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There is no convincing scientific evidence that human release of carbon dioxide, methane or other greenhouse gases is causing, or will in the foreseeable future, cause catastrophic heating of the earth’s atmosphere and disruption of Earth’s climate. | 2_not_human | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/intermountain-rural-electric-association/ | en | null | null | 5,892 |
We don’t understand climate nearly enough to say, ‘If we keep burning fossil fuels, it will be disastrous.’ That’s just an opinion. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/bruce-everett/ | en | null | null | 5,893 |
It is highly unlikely that the temperature in the middle of the next century will be significantly affected whether policies are enacted now or 20 years from now. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/lee-raymond/ | en | null | null | 5,894 |
To hear a Western (i.e., rich!) evangelical environmentalist tell the poor that they must sacrifice the technologies that would improve the length and quality of life for them and their families in order to achieve a merely speculative benefit they will never see can only make the poor less likely to listen to the gospel that the evangelical brings. Such disillusionment will only deepen when it is realized that those evangelicals continue to enjoy the same lifesaving technologies they are effectively asking the poor to forego. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/acton-institute/ | en | null | null | 5,895 |
As to climate change, numerous studies demonstrate that there is no credible evidence that manmade carbon dioxide is causing dangerous global warming. Moreover, rising emissions from China, India and other rapidly developing nations vastly exceed any imaginable reductions. | 2_not_human | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/paul-driessen/ | en | null | null | 5,896 |
The alternative to the CO2 theory is that changing levels in solar activity have caused changes in global climate over millennia. But, it was argued that these changes in solar radiation were not large enough by themselves to explain the observed warming of the earth by 0.6 degrees Celsius over the last century. scientific work by Svensmark of Denmark, Shaviv of Israel, and Vezier of Canada, has now provided a fuller alternative theory of climate change which has been labeled ‘Cosmoclimatology’ (see J Vezier: “Celestial Climate Driver, | 2_not_human | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/deepak-lal-1940-2020/ | en | null | null | 5,897 |
The bandwagon for a $15-per-hour minimum wage has run head-on into the laws of economics. It’s pretty much totaled, | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/david-kreutzer/ | en | null | null | 5,898 |
One reason Greta Thunberg wasn’t awarded the Nobel Peace Prize is that there is no scientific consensus about whether there’s a link between climate change and global conflict. Extinction Rebellion please take note. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/toby-young/ | en | null | null | 5,899 |
Don’t leave pandemic response measures solely in the hands of Chief Medical Officers. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/manning-foundation-for-democratic-education/ | en | null | null | 5,901 |
Fred Koch was a genius,” said Varner, “but he had a very good people touch. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/sterling-varner/ | en | null | null | 5,902 |
They’re either a terrible sell on something that is completely impractical or a complete ignoring of the issue. It’s like, oh, well we just have to. We just have to get off these things [fossil fuels]. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/mark-mathis/ | en | null | null | 5,903 |
When we’re getting thousands of signatures there’s no way of filtering out a fake, | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/art-robinson/ | en | null | null | 5,904 |
Coal is green. It is not dirty, because of electrification. CO2 is a benign gas required for life on Earth and is not dirty. | 2_not_human | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/fred-palmer/ | en | null | null | 5,905 |
If climate is as sensitive to solar changes as the above phenomenological findings suggest, the current anthropogenic contribution to global warming is significantly overestimated. | 2_not_human | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/nicola-scafetta/ | en | null | null | 5,906 |
If you look at what was modeled in the ’70s, we were supposed to go through a horrible Ice Age, | 1_not_happening | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/jennifer-fielder/ | en | null | null | 5,907 |
If you have people who cannot even understand that it is wrong to murder a child running your country, you have a bad problem. And we’re very lucky today that we have a President and Vice President who understand different. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/art-robinson/ | en | null | null | 5,908 |
I have not been afraid to take on the greens on everything, from fracking to GM foods, the badger cull, even bees! | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/owen-paterson/ | en | null | null | 5,909 |
Nothing could be further from the truth,” Tillerson said. “They’re dealing with a period of time that happened decades ago,” he said. “I’m not sure how helpful it would be for me to talk about it, particularly as we’re leading up to some very important meetings that are going to occur in Paris here in just a few weeks. I don’t want to be a distraction. I really don’t want this to be a distraction. There’s some serious issues that need to be talked about. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/rex-tillerson/ | en | null | null | 5,910 |
