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If you look at the time period from 1900 to 2050, surprisingly, for a lot of people, the net impact of most global warming was actually positive. That’s because is actually fertilizer, that means it increases our agricultural production. Of course, in the long run increasing temperatures is also going to reduce agricultural production. We will also see more people die from heat, but many more people will avoid to die from cold, again with moderate global warming. We are also seeing the lower costs of heating outweigh the extra costs of cooling. So, actually, if you look at what the cost is [of global warming] it turns out to be a slight negative around 1900 at about 0.5% and across the most of the century, mostly a negative.
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Desmog
https://www.desmog.com/bjorn-lomborg/
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5,225
The WOTUS rule was an unconscionable threat to the careful and delicate system of Western water regulation, affecting our ability to live, work, and raise families in the nation’s most beautiful places.
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Desmog
https://www.desmog.com/greg-walcher/
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The Endangered Species Act has not saved a single species. The tiny number of species delisted were helped by other factors, not the Act. It is time to repeal the Endangered Species Act and replace it with an incentive-based law that will make property owners welcome endangered species to their land rather than fear them. Save the species, not the Act.
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Desmog
https://www.desmog.com/center-defense-free-enterprise/
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3,461
Last year, the U.S. reduced its emissions by 3.9 percent. That reduction was larger than that of any other major industrialized country. In contrast, China's carbon-dioxide output soared by 6 percent and India's by 6.9 percent, while Brazil's rose by 2.5 percent and Mexico's by 4.3 percent.
4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary
FLICC
https://huggingface.co/datasets/fzanartu/FLICCdataset
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CARDS
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1,021
Calling environmentalism an ersatz religion may be overdone these days. But only because it’s such an accurate observation about a movement that demands absolute faith, expounds ineffable mysteries and warns of a terrifying Apocalypse,
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Desmog
https://www.desmog.com/manning-foundation-for-democratic-education/
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3,073
I largely agree with the overall conclusion of Pielke et al. that the IPCC assessment is overly optimistic,
5_science_unreliable
Desmog
https://www.desmog.com/vaclav-smil/
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3,943
The highest record temperature ever reported was 136 degrees Fahrenheit in Libya in 1922. The record high temperature for the United States was 134 degrees Fahrenheit in Death Valley, California in 1913. Fossil fuel emissions in 1913 and 1922 were negligible compared to today.
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FLICC
https://huggingface.co/datasets/fzanartu/FLICCdataset
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jintrain
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1,585
If you go up to Glacier Park, you have your lunch along the glaciers, you’ll see the glacier recede while you eat lunch. So, you know, I have seen the change in my lifetime.
0_not_relevant
Desmog
https://www.desmog.com/ryan-zinke/
en
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null
1,955
Let’s agree there’s a lot we really don’t know about how climate will change in the 21st century and beyond,
5_science_unreliable
Desmog
https://www.desmog.com/lee-raymond/
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3,152
He emphatically stated that atmospheric CO2 is not a pollutant. In fact, increased levels of CO2 reduce the negative effects of a number of plant stresses including: high salinity, low light, high and low temperatures, insufficient water, air pollution, and protects against herbivores i.e. being eaten by animals and insects.
3_not_bad
FLICC
https://huggingface.co/datasets/fzanartu/FLICCdataset
en
CARDS
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34
There is an existential threat related to climate, as Climate Strike activists claim, but it comes from the radical political agenda being promoted under cover of ‘saving the planet.’ The evidence refutes the claim that human emissions of carbon dioxide can catastrophically disrupt the Earth’s climate. Continuing to spend trillions of dollars to ‘fight climate change’ will have no effect on the climate and cannot meet human energy needs with ‘renewables. The existential threat is to our freedom, our prosperity, our capacity to provide medical care, and the integrity of our science and our profession. Physicians need to evaluate evidence independently and shun groupthink. They must not sacrifice their patients’ welfare to serve an agenda.
