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The climate always changes. The issue is whether it is man induced, anthropogenic global warming or it is a natural cycle of various factors from solar cycles to the ocean temperatures. I think the issue is not so much the science. I think the fundamental problem is the tendency to use science for a particular policy outcome. I think the science is never and answer… . Science cannot give us an answer on anything.
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Desmog
https://www.desmog.com/liberty-institute/
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Of course, she would have to agree with and feel comfortable with what is going to be said. And he’s pretty sure that everyone involved wants the same thing athias: ‘Perhaps we could agree on certain buzzwords. Disseminate certain information. aylor: ‘Absolutely. Key points, keywords, the way to present something. ontent in exchange for money. It’s like a deal in the advertising industry. The only difference is that the content is political.
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Desmog
https://www.desmog.com/heartland-institute/
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And if our goal as moral citizens is to make the world a better place, then there is only once choice: to pump as much oil as we possibly can out of Fort McMurray. Pump and steam and dig and drill and get that oil out of the sand in any and every way we can. Every drop of oil from Alberta is one less drop from some fascist theocracy, or some brutal warlord; one less cent into the treasuries of Russia’s secret police and al-Qaeda’s murderers.
7_fossil_fuels_needed
Desmog
https://www.desmog.com/ezra-levant/
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The National Center for Policy Analysis (NCPA), a 501c3 public policy research organization, announced this week that its Board of Directors has voted to dissolve the organization effective immediately. The thirty-four year old free market think tank has made significant contributions to free-market public policy research and implementation, including Health Savings Accounts, Roth IRAs, automatic enrollment in 401ks, and ongoing work in the areas of taxes, healthcare, entitlements, economic development, energy and national security.
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Desmog
https://www.desmog.com/national-center-policy-analysis/
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In just a few weeks, more than 300 eminent scientists and other qualified individuals from around the world have signed the petition below,” Lindzen wrote in the letter.
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Desmog
https://www.desmog.com/wibjorn-karlen/
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6,010
A final concern related to the ongoing rise in the air’s CO2 concentration is the worry that it may lead to catastrophic global warming. There is little reason to believe that such will ever occur, however, for several observations of historical changes in atmospheric CO2 concentration and air temperature suggest that it is climate change that drives changes in the air’s CO2 content and not vice versa.
2_not_human
Desmog
https://www.desmog.com/international-climate-and-environmental-change-assessment-project/
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6,011
This is a scandal. The police manhandling a bloke who’s doing their job for them. Removing these climate loons from blocking up the roads.
6_proponents_biased
Desmog
https://www.desmog.com/rupert-lowe/
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6,012
Now we’re told we can’t have any tankers there. The bears don’t like it.
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Desmog
https://www.desmog.com/vivian-m-krause/
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6,013
If industry reduces or stops investing in Canada due to the high carbon cost, and production goes to a jurisdiction where there is little or no carbon price, more emissions will be released in that jurisdiction. Since climate is a globally connected system, it is critical that Canadians consider the global implications if our oil and natural gas industry is no longer competitive,” CAPP claims on its website Climate costs without adequate focus on innovation and reinvestment in the oil and natural gas industry will result in higher emissions globally.
4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary
Desmog
https://www.desmog.com/modern-miracle-network/
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6,014
More gas is the answer to a gas crisis. We need it to heat our homes and fuel our factories. We also need it as back up for electricity generation when the wind does not blow or blows too much. Let’s have some more U.K. sourced gas as well as more windmills.
7_fossil_fuels_needed
Desmog
https://www.desmog.com/john-redwood/
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6,015
My motivation in writing articles is to provide Americans with factual information about energy issues, because so much information in the media is factually incorrect – and even worse, distorted by an obsession with CO2.
5_science_unreliable
Desmog
https://www.desmog.com/donn-dears/
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6,016
Top Ten Reasons Washington Should Not Impose New Global Warming Laws or Regulations.
7_fossil_fuels_needed
Desmog
https://www.desmog.com/national-center-public-policy-research/
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And that makes me a ‘terrible person’? I don’t have a glib attitude, I simply don’t sign up to the entirely fictitious climate ‘catastrophe’ madness. Most of the people on this planet don’t either. That’s a lot of terrible people for you to hate.
