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Stand Together and the Stand Together logo are trademarks and service marks of Stand Together Chamber of Commerce. Terms like ‘we,’ ‘our,’ and ‘us,’ as well as ‘Stand Together,’ and ‘the Stand Together community,’ are used here for the sake of convenience. While the individuals and organizations to which those terms may refer share and work toward a common vision—including, but not limited to, Stand Together Foundation, Stand Together Chamber of Commerce, Charles Koch Foundation, Charles Koch Institute, and Americans for Prosperity—each engages only in those activities that are consistent with its nonprofit status. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/stand-together/ | en | null | null | 5,785 |
A few of the bills also address global warming. I would like to point out that according to the new Farmers’ Almanac released this week and its time-honored, complex calculations that it uses to predict weather, they predict we will be in for a colder than normal winter. In addition, they suggest that based on a study of solar activity and corresponding records on ocean temperatures and climate that we will be in for a cooler, not warmer, climate, for perhaps the next half century. | 1_not_happening | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/james-inhofe/ | en | null | null | 5,786 |
The breaching of the Berlin Wall and the melting down of the Iron Curtain marked not the end of totalitarianism, but the end of its confinement. The new menace to liberty is groupthink gone global. The globalization of groupthink is guilefully disguised under the green fig leaf of pietistic environmentalism. From behind that fig leaf, emerges today’s tumescent totem of totalitarian tyranny: climate change. | 6_proponents_biased | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/christopher-monckton/ | en | null | null | 5,787 |
When talking heads see no positives from gentle warming it is a warning signal that their minds are as closed as those of religious fanatics. | 3_not_bad | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/car26/ | en | null | null | 5,789 |
Not only does it answer the Bible’s call for God’s image bearers to care for the earth,” Dr E. Caliven Beisner, national spokesman for said, “but also it shows that a growing number of people are reaching the level of economic security that permits them to focus on such concerns. For most poor people, environmental problems might pose significant threats to their well being, but their own poverty prevents them from paying very much attention to them. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/acton-institute/ | en | null | null | 5,790 |
No. I think from our point of view, you know, we don’t really have a role to play on the policy side. I think where we think we can add value is by converting the science into numbers that expose the risk and put them in a form that decision makers can make decisions. Because we think the big issue here is around capital formation and allocation. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/mckinsey-company/ | en | null | null | 5,791 |
CO2 isn’t the climate control knob. CO2 is a political control knob. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/tom-nelson/ | en | null | null | 5,792 |
We all know that climate change must be mentioned in every movie, TV show, news bulletin and social media post. You can do your stuff about diversity and sustainability and mental health. But only if there’s a global boiling message in there as well o I understand that the weather-persons feel duty bound to jump on the bandwagon as well hey feel compelled, when it’s warm, to paint their maps dark red and talk about “extreme heat” nd similarly, to keep Greta and the snowflake army happy, they need to say when it’s a bit chilly, that we will all soon be buried under a 20-foot snow drift. | 6_proponents_biased | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/jeremy-clarkson/ | en | null | null | 5,793 |
Comprehensive studies of fracking suggest that there is minimal risk to the environment and to citizens, and that common-sense safety precautions can mitigate those risks. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/independent-womens-voice/ | en | null | null | 5,794 |
One of the interesting — and troubling — things about the environmental movement is how completely policy disputes have been displaced by the culture-war model of politics,” Williamson said in CEI’s announcement of his new project When there’s a policy debate, there is room for compromise and consensus-building. When the same issue is presented as an apocalyptic confrontation between good and evil, there isn’t any room for cooperation,” he said And those of us who are interested in human flourishing with both robust economic development and a healthy environment are left with very little in the way of attractive alliances and practical policy options. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/kevin-d-williamson/ | en | null | null | 5,795 |
The greening of the earth is a known fact, it’s being caused by fertilization. And not only does high increase the growth rate of all the plants on Earth, but it also improves their efficiency with water. It is. It makes them more drought tolerant, | 3_not_bad | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/patrick-moore/ | en | null | null | 5,796 |
O]ur 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/institute-public-affairs/ | en | null | null | 5,797 |
Each summer brings ‘the hottest day ever’ claims for some area. Sometimes we hear ‘the coldest day ever’ claims. And many cite these occurrences and well publicised storms as proof that ‘climate change’ (the new euphemism for ‘global warming’) is taking place. But these extreme weather events turn out to be unexceptional. | 1_not_happening | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/alan-moran/ | en | null | null | 5,798 |
