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Catholics should know that there is probably more strong evidence for the existence of God than there is for catastrophic man-made global warming, | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/james-delingpole/ | en | null | null | 5,092 |
Forecasts of future warming come from computer models that try to replicate Earth’s past climate and predict the future. They are notoriously inaccurate. None can do it without significant overriding adjustments. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/lee-raymond/ | en | null | null | 3,506 |
Whitehouse, a scientist who works with Lord Lawson's sceptic Global Warming Policy Foundation | 6_proponents_biased | FLICC | https://huggingface.co/datasets/fzanartu/FLICCdataset | en | jintrain | null | 1,679 |
Today’s crisis-mongering climate science is run like a shady business. It soaks the middle class and deprives the world’s poor of a better tomorrow. | 6_proponents_biased | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/anthony-j-sadar/ | en | null | null | 4,249 |
But I fear that the situation is even worse than the authors imply. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/vaclav-smil/ | en | null | null | 3,147 |
I support sustainable forestry, which is sometimes best done by making clearings where new trees can grow in the sun. I have given my reasons for supporting nuclear power, vinyl and genetic engineering in my books, all of which stem from a concern for the environment and human welfare. And is Greenpeace suggesting environmentalists should be against “mining”? Have these people stopped riding bicycles, texting on cell phones, typing on laptops, and riding mass transit? How could they say anything more ridiculous? | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/patrick-moore/ | en | null | null | 2,294 |
[headline:] Climate Change ‘Heat Records’ Are a Huge Data Manipulation | 5_science_unreliable | FLICC | https://huggingface.co/datasets/fzanartu/FLICCdataset | en | Alhindi_train | null | 580 |
If this weather forecast showing sub-freezing temperatures in the Beaufort Sea is correct, alarmists are in a world of hurt. | 1_not_happening | FLICC | https://huggingface.co/datasets/fzanartu/FLICCdataset | en | CARDS | null | 1,470 |
Just think about it: a few years ago, the conventional wisdom was that the United States would need to build more terminals to import natural gas overseas. And today, America is the world’s leading producer of natural gas and we’re actually exploring opportunities for exports. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/heather-zichal/ | en | null | null | 4,799 |
The reason the existential threat can only be climate change is because, as designed by its apostles, it’s our fault and requires political action aimed at controlling your entire life. In the meantime, we must decide to stop allowing Hollywood, misled adolescents and political charlatans from distracting us to death with nonsensical political theater. | 6_proponents_biased | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/independent-womens-voice/ | en | null | null | 4,070 |
Recent data and research supports the importance of natural climate variability and calls into question the conclusion that humans are the dominant cause of recent climate change…[C]limate models predict much more warming than has been observed in the early 21st century. | 2_not_human | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/judith-curry/ | en | null | null | 5,308 |
The model architecture was wrong. Carbon dioxide causes only minor warming. The climate is largely driven by factors outside our control. | 2_not_human | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/david-evans/ | en | null | null | 3,343 |
How do you respond to critics who say you’re being influenced by Koch Industries, given its owners’ contributions to your campaign? | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/mike-pompeo/ | en | null | null | 4,992 |
In recent years, the perceived need by global warming alarmists to adjust the data has increased dramatically. The leveling off of world temperatures in the unadjusted temperature record is in stark contrast to the accelerating warming forecast by the IPCC climate models. This hiatus in global warming has been an embarrassment to those who base their dire climate predictions on these poorly performing computer models. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/david-kreutzer/ | en | null | null | 4,583 |
Earth’s temperature naturally warms and cools cyclically throughout time, and warmer periods are typically more conducive to human thriving than colder periods. | 3_not_bad | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/lawson-bader/ | en | null | null | 3,672 |
Not that I'm saying there is no climate change, but we had 5 floods in 1950, Australia has always had floods. | 3_not_bad | FLICC | https://huggingface.co/datasets/fzanartu/FLICCdataset | en | hamburg_test3 | null | 559 |