Carbon dioxide (CO2) is a three atom molecule that humans produce with every exhale. Over the past decade, the belief has been propagated that excessive CO2 in the atmosphere leads to intense global warming that, if continued unabated, would cause glaciers to melt, rising the seas and engulfing coastal cities from San Francisco to New York. Despite tens of thousands of scientists signing petitions and stating their cases against the correlation between CO2 and rising temperatures, the link has been advocated by politicians and celebrities alike. Many of global warming’s supporters have no background in science and have convinced others of the CO2-global warming relationship without adequate proof. Even as people begin to realize that these ideas lack credibility, as evidenced by the change in terminology from ‘global warming’ to ‘climate change,’ politicians have continued to propose legislation to limit CO2 emissions erhaps it is important to address how some have come to the idea that limiting CO2 will have a positive impact on the environment. To reach this conclusion, one much first accept that global temperatures are rising, that human activity is responsible for the rise, and that limiting carbon emissions will alleviate this global warming. Many feel that limiting carbon emissions is a function that can only be performed by government. However, one should examine what types of interests would benefit from carbon emission limitations. Environmental groups have a bias towards findings of environmental damage and often rely on university research to endorse their claims. Research universities are predominantly funded by government, and in order to continue receiving grant funds, have an incentive to produce research that supports ideas maintained by government officials, such as the connection between CO2 and global warming. Intervention follows as a way to expand the federal government’s control over a large swath of the economy. | 6_proponents_biased | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/beacon-center-of-tennessee/ | en | null | null | 5,911 |
One of the consequences of extra carbon dioxide output is that the planet has greened 15% since the dawn of the millennia and that most of that greening has taken place in what would have otherwise been semi-arid and rather denuded areas.” And so I don’t see a statistic on the anti carbon front that’s as powerful negatively as the statistic that the planet is 15% greener and that our crops are also in the consequence quite a lot more productive on the pro-carbon-dioxide front.”He added:“Why are we so sure that carbon dioxide output is a bad thing at all? I mean, some of the people who initially hypothesized about the greenhouse effect where quite a few said in their predictions that this would produce a greener, more lush and more productive world, a more habitable world. So is it unreasonable to put that forward as a proposition? | 3_not_bad | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/jordan-peterson/ | en | null | null | 5,912 |
At a time when the Obama administration is pushing an aggressive climate agenda in Paris, public concerns about the economy and terrorism far outpace anxieties about climate change. Rather than forcing more costly climate policies on the public, world leaders should focus their attention on the economic and national security issues that matter most to people. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/american-energy-alliance-aea/ | en | null | null | 5,913 |
Climate change is not now—nor is it likely to be for the foreseeable future—the most important environmental problem facing the globe, unless present-day problems such as hunger, water-related diseases, lack of access to safe water and sanitation, and indoor air pollution are reduced drastically. | 3_not_bad | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/indur-m-goklany/ | en | null | null | 5,914 |
The UK paper industry is very energy intensive. CHP [combined heat and power] is crucial to the process in maintaining cost effectiveness as well as the achievement of our climate change targets. It should, in our view, be exempted from the climate change levy. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/bryan-bateman/ | en | null | null | 5,916 |
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.” Global agriculture will likely benefit from climate warming and increased precipitation; increased CO2 leads to more rapid plant growth; increased nocturnal and winter warming leads to a longer growing season. Farmers can and will adjust to climate changes. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/science-and-environmental-policy-project/ | en | null | null | 5,917 |
We got this idea from those guys who sell carbon offsets […] Picture this, you commit a bad deed, like robbing someone for money or stealing a car […] then, to offset, and equal out the bad karma produced by your bad deed, a Karma Neutral employee, or someone paid by Karma Neutral, will do a good deed to offset your bad karma, in the form of a certificate to the good karma we produced. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/todd-wynn/ | en | null | null | 5,918 |
Gale Klappa served as president of the ICE board more than 25 years ago. During his time as CEO , Wisconsin Energy has invested more than $9 billion to modernize our fleet of power plants and add state of the art emission controls. These investments have resulted in an 80 percent drop in overall emissions. In fact, our carbon dioxide emissions were lower in 2013 than in 2000. And we will continue to comply with any and all regulations that are set. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/gale-klappa/ | en | null | null | 5,920 |
To rely on imported gas when we have 50-100 years supply under our feet is not a stance rooted in science or economics, but political weakness in the face of militant protest groups and anti-development campaigns […] This decision will not help the planet. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/institute-economic-affairs/ | en | null | null | 5,921 |
