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If we have not passed it already, we are on the threshold of global observations becoming incompatible with the consensus theory of climate change. If the standstill (lower temperatures) continues for a few more years, it will mean that no one who has just reached adulthood, or younger, will have witnessed the Earth get warmer during their lifetime. | 1_not_happening | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/david-whitehouse/ | en | null | null | 5,675 |
It seems to me that the folks at the are the obvious fall guys and we would only hope that the fall guy (or gal) should be as high up as possible,’ Ebell wrote in the email. “Perhaps tomorrow we will call for Whitman to be fired,’ he added. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/myron-ebell/ | en | null | null | 5,676 |
If you assume the worst then there is absolutely no point in spending any money trying to prevent inevitable climate change. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/john-redwood/ | en | null | null | 5,677 |
The wall was never intended to prohibit religion in the public square or to prohibit its its influence on government issues and policy, etc. The wall, that metaphor, the wall was intended to do exactly the opposite of that. It was meant to prohibit the government from encroaching upon religion. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/mike-johnson/ | en | null | null | 5,678 |
And then he met Meghan Markle, and it’s fallen off a cliff. We’ve been told in the last week that Meghan and Harry will only have two children … and we’re all completely ignoring, the real problem the Earth faces, and that is the fact the population of the globe is exploding but no one dares talk about it, no one dares deal with it, and whether Prince Harry has two kids is irrelevant given there are now 2.6 billion Chinese and Indians on this Earth. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/nigel-farage/ | en | null | null | 5,679 |
Many economists favor some form of government penalty on CO2 emissions because of the threat of climate change. However, the steps in the argument—going from computer simulations to a specific, numerical tax on economic activity today—are riddled with uncertainties. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/robert-p-murphy/ | en | null | null | 5,680 |
Surely, hydraulic fracturing will not invariably poison the air, will not cause spates of local mini-earthquakes, and will not produce flaming faucets in all nearby areas (the three frightening clichés advanced by its opponents) — but the activity, especially if done in thousands of hurried repetitions and sometimes without careful planning, has the potential to be often unpleasant and disruptive, and sometimes outright damaging, | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/vaclav-smil/ | en | null | null | 5,681 |
If the government wants us to grow less food, produce less energy and stop making diesel and petrol cars how would it like us to learn a living? | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/john-redwood/ | en | null | null | 5,682 |
Thus, as of today, the United States will cease all implementation of the non-binding Paris Accord and the draconian financial and economic burdens the agreement imposes on our country. This includes ending the implementation of the nationally determined contribution and, very importantly, the Green Climate Fund which is costing the United States a vast fortune, | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/donald-trump/ | en | null | null | 5,683 |
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has to provide proof for significant human-caused climate change; yet their climate models have never been validated and are rapidly diverging from actual observations. The real threat to humanity comes not from any (trivial) greenhouse warming but from cooling periods creating food shortages and famines. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/s-fred-singer/ | en | null | null | 5,684 |
I’m just asking, do you agree with the fact. Is climate change driven by human-generated CO2 emissions a huge risk? | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/mick-mulvaney/ | en | null | null | 5,685 |
For five years, from 1979 to 1984, I was deeply involved in an effort to develop a new national business association through which it was hoped that a contingent of entrepreneurs and executives could be persuaded that their firms ought to refrain, to the maximum extent possible, from seeking to use government resources to achieve their objectives Through publications and testimony, this organization worked to introduce, defend, and promote the following basic concept: for a corporation or other businessentity to commit itself to compete solely, or primarily, through a free and open market, relying thereby for its success on the voluntary choices of consumers, is an ethical ‘high road. We believed that if we could convince even a modest number of prominent corporate leaders and associations to admit publicly that, whatever their practical constraints, they at least believed in and aspired to such a straight and narrow course, the public perception of economic competition and profits would begin to change and an appropriate standard by which to judge the social behavior of business enterprises would emerge. Public awareness of such a high road could not help but focus attention on those who seek privileges. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/council-competitive-economy/ | en | null | null | 5,686 |
I reject the Clean Power Plan and inform you that absent demonstrable and significant improvement in the final rule, Indiana will not comply. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/mike-pence/ | en | null | null | 5,687 |