And so where I work, The Mercatus Center at George Mason University, just for example, we put together a collection – the largest collection, in fact, of free market faculty that exists anywhere at any university anywhere in the world. What that means is that that these guys are producing research that groups in this network can rely on to advance economic freedom every single day. In practical terms, we put out about 1,600 relevant studies […] | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/brian-hooks/ | en | null | null | 5,799 |
The climate has always been changing and it will most likely always continue to change, | 2_not_human | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/gary-england/ | en | null | null | 5,800 |
The Project will fund legal advice and defense to those who need it, while also executing an offense to turn the tables on abusive officials. Scientists, policy organizations and others should not have to labor under the fear that they will be the next victims of the Climate Inquisition, that they may face punishment and personal ruin for engaging in research and advocating their views. | 6_proponents_biased | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/free-speech-science-project/ | en | null | null | 5,801 |
Today, skepticism about the science and economics behind the theory of man-made global warming has been largely vindicated, | 2_not_human | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/canada-strong-and-free-network/ | en | null | null | 5,802 |
When you impose emissions-reduction caps and allow trading, you stimulate private sector investment in new technologies,” DeVito said. “Where else can you be a part of a new market? New ideas in old markets are rare. New ideas in new markets are extremely rare. The modern energy economy requires entrepreneurship and a cap-and-trade system will help the innovators innovate. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/vincent-devito/ | en | null | null | 5,803 |
I look at it as one of my proudest achievements. The reason this is anywhere is because of Steve Milloy, | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/steve-milloy/ | en | null | null | 5,804 |
The Snyder administration’s decision to wave the white flag and implement EPA’s carbon regulation is bad news for Michigan families. The governor claims this approach ‘retains control’ for Michigan, yet the opposite is true. Implementing this regulation, when serious legal challenges persist, effectively hands over the keys to Michigan’s energy future to unelected bureaucrats in Washington. Once Gov. Snyder signs away Michigan’s control over its energy future to Obama’s EPA, there is no turning back Obama and EPA want states to think their only choices are to submit a state plan or have a federal plan imposed on them. Gov. Snyder has apparently fallen for this false choice. The real choice is between shielding Michigan from this harmful carbon regulation or helping President Obama carry it across the finish line as the sun sets on his presidency Obama’s carbon regulation is a national energy tax that will burden Michiganders, especially the poor, with higher energy prices and fewer jobs, yet will have no impact on climate change. Michigan voters made clear their stance on higher energy taxes when they overwhelmingly rejected Governor Snyder’s gas tax proposal earlier this year. The governor should listen to the citizens in his state and join the ranks of several of his fellow governors by rejecting the Obama administration’s carbon regulation. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/thomas-pyle/ | en | null | null | 5,805 |
How could it? CO2 is plant food. It commits no harm. It’s not a pollutant. Increased CO2 is beneficial, so why chase ‘net zero’? | 3_not_bad | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/conservative-woman/ | en | null | null | 5,806 |
The ‘Commitments’ made in the Paris agreement are voluntary and unenforceable, | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/cornwall-alliance-stewardship-creation/ | en | null | null | 5,807 |
We see climate change as a global issue that requires actions that are relevant on a global scale, as well as here at home The Lax Kw’alaams, Metlakatla, Nisga’a and Haisla initiated the FNCI because our communities are interested in LNG development as a means for alleviating poverty, and are concerned about the real signs of climate-change impacts in our territories FNCI is working with governments . . . other First Nations and other non-governmental groups to develop climate-change policies that simultaneously reduce greenhouse gas emissions and strengthen First Nations’ economic self-determination This includes the development of net-zero LNG as a transition fuel and the development of a low-carbon economy China is the world’s largest importer of natural gas. With your goals to achieve net zero by 2060, and our ability to provide net-zero LNG, we see opportunity for partnership We are playing a leadership role in climate-smart development in Canada, and we want to partner with countries like China, because helping you reduce your GHG emissions helps the world fight climate change The more we replace LNG for the types of coal burned in China, with net-zero LNG produced in Canada, we think we can. And we want to partner with you to make this happen. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/first-nations-lng-alliance/ | en | null | null | 5,808 |
We need a change in strategy and philosophy when it comes to mining. For federal land development, the 20th-century philosophy of ‘lock up and preserve’ needs to be replaced with an ethic of ‘use and explore.’ We have hundreds of years of these resources with existing technology, | 7_fossil_fuels_needed | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/stephen-moore/ | en | null | null | 5,809 |