The death of the divestment movement is not a total victory. The environmental left has been badly wounded, but it is not dead, | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/rachelle-peterson/ | en | null | null | 5,922 |
When you have a complex, highly uncertain situation like this, the issue of consensus is scientifically meaningless. … So, so yeah there’s no consensus. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/jordan-peterson/ | en | null | null | 5,923 |
I see the climate apocalyptic catastrophizing as a form of religious striving. I think it’s unsophisticated and ill-aimed and contaminated with a fair bit of malevolence. | 6_proponents_biased | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/jordan-peterson/ | en | null | null | 5,924 |
Who’s in denial here? The people who say we can get along as we have today by him fully embracing renewable energy and dismissing coal, oil, gas, and nuclear power. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/mark-mathis/ | en | null | null | 5,925 |
Plants grow faster and are more numerous as atmospheric carbon dioxide increases, which also increases the amount of animal life. From North American forests to Amazon forests, growth has accelerated. All life is carbon based. The more carbon, the more life. | 3_not_bad | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/art-robinson/ | en | null | null | 5,927 |
I note that warmists are often banging on about the fact that sceptics like Christopher Booker and myself ‘only’ have arts degrees. But actually that’s our strength, not our weakness. Our intellectual training qualifies us better than any scientist – social or natural sciences – for us to understand that this is, au fond, not a scientific debate but a cultural and rhetorical one, | 6_proponents_biased | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/james-delingpole/ | en | null | null | 5,928 |
It seems as if certain power plants for some reason were not able to deliver on the commitments to supply reserves and also supply energy. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/michael-shellenberger/ | en | null | null | 5,929 |
Tens or hundreds of millions of the world’s poor have died from malaria as a direct result of the multination ban on the use of DDT, driven by vastly exaggerated fears of its harmful effects on various bird species. This indifference to the death toll among the least fortunate is strangely reminiscent of Joseph Stalin’s view of the difference between one death and millions; and it is no accident, as Pravda used to put it, that the modern Earth Day mindset reflects that of the original. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/benjamin-zycher/ | en | null | null | 5,930 |
The defenders of the Paris Accords are as dogmatic on the science as they are on the economics. To them, it is an axiomatic truth that carbon dioxide emissions pose a grave threat to the environment, even though the putative causal chain is filled with missing links. The current practice is to assume that every adverse climate event is somehow the result of the rather smallish increases in carbon dioxide levels over the past 65 years. … Climate variability has been a constant long before human beings inhabited this earth. Of course, carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas that can trap energy. But so is water vapor, and its levels are far harder to track because its amount and distribution are not constant across the earth’s surface. Most crucially, observed cyclical patterns of temperature change do not correlate with slow but steady increases in carbon dioxide. Recent work by climate scientists Richard Lindzen and others shows that during the so-called Holocene period (roughly covering the last 11,000 years), there was a negative correlation between temperatures and carbon dioxide concentrations—strongly suggesting that carbon dioxide levels cannot be the main driver of temperature changes. It should, therefore, come as no surprise that recent climate models that have predicted sharp temperature increases have consistently run “hot,” so much so that observed increases are less than 50 percent of those predicted. As climate scientist Judith Curry points out, the uncertainties involved are large and the role of natural forces in driving temperature change are systematically underestimated. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/richard-epstein/ | en | null | null | 5,931 |
There are all kinds of distinguished experts, including nobel prize winners all over the world who think that climate alarmism is a complete crock. | 6_proponents_biased | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/mark-steyn/ | en | null | null | 5,932 |
Every time we can’t drill a well in America, terrorism is being funded. | 7_fossil_fuels_needed | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/harold-hamm/ | en | null | null | 5,933 |
As we look to diversify our energy sources, we must not turn our back on petroleum-derived fuels that we will continue to depend upon for decades to come. To do so would simply disadvantage the consumer, harm our National economy, and erode our energy security. | 7_fossil_fuels_needed | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/charles-drevna/ | en | null | null | 5,934 |
The evidence that increase in carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is going to cause a disaster is somewhere between slim and none.” […] The entire global climate change hysteria is driven by computer models. It is not driven by reality. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/western-fuels-association/ | en | null | null | 5,935 |