We also included a panel of speakers to address a topic that has received little attention from the media: the theology and ethics of global warming. Views on the environment often have theological or spiritual undertones. For some, the guiding principle is God’s command in Genesis that man shall ‘have dominion over the fish of the sea, the birds of the air, and the cattle, and over all the wild animals and all the creatures that crawl on the ground.’ But many also view Nature as an expression of God’s handiwork and still others find in Nature a substitute for formal religion or a belief in God. Both of the latter groups tend to view Nature as something to be protected from mankind. This view, as much as scientific understanding, seems to drive fears and warnings that global warming could be a calamity for the planet and for mankind. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/american-institute-economic-research/ | en | null | null | 5,237 |
The actual overall split, funnily enough, is exactly the same as the vote for us leaving the European Union – 52-48, fancy that. So 52% of everybody, and that’s with all the propaganda and all the messaging that’s been thrown at us relentlessly over this whole period, 52% of everybody don’t want net-zero. We can’t afford it, the science is dodgy, nobody’s allowed to talk about the science and if you are, you’re a denier. The whole thing needs to be looked at again but the most important thing is that the next Tory leader needs to listen to the Tory voters, [and] the voters at the last election, do not want net zero – they can’t afford it and it’s complete nonsense anyway. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/car26/ | en | null | null | 5,215 |
We also have to keep in mind that most of the greenhouse effect comes from natural sources, especially water vapor. Less than a quarter is from carbon dioxide, and, of this, only four percent of the carbon dioxide entering the atmosphere is due to human activities – 96 percent comes from nature. | 2_not_human | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/lee-raymond/ | en | null | null | 2,849 |
So it's been a surprise to climate scientists that 2017 has been so remarkably warm‚ because the last El Nino ended a year ago. | 0_not_relevant | FLICC | https://huggingface.co/datasets/fzanartu/FLICCdataset | en | jindev | null | 512 |
Just to address a topic we didn’t talk about tonight, but I think is one of the most important topics that needs to be discussed, | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/vivek-ramaswamy/ | en | null | null | 4,729 |
According to anthropogenic global warming (AGW) theory, carbon dioxide increases the potential of water vapor to absorb and emit IR radiation as a consequence of the overlapping absorption/emission spectral bands. I have determined the total emissivity of a mixture of gases containing 5% of water vapor and 0.039% of carbon dioxide in all spectral bands where their absorptivities/emissivities overlap. The result of my calculations is that carbon dioxide reduces the total absorptivity/emissivity of the water vapor, working like a coolant, not a warmer of the atmosphere and the surface. | 2_not_human | FLICC | https://huggingface.co/datasets/fzanartu/FLICCdataset | en | CARDS | null | 1,081 |
Many other major news outlets did not even report on the study. | 0_not_relevant | FLICC | https://huggingface.co/datasets/fzanartu/FLICCdataset | en | jintrain | null | 1,664 |
CO2 is not a pollutant . It is essential to all life on Earth. Photosynthesis is a blessing. More CO2 is beneficial for nature, greening the Earth: additional CO2 in the air has promoted growth in global plant biomass. It is also good for agriculture, increasing the yields of crops worldwide. | 3_not_bad | FLICC | https://huggingface.co/datasets/fzanartu/FLICCdataset | en | jindev | null | 1,012 |
You’re hysterical. The planet is not going to become uninhabitable. Even the IPCC reports don’t predict such a laughable thing. Get a grip. | 3_not_bad | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/julia-hartley-brewer/ | en | null | null | 1,931 |
Good for energy independence and reduced CO2 emissions, but “stave off climate change”- nope. The climate has always been changing, and will continue to do so. | 2_not_human | FLICC | https://huggingface.co/datasets/fzanartu/FLICCdataset | en | hamburg_test1 | null | 1,150 |
Doesn’t mean there aren’t great families with single parents, great young men and women raised without either parent. If you’re asking for what is ideal, I think it’s being raised by a man and a woman. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/mike-pompeo/ | en | null | null | 2,838 |
Many alarmist scientists and bureaucrats would lose their jobs or funding if the belief that carbon emissions were causing global warming died, yet they are not accused of vested interests. Very odd. | 6_proponents_biased | FLICC | https://huggingface.co/datasets/fzanartu/FLICCdataset | en | CARDS | null | 116 |
Biden's crises: Implemented IN ORDER TO advance phony green transition.Manmade climate change is a hoax.Don't let Biden seal the socialist deal for America.STAND against SOCIALISM. Rule yourself. | 2_not_human | FLICC | https://huggingface.co/datasets/fzanartu/FLICCdataset | en | hamburg_test3 | null | 740 |
