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Instead of pushing emissions restrictions and failed ‘aid’ policies, governments should focus on reducing barriers to economic growth and adaptation – e.g. removing trade barriers and decentralising management of water and land. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/civil-society-coalition-climate-change/ | en | null | null | 6,116 |
Meanwhile the science of climate change is robustly disputed where once it was regarded as having all the authority of Holy Writ. So much was this the case that Nigel Lawson, whose book An Appeal To Reason is still the best refutation of the doom mongers, found it difficult to get published. In 1930s Germany they burned books that challenged state orthodoxy: here we just try to bury them. | 6_proponents_biased | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/ann-widdecombe/ | en | null | null | 6,117 |
ANA PERINO (HOST): “Pretty much everybody knows who Greta Thunberg is by now, but you might also be reading about a fellow teenager making a name for herself in the political world, one who is set to take the stage at CPAC. Let’s bring in Naomi Seibt. She is a 19-year-old from Germany whose willingness to ask questions has earned her spot at CPAC tomorrow. It’s good to have you here, Naomi. So you have been hired by the Center for Climate and Environmental Policy, and you have just a different view about climate. What is it about the current narrative that kind of drives you crazy? AOMI SEIBT (HEARTLAND INSTITUTE): “Well, it is mostly that there is so much fearmongering going on about this entire climate change propaganda that is being put out there. And I hate to see so many young people especially panicking about climate change, about a topic that they haven’t even done their research about. Because many young people, they claim to know a lot about the science, but they really don’t. And I tried approaching those young people in my own town and from all over the world, and most of them don’t really know what they are talking about. And they are just so fearful of what is to come. And I want to give them back their hope. EIBT: “I absolutely believe that climate change is real. You shouldn’t ask the question ‘is climate change real,’ because climate change has always been real. The climate has been changing for millions and billions of years. But what you should actually be asking is are humans actually destroying the planet with man-made CO2 emissions. ERINO: “And your position on that is what? EIBT: “My position on that is no, CO2 emissions are not actually harmful to the planet. Because if you want I can talk about it more thoroughly – ERINO: “No, that’s OK. We don’t have enough time to get into all of it, I just wanted to make sure. It’s not that you think that climate change is not real, but you believe that humans have no contribution to climate change? EIBT: “They might contribute slightly, but I think it is so insignificant that we shouldn’t focus on that. Especially we should not rush to solutions that are really not sustainable in the long term. Yeah. ERINO: “I hear you. EIBT: “That is the main issue. | 2_not_human | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/naomi-seibt/ | en | null | null | 6,119 |
Some scientists believe that the one degree of warming that has taken place over the past 100 years is evidence that potential catastrophic climate change is an imminent threat. However, other equally-qualified experts are not so sure. They point to the fact that most of the warming that occurred in the 20th century happened prior to the 1920’s – when manmade emissions began a rapid increase. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/center-energy-and-economic-development/ | en | null | null | 6,120 |
If you like your current situation, you’re going to love the Green New Deal. That’s what it comes down to, | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/thomas-pyle/ | en | null | null | 6,121 |
I don’t think in my entire life I’ve ever called myself a reporter. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/ezra-levant/ | en | null | null | 6,122 |
Instead of focusing on technological solutions that enable us to master our environment and get more energy in a more carbon-efficient way – nuclear, CCS, fracking, one-day fusion – we have focused on managing demand so we can use medieval technology like wind power. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/david-frost/ | en | null | null | 6,124 |
Everybody overlooks the fact that CO2 really is the essence of life, | 3_not_bad | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/ian-clark/ | en | null | null | 6,125 |
The anti-science global statist ‘AlGoreWarming’ cult is second only to traditional economic Marxism in its destructivenes of human and ecological welfare The ~ 33c warmer our surface is than what we absorb from the sun is trivially due to gravity A particle moving up slows down , cools ; moving down speeds up , warms . Newton’s same law which explains why satellites in low orbit must go faster than those in higher QUANTITATIVELY explains the temperature profiles of all planets and their atmospheres whatever their composition This relationship as understandable as an apple falling on your head is absent from the therefore equationless GHG paradigm – in defiance of conservation of energy . | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/bob-armstrong/ | en | null | null | 6,126 |
A lot of the science is absolutely settled. Carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas. We’ve emitted plenty of it. That will have contributed to climate change. Lots of it is actually still contestable, but that’s not really the point. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/steve-baker/ | en | null | null | 6,128 |
I’m not a climate scientist and have never claimed to be one. […] My interest is in how climate change is portrayed as a potential disaster and how we respond to that. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/benny-peiser/ | en | null | null | 6,129 |