And you have to ask this, you know, this very subtle question, a very all-important question, where do you sort of shift from the wisdom of crowds to the madness of crowds? Where do these things shift, becoming, you know, a mob, or a racket, or simply something that’s, you know, a totalitarian lie. … I always think that, you know, when you have to call things science, you know they aren’t, like climate science or political science. We don’t use physical science or chemical science because, you know, you don’t need to push it quite that hard And, this sort of, you know, extreme dogmatism, you know, has of course, it’s not even been one of a very stable variety like maybe, you know, the Catholic Church and its anti-Aristotelian notions, or its Aristotelian notions on Earth, you know it didn’t shift itself every month or every year on this. And we’ve had a dogmatic, maybe an atheist church in science, a dogmatic church that has nevertheless had crazed hairpin turns in the last year. Just on the COVID thing, they’re too many to enumerate, but just, you know, the very basic ones are, you know, masks first ineffective, then required. You know, vaccines, one year ago, Kamala Harris was campaigning that, you know, she would never take a Trump vaccine. Now they’re mandatory And of course, of course there’s the strange history of the lab leak where it was first racist and taboo, now it’s probably correct even though I’m not totally certain I’m allowed to discuss that yet, but it’s sort of, it’s probably sort of allowed to discuss this. And this sort of dogmatism, these hairpin turns, this sort of epistemic closure, is I think one of the ways that things have just gotten deranged over and over and over again … The problem, whether it’s Fed, Afghanistan, COVID, is that we’ve, we have this sort of, these machines for generating consensus, uniformity, you know, and not asking dissident questions even though they’re super urgent and as far as I can tell, the hour is late for all of these institutions, and it’s more urgent than ever that we find a way to have some of these dissident voices get heard in all these different contexts. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/peter-thiel/ | en | null | null | 5,810 |
Together with Jean-Louis Le Mouël and some Russian colleagues, we have shown that some specific features of the magnetic field were remarkably well correlated with some variations in the sun’s activity – which in itself was not surprising – but the fact that it also correlated with the mean global temperature of the lower atmosphere came to us as a real surprise. This is how I started to get interested in climatology at the decadal to centennial time scale, an area which is not my specialty, though I had already encountered climatologists at the million year time scale with the Indian volcanism. 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 | 5,811 |
No. We’re saying – we’re saying, stop killing us. We’re saying my life matters. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/ken-cuccinelli/ | en | null | null | 5,812 |
I’m not going to say one way or the other.” I’m going to I’m going to look at each presentation. I would not, let’s put that way. I don’t have a total ban on that, no. There are, in my experience looking at that, there’s lots of charlatans on the quote unquote skeptic side. And those people are not skeptics. They’re ideologues. There are genuine skeptics. There are people who are not ideologues and not stupid and not crazy. And I don’t write them all off. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/andrew-coyne/ | en | null | null | 5,813 |
The goal of generating 100 percent renewable energy may not be achievable. But in the coming decades natural gas can help meet the growing global demand for sustainable energy… [W]hile high-capacity, low-cost batteries may one day enable more solar and wind supply, uncovering that innovation will take billions more in R&D costs in the hopes of achieving that breakthrough. . . . . There is one sphere of innovation, however, that has already proven to be transformative—the expansion of domestic natural gas production and consumption. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/wp-creative-group/ | en | null | null | 5,814 |
That’s not to say climate change isn’t happening or that man-made emissions aren’t playing a role. That’s obviously the case. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/nicolas-loris/ | en | null | null | 5,815 |
As have other environmental alarms before it, the dangerous man-made global warming alarm will fade. Unfortunately, policies that make most people worse off have and will be implemented. We would be better off if we didn’t keep repeating the same old mistakes. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/kesten-green/ | en | null | null | 5,816 |
Edelman resembles most global PR companies who want to play on both sides of the debate over what to do about carbon emissions, | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/edelman/ | en | null | null | 5,817 |
Why in the world would you need to reduce fossil-fuel use? | 7_fossil_fuels_needed | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/john-h-sununu/ | en | null | null | 5,818 |
The prince certainly needs someone to point out to him that the planet is not ‘dying’ and that it was doing just fine when CO2 concentrations were vastly higher than they are now or are ever likely to be as a result of whatever amount of fossil fuels we burn. | 3_not_bad | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/dominic-lawson/ | en | null | null | 5,819 |