There is no correlation between goodness and high self-esteem. But there is a correlation between criminality and high self-esteem. […] Yes, people with high self-esteem are the ones most prone to violence. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/dennis-prager/ | en | null | null | 5,846 |
A lot of fairy stories are attached to and latched on to a genuine scientific concern. The first fairy tale, which the Government foster, is the idea that there is total consensus in science at the alarmist end of the spectrum. […] The simple fact is that the science is not resolved. A lot of serious scientists think that although there is a measure of impact—I agree with that—the alarmist views are not upheld by the science. A majority may well disagree with the scientists to whom I have referred. | 6_proponents_biased | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/peter-lilley/ | en | null | null | 5,177 |
Climate alarmism validates the progressive impulse to micromanage others’ lives — their light bulbs, shower heads, toilets, appliances, automobiles, etc. | 6_proponents_biased | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/george-will/ | en | null | null | 3,675 |
Green sympathizers probably can be classified in 3 primary categories: 1) people who want to nanny and boss everyone around, 2) people who want to be nannied and bossed around, and 3) the many gullible who actually believe the climate catastrophe scam. | 6_proponents_biased | FLICC | https://huggingface.co/datasets/fzanartu/FLICCdataset | en | CARDS | null | 830 |
The Independent, 18 December 2010: December 2010 is "almost certain" to be the coldest since records began in 1910, according to the Met Office. | 1_not_happening | FLICC | https://huggingface.co/datasets/fzanartu/FLICCdataset | en | CARDS | null | 119 |
On the one hand, it warns that the UK is being far too slow at building the infrastructure vital for generating low carbon electricity … But the same report also supports a ban on exploring UK waters for new sources of gas and oil, so depriving the UK of that resource too. Put together, these policies mean the UK risks creating its own home-grown energy crisis – and that will hit home around 2028. That’s likely to be when the next government is seeking re-election. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/offshore-energies-uk/ | en | null | null | 4,752 |
The energy windmills offer is not free, not clean, not reliable and not consistent. And it doesn’t create new jobs. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/david-schnare/ | en | null | null | 5,812 |
One of the central building blocks of the EPA’s power plant rule is increased use of wind and solar for electricity generation. But wind and solar are uncompetitive without massive taxpayer subsidies and mandated renewable portfolio standards. For wind, that takes the form of the production tax credit. [… Congress should reject any attempt by [Senate Majority Leader Harry] Reid to revive the wind production tax credit in the lame-duck session. It’s clearly a bad deal for Nevadans, enriching out-of-state billionaires at the expense of working families. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/institute-energy-research/ | en | null | null | 5,764 |
I do not agree with the characterization of the Southern Company as a fossil fuel company, | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/ernest-moniz/ | en | null | null | 6,019 |
Based on the last 25 years, 2013 was the fourth coldest. If we look at the average temperatures for the last 25 years, we see that they have pretty much remained constant. | 1_not_happening | FLICC | https://huggingface.co/datasets/fzanartu/FLICCdataset | en | CARDS | null | 635 |
In short, Gov. Palin does an excellent job of embodying the zeitgeist and symbolizing the change we really want – a grounded real person (think Cincinnatus), who understands politics but isn’t about making a career of it, a doer not just a talker, who has high principle, a positive vision, and embodies our best selves. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/heather-r-higgins/ | en | null | null | 4,465 |
As with Three Mile Island, the hysteria of the media and the political class over the Deepwater spill is likely to lead to increased risk and adverse environmental tradeoffs. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/steven-f-hayward/ | en | null | null | 4,364 |
Even if President Trump reverses President Obama’s efforts, the marginal effect on future climate change will be minimal because Obama’s efforts were so inconsequential, | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/oren-cass/ | en | null | null | 4,142 |
Recognizing that skepticism and asking challenging questions are part of good science, yet climate change radicals have made their politically fueled narrative more important than the truth. | 6_proponents_biased | FLICC | https://huggingface.co/datasets/fzanartu/FLICCdataset | en | jintrain | null | 991 |
Record Cold And Snow Destroy Global Warming Claims | 1_not_happening | FLICC | https://huggingface.co/datasets/fzanartu/FLICCdataset | en | CARDS | null | 876 |
Carbon dioxide under the Clean Air Act of 1971 was never a pollutant, | 2_not_human | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/robert-murray/ | en | null | null | 4,869 |
