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The motion of climate change is highly chaotic, poorly understood and at this point completely unpredictable within certain broad limits. In fact, there is strong evidence that the natural climate is capable of warming or cooling several degrees very quickly. […] […] The true shame is that teachers read this stuff and believe it, then teach it to their students, spreading it like a disease. What is lacking are alternative skeptical sources of sound science for teachers and students. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/david-wojick/ | en | null | null | 6,335 |
There are natural explanations for global warming of which a change in the output of solar energy is a candidate. However, none of the published work has convinced me that this can explain much of the observed global warming over the last several decades. Volcanic emissions are another natural global forcing, and it is well known that they produce cooling, such as after the eruption of Mount Pintatubo, where in August of 1991 it was estimated as -4 Watts per meter squared. There have not been eruptions of that magnitude since, such that the absence of such major eruptions might permit greater absorbed solar radiation in the climate system than otherwise would occur. However, this absence of eruptions resulting in any positive radiative imbalance for a period of time well after a major volcanic emission has also not been shown to occur. This leaves anthropogenic emissions as a source for global warming. […] we limit the communication to policymakers if we use climate change as a synonym for global warming. Global warming is just one aspect of a much more complicated environmental issue. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/roger-pielke-sr/ | en | null | null | 6,336 |
I think we have hit a critical point where it’s so bad and the censorship is so obvious and so ridiculous and so disgusting that now I think we are really going to see who is going to stand up for us and who is a traitor or a coward. And there are many conservatives and I made a tweet about that, too, and I said the ones, the Republicans who are now going back to their, I don’t know, their tiny cages and are just conceding, retracting their support for Donald Trump. They are cowards, they are traitors and they are cowards. And we who are really striving for freedom. We know what is right and we know that we are keeping our integrity and that we are not inciting violence. We are not pro, I don’t know, rioting. We are not the rioters. Isn’t that funny? Black Lives Matter and antifa have been rioting for months and they still do. And yet we are the ones who are now charged with thought crimes because we are rioters and our thought crimes allegedly are inciting violence. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/naomi-seibt/ | en | null | null | 6,337 |
On the issue of carbon dioxide and global warming, the question at issue really is, ‘Does carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuel combustion cause global warming?’ There does appear to be a common consensus view; but, the available data not only does not support this common consensus view, but supports the contrary position. That is that it is the naturally rising temperature that is driving up the carbon dioxide. This finding not only absolves man as the cause of global warming, but also raises major questions about the economic impact of attempting to control carbon dioxide emissions, particularly if this is a waste of time and resources. | 2_not_human | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/robert-h-essenhigh/ | en | null | null | 6,338 |
There appears to be a lot of confusion about the biological benefits of elevated CO2 because the popular media typically fails to report them. Doomsday scenarios of global warming are much more dramatic than the good news of global greening. | 3_not_bad | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/keith-idso/ | en | null | null | 6,339 |
It is estimated that for compliance with the agreement could ultimately shrink America’s by $2.5 trillion over a 10-year period. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/kevin-dayaratna/ | en | null | null | 6,340 |
This agreement enables us to deliver the latest science and commentary on the global climate change issue to thousands of additional people,” said Fred Palmer, president of Greening Earth Society. | 6_proponents_biased | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/fred-palmer/ | en | null | null | 6,341 |
We would appreciate if statements made by the Chamber would reflect the full range of views, especially those of Chamber members advocating for congressional action, | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/us-chamber-commerce/ | en | null | null | 6,342 |
But I remember the last few summers we’ve had — rainy and cool — and the climate change monkeys saying THAT was a consequence of global warming, too. You can’t have it both ways, | 1_not_happening | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/rod-liddle/ | en | null | null | 6,343 |
The main argument of the IPCC is flawed and there is no other argument that can prove that CO2 has a large effect on the temperature. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/nir-shaviv/ | en | null | null | 6,345 |