Interested as I am as a chartered aerospace engineer who used to work on thermodynamics, with an MSc in computer science, capable of understanding models – fascinated as I am, I am not having that conversation about the science. But I have to say, the science is sometimes propagandised. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/steve-baker/ | en | null | null | 5,688 |
We are talking about a pretend tax to solve a pretend problem that no-one believes will be solved by this and we all have to pay attention, | 1_not_happening | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/andrew-bolt/ | en | null | null | 5,690 |
We will look back to the prophecies of climatic doom being made today in the same way that we now look back at the 18th/19th century economist Thomas Malthaus’s predictions of mass famine, or the warnings in the 1960s and 1970s that a new ice age was on its way. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/ross-clark/ | en | null | null | 5,692 |
Global warming is an example of junk science where there is a kernel of scientific truth that has been abused and beaten into a junk science edifice supporting huge money flows. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/co2-coalition/ | en | null | null | 5,693 |
The phony claim of 97 per cent consensus is mere political rhetoric aimed at stifling debate and intimidating people into silence. | 6_proponents_biased | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/ross-mckitrick/ | en | null | null | 5,694 |
Climate Change: The Facts 2017 brings together contributions on the latest climate science from some of the world’s leading experts in the field including John Abbot, Sallie Baliunas, Paul Driessen, Tony Heller, Craig Idso, Clive James, Pat Michaels, Jo Nova, Ian Plimer, Tom Quirk, Peter Ridd, Ken Ring, Nicola Scafetta, Willie Soon, Roy Spencer, and Anthony Watts here are also essays by Matt Ridley, and Bjørn Lomborg on the economics of climate change, and by Simon Breheny on how the freedom to discuss climate change science is under threat. | 6_proponents_biased | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/paul-driessen/ | en | null | null | 5,695 |
Warming will be very beneficial,” Happer said in his talk. “You can actually already see the planet greening from space. I certainly wouldn’t mind a few degrees of warming,” Happer joked. “Most Scotts would love to have a little warmer climate. | 3_not_bad | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/william-happer/ | en | null | null | 5,696 |
Measurement-based estimates suggest an atmosphere less sensitive to greenhouse-gas enrichment. This would, in turn, suggest that less-aggressive efforts to mitigate greenhouse-gas emissions, perhaps also with longer time-horizons might suffice to protect the world from possible climate change. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/aurea-foundation/ | en | null | null | 5,697 |
Politicians want the change now and are planning to waste hundreds of billions of dollars subsidizing electric cars, blocking consumers from choosing the cars they want, to achieve virtually nothing for the climate. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/bjorn-lomborg/ | en | null | null | 5,698 |
There’s good reason to be suspicious about green activists’ motives for inventing correlations between climate change and extreme weather. Some, through a winding and sometimes opaque money trail, are financed by Russian authorities interested in undercutting American energy. | 6_proponents_biased | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/drew-johnson/ | en | null | null | 5,699 |
I’m doing this pro bono,” Krause said. “We spent about less than $5,000 this week and that money, about five grand came from Canada action, Cody Battershill. He’s a realtor in Calgary and […] he gave that money to a small group called The North Matters. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/canada-action/ | en | null | null | 5,700 |
We have no more ability to prevent climate change than King Canute had to stop the tide from rising. All the observational evidence is that has a relatively small effect on temperature. Changes in the Earth’s temperature will continue to be dominated by natural causes, whether we increase concentrations, by continuing to burn fossil fuels, or whether we permit a nightmarish police state to stop emissions ,and punish ‘deniers’ as some in the alarmist camp demand. | 2_not_human | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/william-happer/ | en | null | null | 5,701 |
We oppose any carbon tax. We oppose a carbon tax because it would lead to less income and fewer jobs for American families,” the letter reads (emphasis in original). | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/consumer-action-strong-economy/ | en | null | null | 5,702 |
And we’re all somehow wrong and somehow you’re the one that got it right? | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/jay-h-lehr/ | en | null | null | 5,703 |
We are winning, and a couple of years ago, it didn’t seem possible, | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/brooke-rollins/ | en | null | null | 5,704 |
Scientific questions are not resolved by majorities. And there is no proven link between human activity and global warming. Didn’t you know? | 2_not_human | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/peter-hitchens/ | en | null | null | 5,705 |
The successive IPCC climate change reports contain a wealth of valuable information, but there has been a longstanding effort to characterize them as representing more of a ‘scientific consensus’ than they probably are, and to gloss over uncertainties and disagreements within the IPCC documents themselves, | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/christopher-demuth/ | en | null | null | 5,706 |