5_science_unreliable
Desmog
https://www.desmog.com/jane-m-orient/
en
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null
4,014
Whatever detrimental effects warming and higher carbon dioxide may have had on terrestrial species and ecosystems, they have been swamped by the contribution of fossil fuels to increased biological productivity.
7_fossil_fuels_needed
FLICC
https://huggingface.co/datasets/fzanartu/FLICCdataset
en
jindev
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775
You will be forced to buy ineffective boilers and expensive electric cars. That’s why you’re made to pay for windmills, a technology that was cutting-edge just after the Norman Conquest.
4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary
Desmog
https://www.desmog.com/david-frost/
en
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2,556
Hey could you hurry up with the climate change because Buffalo had 36 in and New York 81 inches of snow recently and its very cold here in the Western United States. Get this climate change going so it will warm up. Thanks. That is all. LOL
1_not_happening
FLICC
https://huggingface.co/datasets/fzanartu/FLICCdataset
en
hamburg_test3
null
1,478
I am a climate lukewarmer. That means I think recent global warming is real, mostly man-made and will continue but I no longer think it is likely to be dangerous and I think its slow and erratic progress so far is what we should expect in the future. That last year was the warmest yet, in some data sets, but only by a smidgen more than 2005, is precisely in line with such lukewarm thinking,
3_not_bad
Desmog
https://www.desmog.com/matt-ridley/
en
null
null
5,486
Is Climate Change Really Killing Polar Bears? Scientists find new population in ice-free sea
3_not_bad
FLICC
https://huggingface.co/datasets/fzanartu/FLICCdataset
en
hamburg_test2
null
1,363
I’ve always said that climate change has existed since the year dot and it will continue to exist. I’m a fan of reducing emissions because I want cleaner, quieter cities, I live in them.
0_not_relevant
Desmog
https://www.desmog.com/richard-tice/
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2,612
And by the way it is madness, at least according to your book, this alternative energy which really tries to compete with dollars for fossil fuel,
7_fossil_fuels_needed
Desmog
https://www.desmog.com/steve-bannon/
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null
2,824
You’re wrong only because you’re not looking at real science. And I flew here just to be one voice of scientific reason rather than emotion.
5_science_unreliable
Desmog
https://www.desmog.com/jay-h-lehr/
en
null
null
2,041
The answer to the third question may be that there is a generally positive effect if the only change to the atmosphere was a significant increase in CO2 concentration. Most plant growth increases at higher levels of CO2.
3_not_bad
FLICC
https://huggingface.co/datasets/fzanartu/FLICCdataset
en
CARDS
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241
The people at Heartland are working from a reality-based viewpoint of the climate issue saying in effect, ‘Hey wait a minute, look at this,’ to the people that would follow the path of climate alarmism hook, line, and sinker,” Watts said. “Despite having a tiny fraction of the budget and social media outreach some green organizations have, they have done a fantastic job of countering climate alarmism Laughably, my critics have said for years that I have been ‘on the payroll’ of Heartland in some ‘nefarious capacity,’ even though I’ve never been on their payroll. I figure I might as well give these folks something factual to talk about now instead of just innuendo and smear campaigns,” Watts said I credit the efforts of Heartland in President Trump’s decision to exit from the Paris Climate Accord,” Watts added. “What reality-based climate skeptic wouldn’t want to be on that winning team? I look forward to being able to help Heartland dispel fear and overreaction to climate hysteria by providing factual essays and research that helps policy makers with climate related decisions.
6_proponents_biased
Desmog
https://www.desmog.com/anthony-watts/
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2,061
This new booklet, compiled by some of the finest climate scientists and economists, undermines this comfortable conceit. Stressing anew the total uncertainty of climate change science, the authors challenge the key antinomy at the heart of Kyoto – namely that climate is one of the most complex systems known, yet we claim we can manage it by trying to control a small set of factors, namely greenhouse gas emissions. The dangers of such a viewpoint for public policy are made abundantly apparent.
5_science_unreliable
Desmog
https://www.desmog.com/philip-stott/
en
null
null
2,363
Let’s find out by comparing the actual temperatures since 1979 with what the 32 families of climate models used in the latest U.N. report on climate science predicted they would be.