You are about the dumbest ass I’ve ever met in my life,” Alford said. “You’ve come to Columbus to harass me. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/harry-c-alford/ | en | null | null | 5,315 |
Clearly, we do not yet have the necessary proven technologies or technologies having sufficient scale to dramatically cut CO2 emissions. Forging ahead without the needed technologies will cause severe economic harm by cutting our supply of electricity and reducing America’s standard of living. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/donn-dears/ | en | null | null | 5,222 |
It's going to be 42 here today and the hottest summer on record was iirc 1934 so not sure how global warming works into it. | 1_not_happening | FLICC | https://huggingface.co/datasets/fzanartu/FLICCdataset | en | hamburg_test3 | null | 4 |
I was fortunate to serve on President Trump’s transition team managing his Department of Energy work and some other issues within the transition team,” he said. “And that was great because we were able to give our ideas and our blueprint for how to make this country great again, and how to make American Energy great again. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/institute-energy-research/ | en | null | null | 3,051 |
President Donald Trump was absolutely prudent and courageous to withdraw from the Paris climate accord. It’s an integral part of his energy agenda. […] We do not have a global warming problem on this planet, what we have is an energy poverty problem on this planet. | 1_not_happening | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/robert-murray/ | en | null | null | 3,124 |
The assumptions do not lead us to conclude that we should venture forth and take costly action to reduce emissions. […] There is a matter of benefits and costs. Is it possible that global climate change is on balance helpful to human populations and the environment? And if not, is it possible that other actions we might take could be more beneficial to human populations and the environment than acting to reduce carbon emissions? | 3_not_bad | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/george-mason-university/ | en | null | null | 2,660 |
International climate talks in Bonn last weekend were trying to salvage December’s failed Copenhagen summit. But some rich countries are imposing their own carbon limits anyway, and threatening to curb imports from poor countries that are not. We believe this will cripple the rich economies and harm the poor countries without doing much about emissions. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/civil-society-coalition-climate-change/ | en | null | null | 2,491 |
I have never seen an instance where there has been an effort to limit debate and discussion, | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/fred-palmer/ | en | null | null | 5,173 |
Although the increase of atmospheric CO2 is well documented, it has not yet resulted in a measureable change in the earth’s climate, | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/roger-cohen/ | en | null | null | 3,854 |
NOAA doesn’t get as much attention as EPA, but it is a pretty big target for people that want to shut down climate change science and findings they find objectionable,” The employee siad. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/ken-haapala/ | en | null | null | 4,933 |
I thought we defeated Communism on the other shores, and now it’s inside our own country. It’s been in the school systems and everywhere else, and now we have the fight right here, and it’s going to be the fight of our lifetime. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/craig-richardson/ | en | null | null | 4,777 |
Winter? Teesdale in County Durham blanketed in snow on May 23 in what is likely to be Britains coldest spring since 1962 | 1_not_happening | FLICC | https://huggingface.co/datasets/fzanartu/FLICCdataset | en | CARDS | null | 1,715 |
Look on the bright side m8, the climate emergency will be cooler by Wednesday. | 3_not_bad | FLICC | https://huggingface.co/datasets/fzanartu/FLICCdataset | en | hamburg_test1 | null | 1,148 |
I think green energy and the whole war on the agriculture [sic], the voters cannot support this anymore. We’re seeing what’s happening in Sri Lanka, we’re seeing what’s happening in the Netherlands, there’s protests in other countries growing. Canada is following the same line with fertilizer. This is a war against modern civilization, make no mistake about it. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/marc-morano/ | en | null | null | 3,261 |
Reduce: The effect of Australias carbon tax on the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is so tiny as to be undetectable and any miniscule reduction would be totally swamped in the far bigger natural seasonal variations of carbon dioxide levels. The effect on global climate, if any, would also be too small to be measured and of no benefit to the climate or life on Earth. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | FLICC | https://huggingface.co/datasets/fzanartu/FLICCdataset | en | CARDS | null | 574 |