1_not_happening
Desmog
https://www.desmog.com/julia-hartley-brewer/
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6,018
We want to destroy environmentalists by taking away their money and their members.
0_not_relevant
Desmog
https://www.desmog.com/ron-arnold/
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6,019
My final point is that all of these emission reduction policies, which they claim are necessary to save the world, are one of two things. They’re either all pain for no gain, in other words, they’re a highly costly exercise in symbolism, or they’re a cure that’s worse than the alleged disease. They are a humanitarian disaster in the making.
4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary
Desmog
https://www.desmog.com/marlo-lewis-jr/
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6,020
Targeting greenhouse gas emissions without weighing their economic impact invites destructive environmental policies that harm the economy,
4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary
Desmog
https://www.desmog.com/macdonald-laurier-institute/
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6,021
Heritage’s clone of the Energy Information Administration’s energy model shows that restricting energy production to meet targets like those of the Paris agreement will significantly harm the U.S. economy. Bureaucratically administered mandates, taxes, and special interest subsidies will drive family incomes down by thousands of dollars per year, drive up energy costs, and eliminate hundreds of thousands of jobs. All of these costs would be incurred to achieve only trivial and theoretical impacts on global warming. Policymakers should therefore make every effort possible to prevent implementation of these harmful environmental regulations.
4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary
Desmog
https://www.desmog.com/kevin-dayaratna/
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6,022
Even before they threatened my property, I was opposed to wind farms. They fail on all counts. They are grossly inefficient, extremely expensive, socially inequitable, a danger to human health, environmentally harmful, divisive for communities, a blot on the landscape, and don’t even achieve the purpose for which they were designed, namely the reliable generation of electricity and the reduction of CO2 emissions.
4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary
Desmog
https://www.desmog.com/maurice-newman/
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6,023
I couldn’t agree more. But ‘following the science’ wherever it may lead demands a measure of modesty. A willingness to be completely and totally wrong. So I would ask these defenders of the mistaken, “Where is their humility? Where are their apologies? Where is their embarrassment? Why do so many people in the public eye work so hard to sound so certain every time they hold forth?
6_proponents_biased
Desmog
https://www.desmog.com/mike-rowe/
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6,024
It is critical that Indigenous groups have the capacity to fully participate in resource development, and we are happy to see the announcement of federal funding to support this important relationship with industry,
0_not_relevant
Desmog
https://www.desmog.com/first-nations-lng-alliance/
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6,026
Twice I have testified in congress that unbiased funding on the subject of the causes of warming would be much closer to a reality if 50% of that money was devoted to finding natural reasons for climate change.
2_not_human
Desmog
https://www.desmog.com/roy-spencer/
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6,027
The House of Lords says I’m not a member of it. My passport says I am – get used to it.
0_not_relevant
Desmog
https://www.desmog.com/christopher-monckton/
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6,031
I’m telling you. She is a demon. This is biblical. She is going to launch a nuclear war.
0_not_relevant
Desmog
https://www.desmog.com/alex-jones/
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6,032
I think a very compelling case could be made that this [the women’s movement] has set women back,
0_not_relevant
Desmog
https://www.desmog.com/laura-ingraham/
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6,033
Our first priority ought to be to improve scientific understanding. Exxon is helping with that process by conducting its own research and by supporting that of others, including a major research effort at M.I.T. on the science, economics and policy options of potential global warming.
0_not_relevant
Desmog
https://www.desmog.com/lee-raymond/
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6,034
I tell the team we need to avoid by any cost greenwashing; we want to really make sure the clients we are engaging with are serious about it, they mean it, because the last thing I want is a lack of authenticity on that matter.
0_not_relevant
Desmog
https://www.desmog.com/havas/
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6,035
There is a more complete, balanced and fact-filled story waiting to be told about Canada’s residential schools. But it will take plenty of research and hard work to uncover amid the current preference for obfuscation, innuendo and slander.