Sir Keir Starmer: We’re going to be unpopular over winter fuel payment cut, | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/rupert-lowe/ | en | null | null | 6,130 |
The energy windmills offer is not free, not clean, not reliable and not consistent. And it doesn’t create new jobs. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/david-schnare/ | en | null | null | 6,131 |
Well, it’s a silly plan. That’s why I suggested [Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez] was a pompous little twit. ‘Twit,’ meaning, ‘silly’ in the British lexicon and, ‘pompous,’ meaning, ‘arrogant.’ She really rubbed me the wrong way when she said she’s ‘the boss,’ because she can make up a proposal that’s completely ridiculous and no one else did. And that is what’s wrong about this. In fact, the whole climate crisis, as they call it, is not only fake news, it’s fake science. There is no climate crisis. There is weather and climate all around the world. And, in fact, carbon dioxide is the main building block of all life. That’s where the carbon comes from in carbon-based life, which is all life on land and in the sea. And, not only that, a little bit of warming would not be a bad thing for myself, being a Canadian, and the people in Russia wouldn’t mind a little couple of degrees warmer either. | 1_not_happening | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/patrick-moore/ | en | null | null | 6,132 |
Temperature hasn’t really changed for about 20 years. Yet the models are saying the temperature […] is going to increase extraordinarily. So what has been done, is the primary data has been changed to fit the model. That is fraud. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/ian-plimer/ | en | null | null | 6,133 |
Last year, [the Kochs] used their shares to place two of their operatives — Kevin Gentry and Nancy Pfotenhauer — on our board against the wishes of every single board member save for David Koch. Last Thursday, they used their shares to force another four new board members on us (the most that their shares would allow at any given meeting); Charles Koch, Ted Olson (hired council for Koch Industries), Preston Marshall (the largest shareholder of Koch Industries save for Charles and David), and Andrew Napolitano (a frequent speaker at Koch-sponsored events). [… hy are they forcing out Cato board members, all strong, principled libertarians who have been heavily involved with Cato — financially and organizationally — for years? The answer was given in early November of last year when David Koch, Richard Fink (he of many Koch hats), and Kevin Gentry met with Cato board chairman Bob Levy. They told Bob that they intended to use their board majority to remove Ed Crane from Cato and transform our Institute into an intellectual ammo-shop for Americans for Prosperity and other allied (presumably, Koch-controlled) organizations. That statement of intent is certainly consistent with what we’ve been hearing from both Kevin Gentry and Nancy Pfotenhauer. They’ve frequently complained during their short time on our board that Cato wasn’t doing enough to defeat President Obama in November and that we weren’t working closely enough with grass roots activists like those at AFP. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/nancy-pfotenhauer/ | en | null | null | 6,134 |
I think the attention they got on energy and environmental issues was so intense that that’s where they focused on their outreach with the center-left. You can’t pass the laugh test with going center-left on tax issues. To me, you can’t pass the laugh test with me by going center-left on energy and environment issues. But they apparently think they can. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/paul-blair/ | en | null | null | 6,135 |
Yet from the point of view of the world’s need for more potable water, it might be regarded as a good thing that less freshwater be locked up in glaciers. If they are melting, whether naturally or for anthropogenic reasons, it would clearly be a good thing if we can harness the freshwater runoff to the general benefit of humanity. However, as should be clear from those figures, it is pretty unlikely that the resource is going to disappear. The scientific evidence suggests that the damn fools are not those supposedly melting the ice, but those who believe every alarmist warning that melting is a serious problem. | 3_not_bad | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/iain-murray/ | en | null | null | 6,137 |
By concentrating on the role played by climate in the spread of malaria, attention and resources are diverted away from activities that could reduce the incidence of the disease far more effectively. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/africa-fighting-malaria/ | en | null | null | 6,139 |
So as I see it, you know, we’ve had several multibillion dollar projects canceled: Northern gateway, an $8 billion project; Energy East, almost a $16 billion project; the Petronas LNG project, potentially 36 billion; Trans Mountain, and other 7 billion. Lots of, you know, billions of dollars in costs were incurred in getting all those projects started and then they died on the vine. And they have had a devastating impact on investor confidence in our country. And thousands in fact, you know, according to some estimates in Alberta, more than a hundred thousand jobs have been lost. | 7_fossil_fuels_needed | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/vivian-m-krause/ | en | null | null | 6,140 |
The climate is always changing and the nation may well benefit from moderate global warming. Having said that, temperature records indicate that New Zealand has not warmed significantly in the last fifty years. | 3_not_bad | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/new-zealand-climate-science-coalition/ | en | null | null | 6,141 |