For generations America’s public schools have indoctrinated our children with the dogma of Darwinism: life arose and developed by chance, no Creator involved. Now they’re poised to indoctrinate them with another dogma: catastrophic, global warming—not just global warming, but catastrophic, anthropogenic global warming (CAGW). Never mind that in both cases thousands of scientists reject the dogmas,” he wrote. One of the aims of In His Image 2012, the Cornwall Alliance’s new educational venture, is to prepare environmental stewardship curriculum for grades K–12—curriculum that will be firmly rooted in Biblical worldview, theology, and ethics, coupled with excellent science and economics. We plan to make a first edition of that curriculum suitable for Christian private and home schools, and a second edition suitable for public and secular private schools. The need just became more obvious than ever. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/cornwall-alliance-stewardship-creation/ | en | null | null | 3,769 |
Between 1 January 2010 and 31 July 2014, research on the carbon tax appeared on 209 occasions in print media, 363 occasions on radio and 261 occasions on television. The hosted 34 events in nine cities between 2007 and 2014 aimed to educate and inform the public about the carbon tax. The also published the best-selling books Climate Change: The Facts in 2010, and Climate Change: The Facts 2014. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/institute-public-affairs/ | en | null | null | 3,736 |
Just because you’re a member of a group doesn’t mean you’re supporting and involved in every aspect of the group, | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/mark-holden/ | en | null | null | 4,146 |
The focus on greenhouse gas mitigation, both domestically and internationally, has been misplaced, and the money and attention of world leaders toward greenhouse gas mitigation efforts would be best directed elsewhere. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | FLICC | https://huggingface.co/datasets/fzanartu/FLICCdataset | en | CARDS | null | 853 |
I fully agree that climate change is happening. I think the evidence is very strong, but this department []’s role is making sure we adapt to climate change and that’s taken into account in all our modelling. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/liz-truss/ | en | null | null | 1,982 |
I’m certainly arguing that the evidence is such that we shouldn’t take the theory of man made global warming as a proven to be true, | 2_not_human | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/martin-durkin/ | en | null | null | 2,774 |
The science is settled? While I got the impression there’s plenty of consensus among the scientists at the Santa Fe conference on a warming planet, there wasn’t much agreement on points beyond that. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/franklin-centre-government-and-public-integrity/ | en | null | null | 4,929 |
Climate alarmism has little to do with the radiative properties of CO2. Rather, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) scary projections derive from conjectured ‘positive feedbacks,’ mostly from water vapour, that are presumed to dangerously amplify the otherwise welcome effects of radiative warming by atmospheric CO2. But again there is no proven correlation between higher atmospheric CO2 concentrations and these hypothetical feedbacks, including moist vaporous ones. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/manning-foundation-for-democratic-education/ | en | null | null | 5,211 |
To voters who DON'T think they are stupid, AF:When politicians tell you that they have a "plan" to address "climate change"......they DON'T! To believe that bunch of shit shows JUST how stupid you are and will always be. Give yourselves a trophy.-Carry on. | 0_not_relevant | FLICC | https://huggingface.co/datasets/fzanartu/FLICCdataset | en | hamburg_test1 | null | 1,166 |
Fancy that, the Global Warming narrative doesn't fit with actual reality. 2 months ago an independent report on The Great Barrier Reef, confirmed it has recovered dramatically and is in the best shape it has been in for 36 years. | 1_not_happening | FLICC | https://huggingface.co/datasets/fzanartu/FLICCdataset | en | hamburg_test3 | null | 971 |
Climate scientists and their media champions equate such scepticism with scepticism about, say, the theory of evolution. Yet evolution is an explanation of facts; dangerous man-made climate change is a prediction about the future. Theories about the future are always less reliable than theories about the past. I can have confidence that the reports that it rained last Tuesday are true, while doubting the forecast that it will rain next Tuesday. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/matt-ridley/ | en | null | null | 2,701 |
Banning fracking in California, which would be one of the safest and cleanest operations globally, denies natural gas supplies to the world that could lower natural gas prices. Lower natural gas prices would encourage greater use of natural gas and have positive impacts on emissions (from a global perspective). Though this process is more ‘unseen.’ it shows how California’s own global warming policies unintentionally undermine its own goals. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/pacific-research-institute/ | en | null | null | 4,495 |