0_not_relevant
Desmog
https://www.desmog.com/manning-foundation-for-democratic-education/
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6,036
The ’s views on global warming are widely portrayed as representing an objective, scientific consensus, but David Henderson (a former chief economist at the , now at the University of Westminster, ) demonstrated that the reporting process is flawed and lacks rigor, inclusiveness, and impartiality… . Environmental economist Ross McKitrick (University of Guelph, Ontario) affirmed Henderson’s analysis with an account of his own experience with the .
5_science_unreliable
Desmog
https://www.desmog.com/american-institute-economic-research/
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6,037
Some of the topics which are likely to be covered in this talk include the history of atmospheric since life on earth began, failure of computer models to predict changes in temperature, that past changes in temperature were not associated with changes in , the history of changes in temperatures on earth, ocean acidification, sea level rises, sun spots and solar physics, and the beneficial effects of on plant life and growth.  Global warming, climate change, extreme weather, globalization, carbon credits and taxes, and the sources and beneficiaries of the funding streams that support the advocacy of these concepts and policies will be considered.
5_science_unreliable
Desmog
https://www.desmog.com/william-happer/
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6,038
What caused the killings at James Smith Cree Nation wasn’t centuries-old trauma. It was a criminal justice system that puts Indigenous communities at risk by failing to sentence violent criminals appropriately and then releasing them too soon.
0_not_relevant
Desmog
https://www.desmog.com/manning-foundation-for-democratic-education/
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6,039
At this point I don’t think it’s correct to say that the planet is continuing to warm because it has essentially stayed about the same. There is no additional warming of the entire earth-atmosphere-ocean system in the last few years.
1_not_happening
Desmog
https://www.desmog.com/madhav-khandekar/
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6,040
The idea that walruses are being driven on shore by sea-ice decline is entirely incorrect. They have always done so. In fact there are reports of walruses falling over cliffs from long before the age of global warming too. Sir David’s story about climate change appears to be just that – a fable.
1_not_happening
Desmog
https://www.desmog.com/benny-peiser/
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6,042
No […] he did used to say that carbon dioxide was a pollutant which I thought was a very stupid comment,
2_not_human
Desmog
https://www.desmog.com/nigel-farage/
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6,043
Schools should not teach that a particular political or ideological point of view is right – indeed it is against the law for them to do so.
0_not_relevant
Desmog
https://www.desmog.com/michael-gove/
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6,044
I don’t see that CO2 is inducing any climate change. CO2 may have induced a small amount of warming that we saw in the 80’s and 90’s but more importantly CO2 is an inert gas, it is not a pollutant.
2_not_human
Desmog
https://www.desmog.com/madhav-khandekar/
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6,045
The mine owners have stated that, I believe them. If we can have the greenest coal mine in the world […] then surely that is a lesson and a gift to the rest of the world. Who can argue against that?
4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary
Desmog
https://www.desmog.com/lee-anderson/
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6,046
This report has been widely used by the tobacco industry in its quest to dismiss the hazards of environmental tobacco smoke,” Derek Yach writes in the study.
0_not_relevant
Desmog
https://www.desmog.com/alexis-de-tocqueville-institution/
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6,047
The Chancellor believes that it will cost a trillion pounds, which could otherwise be spent on welfare programmes, health and education; the climate committee believes it will cost at least twice what the Treasury estimates; and the New Zealand Government have estimated that it will cost five times as much relative to their economy, as has been suggested. Given that, is it not irrational to enter this, as any, policy programme without first estimating the costs and calculating the benefits? Why are we doing it?
4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary
Desmog
https://www.desmog.com/peter-lilley/
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6,048
This agreement will not meaningfully alter the temperature of the Earth, even under the U.N.’s own computer models.“The bad news is that it plants the seeds of a new climate regime that left unchecked will swell into a bureaucratic behemoth.
4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary
Desmog
https://www.desmog.com/committee-constructive-tomorrow/
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6,049
Of course we will suffer from unexpected weather events as we always have done, but climate change, if there is such a thing, is a gradual phenomenon which we will learn to deal with as both we and it evolves.