With respect to the effects of greenhouse gas concentrations, the evidence suggests that increases in extreme weather events have not happened despite the predictions of many. | 1_not_happening | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/benjamin-zycher/ | en | null | null | 6,142 |
Both life and health coverages could be reduced, or even eliminated, until the employer again obtains net benefits from the contract, | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/richard-epstein/ | en | null | null | 6,143 |
I think it certainly will have a more sympathetic audience in DC than before. Certainly a more… let’s just say, an Administration and a Congress that’s more open to rethinking climate and energy policy in this country. Again, the theme is ‘resetting US climate policy.’ And after eight years of Obama there’s been a war on coal, there’s been a war on skeptic scientists, there’s just been full and unrelenting frontal attack on people who rightly question—because the data backs it up—that humans are causing a climate crisis and we have to reorganize our energy policy in this country because of that. Again, the data doesn’t back that up. | 2_not_human | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/jim-lakely/ | en | null | null | 6,144 |
I’m a geophysicist who has conducted and published climate studies in top-rank scientific journals. My perspective on Mr. Inhofe and the issue of global warming is informed not only by my knowledge of climate science but also by my studies of the history and philosophy of science. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/david-deming/ | en | null | null | 6,145 |
Take cigarette smoking. Yeah, they kill smokers. But there is no good data showing secondhand smoke kills people. Nevertheless, banned – I don’t smoke, | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/john-stossel/ | en | null | null | 6,147 |
I’ve been involved with organizations promoting freedom for over 50 years, | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/george-pearson/ | en | null | null | 6,148 |
The fondness for a low profile is shared by majority shareholder Jim Ratcliffe, Britain’s tenth richest man with an estimated personal fortune of £3. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/jim-ratcliffe/ | en | null | null | 6,149 |
Coal is a vital component to our infrastructure and will remain a vital resource. God put it here for us to use and for hundreds of years in the future we will continue to produce with improvements and environmentally safe methods. | 7_fossil_fuels_needed | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/harry-c-alford/ | en | null | null | 6,150 |
The science is not settled, not by a long shot. […] If serious scientists can question Einstein’s theory of relativity, then there must be room for debate about the workings and complexities of the Earth’s atmosphere. Furthermore, even if we accept that carbon dioxide is bad, it’s not clear exactly what we should do about it,” Bryce wrote in an opinion article at the Wall Street Journal titled “Five Truths About Climate Change. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/robert-bryce/ | en | null | null | 6,151 |
Oil money has also contributed to the network of Proud groups across Canada, which have been linked to Ballingall’s Ontario Proud.2 Elections records in New Brunswick show that the Proud organization in that province — which was founded by a former New Brunswicker resident in Calgary — was funded during the 2018 provincial election by the Manning Centre (the respected think tank founded by Reform Party founder Preston Manning) and the Modern Miracle Network, a Calgary-based non-profit corporation spearheaded by Michael Binnion, a petroleum CEO who tirelessly promotes the industry and attacks its critics on social media Binnion, who tried unsuccessfully to launch a fracking industry in Quebec, is reported to have raised money for Quebec Fier, a similar Quebec Facebook group that runs ads attacking federal and provincial Liberals. Binnion is on the board of the Manning Centre. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/canada-proud/ | en | null | null | 6,152 |
I said, ‘I can’t be here. I hate evil. They don’t hate evil.’ The left doesn’t hate evil, the left hates carbon emissions. | 7_fossil_fuels_needed | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/dennis-prager/ | en | null | null | 6,153 |
If global climate change occurs as gradually as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has predicted, policymakers can safely take several decades to plan a response, and scientists will have enough time to develop cost-effective anti-climate-change strategies Implementation of current proposals for mitigation measures-measures to stabilize the concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere-would be both costly and ineffective Adaptational measures-measures to suit economies, healthcare systems, and living conditions to real-life, imminent, and foreseeable challenges to human health (for example, infectious diseases and weather disasters)should be the central component of any policy whose theme is the potential health impact of global climate change. […] | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/alan-moghissi/ | en | null | null | 6,154 |
The energy transition is not an easy task. It will require many, many years. And, for sure, fossil fuels and also nuclear are not over, | 7_fossil_fuels_needed | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/samuele-furfari/ | en | null | null | 6,155 |
To think we left the bureaucratic morass of the EU to adopt another one [in net zero] is both shocking and very disappointing. We had an abstract, slight bit of influence in the EU – but we seem to have no influence against the environmental blob which seems to have taken over Whitehall and Downing Street. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/craig-mackinlay/ | en | null | null | 6,157 |
I don’t personally claim to be an expert on climate science, although I’ve studies it for a number of years, | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/greg-walcher/ | en | null | null | 6,158 |
