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1850
Australian households will benefit to the tune of $550 a year if the carbon tax is axed.
2NOT_ENOUGH_INFO
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1851
Barack Obama and Joe Biden will establish a 10 percent federal Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS) to require that 10 percent of electricity consumed in the U.S. is derived from clean, sustainable energy sources, like solar, wind and geothermal by 2012.
0SUPPORTS
[ { "evidence_id": "Democratic Party (United States):307", "evidence_label": 0, "article": "Democratic Party (United States)", "evidence": "Democrats have supported increased domestic renewable energy development, including wind and solar power farms, in an effort to reduce carbon pollution.", "entropy": 0, "votes": [ "SUPPORTS", "SUPPORTS", null, null, null ] }, { "evidence_id": "Energy policy of the United States:255", "evidence_label": 0, "article": "Energy policy of the United States", "evidence": "A Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS) is a mandate that requires electricity providers to supply to their customers a minimum amount of power from renewable sources, usually as a percentage of total energy use.", "entropy": 0, "votes": [ "SUPPORTS", "SUPPORTS", null, null, null ] }, { "evidence_id": "Energy policy of the United States:78", "evidence_label": 0, "article": "Energy policy of the United States", "evidence": "Other plans include making society carbon neutral and using renewable energy, including solar, wind, and methane sources.", "entropy": 0, "votes": [ "SUPPORTS", "SUPPORTS", null, null, null ] }, { "evidence_id": "Presidential transition of Barack Obama:177", "evidence_label": 0, "article": "Presidential transition of Barack Obama", "evidence": "By 2012, 10% of U.S. electricity shall come from renewable sources and 25% by 2025.", "entropy": 0, "votes": [ "SUPPORTS", "SUPPORTS", null, null, null ] }, { "evidence_id": "Wind power:1", "evidence_label": 2, "article": "Wind power", "evidence": "Wind power is a sustainable and renewable energy, and has a much smaller impact on the environment compared to burning fossil fuels.", "entropy": 0.6931471824645996, "votes": [ "SUPPORTS", "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", null, null, null ] } ]
1853
Barack Obama supports proposals "to devote billions of dollars annually to state game and fish agencies and federal land management agencies to help them ensure that fish and wildlife survive the impacts of climate change."
0SUPPORTS
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1854
Barack Obama told the U.S. Coast Guard Academy "that the number one threat to the military and the world today is global warming."
2NOT_ENOUGH_INFO
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1855
Barack Obama will help the Gulf Coast restore the wetlands, marshes and barrier islands that are critical to tamping down the force of hurricanes.
2NOT_ENOUGH_INFO
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1857
As president, Obama will immediately close the Mississippi River Gulf Outlet, which experts say funneled floodwater into New Orleans.
2NOT_ENOUGH_INFO
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1859
Big rooftop solar's plan forces Nevada families who don't have solar panels to pay higher power bills to subsidize rooftop solar.
2NOT_ENOUGH_INFO
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1860
Bill Nye proposed penalizing families with too many children to reduce population growth and slow climate change.
2NOT_ENOUGH_INFO
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1861
California legislators have made it illegal for anyone to deny climate change, under threat of jail time.
0SUPPORTS
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1862
Carbon dioxide is not "a primary contributor to the global warming that we see."
3DISPUTED
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1865
Climate scientist James Hansen: "we have until perhaps 50 years from now," or maybe a little longer "and at that point, we are looking at 10, 20, 30 feet of sea-level rise."
3DISPUTED
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1866
Climate scientists have predicted global temperatures would increase more than one degree Celsius by 2020," but observed temperatures have been only half as high.
2NOT_ENOUGH_INFO
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1867
Connie Mack "is protecting Chevron oil from a multi-billion dollar lawsuit over pollution of rivers and rainforests."
0SUPPORTS
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1868
Currently, Florida is one of only five states in the nation that prohibit citizens from buying electricity from companies that will put solar panels on your home or business.
1REFUTES
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1869
Despite attention on global warming, "fewer Americans carpool today to work than carpooled in 1980" and "SUVs have never been a larger proportion of the vehicles being sold in this country."
0SUPPORTS
[ { "evidence_id": "Sport utility vehicle:118", "evidence_label": 0, "article": "Sport utility vehicle", "evidence": "By 2003 there were 76 million SUVs and light trucks on U.S. roads, representing approximately 35% of the vehicles on the road.", "entropy": 0, "votes": [ "SUPPORTS", "SUPPORTS", null, null, null ] }, { "evidence_id": "Sport utility vehicle:125", "evidence_label": 2, "article": "Sport utility vehicle", "evidence": "In 2019, the International Energy Agency (IEA) reported that the global number of SUVs and crossovers on the road multiplied by six since 2010 — from 35 million to 200 million vehicles, and their market share has grown to 40 percent of worldwide new light vehicle sales at the end of the decade.", "entropy": 0.6931471824645996, "votes": [ "SUPPORTS", "REFUTES", null, null, null ] }, { "evidence_id": "Sport utility vehicle:129", "evidence_label": 2, "article": "Sport utility vehicle", "evidence": "In 2015, global sales of SUVs overtook the \"lower medium car\" segment, to become the largest market segment, accounting for 22.9% of \"light vehicle\" sales in 2015.", "entropy": 0.6931471824645996, "votes": [ "SUPPORTS", "REFUTES", null, null, null ] }, { "evidence_id": "Sport utility vehicle:132", "evidence_label": 0, "article": "Sport utility vehicle", "evidence": "The SUV segment further grew to 26% of the global passenger car market in 2016, then to 36.8% of the market in Q1–Q3 of 2017.", "entropy": 0, "votes": [ "SUPPORTS", "SUPPORTS", null, null, null ] }, { "evidence_id": "Sport utility vehicle:524", "evidence_label": 2, "article": "Sport utility vehicle", "evidence": "\"SUVs Become the Largest and Fastest-Growing Automotive Segment in 2015\".", "entropy": 0.6931471824645996, "votes": [ "SUPPORTS", "REFUTES", null, null, null ] } ]
1871
Donald Trump "thinks that climate change is a hoax, invented by the Chinese."
0SUPPORTS
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1872
Donald Trump claims Global Warming is a hoax
0SUPPORTS
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1874
Donald Trump signed an executive order naming climate change as a threat "both to the economy and national security."
2NOT_ENOUGH_INFO
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1875
Doubling the concentration of atmospheric CO2 from its pre-industrial level, in the absence of other forcings and feedbacks, would likely cause a warming of ~0.3°C to 1.1°C
3DISPUTED
[ { "evidence_id": "Carbon dioxide in Earth's atmosphere:13", "evidence_label": 0, "article": "Carbon dioxide in Earth's atmosphere", "evidence": "Following the start of the Industrial Revolution, atmospheric CO 2 concentration increased to over 400 parts per million and continues to increase, causing the phenomenon of global warming.", "entropy": 0, "votes": [ "SUPPORTS", "SUPPORTS", null, null, null ] }, { "evidence_id": "Climate change feedback:16", "evidence_label": 0, "article": "Climate change feedback", "evidence": "The higher CO2 levels led to an additional climate warming ranging between 0.1° and 1.5 °C.", "entropy": 0, "votes": [ "SUPPORTS", "SUPPORTS", null, null, null ] }, { "evidence_id": "Climate sensitivity:13", "evidence_label": 2, "article": "Climate sensitivity", "evidence": "Without feedbacks the radiative forcing of approximately 3.7 W/m2, due to doubling CO 2 from the pre-industrial 280 ppm, would eventually result in roughly 1 °C global warming.", "entropy": 0.6931471824645996, "votes": [ "REFUTES", "SUPPORTS", null, null, null ] }, { "evidence_id": "Climate sensitivity:87", "evidence_label": 1, "article": "Climate sensitivity", "evidence": "The global temperature increase since the beginning of the industrial period (taken as 1750) is about 0.8 °C (1.4 °F), and the radiative forcing due to CO 2 and other long-lived greenhouse gases – mainly methane, nitrous oxide, and chlorofluorocarbons – emitted since that time is about 2.6 W/m2.", "entropy": 0, "votes": [ "REFUTES", "REFUTES", null, null, null ] }, { "evidence_id": "Global warming:58", "evidence_label": 0, "article": "Global warming", "evidence": "Increased concentrations of gases such as CO 2 (~20%), ozone and N 2O are external forcing on the other hand.", "entropy": 0, "votes": [ "SUPPORTS", "SUPPORTS", null, null, null ] } ]
1876
During "the recent global warming summit in Copenhagen, Nancy Pelosi and others stayed at a five-star hotel on a trip costing nearly $10,000 per person."
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1877
During a state House debate on a jobs and energy bill this week, Democrats offered an amendment that would put the Legislature on record saying that climate change is real and that humans are causing it.
3DISPUTED
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1878
During the 2013 election campaign the Coalition said its first legislative priority in government would be to scrap the carbon tax.
0SUPPORTS
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1880
Electricity rates are 40 percent higher in states that have required utility companies to use a certain amount of renewable energy such as solar power.
0SUPPORTS
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1882
Every four minutes, another American home or business goes solar.
0SUPPORTS
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1887
Florida ranks "45th out of 50 states'' for its regulatory climate for business.
2NOT_ENOUGH_INFO
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1890
Germany managed to increase its use of renewables and its output of carbon dioxide at the same time -- because it resorted to cheap coal to keep the lights on at a price its people could afford.
0SUPPORTS
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1893
Global warming leads to much quicker spread of the Zika virus because the increased temperature, "makes mosquitoes mature faster, . . .
0SUPPORTS
[ { "evidence_id": "Effects of global warming on human health:14", "evidence_label": 0, "article": "Effects of global warming on human health", "evidence": "Flooding creates more standing water for mosquitoes to breed; as well, shown that these vectors are able to feed more and grow faster in warmer climates.", "entropy": 0.6365141868591309, "votes": [ "SUPPORTS", "REFUTES", "SUPPORTS", null, null ] }, { "evidence_id": "Effects of global warming on human health:470", "evidence_label": 0, "article": "Effects of global warming on human health", "evidence": "When temperature rises, the larvae take a shorter time to mature and, consequently, there is a greater capacity to produce more offspring.", "entropy": 0.6365141868591309, "votes": [ "SUPPORTS", "REFUTES", "SUPPORTS", null, null ] }, { "evidence_id": "Effects of global warming on human health:86", "evidence_label": 0, "article": "Effects of global warming on human health", "evidence": "The hotter and wetter a climate is, the faster the mosquitoes can mature and the faster the disease can develop.", "entropy": 0.6365141868591309, "votes": [ "SUPPORTS", "REFUTES", "SUPPORTS", null, null ] }, { "evidence_id": "Zika fever:7", "evidence_label": 2, "article": "Zika fever", "evidence": "Zika fever is mainly spread via the bite of mosquitoes of the Aedes type.", "entropy": 0.6365141868591309, "votes": [ "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", "SUPPORTS", "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", null, null ] }, { "evidence_id": "Zika virus:59", "evidence_label": 0, "article": "Zika virus", "evidence": "However, rising global temperatures would allow for the disease vector to expand their range further north, allowing Zika to follow.", "entropy": 0, "votes": [ "SUPPORTS", "SUPPORTS", "SUPPORTS", null, null ] } ]
1895
Gov. Palin ... is somebody who actually doesn't believe that climate change is man-made.
