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These protestors are unhappy about carbon taxes, illegal immigration, wasteful government spending, and policies they say hurt the oil industry, which in turn hurts them. | 7_fossil_fuels_needed | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/clear-energy-alliance/ | en | null | null | 6,228 |
I am sceptical about everything – that is what scientists are. But there has been an enormous amount of shoddy work masquerading as science with regards to climate change. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/graham-stringer/ | en | null | null | 6,229 |
Based on their record, one could claim that Earth Justice and the NRDC [Natural Resources Defense Council] have more in common with Hamas and Hezbollah than they do with conservation groups. Hamas and Hezbollah hide behind a shield of women and children while seeking to destroy Israel. Earth Justice and the NRDC hide behind the shield of environmentalism while seeking to destroy the businesses and small-town America they seem to hold in contempt. | 6_proponents_biased | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/robert-bob-c-shoup/ | en | null | null | 6,230 |
The most serious problem with catastrophic global warming is– it may not be true. If the earth is getting warmer, why is Minneapolis getting colder? Who told you the earth was warming… Chicken Little? Some say the earth is warming. Some also said the earth was flat. | 1_not_happening | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/fred-palmer/ | en | null | null | 6,231 |
The idea that coercive measures should be taken to bring down global population to help prevent climate change is a mainstream one in the world of climate alarmism. | 6_proponents_biased | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/tim-benson/ | en | null | null | 6,232 |
With respect to our ability to influence it [climate change], I think that’s still an open question. Our belief in the ability to influence it is based upon some very, very complicated climate models that have very wide outcomes. […] Whether or not anything we do will ultimately influence it remains to be seen. One day we’ll know the answer to that, but our ability to predict the answer to that is quite complicated. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/rex-tillerson/ | en | null | null | 6,234 |
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/steve-koonin/ | en | null | null | 6,235 |
There’s something in these pictures you can’t see. It’s essential to life. We breathe it out; plants breathe it in. It comes from animal life, the oceans, the earth, and the fuels we find in it. It’s called carbon dioxide, CO2. The fuels that produce CO2 have freed us from a world of backbreaking labor, lighting up our lives, allowing us to create and move the things we need; the people we love. [Ominous Music] Now, some politicians want to label carbon dioxide a pollutant. Imagine if they succeed. What would our lives be like then? Carbon dioxide: they call it pollution. We call it life. | 2_not_human | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/competitive-enterprise-institute/ | en | null | null | 6,236 |
When you talk about the future of our energy system, it’s changing dramatically,” Fitzsimmons said. And it’s been changing much faster than people anticipated. I mean, five, ten years ago, no one would have guessed that the United States would be the number one producer of oil and natural gas in the world, exporting LNG to 36 countries But also being one of the leading wind and solar producers, seeing how quickly costs for renewable energy have declined, seeing how rapidly electric vehicle battery costs have declined, seeing how cheap led light bulbs have gotten and these are technological innovations that are driving massive changes in the energy system And the big challenge moving forward because of this rapidly evolving system, at least in the electricity generation side, is less about having affordable kilowatt hours of electricity—because we have a lot of low-cost sources of supply—the bigger challenge moving forward is going to be how do you integrate all of these new technologies together in a way that maintains an affordable, reliable, resilient and clean energy system. And that’s where technologies like energy storage come into play. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/alex-fitzsimmons/ | en | null | null | 6,237 |
The generation of democratic and conservative intellectual capital through the support of think tanks and idea generators The development of human resources for democratic political institutions and processes through education and training; an Networking and relationship building among the various components of the conservative movement through communications and conferencing, including organization of the Manning Networking Conference held each year in Ottawa. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/manning-foundation-for-democratic-education/ | en | null | null | 6,238 |
Every turbine you put up has to have back-up electricity produced because the wind goes up and down, it is inconsistent Wind farms are totally useless environmentally. But there are people who are getting a vast amount of money just to put these things up. And who pays for them? The people who use the electricity in Britain. The more wind farms we put up the more electricity costs I’ve noticed the impact of wind farms on Country Durham, you can’t fail to Its not just me, I’ve worked with artists going around painting what these stunning landscapes would look like with these monsters going up. There’s a number of areas in Weardale and Teesdale where there are proposals in and they could happen. But I’m keeping up the campaigning. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/david-bellamy/ | en | null | null | 6,239 |