Sense About Science USA is in the back of a bakery and cafe. We don’t have fancy offices; we put our money into doing; every little bit helps. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/statistical-assessment-service/ | en | null | null | 6,159 |
When you impose emissions-reduction caps and allow trading, you stimulate private sector investment in new technologies, | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/vincent-devito/ | en | null | null | 6,160 |
The Western Fuels Association is recycling a tired plot. It‘s a re-run of the corporate denial we‘ve seen from the tobacco companies’ paid scientists. | 6_proponents_biased | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/western-fuels-association/ | en | null | null | 6,161 |
Now we have this huge area that’s called the Great Bear Rainforest, but in most of it, there are no Great Bears, | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/vivian-m-krause/ | en | null | null | 6,162 |
Since the Iraq debacle, Rose has latterly been writing articles attacking climate science for the Daily Mail. He has distinguished himself by the same uncritical reliance on dodgy sources that caused his catastrophic mistakes about Iraq,” Monbiot added. | 6_proponents_biased | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/david-rose/ | en | null | null | 6,163 |
The global temperature is rigged to read warm. I revealed this fact in Climategate in 2010. I restated it in Eco-Tyranny in 2012. Today the Daily Mail verifies my work via government whistleblower, | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/brian-sussman/ | en | null | null | 6,164 |
Are you tired of the hysteria surrounding the climate change question? Do you believe that environmental groups are on the take and are simply using global warming to line their pockets? Do you think the doubt the science that the alarmists of the world are presenting? If you answered yes to any or all of these questions, then ‘The Sky Is Not Falling – Putting Climate Change On Trial’ is definitely the book for you. | 6_proponents_biased | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/bruno-wiskel/ | en | null | null | 6,165 |
I don’t like taxes. I don’t know how to make that any clearer. I don’t like taxes. I generally think taxes are, given the level of taxation we have, and a lot of our states and in the country, inventing new ones is a very big mistake. Find other ways to do it. f you want to deal with global warming, the way to deal with global warming is to develop these alternative technologies. Really get serious about energy independence, which we should probably have been serious about 30 years ago. We wouldn’t be in this situation where we have to send money to our enemies. Get serous about why we haven’t licensed a new nuclear power plant in 30 years. Because people are afraid of nuclear power. […] Nobody’s died from nuclear power.” [… I look at wind and solar from the point of view of, can we store that energy? Right now it’s inconsistent energy. When the wind is blowing, you get energy. When it isn’t, you don’t. Is there a way to develop a technology that you can store it? Can you clean coal? Carbon sequestration: it can be done. Can we expand it he other benefit of looking at it this way, which I consider a pro-growth way, is we move ourselves towards energy independence then we also create an industry. A new industry in America. And with the growth of China and the growth of India, if we’re at the head of that industry we”re going to make a lot of money in China and we’re going to make a lot of money in india. We won’t just be buying things from them; they’ll be buying things from us. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/rudy-giuliani/ | en | null | null | 6,166 |
Before we join the crusade, we should listen to the independent professionals decrying the current crisis mentality. Five hundred professional climate scientists have flatly stated to the Secretary-General of the United Nations that “There is no climate emergency, | 1_not_happening | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/richard-epstein/ | en | null | null | 6,167 |
Well I think we stay not only inside what regulation dictates but we’ve gone above and beyond everything we have available in technology today. You know one of the facts that remain on flaring is its emission is CO2. It’s not any type of volatile compound. CO2 is a part of our atmosphere today. CO2 has been here. I’m not sure that there’s enough technology to put blame strictly on what flaring has caused to the atmosphere. I think that if you’ve seen through our history and time, the Earth is going to continue to evolve. And I’m not sure that we have good facts on what’s causing our climate change, but I can tell you the oil and gas industry has done a good job. The problem we have is making sure we have and ensuring that we have markets to put our gas into. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/jim-wright/ | en | null | null | 6,168 |
There is no correlation between goodness and high self-esteem. But there is a correlation between criminality and high self-esteem. […] Yes, people with high self-esteem are the ones most prone to violence. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/dennis-prager/ | en | null | null | 6,169 |
Exploration and development of promising areas onshore, offshore and in the Arctic can substantially lower our nation’s energy vulnerability. | 7_fossil_fuels_needed | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/national-association-manufacturers/ | en | null | null | 6,171 |