The world is not going to end because of climate change, at least not in the near future. | 3_not_bad | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/christopher-essex/ | en | null | null | 5,707 |
IPCC [UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change] lead authors have exaggerated the likely impacts of climate change in order to heighten public perception of the issue and thereby encourage governments to spend more on climate research. | 6_proponents_biased | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/institute-economic-affairs/ | en | null | null | 5,708 |
The Government urgently needs to develop a market-friendly approach to decarbonisation which focuses on developing technologies people would choose to use without compulsion. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/craig-mackinlay/ | en | null | null | 5,709 |
Natural variations [in climate] must be understood before mankind’s impact can be separated out. | 2_not_human | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/douglas-v-hoyt/ | en | null | null | 5,710 |
Carbon dioxide is a necessary food for green plants, thus necessary for life on this planet as we generally recognize it. As discussed in the second report, thousands of experiments and observations show that virtually all food crops and green plants thrive better in an atmosphere enriched in carbon dioxide and better resist stress such as draught, or insect attacks. Contrary to EPA claims, Carbon dioxide enrichment, condemned by these regulations, is a benefit to agriculture, humanity, and the planet. | 3_not_bad | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/ken-haapala/ | en | null | null | 5,711 |
Carbon dioxide has been mercilessly demonized as ‘carbon pollution’, when in fact it is a benefit to the planet. | 3_not_bad | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/terence-mordaunt/ | en | null | null | 5,712 |
MANY people think the science of climate change is settled. It isn’t. And the issue is not whether there has been an overall warming during the past century. There has, although it was not uniform and none was observed during the past decade. The geologic record provides us with abundant evidence for such perpetual natural climate variability, from icecaps reaching almost to the equator to none at all, even at the poles. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/jan-veizer/ | en | null | null | 5,713 |
A lot of the scientists who are studying global change and studying the effects of greenhouse gases, many of them feel that the Earth’s atmosphere in 100 years is what Biosphere 2’s atmosphere is today, | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/steve-bannon/ | en | null | null | 5,714 |
While we rely on them for most of our energy and will likely do so for years to come, as the Environmental Protection Agency () notes: ‘Scientists are certain that human activities are changing the composition of the atmosphere, and that increasing the concentration of greenhouse gases will change the planet’s climate. However, they are not sure by how much it will change, at what rate it will change, or what the exact effects will be.’ Despite these uncertainties it is clear that climate change is a serious problem that requires research for solutions and effective policies that allow us to meet our energy needs while protecting the environment. That’s why oil and gas companies are working to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/american-petroleum-institute/ | en | null | null | 5,716 |
Kyoto is dead and has been dead, but that doesn’t mean that it hasn’t done some real damage and won’t continue to do some real damage, | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/myron-ebell/ | en | null | null | 5,717 |
I think it [the encyclical] is going to be a big mistake for him [Pope Francis]. I think he is going to come out with a document that is going to be ripped to shreds. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/steve-milloy/ | en | null | null | 5,718 |
Despite some doom and gloom predictions, excluding waves washing onto shores by relatively rarely occurring tsunamis and storm-surges, low-lying areas on the face of our planet have NOT yet been submerged by rising oceans… so probably low-lying areas along shorelines of Canada and the USA will be SAFE into foreseeable and even distant futures. | 1_not_happening | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/paavo-siitam/ | en | null | null | 5,719 |
Obama speech shows we’re running out of time for a market-based response to climate change. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/andrew-coyne/ | en | null | null | 5,720 |
Global temperatures continue to level off, despite predictions from vaunted computer climate models and strident claims of climate catastrophe within and beyond the college campus. | 1_not_happening | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/anthony-j-sadar/ | en | null | null | 5,721 |
There is no connection between global warming and outbreaks or increases in disease, tropical or otherwise. | 3_not_bad | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/mike-catanzaro/ | en | null | null | 5,722 |
Economists have long argued that stabilizing greenhouse gases at 550 ppm is not efficient because the costs far outweighed the benefits. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/robert-mendelsohn/ | en | null | null | 5,723 |