Because the science firmly and overwhelmingly shows fracking to be safe and not a systemic threat to groundwater – nor does it cause cancer, asthma, or birth defects (as is claimed by the anti-human, environmental Left) – I’ll assume that the Oregon House’s decision to vote for this bill was purely for superstitious reasons. It’s the only logical explanation, because there is no scientific justification for banning an industry that has created billions upon billions of dollars in new wealth and is single-handedly responsible for 63 percent of the drop in U.S. carbon emissions over the past decade, according to the International Energy Agency Never mind that this industry can improve the state’s economy and bring in sorely needed jobs and tax revenue. The ban gives a bunch of clueless tree huggers the willies, so the entire state gets to suffer. Historian Paul Johnson once wrote that modern environmentalism is ‘emotionalism masquerading as science.’ That is certainly proving to be the case in Oregon, and the House has decided to be swept along in hysteria. | 6_proponents_biased | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/tim-benson/ | en | null | null | 5,820 |
In fact, there is no substantial evidence which proves that CO2 and other GHGs are the primary cause for the warming, and not some other mechanism. You may have seen articles which point to the contrary, that there is clear evidence, but if you dig deeply into them, you will realize that these are merely suggestions for a CO2 climate link and not evidence. | 2_not_human | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/nir-shaviv/ | en | null | null | 5,821 |
The climate is changing and human activity contributes to that in some manner. It is the ability to measure it and the extent of that impact, and what to do about it that is subject to continued debate and dialogue. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/scott-pruitt/ | en | null | null | 5,822 |
As Alex Epstein has argued: ‘Reducing fossil fuel consumption by 95% would starve the modern mechanized agricultural industry of the energy necessary to continue its work producing affordable, abundant food—the consequence of which would be massive human malnourishment and starvation.’“Alternatives to some oil and gas products are available, but only in very modest amounts, and in many cases only because oil and gas make them possible in the first place. | 7_fossil_fuels_needed | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/secondstreet-org/ | en | null | null | 5,823 |
This, it seems to me, is the most sensible way of approaching climate change. Don’t walk slowly through the richer bits of London and don’t throw orange powder at paintings. And definitely don’t get your teenage children to appear on the world stage, snarling and raging about “stolen dreams”. Just adapt. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/jeremy-clarkson/ | en | null | null | 5,824 |
Virtually every environmental policy I’ve seen since the early 1990s has been basically politics and not science. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/steve-milloy/ | en | null | null | 5,825 |
Some Tories in the shires get bamboozled by the green lobby. But most of the members are completely in our camp – cut taxes, go for growth, become self-reliant and use our own shale gas. | 7_fossil_fuels_needed | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/reform-uk/ | en | null | null | 5,826 |
Our aim with the Cornwall Network is to provide solidly Biblical information to religious leaders,” he explained, “coupled with sound scientific and economic information, to help point laypeople toward creation care that recognizes God’s extraordinary gifts to mankind, enlists those gifts to enhance the environment, and puts top priority on promoting human well being, especially among the world’s poor. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/acton-institute/ | en | null | null | 5,827 |
A troubling aspect of the discussion of the discussion of Global Warming is the idea that our level of scientific understanding is perfect; or that we have little left to learn. As the previous discussion has shown, this is incorrect and many scientists disagree with the idea that the causes and consequences of warming are perfectly understood. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/institute-energy-research/ | en | null | null | 5,829 |
The Clean Power Plan implicates every evil associated with unconstitutional commandeering. It dragoons states into administering federal law, irrespective of their citizens’ views. It destroys accountability, by directing the brunt of public disapproval for increased electricity costs and lost jobs onto state officials, when the federal government deserves the blame. And it subverts the horizontal separation of powers, by allowing the executive branch to act where Congress has refused to legislate, | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/andrew-grossman/ | en | null | null | 5,830 |
That also means that we must prepare for those changes rather than muck about with blunt tools like carbon taxes or symbolic bans on plastic bags So let’s abandon fanciful and fleetingly ineffective climate policies. Let’s rapidly transition to the cleanest and most reliable electricity source we have (nuclear). […] “Let’s stop torturing ourselves with totalitarian policies against a virus we can’t control. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/american-institute-economic-research/ | en | null | null | 5,831 |
Other climate gaffes include the claims about the worsening of extreme weather events due to climate change. Contrary to popular belief, there has been no observable increase in extreme weather events. | 1_not_happening | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/vijay-jayaraj/ | en | null | null | 5,833 |
No one should be ashamed of emitting , and we all do. It really is immoral what we’re doing to the third world, you know, with climate policies. I mean we should be ashamed of ourselves in America and in Europe of what’s happening there all in the name of saving the planet. It’s just silly virtue signaling, it’s not saving anything, and it’s hurting a lot of people. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/william-happer/ | en | null | null | 5,834 |