Climate modeling is far from a precise science. The last decade of global temperatures (from about January 1999 onward) reveals little to no warming. This runs contrary to the estimates of most runs of climate models – though similar periods without warming do occur in a small portion of climate model runs, which include a statistically random element to account for typical small-scale variability. While a decade is a relatively small period in climate time-scales, this too points to the need to continue to research climate drivers. We need to continue to discuss appropriate responses to climate change, but it is inappropriate to claim that the science is settled and all the facts are in. Estimates of the costs of climate change are even more uncertain – making it difficult to make reasonable decisions on the basis of these cost projections. The dialogue over climate change policy should continue, with an open acknowledgement that there are still many uncertainties in our understanding. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/pacific-research-institute/ | en | null | null | 5,936 |
In Part I, I made the argument that any woman who is married to a good man and who wants a happy marriage ought to consent to at least some form of sexual relations as much as possible. (Men need to understand that intercourse should not necessarily be the goal of every sexual encounter. n Part , I advance the argument that a wife should do so even when she is not in the mood for sexual relations,” Prager begins. He then outlines “eight reasons for a woman not to allow not being in the mood for sex to determine whether she denies her husband sex. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/dennis-prager/ | en | null | null | 5,937 |
My overall position on global warming is that, as a physicist — I studied physics at Cambridge — I am not one of those who deny that carbon dioxide emissions heat the planet. They do have that effect, although there is less certainty about how much the complex feedback effects that climate models seek to replicate may amplify the comparatively modest effect of increasing and other greenhouse gas emissions. Nonetheless, in my view it is wise to take measures to prevent and to adapt to global warming, and it is sensible to try to assess the costs and benefits of action and inaction to ensure that we adopt the most cost-effective approach. The simple fact is that, since the beginning of this century, the average global temperature has flatlined; indeed, over the past 18 months it has fallen back, and according to the satellite measurements of temperature, it is now basically back at the level it was in 1979, when such measurements started to be taken. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/peter-lilley/ | en | null | null | 5,938 |
When was the last time human beings modernized our energy sources by making older power sources more expensive? And, of course, by now you probably know that the answer is never. | 7_fossil_fuels_needed | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/michael-shellenberger/ | en | null | null | 5,939 |
I look forward to working with Anthony presenting the compelling scientific evidence on climate change issues that the environmental left and their media allies do their best to ignore and sweep under the rug. | 6_proponents_biased | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/anthony-watts/ | en | null | null | 5,942 |
There is much left to learn about the earth and its climate, and governments should not make any rash decisions in an attempt to control it, while putting the people at risk. Let nature regulate itself. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/austrian-economics-center/ | en | null | null | 5,943 |
As I have said before, no one disputes that climate change is real It is happening all the time What people do dispute (myself included) is the jump that is made from saying climate change is real, to saying that humankind is the overwhelming cause of it. And people (millions in fact) also dispute the claim that those causal human actions are very dangerous Today, daring to raise such disputes is tantamount to treason. | 2_not_human | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/canadians-for-affordable-energy/ | en | null | null | 5,944 |
The EPA claimed that carbon dioxide emissions are pollutants that endangers human health, even though carbon dioxide is necessary for life on this planet, | 2_not_human | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/ken-haapala/ | en | null | null | 5,946 |
Yes: the science has changed from ambiguous to near-unanimous. As an environmental commentator, I have a long record of opposing alarmism. But based on the data I’m now switching sides regarding global warming, from skeptic to convert… Many greenhouse uncertainties remain, including whether rising temperatures would necessarily be bad. A warming world might moderate global energy demand: the rise in temperature so far has mostly expressed itself as milder winters, not hotter summers. Warming might open vast areas of Alaska, Canada and Russia to development… Scientific substantiation of a warming world is not necessarily reason for gloom. Greenhouse gases are an air pollution problem, and all air pollution problems of the past have cost significantly less to fix than critics projected, and the solutions have worked faster than expected. | 3_not_bad | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/gregg-easterbrook/ | en | null | null | 5,948 |
We were practicing [Market Based Management] before they started preaching it. Charles and those guys just put a name on it. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/sterling-varner/ | en | null | null | 5,949 |
What will Heartland Institute’s role be in that? I am optimistic. I think Heartland is going to grow. There’s a much bigger niche for what we do than what I was able to raise money for to fill. You know, I raised about six million dollars a year for the Heartland Institute. We should be at eight or ten [million]. We should have twenty, twenty five guys working in our, just in our government relations office, working with state legislators, giving them the information that they need, testifying when they need testimony, helping them draft legislation. I mean, this is all exciting stuff that they’re asking us to do and we don’t have the staff to do it. o I think under Tim Huelskamp’s leadership we’re going to raise that money. We’re going to expand the staff and fill that niche. So Heartland should be doing well in future years. I only hope and pray that freedom in the United States is going to continue rising while the Heartland Institute is performing its job. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/heartland-institute/ | en | null | null | 5,950 |