3DISPUTED
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1896
Greg Hunt CSIRO research shows carbon emissions can be reduced by 20 per cent over 40 years using nature, soils and trees.
2NOT_ENOUGH_INFO
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1898
If every house in Florida had a solar-heated water tank, that would eliminate consumption by 17 percent.
2NOT_ENOUGH_INFO
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1901
If sea levels rise six feet due to climate change, Waterplace Park in Providence and Wickford village would be swamped
3DISPUTED
[ { "evidence_id": "Climate change adaptation:21", "evidence_label": 2, "article": "Climate change adaptation", "evidence": "Potential effects include sea level rise of 110 to 770 mm (0.36 to 2.5 feet) between 1990 and 2100, repercussions to agriculture, possible slowing of the thermohaline circulation, reductions in the ozone layer, increased intensity and frequency of extreme weather events, lowering of ocean pH, and the spread of tropical diseases such as malaria and dengue fever.", "entropy": 0.6931471824645996, "votes": [ "REFUTES", "SUPPORTS", null, null, null ] }, { "evidence_id": "Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change:237", "evidence_label": 1, "article": "Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change", "evidence": "Among other findings, the report concluded that sea level rises could be up to two feet higher by the year 2100, even if efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and to limit global warming are successful; coastal cities across the world could see so-called \"storm[s] of the century\" at least once a year.", "entropy": 0, "votes": [ "REFUTES", "REFUTES", null, null, null ] }, { "evidence_id": "Physical impacts of climate change:240", "evidence_label": 0, "article": "Physical impacts of climate change", "evidence": "Instead of a global 5-meter sea level rise, western Antarctica would experience approximately 25 centimeters of sea level fall, while the United States, parts of Canada, and the Indian Ocean, would experience up to 6.5 meters of sea level rise.", "entropy": 0, "votes": [ "SUPPORTS", "SUPPORTS", null, null, null ] }, { "evidence_id": "Providence, Rhode Island:169", "evidence_label": 2, "article": "Providence, Rhode Island", "evidence": "Providence is home to a 1,200-acre (4.9 km2) park system, notably Waterplace Park and Riverwalk, Roger Williams Park, Roger Williams National Memorial, and Prospect Terrace Park.", "entropy": 0, "votes": [ "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", null, null, null ] }, { "evidence_id": "Waterplace Park:0", "evidence_label": 2, "article": "Waterplace Park", "evidence": "Waterplace Park is an urban park situated along the Woonasquatucket River in downtown Providence, Rhode Island.", "entropy": 0, "votes": [ "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", null, null, null ] } ]
1904
If we got solar energy from "an area of the Southwestern desert 100 miles on a side, that would be enough, in and of itself, to provide 100 percent of all the electricity needs for the United States of America in a full year."
2NOT_ENOUGH_INFO
[ { "evidence_id": "Solar energy:129", "evidence_label": 2, "article": "Solar energy", "evidence": "The 392 MW Ivanpah Solar Power Facility, in the Mojave Desert of California, is the largest solar power plant in the world.", "entropy": 0.5623351335525513, "votes": [ "SUPPORTS", "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", null, "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO" ] }, { "evidence_id": "Solar energy:22", "evidence_label": 2, "article": "Solar energy", "evidence": "In 2002, this was more energy in one hour than the world used in one year.", "entropy": 0, "votes": [ "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", null, "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO" ] }, { "evidence_id": "Solar energy:48", "evidence_label": 2, "article": "Solar energy", "evidence": "His plant used parabolic troughs to power a 45–52 kilowatts (60–70 hp) engine that pumped more than 22,000 litres (4,800 imp gal; 5,800 US gal) of water per minute from the Nile River to adjacent cotton fields.", "entropy": 0, "votes": [ "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", null, "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO" ] }, { "evidence_id": "United States:668", "evidence_label": 2, "article": "United States", "evidence": "The United States energy market is about 29,000 terawatt hours per year.", "entropy": 0, "votes": [ "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", null, "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO" ] }, { "evidence_id": "United States:671", "evidence_label": 2, "article": "United States", "evidence": "The remainder was supplied by nuclear power and renewable energy sources.", "entropy": 0, "votes": [ "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", null, "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO" ] } ]
1908
In reality, gas produced by fracking is worse for the climate than coal.
1REFUTES
[ { "evidence_id": "Coal:223", "evidence_label": 2, "article": "Coal", "evidence": "The largest and most long term effect of coal use is the release of carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas that causes climate change and global warming.", "entropy": 0, "votes": [ "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", null, null, null ] }, { "evidence_id": "Greenhouse gas:148", "evidence_label": 2, "article": "Greenhouse gas", "evidence": "Although much less polluting than coal plants, natural gas-fired power plants are also major emitters.", "entropy": 0, "votes": [ "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", null, null, null ] }, { "evidence_id": "Natural gas:175", "evidence_label": 2, "article": "Natural gas", "evidence": "Because burning natural gas produces both water and carbon dioxide, it produces less carbon dioxide per unit of energy released than coal, which produces mostly carbon dioxide.", "entropy": 0.6931471824645996, "votes": [ "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", "REFUTES", null, null, null ] }, { "evidence_id": "Shale gas:58", "evidence_label": 1, "article": "Shale gas", "evidence": "In this new report, the EPA concluded that shale gas emits larger amounts of methane, a potent greenhouse gas, than does conventional gas, but still far less than coal.", "entropy": 0, "votes": [ "REFUTES", "REFUTES", null, null, null ] }, { "evidence_id": "Shale gas:80", "evidence_label": 2, "article": "Shale gas", "evidence": "Shale gas worse than coal for three impacts and better than renewables for four.", "entropy": 0.6931471824645996, "votes": [ "SUPPORTS", "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", null, null, null ] } ]
1909
In South Florida, "we've had nine inches of sea-level rise since the 1920s."
1REFUTES
[ { "evidence_id": "Miami:62", "evidence_label": 1, "article": "Miami", "evidence": "The sea level rose quickly after that, stabilizing at the current level about 4,000 years ago, leaving the mainland of South Florida just above sea level.", "entropy": 0, "votes": [ "REFUTES", "REFUTES", null, null, null ] }, { "evidence_id": "Sea level rise:1", "evidence_label": 1, "article": "Sea level rise", "evidence": "Between 1900 and 2016, the sea level rose by 16–21 cm (6.3–8.3 in).", "entropy": 0, "votes": [ "REFUTES", "REFUTES", null, null, null ] }, { "evidence_id": "Sea level rise:388", "evidence_label": 2, "article": "Sea level rise", "evidence": "\"Sea-Level Rise from the Late 19th to the Early 21st Century\".", "entropy": 0.6931471824645996, "votes": [ "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", "REFUTES", null, null, null ] }, { "evidence_id": "Sea level rise:455", "evidence_label": 2, "article": "Sea level rise", "evidence": "27 November 2017.", "entropy": 0, "votes": [ "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", null, null, null ] }, { "evidence_id": "Sea level rise:614", "evidence_label": 2, "article": "Sea level rise", "evidence": "18 January 2019.", "entropy": 0, "votes": [ "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", null, null, null ] } ]
1910
It takes as much energy to make a solar panel as it likely generates in its entire life.
2NOT_ENOUGH_INFO
[ { "evidence_id": "Solar panel:0", "evidence_label": 2, "article": "Solar panel", "evidence": "Photovoltaic solar panels absorb sunlight as a source of energy to generate direct current electricity.", "entropy": 0.6931471824645996, "votes": [ "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", "SUPPORTS", null, null, null ] }, { "evidence_id": "Solar panel:167", "evidence_label": 2, "article": "Solar panel", "evidence": "Even though such installations might not produce the maximum possible total energy, their power output would likely be more consistent throughout the day and possibly larger during peak demand.", "entropy": 0.6931471824645996, "votes": [ "REFUTES", "SUPPORTS", null, null, null ] }, { "evidence_id": "Solar panel:4", "evidence_label": 2, "article": "Solar panel", "evidence": "Photovoltaic modules use light energy (photons) from the Sun to generate electricity through the photovoltaic effect.", "entropy": 0.6931471824645996, "votes": [ "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", "SUPPORTS", null, null, null ] }, { "evidence_id": "Spirit (rover):215", "evidence_label": 2, "article": "Spirit (rover)", "evidence": "Normally the solar arrays on the rovers are able to generate up to 700 watt-hours (2,500 kJ) of energy per Martian day.", "entropy": 0.6931471824645996, "votes": [ "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", "SUPPORTS", null, null, null ] }, { "evidence_id": "Spirit (rover):44", "evidence_label": 2, "article": "Spirit (rover)", "evidence": "Solar arrays generate about 140 watts for up to four hours per Martian day (sol) while rechargeable lithium ion batteries store energy for use at night.", "entropy": 0.6931471824645996, "votes": [ "REFUTES", "SUPPORTS", null, null, null ] } ]
1912
Julia Gillard her decision not to argue against a fixed carbon price being labelled a "carbon tax" hurt her terribly politically.
1REFUTES
[ { "evidence_id": "Emissions trading:280", "evidence_label": 2, "article": "Emissions trading", "evidence": "The fixed price lent itself to characterisation as a carbon tax and when the government proposed the Clean Energy Bill in February 2011, the opposition claimed it to be a broken election promise.", "entropy": 0.6931471824645996, "votes": [ "SUPPORTS", "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", null, null, null ] }, { "evidence_id": "Julia Gillard:128", "evidence_label": 2, "article": "Julia Gillard", "evidence": "Gillard initially ruled out a \"carbon tax\" but said that she would build community consensus for a price on carbon and open negotiations with the mining industry for a re-vamped mining profits tax.", "entropy": 0.6931471824645996, "votes": [ "SUPPORTS", "REFUTES", null, null, null ] }, { "evidence_id": "Julia Gillard:129", "evidence_label": 2, "article": "Julia Gillard", "evidence": "Following the 2010 hung parliament election result, the Labor Party elected to adopt the Australian Greens preference for a carbon tax to transition to an emissions trading scheme, establishing a carbon price via the Clean Energy Act 2011.", "entropy": 0.6931471824645996, "votes": [ "SUPPORTS", "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", null, null, null ] }, { "evidence_id": "Julia Gillard:194", "evidence_label": 1, "article": "Julia Gillard", "evidence": "During the 2010 election campaign, Gillard also said that no carbon tax would be introduced under a government she led.", "entropy": 0, "votes": [ "REFUTES", "REFUTES", null, null, null ] }, { "evidence_id": "Julia Gillard:84", "evidence_label": 2, "article": "Julia Gillard", "evidence": "Prime Minister Kevin Rudd suffered a decline in his personal ratings, and a perceived loss of support among his own MPs, following the failure of the Government's insulation program, controversy regarding the implementation of a tax on mining, the failure of the government to secure passage of its carbon trading scheme and some policy debate about immigration policy.", "entropy": 0.6931471824645996, "votes": [ "REFUTES", "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", null, null, null ] } ]
1917
May 2018 marked the 401st straight month of global temperatures exceeding the 20th century average.