There is no doubt that CO2 levels in the atmosphere have risen faster than at any time in history and there is little doubt that the average world temperature has been increasing, probably as a consequence. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/atlantic-legal-foundation/ | en | null | null | 6,346 |
Now I don’t consider myself a big credentialed expert or anything. I simply looked at a graph Michael E Mann hadn’t been anywhere near and drew the obvious conclusion. Gave it two minutes’ thought, if that. The reason it’s taking climate science so much longer to draw that obvious conclusion is because ideology and the ideological enforcers like Mann got in the way. | 6_proponents_biased | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/mark-steyn/ | en | null | null | 6,347 |
Not one politician can put their hand on their hearts and tell you how much it’s [net zero] going to cost. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/lee-anderson/ | en | null | null | 6,348 |
Deleted from the text was: ‘The United States is taking a leading role by advancing an ever-expanding suite of measures at home and abroad.’ Also stricken were references to mitigation efforts and other mentions of leading on climate change n its place is more generic language, solely referencing that the office represents the U.S. at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and other international forums. It does use the word ‘lead’ once, but only saying the office leads the U.S. government in participating with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/rex-tillerson/ | en | null | null | 6,349 |
But framing a fetus as a man’s property is a new low. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/scott-pruitt/ | en | null | null | 6,350 |
Farris and Dan Wilks, who believe their billions were given to them by God, have spent the last decade working to advance a dominionist ideology by funding far-right organizations and politicians that seek to dismiss climate change as ‘God’s will’, remove choice, demonize the LGBTQ community, and tear down public education, all to turn America into a country that gives preference to and imposes their extreme beliefs on everyone, | 6_proponents_biased | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/dan-wilks/ | en | null | null | 6,351 |
Although the campaign was successful in some ways—it had gained respectful, if not plentiful, media attention, inspired some 300 Students for Clark organizations, distributed hundreds of thousands of copies of its campaign book, and placed no less than 47 five-minute ads on national television—the results were disappointing. Following the 1980 campaign, many of Clark’s key supporters appear to have lost interest in the party, and a number of them drifted away. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/ed-clark/ | en | null | null | 6,352 |
We are winning, and a couple of years ago, it didn’t seem possible,” she said. “Most people thought it was going to be a really sad and dark and unfortunate time for the country, especially on [climate change]. There is great hope. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/brooke-rollins/ | en | null | null | 6,353 |
We worry the sole focus on greenhouse gases and the unwise reliance on imperfect climate models while ignoring real data may leave civilization unprepared for a sudden climate shift that history tells us will occur again, very possibly soon. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/international-climate-and-environmental-change-assessment-project/ | en | null | null | 6,354 |
I do not agree with the characterization of the Southern Company as a fossil fuel company, | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/ernest-moniz/ | en | null | null | 6,355 |
During a summit in Chile King Juan Carlos of Spain told the president of Venezuela Hugo Chavez to shut up: ‘Por qué no te callas’ (Why do you not shut up?). Someone must tell Al Gore the same or invite him to visit this corner of the world. It is a never ending winter here in South America. | 1_not_happening | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/alexandre-aguiar/ | en | null | null | 6,356 |
Over the past year and a half, we have been fighting President Obama’s administration’s attempts to destroy our coal industry and way of life in West Virginia. We are asking the court to reverse EPA’s actions before West Virginia’s economy and our mining community face further hardship. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/joe-manchin/ | en | null | null | 6,357 |
This CO2 reduction, which results from the free-market shale energy revolution that has displaced high-emission coal with low-emission natural gas, too often goes unmentioned in energy policy debates. It suggests that incessant, alarmist claims about ‘a climate crisis’ — at least in this country — are overwrought. | 6_proponents_biased | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/the-steamboat-institute/ | en | null | null | 6,358 |
Judaism cannot make peace with homosexuality because homosexuality denies many of Judaism’s most fundamental principles. It denies life, it denies God’s expressed desire that men and women cohabit, and it denies the root structure that Judaism wishes for all mankind, the family. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/dennis-prager/ | en | null | null | 6,359 |