5_science_unreliable
FLICC
https://huggingface.co/datasets/fzanartu/FLICCdataset
en
Alhindi_train
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600
Contrary to the breathless assertions that climate change is behind every weather event, in Australia the floods are not bigger, the bushfires are not worse, the droughts are not deeper or longer, and the cyclones are not more severe than they were in the 1800s. Sometimes, they do more damage but that’s because there’s more to destroy, not because their intensity has increased.
1_not_happening
Desmog
https://www.desmog.com/tony-abbott/
en
null
null
2,435
It seems reasonable to assume that INEOS’ emissions amount to millions, if not tens of millions of CO2 every year,
0_not_relevant
Desmog
https://www.desmog.com/jim-ratcliffe/
en
null
null
5,393
Human flourishing depends on energy use, often in invisible and unnoticed ways. A reliable energy supply can feed the hungry, take care of the sick, and ensure a prosperous economic future for society. It promotes freedom and independence around the world and right here at home,
7_fossil_fuels_needed
Desmog
https://www.desmog.com/life-powered/
en
null
null
2,888
The Little Ice Age (LIA) showed that the present warming trend began prior to the major impact of the Industrial Revolution. Significant production of CO2 by humans began only after World War II.
2_not_human
FLICC
https://huggingface.co/datasets/fzanartu/FLICCdataset
en
CARDS
null
646
According to U.S. tax documents, The Fraser Institute received $150,000 from the Charles G. Koch Charitable Foundation in 2008, $175,500 in 2009, and another $150,000 in 2010. The grants were purportedly for “research support” and “educational programs.
0_not_relevant
Desmog
https://www.desmog.com/fraser-institute/
en
null
null
3,890
The moral of Genesis I is that Being brought into existence through true speech is Good. This is true even of man himself, prior to his separation from God. This goodness is terribly disrupted by the events of the fall (and of Cain and Abel and the Flood and the Tower of Babel), but we retain an intimation of the prelapsarian state. We remember, so to speak. We remain eternally nostalgic for the innocense of childhood, the divine, unconscious Being of the animal, and the untouched cathedral-like old-growth forest. We find respite in such things. We worship them, even if we are self-proclaimed atheistic environmentalists of the most anti-human sort.
0_not_relevant
Desmog
https://www.desmog.com/jordan-peterson/
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null
null
3,556
If you see a polar bear floating on an iceberg somewhere, it doesn’t mean that it has warmed, it doesn’t mean that it has warmed by humans, and it doesn’t even mean that they’re less polar bears. […] It’s just noise around us trying to interfere with the real science.
2_not_human
Desmog
https://www.desmog.com/nir-shaviv/
en
null
null
3,202
In other words, increasing atmospheric CO2 is not causing global temperature to rise; instead the natural cyclic increase in global temperature is causing global CO2 to rise.
2_not_human
FLICC
https://huggingface.co/datasets/fzanartu/FLICCdataset
en
CARDS
null
1,528
In fact, this year was cooler than years such as 1762, 1779 and 1826, and more than a degree colder than 1783.
1_not_happening
FLICC
https://huggingface.co/datasets/fzanartu/FLICCdataset
en
CARDS
null
1,267
This campaign to control climate by changing CO2 levels won’t achieve anything. It’s not there to control climate, it’s there to control you.
4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary
Desmog
https://www.desmog.com/piers-corbyn/
en
null
null
1,899
People have been calling climate change and the fossil fuel industry the next tobacco for about the past 23 years. It hasn’t happened yet, but maybe these cases will be the ones that finally bring that across the finish line. It seems unlikely to me. Then, if you want to talk about exaggeration and conspiracy mongering, you only really need to look at several of these complaints.
0_not_relevant
Desmog
https://www.desmog.com/andrew-grossman/
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null
4,658
Koch also supports numerous foundations including the Charles G. Koch Charitable Foundation, the David H. Koch Charitable Foundation, the Koch Institute, and the Claude R. Lambe Charitable Foundation. Koch expects the foundations that it supports to fund groups that further its financial interests. Koch constructively controls how the foundations that it supports direct their philanthropic activities.