1_not_happening
Desmog
https://www.desmog.com/foundation-independence/
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6,050
A ‘conservative’ carbon tax is so loopy that at times I half believe it must be a passing fad, a bad joke, or a piece of blackboard econometric foppery rather than a grimly-determined political agenda,
4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary
Desmog
https://www.desmog.com/marlo-lewis-jr/
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6,051
But I must say to the America bashers in this country if there are any that in doing free trade deals we will be governed by science and not by mumbo-jumbo because the potential is enormous.
0_not_relevant
Desmog
https://www.desmog.com/shanker-singham/
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6,053
The national debate on climate change has been marked by vehement disagreement between those who believe that global warming is a severe problem requiring urgent solutions and skeptics who argue that the scientific evidence on climate change remains inconclusive. Only the passage of time and the collection of additional data will settle the issue.
5_science_unreliable
Desmog
https://www.desmog.com/beacon-hill-institute/
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6,054
Are you saying that the greenhouse effect could even help improve biodiversity in the long term?
3_not_bad
Desmog
https://www.desmog.com/josef-reichholf/
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6,055
Climate has always changed. It is far better to have energy, technology, modern housing and wealth to adapt to, survive, recover from and even thrive amid inevitable warming, cooling and weather events, than to forego these abilities (on the absurd assumption that humans can control climate and weather) – and be forced to confront nature’s onslaughts the way previous generations had to.
2_not_human
Desmog
https://www.desmog.com/paul-driessen/
en
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6,056
There has been a stunning disconnect involving land temperatures globally and CO2, whether man-made or naturally sourced. The oceans continue to warm, while the surface record flatlines. […] It is obvious that the surface records are NOT going up – they are basically in a 0.2C flatline […]
1_not_happening
Desmog
https://www.desmog.com/thomas-wysmuller/
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6,057
Even if we could imagine an international response that was 100 percent effective in achieving its climate-mitigation goals, the price ceiling on such an effort would have to be, at most, 1–2 percent of global GDP. In all likelihood, the better response would be to take corrective and adaptive steps as we go rather than investing our hopes, and our capital, in the United Nations or a comparable organization.
4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary
Desmog
https://www.desmog.com/kevin-d-williamson/
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6,058
Carbon dioxide is not really a pollutant, as the Environmental Protection Agency has labeled it. It is a vitally important contributor to plant life, which uses much of the gas in the atmosphere. Geographic areas with large amounts of plant life therefore act as ‘carbon sinks,’ sucking in carbon dioxide from the air,
3_not_bad
Desmog
https://www.desmog.com/iain-murray/
en
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6,059
Since something other than atmospheric CO2 variability was […] clearly responsible for bringing the planet into the Little Ice Age, something other than atmospheric CO2 variability may just as well have brought the planet out of it.
2_not_human
Desmog
https://www.desmog.com/sherwood-b-idso/
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6,060
Unoccupied habitat is habitat that is not currently occupied by a listed species. To deal with the anticipated effects from climate change, the Service and NOAA Fisheries are proposing changes to their regulations that would vastly expand their authority to designate unoccupied areas as critical habitat. By changing a few words in a regulation, the Services would fundamentally alter the role that the designation of unoccupied areas has historically played in the ESA regulatory scheme Whatever one may think of the Services’ concern for the effects that climate change may have on critical habitat, their proposed changes to 50 CFR § 424.12 to deal with those effects exceed their authority under the ESA for the following reasons […]
0_not_relevant
Desmog
https://www.desmog.com/david-bernhardt/
en
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6,061
The reason I don’t like the term ‘anti-Greta’ is because it suggests that I myself am an indoctrinated puppet, I guess, for the other side.
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Desmog
https://www.desmog.com/naomi-seibt/
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6,062
I’d like to think that voters have a better sense of decency. If there is one word I associate with Trump it is indecent. He is vulgar, ugly, mean, misogynistic, and completely in love with himself. It appears that there is nothing this guy would not do or say to get ahead.
0_not_relevant
Desmog
https://www.desmog.com/sean-noble/
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6,063
A ‘climate emergency’ is a powerful legal tool that could conceivably be used to impose ‘green’ restrictions on the public in circumvention of the normal democratic lawmaking process, particularly if a presidential administration comes under pressure to stretch its emergency powers beyond their intended purpose.