Proponents of policies to control human-induced global warming cite science as the basis for their claims and proposals. There is only one problem – as much as they claim otherwise, there is no scientific consensus for their theories. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/h-sterling-burnett/ | en | null | null | 3,847 |
Of the many points to be made, here are a few Koonin’s analysis totally fails to consider the significant risk of very serious impacts on marine life of ocean acidification from the rising concentration. Impacts are already affecting those growing oysters and other shelled organisms in the Pacific Northwest, and coral atolls around the world are at risk over coming decades—and that is pure chemistry totally independent of climate models Koonin’s point that the climate has changed so much in the past is actually one of the key reasons to be worried about human-induced climate change. Were the past climate stable even as the various natural forcings were changing, then there would be less reason for concern that human-induced forcings could change the climate. But reality is that past natural forcings caused significant changes in the climate—and now human activities are leading to forcings that are comparable to or even larger than natural ones in the past. In addition, the forcings being created will change climate more rapidly than have natural factors, making this unprecedented except for the catastrophic changes that have followed the impacts of large asteroids. Thus, contrary to Koonin’s assertion that past climate change suggests a policy of caution, a more appropriate conclusion would be that insights gained from past climate change should be leading to much more aggressive policy action than is now underway Yes, there is lots more to be learned, but the basic physics of the climate change issue have been clear since the 1960s when the President’s Science Advisory Council sent their report to President Johnson and Congress in 1965. Except for refrigerants of various types, human activities are adding increasing amounts of carbon dioxide (and other substances) to the atmosphere that are amplifying the natural warming effect of these substances in the atmosphere—it is not that we are not familiar with the substances we are adding to the atmosphere and have dealt with for decades. That these gases will cause warming has been recognized since the mid-19th century and adding more will surely cause more warming. Certainly, there are more questions to be investigated and resolved, and they do affect how best to adapt and other policies—but they do not alter at all the fundamental reality that human activities have become the primary driver of changes in climate, overwhelming the cycling changes in solar radiation and being much longer lasting than the occasional volcanic eruptions On sea level rise, Koonin’s comments are again mistaken and misleading. The present rate of sea level rise is well above the rate for the first half of the 20th century. The relatively stable climate that has allowed civilization to expand over the last several thousand years has kept sea level quite constant—you can still visit the coast of Sicily and find the remains of salt flats constructed in ancient times. That climate change can cause sea level to change is a key lesson from past changes in the climate that Koonin fails to mention. Since the peak of the last glacial cycle, sea level rose about 20 meters for each one degree Celsius increase in global average temperature (equivalent to a sea level rise of about 30 feet per degree Fahrenheit!!) While it took centuries or more for the full effect to be felt in the past when natural forcings were changing slowly, the adjustment will likely be much more rapid with the faster increase in forcing due to human activities. While the rate of rise will likely decrease slowly with warming because there is less ice on land to be melted, there are still about 75 meters (near 250 feet) of potential sea level rise in the ice tied up in the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets, which have been experiencing accelerated loss of mass. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/steve-koonin/ | en | null | null | 2,368 |
The movement to convince the public of catastrophic global warming is fundamentally unscientific. Its leaders do not, as true scientists would, objectively study and relay the full evidence about what drives the climate, they fixate obsessively on CO2. They do not share how poorly understood climate drivers are; they act as if they can predict the climate with certainty. Through manipulation of government agencies, a credulous media, and many of their cloistered colleagues in academia, they have managed to take over much of the field of climatology and the vast majority of its public relations. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/center-industrial-progress/ | en | null | null | 4,115 |