I cry easily,” Armstrong said. “When I got to the part about the firemen […] you know […] that’s their duty. They go in there, and that’s what you guys do. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/scott-armstrong/ | en | null | null | 5,952 |
Bongino, on the other hand, is still greatly lacking in financial support from the district as far as itemized contributions go. He has received only 6 percent of his itemized donations from Collier and Lee counties The majority of his Florida money comes from the state’s east coast, where Bongino still has his permanent residence and where he himself will vote Aug. 30 Bongino, however, has raised a disproportionate amount of his money from donations of less than $200. Of the $295,465 he has raised, more than half have come from small donations The Naples Daily News has requested itemized receipts for these records to assess Bongino’s financial support within the district, but the campaign has declined to provide them … Bongino has taken money from seven different PACs amounting to $16,500. One of those PACs, American Principles, has given $36,850 to a number of Republican House and Senate races throughout the United States, according to the Center for Responsive Politics, a non-partisan research group in Washington, D.C. Other Florida candidates include Carlos Curbelo, R-Miami, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, R-Miami, and Dennis Ross, R-Lakeland He has received the most PAC money from Citizens United and The Guardian Fund, totaling $5,000 from each Citizens United is the non-profit that challenged and ultimately changed campaign finance laws in 2010 when it created a political ad called Hillary: The Movie. The ad prompted a 2010 U.S. Supreme Court case that opened the door for unlimited contributions from corporations and other outside money groups. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/dan-bongino/ | en | null | null | 5,953 |
Koonin mentions that this climate is always changing. This is a standard line in the because it sounds reasonable at first blush, but of course it conveys a deep falsehood. The fact is that the actual peer-reviewed scientific research shows that (a) the rate of warming over the past century is unprecedented as far back as the 20,000 years paleoclimate scientists are able to extend the record and (b) that warming can be explained by human influences Indeed, it is the of warming that presents such risk to human civilization and our environment. There is no doubt that there were geological periods that were warmer than today due to long-term changes in greenhouse gas concentrations driven by natural factors like plate tectonics. But consider the early Cretaceous 100 million years ago when concentrations were even higher than today, and there were dinosaurs roaming the ice-free poles. Over the last 100 million years, nature slowly buried all of that additional beneath Earth’s surface in the form of fossil fuels. We are now unburying that carbon a ** times faster than it was buried, leading to unprecedented rates of increase in greenhouse concentrations and resulting climate changes. To claim that this is just part of a natural cycle is to be either deeply naive or disingenuous. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/steve-koonin/ | en | null | null | 5,954 |
To say that climate change will be catastrophic hides a cascade of value-laden assumptions that do not emerge from empirical science, | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/richard-lindzen/ | en | null | null | 5,955 |
I don’t believe CO2 is a major player in determining global temperatures. I believe the sun, ocean cycles and stochastic events play a much more significant role. | 2_not_human | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/joe-bastardi/ | en | null | null | 5,956 |
Because of its wide impact, climate change regulation could be extremely costly economically, with most cost estimates of the various bills in Congress running to more than a hundred billion dollars each year. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/washington-legal-foundation/ | en | null | null | 5,957 |
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We are being bombarded with numerous ‘politically correct’ products (e.g., industrial wind energy) and agendas (e.g., climate change), parading about as if they are proven by Science. They are not So, it’s no surprise that COVID-19 policies have fallen prey to this anti-science (and anti-American) scourge. The bottom line is that self-serving parties will continue to use a strategy as long as it works. We need to expose the deviations from real Science in ALL of our technical policies — but here our focus is on COVID-19. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/john-droz/ | en | null | null | 5,959 |
The Net Zero Scrutiny Group will continue. We had a number of peers in it before. I intend it to continue – and perhaps even stand it up with some external funding – if we can fund it as a proper group, to actually tell the story to new parliamentarians about why the current thinking is so woolly and so wrong and so costly, and there’s a better way of doing this. | 6_proponents_biased | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/craig-mackinlay/ | en | null | null | 5,960 |
This victory for taxpayers came after years of hard work. The CTF has been the leading voice against carbon taxes in Canada. We hosted anti-carbon tax events across the country, launched billboards, handed out bumper stickers, debated pro-tax advocates, intervened in court cases and conducted numerous media interviews on why carbon taxes are bad policy, | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/canadians-for-affordable-energy/ | en | null | null | 5,961 |