The evidence regarding global warming and human contribution to it is mixed, and as forecasts of anthropogenic warming get more refined, they predict less extreme warming. | 2_not_human | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/mercatus-center/ | en | null | null | 6,240 |
I think that climate change and global warming represent important public policy and scientific debates. I think the John Locke Foundation is playing an important role in that. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/art-pope/ | en | null | null | 6,241 |
Rex Tillerson’s career is the embodiment of the American dream. Through hard work, dedication and smart deal making, Rex rose through the ranks to become CEO of ExxonMobil, one of the world’s largest and most respected companies,” the Trump news release read. “Rex knows how to manage a global enterprise, which is crucial to running a successful State Department. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/rex-tillerson/ | en | null | null | 6,242 |
Ah, easily… We turned down money from the Koch Foundation because they wanted to run our organization; We don’t do that. Basically we’re a free market organization that wants to seek…To keep government out of our pocket books and look at things objectively rather than emotionally. | 6_proponents_biased | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/jay-h-lehr/ | en | null | null | 6,243 |
Vast amounts of taxpayers’ money are being spent subsidising uneconomic activity. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/liz-truss/ | en | null | null | 6,244 |
You can’t power a whole grid with solar and wind, because the sun and the wind are inconstant, and currently existing batteries aren’t even cheap enough to store large quantities of electricity overnight, much less across whole seasons. In service to green ideology, they made the perfect the enemy of the good—and of Ukraine,” he claimed in the piece. He added: | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/michael-shellenberger/ | en | null | null | 6,245 |
In other words, more violent tornadoes would, if anything, be a sign of ‘global cooling’, not ‘global warming’. | 1_not_happening | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/lawrence-solomon/ | en | null | null | 6,246 |
Despite oft-repeated claims by the IPCC and its fawning apologists that the planet is heading for some kind of apocalyptic meltdown, the actual empirical evidence suggests precisely the opposite. Europe and the United States are buried in record amounts of snow every year, but somehow the alarmists manage to twist even this into ‘evidence’ of manmade global warming. | 1_not_happening | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/joe-fone/ | en | null | null | 6,247 |
Then there is the widely known fact that there has been no statistically significant warming of the planet for more than 15 years despite 25 percent of all human CO2 emissions occurring during these years. This is accepted by no less than the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and the UK Met Office. There is simply no scientific proof that our CO2 emissions are the cause of the slight warming that has occurred over the 300-year period since the peak of the Little Ice Age. | 1_not_happening | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/frontier-centre-public-policy/ | en | null | null | 6,249 |
It’s all linked in the minds of the social justice cultists. Climate change, like racism, homophobia, misogyny, transphobia, etc., is all the fault of cishet white men and the capitalist system they’ve built to perpetuate their privilege. | 6_proponents_biased | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/toby-young/ | en | null | null | 6,250 |
Climate has always varied, often with large swings. […] These dramatic climatic ebbs and flows are naturally occurring events. A more appropriate response to potential climate change is the production and employment of resources toward meaningful adaptation strategies. | 2_not_human | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/frontiers-freedom/ | en | null | null | 6,251 |
And that’s really what you see there. “But the rest of the state, ‘real Virginia,’ if you will, I think will be very responsive to Senator McCain’s message, | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/nancy-pfotenhauer/ | en | null | null | 6,252 |
The 2020 summit exposed the hypocritical, illogical and treacherous nature of most people in the modern green movement. It has been hijacked by a quasi religious ideology which makes it ineffective at solving the big problems we face. The environment is suffering as a result. | 6_proponents_biased | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/peter-ridd/ | en | null | null | 6,253 |
In Antarctica, it looks like the total volume (of ice) is increasing and if that’s true, that’s probably why you’re getting increased ice moving away from the center of the continent and therefore these big icebergs and stuff are breaking off. | 1_not_happening | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/harrison-schmitt/ | en | null | null | 6,254 |
I’m just saying that I don’t know, he said. I looked at one narrow topic. I haven’t studied issues of infrared radiation and water vapor. And there are a host of issues that need to be studied. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/steve-mcintyre/ | en | null | null | 6,255 |
To have any kind of focus on the cause and effect of the storm; versus helping people, or actually facing the effect of the storm, is misplaced. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/scott-pruitt/ | en | null | null | 6,256 |