I want to say to you at the Heartland Institute,” Pruitt said. “Thanks for what you’re doing to advance energy, thank you for what you’re doing to advance natural resources. We’ve been blessed immensely as a country. To whom much is given, much is required. And when you have tremendous natural resources from coal, to natural gas, to oil, to generate electricity in a very cost-effective way, we should celebrate that and be good stewards. And that’s something we ought to embrace. | 7_fossil_fuels_needed | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/heartland-institute/ | en | null | null | 6,360 |
When a climate scientist calls me a denier, or a columnist from the New York Times or the Washington Post calls me a racist, I can wear the terms with pride. Not because I am a denier or a racist, but because I know that for those individuals, calling me a name is a sign of how desperate they are. | 6_proponents_biased | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/robert-bob-c-shoup/ | en | null | null | 6,361 |
Some environmentalists call for a ‘save-the-day’ strategy to ‘stop global warming,’ saying it is better to be safe than sorry. Such a position seems logical until we stop to think: Immediate action wouldn’t make us any safer, but it would surely make us poorer. And being poorer would make us less safe. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/heartland-institute/ | en | null | null | 6,362 |
I think the likelihood that [the EPA rules] will ever go into effect is pretty low, | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/jeffrey-r-holmstead/ | en | null | null | 6,363 |
Global warming is a greater threat to the American people than global terrorism, you say? Fine, then stop obstructing the hydraulic fracturing (fracking) process that is responsible for approximately half of our natural gas production. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/james-taylor/ | en | null | null | 6,364 |
Even in Germany, increased reliance on wind and solar has resulted in energy chaos. Berlin is facing energy shortages as both wind and solar have failed during the ongoing winter, and coal plants are running at full capacity to meet the demand. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/vijay-jayaraj/ | en | null | null | 6,365 |
President Trump was right when he said in his speech announcing the decision to leave the Paris climate agreement he represents the people of Pittsburgh, not Paris. It’s refreshing to have a president who puts American interests first and refuses to partake in symbolic gestures that would hamper the economy in exchange for nothing more than trivial reductions in future global temperature, | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/isaac-orr/ | en | null | null | 6,366 |
I’m pleased to be joining GWPF because it’s consistently injected a note of realism into the climate debate. All of us want to save the only planet we have but this should not be by means which impoverish poorer people in richer countries and hold poorer countries back. Right now, in countries like Australia, the impact of climate policy is to make electricity less affordable and less reliable rather than perceptibly to cool the planet. We need more genuine science and less groupthink in this debate – that’s where the GWPF has been a commendably consistent if lonely voice. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/tony-abbott/ | en | null | null | 6,367 |
We find no evidence in the geological record and in the historical record that changes in CO2 concentrations are affecting temperature or climate, | 2_not_human | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/ian-clark/ | en | null | null | 6,368 |
As immeasurably tragic as every single murder is, the numbers in question are orders of magnitude smaller than any genocide ever documented. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/manning-foundation-for-democratic-education/ | en | null | null | 6,369 |
Some politicians might trick themselves into believing that enforcing privations on the British people will win them points abroad and enhance our global green credentials. But not only is this unlikely to convince anyone, considerable progress can be made on environmental goals without any punishing bans or new taxes. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/taxpayers-alliance/ | en | null | null | 6,370 |
We’ve always wanted to get the science on trial […] we would like to figure out a way to get this into a court of law […] this could work. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/myron-ebell/ | en | null | null | 6,371 |
That global warming can be somehow ‘irreversible’ is pure propaganda; the climate has always been changing and it always will. […] A temperature rise of more than two degrees is not inherently dangerous either, | 3_not_bad | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/harry-wilkinson/ | en | null | null | 6,372 |
The church — which ought to be in our view far more central to the life of the community — has been displaced by the public school as the center for activity, the center for what goes on in the community, | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/betsy-devos/ | en | null | null | 6,373 |
Public policy decisions with potential major changes to energy use in the USA to affect climate change, should have more engineering input … The Physics, chemical, biological and heat transfer processes involved in Climate Change modeling and analysis are similar to large, complex systems familiar to Aerospace Engineers. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/harold-doiron/ | en | null | null | 6,374 |