The analysis reported here suggests that considerable caution should be exercised when using EIA forecasts relating to the future price, supply, and consumption of NG. Similar caution should be exercised when using NEMS to assess the broader economic impacts of energy policy initiatives, e.g., carbon cap-and-trade programs limate-change proposals currently before Congress [3] depend heavily on predictions of the response of natural-gas supply and prices to carbon-permit prices. The actual capability of the NG supply network both here and abroad will be a critical factor in how economies adjust to such climate-change policies. Overestimating the supply capabilities of this network (as EIA has done over the past decade) could lead to underestimating the costs of carbon regulations. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/frank-clemente/ | en | null | null | 6,172 |
Our radically changing understanding of cancer and of the ways of curing it is a salient example of what I mean. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/bret-stephens/ | en | null | null | 6,173 |
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 | 6,174 |
But, weirdly, that never happens. No matter how often these ‘experts’ are shown to be no better at forecasting than Paul the Octopus — worse, actually — they just carry on as if nothing has happened. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/toby-young/ | en | null | null | 6,175 |
What these ‘climate lockdowns’ would amount to is various forms of ‘green austerity’ — strict limits on consumption and personal behavior — imposed on the population, | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/brownstone-institute/ | en | null | null | 6,176 |
Starmer’s contempt for North Sea oil mirrors his opposition to the UK’s experiments in fracking […] Starmer is playing lickspittle to the likes of US ‘climate ambassador’ John Kerry, who last year warned the Tories against efforts to revive North Sea exploration. | 7_fossil_fuels_needed | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/spiked/ | en | null | null | 6,177 |
In his role as Minister of Industry and Advanced Technology, Dr. Al Jaber oversees efforts to further expand the industrial development of the UAE, and in particular promote in country value, leveraging technology as a key enabler, as we enter the Fourth Industrial Age,” the MoIAT website noted in its bio for Al Jaber.5 He is also managing director and group CEO of ADNOC. In November 2020, H.E. Dr. Sultan was appointed as the UAE’s special envoy for climate change, a role he previously served in from 2010 to 2016, while spearheading the UAE’s clean energy agenda at Masdar, Abu Dhabi’s Abu Dhabi’s [sic] pioneering renewable energy initiative. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/sultan-ahmed-al-jaber/ | en | null | null | 6,178 |
If you want to guarantee failure, get politicians to set a target Preserving our natural environment is vital for the legacy we leave future generations and we must take action to combat climate change. We should recognise that it’s often working people in traditional industries who are expected to pay the price. Climate change affects us all, but this is a hard message to land with someone who has lost their job. It is also true that many of the measures proposed by more wealthy environmental activists would result in rising costs for working families. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/esther-mcvey/ | en | null | null | 6,179 |
Suffice it to say for now, there is no compelling reason to believe there will necessarily be any global warming as a result of the activities of man, especially those activities that result in CO2 emissions to the atmosphere. | 2_not_human | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/center-study-carbon-dioxide-and-global-change/ | en | null | null | 6,180 |
To summarize this overview, the historical and geological record suggests recent changes in the climate over the past century are within the bounds of natural variability. Human influences on the climate (largely the accumulation of CO2 from fossil fuel combustion) are a physically small (1%) effect on a complex, chaotic, multicomponent and multiscale system. Unfortunately, the data and our understanding are insufficient to usefully quantify the climate’s response to human influences. However, even as human influences have quadrupled since 1950, severe weather phenomena and sea level rise show no significant trends attributable to them. Projections of future climate and weather events rely on models demonstrably unfit for the purpose. As a result, rising levels of CO2 do not obviously pose an immediate, let alone imminent, threat to the earth’s climate. | 2_not_human | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/willie-soon/ | en | null | null | 6,181 |
At Canadians for Affordable Energy we are working hard to speak out against the irrationality of the current climate obsession and be a reasonable voice that defends the interests of everyday Canadians. | 6_proponents_biased | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/canadians-for-affordable-energy/ | en | null | null | 6,182 |
It has been evident for years that huge and growing energy demands by China, India and other emerging nations and the Net Zero agenda being pursued by the USA, UK, EU and other western countries are incompatible when it comes to mitigation of climate change. It also appears that an agreement to resolve this incompatibility may be insurmountable However, if the price for a COP26 compromise is the abandonment of the 1.5C goal, the West’s 2050 Net Zero agenda itself would become futile and self-destructive in face of China’s unrestrained expansion of cheap energy and its rise to global dominance. Clearly, all signs point to adaptation as opposed to mitigation as the best and perhaps only means for tackling climate change. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/gerrit-cornelis-van-kooten/ | en | null | null | 6,183 |
And just in case you thought that all this improvement came at the expense of the environment, reflect on the fact that our planet is by many measures cleaner and greener now than it was three or four decades ago. | 3_not_bad | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/douglas-carswell/ | en | null | null | 6,184 |