You see nothing. You see a little bit in the last couple of decades in California, where it has been getting a little bit drier, but over a couple of centuries that’s not unusual. | 1_not_happening | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/steve-koonin/ | en | null | null | 6,257 |
After years of looking, I have not found one piece of empirical evidence that man-made CO2 has a significant impact on global climate. | 2_not_human | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/walter-cunningham/ | en | null | null | 6,258 |
Climate change is constant and natural. I live in Canada. A mere 20,000 years ago, 97 per cent of my country was covered with ice. The fact that that ice melted away on its own tells us that Mother Earth has her own rhythms. As a journalist, I have no opinion on whether human activity is having a significant (as opposed to a minor) impact on the world’s climate. What I can tell you is that there are many highly credentialed, experienced, reputable scientists who doubt this. I consider it my job to let the public know that those views exist. | 2_not_human | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/donna-laframboise/ | en | null | null | 6,259 |
Now what would be horrific to do at this time that we have higher energy prices is put in place a windfall profits tax, which is what is being advocated by Senator Obama. When it was tried before in this country, it was economic masochism. It reduced domestic production, increased our reliance on foreign oil, and raised prices for consumers at the pump. | 7_fossil_fuels_needed | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/nancy-pfotenhauer/ | en | null | null | 6,260 |
Trump and the are saying, finally, what millions of people have been thinking for a long time: has become the cause of, not the solution to, the nation’s major environmental problems. It’s time to end . | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/jay-h-lehr/ | en | null | null | 6,261 |
There’s been no warming in over 17 years. So all of this discussion about shutting down certain parts of our energy industry is nothing short of a disaster for the economy, | 1_not_happening | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/brooke-rollins/ | en | null | null | 6,263 |
My own granddaughter came home one day and said … ‘Popi, why is it you don’t understand global warming?’ I did some checking, and Eric, the stuff that they teach our kids nowadays, they are brainwash — you have to un-brainwash them when they get out, | 6_proponents_biased | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/james-inhofe/ | en | null | null | 6,264 |
Today’s biggest accomplishment is to brand this city a green business zone,” DeVito said. “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 | 6,266 |
Anyway, once these bans on ‘conversion therapy’ become common, how long before it is ruled illegal for a man to claim he is a ‘former gay’ or to tell children they have a ‘choice’? Well, these are just the kind of things you can expect in a corrupt democracy. ‘Truth’ is decided by vote. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/william-briggs/ | en | null | null | 6,267 |
Myneni’s results, however, remained unpublished. I was puzzled by this. Then I realized that one of the ’s periodic assessment reports was in preparation, and that probably Dr Myneni and colleagues might delay the publication of their results until after that report was published, lest ‘the skeptics have a field day’ with it hat last phrase, by the way, is from one of the Climategate emails, the one on 22 September 1999 in which Dr Michael Mann approves the deletion of inconvenient data ure enough, Myneni’s results were eventually published three years later in April 2016 in a paper in Nature Climate Change, with 32 authors from 24 institutions in eight countries – when the report was safely in the public domain and the great Paris climate jamboree was over. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/matt-ridley/ | en | null | null | 6,268 |
Tea Parties are scathingly and properly scathingly opposed to the climate change proposals that have emerged over the past decade. They see the economic consequences of such action, and applying the principles of ‘opportunity costs’ and the need for honest science, including full transparency in the scientific discussion. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/david-schnare/ | en | null | null | 6,269 |
I think we should assert the existence of preemption and propose to deny the waiver based on the absence of compelling and extraordinary conditions. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/william-wehrum/ | en | null | null | 6,270 |
This idea that hydraulic fracturing is polluting, groundwater is untrue. There’s not a single documented case of hydraulic fracturing polluting ground water. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/mark-mathis/ | en | null | null | 6,271 |
The ‘Climate Industry’ is a terrible misnomer. These parasites are not in the least industrious, and they are anti-industry. These half-witted misanthropes & nihilists are anti-growth, anti-progress, anti-people, and are hell-bent on destroying Western manufacturing, | 6_proponents_biased | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/martin-durkin/ | en | null | null | 6,272 |
By denying these countries opportunities to get access to American energy such as coal or natural gas, we are condemning people to lives of perpetual poverty,” Clemente said. “We’re not only condemning people today, we’re condemning their children. | 7_fossil_fuels_needed | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/frank-clemente/ | en | null | null | 6,273 |