Acting alone, the sacrifice of blue-collar jobs is entirely about political symbolism and appeasing wealthy green activists. | 6_proponents_biased | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/rupert-darwall/ | en | null | null | 5,724 |
Because as a society we decided fossil fuels were bad. I think that is immoral. | 7_fossil_fuels_needed | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/rick-perry/ | en | null | null | 5,725 |
A strong federal commitment to clean coal technology will allow America to take full advantage of its vast 240 year supply of coal reserves […] | 7_fossil_fuels_needed | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/national-mining-association/ | en | null | null | 5,726 |
Liberal critics of DonorsTrust, a donor-advised-fund sponsor for ‘organizations that promote liberty,’ have labeled it as a ‘secretive funding network’ and ‘dark-money .’ But the right to privacy enjoyed by contributors to donor-advised funds is no different than the right to privacy that governs the overwhelming majority of charitable giving. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/adam-meyerson/ | en | null | null | 5,727 |
Dismay as PM vows to ‘max out’ UK fossil fuel reserves, | 7_fossil_fuels_needed | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/lee-anderson/ | en | null | null | 5,728 |
In 20 years, 20 years in New York City, we’ll be making some resilient adjustments to the fact that, probably, we will be entering a period of global cooling as a result of the fact that the sun spots are at a very low point, and we could probably look forward in 20 years to, ah, maybe a degree and a half Fahrenheit cooler and we’ll manage. We’re resilient. You’ve proved your resilience in this room. I’m, I’m absolutely astounded of all the terrific things you’re doing for the citizens of New York with regard to protecting against storm surges and the like. It just isn’t about sea level. | 1_not_happening | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/jay-h-lehr/ | en | null | null | 5,729 |
As of today, I am the new owner of Definers Public Affairs. I bought out my partner, Matt Rhoades, so that we could both chase new challenges,” Pounder wrote. The public affairs market is evolving and so must Definers. That’s why I’m teaming up with Brian Rogers and Alex Angel to launch a new, insights-driven public affairs firm in the coming weeks called Bullpen Strategy Group (BSG). Brian and Alex are colleagues I’ve known for a long time. They are people I trust and respect, but also two talented individuals who have a history of chalking up wins for clients. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/america-rising-llc-pac-america-rising-squared-definers-public-affairs/ | en | null | null | 5,730 |
The Daily Caller News Foundation has an advantage that most new media outlets do not: access to millions of views. Reporting created by The Foundation is automatically sent for consideration to the for-profit Daily Caller. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/daily-caller/ | en | null | null | 5,731 |
That human activity has increased the atmospheric concentration of CO2, a gas known to ‘force’ climate or increase temperatures while the Earth has warmed about 0.6 Degrees Celsius over the last one hundred years is generally accepted. How the climate works and the relationship of different variables remains to be determined. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/thomas-pyle/ | en | null | null | 5,732 |
There’s no question that industrial states stand to lose the most and this should become a point of contention in 2010, just as it was in the Virginia governor’s race. But free market advocates who are looking to unseat cap and trade proponents now have the added benefit of climate-gate …] Republican candidates should get started now in exposing anti-scientific research that underpins alarmist positions on global warming. In their messaging to voters they can draw from the expertise of numerous, well-credentialed skeptics who have found expression for their own research, despite the best efforts of the scientific establishment. | 6_proponents_biased | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/kevin-mooney/ | en | null | null | 5,733 |
I can’t even stand to read the decisions because I don’t even think they’d pass law school with decisions like that. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/tim-huelskamp/ | en | null | null | 5,735 |
Natural gas is as close to an ideal energy source as can be found on the planet. | 7_fossil_fuels_needed | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/citizens-alliance-responsible-energy/ | en | null | null | 5,736 |
New Orleans is a prime example of climate change. If you stay here long enough, it’s gonna change. Not by mankind. It’s gonna rain, it’s gonna get real hot, it’s gonna get real cold, it’s gonna freeze. That’s climate change, right? | 2_not_human | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/jeff-landry/ | en | null | null | 5,737 |