2NOT_ENOUGH_INFO
[ { "evidence_id": "20th century:6", "evidence_label": 2, "article": "20th century", "evidence": "The average global temperature on Earth has increased by about 0.8° Celsius (1.4° Fahrenheit) since 1880; Two-thirds of the warming has occurred since 1975, at a rate of roughly 0.15-0.20 °C per decade.", "entropy": 0.6931471824645996, "votes": [ "SUPPORTS", "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", null, null, null ] }, { "evidence_id": "Cold wave:146", "evidence_label": 2, "article": "Cold wave", "evidence": "All the winter months that season saw temperatures well below average across the continent.", "entropy": 0, "votes": [ "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", null, null, null ] }, { "evidence_id": "Cold wave:234", "evidence_label": 2, "article": "Cold wave", "evidence": "1956 1956 European cold wave – February 1956 was the coldest month of the twentieth century over large areas of Western Europe, with mean temperatures below 0 °C (32 °F) as far south as Marseilles being utterly unprecedented in records dating back into the eighteenth century.", "entropy": 0, "votes": [ "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", null, null, null ] }, { "evidence_id": "Global warming:22", "evidence_label": 2, "article": "Global warming", "evidence": "Currently, surface temperatures are rising by about 0.2 °C per decade.", "entropy": 0, "votes": [ "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", null, null, null ] }, { "evidence_id": "Global warming:31", "evidence_label": 2, "article": "Global warming", "evidence": "Since the pre-industrial period, global average land temperatures have increased almost twice as fast as global average temperatures.", "entropy": 0, "votes": [ "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", null, null, null ] } ]
1919
Measurements indicating that 2017 had relatively more sea ice in the Arctic and less melting of glacial ice in Greenland casts scientific doubt on the reality of global warming.
1REFUTES
[ { "evidence_id": "Arctic:18", "evidence_label": 1, "article": "Arctic", "evidence": "The Arctic is affected by current global warming, leading to Arctic sea ice shrinkage, diminished ice in the Greenland ice sheet, and Arctic methane release as the permafrost thaws.", "entropy": 0, "votes": [ "REFUTES", "REFUTES", "REFUTES", null, null ] }, { "evidence_id": "Arctic:88", "evidence_label": 1, "article": "Arctic", "evidence": "The effects of global warming in the Arctic include rising temperatures, loss of sea ice, and melting of the Greenland ice sheet.", "entropy": 0.6365141868591309, "votes": [ "REFUTES", "SUPPORTS", "REFUTES", null, null ] }, { "evidence_id": "Climate change in the Arctic:0", "evidence_label": 1, "article": "Climate change in the Arctic", "evidence": "The effects of global warming in the Arctic, or climate change in the Arctic include rising air and water temperatures, loss of sea ice, and melting of the Greenland ice sheet with a related cold temperature anomaly, observed since the 1970s.", "entropy": 0.6365141868591309, "votes": [ "REFUTES", "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", "REFUTES", null, null ] }, { "evidence_id": "Global warming:11", "evidence_label": 1, "article": "Global warming", "evidence": "Surface temperature increases are greatest in the Arctic, which has contributed to the retreat of glaciers, permafrost, and sea ice.", "entropy": 0.6365141868591309, "votes": [ "REFUTES", "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", "REFUTES", null, null ] }, { "evidence_id": "Sea level rise:3", "evidence_label": 2, "article": "Sea level rise", "evidence": "This acceleration is due mostly to human-caused global warming, which is driving thermal expansion of seawater and the melting of land-based ice sheets and glaciers.", "entropy": 1.0986123085021973, "votes": [ "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", "SUPPORTS", "REFUTES", null, null ] } ]
1920
Melting of Arctic sea ice and polar icecaps is not occurring at unnatural rates and does not constitute evidence of a human impact on the climate.
2NOT_ENOUGH_INFO
[ { "evidence_id": "Arctic sea ice decline:12", "evidence_label": 2, "article": "Arctic sea ice decline", "evidence": "Arctic Sea ice maintains the cool temperature of the polar regions and it has an important albedo effect on the climate.", "entropy": 0, "votes": [ "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", null, null, null ] }, { "evidence_id": "Arctic:88", "evidence_label": 2, "article": "Arctic", "evidence": "The effects of global warming in the Arctic include rising temperatures, loss of sea ice, and melting of the Greenland ice sheet.", "entropy": 0, "votes": [ "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", null, null, null ] }, { "evidence_id": "Global warming:183", "evidence_label": 2, "article": "Global warming", "evidence": "The effects of climate change on human systems, mostly due to warming and shifts in precipitation, have been detected worldwide.", "entropy": 0, "votes": [ "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", null, null, null ] }, { "evidence_id": "Polar ice cap:31", "evidence_label": 2, "article": "Polar ice cap", "evidence": "The current rate of decline of the ice caps has caused many investigations and discoveries on glacier dynamics and their influence on the world's climate.", "entropy": 0, "votes": [ "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", null, null, null ] }, { "evidence_id": "Scientific consensus on climate change:576", "evidence_label": 2, "article": "Scientific consensus on climate change", "evidence": "The melting of the polar ice caps, combined with thermal expansion, will lead to rises in sea levels that may impact adversely on our coastal cities.", "entropy": 0, "votes": [ "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", null, null, null ] } ]
1921
Miami Congressman Carlos "Curbelo supports drilling offshore" and "repeatedly voted against President Obama's ability to fight pollution and combat climate change."
1REFUTES
[ { "evidence_id": "Carlos Curbelo:204", "evidence_label": 1, "article": "Carlos Curbelo", "evidence": "\"Carlos Curbelo wants to be a Republican leader on climate change—if he can keep his seat\".", "entropy": 0, "votes": [ "REFUTES", "REFUTES", null, null, null ] }, { "evidence_id": "Carlos Curbelo:213", "evidence_label": 1, "article": "Carlos Curbelo", "evidence": "\"Miami Republican opposes allowing Arctic oil drilling in tax bill\".", "entropy": 0, "votes": [ "REFUTES", "REFUTES", null, null, null ] }, { "evidence_id": "Carlos Curbelo:24", "evidence_label": 2, "article": "Carlos Curbelo", "evidence": "According to McClatchy, \"Curbelo has broken ranks with his party to take lonely stands on high-profile topics ranging from abortion and women’s health to climate change, the environment, immigration and government spending.\"", "entropy": 0, "votes": [ "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", null, null, null ] }, { "evidence_id": "Carlos Curbelo:36", "evidence_label": 2, "article": "Carlos Curbelo", "evidence": "According to Vote Smart's 2016 analysis, Curbelo generally supports pro-life legislation, opposes an income tax increase, opposes mandatory minimum sentences for non-violent drug offenders, supports lowering taxes as a means of promoting economic growth, opposes requiring states to adopt federal education standards, supports building the Keystone Pipeline, supports government funding for the development of renewable energy, supports the federal regulation of greenhouse gas emissions, supports repealing the Affordable Care Act, opposes requiring immigrants who are unlawfully present to return to their country of origin before they are eligible for citizenship, supports same-sex marriage, supports increased American intervention in Iraq and Syria beyond air support, and supports allowing individuals to divert a portion of their Social Security taxes into personal retirement accounts.", "entropy": 0.6931471824645996, "votes": [ "SUPPORTS", "REFUTES", null, null, null ] }, { "evidence_id": "Carlos Curbelo:39", "evidence_label": 1, "article": "Carlos Curbelo", "evidence": "The Miami Herald wrote that Curbelo has \"attempted to position himself as the national voice for Republicans who are concerned about climate change,\" describing him as \"one of the few GOP voices speaking out against Donald Trump's decision to withdraw from the Paris Climate Agreement and his desire to dismantle the Environmental Protection Agency.\"", "entropy": 0, "votes": [ "REFUTES", "REFUTES", null, null, null ] } ]
1922
More money is dedicated within the Department of Homeland Security to climate change than what's spent combating "Islamist terrorists radicalizing over the Internet in the United States of America."
2NOT_ENOUGH_INFO
[ { "evidence_id": "Homeland security:0", "evidence_label": 2, "article": "Homeland security", "evidence": "Homeland security is an American national security umbrella term for \"the national effort to ensure a homeland that is safe, secure, and resilient against terrorism and other hazards where American interests, aspirations, and ways of life can thrive to the national effort to prevent terrorist attacks within the United States, reduce the vulnerability of the U.S. to terrorism, and minimize the damage from attacks that do occur\".", "entropy": 0.6931471824645996, "votes": [ "SUPPORTS", "REFUTES", null, null, null ] }, { "evidence_id": "Homeland security:16", "evidence_label": 2, "article": "Homeland security", "evidence": "Homeland security is officially defined by the National Strategy for Homeland Security as \"a concerted national effort to prevent terrorist attacks within the United States, reduce America's vulnerability to terrorism, and minimize the damage and recover from attacks that do occur\".", "entropy": 0.6931471824645996, "votes": [ "SUPPORTS", "REFUTES", null, null, null ] }, { "evidence_id": "Islamic terrorism:1165", "evidence_label": 2, "article": "Islamic terrorism", "evidence": "\"Terrorist Attacks in Kenya Reveal Domestic Radicalization\".", "entropy": 0, "votes": [ "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", null, null, null ] }, { "evidence_id": "Islamic terrorism:247", "evidence_label": 2, "article": "Islamic terrorism", "evidence": "According to The Washington Post, \"Online recruiting has exponentially increased, with Facebook, YouTube and the increasing sophistication of people online\".", "entropy": 0.6931471824645996, "votes": [ "REFUTES", "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", null, null, null ] }, { "evidence_id": "United States Department of Homeland Security:135", "evidence_label": 2, "article": "United States Department of Homeland Security", "evidence": "The center works on the Internet's routing infrastructure (the SPRI program) and Domain Name System (DNSSEC), identity theft and other online criminal activity (ITTC), Internet traffic and networks research (PREDICT datasets and the DETER testbed), Department of Defense and HSARPA exercises (Livewire and Determined Promise), and wireless security in cooperation with Canada.", "entropy": 0, "votes": [ "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", null, null, null ] } ]
1923
More than 260,000 Americans are employed by the domestic solar industry — three times as many workers as employed by the entire coal mining industry.