This is the world of climate change. The science has become an expensive smokescreen behind which vested interests hide, | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/maurice-newman/ | en | null | null | 6,274 |
The Paris climate agreement was pushed through against the declared will of America’s elected representatives. US leaders and critics had warned international leaders repeatedly that the US Senate rejected Obama’s deal and that a Republican president would shred it to pieces. Now the Paris accord faces the same fate as the Kyoto Protocol which also ended in failure, | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/benny-peiser/ | en | null | null | 6,275 |
I believe that the redistribution for the benefit of victims works better through a system of direct welfare support payments than it does through the antidiscrimination laws. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/richard-epstein/ | en | null | null | 6,276 |
Global Warming Treaty: Economic Boom or Bust? Bust – Jobs and Industries Lost. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/national-association-manufacturers/ | en | null | null | 6,277 |
The only hope of overcoming this problem would be for the Government to invite Labour in, to discuss issues such as national security concerns and how to assess local support – and ask shadow ministers to pledge to honour permits awarded before the election, if they win. It is just possible that Labour would consent, to display patriotism and distance themselves from militant eco-warriors. If not, they would stand condemned for sabotaging energy security, increasing emissions and overriding local decisions. | 6_proponents_biased | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/peter-lilley/ | en | null | null | 6,278 |
There has been absolutely no change in drought frequency or drought since 1901. None whatsoever. | 1_not_happening | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/arthur-viterito/ | en | null | null | 6,279 |
It’s a heartbreaker,” Rowe commented, “to hear them [oil and gas workers] treated in such a high-handed way. … When the workforce is fundamentally out of balance, then the rest of us become disconnected from everything that we rely upon. And if you don’t think we rely upon Keystone workers and pipelines and energy and petroleum based products and fossil fuels and gas and so forth, just wait until we truly make them the enemy and disconnect ourselves so completely from that part of our economy that we really start to see the impact. | 7_fossil_fuels_needed | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/mike-rowe/ | en | null | null | 6,280 |
I don’t think that we are headed for disaster because there’s nothing in the record of data that indicates that the number of storms, droughts—I mean, yea, whatever hurricanes and so on—they are not increasing as what you’d expect from all the things that you hear. So I don’t think that we are heading for a disaster, and if that climate sensitivity to CO2 is smaller than what you get from all these climate models, then the change in temperature, you know in the next fifty years, might be quite small, | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/henrik-svensmark/ | en | null | null | 6,281 |
I mean, the conspiracy here from stories that I read is Fauci is one of the guys behind this Covid, behind it. He’s the one that started experimenting on this thing in the labs and brought it over to China. I don’t know if that’s true or not, but I’ve read that a couple of places as well. And we all know that it came out of China. We all know that it’s manufactured. We all know that the death rate for it is roughly the same as a bad flu season. It’s out there. It even says that. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/kevin-sorbo/ | en | null | null | 6,282 |
Why did most of our moderate modern warming take place before 1940 (with 1934 being the warmest year) and why haven’t we had any warming over the last nine years? Could it possibly be the moderate natural 1,500-year cycle revealed in the ice cores and seabed sediments? | 1_not_happening | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/dennis-avery/ | en | null | null | 6,283 |
We, the undersigned, having assessed the relevant scientific evidence, do not find convincing support for the hypothesis that human emissions of carbon dioxide are causing, or will in the foreseeable future cause, dangerous global warming. | 2_not_human | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/boris-winterhalter/ | en | null | null | 6,284 |
In fact global warming has stopped and a cooling is beginning. No climate model has predicted a cooling of the Earth – quite the contrary. And this means that the projections of future climate are unreliable. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/henrik-svensmark/ | en | null | null | 6,285 |
The Black Lives Matter movement attempts to mobilize the resentments in black communities and to shame whites into ceding their wealth and power, partly out of fear and partly out of contrition. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/rachelle-peterson/ | en | null | null | 6,286 |
So, the point I’m getting at, is that was published in a social sciences — admitedly — paper, but it has credibility because it’s been peer reviewed. So I’m very concerned about some of the peer-reviewed papers. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/malcolm-roberts/ | en | null | null | 6,287 |
We do not have a climate change or global warming problem, we have an energy cost problem, | 1_not_happening | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/murray-energy/ | en | null | null | 6,289 |