One of his [Bannon’s] pet peeves is the great climate-change con. It’s partly why he recruited a notorious skeptic like myself. | 6_proponents_biased | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/steve-bannon/ | en | null | null | 6,375 |
The climate changes. Humans may well be contributing to that change. The claims that we are hurtling towards the end of civilization/the human race/earth are all patently ridiculous. | 3_not_bad | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/julia-hartley-brewer/ | en | null | null | 6,376 |
This is certainly going to present an unprecedented ethical dilemma if Trump wins,” said Kenneth Gross, a partner at Skadden Arps Slate Meagher Flom, who provided legal assistance to several presidential candidates during their campaigns. “He can’t just get amnesia. He’s stuck with the knowledge of what he owns. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/donald-trump/ | en | null | null | 6,377 |
The climate record shows that the global warming of 1°F observed over the last 100 years is not unusual. Global temperature changes of this magnitude have occurred frequently in the past and are a result of natural factors in climate change ut is it possible that the particular temperature increase observed in the last 100 years is the result of carbon dioxide produced by human activities? The scientific evidence clearly indicates that this is not the case ll climate studies agree that if the one-degree global warming was produced by an increase in carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, the additional CO2 first warms the atmosphere, and the warmed atmosphere, in turn, warms the earth’s surface. However, measurements of atmospheric temperatures made by instruments lofted in satellites and balloons show that no warming has occurred in the atmosphere in the last 50 years. This is just the period in which human made carbon dioxide has been pouring into the atmosphere and according to the climate studies, the resultant atmospheric warming should be clearly evident he absence of atmospheric warming proves that the warming of the earth’s surface observed in the last 100 years cannot be due to an increase in carbon dioxide in the atmosphere caused by human activities. The recent global warming must be the result of natural factors in climate change. | 2_not_human | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/martin-armstrong/ | en | null | null | 6,378 |
If you choose to make regulations about carbon dioxide, that’s . You as a state can do that; you have a right to do it. But it’s not going to do anything about the climate. And it’s going to cost, there’s no doubt about that. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/john-christy/ | en | null | null | 6,379 |
They’ve got more to do with a greedy Government that is trying to fill a black hole in its finances. | 6_proponents_biased | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/philip-davies/ | en | null | null | 6,380 |
Well, number one is we have to fix our forests up. You know, some people say this is climate change or something else, but the key thing is probably not climate change. It’s that we have these forests that we’ve suppressed fires for one-hundred years and they are totally messed up. They are completely overgrown—dense growth that is completely unnatural. | 2_not_human | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/clifford-mass/ | en | null | null | 6,381 |
United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)-sponsored and funded ‘human health effects science’ research is unreliable and makes irresponsible and outrageous claims about how air pollution causes thousands of deaths. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/john-dale-dunn/ | en | null | null | 6,382 |
The also turns out to have an agenda that’s less about climate change than income inequality and redistribution. | 6_proponents_biased | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/bret-stephens/ | en | null | null | 6,383 |
Advances in hydraulic fracturing have significantly increased volumes of cleaner-burning domestic natural gas, helping bring down U.S. carbon dioxide emissions to levels not seen since the 1990s. In fact, thanks to the shale revolution, the U.S. is now leading the world in reducing emissions – a fact rarely conveyed in the public discourse of our policy decisions. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/rex-tillerson/ | en | null | null | 6,384 |
We have two components: Sense About Science USA, who’s [sic] goal is to promote scientific evidence and transparency in society and to equip the public, journalists, and policy makers with the tools and information to make sense of science. The second is STATS.org, a website and educational project to analyze and explain numbers and statistics in the news and to promote statistical literacy in the media and society. STATS.org is a joint project of the American Statistical Association and Sense About Science USA. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/statistical-assessment-service/ | en | null | null | 6,385 |
Mann could be said to be the Jerry Sandusky of climate science, except for instead of molesting children, he has molested and tortured data in the service of politicized science that could have dire economic consequences for the nation and planet,” Rand Simberg wrote in National Review article in 2012. | 6_proponents_biased | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/judith-curry/ | en | null | null | 6,386 |