Yes, CO2 has an effect, but it’s about a fifth or tenth of what the IPCC says it is. CO2 is not driving the climate; it caused less than 20 per cent of the global warming in the last few decades. | 2_not_human | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/david-evans/ | en | null | null | 5,962 |
With over 10 years of experience in the electric, oil, and gas industries, she has developed, managed, and implemented public relations and grassroots programs on a broad range of environmental legislation, including the acid rain portion of the Clean Air Act defeated in the 100th Congress. She was responsible for the design and implementation of successful media relations programs for the electric utility industry’s top three legislative initiatives during the last three congressional sessions. Dittus has an extensive working knowledge of how to incorporate national and state reports, editorial writers, and broadcast journalists into grassroots programs and ballot measure campaigns. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/story-partners/ | en | null | null | 5,963 |
Ocean acidification looks suspiciously like a back-up plan by the environmental pressure groups in case the climate fails to warm: another try at condemning fossil fuels. […] Even if the world warms as much as the consensus expects, the net harm still looks small alongside the real harm now being done by preventable causes; and if it does warm this much, it will be because more people are rich enough to afford to do something about it, | 2_not_human | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/matt-ridley/ | en | null | null | 5,964 |
Early on we decided that it would be preferable to keep the Alliance at arms length from TAC and the industry and with its own identity and address, to emphasize to supporters, as far as is practical, that it had a degree of independence. thus while the industry determines policy and provides the funds, the day to day management is the responsibility of our P.R. agents Daniel J. Edelman. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/edelman/ | en | null | null | 5,965 |
Green on the outside like environmentalism, red on the inside like neo-communism or neo-socialism. | 6_proponents_biased | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/citizens-alliance-responsible-energy/ | en | null | null | 5,966 |
Not too many Canadians would be able to function solely on renewable energy. And since I’m from Alberta, the third largest oil reserve in the world, as well as one of the cleanest producers, without even having mapped out all of our supply, I think this is very interesting that we would be such a target. | 7_fossil_fuels_needed | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/anne-jordan/ | en | null | null | 5,967 |
For years, Independent Women’s Voice has been deceiving voters by promoting itself as a nonpartisan group supporting women and families while funneling money to support GOP candidates without properly filing with the FEC. IWV is a wolf in sheep’s clothing and a key cog in the GOP’s machine intentionally designed to sell extreme policies to female swing voters. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/independent-womens-voice/ | en | null | null | 5,968 |
This article argues that this decision was wrong as a matter of statutory construction and sound as a matter of sound social policy: the CAA is the wrong vehicle to deal with either carbon dioxide of global warming. On the present state of the evidence, the case for strong restraints on carbon dioxide emissions has not been made. The evidence in favor of the close linkage between carbon dioxide and global warming has not been clearly established and domestic American initiatives are in any even likely to produce no discernible reduction in carbon dioxide levels in the absence of any agreement that binds other nations, especially China and India. | 2_not_human | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/richard-epstein/ | en | null | null | 5,969 |
That’s really what it is, but there hasn’t been a big marketing effort. One of the things we want to do today is get that message out so companies who want to get into this business start locating here. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/vincent-devito/ | en | null | null | 5,970 |
I would feel more comfortable if the first paragraph concluded with a statement to the effect that future developments in global data gathering and analysis, along with advances in climate modeling, may provide strong evidence for a delayed CO2 effect of a truly substantial magnitude, a possibility with increases the uncertainty surrounding the post-2000 CPD scenario. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/roger-cohen/ | en | null | null | 5,971 |
The greenhouse effect is a natural phenomenon. Because the Earth’s heat, rise to life. However, assigning blame for global warming is man abuse. The biggest greenhouse gas is water vapor coming from the evaporation of the oceans. Volcanic eruptions can throw as much CO2 into the atmosphere as the entire industrial age. ‘Human’ CO2 is only 0.25 percent. all emissions. So there is no logical connection between human activities and global warming. | 2_not_human | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/tomasz-teluk/ | en | null | null | 5,973 |
Although the climate has been subject to autonomous change throughout the earth’s existence, human activity certainly also has an impact. There is, however, no unity of opinion or even of research about the weight of this impact. | 2_not_human | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/boerburgerbeweging-bbb/ | en | null | null | 5,974 |
Heavy detergents are not used because they can degrade the polymers used to seal water out of the electrical components, | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/jim-wright/ | en | null | null | 5,975 |