0_not_relevant
Desmog
https://www.desmog.com/american-petroleum-institute/
en
null
null
3,005
The church has got no mandate from the Lord to pronounce on scientific matters,” he said We believe in the autonomy of science.
0_not_relevant
Desmog
https://www.desmog.com/cardinal-george-pell/
en
null
null
2,734
It is power over people by unelected activists, often funded from outside Australia.
6_proponents_biased
FLICC
https://huggingface.co/datasets/fzanartu/FLICCdataset
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jintrain
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189
We, I think we’re responsible—one of two or three groups that could genuinely claim responsibility for defeating cap and trade and carbon tax proposals at the national level for a ten year period, pretty much from 2007 until today. think we’re the reason President Trump discovered, or concluded that climate change is not a real problem and not a crisis facing the country, and that by running on that—by defending coal miners for example—he could appeal to a very big base in the United States. People who expected all along that global warming was junk science, that they would rather have good jobs and inexpensive energy than pursue some liberal dream of, you know, replacing all fossil fuel with wind and solar power.
1_not_happening
Desmog
https://www.desmog.com/joseph-bast/
en
null
null
1,806
Can you liberals *please* ask the important question "hey, where does the electricity come from?" before you think electric vehicles will solve global warming
7_fossil_fuels_needed
FLICC
https://huggingface.co/datasets/fzanartu/FLICCdataset
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hamburg_test3
null
975
I don’t want you to cover me,” Krause said to the interviewer. “If you’re covering this rally, I’m leaving right now” she said. “I don’t do any media with The Rebel.
0_not_relevant
Desmog
https://www.desmog.com/vivian-m-krause/
en
null
null
2,747
Fracking will happen at some stage, so why the hell don’t we get on with it now?
7_fossil_fuels_needed
Desmog
https://www.desmog.com/rupert-lowe/
en
null
null
2,047
Those laws would continue in effect after the EPA rule is struck down, and would create permanent rent-seeking corporate cronies who benefit from emissions trading and renewables mandates that would make the laws almost impossible to repeal.
4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary
Desmog
https://www.desmog.com/phil-kerpen/
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null
null
2,558
Poor Jill, so scientifically mislead, inept at critical thinking and self-important. Not a single global warming/cooling prediction has ever come true, so have children and teach them not to be indoctrinated like you.
1_not_happening
FLICC
https://huggingface.co/datasets/fzanartu/FLICCdataset
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hamburg_test2
null
1,082
One thing ive never understood about climate change "activists" is their inability to understand that the electricity being used to power electric cars would most likely comes from a fossil fuel power plant. If y'all are all for clean energy, use nuclear energy!
7_fossil_fuels_needed
FLICC
https://huggingface.co/datasets/fzanartu/FLICCdataset
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hamburg_test3
null
474
But waiting for ‘eventually’ to prove the alarmists wrong is not the wisest course of action. Unfullfillable ambitions to stifle growth will devastate a world trying to deal with the complexities of economics, stability, and the environment. Quality of life depends on access to energy. Noble intentions about ‘C02-free’ sources of energy are not sufficient, if their agenda of eliminating coal as a source, and turning their back on nuclear, are allowed to be part of our near-term policies.
4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary
Desmog
https://www.desmog.com/john-h-sununu/
en
null
null
2,904
One thing is back off on some of the regulations,” he said. “It’s very costly to operate here in America compared to Mexico for sure. So back off on some regulations… a lot of those are punitive in nature… and make it where companies can produce their goods right here in America. And certainly taxes… I think that’ll be job number one as this administration goes forward.
0_not_relevant
Desmog
https://www.desmog.com/harold-hamm/
en
null
null
4,843
In truth, the deal – an exercise in political hysteria – is a disaster for anyone who believes in preserving the prime values in American society: personal responsibility and freedom.
6_proponents_biased
Desmog
https://www.desmog.com/james-k-glassman/
en
null
null
4,117
Even the liberal newspaper The Washington Post cannot deny how cold it has been recently.