Misuse of the judicial system in the face of their agenda having failed through the proper, democratic process will not yield the practical responses the world needs as it faces a climate that is always changing, which change the wealthiest societies have always adapted to best. | 6_proponents_biased | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/government-accountability-and-oversight/ | en | null | null | 5,835 |
Our judicial system was created as the third branch of our government to uphold laws and see that justice prevails. It was not designed to be corrupted into a political tool, used as a weapon to persecute, intimidate and silence individuals and groups over mere differences of opinion,” Whitaker contended in a 2016 op-ed. Whitaker called the investigations “unconstitutional and unethical” and claimed they were an “outright assault on the First Amendment. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/foundation-accountability-and-civic-trust-fact/ | en | null | null | 5,836 |
The climate models that got the government so excited are totally wrong so far, | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/john-stossel/ | en | null | null | 5,837 |
Acting as Texans for Natural Gas representatives, employees have launched pro-industry petitions, produced videos and reports on the importance of the Permian Basin oil field, and written opinion pieces for local newspapers supporting fossil fuels. The site features testimonials from three women, two of whom are represented with stock photos and one with a photo used without permission from the Flickr page of a photographer in the Philippines,” Tabuchi reported. She added, “Texans for Natural Gas has also shared misleading information about greenhouse gas emissions. In 2018, it issued a study inaccurately claiming that emissions of methane had decreased significantly in the heart of Texas oil country at the height of the fracking boom. | 7_fossil_fuels_needed | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/fti-consulting/ | en | null | null | 5,838 |
We oppose any carbon tax. We oppose a carbon tax because it would lead to less income and fewer jobs for American families, | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/carrie-l-lukas/ | en | null | null | 5,839 |
There is an estimated 11.5 trillion dollars that is likely to be invested in clean energy between now and 2050 globally, that represents an enormous opportunity for the United Kingdom, which is already as I’ve said a global leader, both by practice and by export, and could mean a lot of potential jobs for the United Kingdom. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/liam-fox/ | en | null | null | 5,840 |
The new 501c4 will engage national political leaders, the media, and voters with research and paid advertising, warning against the consequences of radical proposals that would devastate our country’s position as the world’s lone superpower and hurt millions of Americans at all income levels. “The recent attack in Saudi Arabia shows that our enemies are getting more sophisticated and that America is still at risk from events overseas,” said Jim Nathanson, Executive Director for TEA. “But the Green New Deal and other ideas would make those attacks seem small by comparison, as they would weaken America and take us back to energy dependence. There is a better path. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/empowerment-alliance/ | en | null | null | 5,841 |
The focusing on global warming as the reason for any hurricane (or making it more likely to occur or become more intense) ignores that natural variations are not only more important than indicated by the AP news story, but also that the human influence involves a diverse range of first-order climate forcings, including, but not limited global warming [which, of course, has not occurred since at least mid-2004!]. | 1_not_happening | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/roger-pielke-sr/ | en | null | null | 5,842 |
We thought in order to give the reviewers an opportunity to only focus on the content of the paper and not be distracted by anything else, we have to hide our identities, | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/ned-nikolov/ | en | null | null | 5,843 |
The influence of Russian propaganda and the influx of money funneled from the Kremlin to many of America’s most extreme environmental outfits helps explain why anti-fracking attacks continue even though science has confirmed fracking poses no threat to public health. | 6_proponents_biased | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/drew-johnson/ | en | null | null | 5,845 |
In the end, it’s the opinion of climatologists that matter in the global warming debate, and the polls clearly show that the experts are skeptical, | 6_proponents_biased | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/freedomworks/ | en | null | null | 5,846 |
Even on the timescale of decade or two, we could end up be very surprised on how the climate plays out and it might not be getting warmer like the says. We don’t know what’s going to happen. All other things being equal – yes – more carbon dioxide means warmer, but all other things are never equal. We just don’t know. I think we are fooling ourselves to think that control knob really influences climate on these decadal or even century time scales. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/judith-curry/ | en | null | null | 5,847 |
Ken Cohen and his public affairs shop, in tandem with the K Street office in Washington, oversaw contributions to free-market advocates who published, spoke out, and file lawsuits to challenge policies designed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions or assess the long-term impact of global warming. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/lee-raymond/ | en | null | null | 5,848 |