People look at our purpose effort and they’re like, ‘we’ve got you now because you work for Shell and Rio Tinto and brands that are pulling stuff out or pumping crap in.’ No, if you want to sell doors, you stand in the draft. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/vml/ | en | null | null | 5,976 |
But the life-saving value of industrial capitalism is profoundly unappreciated in today’s culture. This is not merely because people have forgotten or ignored its history, but because its opponents have actively sought to bury and distort that history.“Regardless of one’s views on global warming–and there is ample scientific evidence to reject the claim that manmade carbon emissions are causing catastrophe–the fact is that kneecapping the fossil fuel industry while diverting tax dollars into expensive, impractical forms of energy will not be an economic boon, but an economic disaster. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/ayn-rand-institute/ | en | null | null | 5,977 |
The sponsors of this legislation, Senators McCain and Lieberman, believe that it is a cost-effective way using market forces to respond to the serious climate change threat caused by human activity. In fact it is none of these and their statements about the seriousness of the climate change threat goes well beyond the current state of scientific knowledge, | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/william-o-keefe/ | en | null | null | 5,978 |
Polar bears are thriving. It’s covered up because the GREEN EXTREME doesn’t want you to be aware of this. In fact many of the pretend facts the GREEN EXTREME are spreading are falsehoods. It is a lie they are going extinct. Mmm what else does the GREEN EXTREME have wrong? LOTS! | 6_proponents_biased | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/frank-lasee/ | en | null | null | 5,979 |
Stopping climate change is not about saving the planet,’ says narrator Kevin Sorbo. ‘It’s about climate elites trying to convince us to accept a future where they call all the shots. I push back at Morano: ‘I think they are genuinely concerned, and they want to save us. ’Their vision of saving us is putting them in charge,’ he replies And if they’re in charge, he says, they will destroy capitalism. | 6_proponents_biased | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/john-stossel/ | en | null | null | 5,980 |
For example, John Christy showed this figure, A not equal to B, and was asked by one of the physicists in the room, well, why? Why, Professor Christy, what’s going on? How do you explain this divergence in warming rates between the models and the observations? What’s going on there? And John Christy shrugged his shoulders and said, Mother Nature’s going to do what Mother Nature’s going to do. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/judith-curry/ | en | null | null | 5,981 |
Whereas I can agree with the statement that our best guess is that observable effects in the year 2030 are likely to be ‘well short of catastrophic’, it is distinctly possible that the CPD scenario will later produce effects which will indeed be catastrophic (at least for a substantial fraction of the earth’s population). This is because the global ecosystem in 2030 might still be in a transient, headed for much more significant effects after time lags perhaps of the order of decades. If this indeed turns out to be the case it is very likely that we will unambiguously recognized the threat by the year 2000 because of advances in climate modeling and the beginning of real experimental confirmation of the CO2 effect,” Cohen wrote (emphasis added) I would feel more comfortable if the first paragraph concluded with a statement to the effect that future developments in global data gathering and analysis, along with advances in climate modeling, may provide strong evidence for a delayed CO2 effect of a truly substantial magnitude, a possibility with increases the uncertainty surrounding the post-2000 CPD scenario. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/roger-cohen/ | en | null | null | 5,982 |
I have never seen an instance where there has been an effort to limit debate and discussion,” said Fred Palmer who was also a member of the Chamber’s Board of Directors. “To the extent people feel their voice is not being heard at the chamber, it’s not the chamber’s fault. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/fred-palmer/ | en | null | null | 5,984 |
I mean, they’ve taken this dingbat idea of global climate change and they’ve put it in the schools, they’ve put it in the movies, they’ve put it in the media and the churches — you know, I’m Catholic, even the Pope talks about climate change. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/stephen-moore/ | en | null | null | 5,985 |
What we’ve got to do in Britain—a relatively small, but relatively prosperous country—is to make sure that we spend our money wisely and adapt to the conditions as they change limate is always changing, and we had extreme floods apparently along these lines over 100 years ago until 300 years ago. So these extreme events do occur from time to time. … The climate changes for all sorts of reasons, I mean volcanic activity, the jet stream, water vapour in the atmosphere, cloud formation and the sun’s cycles as well as man-made carbon dioxide, which some people seem to think is the only driver of it. | 2_not_human | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/john-redwood/ | en | null | null | 5,986 |
From Covid to climate change: Have we lost faith in (the) science? | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/graham-stringer/ | en | null | null | 5,987 |