1_not_happening
Desmog
https://www.desmog.com/accuracy-media/
en
null
null
3,385
Yes, what logic […] brilliant. […] I don’t know anything … so rather than keeping my big fat mouth shut until I learn something, I’ll side with the likes of Al Gore, Osama bin Laden, Charles Manson, the Discovery Channel gunman, Nancy Pelosi, Barack Obama, Harry Reid, Henry Waxman, Bobby Rush and every other whacked out, intellectually and morally bankrupt believer in global warming.
6_proponents_biased
Desmog
https://www.desmog.com/steve-milloy/
en
null
null
4,555
Whether short or long-term, the state-of-the-art empirical satellite evidence is not only obvious, it is both climate and statistically significant: CO2 emissions have not had a significant influence (warming or cooling) on atmospheric temperatures. For objective science, this means that the CO2-centric anthropogenic global warming hypothesis is essentially invalidated, as it is currently understood.
2_not_human
FLICC
https://huggingface.co/datasets/fzanartu/FLICCdataset
en
CARDS
null
1,184
Preserving our natural environment is vital for the legacy we leave future generations and we must take action to combat climate change.
0_not_relevant
Desmog
https://www.desmog.com/esther-mcvey/
en
null
null
5,051
Many Americans assume that research funded by the federal government is the most trustworthy form of research. However, nearly every aspect of the federal grant making process is full of political maneuvering and potential bias.
5_science_unreliable
Desmog
https://www.desmog.com/center-accountability-science/
en
null
null
5,311
According to the complaint, the defendants deceptively claim that their journals provide authors with rigorous peer review and have editorial boards made up of prominent academics when in fact, many articles are published with little to no peer review and many individuals represented to be editors have not agreed to be affiliated with the journals The FTC’s complaint alleges that the defendants do not tell authors submitting papers for publication that, after their online journals accept an article, the defendants charge the authors significant publishing fees and often do not allow authors to withdraw their articles from submission, making their research ineligible for publication in other journals.
0_not_relevant
Desmog
https://www.desmog.com/albert-parker/
en
null
null
2,433
When we’re getting thousands of signatures there’s no way of filtering out a fake,
0_not_relevant
Desmog
https://www.desmog.com/art-robinson/
en
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null
5,611
People might call me a climate change denier — my position on climate change is yes, I do believe there is human impact on climate change, but there is no consensus whatsoever on how much impact there is,” Sensenbrenner told the Washington Examiner. He added he would take a “free market” perspective to the committee. I am interested in selling the American people that market-based solutions work rather than all kinds of bureaucratic taxes or regulations that haven’t worked in Europe, wouldn’t work here, and would be extremely unpopular with voters,” Sensenbrenner said in an interview. “We won’t win the House back if the Republican position is Green Revolution-light.
4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary
Desmog
https://www.desmog.com/jim-sensenbrenner/
en
null
null
2,391
Obama made EPA change the naming of Global Warming to Climate Change to mask the 410 ppm CO2 in the atmosphere and it's static nature, thereby eliminating Global Warming argument.
1_not_happening
FLICC
https://huggingface.co/datasets/fzanartu/FLICCdataset
en
hamburg_test3
null
769
The globe has been cooling since 1998
1_not_happening
FLICC
https://huggingface.co/datasets/fzanartu/FLICCdataset
en
hamburg_test3
null
1,685
My problem w/ that is the ppl rallying for climate change want to control you & not change their way of life: they fly private/1st class to Davos, they tell you to eat crickets/mealworms while they feast on steak, they waste carbon tax $ instead of building nuclear energy plants.
6_proponents_biased
FLICC
https://huggingface.co/datasets/fzanartu/FLICCdataset
en
hamburg_test2
null
130
Trump has already signed an executive order instructing the Environmental Protection Agency to rescind the Clean Power Plan and other Obama-era climate change regulations, but unless he instructs the agency to review and rescind the Endangerment Finding, he is simply treating the symptoms of this problem and not curing the disease.