They (Craig and Keith Idso) each are providing valuable service to the army of scientists at work in this important, though often overlooked, field of inquiry,” Palmer said. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/fred-palmer/ | en | null | null | 6,185 |
Critics of the conventional view that science ‘proves’ that, given present policies, damaging global warming will occur as a consequence of human actions frequently warn that this view is leading towards adoption of a new secular religion, of a pronounced ascetic character. […] [S]upporters of the damaging climate change hypothesis fervently advocate stringent government measures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions which would have a serious impact on individual freedom [W]e should be wary of the dangers to individual freedom inherent in the present consensus about prospective climate change and how to deal with it. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/institute-economic-affairs/ | en | null | null | 6,186 |
When the world’s leading climate scientists (IPCC) specifically called out the PR industry for obstructing climate action earlier this year, Exhibit A could have been H+K [Hill+Knowlton] — a firm that does the dirty work for none other than ExxonMobil, Chevron, Shell, and the like, | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/burson/ | en | null | null | 6,187 |
His appointment and tenure as Environment Minister were heavily criticised by Environmental Groups because Sammy believes that climate change is not man-made and the myth of climate change is based on dodgy science not proven. He is not a fan of the Green Lobby who try to scaremonger people with their alarmist views. | 2_not_human | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/sammy-wilson/ | en | null | null | 6,188 |
The problem with this, the problem with the climate change debate, is that there are facts on both sides. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/mike-johnson/ | en | null | null | 6,189 |
I mentioned that extreme events are simply not increasing. You can look out the window and see everything’s getting worse; this is what you actually see if you pull up the data: Nothing is changing. Tornado rates are the same as they’ve always been. I think John Christy was the first to to put this up for everyone to see. now cover, drought years, wet years, hurricanes … there is no trend. And yet you continually hear politicians say you can look out the window, you know, it’s obvious you know… the wheels are falling of the climate, but it’s not true. It’s simply a lie. | 1_not_happening | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/william-happer/ | en | null | null | 6,190 |
Climate change and other global ecological challenges are not the most important immediate concerns for the majority of the world’s people. Nor should they be. A new coal-fired power station in Bangladesh may bring air pollution and rising carbon dioxide emissions but will also save lives. For millions living without light and forced to burn dung to cook their food, electricity and modern fuels, no matter the source, offer a pathway to a better life, even as they also bring new environmental challenges eaningful climate mitigation is fundamentally a technological challenge. By this we mean that even dramatic limits to per capita global consumption would be insufficient to achieve significant climate mitigation. Absent profound technological change there is no credible path to meaningful climate mitigation. While advocates differ in the particular mix of technologies they favor, we are aware of no quantified climate mitigation scenario in which technological change is not responsible for the vast majority of emissions cuts. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/michael-shellenberger/ | en | null | null | 6,191 |
In order to take our country back from the secular humanists – back from those who have abandoned the Christian values and disciplines that made America great – back from the evil that is destroying our society, we must do more in our home school movement than we are doing now,” the robinson cirriculum website states. “Our children must be such superior performers in America’s colleges and universities, that they not only resist the corruption in those institutions – that they destroy, by their example, the corruption itself. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/oregon-institute-science-and-medicine/ | en | null | null | 6,193 |
We shouldn’t just scrap the licence fee, we should scrap the BBC. [It] is no longer fit for purpose. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/fti-consulting/ | en | null | null | 6,194 |
In that case, they could literally have zero projected impact on future warming. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/michael-bastasch/ | en | null | null | 6,195 |
A regular member operates as a full-service think tank, addressing a variety of relevant policy issues, not just a single-issue. They will operate independently with their state, and not as part of a state chapter, franchise, other effort of a separate organization. Their primary goal is to provide educational materials to the citizenry, public officials, and members of the media with a state-based focus. They refuse to accept or solicit government funding, and are approved 501(c)(3)s. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/state-policy-network/ | en | null | null | 6,196 |
No single environmental issue will be impacted by the change in administration more than climate policy. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/andrew-wheeler/ | en | null | null | 6,198 |
The North Sea transition deal will help us to continue to provide the affordable energy we need through oil and gas, produced with ever-decreasing emissions, while using our essential expertise and infrastructure to engineer the solutions that will be required for the future, including hydrogen and carbon capture and storage. | 7_fossil_fuels_needed | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/offshore-energies-uk/ | en | null | null | 6,199 |