3DISPUTED
[ { "evidence_id": "Americans:361", "evidence_label": 2, "article": "Americans", "evidence": "Furthermore, there are approximately 40,000 Americans living and working in the Kingdom.", "entropy": 0, "votes": [ "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", null, "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO" ] }, { "evidence_id": "Economy of the United Kingdom:147", "evidence_label": 2, "article": "Economy of the United Kingdom", "evidence": "The industry employs around 113,000 people directly and around 276,000 indirectly and has an annual turnover of around £20 billion.", "entropy": 0.5623351335525513, "votes": [ "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", "SUPPORTS", null, "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO" ] }, { "evidence_id": "Infrastructure policy of Donald Trump:190", "evidence_label": 2, "article": "Infrastructure policy of Donald Trump", "evidence": "While the traditional fossil fuel industry employed 187,000 jobs in 2016, the wind power industry grew by nearly 32% to 102,000 people.", "entropy": 0, "votes": [ "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", null, "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO" ] }, { "evidence_id": "Infrastructure policy of Donald Trump:191", "evidence_label": 1, "article": "Infrastructure policy of Donald Trump", "evidence": "At the same time, the solar power industry grew by almost a quarter to 374,000 jobs.", "entropy": 1.0397207736968994, "votes": [ "REFUTES", "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", "SUPPORTS", null, "REFUTES" ] }, { "evidence_id": "Presidency of Donald Trump:395", "evidence_label": 0, "article": "Presidency of Donald Trump", "evidence": "The American solar energy industry is highly reliant on foreign parts (80% of parts are made abroad); as a result, the tariffs could raise the costs of solar energy, reduce innovation and reduce jobs in the industry—which in 2017 employed nearly four times as many American workers as the coal industry.", "entropy": 1.0397207736968994, "votes": [ "SUPPORTS", "SUPPORTS", "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", null, "REFUTES" ] } ]
1928
NASA Finds Antarctica is Gaining Ice,
3DISPUTED
[ { "evidence_id": "Antarctica:1026", "evidence_label": 0, "article": "Antarctica", "evidence": "\"Mass gains of the Antarctic ice sheet exceed losses\".", "entropy": 0, "votes": [ "SUPPORTS", "SUPPORTS", null, null, null ] }, { "evidence_id": "Antarctica:1031", "evidence_label": 0, "article": "Antarctica", "evidence": "\"Study concludes Antarctica is gaining ice, rather than losing it\".", "entropy": 0, "votes": [ "SUPPORTS", "SUPPORTS", null, null, null ] }, { "evidence_id": "Antarctica:1046", "evidence_label": 1, "article": "Antarctica", "evidence": "\"A 40-y record reveals gradual Antarctic sea ice increases followed by decreases at rates far exceeding the rates seen in the Arctic\".", "entropy": 0, "votes": [ "REFUTES", "REFUTES", null, null, null ] }, { "evidence_id": "Antarctica:357", "evidence_label": 2, "article": "Antarctica", "evidence": "This ice sheet is constantly gaining ice from snowfall and losing ice through outflow to the sea.", "entropy": 0.6931471824645996, "votes": [ "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", "SUPPORTS", null, null, null ] }, { "evidence_id": "Antarctica:381", "evidence_label": 2, "article": "Antarctica", "evidence": "According to NASA, the most widespread Antarctic surface melting of the past 30 years occurred in 2005, when an area of ice comparable in size to California briefly melted and refroze; this may have resulted from temperatures rising to as high as 5 °C (41 °F).", "entropy": 0, "votes": [ "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", null, null, null ] } ]
1931
New Jersey is "losing 50 football fields of open space to development every day and the more we develop upstream the more flooding we have downstream."
0SUPPORTS
[ { "evidence_id": "New Jersey:168", "evidence_label": 0, "article": "New Jersey", "evidence": "During winter and early spring, New Jersey can experience \"nor'easters,\" which are capable of causing blizzards or flooding throughout the northeastern United States.", "entropy": 0, "votes": [ null, "SUPPORTS", "SUPPORTS", null, null ] }, { "evidence_id": "New Jersey:265", "evidence_label": 2, "article": "New Jersey", "evidence": "This accessibility to consumer revenue has enabled seaside resorts such as Atlantic City and the remainder of the Jersey Shore, as well as the state's other natural and cultural attractions, to contribute significantly to the record 111 million tourist visits to New Jersey in 2018, providing US$44.7 billion in tourism revenue, directly supporting 333,860 jobs, sustaining more than 531,000 jobs overall including peripheral impacts, and generating US$5 billion in state and local tax revenue.", "entropy": 0, "votes": [ null, "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", null, null ] }, { "evidence_id": "New Jersey:511", "evidence_label": 2, "article": "New Jersey", "evidence": "The other three villages – Ridgefield Park (now with a Walsh Act form), Ridgewood (now with a Faulkner Act Council-Manager charter) and South Orange (now operates under a Special Charter) – have all migrated to other non-village forms.", "entropy": 0.6931471824645996, "votes": [ null, "SUPPORTS", "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", null, null ] }, { "evidence_id": "New Jersey:801", "evidence_label": 2, "article": "New Jersey", "evidence": "\"Jersey City has gained nearly 15,000 residents since 2010, making it the fastest growing municipality in the state and a symbol of the Garden State's reinvigorated urban core.\"", "entropy": 0.6931471824645996, "votes": [ null, "SUPPORTS", "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", null, null ] }, { "evidence_id": "Woodbridge Township, New Jersey:114", "evidence_label": 2, "article": "Woodbridge Township, New Jersey", "evidence": "It is surrounded by water on three sides, the Arthur Kill, a tidal strait to the east, and tidal rivers to the south, Raritan River, and north, Rahway River; and, much of the developed land in Woodbridge has low elevations, as little as five feet above sea level.", "entropy": 0, "votes": [ null, "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", null, null ] } ]
1932
Newspaper Article from 1922 Discusses Arctic Ocean Climate Change
2NOT_ENOUGH_INFO
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1933
Newt Gingrich "teamed with Nancy Pelosi and Al Gore on global warming."
2NOT_ENOUGH_INFO
[ { "evidence_id": "Al Gore:1491", "evidence_label": 2, "article": "Al Gore", "evidence": "\"Urge Gore to Add Going Vegetarian to the Global Warming Pledge\".", "entropy": 0, "votes": [ "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", null, null, null ] }, { "evidence_id": "Al Gore:151", "evidence_label": 2, "article": "Al Gore", "evidence": "Gore was initially hesitant to be Bill Clinton's running mate for the 1992 United States presidential election, but after clashing with the George H. W. Bush administration over global warming issues, he decided to accept the offer.", "entropy": 0, "votes": [ "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", null, null, null ] }, { "evidence_id": "Al Gore:375", "evidence_label": 2, "article": "Al Gore", "evidence": "He was known as one of the Atari Democrats, later called the \"Democrats' Greens, politicians who see issues like clean air, clean water and global warming as the key to future victories for their party.\"", "entropy": 0, "votes": [ "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", null, null, null ] }, { "evidence_id": "Newt Gingrich:334", "evidence_label": 2, "article": "Newt Gingrich", "evidence": "Gingrich has identified education as \"the number one factor in our future prosperity\", and has partnered with Al Sharpton and Education Secretary Arne Duncan on education issues.", "entropy": 0, "votes": [ "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", null, null, null ] }, { "evidence_id": "Newt Gingrich:884", "evidence_label": 2, "article": "Newt Gingrich", "evidence": "\"Former foes Clinton, Gingrich band up on health care plan\".", "entropy": 0, "votes": [ "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", null, null, null ] } ]
1935
No state generates as much solar power as California, or has as many people whose jobs depend on it.
2NOT_ENOUGH_INFO
[ { "evidence_id": "California:414", "evidence_label": 2, "article": "California", "evidence": "Because it is the most populous state in the United States, California is one of the country's largest users of energy.", "entropy": 0, "votes": [ "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", null, null ] }, { "evidence_id": "California:416", "evidence_label": 2, "article": "California", "evidence": "Due to the high electricity demand, California imports more electricity than any other state, primarily hydroelectric power from states in the Pacific Northwest (via Path 15 and Path 66) and coal- and natural gas-fired production from the desert Southwest via Path 46.", "entropy": 0.6365141868591309, "votes": [ "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", "SUPPORTS", "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", null, null ] }, { "evidence_id": "California:417", "evidence_label": 2, "article": "California", "evidence": "As a result of the state's strong environmental movement, California has some of the most aggressive renewable energy goals in the United States, with a target for California to obtain a third of its electricity from renewables by 2020.", "entropy": 0.6365141868591309, "votes": [ "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", "SUPPORTS", "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", null, null ] }, { "evidence_id": "California:418", "evidence_label": 2, "article": "California", "evidence": "Currently, several solar power plants such as the Solar Energy Generating Systems facility are located in the Mojave Desert.", "entropy": 0.6365141868591309, "votes": [ "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", "SUPPORTS", "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", null, null ] }, { "evidence_id": "California:423", "evidence_label": 2, "article": "California", "evidence": "Natural gas-fired power plants typically account for more than one-half of state electricity generation.", "entropy": 0.6365141868591309, "votes": [ "REFUTES", "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", null, null ] } ]
1937
Not only is there no scientific evidence that CO2 is a pollutant, higher CO2 concentrations actually help ecosystems support more plant and animal life.
3DISPUTED
[ { "evidence_id": "Air pollution:22", "evidence_label": 2, "article": "Air pollution", "evidence": "Pollutants emitted into the atmosphere by human activity include: Carbon dioxide (CO 2) – Because of its role as a greenhouse gas it has been described as \"the leading pollutant\" and \"the worst climate pollutant\".", "entropy": 0.6931471824645996, "votes": [ "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", "REFUTES", "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", null, "REFUTES" ] }, { "evidence_id": "Carbon dioxide:146", "evidence_label": 1, "article": "Carbon dioxide", "evidence": "At very high concentrations (100 times atmospheric concentration, or greater), carbon dioxide can be toxic to animal life, so raising the concentration to 10,000 ppm (1%) or higher for several hours will eliminate pests such as whiteflies and spider mites in a greenhouse.", "entropy": 0, "votes": [ "REFUTES", "REFUTES", "REFUTES", null, "REFUTES" ] }, { "evidence_id": "Carbon dioxide:240", "evidence_label": 0, "article": "Carbon dioxide", "evidence": "Plants can grow as much as 50 percent faster in concentrations of 1,000 ppm CO 2 when compared with ambient conditions, though this assumes no change in climate and no limitation on other nutrients.", "entropy": 1.0397207736968994, "votes": [ "SUPPORTS", "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", "REFUTES", null, "SUPPORTS" ] }, { "evidence_id": "Climate change and ecosystems:148", "evidence_label": 0, "article": "Climate change and ecosystems", "evidence": "Higher carbon dioxide concentrations will favourably affect plant growth and demand for water.", "entropy": 0.5623351335525513, "votes": [ "SUPPORTS", "SUPPORTS", "SUPPORTS", null, "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO" ] }, { "evidence_id": "Wetland:3", "evidence_label": 2, "article": "Wetland", "evidence": "Wetlands are also considered the most biologically diverse of all ecosystems, serving as home to a wide range of plant and animal life.", "entropy": 0, "votes": [ "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", null, "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO" ] } ]
1938
Obama administration's Clean Power Plan would have little or no effect on carbon dioxide emissions.