6_proponents_biased
Desmog
https://www.desmog.com/brownstone-institute/
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6,064
But what would happen if we literally just stopped oil tomorrow and did without the natural resources on which the world, its economies and populations depend? The answer: most likely six billion people would die within a year.
4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary
Desmog
https://www.desmog.com/neil-record/
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6,065
Is there a place for solar, wind, and other alternative energy sources in America’s future? Only a free market can tell us…[I]f these forms of energy are economically viable, they will be developed in a free market.
4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary
Desmog
https://www.desmog.com/ed-clark/
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6,066
Last week, we activated the Americans for Balanced Energy Choices (ABEC) citizen army to call targeted U.S. Senators, urging them to vote against this amendment. Through today, more than 6,000 citizen members have called or e-mailed their senators. Our most recent effort follows on the heels of last fall’s citizen army activation, which generated more than 7,000 calls to target Senators in opposition to McCain-Lieberman. Joe Lucas, our Vice President’s Communications, coordinates this ABEC activity.
0_not_relevant
Desmog
https://www.desmog.com/american-coalition-clean-coal-electricity/
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6,067
This is really important folks because this is data. Essentially, the IPCC, they always talk about, we are 1 degree higher than the pre-industrialisation period than 150 years ago, but what you said is, that was the lowest point in the last 10,000 years, so in a sense, that’s why we shouldn’t be panicking and it’s been much warmer in the 2 or 3 previous periods.
1_not_happening
Desmog
https://www.desmog.com/richard-tice/
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6,068
Well, I go out to people and I say, ‘Look, if you believe in what I believe, will you help fund it?’ Now, I don’t know if that’s a hired gun or not. But, the point is, yes, I do get paid for educating people. If that’s my biggest crime, I stand accused.
6_proponents_biased
Desmog
https://www.desmog.com/richard-berman/
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6,069
Since the employer’s total cost includes both wages and fringe benefits with health and life insurance components, the ordinary contract will impose a net loss upon the employer, even on very modest cost assumptions.
0_not_relevant
Desmog
https://www.desmog.com/richard-epstein/
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6,070
Our climate is quite beyond human influence. The main influences are the sun’s variability and activity, the lunar orbit, planetary orbits and our varying position in the solar system and in the galaxy. On the earth, the clouds and ocean currents control the overall temperature (not the other way round) and they respond primarily to these extra-terrestrial influences.
2_not_human
Desmog
https://www.desmog.com/philip-foster/
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6,072
I have come to the conclusion that the Mont Pelerin Society is no longer an effective force for freedom, becoming instead another tool in behalf of US hegemony, ringing Russia with US military bases and puppet governments in the name of ‘supporting democracy’,” Roberts wrote. “I don’t see how the society can function in behalf of liberty when its long-time Treasurer is so closely associated with the Republican Party, now thoroughly neoconized,” he added.
0_not_relevant
Desmog
https://www.desmog.com/mont-pelerin-society/
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6,073
The president is bent on dismantling America’s coal sector, choosing instead to promote flimsy, expensive sources such as wind and solar power. If he really believed we were headed towards a climate crisis, he would encourage the growth of America’s cheapest, most-powerful sources of power, coal being obviously first on the list. To do otherwise is as irrational as a ship captain ordering his crew to man the lifeboats because a major storm is approaching.
7_fossil_fuels_needed
Desmog
https://www.desmog.com/tom-harris/
en
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6,075
The world is going to have to continue using fossil fuels, whether they like it or not.
7_fossil_fuels_needed
Desmog
https://www.desmog.com/rex-tillerson/
en
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6,076
Environmentalists’ irrational love of vacant ground, their religious zeal for the ecology integrity of wilderness, and their infatuation with petite heritage farms on cities’ outskirts play crucial roles in this crusade to suppress land development.
0_not_relevant
Desmog
https://www.desmog.com/william-kay/
en
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6,077
One of the central building blocks of the EPA’s power plant rule is increased use of wind and solar for electricity generation. But wind and solar are uncompetitive without massive taxpayer subsidies and mandated renewable portfolio standards. For wind, that takes the form of the production tax credit. [… Congress should reject any attempt by [Senate Majority Leader Harry] Reid to revive the wind production tax credit in the lame-duck session. It’s clearly a bad deal for Nevadans, enriching out-of-state billionaires at the expense of working families.