If we look back in just the last 10,000 years, we’re living in quite cool times. For people that claim we’ve had the hottest year ever, it’s just absolute codswallop. We have had about 8,000 years where it’s been much hotter than now. | 1_not_happening | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/ian-plimer/ | en | null | null | 5,849 |
Average gasoline prices have increased from $3.14 to $3.56 per gallon. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/californians-affordable-reliable-energy-care/ | en | null | null | 5,850 |
The good news is that sea level rise is much more modest than false prognosticators have led us to believe. Al Gore’s worst case scenario fooled some for a time, but no more,” the piece concluded Rather than attempt to shave fractions of an inch off of future sea level rise in the distant future, policymakers should keep fossil fuels affordable, plentiful, and reliable to deal with climate and weather events of all kinds. Free-market adaptation, not a futile crusade to ‘stabilize’ climate, is the obvious choice for a free, prosperous world. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/judith-curry/ | en | null | null | 5,851 |
Global warming is real, but it is not primarily man-made. This biblically-based and thoroughly balanced view of climate change reveals that global warming is not a black & white issue. Viewers will see why well-meaning Christians need to be extremely careful when advocating environmental policies. | 2_not_human | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/d-james-kennedy-ministries/ | en | null | null | 5,852 |
Climate alarmists scare us with ever more fire. But satellites show the world is burning ever less. In 2022, the world burned the least ever in the satellite era.”2 omborg tweeted a link to his article, published in the journal Technological Forecasting and Social Change, which claims to show agreement across various modelled scenarios global will be only moderately impacted by 8 degrees of global warming. In the paper, Lomborg makes the case that the costs of taking climate action “vastly outweigh” the costs imposed by climate change itself. He argued that the 2 degree target is economically “unrealistic” and that a favourable scenario would see a reduction of warming from 4 degrees to 3.75 degrees e argued that The current climate discourse leads to wasteful climate policies, diverting attention and funds from more effective ways to improve the world. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/bjorn-lomborg/ | en | null | null | 5,853 |
The MPB (mountain pine beetle) is a species native to this part of North America and is always present. The MPB epidemic started as comparatively small outbreaks and through forest management inaction got completely out of hand,” Scagel was quoted in the National Post. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/rob-scagel/ | en | null | null | 5,854 |
Now, the question is, is part of what’s happening related to something other than natural variability? And if so, how do you determine what that is? And the reality is, the science isn’t there to make that determination. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/rex-tillerson/ | en | null | null | 5,855 |
Both man-made climate change and ‘racism’ are hysterical scare campaigns pushed by elite institutions to rip off and divide people. | 6_proponents_biased | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/paul-joseph-watson/ | en | null | null | 5,856 |
In continuing to oppose the development of the UK’s massive shale gas resources, as if nothing has happened, Kwasi Kwarteng is failing not only the British people, but the efforts of democratic European nations desperate to find alternatives to Russian gas. | 7_fossil_fuels_needed | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/benny-peiser/ | en | null | null | 5,857 |
Now, we were given stewardship over the world and the creatures therein, by our Creator long ago. This means to nurture and to care for. So, from our very essence, from the principles that drive us, we of course are encouraged to care for our planet. All of us do. And as I speak across the state and the country and Americans ask me, after an address, that what does this mean? Shall I become supportive of the conservative agenda? Shall I vote Republican? I say you’re damn right you should vote for Republican. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/clay-higgins/ | en | null | null | 5,858 |
Absolutely not. There is nothing in any of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report suggesting that nothing in the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization. In fact, there’s every reason to believe that, that deaths from natural disasters should continue to go down, that food production should continue to go up, and that the global burden of disease should continue to go down, as it has been for decades and centuries, really. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/michael-shellenberger/ | en | null | null | 5,859 |
This is awful. This is terrible. This is much worse than anything President Trump said at that rally, which, by the way, he said you know do everything peacefully. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/steve-milloy/ | en | null | null | 5,860 |
No, I’m not okay with that. There’s no chance of you being right and me being wrong. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/jay-h-lehr/ | en | null | null | 5,862 |
Fewer and fewer people die from climate-related natural disasters. This is even true of 2021 — despite breathless climate reporting, almost 99% fewer people died that year than a hundred years ago. | 3_not_bad | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/bjorn-lomborg/ | en | null | null | 5,863 |