Carbon dioxide is not a pollutant. Carbon dioxide is a nutrient. | 3_not_bad | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/western-fuels-association/ | en | null | null | 6,200 |
This thought-provoking talk is based on Dr. Lomborg’s bestselling book and film, Cool It. Here, Lomborg will demonstrate how we’re often told very one-sided and exaggerated claims about the environment and climate change, leading to unwarranted panic, instead of rationally assessing where and how we can do the most good. He argues that to tackle global warming we need smarter solutions focused on getting long-term solutions like cost-competitive renewables and that many of the impacts of global warming would be better addressed through adaptation. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/bjorn-lomborg/ | en | null | null | 6,201 |
Indigenous groups – especially those involved in the oil and gas sector – are becoming increasingly vocal about the bill’s problematic aspects (Quesnel 2019). For example, the removal of a ‘standing test’ enables outside interests, potentially far removed geographically from the project, to participate and unnecessarily prolong assessment hearings. The bill mentions UNDRIP in the preamble without defining any limits to it or adopting any qualifying language. Also, the addition of gender, health, and climate change to the assessment criteria would make the approval process much more onerous. Many of the areas included in the bill are nebulous and difficult to measure. As well, it could be argued that carbon policies do not belong in an individual project assessment process but belong with wider regulatory and fiscal issues. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/macdonald-laurier-institute/ | en | null | null | 6,202 |
One of them is just to talk a presidential candidate into it. Then he wins, and the whole world changes. The other way is a paradigm shift. And that takes time. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/michael-shellenberger/ | en | null | null | 6,203 |
Environment News will become Environment & Climate News with the February edition, thanks to its merger with World Climate Report , a biweekly newsletter previously published by New Hope Environmental Servics, Inc., with funding from Greening Earth Society he merger was announced today by Greening Earth Society, based in Arlington, Virginia, and The Heartland Institute, a Chicago-based nonprofit research organization that has published Environment News since launching the monthly newspaper in June 1997. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/world-climate-report/ | en | null | null | 6,204 |
Steve was an important channel for us to the White House, | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/joseph-bast/ | en | null | null | 6,205 |
When [the climate change] controversy first erupted […] scientists were found who are skeptical about much of what seemed generally accepted about the potential for climate change. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/western-fuels-association/ | en | null | null | 6,207 |
Average citizens ‘understand’ (recognize) uncertainties in climate science; recognition of uncertainties becomes part of the “conventional wisdom”Media ‘understands’ (recognizes) uncertainties in climate scienceMedia coverage reflects balance on climate science and recognition of the validity of viewpoints that challenge the current “conventional wisdom”Industry senior leadership understands uncertainties in climate science, making them stronger ambassadors to those who shape climate policyThose promoting the Kyoto treaty on the basis of extent science appears to be out of touch with reality Current Realit nless ‘climate change’ becomes a non-issue, meaning that the Kyoto proposal is defeated and there are no further initiatives to thwart the threat of climate change, there may be no moment when we can declare victory for our efforts. It will be necessary to establish measurements for the science effort to track progress toward achieving the goal and strategic success. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/myron-ebell/ | en | null | null | 6,208 |
Cutting CO2 emissions by 50% has virtually no effect on CO2’s impact on temperatures. | 2_not_human | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/tsaugust/ | en | null | null | 6,209 |
With genuinely well-established scientific theories, ‘consensus’ is not discussed and the concept of consensus is arguably irrelevant. For example, there is no point to discussing a consensus that the Earth orbits the sun, or that the hydrogen molecule has less mass than the nitrogen molecule. While a consensus may arise surrounding a specific scientific hypothesis or theory, the existence of a consensus is not itself the evidence. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/judith-curry/ | en | null | null | 6,210 |
The only way to slow global warming is to allow entrepreneurs to create more energy-efficient products and technologies. As the demand for these products grows, entrepreneurs will naturally react to market forces and direct their energies to producing more energy-efficient products at a cheaper cost. Government intervention is not the solution to this problem, the free market is. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/beacon-hill-institute/ | en | null | null | 6,211 |
No known mechanism can stop global warming in the near term. International agreements, such as the Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, would have no detectable effect on average temperature within any reasonable policy time frame of 50 years or so, even with full compliance. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/cato-institute/ | en | null | null | 6,212 |
