indisputable and a huge red flag, | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/chad-guzman/ | en | null | null | 5,626 |
There’s only one issue about which her views concern me, and that’s Net Zero. She has said little about it. Our unilateral embrace of a dogmatic target date for balanced carbon dioxide emissions is madness. It has driven up energy bills and will do so further. None of the candidates in this contest has seemed to appreciate the scale of the energy shock facing us this winter. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/matt-ridley/ | en | null | null | 5,627 |
Primary funding for ’s outreach efforts come from America’s coal-based electricity providers. | 7_fossil_fuels_needed | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/americans-balanced-energy-choices/ | en | null | null | 5,628 |
We have so much shale gas in this country that we could be tapping. A shale gas facility that’s about the size of Parliament Square can produce the same amount of power as a wind farm 10 times the size of Hyde Park. | 7_fossil_fuels_needed | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/david-frost/ | en | null | null | 5,629 |
The people and skills in the offshore oil and gas sector are the same ones driving the expansion of wind, hydrogen, carbon capture and storage – all solutions that will be key in our drive to reach net zero by 2045. We look forward to working with the Scottish Government to achieve this. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/offshore-energies-uk/ | en | null | null | 5,630 |
It’s been a privilege serving under Senator Inhofe, who all of you know is a champion of protecting the national interest and guarding against EPA overreach […] over the past several months, it’s become quite obvious to me that we are losing the war against politicized environmentalism. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/george-david-banks/ | en | null | null | 5,631 |
In particular, they helped spread a false narrative that arson — and not climate change — was largely to blame for the fires. ‘Bushfires: Firebugs fuelling crisis as national arson arrest toll hits 183,’ read one headline in The Australian, on January 8, 2020. Picked up by Donald Trump, the story was then repeated to millions of Americans by Fox News, also controlled by the Murdoch family. | 1_not_happening | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/rupert-murdoch/ | en | null | null | 5,633 |
I am speaking only as a layman who observes that there is plenty of snow in our winters these days, and who wonders whether it might be time for government to start taking seriously the possibility — however remote — that [Piers] Corbyn is right, | 1_not_happening | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/boris-johnson/ | en | null | null | 5,634 |
This cooling is very serious. This decline in the energy output of the sun will manifest in a commodity boom in agriculture as shortages send food prices higher. We will see famine begin to rise as crops fail and that will inspire disease and plagues. We will see the first peak in agricultural prices come probably around 2024 after the lows are established on this cycle. We have been warning that this rise would begin AFTER 2017. | 1_not_happening | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/martin-armstrong/ | en | null | null | 5,635 |
Sad to say, despite Pope Francis’s best intentions, the policies he recommends to mitigate global warming would make it far more difficult to overcome poverty. And, ironically, by prolonging and even spreading poverty, those policies would put more of the natural environment at risk. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/calvin-beisner/ | en | null | null | 5,636 |
I first met Dr. Peterson in person a few years ago when he came to be the guest speaker in Washington, D.C., at a gathering of this group we call Faith and Law. I was moderating the group. It’s several of my Christian colleagues in Congress. We meet periodically to discuss what is the namesake of the group faith in law and the merging of those two things. Dr. Peterson spoke there and we hit it off very well. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/mike-johnson/ | en | null | null | 5,637 |
Other major funders — including the John William Pope Foundation, the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, and the National Christian Foundation — gave multi-thousand dollar donations to both the Independent Women’s Forum and the Family Research Council, a group that describes itself as ‘pro-marriage and pro-life’, | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/heather-r-higgins/ | en | null | null | 5,638 |
Atmospheric CO2 fertilizes plants. Higher CO2 enables plants to grow faster and larger and to live in drier climates. Plants provide food for animals, which are thereby also enhanced. The extent and diversity of plant and animal life have both increased substantially during the past half-century. Increased temperature has also mildly stimulated plant growth. | 3_not_bad | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/oregon-institute-science-and-medicine/ | en | null | null | 5,639 |
The U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change () is nearing the final stages of its Fifth Assessment Report ()—the latest, greatest version of its assessment of the science of climate change. Information is leaking out, with some regularity, as to what the final report will contain (why it is secretive in the first place is beyond us). | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/patrick-michaels/ | en | null | null | 5,640 |
You know, I think that I’m not a climate denier. It may be warming, I think the evidence is inconclusive, but there may be a human component to global warming. But that’s very small and it may be part of the natural warming or cooling of the planet. I’m certainly not a climate expert, but I don’t believe in Cap and Trade or those types of regulations that try to hamstring the U.S. economy as other countries continue to put carbon into the air. I don’t believe in big government solutions to a problem that doesn’t appear to be that significant or quite possibly isn’t man made. | 2_not_human | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/foundation-accountability-and-civic-trust-fact/ | en | null | null | 5,641 |