4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary
Desmog
https://www.desmog.com/institute-energy-research/
en
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6,078
I think we need to lean on legislature a little bit to get to the bottom of exactly what occurred. And I think the answer to that’s going to be that we need to look at how we allow renewable, that access, onto the grid and maybe not not allow that to happen.
0_not_relevant
Desmog
https://www.desmog.com/jim-wright/
en
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6,079
Students are increasingly being fed climate change advocacy as a surrogate for becoming climate science literate. This makes them easy targets for the climate alarmism that pervades America today.
6_proponents_biased
Desmog
https://www.desmog.com/david-legates/
en
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6,080
Fossil fuel combustion generates CO2 and HEAT, which sooner or later are let out into the atmosphere. My hypothesis means that the emitted HEAT is heating the world and that CO2 has very little influence on the warming.
2_not_human
Desmog
https://www.desmog.com/bo-nordell/
en
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6,081
Please, God, let there be violence. Please, God, help the @metpoliceuk find their batons.
0_not_relevant
Desmog
https://www.desmog.com/ben-pile/
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6,082
It would then become clear that the simple equation that CO2 and other man-made greenhouse gases are almost exclusively responsible for climate change is unsustainable. It hasn’t gotten any warmer on this planet in almost 14 years, despite continued increases in CO2 emissions. Established climate science has to come up with an answer to that.
1_not_happening
Desmog
https://www.desmog.com/fritz-vahrenholt/
en
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6,083
Politicians and some of the scientists like to say that there’s a consensus now on global warming or the science has been settled, but you have to ask them, what is there a consensus on? Because it really makes a difference. What are you talking about? The only consensus I`m aware of is that it’s warmed in the last century. They completely ignore the fact that there’s this thing called the Oregon petition that was signed by 19,000 professionals and scientists who don’t agree with the idea that we are causing climate change.
6_proponents_biased
Desmog
https://www.desmog.com/roy-spencer/
en
null
null
6,084
In fact, while most observers and experts agree that the climate is changing and may even be warming over the long term, the real debate is over whether human activities, such as the burning of fossil fuels, are responsible, and whether we can do anything about it. The critics of the theory cast doubt on that connection, noting the lack of definitive evidence of a cause and effect. There are other explanations for possible warming, such as solar activity.
2_not_human
Desmog
https://www.desmog.com/accuracy-media/
en
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6,085
Sir – As someone whom the philosopher David Hume would have called a ‘mitigated,’ or moderate, sceptic, I am concerned about Tony Blair’s G8 tinkering with climate (News, June 8)
0_not_relevant
Desmog
https://www.desmog.com/philip-stott/
en
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6,086
Now, the plentiful, reliable, and affordable energy source that is coal can be regarded as clean.
4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary
Desmog
https://www.desmog.com/kathleen-hartnett-white/
en
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6,087
Four hundred years ago, people were burnt at the stake for believing the wrong things about religion. Today, they get fired for questioning the climate-change catechism.
6_proponents_biased
Desmog
https://www.desmog.com/rupert-darwall/
en
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6,088
In the face of budget limitations and real environmental priorities such as the continued cleanup of our air and water, wilderness preservation and the reduction of toxic chemicals, how many of our hard-earned dollars are we willing to give politicians for purely symbolic reductions in a benign gas?
4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary
Desmog
https://www.desmog.com/bruce-everett/
en
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Some people thought it was racist—I thought that was a joke, since he was brought up by a white mother… This isn’t racism. This is socialism or possibly anti-colonialism.
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Desmog
https://www.desmog.com/rudy-giuliani/
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6,090
We’re not controlling the climate and the carbon dioxide is certainly not one of the things we need to be concerned about,
2_not_human
Desmog
https://www.desmog.com/viv-forbes/
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6,091
A preponderance of scientists do believe that the recent warming, the warming of the past 30 years, is largely the result of the accumulation of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere,” Lewis admitted. “I would say that most scientists, though, understand—even if they don’t publicly say—that there isn’t a whole lot we can do about it.