1REFUTES
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1943
Over 97 percent of the scientific community … believe that humans are contributing to climate change.
0SUPPORTS
[ { "evidence_id": "Human:121", "evidence_label": 0, "article": "Human", "evidence": "Currently, through land development, combustion of fossil fuels, and pollution, humans are thought to be the main contributor to global climate change.", "entropy": 0, "votes": [ "SUPPORTS", "SUPPORTS", null, null, null ] }, { "evidence_id": "Scientific consensus on climate change:10", "evidence_label": 0, "article": "Scientific consensus on climate change", "evidence": "Of these, 97% agree, explicitly or implicitly, that global warming is happening and is human-caused.", "entropy": 0, "votes": [ "SUPPORTS", "SUPPORTS", null, null, null ] }, { "evidence_id": "Scientific consensus on climate change:266", "evidence_label": 0, "article": "Scientific consensus on climate change", "evidence": "97% of the scientists surveyed agreed that global temperatures had increased during the past 100 years; 84% said they personally believed human-induced warming was occurring, and 74% agreed that \"currently available scientific evidence\" substantiated its occurrence.", "entropy": 0, "votes": [ "SUPPORTS", "SUPPORTS", null, null, null ] }, { "evidence_id": "Scientific consensus on climate change:283", "evidence_label": 2, "article": "Scientific consensus on climate change", "evidence": "Seventy-five of 77 believed that human activity is a significant factor in changing mean global temperatures.", "entropy": 0.6931471824645996, "votes": [ "SUPPORTS", "REFUTES", null, null, null ] }, { "evidence_id": "Scientific consensus on climate change:289", "evidence_label": 0, "article": "Scientific consensus on climate change", "evidence": "They found 4,014 which discussed the cause of recent global warming, and of these \"97.1% endorsed the consensus position that humans are causing global warming\".", "entropy": 0, "votes": [ "SUPPORTS", "SUPPORTS", null, null, null ] } ]
1944
Over the past eight years, the United States has reduced our total carbon pollution more than any other nation on Earth.
1REFUTES
[ { "evidence_id": "Air pollution:104", "evidence_label": 2, "article": "Air pollution", "evidence": "Smoke and carbon monoxide from wildfires.", "entropy": 0.6365141868591309, "votes": [ "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", "REFUTES", "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", null, null ] }, { "evidence_id": "Air pollution:422", "evidence_label": 2, "article": "Air pollution", "evidence": "\"The Worst Climate Pollution Is Carbon Dioxide\".", "entropy": 0.6365141868591309, "votes": [ "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", "SUPPORTS", "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", null, null ] }, { "evidence_id": "Climate change in the United States:1", "evidence_label": 2, "article": "Climate change in the United States", "evidence": "Because of global warming, there has been concern in the United States and internationally, that the country should reduce total greenhouse gas which is relatively high per capita and is the second largest in the world after China, as of 2014.", "entropy": 1.0986123085021973, "votes": [ "REFUTES", "SUPPORTS", "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", null, null ] }, { "evidence_id": "Climate change in the United States:19", "evidence_label": 1, "article": "Climate change in the United States", "evidence": "In the cumulative emissions between 1850 and 2007, the U.S. was at the top in terms of all world nations, involved with 28.8% of the world's total.", "entropy": 0.6365141868591309, "votes": [ "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", "REFUTES", "REFUTES", null, null ] }, { "evidence_id": "Recycling:256", "evidence_label": 2, "article": "Recycling", "evidence": "The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has concluded in favor of recycling, saying that recycling efforts reduced the country's carbon emissions by a net 49 million metric tonnes in 2005.", "entropy": 1.0986123085021973, "votes": [ "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", "REFUTES", "SUPPORTS", null, null ] } ]
1945
President Donald Trump sent a video message to Belgian citizens criticizing their government for being part of the Paris Climate Change Agreement.
2NOT_ENOUGH_INFO
[ { "evidence_id": "Donald Trump:371", "evidence_label": 2, "article": "Donald Trump", "evidence": "In June 2017, Trump announced the withdrawal of the United States from the Paris Agreement, making the U.S. the only nation in the world to not ratify the agreement.", "entropy": 0, "votes": [ "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", null, null, null ] }, { "evidence_id": "Environmental policy of the Donald Trump administration:15", "evidence_label": 2, "article": "Environmental policy of the Donald Trump administration", "evidence": "Trump has pulled the United States out of the Paris climate accord, leaving the U.S. the only nation that has not joined the agreement.", "entropy": 0, "votes": [ "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", null, null, null ] }, { "evidence_id": "Opinion polling on the Donald Trump administration:16", "evidence_label": 2, "article": "Opinion polling on the Donald Trump administration", "evidence": "majority support   plurality support   majority oppose   plurality oppose On June 1, 2017, Donald Trump announced that the United States would withdraw from the Paris Agreement on climate change.", "entropy": 0, "votes": [ "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", null, null, null ] }, { "evidence_id": "Presidency of Donald Trump:417", "evidence_label": 2, "article": "Presidency of Donald Trump", "evidence": "In June 2017, Trump announced U.S. withdrawal from the Paris Agreement, a 2015 climate change accord reached by 200 nations to cut greenhouse gas emissions, defying broad global backing for the plan.", "entropy": 0, "votes": [ "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", null, null, null ] }, { "evidence_id": "Presidency of Donald Trump:7", "evidence_label": 2, "article": "Presidency of Donald Trump", "evidence": "He ended the Clean Power Plan, withdrew from the Paris Agreement on climate change mitigation, and urged for subsidies to increase fossil fuel production, calling man-made climate change a hoax.", "entropy": 0, "votes": [ "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", null, null, null ] } ]
1946
President Obama's proposal calls for serious cuts in our own long-term carbon emissions, but China and India will still be allowed to increase their emissions.
1REFUTES
[ { "evidence_id": "2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference:132", "evidence_label": 1, "article": "2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference", "evidence": "The country submitted a proposed protocol which would have imposed deeper, legally binding emissions cuts, including on developing nations.", "entropy": 0, "votes": [ "REFUTES", "REFUTES", null, null, null ] }, { "evidence_id": "2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference:38", "evidence_label": 1, "article": "2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference", "evidence": "To cut carbon emissions by 15% below 2000 levels by 2020 if there is an agreement where major developing economies commit to substantially restrain emissions and advanced economies take on commitments comparable to Australia.", "entropy": 0, "votes": [ "REFUTES", "REFUTES", null, null, null ] }, { "evidence_id": "2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference:39", "evidence_label": 2, "article": "2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference", "evidence": "To cut carbon emissions by 5% below 2000 levels by 2020 unconditionally.", "entropy": 0.6931471824645996, "votes": [ "REFUTES", "SUPPORTS", null, null, null ] }, { "evidence_id": "2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference:56", "evidence_label": 2, "article": "2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference", "evidence": "To cut carbon emissions by 15% below 1990 levels by 2020.", "entropy": 0.6931471824645996, "votes": [ "REFUTES", "SUPPORTS", null, null, null ] }, { "evidence_id": "Emissions trading:431", "evidence_label": 2, "article": "Emissions trading", "evidence": "It is one of the ways countries can meet their obligations under the Kyoto Protocol to reduce carbon emissions and thereby mitigate global warming.", "entropy": 0.6931471824645996, "votes": [ "REFUTES", "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", null, null, null ] } ]
1947
President-elect Trump has selected a climate change skeptic to head the team in charge of the transition between Obama and Trump's Environmental Protection Agencies.
2NOT_ENOUGH_INFO
[ { "evidence_id": "Donald Trump 2016 presidential campaign:150", "evidence_label": 2, "article": "Donald Trump 2016 presidential campaign", "evidence": "On May 9, Trump named New Jersey Governor Chris Christie to head a team to plan the transition of the presidency in the event of a Trump victory.", "entropy": 0, "votes": [ "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", null, null, null ] }, { "evidence_id": "Donald Trump 2016 presidential campaign:1844", "evidence_label": 2, "article": "Donald Trump 2016 presidential campaign", "evidence": "President-elect Donald J. Trump today announced the formation of the White House National Trade Council (NTC) and his selection of Dr. Peter Navarro to serve as Assistant to the President and Director of Trade and Industrial Policy.", "entropy": 0, "votes": [ "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", null, null, null ] }, { "evidence_id": "Mike Pence:222", "evidence_label": 2, "article": "Mike Pence", "evidence": "Soon after the election, he was appointed chairman of President-elect Trump's transition team.", "entropy": 0, "votes": [ "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", null, null, null ] }, { "evidence_id": "Scott Pruitt:386", "evidence_label": 2, "article": "Scott Pruitt", "evidence": "During his January 18, 2017, confirmation hearing to be EPA Administrator, he said that \"the climate is changing, and human activity contributes to that in some manner\".", "entropy": 0, "votes": [ "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", null, null, null ] }, { "evidence_id": "Scott Pruitt:799", "evidence_label": 2, "article": "Scott Pruitt", "evidence": "Head Stacks Agency With Climate Change Skeptics\".", "entropy": 0, "votes": [ "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", null, null, null ] } ]
1948
Recent record-low water levels in Lake Michigan are evidence that global warming is leading to "the evaporation of our Great Lakes."