Yet despite the company’s vast scale, it manages to keep an extremely low profile, releasing only snippets of information about its emissions of greenhouse gases The fondness for a low profile is shared by majority shareholder Jim Ratcliffe, Britain’s tenth richest man with an estimated personal fortune of £3. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/jim-ratcliffe/ | en | null | null | 5,642 |
I am delighted to continue my support for the GWPF which has brought much needed rigour into the climate debate. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/terence-mordaunt/ | en | null | null | 5,643 |
EP 90619-900 – Porto Alegre, RS, BrasilFone: +55(51) 3384-7158 e 3384-6893E-mail: | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/instituto-liberdade/ | en | null | null | 5,644 |
Essentially the climate system is a very complex, there is one part of anthropogenic forcing. It is a very, very weaker, much weaker than what the IPCC claims, at least half,” Scafetta claimed in his talk There is some volcano activity, so there is, some internal variability, but essentially there is also a dynamic component, a harmonic component which is regulated by astronomical forcing. And so this forcing is driven by the movement of the planets around the sun that creates some set of stable resonance that will synchronize the solar and climate activity. | 2_not_human | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/nicola-scafetta/ | en | null | null | 5,645 |
Human activity, such as the burning of fossil fuels to power our homes and businesses and changes to the land caused by the rise of modern cities and expanded agriculture, undoubtedly affect the global environment. It is the extent of that effect and how it relates to changes in the modern climate which is the subject of current scientific debate. […] Many of the temperature data and computer models used to predict climate change are themselves as uncertain as are our understanding of important interactions in the natural climate. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/george-c-marshall-institute/ | en | null | null | 5,647 |
I want to remind you what climate actually is. What kind of expertise [you need to study it]. If you want to study climate just because of carbon dioxide, I’m sorry, it’s still not enough to study only the atmosphere. You’ve got to know all of this bunch of stuff. This is part of the reason why the struggle for answer is so hard. We may never know the answer, but then we’ve got to keep trying and follow the scientific method, please. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/willie-soon/ | en | null | null | 5,648 |
To the extent that the UNEP researchers have toned down the claims of Myers, Wilson and Ehrlich, they are to be congratulated. What they have done instead, however, is to play up the threats to the ‘cuddly’ animals – mammals and birds – and thereby maximize media attention, | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/iain-murray/ | en | null | null | 5,649 |
Adherence to the Paris climate agreement would stall or preclude unleashing American energy, a prodigious stimulant for economic growth,” Rollins and Roy wrote. | 7_fossil_fuels_needed | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/brooke-rollins/ | en | null | null | 5,650 |
The contribution of coal-fired power plants to the U.S., much less global, CO2 emissions is so minuscule that it cannot be measured with any degree of accuracy. | 2_not_human | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/bonner-cohen/ | en | null | null | 5,651 |
The fossil fuel movement not only advocates a deeply flawed environmental policy. Worse, it trains a generation to disdain representative government. It replaces a college education with four years of misguided activism. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/rachelle-peterson/ | en | null | null | 5,652 |
Deaths from natural disasters are going down around the world. They’ve been going down 90 percent. It’s just wonderful. We should celebrate it. Few of our loved ones are being swept away in floods and hurricanes. All of the increase in property damage is due to the fact that we’ve become wealthier. So the idea that people can see climate change in natural disasters is completely fallacious. That’s not science. That’s misinformation. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/michael-shellenberger/ | en | null | null | 5,653 |
Having joined Friends of the Earth years before I ever joined the Conservatives, I have always been adamant about the need to conserve the environment. Yet, after reading this book, I wonder if global warming is really man-made. According to Singer and Avery, the climate is in constant flux – and the change has little to do with us. | 2_not_human | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/douglas-carswell/ | en | null | null | 5,654 |
We’ve talked about global warming as climate improvement. […] The good news is that the bad news is wrong. | 3_not_bad | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/stephen-moore/ | en | null | null | 5,655 |
Finally, perhaps most importantly, there is little to no evidence that there is a need to reduce carbon emissions in this country. For all of these reasons, and many more, the proposed carbon tax should be whole-heartedly rejected. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/life-powered/ | en | null | null | 5,656 |
Carbon dioxide from hydrocarbon use – is increasing in the atmosphere. It will continue to increase so long as the rate of emissions from human activity exceeds the rate of removal – the half-time for removal being seven years – an experimental fact often misrepresented. There is no “existential climate environmental crisis. | 6_proponents_biased | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/art-robinson/ | en | null | null | 5,657 |