4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary
Desmog
https://www.desmog.com/marlo-lewis-jr/
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6,092
You could say our time has come […] We need to learn from our European colleagues and the Tea Party movement in the US […] It will be fascinating to see whether it will transfer to the UK. Will there be the same sort of uprising?
0_not_relevant
Desmog
https://www.desmog.com/matthew-elliott/
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6,093
If anyone from the BBC is listening, I will debate this with the best scientists they can find in the country or across the world. Bring them on.
0_not_relevant
Desmog
https://www.desmog.com/david-davies/
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6,094
Climate change has been occurring ever since the earth’s formation 4.5 billion years ago. Long before any industrial activity, the earth’s average temperature increased and decreased for centuries. The Medieval Warm Period (c. 950–1250) and earlier periods may very well have been as warm as or warmer than the present. […] Natural variations in climate such as fluctuations in solar activity, volcanic activity, or ocean oscillations like El Niño have all contributed to global warming and global cooling […] he idea that the science of climate change is ‘settled’ is an absurdity, contrary to the very spirit of scientific enquiry. […] The Earth has been recovering from the Little Ice Age for a couple of centuries and recovering from a real ice age for thousands of years; it is simply impossible to know whether any observed current warming is a continuation of this natural trend or represents some new man-made phenomenon.
2_not_human
Desmog
https://www.desmog.com/david-kreutzer/
en
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6,095
Ronald Reagan predicted in 1982 that Marxism-Leninism would soon be consigned to the ash heap of history. The same prediction can be made today of the evil empire of American education.
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Desmog
https://www.desmog.com/adam-meyerson/
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6,096
In a presentation at the Philanthropy Roundtable’s 1995 annual conference, Richard Fink, president of the Charles G. Koch and Claude R. Lambe charitable foundations, made good use of market metaphors to outline how foundations can exert the greatest impact on public policy. Adapting laissez-faire economist Friedrich Hayek’s model of the production process to social change grant-making, Fink argued that the translation of ideas into action requires the development of intellectual raw materials, their conversion into specific policy products, and the marketing and distribution of these products to citizen-consumers Grantmakers, Fink argued, would do well to invest in change along the entire production continuum, funding scholars and university programs where the intellectual framework for social transformation is developed, think tanks where scholarly ideas get translated into specific policy proposals, and implementation groups to bring these proposals into the political marketplace and eventually to consumers.
0_not_relevant
Desmog
https://www.desmog.com/philanthropy-roundtable/
en
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6,098
There are some people who really support the regulatory reforms and are concerned that the administration is already behind on some things. The longer it drags on, the more challenging it will become. There’s no doubt that keeping the government shut down for too much longer certainly puts at risk some of the things that they’re trying to do.
0_not_relevant
Desmog
https://www.desmog.com/jeffrey-r-holmstead/
en
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6,099
A critical fact to understand is that just because a power source is an alternative, or a renewable, does automatically mean that it is better than any conventional or fossil fuel source!
4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary
Desmog
https://www.desmog.com/john-droz/
en
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6,100
By 2000, they said, the only habitable bits of Earth would be the Arctic & Antarctic. How much unutterable garbage must we swallow from climate fruitcakes? But if you call them out, you’re anti-science. These charlatans are shameless, tax-munching, freedom-devouring scoundrels,
6_proponents_biased
Desmog
https://www.desmog.com/martin-durkin/
en
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6,101
It’s not surprising that another member of Trump’s inner circle is hostile to women,” said Dawn Huckelbridge, a senior director at the progressive American Bridge PAC, which opposes Pruitt and supports abortion rights. “But framing a fetus as a man’s property is a new low.
0_not_relevant
Desmog
https://www.desmog.com/scott-pruitt/
en
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null
6,102
It is again the old Misesian and Hayekian dilemma asking what is and what should be dominant: human action or human design.
0_not_relevant
Desmog
https://www.desmog.com/mont-pelerin-society/
en
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6,103
The EPA has to follow the law and it has to follow the facts. And it relied on facts that were thrown into question by the hacked climate science emails. So we asked for a re-opening of the docket for them to consider the emails. The EPA didn’t do that. We didn’t say that ‘Climategate’ establishes this, or establishes that. What it says is that it casts doubt on your fact-finding.