0SUPPORTS
[ { "evidence_id": "Global warming:32", "evidence_label": 2, "article": "Global warming", "evidence": "This is due to the larger heat capacity of oceans and because oceans lose more heat by evaporation.", "entropy": 0.6365141868591309, "votes": [ "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", "SUPPORTS", "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", null, null ] }, { "evidence_id": "Great Lakes:519", "evidence_label": 0, "article": "Great Lakes", "evidence": "\"Great Lakes water levels reaching record lows\".", "entropy": 0.6365141868591309, "votes": [ "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", "SUPPORTS", "SUPPORTS", null, null ] }, { "evidence_id": "Great Lakes:525", "evidence_label": 0, "article": "Great Lakes", "evidence": "\"More recently, evaporation over lakes has steadily been increasing, largely due to increases in water surface temperature,\" Gronewold said.", "entropy": 0.6365141868591309, "votes": [ "SUPPORTS", "SUPPORTS", "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", null, null ] }, { "evidence_id": "Great Lakes:536", "evidence_label": 0, "article": "Great Lakes", "evidence": "\"Climate change is lowering Great Lakes water levels.", "entropy": 0, "votes": [ "SUPPORTS", "SUPPORTS", "SUPPORTS", null, null ] }, { "evidence_id": "Great Lakes:81", "evidence_label": 0, "article": "Great Lakes", "evidence": "In 2013, record low water levels in the Great Lakes were attributed to climate change.", "entropy": 0, "votes": [ "SUPPORTS", "SUPPORTS", "SUPPORTS", null, null ] } ]
1951
Scientists are "questioning the original idea that man-made global warming is what is causing the climate to change. "
1REFUTES
[ { "evidence_id": "Global warming:276", "evidence_label": 1, "article": "Global warming", "evidence": "In the scientific literature, there is an overwhelming consensus that global surface temperatures have increased in recent decades and that the trend is caused mainly by human-induced emissions of greenhouse gases.", "entropy": 0.6365141868591309, "votes": [ "SUPPORTS", "REFUTES", "REFUTES", null, null ] }, { "evidence_id": "Global warming:370", "evidence_label": 2, "article": "Global warming", "evidence": "\"Scientific consensus: Earth's climate is warming\".", "entropy": 0.6365141868591309, "votes": [ "SUPPORTS", "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", null, null ] }, { "evidence_id": "Scientific consensus on climate change:11", "evidence_label": 1, "article": "Scientific consensus on climate change", "evidence": "It is \"extremely likely\" that this warming arises from \"human activities, especially emissions of greenhouse gases\" in the atmosphere.", "entropy": 0.6365141868591309, "votes": [ "SUPPORTS", "REFUTES", "REFUTES", null, null ] }, { "evidence_id": "Scientific consensus on climate change:58", "evidence_label": 1, "article": "Scientific consensus on climate change", "evidence": "The New York Times reported that \"the leading international network of climate scientists has concluded for the first time that global warming is 'unequivocal' and that human activity is the main driver, 'very likely' causing most of the rise in temperatures since 1950\".", "entropy": 0.6365141868591309, "votes": [ "SUPPORTS", "REFUTES", "REFUTES", null, null ] }, { "evidence_id": "Scientific consensus on climate change:69", "evidence_label": 1, "article": "Scientific consensus on climate change", "evidence": "The global warming observed over the past 50 years is due primarily to human-induced emissions of heat-trapping gases.", "entropy": 0.6365141868591309, "votes": [ "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", "REFUTES", "REFUTES", null, null ] } ]
1952
Scientists project that the Arctic will be ice-free in the summer of 2013.
1REFUTES
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1953
Scotland's climate targets are toughest in the world
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1955
Sen. George LeMieux voted to let oil companies off the hook and overturn pollution rules.
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1960
Solar panels drain the sun's energy.
1REFUTES
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1962
Surface temperatures on Earth "have stabilized."
1REFUTES
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1963
Tallahassee reduced its carbon intensity by roughly 40 percent.
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1968
The 2007's early start to Daylight Saving Time contributed to global warming.
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1970
The Business Council, the Minerals Council, the Australian Industry Group, the Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry, have all called for the [carbon] tax to be repealed.
2NOT_ENOUGH_INFO
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1971
The carbon footprint on wind [energy] is significant.
1REFUTES
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1973
The carbon tax is partly to blame for the closure of Alcoa's Point Henry aluminium smelter.
2NOT_ENOUGH_INFO
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1975
The claim that 97 percent of scientists believe humans are causing climate change has been debunked by the "head" of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
2NOT_ENOUGH_INFO
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1977
The climate-change agreement between the United States and China "requires the Chinese to do nothing at all for 16 years."
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1980
and three Nobel economic laureates support "direct investment in technology" rather than a carbon tax.
2NOT_ENOUGH_INFO
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1981
The EPA director under Obama said the Clean Power Initiative would have no effect on man-made CO2 emissions.
1REFUTES
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1983
the media created the term "polar vortex" and the cold air proves "the ice isn't melting."
2NOT_ENOUGH_INFO
[ { "evidence_id": "Arctic methane emissions:54", "evidence_label": 2, "article": "Arctic methane emissions", "evidence": "This warm air carries heat to the permafrost around the Arctic, and melts it.", "entropy": 0, "votes": [ "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", null, null, null ] }, { "evidence_id": "Arctic:234", "evidence_label": 2, "article": "Arctic", "evidence": "\"Ice melting across globe at accelerating rate, NASA says.\"", "entropy": 0.6931471824645996, "votes": [ "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", "REFUTES", null, null, null ] }, { "evidence_id": "Cloud:224", "evidence_label": 2, "article": "Cloud", "evidence": "A cumulonimbus incus cloud top is one that has spread out into a clear anvil shape as a result of rising air currents hitting the stability layer at the tropopause where the air no longer continues to get colder with increasing altitude.", "entropy": 0, "votes": [ "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", null, null, null ] }, { "evidence_id": "Early 2014 North American cold wave:133", "evidence_label": 2, "article": "Early 2014 North American cold wave", "evidence": "This phenomenon has been suggested by some to result from the rapid melting of polar sea ice, which replaces white, reflective ice with dark, absorbent open water (i.e., the albedo of this region has decreased).", "entropy": 0, "votes": [ "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", null, null, null ] }, { "evidence_id": "Early 2014 North American cold wave:221", "evidence_label": 2, "article": "Early 2014 North American cold wave", "evidence": "\"'Polar vortex' set to bring dangerous, record-breaking cold to much of US\".", "entropy": 0, "votes": [ "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", null, null, null ] } ]
1984
The most recent survey of climate scientists said about 57 percent don't agree with the idea that 95 percent of the change in the climate is caused by CO2.
2NOT_ENOUGH_INFO
[ { "evidence_id": "Scientific consensus on climate change:136", "evidence_label": 2, "article": "Scientific consensus on climate change", "evidence": "Most of the climatic warming over the last 50 years is likely to have been caused by increased concentrations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.", "entropy": 0.6931471824645996, "votes": [ null, "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", "REFUTES", null, null ] }, { "evidence_id": "Scientific consensus on climate change:150", "evidence_label": 2, "article": "Scientific consensus on climate change", "evidence": "Human-caused increases in greenhouse gases are responsible for most of the observed global average surface warming of roughly 0.8 °C (1.5 °F) over the past 140 years.", "entropy": 0.6931471824645996, "votes": [ null, "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", "REFUTES", null, null ] }, { "evidence_id": "Scientific consensus on climate change:19", "evidence_label": 2, "article": "Scientific consensus on climate change", "evidence": "It is extremely likely (95–100% probability) that human influence was the dominant cause of global warming between 1951–2010.", "entropy": 0.6931471824645996, "votes": [ null, "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", "REFUTES", null, null ] }, { "evidence_id": "Scientific consensus on climate change:266", "evidence_label": 2, "article": "Scientific consensus on climate change", "evidence": "97% of the scientists surveyed agreed that global temperatures had increased during the past 100 years; 84% said they personally believed human-induced warming was occurring, and 74% agreed that \"currently available scientific evidence\" substantiated its occurrence.", "entropy": 0.6931471824645996, "votes": [ null, "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", "REFUTES", null, null ] }, { "evidence_id": "Scientific consensus on climate change:459", "evidence_label": 2, "article": "Scientific consensus on climate change", "evidence": "The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change said the likelihood was 90 percent to 99 percent that emissions of heat-trapping greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide, spewed from tailpipes and smokestacks, were the dominant cause of the observed warming of the last 50 years.", "entropy": 0.6931471824645996, "votes": [ null, "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", "REFUTES", null, null ] } ]
1985
The North Pole is melting "a bit" but the South Pole is getting bigger.
2NOT_ENOUGH_INFO
[ { "evidence_id": "North Pole:167", "evidence_label": 2, "article": "North Pole", "evidence": "The highest temperature yet recorded is 13 °C (55 °F), much warmer than the South Pole's record high of only −12.3 °C (9.9 °F).", "entropy": 0.6931471824645996, "votes": [ "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", "SUPPORTS", null, null, null ] }, { "evidence_id": "North Pole:212", "evidence_label": 2, "article": "North Pole", "evidence": "New warning on Arctic sea ice melt.", "entropy": 0.6931471824645996, "votes": [ "REFUTES", "SUPPORTS", null, null, null ] }, { "evidence_id": "North Pole:366", "evidence_label": 2, "article": "North Pole", "evidence": "\"Freak storm pushes North Pole 50 degrees above normal to melting point\" – via washingtonpost.com.", "entropy": 0.6931471824645996, "votes": [ "REFUTES", "SUPPORTS", null, null, null ] }, { "evidence_id": "North Pole:385", "evidence_label": 2, "article": "North Pole", "evidence": "Arctic sea ice \"faces rapid melt\", BBC.", "entropy": 0.6931471824645996, "votes": [ "REFUTES", "SUPPORTS", null, null, null ] }, { "evidence_id": "South Pole:15", "evidence_label": 2, "article": "South Pole", "evidence": "The polar ice sheet is moving at a rate of roughly 10 metres per year in a direction between 37° and 40° west of grid north, down towards the Weddell Sea.", "entropy": 0.6931471824645996, "votes": [ "REFUTES", "SUPPORTS", null, null, null ] } ]
1986
The Obama administration "has been constrained by the Oil Pollution Act of 1990, which basically gives the responsible party the lead role in trying to not only fix the problem, but contain the problem."
0SUPPORTS
[ { "evidence_id": "Barack Obama:282", "evidence_label": 0, "article": "Barack Obama", "evidence": "On September 30, 2009, the Obama administration proposed new regulations on power plants, factories, and oil refineries in an attempt to limit greenhouse gas emissions and to curb global warming.", "entropy": 0, "votes": [ "SUPPORTS", "SUPPORTS", null, null, null ] }, { "evidence_id": "Barack Obama:315", "evidence_label": 0, "article": "Barack Obama", "evidence": "Obama's approach of selectively combining regulation and incentive to various issues in the domestic energy policy, such as coal mining and oil fracking, has received mixed commentary for not being as responsive to the needs of the domestic manufacturing sector as needed, following claims that the domestic manufacturing sector utilizes as much as a third of the nation's available energy resources.", "entropy": 0, "votes": [ "SUPPORTS", "SUPPORTS", null, null, null ] }, { "evidence_id": "Environmental policy of the Donald Trump administration:414", "evidence_label": 0, "article": "Environmental policy of the Donald Trump administration", "evidence": "The Clean Power Plan was an Obama administration policy aimed at combating global warming that was first proposed in 2014.", "entropy": 0, "votes": [ "SUPPORTS", "SUPPORTS", null, null, null ] }, { "evidence_id": "Joe Biden:17", "evidence_label": 2, "article": "Joe Biden", "evidence": "His negotiations with congressional Republicans helped the Obama administration pass legislation including the Tax Relief, Unemployment Insurance Reauthorization, and Job Creation Act of 2010, which resolved a taxation deadlock; the Budget Control Act of 2011, which resolved that year's debt ceiling crisis; and the American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012, which addressed the impending fiscal cliff.", "entropy": 0, "votes": [ "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", null, null, null ] }, { "evidence_id": "Joe Biden:411", "evidence_label": 2, "article": "Joe Biden", "evidence": "Biden then took the lead in trying to sell the agreement to a reluctant Democratic caucus in Congress, which was passed as the Tax Relief, Unemployment Insurance Reauthorization, and Job Creation Act of 2010.", "entropy": 0, "votes": [ "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", null, null, null ] } ]
1987
The Obama administration is "proposing to mine another 10 billion tons of Wyoming coal, which would unleash three times more carbon pollution than Obama's Clean Power Plan would even save through 2030."