We will still continue to need to use gas into the next decades as we decarbonize our system, and we will be able to import it from overseas, but it’s very disappointing. | 7_fossil_fuels_needed | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/andrea-leadsom/ | en | null | null | 4,780 |
Whether you believe in alternative energy or not, one thing we can tell you for a fact—whether it works or not, that’s all to be seen in the progress of time—it’s up to its neck in crony capitalism, | 6_proponents_biased | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/steve-bannon/ | en | null | null | 4,131 |
Instead, by a two-to-one margin, B.C. elected municipal officials approved a motion from Interior towns and cities stating climate lawsuits are ‘an inappropriate direction for B.C. communities’ and calling for a collaborative approach to the very real challenges of climate change. Practicality and good sense won the day. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/stewart-muir/ | en | null | null | 2,950 |
Gale Klappa served as president of the ICE board more than 25 years ago. During his time as CEO , Wisconsin Energy has invested more than $9 billion to modernize our fleet of power plants and add state of the art emission controls. These investments have resulted in an 80 percent drop in overall emissions. In fact, our carbon dioxide emissions were lower in 2013 than in 2000. And we will continue to comply with any and all regulations that are set. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/gale-klappa/ | en | null | null | 5,625 |
When correlating CO2 with temperature trends in various periods of cyclical warming and cooling the last 110 years we find a negative correlation from the late 1800s to 1917 (-0.35), positive from 1917 to 1940 (+0.43), negative during the WWII and post WWII boom from 1940 to around 1975 (-0.40), positive from 1975 to around 2000 (+0.36) and negative in the short period to 2009 (-0.56). | 5_science_unreliable | FLICC | https://huggingface.co/datasets/fzanartu/FLICCdataset | en | CARDS | null | 524 |
Now the really good news: The increase in our atmospheric carbon dioxide during the 20th and early 21st centuries has produced no deleterious effects upon Earth’s weather and climate. There is absolutely no correlation between the increase in CO2 and average worldwide or US temperatures. And, predictions of harmful climatic effects due to future increases in hydrocarbon use and resulting increases in minor greenhouse gases such as CO2 do not conform to current experimental knowledge or have any scientific basis. On the other hand, increased carbon dioxide has markedly increased plant growth. Forest growth and farm crop output per acre have grown proportionally with increased atmospheric CO2 that is a key to photosynthesis in plants. | 2_not_human | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/john-coleman/ | en | null | null | 2,455 |
Consequently, there is a serious risk that climate related socio-economic or geopolitical decisions made by political decision-makers are based on unsubstantiated scientific evidence. The development of a low carbon economy, the promotion of, and subsidies for alternative energies, electrical vehicles, underwater or underground carbon trapping, cap and trade mechanisms, etc. could be part of such unsubstantiated decisions with huge global consequences for the competitiveness of industries, and of nations in attracting these industries. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/henri-masson/ | en | null | null | 5,016 |
CO2 is basically plant food, and the more CO2 in the environment the better plants do, | 3_not_bad | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/roger-bezdek/ | en | null | null | 1,841 |
But if ECS is high‚ say, around four degrees or more then climate change is probably a big problem . We may not be able to stop it , but we'd better get ready to adapt to it . | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | FLICC | https://huggingface.co/datasets/fzanartu/FLICCdataset | en | jindev | null | 537 |
As someone who has guided students through the models and statistics of climate change here at AU for the past decade, I can tell your readers that the models, while fascinating in their construction, are in their infancy, both in looking backwards and in looking forwards. They certainly have misfired badly over the past 15 years, predicting one of those degrees of temperature rise but seeing, in reality, absolute zero. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/caleb-rossiter/ | en | null | null | 2,806 |
And we should also be clear, too, Khashoggi is being presented as a hero of journalism. He’s probably going to be Time magazine’s Man of the Year just because he is a dead so-called journalist. But in fact he was kind of a deep state Saudi spook who just happened to fall out with the royal family. In a sense, it’s different sets of bad guys we’re arguing about when we’re talking about Saudi Arabia. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/mark-steyn/ | en | null | null | 5,596 |