We need to reverse the disastrous energy policies which make heating bills a huge burden on the average household. In the name of combatting global warming, we actually risk people being unable to heat their homes and dying of hypothermia. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/institute-economic-affairs/ | en | null | null | 5,658 |
I call it soft communism being under the Indian Act. So, this energy industry is so critical for our people, despite what people might think and some of the narratives you’re hearing from environmental groups, | 7_fossil_fuels_needed | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/stephen-buffalo/ | en | null | null | 5,659 |
I am interested in selling the American people that market-based solutions work rather than all kinds of bureaucratic taxes or regulations that haven’t worked in Europe, wouldn’t work here, and would be extremely unpopular with voters, | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/jim-sensenbrenner/ | en | null | null | 5,660 |
Pardon me, sir. You don’t get to tell me to shut up on national television. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/ken-cuccinelli/ | en | null | null | 5,661 |
As I write, the Met Office is meeting in Exeter for an unprecedented summit to work out why it has predicted for the past 13 years that the British climate will get warmer only to find, in 12 out of the 13, that it has got colder. No one is admitting, of course, that the end of the world is not nigh, but one does notice much self-exculpatory talk of how weather is affected by ‘a host of other factors’. | 1_not_happening | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/charles-moore/ | en | null | null | 5,662 |
I maintain my opinion on the oil sands. Environmental damage created by their operations are minor and insignificant compared to the benefits derived…” (Translated from the original with Google Translate). | 3_not_bad | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/reynald-du-berger/ | en | null | null | 5,663 |
One day we may look back to the winter of 2022/23 as a golden age, when most of us could still afford to keep warm […] Don’t count on having that facility in future. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/ross-clark/ | en | null | null | 5,664 |
Global warming is real, but a problem, not the end of the world. Claims of ‘catastrophic’ costs are ill founded. For instance, even assuming increasing hurricane damage from global warming, the relative impact on society will decrease. naction has costs, but so does action. It is likely that climate action will lead to higher total costs in this century. limate action through increased energy costs will likely harm the poor most, both in rich and poor countries.. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/copenhagen-consensus-center/ | en | null | null | 5,665 |
In a comprehensive examination … we have no justifiable causal CO2 global warming, but periodic temperature fluctuations [of] normal proportions. Accordingly, the atmosphere since 1998 – so for 10 years – [has] not warmed since 2003 and it is actually much cooler again. | 1_not_happening | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/european-institute-climate-and-energy/ | en | null | null | 5,666 |
Hydraulic fracturing is like the equivalent in health care for a cure for cancer, | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/stephen-moore/ | en | null | null | 5,667 |
It seems reasonable to assume that INEOS’ emissions amount to millions, if not tens of millions of CO2 every year, | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/jim-ratcliffe/ | en | null | null | 5,668 |
I have a very superficial understanding as far as a … but, um, acidification issues is one. I’ve not read widely or deeply, I have read some. Which, different perspectives, some of which suggest that it’s a very, very fragile set of changes and acidification and others that say that, for you know long eons of geological history, there are certain places of certain oceans, may have changes in acidification levels but not others. So it’s such that changes either up or down are not inherently a problem. […] | 3_not_bad | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/kathleen-hartnett-white/ | en | null | null | 5,669 |
The Government’s climate change strategy is already proving to be costly for both domestic and business energy consumers as current policies significantly raise electricity costs. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/jeremy-nicholson/ | en | null | null | 5,670 |
Your views on climate change, as I understand them, are not aligned with those of my administration. In light of my position and due to the confusion surrounding your role with the state, I am directing you to offer any future statements on this or other public policy matters only on behalf of yourself or the University of Delaware, and not as state climatologist. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/david-legates/ | en | null | null | 5,671 |
However, our understanding of how the climate operates is incomplete and it is critically important to challenge the view that the planet is facing a global warming catastrophe. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/willie-soon/ | en | null | null | 5,672 |
The EPA is out of control. In a forthcoming review in Regulation, I lay out the problem with its push for higher fuel economy in cars. But it’s out of control in other ways too. Pruitt will likely rein in, and even reverse, some of its most extreme excesses. One good sign: he is a global warming skeptic. […] | 6_proponents_biased | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/david-r-henderson/ | en | null | null | 5,673 |
Make no mistake about it, global warming is the biggest scientific fraud in history. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/steven-goddard/ | en | null | null | 5,674 |