While fossil fuels remain the very foundation of modern economic growth, spreading prosperity and a decent quality of life, they are no longer seen in that light. Rather, they are perceived as undesirable, outright dangerous, or even immoral, since their continuing use is thought to pose an unprecedented threat to the survival of modern civilization. Growing fears about rapid global warming caused by emissions of CO2 from the combustion of fossil fuels are behind this increasingly stringent judgment, and these fears feed (mostly unrealistic) visions of an accelerated global transition to nonfossil energies. Coal has always been more polluting in terms of particulate matter and sulfur oxide emissions than other hydrocarbons, and because it also has the highest CO2 emissions per unit of released energy, it is seen as the most undesirable choice. A closer look at coal’s attributes and the history of its use shows that this judgment is unfair and suggests that if the fuel’s conversion were done with the most efficient techniques available today, we would have no reason to view it so negatively. Crude oil—largely because of the continuing indispensability of refined fuels for the entire transportation sector occupies a more exalted place than coal. Although its considerable environmental impact is a concern, the main worry about oil is that its global extraction may peak in the very near future, and that this peak will not be followed by a prolonged production plateau but, rather, by a steep decline that will bring a multitude of economic and social hardships—in the most extreme versions, the end of modern civilization. That is why the first myth I debunk in this part of the book is the peak oil myth. | 6_proponents_biased | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/vaclav-smil/ | en | null | null | 5,738 |
To think that the supposedly greenest alternatives, photovoltaics and wind turbines, produce no fossil-fuel footprint and bring only benefits is to ignore reality. So too does the uninformed judgment about the evils of natural gas: It is not a perfect choice—nothing is—but its benefits surpass its drawbacks, and they could be raised even further. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/vaclav-smil/ | en | null | null | 5,739 |
Those of us who recognize these important benefits of capitalism … are reluctant to yield power to governments to tackle global warming… . [I]t’s a perfectly legitimate stance for truly reasonable people to conclude that the best policy regarding global warming is to neglect it — and let capitalism continue to make us healthier and wealthier. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/donald-j-boudreaux/ | en | null | null | 5,740 |
Greed is just a pejorative term for the human condition of self-interest. And it’s the only thing that drives mankind to make the world better for all, | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/fred-l-smith-jr/ | en | null | null | 5,741 |
Under my administration, all rules will be reviewed. Any regulation that imposes undue costs on business enterprises will be eliminated. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/donald-trump/ | en | null | null | 5,743 |
The scientific credibility of the global warming has fallen to near absolute zero in the face of the 18-year failure of the Earth to warm, | 1_not_happening | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/norman-rogers/ | en | null | null | 5,744 |
This anti-oil coalition is absolutely correct that subsidized finance for fossil-fuel projects is highly wasteful, | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/benjamin-zycher/ | en | null | null | 5,745 |
If the effect of on temperature is relatively weak, its effect on plant growth is powerful, given that and water are basic resources that plants require to live. Here the unambiguous effect is that the increase in has made plant life stronger, and has led to a major amount of global greening over the last 30 years. That increase in levels tends, moreover, to reduce temperature extremes by making land cooler in the day and warmer at night. | 3_not_bad | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/richard-epstein/ | en | null | null | 5,747 |
Shale Resource Centre Canada () is a not-for-profit corporation focused on providing factual information about the responsible development of Canadian natural gas and oil from shale. Funded by industry and supported by the facts, the is a clearing house for information from studies, scientists, economists and regulators so that anyone interested in understanding the promise and potential of shale development will have access to timely and factual information. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/fti-consulting/ | en | null | null | 5,748 |
Lockdown feels like the new Climate Change. A nightmare mix of bogus science, woke political posturing and economic lunacy, | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/martin-durkin/ | en | null | null | 5,749 |
Without a hearing, German officials have fined her and demanded costs on the ground that in her devastatingly effective videos she has dared to question the Party Line about what officialdom profiteers by presenting as ‘dangerous’ manmade global warming,” Monckton claimed at JunkScience s a result of this arbitrary and capricious prosecution and conviction without trial, Naomi has had her earnings cut off. Please donate securely and directly to her Patreon account at https://www.patreon.com/naomiseibtmy. May I suggest at least $10 per month? That would be a real life-saver, and would enable Naomi to continue her valuable work. | 6_proponents_biased | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/christopher-monckton/ | en | null | null | 5,751 |
So I’m an unapologetic America First conservative. I do not apologize about that. But I think to put America first, we need to go further and rediscover what America is. So what I call kind of America First 2.0. And so, you know what? I agree with a lot of President Trump’s policies. I was a big fan of them at the time. I’ve said so many times over. Maybe a little less government spending, but put that to one side. I think the key point for me is revive an American national agenda. I mean, reject affirmative action. Get rid of this climate religion. Lead to this national revival at home that allows us to then stand up to the actual threats we face, like communist China. | 6_proponents_biased | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/vivek-ramaswamy/ | en | null | null | 5,752 |