The fact is, carbon dioxide will increase. We will continue to burn oil and coal, and probably it does us good. The Earth will get greener as a result. CO2 is so beneficial […] it would be crazy to try to reduce it,” Dyson said. “Man-made climate change is, on the whole, good. | 3_not_bad | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/freeman-dyson/ | en | null | null | 6,290 |
Climate alarmists in the scientific community now face a long retreat, while the victory of the President Bush’s position on the issue seems assured. […] The scientists should retire from the battlefield now. They have picked the wrong fight at the wrong time. Their intervention has done nothing to alter the political landscape except confirm that it is economists, not scientists, who are the most important figures in deciding whether anything will be done now about global warming. The alarmists will fight on, as Lee did after Gettysburg for two more years, but barring unforeseen political events, their war is lost. | 6_proponents_biased | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/iain-murray/ | en | null | null | 6,291 |
As the price of electrical power continues to rise as coal-fired stations are needlessly shut down, not only the capital cost but also the running cost of electric buggies will put personal transport – one of the greatest freedoms the West has given to the world – far beyond the reach of the ordinary motorist. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/christopher-monckton/ | en | null | null | 6,292 |
Carbon dioxide is not a pollutant or poison; it’s plant food, | 3_not_bad | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/bruce-everett/ | en | null | null | 6,293 |
The population age 65 and over [in California] represent about 15 percent of the population. It does not make a lot of statistical sense for our elected leadership to be blind to the ‘real science numbers’ and hold the other 85 percent of the population (approximately 34 million) hostage, which results in catastrophic damage to the economy. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/ronald-stein/ | en | null | null | 6,294 |
In light of the global nature of the problem of climate change, I have found that California does not have a ‘need to meet compelling and extraordinary conditions. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/william-wehrum/ | en | null | null | 6,295 |
Make no mistake, the agitators are not defending science from quackery—quite the contrary! They demand that the Museum support a party line, thinly disguised as science. | 6_proponents_biased | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/heartland-institute/ | en | null | null | 6,296 |
The group is a conduit,” said law professor Donald Tobin of Ohio State University. “The web of transactions […] makes you question whether [Wellspring] is really engaged in a social welfare purpose or not. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/judicial-crisis-network/ | en | null | null | 6,297 |
Current levels of 400 ppm are still much less than optimum for most plant growth. | 3_not_bad | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/co2-coalition/ | en | null | null | 6,298 |
I believe climate change is due to a combination of factors, including natural cycles, sun spots and human activity. But scientists still don’t know for certain how much each of these factors contributes to the overall climate change that the Earth is experiencing. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/lamar-smith/ | en | null | null | 6,299 |
Now, I’m not sure where Viscount Monckton is getting his statistics, but to frame these comments as he has is both deeply offensive and fundamentally wrong, | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/christopher-monckton/ | en | null | null | 6,300 |
I personally believe that the solar flares are more responsible for climatic cycles than anything that human beings do and our lunar, our rovers on Mars have indicated that there has been a slight warming in the atmosphere of Mars and that certainly was not caused by the internal combustion engine. | 2_not_human | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/jim-sensenbrenner/ | en | null | null | 6,301 |
The immense financial costs true believers would impose on economies can be compared with the sacrifices offered traditionally in religion, and the sale of carbon credits with the pre-Reformation practice of selling indulgences, | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/cardinal-george-pell/ | en | null | null | 6,302 |
These allegations are directed at Dr. Weaver’s professional competence and are clearly derogatory of him. Indeed, it is quite apparent that this was Dr. Ball’s intent,” the judge wrote, adding, however, that “It is very unlikely that the Article and the opinions expressed therein had an impact on the views of anyone who read it, including their views, if any, of Dr. Weaver as a climate scientist. Rather, the reasonably thoughtful and informed reader would have recognized the Article as simply presenting one side of a highly charged public debate. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/anthony-watts/ | en | null | null | 6,303 |
Fossil fuel prices can go lower – much lower – as they have been for most of the last century. A renewables powered future, on the other hand, would lock the public into electricity prices commensurate to those that are causing such pain and anguish today but into perpetuity. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/craig-mackinlay/ | en | null | null | 6,304 |