If they can blind you with confetti and cotton candy, they can make you think what they say is real. But after an hour when the effects of the sugar and pretty colors wear off the real world still exists. So it is with this anthropogenic global warming () nonsense that is now being exposed as such,” Stein wrote … hat we should be alarmed about is the perverse and widespread brainwashing efforts to get our young people as well as many naive and gullible adults to believe that the ‘contrived end’ of a planet’s natural cycle that’s been happening for 4.5 billion years is all of a sudden the direct result of a species that’s only been around, relatively speaking, a little less than the last two minutes, when we portray the worlds’ total existence into a 24-hour clock. | 2_not_human | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/ronald-stein/ | en | null | null | 5,988 |
The more renewables on the grid, the more prices go up. As more capacity comes onto the grid, we’re starting to see period where we’re producing more electricity than we actually need. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/andrew-montford/ | en | null | null | 5,989 |
Digging for the Truth about Canada’s Residential School Graves: Part One, | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/manning-foundation-for-democratic-education/ | en | null | null | 5,990 |
That’s a spectacular leap for a nonprofit, especially in Medora,” Jeff Nesbit wrote in a 2016 profile of the Franklin Center in Salon, excerpted from his book “Poison Tea: How Big Oil and Big Tobacco Invented the Tea Party and Captured the GOP”: “It was almost as if someone wished to utilize the charter concept of the Franklin Center—developing individual but interlinked news centers across the United States that would all promote the same messages—for other purposes and therefore infused it with a mountain of funding and network support. Intriguingly, this was a year before the Tea Party movement seemingly sprang from nowhere and spread like a prairie fire to the thirty-nine state capitals where the Franklin Center now operates its news sites. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/franklin-news-foundation/ | en | null | null | 5,991 |
By geo-historical standards, today’s atmospheric CO2 levels are remarkably – indeed dangerously – low. We need CO2 in the air to support plant growth and agricultural yields, and more would be better. | 3_not_bad | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/roger-helmer/ | en | null | null | 5,992 |
I must confess I never much worried about the supposed dangers of global warming—even if we could rely on the predictions of IPCC climate models. In fact, they seem to be failing miserably, as judged by the ongoing pause in GW—while atmospheric levels of anthropogenic CO2 and other greenhouse gases continue to increase. It seems that our climate is mainly controlled by natural forcings, like solar activity and atmosphere-ocean oscillations that are not included in current models. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/independent-institute/ | en | null | null | 5,993 |
I have no idea how thin their skin is. There were no threats, absolutely none. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/david-schnare/ | en | null | null | 5,994 |
Ned and I, ah, Dr. Nikolov and I do not consider ourselves deniers or skeptics. We consider ourselves scientists. Now, this non-acceptance that I think is based on folks mixing — because of the carbon dioxide — mixing air pollution with climate change. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/karl-zeller/ | en | null | null | 5,996 |
The main strategy of modern CO2-greenhouse gas defenders seems to hide themselves behind more and more pseudo explanations, which are not part of the academic education or even of the physics training. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/gerhard-gerlich/ | en | null | null | 5,997 |
CO2 cannot cause global warming. I’ll tell you why. It doesn’t mix well with the atmosphere, for one. For two, its specific gravity is 1 1/2 times that of the rest of the atmosphere. It heats and cools much quicker. Its radiative processes are much different. So it cannot – it literally cannot cause global warming. | 2_not_human | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/joe-bastardi/ | en | null | null | 5,998 |
The Earth has supported abundant life many times in the geological past when there were much higher levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. It is quite likely that future generations will benefit from the enrichment of Earth’s atmosphere with more carbon dioxide Make no mistake, the agitators are not defending science from quackery — quite the contrary! | 3_not_bad | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/gerrit-cornelis-van-kooten/ | en | null | null | 5,999 |
In the short run, when you look at this winter and the energy costs that we face, no. But in the longer run it’s water under the bridge, we’re going towards net zero. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/steve-baker/ | en | null | null | 6,000 |
CO2 is a useful trace gas in the atmosphere, and the planet would actually benefit by having more, not less of it, because it is not a driver for Global Warming and would enrich our vegetation, yielding better crops to feed the expanding population,” Peden claimed in an editorial posted on his website. If we’re right, then nature will take its course as it always has, and normal life will go on by adapting to climate change, rather than freaking out over a pending climate catastrophe. | 3_not_bad | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/james-peden/ | en | null | null | 6,001 |
You’ve been told that climate change is settled science, yes? You’ve heard that, right? Well it isn’t settled science. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/christopher-monckton/ | en | null | null | 6,002 |
Institute of Public Affairs economist Alan Moran said Australia would earn massive and steady income by offering to solve the problem of a permanent home for the world’s nuclear waste ‘It poses no threat, there have been no mishaps since 1944, but Australia could provide a permanent solution to other countries’ problems,’ he said. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/alan-moran/ | en | null | null | 6,004 |