There’s a lot of skepticism about global warming. One: Climate change. Is it happening? And most people say ‘yes, this is happening’, but how is it happening? You saw perhaps a new study that just came out predicting global cooling over the next 10 years based on ocean currents.” [… And then there’s debate. These 31,000 scientists say it’s not happening. You have other scientists say it is happening. and McCain has said a long time ago that the science is settled. Well, I think there is an underlying political problem that is very interesting here. And that is that he, in the way he used his rhetoric, he basically put out of the picture any very serious person who’s concerned about the environment but is skeptical about global warming. So that becomes an impossible thing ow that’s very interesting also because Alexis de Tocqueville, the writer of Democracy in America, wrote two things. He said what sometimes happens in democratic societies is that, it’s not in a totalitarian way where you’re punished for it, but the limits of discussion become very narrow. And we’re seeing this happen with global warming where you can’t even have a serious discussion about what to do because ‘the science is settled’ according to McCain. When, in fact, the science is not settled econd, Tocqueville predicted that democratic societies would move towards pantheism. When we see this global warming, what we’re seeing really is this view that somehow humans are a scourge on the planet. It’s an economic fallacy because it only sees humans as consumes and not also as producers and innovators, including being innovators of alternative technology sources which we see the market doing without government intervention […] […] Environmentalist policies that may or may not work, that are based on not certain data, could actually harm [the poor] and prevent economic development. | 1_not_happening | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/acton-institute/ | en | null | null | 5,864 |
Even if the Paris Agreement were implemented in full, with total compliance from all nations, it is estimated it would only produce a two-tenths of one degree Celsius reduction in global temperature by the year 2100,” Trump said. Tiny, tiny amount. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/donald-trump/ | en | null | null | 5,865 |
That does include actually growing food as a thing that we do in the UK. And I’m afraid some of the policies which are being adopted are just anti-life. They’re anti-human life on Earth in the name of environmentalism, and I want us to live flourishing and full lives with a healthy environment around us. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/steve-baker/ | en | null | null | 5,866 |
Good morning esterday, more than 20 news outlets ran a @CanadianPress story which incorrectly reported that I have ‘backed off my assertions’ which form part of the basis for the Alberta Inquiry. hat’s ENTIRELY FALSE. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/vivian-m-krause/ | en | null | null | 5,867 |
What we need to focus on is access to clean water, addressing these areas of superfund activities that may cause an attack on water, these issues of access to fuel. […] Those are things so important to citizens of Florida right now, and to discuss the cause and effect of these storms, there’s the […] place (and time) to do that, it’s not now. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/scott-pruitt/ | en | null | null | 5,868 |
Reform UK fully accepts that climate change is real, after all it has happened for millions of years based on multiple factors completely outside human control or influence. Warming has of course taken place over the last approximately 150 years, with signs over recent years that it is now leveling off. Humans have had an impact on this global warming, though scientists disagree as to how much. Those who think that getting to Net Zero will stop climate change are in fact just denying reality. | 2_not_human | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/reform-uk/ | en | null | null | 5,869 |
Too many people who KNOW that all this ‘global warming’ crap is total nonsense feel they must continue to pay lip service. This must stop! It cannot be said too often, bluntly or directly. ‘Man-Made Climate Change’ is repeatedly discredited, absurd, invented, efffing garbage!! | 1_not_happening | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/martin-durkin/ | en | null | null | 5,870 |
The McCain-Lieberman bill would create a national CO2 cap and trade program that would be highly injurious to coal-based electricity. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/american-coalition-clean-coal-electricity/ | en | null | null | 5,872 |
News Corp has meticulously documented its own carbon footprint since 2006 and sought to ‘take a leadership role on the issue of climate change’ by reducing it, | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/rupert-murdoch/ | en | null | null | 5,873 |
Whilst the business case for government support for learning and innovation in a range of promising low carbon energy technologies is clear,” it continues, “the need to meet the renewable targets constitutes a burdensome and most unnecessarily expensive policy. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/andrea-leadsom/ | en | null | null | 5,874 |
Yeah. You know, President Trump is really getting the bum’s rush here. You know, Democrats and weak kneed Republicans did this to Richard Nixon in 1974. They acted on this so-called smoking gun tape, which had nothing to do with Watergate, ironically. And President Trump is getting the same treatment here. And, you know, people laugh when you say Deep State. No, it’s real. There’s something going on here. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/steve-milloy/ | en | null | null | 5,875 |
The undead corpse of global warming is animated now only by the hopes of a handful of true believers Smarter activists see the futility of climate change and have begun the work of metamorphosing the cause into something grander The seeds for this growth were planted in the Paris ‘climate’ accord, which called for ‘gender equality, empowerment of women, and intergenerational equity’ as well as ‘climate justice. All that was missing was transgender ‘rights.’ But don’t worry. That’s being taken care of, too. | 6_proponents_biased | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/william-briggs/ | en | null | null | 5,876 |