Instead of keeping the United States tied to this albatross of an agreement that promotes even more taxes, regulations, and subsidies aimed at reducing carbon dioxide emissions, President Trump should withdraw the United States from the Paris Climate Treaty and support sound environmental stewardship that is pro-energy, pro-environment, and pro-jobs. Doing so would produce enormous economic dividends that would genuinely improve people’s lives. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/tim-benson/ | en | null | null | 6,305 |
Every single human in this country and all over the world either uses oil or wants to use oil. | 7_fossil_fuels_needed | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/cody-battershill/ | en | null | null | 6,306 |
On top of the incredible obstacles already faced by disadvantaged peoples and free enterprise businesses across the developing world, efforts to raise living standards of millions living in poverty are now being undermined by radical scare tactics deployed by Green NGOs. Collectively, this ‘green’ smear machine funnels millions of dollars into dubious campaigns and lobbying efforts that ultimately lead to unnecessary human suffering and stifled economic growth Under the veneer of promoting environmental stewardship, ‘green’ pressure groups have dominated the European public policy debate on climate change, agriculture and forestry. In the name of nature for decades they exerted massive pressures on political actors and businesses. The effects of this dubious lobbying have spilled beyond the EU’s borders, now dictating development policies in emerging economies. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/wolfgang-muller/ | en | null | null | 6,307 |
Solar panels don’t generate electricity when the sun isn’t shining, and wind turbines don’t generate electricity when there’s no wind. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/andrea-leadsom/ | en | null | null | 6,308 |
Our ambition is to become the leading communications group on environmental issues by reducing our impact, | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/havas/ | en | null | null | 6,309 |
It’s hard for me to understand how any person who calls himself an environmentalist could be an advocate of wind power because of the massive amount of environmental damage that’s done. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/mark-mathis/ | en | null | null | 6,310 |
Gas is currently very expensive in Britain, but it used to be cheap and it could be once more — particularly if we open up the North Sea and get fracking. | 7_fossil_fuels_needed | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/matt-ridley/ | en | null | null | 6,311 |
Every increase in the minimum wage has led to a direct, visible increase in teenage unemployment. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/ed-clark/ | en | null | null | 6,312 |
And this is again due very heavily to Jan Veizer at the University of Ottawa […] And this is where the work he did with Shaviv came in, and they found that there was no statistical correlation between CO2 and climate. And in my research, I didn’t really see any CO2 impact at all; there was nothing changing in more recent times that didn’t correlate well with the sunspot cycle. So, that’s how I got where I am. | 2_not_human | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/r-timothy-patterson/ | en | null | null | 6,313 |
It is over. It is gone. It is not here, except as a residual. Yes, there will be updates to the figure, since most recent counts are always late, but this has been so every week. The signal is obvious. It is vamoosed. Since this bug, like all bugs, will be with us forever, we can never wait for 0 attributed deaths. If we wait for 0 deaths, we will wait forever. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/william-briggs/ | en | null | null | 6,314 |
Yet while fully crediting Schneiderman, fellow attorneys general, the Rockefellers and other climate crusaders for saving the planet from fossil-fired Armageddon, perhaps we might also cut ExxonMobil some slack for not giving the matter full attention. | 6_proponents_biased | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/larry-bell/ | en | null | null | 6,315 |
That’s what they’re trying to do with global warming, use it to convince everyone to go to renewables, that we have to go to a more expensive type of energy, foisting this idea to do solar and wind facilities, | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/vivian-m-krause/ | en | null | null | 6,316 |
I’m okay with the choice. I think Donald Trump has selected somebody who knows the world and can advise him on the world. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/rudy-giuliani/ | en | null | null | 6,317 |
He has consistently opposed air regulations, water regulations, and EPA generally,” Hall said. “So this is really a case of putting the fox in charge of the hen house. So I hope very much that that nomination will be wither withdrawn or defeated. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/scott-pruitt/ | en | null | null | 6,318 |
The extreme position that wind and solar can produce all the energy the world needs is opposed by even the most fervent climate change scientists. Four of the world’s top climate change scientists sent a letter to politicians and environmental groups stating, ‘Realistically, they [renewable energy sources] cannot on their own solve the world’s energy problems.’ Instead, the scientists call for an increased use of nuclear power to meet the worlds’ growing energy needs. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/center-organizational-research-and-education-core/ | en | null | null | 6,319 |