Despite his hypocrisy and poor record of environmental fortunetelling, Gore continues to push for a carbon tax, a sinister scheme that would cost tens of thousands of American jobs and squeeze the poorest Americans most as a result of price hikes to most every good and service imaginable. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/drew-johnson/ | en | null | null | 6,387 |
We conclude that where the effect at issue is climate change in the form of increased temperatures, a proposed action that will involve the emission of GHG [greenhouse gas] cannot pass the ‘may affect’ test and is not subject to consultation under ESA and its implementing regulations, | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/david-bernhardt/ | en | null | null | 6,389 |
Burning all the economically available fossil fuel is unlikely to increase the current atmospheric levels by even a factor of 2. This is much less than the levels that the Earth has already tested. And a doubled level of would get us away from the near-famine levels for plants that have prevailed for the past tens of millions of years. | 3_not_bad | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/william-happer/ | en | null | null | 6,390 |
Canadians are done with COVID and want a return to normal rather than governments looking to restructure the economy right now,” said SecondStreet.org President Colin Craig in the press release. “These results are similar to our recent findings that showed strong opposition to the federal government’s ambitious plan to keep raising the carbon tax. However, that doesn’t mean there isn’t appetite to fight climate change. The data suggests people are looking for other options. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/secondstreet-org/ | en | null | null | 6,391 |
Forbes has long been a breeding ground for industry messaging and corporate propaganda. Back in 1997, Forbes ran a takedown of EPA Administrator Carol Browner, warning the public that she was ignoring science to gain control over American lives. ‘Watch out for this woman,’ read the scary headline splashed across the cover of Forbes magazine, ‘The EPA’s Carol Browner is exploiting health and the environment to build a power base’,” Thacker noted The story’s co-author was Bonner R. Cohen, who also operated EPA Watch, a newsletter that Philip Morris described as an “asset” that they established to attack the EPA on second hand smoke. After EPA Watch disappeared, Cohen then joined various climate denial groups, including the Heartland Institute. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/bonner-cohen/ | en | null | null | 6,392 |
We believe the futures of our firm, our people and our planet are inextricably connected. We are committed to operating responsibly as we create long-term, sustainable growth for Teneo and our stakeholders. We are also deeply committed to helping our clients develop and execute their own sustainability efforts. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/teneo/ | en | null | null | 6,393 |
One of the central building blocks of the ’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/american-energy-alliance-aea/ | en | null | null | 6,395 |
CFC’s were never a problem. […] it’s only because the sun is changing. | 2_not_human | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/tim-ball/ | en | null | null | 6,397 |
And that sword has two purposes: to carve out a niche for your agenda, to reshape the American law in your image; and, kill the bastards. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/ron-arnold/ | en | null | null | 6,398 |
Hi. Today I’ve come to Kensington, Minnesota, on the first day of spring with an important message about global warming. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/mike-rowe/ | en | null | null | 6,399 |
I am here today to testify that the climate of the 20th century is neither unusual nor the most extreme. Around 1,000 years ago, the temperature over many parts of the world was warm. A widespread cooling then set in for several centuries, followed by a recovery to 20th century warming. | 2_not_human | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/willie-soon/ | en | null | null | 6,400 |
People have made a mistake. They’ve started to believe that humans are causing climate variation, whereas the climate variation clearly is natural in cause. | 2_not_human | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/oregon-institute-science-and-medicine/ | en | null | null | 6,401 |
My understanding is there’s not a clear 100 percent conclusion drawn, | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/rex-tillerson/ | en | null | null | 6,402 |
Climate and energy policy has fallen into the hands of a worldwide movement that openly declares its extremism. The would-be moderates on this issue have pretended for 20 years they could keep the status quo without having to fight for it. Those days are over. | 6_proponents_biased | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/ross-mckitrick/ | en | null | null | 6,404 |