Obviously CO2 in the atmosphere has an impact on global temperature. The question is how much, how quickly, whether the feedback loops are quite what people say they are. […] I think probably decarbonisation over time is worth doing for all kinds of reasons, but I’m not convinced that it’s essential at the expense of all other goals to reach net zero in 2050, and you know of course it’s only Europe and the US that has set that goal, other countries around the world have set more relaxed goals than that. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/david-frost/ | en | null | null | 6,213 |
I have been associated with the GWPF and fully support its aims. I am not a climate change denier – but believe that, if the world is to “decarbonise”, then China and India must be on board. As the UK only produces 1% of manmade carbon emissions, then our net zero policies are pretty futile – and very, very expensive. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/ruth-lea/ | en | null | null | 6,214 |
There is a consensus among climate scientists that human activity is contributing to climate change. However, claims that rising temperatures pose an existential threat to the human race or modern civilization are not well supported by climate science or economics; to the contrary, they are every bit as far from the mainstream as claims that climate change is not occurring or that it will be beneficial. Analyses consistently show that the costs of climate change are real but manageable. For instance, the prosperity that the world might achieve in 2100 without climate change may instead be delayed until 2102. | 3_not_bad | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/manhattan-institute-policy-research/ | en | null | null | 6,215 |
On the science of global climate change, I’m an agnostic. I’ve seen Al Gore’s movie, and I’ve read reports from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. I’ve also listened to the ‘skeptics.’ I don’t know who’s right, | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/robert-bryce/ | en | null | null | 6,216 |
Congrats: European flight costs will almost double because of climate policies. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/bjorn-lomborg/ | en | null | null | 6,217 |
The abuse of scientific integrity and the generation of faulty ‘scientific’ outcomes (through the use of pseudoscience) have led to the deception of the American public on a grand scale and to draconian government overregulation and the squandering of public money. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/jerome-arnett/ | en | null | null | 6,218 |
The National Rifle Association was started, founded by religious leaders who wanted to protect free slaves from the Ku Klux Klan. They would raise money, buy arms, show the free slaves how to use those arms and protect their families. God bless you. Many of us probably wouldn’t be here today if it wasn’t for the NRA. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/harry-c-alford/ | en | null | null | 6,219 |
We also remain influential with government. The federal government’s planned sweeping changes to major project assessments have heeded the advice of Coates and MLI author Bram Noble and included requirements for early and effective engagement with Indigenous communities,” MLI noted, adding Other aspects of the changes are more problematic, and MLI will be prominent in commenting on the legislation, encouraging fair, efficient and effective environmental assessments. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/macdonald-laurier-institute/ | en | null | null | 6,220 |
The Clean Air Act, by virtue of decisions made and priorities chosen decades ago, is forcing Americans to accept substantial economic sacrifices that they cannot afford, in pursuit of environmental gains that they do not need and that are not worth the cost, | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/oren-cass/ | en | null | null | 6,221 |
These short-term global fluctuations are associated principally with natural oscillations of tropical Pacific sea surface temperatures summarized in the Nino index in the lower part of the figure. 2012 is nominally the 9th warmest year, but it is indistinguishable in rank with several other years, as shown by the error estimate for comparing nearby years. Note that the 10 warmest years in the record all occurred since 1998 he long-term warming trend, including continual warming since the mid-1970s, has been conclusively associated with the predominant global climate forcing, human-made greenhouse gases, which began to grow substantially early in the 20th century. The approximate stand-still of global temperature during 1940-1975 is generally attributed to an approximate balance of aerosol cooling and greenhouse gas warming during a period of rapid growth of fossil fuel use with little control on particulate air pollution […] | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/patrick-michaels/ | en | null | null | 6,222 |
If people want to waste money and do symbolic gestures and start ratcheting down their cities’ energy use and emissions and start putting in mandates for energy that doesn’t produce the same for fossil fuels – more power to them. But the big news here is the United States as a country is saying ‘no’ to the United Nations. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/marc-morano/ | en | null | null | 6,223 |
The Ukraine war has driven gas prices higher, but, says Andrew Montford of Net Zero Watch, it would be daft to assume that this is a permanent state of affairs and design a policy on the assumption that wind will be cheaper than gas in the future. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/matt-ridley/ | en | null | null | 6,225 |
This makes electric cars toxic/ For both people and the planet. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/fueling-us-forward/ | en | null | null | 6,226 |
Lawson agrees that there has been some global warming over the past hundred years and that increased man-made emissions of carbon dioxide are partly to blame. But he argues that natural causes are more important than commonly agreed and that the science of climate remains in its infancy. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/nigel-lawson/ | en | null | null | 6,227 |