For decades, conventional wisdom has been that America was in a state of decline. This drumbeat, repeated relentlessly, held that raw-material scarcity and resource consumption would doom America. Costs would inexorably rise and resources would become more scarce. Indeed costs did rise. But the truth is that the political class made it so. President Obama famously sought to reduce American access to natural resources, to massively raise gasoline prices and thereby reduce its use. Last night President Trump highlighted the folly of such thinking. One year of change has brought not only lower gas prices, but the president noted that the United States is now a net exporter of energy. Decades of poor policy tied up the American economic engine in reams of red tape. President Trump highlighted his efforts to free the people and unlock America’s awesome energy potential. The ultimate resource is a free people and we, the people, like it. | 7_fossil_fuels_needed | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/james-wanliss/ | en | null | null | 6,320 |
SJR’s largest client is an oil and gas giant. Creativity and purpose? Nope, it’s all aboutthe money. | 6_proponents_biased | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/group-sjr/ | en | null | null | 6,321 |
In order to achieve the unmeasurably small climate benefit of 0.018 degree Celsius, the United States would have to wreak havoc on the economy, jobs, and electricity rates — and, in the process, on the lives of millions of people. While life on Earth is improving, the U.N. policy would only reverse what has been achieved. Earth Day resulted in tangible benefits to society. The Paris agreement will not. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/doug-domenech/ | en | null | null | 6,322 |
So IPCC scientists should in future be more circumspect in their claims to avoid the prospect of millions of people suffering from carbon taxes, lack of energy, unemployment and putting the blame back onto them. There is no doubt: – Reducing IPCC’s global warming is much easier than reducing global CO2 emissions. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/peter-dietze/ | en | null | null | 6,323 |
Coal-based generation in the United States […] has increased 146% since 1970. And all these emissions have dropped off. Clean coal works. We have to implement it People need electric power. They need natural gas. And they need oil. And they’re going to get it. And they should have it. | 7_fossil_fuels_needed | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/frank-clemente/ | en | null | null | 6,324 |
Global Warming, i.e. Climate Change, is not about environmentalism or politics. It is not a religion. It is not something you “believe in. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/john-coleman/ | en | null | null | 6,325 |
The counter-intuitive truth is that to help combat climate change we need more industrial farming and less organic. The reason being that if we want to save us much land as possible for wildlife, trees and all that good stuff, we should be as economical as possible in our use of land. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/tim-worstall/ | en | null | null | 6,326 |
Climate alarmists are seemingly unaware of the billions of people who wouldn’t live to see the future if their basic energy necessities of today were not met by affordable and available fossil fuels,” he wrote. “Saving the planet must not mean rejecting fossil fuels to meet such needs. Otherwise, the clarion call of environmental activists is the death knell for the billions they would condemn to energy poverty. | 7_fossil_fuels_needed | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/vijay-jayaraj/ | en | null | null | 6,328 |
We have a budget of six and a half million dollars a year. About 80 percent of it comes from individual, small donations. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/jay-h-lehr/ | en | null | null | 6,329 |
Thus Paris embodies precisely what the green movement worried about after Copenhagen: that a weak and non-binding agreement would be worse than futile. Yet the disastrous Kyoto story is repeating itself; adherence to Paris has become a totem of global determination to tackle climate change while the agreement seems purpose-built to prevent the very economic sophistication on which any low-carbon future depends. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/matt-ridley/ | en | null | null | 6,331 |
The search for truth is the animating force of a university, and it behooves those who support open and respectful discussion of controversial issues to get the facts right. Recently the views expressed by a member of our community, Professor Lawrence Torcello, have been misrepresented by some in the media. The misrepresentation follows a pattern similar to other incidents of misrepresentation involving academics that work on topics related to climate change. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/daily-caller/ | en | null | null | 6,332 |
This week, Scholastic came under criticism for an 11” x 16” poster map which displays different sources of energy – coal, nuclear, hydroelectric, solar, wind and natural gas – not so much for the content of the poster but primarily for its sponsorship by the American Coal Foundation. We acknowledge that the mere fact of sponsorship may call into question the authenticity of the information, and therefore conclude that we were not vigilant enough as to the effect of sponsorship in this instance. We have no plans to further distribute this particular program. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/national-mining-association/ | en | null | null | 6,333 |
Hard-nosed physical evidence of man-made global warming has yet to be provided by the promoters of warming, even after a nominal $80 billion dollars have been spent in the attempt to do so. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/franklin-centre-government-and-public-integrity/ | en | null | null | 6,334 |