In short, the US climate is in most ways less extreme than it used to be. Temperatures are less extreme at both ends of the scale, storms less severe and droughts far less damaging. While it is now slightly warmer, this appears to have been largely beneficial. | 3_not_bad | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/paul-homewood/ | en | null | null | 6,405 |
What I’ve said is that we need a Manhattan Project or an Apollo Program with regard to the energy problem, | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/vincent-devito/ | en | null | null | 6,406 |
What are the good and bad impacts of any global warming? | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/car26/ | en | null | null | 6,407 |
We’re very tuned in to our footprint and what’s happening. It’s a wonderful thing that’s occurred here. We have two-hundred year supply now of clean, abundant natural gas. | 7_fossil_fuels_needed | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/harold-hamm/ | en | null | null | 6,408 |
There certainly are studies showing that low-lying Bangladesh will be threatened by sea level rises by the end of the century. But similarly, the UN also assumes that by then Bangladesh will be richer than the Netherlands is now, and able to afford flood defences. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/bjorn-lomborg/ | en | null | null | 6,409 |
I am not a big proponent of the climate change data because I have seen data on the other side. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/mike-johnson/ | en | null | null | 6,412 |
For too long, the public, media, and government have been misled into believing that climate change is causing increased extreme weather. At their massive Fall Meeting now taking place in San Francisco, the AGU should start a public education campaign aimed at revealing what science really says about this topic,” Harris said r. Madhav Khandekar stated, “Our Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change report states that there is no convincing evidence supporting a relationship between warming over the past 100 years and increases in extreme events. When the earth was cooling between 1945 and 1977, there were as many extreme weather events as there are now. The link between global warming and extreme weather is more perception than reality. Earth’s climate is robust and there is no evidence that it is being destabilized by human-added carbon dioxide [CO2]. rofessor Bob Carter, ICSC Chief Science Advisor said, “Although today’s climate and extreme weather are well within the bounds of natural variability and the intensity and magnitude of extreme events is not increasing, there is, most definitely, a climate problem. Natural climate change brings with it very real human and environmental costs. Therefore, we must carefully prepare for and adapt to climate hazards as and when they happen. Spending billions of dollars on expensive and ineffectual CO2 controls in a futile attempt to stop natural climate change impoverishes societies and reduces our capacity to address these and other real world problems. | 1_not_happening | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/international-climate-science-coalition/ | en | null | null | 6,413 |
We are about to incur a host of taxes, levies and incentives, all driven by T-shirt slogans, which are, in turn, driven by junk science and junk economics. Any technologies we develop will address the needs of only those markets suffering similar distortions. We are unlikely to develop anything of use to Europe’s nuclear sector or their waste-to-energy plants. We have already rejected both responses to the [Kyoto] protocol. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/owen-mcshane/ | en | null | null | 6,414 |
Any discussion of climate change must keep in mind that the Earth’s climate is an extremely complex system. Even though significant advances in data collection and analysis have occurred over the past 30 years, much uncertainty remains. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/institute-energy-research/ | en | null | null | 6,415 |
It started July 9, when ‘FOX & Friends’ asked me if I’d come on the show the morning of July 10 to explain what ‘green jobs’ are. It meant an early morning the next day, but I was glad to do it, because exposing the green jobs scam is critical to fight cap-and-trade, my top legislative priority for the year. The producer asked me if I knew anything about green jobs ‘czar’ Van Jones. I didn’t but said I would find out. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/phil-kerpen/ | en | null | null | 6,417 |
The salvation of souls is of more pressing concern than the air temperature. Pray to God and pray for your neighbor, not to the planet. | 6_proponents_biased | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/william-briggs/ | en | null | null | 6,418 |
Through our experience managing aboveground risks in the United States and around the world, we have learned that no matter what challenge a company, coalition or organization is facing – whether it is opposition to hydraulic fracking, widespread deception about oil sands and pipelines, or lack of awareness on LNG exports – all risks can be managed and eventually neutralized if addressed early on and with the right set of tools and tactics,” the paper, which FTI presented at a 2014 Oil & Gas Expo and Conference, concludes. | 6_proponents_biased | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/transportation-fairness-alliance/ | en | null | null | 6,419 |