History shows that depopulation, social disruptions, extinctions, disease, and catastrophic droughts take place in cold times yet life blossoms and economies bloom in warm times. If indeed there is a period of global warming, why are we afraid of it? | 3_not_bad | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/jim-puplava/ | en | null | null | 5,753 |
APP absolutely does not support UNDRIP,” APP’s CEO Dennis Modry said during a webinar on July 27, 2022.2 We don’t need a woke United Nations to ram down our throats their socialist, Marxist agenda,” Modry said during the webinar’s Q&A session, answering a question on concerns about “WEF Agenda 2030. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/alberta-prosperity-project/ | en | null | null | 5,754 |
It must be coming evident that the science connecting Greenhouse gases to damaging climate change grows more tenuous by the day and the costs of using these theories to justify central planning of everything are causing Governments everywhere – but especially in Europe – to suddenly loose interest. They have real problems to deal with – not mythical conceptions of disaster in a hundred years’ time. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/owen-mcshane/ | en | null | null | 5,755 |
In the last hundred years, average global temperature has risen a mere 0.7 degrees Celsius. There is ample evidence that results from ground-based weather stations have been contaminated by urban sprawl, tarmac, car parks, vehicles, buildings and air-conditioning units Temperature data from satellites over the last 30 years show some warming, but less than that from ground stations. […] This slight 0.7 degree rise is entirely consistent with well-established, long-term, natural climate cycles. | 2_not_human | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/roger-helmer/ | en | null | null | 5,756 |
The observed pattern of warming, comparing surface and atmospheric temperature trends, does not show the characteristic fingerprint associated with greenhouse warming. The inescapable conclusion is that the human contribution is not significant and that observed increases in carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases make only a negligible contribution to climate warming. | 2_not_human | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/david-douglas/ | en | null | null | 5,758 |
And indeed it is,” Lea commented. “As there seems to be little scientific agreement that mankind’s fossil-fuel burning is the major reason for climate change. | 2_not_human | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/ruth-lea/ | en | null | null | 5,759 |
Put simply, corn production is not correlated with honeybee death, beekeepers who expose their hives to the highest level of pesticides have the lowest rates of hive death and hive loss related to pesticides is a small percentage of total hive loss, | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/todd-myers/ | en | null | null | 5,760 |
The reason we keep having ‘record-breaking heat is not so much because of climate change – although rising global temperatures are slightly increasing the chances of records being broken – but because there are so many records to break. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/ross-clark/ | en | null | null | 5,761 |
He can write a check for $250 million tomorrow and it’s a rounding error in his bank account… but he’s also an American success story because he didn’t inherit. He built it on his own. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/corey-lewandowski/ | en | null | null | 5,762 |
In my opinion, the time for debate is certainly not over because the vast majority of us don’t even know what the debate is about — let alone what has been proven and what hasn’t, let alone what action implications all of this has. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/alex-epstein/ | en | null | null | 5,763 |
The CO 2 greenhouse effect of the Earth’s atmosphere is a pure fiction of people who like to use large computers, without physical bases. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/gerhard-gerlich/ | en | null | null | 5,764 |
Global climate change presents one of the biggest energy and environmental policy challenges this country has ever faced. member companies are committed to addressing the challenge of climate change and have undertaken a wide range of initiatives over the last 30 years to reduce, avoid or sequester emissions. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/edelman/ | en | null | null | 5,765 |
Were economists specifically asked what might be the consequences of business and workplace lockdowns on employment, incomes, supply chains and GDP? And where is the scientific evidence that the health benefits resulting from the adoption of these measures would outweigh the psychological, social, economic and medical harms created by them? | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/manning-foundation-for-democratic-education/ | en | null | null | 5,766 |
He doesn’t need the permission of the Legislature to pursue this,” Stetter said. “He doesn’t think he can because he doesn’t want to do it. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/jeff-landry/ | en | null | null | 5,767 |
Sea level is rising more slowly than expected, and the rise is slowing down rather than speeding up. Sea level rise is the greatest potential threat to civilization posed by climate change because so many of us live near the coast. Yet, at a foot a century and slowing, it is a slight nosebleed. So are most of the other symptoms of climate change, such as Arctic sea ice retreat, in terms of their impact. The rate of increase of temperature (0.6C in 50 years) is not on track to do net harm (which most experts say is 2C) by the end of this century. | 3_not_bad | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/matt-ridley/ | en | null | null | 5,768 |