Am I going to take this job seriously? You bet your life I am. Am I taking it seriously? Yes, of course I am. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/nigel-farage/ | en | null | null | 5,877 |
Policies to ‘stop climate change’ are based on climate models that completely failed to predict the lack of warming for the past two decades. Observational data show clearly that the predictions of unacceptable warming caused by more carbon dioxide are wrong. Economic discount rates aside, policies designed to save the planet from more carbon dioxide are based on failed computer models. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/global-warming-policy-foundation/ | en | null | null | 5,878 |
Nobody wants it. The times, the mood, has changed. There is a zeitgeist […] people are questioning the science now and they are seeing that it is really dodgy actually, a lot of it, and people aren’t prepared to pay for it. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/gb-news/ | en | null | null | 5,879 |
If you have a temperature rise, if it’s a problem in one area, it’s beneficial in another area. But sea level is the real ‘bad guy,’ and therefore they [The IPCC] have talked very much about it. But the real thing is, that [sea level rise] doesn’t exist in observational data, only in computer modeling. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/nils-axel-morner/ | en | null | null | 5,880 |
I’m very excited about the fact that we can get back from the brink of extinction and have a future here in America as oil and gas producers, | 7_fossil_fuels_needed | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/harold-hamm/ | en | null | null | 5,881 |
Y]ou have to adjust to your audience, wherever it may be. And speaking out to the millennial generation is so important because what the left did, effectively, was infiltrate the education system. So they’ve been force fed a lot of misinformation as it relates to the importance of energy and how it’s reduced poverty in the United States and the world as well as the role of the environment and our interaction with that. So I do have to adjust my tone and a lot of different ways, but I want to be effective towards a lot of folks. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/mandy-gunasekara/ | en | null | null | 5,882 |
That are extracted mostly overseas/ From countries like China/ And Congo/ Where pollution is rampant/ And children are forced into oppressive labor. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/fueling-us-forward/ | en | null | null | 5,883 |
True conservation is taking care of the land and water you already have, not insatiably acquiring more and hoping it manages itself,” the Op-Ed reads. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/property-and-environment-research-center/ | en | null | null | 5,884 |
I’m here today to talk about an important example of the failed science that’s used to convince uninformed people that burning fossil fuels has had and will continue to have a harmful effect on the planet. | 2_not_human | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/susan-crockford/ | en | null | null | 5,885 |
Global warming is only one of the supposedly human-caused ‘crises’ that are severely questioned by genuine scientists. The latter often are too busy working on genuine problems to take the time to refute the sensational assertions of the ‘activists’ so avidly reported by the media. If the socialist agenda that has become the goal of the so-called environmentalists is advanced, the material costs will be huge and the benefits small. The ultimate cost would be human freedom. | 6_proponents_biased | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/american-institute-economic-research/ | en | null | null | 5,886 |
And we should also be clear, too, Khashoggi is being presented as a hero of journalism. He’s probably going to be Time magazine’s Man of the Year just because he is a dead so-called journalist. But in fact he was kind of a deep state Saudi spook who just happened to fall out with the royal family. In a sense, it’s different sets of bad guys we’re arguing about when we’re talking about Saudi Arabia. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/mark-steyn/ | en | null | null | 5,887 |
As editor of a journal which remained open to scientists who challenged the orthodoxy, I became the target of a number of CRU manoeuvres. The hacked emails revealed attempts to manipulate peer review to E&E’s disadvantage, and showed that libel threats were considered against its editorial team […] | 6_proponents_biased | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/sonja-boehmer-christiansen/ | en | null | null | 5,888 |
The truth is the polar bear population has increased from about 6,000 – 8,000 in the 1960s to 25,000 – 28,000 today. […] We know polar bears survived the last interglacial period, the Eemian, 110,000 years ago, which was warmer than the current Holocene interglacial period. But photos of old starving bears, bears supposedly “trapped” on ice floes, and bears that are thin after a long hibernation, are effectively employed to perpetuate the myth that they are threatened with extinction. | 3_not_bad | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/patrick-moore/ | en | null | null | 5,889 |
What about ‘global warming?’ What matters is the degree and rate of change. There have been times on earth when it has been much warmer than today, and times when it’s been much colder. The latter are called ice ages. One of the former is called ‘The Climate Optimum.’ It was a time of higher average global temperature and high CO2. | 2_not_human | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/fred-palmer/ | en | null | null | 5,891 |