Actually, by some calculations, smokers provide a net benefit in public finance: They pay hefty excise taxes, and, since they die earlier, their Social Security and Medicare Payouts are lower. (Even if smokers didn’t die of lung cancer, they would still die.) | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/james-k-glassman/ | en | null | null | 6,420 |
Too much is at stake to let the ‘Climate’ fraud die: the funding, career and reputation of scientists, bureaucrats, NGOs, journalists & science journals; the vast profits of the tax-eating ‘renewables’ industry. And of course the only justification for environmentalist leftism, | 6_proponents_biased | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/martin-durkin/ | en | null | null | 6,421 |
The tweet was not merely an impulsive, decontextualized, heat-of-the-moment post, as Kevin had explained it. Furthermore, the language used in the podcast was callous and violent. This runs contrary to The Atlantic’s tradition of respectful, well-reasoned debate, and to the values of our workplace. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/kevin-d-williamson/ | en | null | null | 6,422 |
Is [the use of fossil fuels and other pollution-producing agents] enough to ruin the planet by altering the climate system, a system that has undergone major changes throughout the ages? | 2_not_human | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/global-warming-policy-foundation/ | en | null | null | 6,423 |
With the carbon tax to be terminated, attention therefore needs to be turned to repealing the renewable requirements. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/alan-moran/ | en | null | null | 6,424 |
So far, the benefits of global greening have been greater than expected, while the costs of global warming have been smaller than expected and the price of reducing carbon dioxide emissions has been higher than expected. That price is falling more heavily on poor than on rich people. The evidence suggests that this imbalance will persist for most of this century, perhaps longer. It is time for a rethink, | 3_not_bad | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/matt-ridley/ | en | null | null | 6,426 |
The latest available corporate records filed with the Internal Revenue Service () confirm that, in 2018, paid $510,000 to Emergent Order for ‘marketing consulting services’. This included production of a viral YouTube video, ‘The March of History: Mises vs Marx – The Definitive Capitalism vs. Socialism Rap Battle’, which began production in May 2019 and was released in December. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/american-institute-economic-research/ | en | null | null | 6,427 |
What do you think? I’d say [I’ve been] a small-government guy for an awful long time, and I’ll be a small-government guy when the good Lord calls me home. Koch Industries is an amazing business that has succeeded by building a product that customers love dearly. The folks who run Koch are very clear. They would love to have government just get out of the way and allow companies to compete, whether in their particular sectors or other sectors. They are true believers in small government. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/mike-pompeo/ | en | null | null | 6,429 |
Against the half-trillion in benefits you can weigh the global warming impact – or non-impact. Model runs based on mainstream, consensus climate models show the Trump proposal would impact the global climate by 3/1000th of one degree Celsius by 2100. You can round that to zero,” Kerpen wrote e concluded: “President Trump is absolutely right to stand up to the shrieks of protest from the environmental groups and the media and to let Americans buy the cars and trucks we want. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/american-commitment/ | en | null | null | 6,430 |
There is that sense of the Senate that climate change is real and not a hoax. Now, we can throw that out as sort of meaningless. | 6_proponents_biased | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/kevin-cramer/ | en | null | null | 6,431 |
This is the biggest scientific hoax being perpetrated on humanity. There is no global warming due to human anthropogenic activities. The atmosphere hasn’t changed much in 280 million years, and there have always been cycles of warming and cooling. The Cretaceous period was the warmest on earth. You could have grown tomatoes at the North Pole. | 2_not_human | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/tad-murty/ | en | null | null | 6,432 |
A world with no tobacco might sound appealing to nanny state bureaucrats at the WHO, but it sounds like hell to millions of thriving farmers like Davison Tolopo and his family, | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/drew-johnson/ | en | null | null | 6,433 |
The relationship between CO2 and temperature is logarithmic in nature – that is, as CO2 increases in the atmosphere, it absorbs less and less additional energy to produce correspondingly less and less additional warming. At some point, adding more CO2 to the atmosphere doesn’t significantly change atmospheric temperature. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/junkscience-com/ | en | null | null | 6,435 |
Whatever is happening to the weather at the moment, he said, it is nothing to do with the conventional doctrine of climate change. | 1_not_happening | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/boris-johnson/ | en | null | null | 6,436 |