I am a climate lukewarmer. That means I think recent global warming is real, mostly man-made and will continue but I no longer think it is likely to be dangerous and I think its slow and erratic progress so far is what we should expect in the future. That last year was the warmest yet, in some data sets, but only by a smidgen more than 2005, is precisely in line with such lukewarm thinking, | 3_not_bad | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/matt-ridley/ | en | null | null | 5,769 |
I am no scientist, but I’m highly skeptical of a movement whose first advice is to steer the economy off a cliff toward financial ruin, | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/stephen-moore/ | en | null | null | 5,770 |
The reason that I and so many of my colleagues voted to sustain objections that were submitted over the electors submitted by two of those states, Arizona and Pennsylvania, is very simple. And this is a key point. The slate of electors were produced by a clearly unconstitutional process, period. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/mike-johnson/ | en | null | null | 5,772 |
There has been a string of films that have tried to portray oil and gas and other energy sources as bad. This is the first film that questions the premise [… would describe it as first, a pro-truth film. The truth is that fossil fuels are wonderful […] We’re not addicted [to oil]; we’re spoiled. We’re spoiled by these resources like oil and natural gas that have given us this incredibly high quality of life. Addiction is something that ruins your life,” Mathis said. “Does oil ruin your life? Oil is your life. | 7_fossil_fuels_needed | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/mark-mathis/ | en | null | null | 5,773 |
It is very expensive to reduce emissions, and unless you’re willing to build nuclear power plants, there is no substitute for coal, natural gas, and oil,” said Ebell. “In the transportation sector, there is no real alternative to gasoline and diesel from petroleum think a lot of these countries see these agreements as a way to show how virtuous they are and to feel good about themselves, but the actual work of reducing greenhouse gas emissions is very difficult,” Ebell said. “It’s very easy for governments to talk big, but very difficult to follow through and actually cut greenhouse gas emissions to meet commitments. | 7_fossil_fuels_needed | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/myron-ebell/ | en | null | null | 5,774 |
Putting our hope in environmentalism is the latest innovation of the Devil to keep man from the love and grace of God. Should C.S. Lewis have written The Screwtape Letters today he would probably add ‘environmentalism’ to the list of Satan’s tricks. Planting trees is not part of the Gospel, even if man has always and rightly planted trees. | 6_proponents_biased | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/samuele-furfari/ | en | null | null | 5,776 |
The most burdensome Obama-era regulation is the Clean Power Plan” Smith said. “The EPA’s sweeping climate change regulations burden the entire U.S. economy, targeted our energy development, and threatened to abolish affordable electricity for all Americans. […] it was all pain and no gain. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/lamar-smith/ | en | null | null | 5,777 |
Energy Myths and Realities: Bringing Science to the Energy Policy Debate, | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/vaclav-smil/ | en | null | null | 5,778 |
This is doomsday-cult scenario stuff, we shouldn’t be teaching our children to be afraid like this should we? | 6_proponents_biased | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/julia-hartley-brewer/ | en | null | null | 5,779 |
Moore contended that global warming and the melting of glaciers is positive because it creates more arable land and the use of forest products drives up demand for wood and spurs the planting of more trees. He added that any realistic plan to reduce reliance on fossil fuels and the emission of so-called greenhouse gases should include increased use of nuclear energy. | 3_not_bad | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/patrick-moore/ | en | null | null | 5,780 |
Climate change will be solved not by making fossil energy unaffordable, but by innovating the price of green technologies downward so that everyone can afford the switch. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/bjorn-lomborg/ | en | null | null | 5,781 |
Because of violence and trespassing and other criminal behavior, the Empowerment Alliance is going to protect its donors from that kind of risk,” he said. “We are offering donors this protection out of the concern that we would have should they come forward and the scrutiny of some of these eco-terrorists. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/empowerment-alliance/ | en | null | null | 5,782 |
We can have this conversation, but you cannot show me one place — not one! — where there is a proven pollution of groundwater by hydraulic fracturing, | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/rick-perry/ | en | null | null | 5,783 |
Originally launched as the counter argument to the World Wide Fund for Nature’s Earth Hour, where participants renounce the environmental impacts of modern technology by turning off their lights for an hour, Human Achievement Hour challenges people to look forward rather than back to the dark ages. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/angela-logomasini/ | en | null | null | 5,784 |