I think it’s important to see the problem with clear eyes: The rise of secular religions like wokeness and climateism in America,” he said As much as I’ve been complaining about woke culture and identifying that problem, I think the way we solve it is by delivering an American national identity that is so powerful that it dilutes those woke agendas to irrelevance. | 6_proponents_biased | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/vivek-ramaswamy/ | en | null | null | 4,341 |
The truth or not of climate change is not the important point. Politics is about what people believe, not the truth. Thus we’ve been advocating a carbon tax on the grounds that we know they’re going to do something so we might as well tell everyone to do what will cure the problem, if it exists, at least cost. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/tim-worstall/ | en | null | null | 3,175 |
Why is it that human emissions of carbon dioxide drive global warming yet natural emissions do not? | 2_not_human | FLICC | https://huggingface.co/datasets/fzanartu/FLICCdataset | en | jintrain | null | 784 |
We are entering a solar cycle of much reduced sunspots, very similar to that which accompanied the change from the Medieval Warm Period to the Little Ice Age, which virtually all scientists agree was caused by solar variation. Thus, we seem to be headed for cooler temperatures as a result of reduced solar irradiance. | 1_not_happening | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/don-easterbrook/ | en | null | null | 4,057 |
Why ? That sounds like a fantastic idea ! Ghomer should simply pray to Jesus to make the sun smaller so we wouldn't have this global warming. | 3_not_bad | FLICC | https://huggingface.co/datasets/fzanartu/FLICCdataset | en | hamburg_test3 | null | 1,409 |
We want to facilitate this conversation about, for lack of a better term, unity,” Rutherford told a crowd of about 50 people, mostly PCs, who had gathered in Calgary on Tuesday night to discuss bringing together the right wing I am going to go around Alberta in a pickup truck and talk to people and find out what people want to do going forward. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/alberta-prosperity-fund/ | en | null | null | 2,537 |
Climate change agenda is to rob & control industry, business, farms, food supply, you, what you eat, do & use with automatic deductions from bank accounts for exceeding carbon allowance & GM food in schools already in place? #TheGreatReset #NWO #Agenda2030 #DigitalCurrency #CBDC | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | FLICC | https://huggingface.co/datasets/fzanartu/FLICCdataset | en | hamburg_test1 | null | 154 |
All state leaders should protect their citizens from higher electricity prices and job losses by rejecting the Obama administration’s call to submit a state plan, | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/phil-kerpen/ | en | null | null | 3,009 |
There are measurable cycles with the sun, Earth's orbit , oceans and moon that drive climate change, especially if cycles coincide. It has yet to be demonstrated that the climate change today is any different from those of the past. | 2_not_human | FLICC | https://huggingface.co/datasets/fzanartu/FLICCdataset | en | jintest | null | 1,686 |
I do find it extraordinary that people call carbon dioxide a pollutant because as I understand it, you know, plants don’t grow without carbon dioxide […] I’ve often asked the question: what about sunspot activity? Surely, historically, when it comes to the planet heating up and cooling down, sunspot activity is a factor, and yet that doesn’t get talked about. And then of course we’ve got volcano particularly underwater volcanoes in the Pacific Ocean and from what I can understand it only 3% of carbon dioxide that’s in our atmosphere is produced by man. | 2_not_human | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/nigel-farage/ | en | null | null | 2,901 |
Even in Germany, increased reliance on wind and solar has resulted in energy chaos. Berlin is facing energy shortages as both wind and solar have failed during the ongoing winter, and coal plants are running at full capacity to meet the demand. | 4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/vijay-jayaraj/ | en | null | null | 6,029 |
And then you add in the media, with people like Leonardo DiCaprio and Laurie David telling kids if you’re a global warming skeptic, you are not cool. I guess they’re afraid the kids will instantly become skeptics if they hear any opposing ideas. | 6_proponents_biased | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/marc-morano/ | en | null | null | 4,721 |
Met Office view of climate change, ‘there is currently no clear evidence of a link to recent dry periods in the UK.’ No evidence for CC. | 5_science_unreliable | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/katie-hopkins/ | en | null | null | 3,863 |
AFPM acknowledges climate change is real and is committed to the development of sound policies that enable our members to supply the fuel and petrochemicals that growing global populations and economies need to thrive, and to do so in an environmentally sustainable way. | 0_not_relevant | Desmog | https://www.desmog.com/american-fuel-petrochemical-manufacturers-afpm/ | en | null | null | 2,733 |
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