5_science_unreliable
Desmog
https://www.desmog.com/fred-palmer/
en
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null
6,104
It’s important to remember that President Obama’s carbon regulation, the crown jewel of his climate legacy, has no impact on climate change. EPA’s own models show that their carbon rule will limit global temperature rise by a mere 0.018 degrees Celsius by 2100. That’s a bad deal for the American people. State leaders should protect their citizens from Obama’s costly carbon rule by refusing to submit a plan.
4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary
Desmog
https://www.desmog.com/thomas-pyle/
en
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null
6,105
That this [global warming] scare continues to evolve is all too evident when we consider that there has never been a greater impact on energy policy for major economic players like Germany, Britain and Australia. And this impact is in direct opposition to what would be our agreed economic, political and security interests if there were no scare. Make no mistake, this is a major social phenomenon, the full power of which we are only coming to appreciate as it arises stronger from every successive blow to its credibility,
5_science_unreliable
Desmog
https://www.desmog.com/bernie-lewin/
en
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6,106
My view is that this is so extraordinarily important to people the world over, that to not have a debate on it is irresponsible. To suggest that we know everything we need to know about these issues is irresponsible.
5_science_unreliable
Desmog
https://www.desmog.com/rex-tillerson/
en
null
null
6,107
It seems quite clear. Seems to be absolutely no disagreement on this. There is no policy regarding CO2 reductions that North Carolina could implement that would have any impact on the climate for now or the next several centuries And, the fact is, is that even if they implemented these policies in conjunction with every other state, and even every other nation in the world, there still wouldn’t be a measurable impact globall I think what the state should do is, first of all, acknowledge this in a report that we looked at this, we looked at the science and scientists agree, or disagree rather, on the extent of future global warming. But there is one area where they all seem to agree and that is, is that nothing the state is considering will have any impact on the climate. What we should then do is look at ways that we can strengthen the economy, which is how we will be able to deal with whatever happens in the future in terms of climate Historically we have dealt with climate issues extreme weather, extreme heat extreme cold through a capital stock and growth of the economy and prosperity, which has brought us air conditioning and central heating, and all the good things that we have now that they didn’t have 100 years ago to shelter us from the vagaries of weather.
4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary
Desmog
https://www.desmog.com/roy-cordato/
en
null
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6,108
Science and its practice are no longer free and willing today but instead are constantly terrorized by research funding gravy trains and group thinking. This is why science needs defending and it takes courage to cleanse science from those cancerous elements and to bring her forward in its rightful place again. I am humbled and honored by this recognition.
6_proponents_biased
Desmog
https://www.desmog.com/willie-soon/
en
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6,109
I go back to the major error of the UN climate panel, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). They have been claiming in all their 5 major reports that CO2 increases are the cause of warming. I am of the opinion, and have tried to back it up with publications, that these arguments don’t hold water and that their evidence does not exist.
2_not_human
Desmog
https://www.desmog.com/s-fred-singer/
en
null
null
6,110
Make the oil and gas companies  reinvest profits to make Britain energy self-sufficient. #pmqs.
0_not_relevant
Desmog
https://www.desmog.com/nigel-farage/
en
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null
6,111
There’s no way the city could ever adopt the green establishment’s ‘renewable’ path to energy. Manhattan is never going to heat its buildings or power its computers with rooftop solar cells, biomass, or windmills. There’s nowhere near enough rooftop or wind, and no biomass to speak of, other than the mass of the people.
7_fossil_fuels_needed
Desmog
https://www.desmog.com/mark-p-mills/
en
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6,113
I’m a bleeding heart Libertarian with particular understanding of the nonscience of the CO2 global warming fraud.
2_not_human
Desmog
https://www.desmog.com/bob-armstrong/
en
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null
6,114
Yesterday, John McCain joined the Democrats to attack Rep. Mick Mulvaney, Trump’s pick to head his OMB. This is wrong all John McCain at 202-883-5773 and tell him to stand with you and support Rep. Mick Mulvaney for OMB right now.
0_not_relevant
Desmog
https://www.desmog.com/mick-mulvaney/
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6,115