2NOT_ENOUGH_INFO
[ { "evidence_id": "Clean Power Plan:12", "evidence_label": 2, "article": "Clean Power Plan", "evidence": "The final version of the plan aims to reduce carbon dioxide emissions from electrical power generation by 32 percent by 2030, relative to 2005 levels.", "entropy": 0, "votes": [ "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", null, null, null ] }, { "evidence_id": "Clean Power Plan:21", "evidence_label": 2, "article": "Clean Power Plan", "evidence": "The EPA estimates the Clean Power Plan will reduce the pollutants that contribute to smog and soot by 25 percent, and the reduction will lead to net climate and health benefits of an estimated $25 billion to $45 billion per year in 2030.", "entropy": 0, "votes": [ "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", null, null, null ] }, { "evidence_id": "Clean Power Plan:23", "evidence_label": 2, "article": "Clean Power Plan", "evidence": "EPA projects that the plan will save the average American family $85 per year in energy bills in 2030, and it will save enough energy to power 30 million homes and save consumers $155 billion from 2020–2030.", "entropy": 0, "votes": [ "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", null, null, null ] }, { "evidence_id": "Clean Power Plan:24", "evidence_label": 2, "article": "Clean Power Plan", "evidence": "The plan would create 30 percent more renewable energy generation in 2030 and help to lower the costs of renewable energy.", "entropy": 0, "votes": [ "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", null, null, null ] }, { "evidence_id": "Clean Power Plan:3", "evidence_label": 2, "article": "Clean Power Plan", "evidence": "The Obama administration designed the plan to lower the carbon dioxide emitted by power generators.", "entropy": 0, "votes": [ "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", null, null, null ] } ]
1988
The Obama administration's "own Environmental Protection Agency" has said its Clean Power Plan "will have a marginal impact on climate change."
2NOT_ENOUGH_INFO
[ { "evidence_id": "Clean Power Plan:0", "evidence_label": 2, "article": "Clean Power Plan", "evidence": "The Clean Power Plan was an Obama administration policy aimed at combating anthropogenic climate change (global warming) that was first proposed by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in June 2014.", "entropy": 0.6931471824645996, "votes": [ null, "SUPPORTS", "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", null, null ] }, { "evidence_id": "Clean Power Plan:116", "evidence_label": 2, "article": "Clean Power Plan", "evidence": "Janet McCabe, an Obama Administration EPA department head, stated that the decision completely disregards the impacts of climate and the cost and benefits associated with the started programs.", "entropy": 0.6931471824645996, "votes": [ null, "REFUTES", "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", null, null ] }, { "evidence_id": "Clean Power Plan:151", "evidence_label": 2, "article": "Clean Power Plan", "evidence": "\"The EPA Could Soon Formally Propose Repealing Obama's Key Climate Change Regulation\".", "entropy": 0, "votes": [ null, "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", null, null ] }, { "evidence_id": "Clean Power Plan:30", "evidence_label": 2, "article": "Clean Power Plan", "evidence": "According to the League of Conservation Voters in 2015, the Clean Power Plan \"established the first national limits on carbon pollution from existing power plants—our nation's single largest source of the pollution fueling climate change\" and was \"the biggest step\" the United States had \"ever taken to address climate change.\"", "entropy": 0, "votes": [ null, "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", null, null ] }, { "evidence_id": "Clean Power Plan:58", "evidence_label": 2, "article": "Clean Power Plan", "evidence": "According to the EPA fact sheet on the Clean Power Plan, climate change is responsible for everything from stronger storms to longer droughts and increased insurance premiums, food prices and allergy seasons.", "entropy": 0, "votes": [ null, "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", null, null ] } ]
1991
The United States is the leading nation in the world "with the highest amount of doubt about the conventional wisdom of climate change."
0SUPPORTS
[ { "evidence_id": "Climate change denial:280", "evidence_label": 2, "article": "Climate change denial", "evidence": "An Angus Reid poll released in 2010 indicates that global warming skepticism in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom has been rising.", "entropy": 0, "votes": [ "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", null, null, null ] }, { "evidence_id": "Climate change denial:288", "evidence_label": 0, "article": "Climate change denial", "evidence": "Newsweek reports that the majority of Europe and Japan accept the consensus on scientific climate change, but only one third of Americans considered human activity to play a major role in climate change in 2006; 64% believed that scientists disagreed about it \"a lot.\"", "entropy": 0, "votes": [ "SUPPORTS", "SUPPORTS", null, null, null ] }, { "evidence_id": "Climate change denial:598", "evidence_label": 0, "article": "Climate change denial", "evidence": "The number of these climate skeptics is greater in the US than in any other country.", "entropy": 0, "votes": [ "SUPPORTS", "SUPPORTS", null, null, null ] }, { "evidence_id": "Climate change denial:97", "evidence_label": 0, "article": "Climate change denial", "evidence": "Today, climate change skepticism is most prominently seen in the United States, where the media disproportionately features views of the climate change denial community.", "entropy": 0, "votes": [ "SUPPORTS", "SUPPORTS", null, null, null ] }, { "evidence_id": "United States:626", "evidence_label": 2, "article": "United States", "evidence": "The United States leads the world in scientific research papers and impact factor.", "entropy": 0, "votes": [ "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", null, null, null ] } ]
1995
There are about 120,000 solar energy jobs in the United States, but only 1,700 of them are in Georgia.
1REFUTES
[ { "evidence_id": "Georgia (U.S. state):280", "evidence_label": 2, "article": "Georgia (U.S. state)", "evidence": "In 2013, $189 million was invested in Georgia to install solar for home, business and utility use representing a 795% increase over the previous year.", "entropy": 0, "votes": [ "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", null, null, null ] }, { "evidence_id": "Renewable energy in the United States:6", "evidence_label": 1, "article": "Renewable energy in the United States", "evidence": "As of 2016, more than 260,000 people worked in the solar industry and 43 states deployed net metering, where energy utilities bought back excess power generated by solar arrays.", "entropy": 0, "votes": [ "REFUTES", "REFUTES", null, null, null ] }, { "evidence_id": "Renewable energy in the United States:71", "evidence_label": 2, "article": "Renewable energy in the United States", "evidence": "There were 90,000 wind operations jobs in the United States in 2015.", "entropy": 0, "votes": [ "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", null, null, null ] }, { "evidence_id": "Solar power in the United States:208", "evidence_label": 1, "article": "Solar power in the United States", "evidence": "The solar industry is currently one of the fastest growing in the United States, employing more than 250,000 people as of 2018.", "entropy": 0, "votes": [ "REFUTES", "REFUTES", null, null, null ] }, { "evidence_id": "Solar power in the United States:47", "evidence_label": 1, "article": "Solar power in the United States", "evidence": "[clarification needed] Solar jobs have more than doubled in the United States over the last decade growing 153% since 2010 to 242,343 workers directly employed by the industry.", "entropy": 0, "votes": [ "REFUTES", "REFUTES", null, null, null ] } ]
1996
There are already more American jobs in the solar industry than in coal mining.
0SUPPORTS
[ { "evidence_id": "Coal mining:233", "evidence_label": 2, "article": "Coal mining", "evidence": "Cerrejón directly employs 4,600 workers, with a further 3,800 employed by contractors.", "entropy": 0.6931471824645996, "votes": [ "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", "REFUTES", null, null, null ] }, { "evidence_id": "Coal mining:284", "evidence_label": 2, "article": "Coal mining", "evidence": "The country's coal industry employs about 500,000 people.", "entropy": 0.6931471824645996, "votes": [ "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", "REFUTES", null, null, null ] }, { "evidence_id": "Renewable energy commercialization:11", "evidence_label": 0, "article": "Renewable energy commercialization", "evidence": "A key benefit that this investment growth brings is a growth in jobs.", "entropy": 0, "votes": [ "SUPPORTS", "SUPPORTS", null, null, null ] }, { "evidence_id": "Renewable energy commercialization:16", "evidence_label": 0, "article": "Renewable energy commercialization", "evidence": "Renewable power has been more effective in creating jobs than coal or oil in the United States.", "entropy": 0, "votes": [ "SUPPORTS", "SUPPORTS", null, null, null ] }, { "evidence_id": "West Virginia:826", "evidence_label": 0, "article": "West Virginia", "evidence": "\"Today's Energy Jobs Are in Solar, Not Coal\".", "entropy": 0, "votes": [ "SUPPORTS", "SUPPORTS", null, null, null ] } ]
1998
There is a link between climate change and the NSW bushfires.
3DISPUTED
[ { "evidence_id": "2013 New South Wales bushfires:164", "evidence_label": 1, "article": "2013 New South Wales bushfires", "evidence": "On 21 October, Christiana Figueres, a UN official on climate change, told CNN: The World Meteorological Organization has not established a direct link between this wildfire and climate change – yet.", "entropy": 0, "votes": [ "REFUTES", "REFUTES", "REFUTES", null, null ] }, { "evidence_id": "2013 New South Wales bushfires:507", "evidence_label": 0, "article": "2013 New South Wales bushfires", "evidence": "\"'Absolutely' a link between climate change and wildfires, U.N. climate chief Figueres tells Amanpour\".", "entropy": 0, "votes": [ "SUPPORTS", "SUPPORTS", "SUPPORTS", null, null ] }, { "evidence_id": "2019–20 Australian bushfire season:427", "evidence_label": 0, "article": "2019–20 Australian bushfire season", "evidence": "Climate and fire experts agree that climate change is a factor known to result in increased fire frequency and intensity in south east Australia, and although it should not be considered as the sole cause of the 2019-20 Australian fires, climate change is considered very likely to have contributed to the unprecedented extent and severity of the fires.", "entropy": 0.6365141868591309, "votes": [ "SUPPORTS", "SUPPORTS", "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", null, null ] }, { "evidence_id": "2019–20 Australian bushfire season:455", "evidence_label": 0, "article": "2019–20 Australian bushfire season", "evidence": "The false claims are, in some cases, used to undermine the link between the current bushfires and the longer, more intense fire seasons brought about by climate change.\"", "entropy": 0.6365141868591309, "votes": [ "REFUTES", "SUPPORTS", "SUPPORTS", null, null ] }, { "evidence_id": "Wildfire:1211", "evidence_label": 0, "article": "Wildfire", "evidence": "White House explains the link between Climate Change and Wild Fires.", "entropy": 0.6365141868591309, "votes": [ "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", "SUPPORTS", "SUPPORTS", null, null ] } ]
1999
there is no relationship between temperature and carbon dioxide emissions by ­humans[...]
1REFUTES
[ { "evidence_id": "Global warming:1756", "evidence_label": 2, "article": "Global warming", "evidence": "\"Response of Arctic temperature to changes in emissions of short-lived climate forcers\".", "entropy": 0.6931471824645996, "votes": [ null, "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", "REFUTES", null, null ] }, { "evidence_id": "Global warming:462", "evidence_label": 2, "article": "Global warming", "evidence": "IPCC AR4 WG1 Ch1 2007, FAQ1.1: \"To emit 240 W m−2, a surface would have to have a temperature of around −19 °C.", "entropy": 0, "votes": [ null, "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", null, null ] }, { "evidence_id": "Scientific consensus on climate change:118", "evidence_label": 1, "article": "Scientific consensus on climate change", "evidence": "Human-induced warming and associated sea level rises are expected to continue through the 21st century...", "entropy": 0, "votes": [ null, "REFUTES", "REFUTES", null, null ] }, { "evidence_id": "Scientific consensus on climate change:221", "evidence_label": 1, "article": "Scientific consensus on climate change", "evidence": "Human activities are now causing atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases—including carbon dioxide, methane, tropospheric ozone, and nitrous oxide—to rise well above pre-industrial levels ... Increases in greenhouse gases are causing temperatures to rise ...", "entropy": 0, "votes": [ null, "REFUTES", "REFUTES", null, null ] }, { "evidence_id": "Scientific consensus on climate change:540", "evidence_label": 1, "article": "Scientific consensus on climate change", "evidence": "A consensus, based on current evidence, now exists within the global scientific community that human activities are the main source of climate change and that the burning of fossil fuels is largely responsible for driving this change...", "entropy": 0, "votes": [ null, "REFUTES", "REFUTES", null, null ] } ]
2000
There is not a single candidate in the Republican primary that thinks we should do anything about climate change.
1REFUTES
[ { "evidence_id": "Bernie Sanders 2016 presidential campaign:77", "evidence_label": 2, "article": "Bernie Sanders 2016 presidential campaign", "evidence": "I believe we should have a tax on carbon and deal aggressively with climate change.", "entropy": 0.6931471824645996, "votes": [ "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", "REFUTES", null, null, null ] }, { "evidence_id": "Jill Stein:111", "evidence_label": 2, "article": "Jill Stein", "evidence": "Referring to President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal approach to the Great Depression, Stein advocated a Green New Deal in her 2012 and 2016 campaigns, in which renewable energy jobs would be created to address climate change and environmental issues; the objective would be to employ \"every American willing and able to work\".", "entropy": 0.6931471824645996, "votes": [ "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", "REFUTES", null, null, null ] }, { "evidence_id": "Lindsey Graham:152", "evidence_label": 1, "article": "Lindsey Graham", "evidence": "Much of the Tea Party criticism focuses on his willingness to be bipartisan and work with Democrats on issues like climate change, tax reform and immigration reform and his belief that judicial nominees should not be opposed solely on their philosophical positions.", "entropy": 0, "votes": [ "REFUTES", "REFUTES", null, null, null ] }, { "evidence_id": "Republican Party (United States):177", "evidence_label": 2, "article": "Republican Party (United States)", "evidence": "Since then, Republicans have increasingly taken positions against environmental regulation, with some Republicans rejecting the scientific consensus on climate change.", "entropy": 0.6931471824645996, "votes": [ "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", "SUPPORTS", null, null, null ] }, { "evidence_id": "Ted Cruz:273", "evidence_label": 2, "article": "Ted Cruz", "evidence": "Cruz rejects the scientific consensus on climate change.", "entropy": 0, "votes": [ "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", null, null, null ] } ]
2004
They (Clinton and Obama) have never to my knowledge been involved in legislation nor hearings nor engagement on this issue (climate change).
2NOT_ENOUGH_INFO
[ { "evidence_id": "Al Gore:118", "evidence_label": 2, "article": "Al Gore", "evidence": "After joining the House of Representatives, Gore held the \"first congressional hearings on the climate change, and co-sponsor[ed] hearings on toxic waste and global warming.\"", "entropy": 0.6931471824645996, "votes": [ "REFUTES", "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", null, null, null ] }, { "evidence_id": "Al Gore:373", "evidence_label": 2, "article": "Al Gore", "evidence": "Gore has been involved with environmental issues since 1976, when as a freshman congressman, he held the \"first congressional hearings on the climate change, and co-sponsor[ed] hearings on toxic waste and global warming.\"", "entropy": 0.6931471824645996, "votes": [ "REFUTES", "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", null, null, null ] }, { "evidence_id": "Barack Obama:284", "evidence_label": 2, "article": "Barack Obama", "evidence": "Obama visited the Gulf, announced a federal investigation, and formed a bipartisan commission to recommend new safety standards, after a review by Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar and concurrent Congressional hearings.", "entropy": 0.6931471824645996, "votes": [ "REFUTES", "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", null, null, null ] }, { "evidence_id": "Don't ask, don't tell:241", "evidence_label": 2, "article": "Don't ask, don't tell", "evidence": "The United States Senate held two days of hearings on December 2 and 3, 2010, to consider the CRWG report.", "entropy": 0.6931471824645996, "votes": [ "REFUTES", "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", null, null, null ] }, { "evidence_id": "Hillary Clinton:504", "evidence_label": 2, "article": "Hillary Clinton", "evidence": "The controversy occurred against the backdrop of Clinton's 2016 presidential election campaign and hearings held by the House Select Committee on Benghazi.", "entropy": 0.6931471824645996, "votes": [ "REFUTES", "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", null, null, null ] } ]
2008
Tony Abbott the Opposition must respect the Government's mandate to overturn the carbon tax.
3DISPUTED
[ { "evidence_id": "Tony Abbott:191", "evidence_label": 1, "article": "Tony Abbott", "evidence": "Following the first Gillard Government budget in May 2011, Abbott used his budget-reply speech to reiterate his critiques of government policy and call for an early election over the issue of a carbon tax.", "entropy": 1.0397207736968994, "votes": [ "REFUTES", "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", "SUPPORTS", null, "REFUTES" ] }, { "evidence_id": "Tony Abbott:212", "evidence_label": 2, "article": "Tony Abbott", "evidence": "On the first day of the new Parliament, Abbott introduced legislation into Parliament to repeal the Carbon Tax, and commenced Operation Sovereign Borders, the Coalition's policy to stop illegal maritime arrivals, which received strong public support.", "entropy": 1.0397207736968994, "votes": [ "SUPPORTS", "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", "REFUTES", null, "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO" ] }, { "evidence_id": "Tony Abbott:289", "evidence_label": 2, "article": "Tony Abbott", "evidence": "As Opposition Leader, Abbott declared that he accepted that climate change was real and that humans were having an impact on it, but rejected carbon pricing as a means to address the issue, proposing instead to match the Labor government's 5% emissions reduction target through implementation of a plan involving financial incentives for emissions reductions by industry, and support for carbon storage in soils and expanded forests.", "entropy": 0.5623351335525513, "votes": [ "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", null, "REFUTES" ] }, { "evidence_id": "Tony Abbott:298", "evidence_label": 0, "article": "Tony Abbott", "evidence": "Upon becoming Leader of the Opposition, Abbott put the question of support for the Government's Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS) to a secret ballot and the Liberal Party voted to reject the policy – overturning an undertaking by Turnbull to support an amended version of the government's scheme.", "entropy": 1.0397207736968994, "votes": [ "SUPPORTS", "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", "SUPPORTS", null, "REFUTES" ] }, { "evidence_id": "Tony Abbott:301", "evidence_label": 2, "article": "Tony Abbott", "evidence": "With Abbott as Opposition Leader, the Liberal party opposed a carbon emissions tax and an Emissions Trading Scheme.", "entropy": 0.6931471824645996, "votes": [ "SUPPORTS", "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", "SUPPORTS", null, "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO" ] } ]
2009
Top Scientist Hal Lewis Resigns Over Climate Change Corruption
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2011
U.S. Pays $1 Billion into Green Climate Fund, Top Polluters Pay Nothing
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2012
U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson "led the fight to let polluters release unlimited amounts of carbon pollution and took nearly $225,000 from polluters."
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2013
U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson voted to let oil and gas companies emit "unlimited carbon pollution into our air"
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2020
Weather Channel Co-Founder John Coleman Calls Global Warming a Hoax
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[ { "evidence_id": "Global warming conspiracy theory:22", "evidence_label": 0, "article": "Global warming conspiracy theory", "evidence": "Climate change has also been called the \"greatest scam in history\" by John Coleman, who co-founded the Weather Channel.", "entropy": 0, "votes": [ "SUPPORTS", "SUPPORTS", null, null, null ] }, { "evidence_id": "John Coleman (meteorologist):16", "evidence_label": 0, "article": "John Coleman (meteorologist)", "evidence": "He has called global warming the \"greatest scam in history\" and made numerous false or misleading claims about climate science.", "entropy": 0, "votes": [ "SUPPORTS", "SUPPORTS", null, null, null ] }, { "evidence_id": "John Coleman (meteorologist):60", "evidence_label": 0, "article": "John Coleman (meteorologist)", "evidence": "\"'Global warming the greatest scam in history' claims founder of Weather Channel\".", "entropy": 0, "votes": [ "SUPPORTS", "SUPPORTS", null, null, null ] }, { "evidence_id": "John Coleman (meteorologist):64", "evidence_label": 0, "article": "John Coleman (meteorologist)", "evidence": "\"Weather Channel boss calls global warming 'the greatest scam in history'\".", "entropy": 0, "votes": [ "SUPPORTS", "SUPPORTS", null, null, null ] }, { "evidence_id": "The Weather Channel:7", "evidence_label": 2, "article": "The Weather Channel", "evidence": "The Weather Channel was founded on July 18, 1980, by television meteorologist John Coleman (who, at the time of the channel's founding, had formerly served as a chief meteorologist at ABC owned-and-operated station WLS-TV in Chicago and as a forecaster for Good Morning America) and Frank Batten, then-president of the channel's original owner Landmark Communications (now Landmark Media Enterprises).", "entropy": 0, "votes": [ "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", null, null, null ] } ]
2021
Weather Channel co-founder John Coleman provided evidence that convincingly refutes the concept of anthropogenic global warming.
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2024
Wisconsin employers have repeatedly said in surveys that our anti-business litigation climate is one of the most important factors affecting their expansion decisions.
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2027
You're going to have an increase in the amount of ice in Antarctica because of global warming.
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2028
cutting speed limits could slow climate change
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2029
Bill Gates claims pandemic's 'misery' will 'happen regularly' if climate change is not stopped
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2030
Opponents of climate action are getting twice as much airtime as proponents of climate action.
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2032
The lack of any sunspots suggests the current solar minimum is one of the 'deepest' in 100 years.
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2034
Latest IPCC Reports (AR5) have shown global mean temperature forecasts from the 2005 IPCC report exceeded actual readings.
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2036
The global surface mean temperature-change data no longer have any scientific value and are nothing more than a propaganda tool to the public.
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2037
The rate of renewable energy installations in the EU in 2018 was less than half the maximum level achieved in 2010.
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Past Australian droughts occurred when global temperatures were lower than now and wetter years occurred when such temperatures were rising.
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