0_not_relevant
Desmog
https://www.desmog.com/isaac-orr/
en
null
null
2,919
For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.
0_not_relevant
Desmog
https://www.desmog.com/brian-sussman/
en
null
null
3,171
We still can’t say if CO2 is a pollution. But, you know, it’s definitely there’s a lot of fear mongering on on what CO2 is and and what it does. So, lot of questions still to be asked and to be answered, and I think First Nations really have to come together and unify, to take stance on on such a [emissions] cap.
5_science_unreliable
Desmog
https://www.desmog.com/stephen-buffalo/
en
null
null
3,444
What we need to focus on is access to clean water, addressing these areas of superfund activities that may cause an attack on water, these issues of access to fuel. […] Those are things so important to citizens of Florida right now, and to discuss the cause and effect of these storms, there’s the […] place (and time) to do that, it’s not now.
0_not_relevant
Desmog
https://www.desmog.com/scott-pruitt/
en
null
null
5,578
You’re doing God’s work. Every time you turn your car on, and you burn fossil fuels, and you put CO2 in the air, you’re doing the work of the lord. Absolutely. That’s the system, the ecological system we live in.
3_not_bad
Desmog
https://www.desmog.com/fred-palmer/
en
null
null
4,426
The treaty won’t work, and should be opposed by those who recognize that economic growth and a sound environmental must go hand in hand.
4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary
Desmog
https://www.desmog.com/national-association-manufacturers/
en
null
null
5,334
Climate change not real, just google it
1_not_happening
FLICC
https://huggingface.co/datasets/fzanartu/FLICCdataset
en
hamburg_test1
null
466
I don’t see that CO2 is inducing any climate change. CO2 may have induced a small amount of warming that we saw in the 80’s and 90’s but more importantly CO2 is an inert gas, it is not a pollutant.
2_not_human
Desmog
https://www.desmog.com/madhav-khandekar/
en
null
null
5,734
What we’re announcing today is a moratorium, which is not the same as a ban, I mean there’s no doubt shale gas has huge potential in the But we’ve always said we’ll be led by the science and the oil and gas authority has made clear that the seismic activity that we saw in Preston New Road recently where there was shale gas being explored for, was unpredictable and unexpected. And we can’t guarantee that it wouldn’t be even worse than that.
0_not_relevant
Desmog
https://www.desmog.com/andrea-leadsom/
en
null
null
3,092
The morally superior choice is for people to be free to use energy to make their lives better. Today, that means having access to the abundant energy resources of coal, oil, and natural gas. Those are the technologies that lifted the developed world out of poverty, and they continue to lift millions out of poverty while they power the high-energy lives of those of us fortunate enough to live in the developed world.
7_fossil_fuels_needed
Desmog
https://www.desmog.com/american-energy-alliance-aea/
en
null
null
3,772
The climate is changing. No one is denying climate change. The climate’s changed, we know that. We did move to climate change instead of global warming at one point when we didn’t see global warming. So everytime we see a fire, or there is a tornado, or there is a drought or there is a hurricane, that is now blamed on global warming, even though a lot of these things, these extreme weather events, they’re actually not increasing at all are they, which surely they should be?
1_not_happening
Desmog
https://www.desmog.com/julia-hartley-brewer/
en
null
null
5,191
It will be up to 15 years before it is possible to do commercially so it will be very expensive. But carbon capture has great potential so we urgently need to do it.
0_not_relevant
Desmog
https://www.desmog.com/philip-stott/
en
null
null
5,226
Global warming is real, but a problem, not the end of the world. Claims of ‘catastrophic’ costs are ill founded. For instance, even assuming increasing hurricane damage from global warming, the relative impact on society will decrease. naction has costs, but so does action. It is likely that climate action will lead to higher total costs in this century. limate action through increased energy costs will likely harm the poor most, both in rich and poor countries..
4_solutions_harmful_unnecessary
Desmog
https://www.desmog.com/copenhagen-consensus-center/
en
null
null
5,390
Can any of the areas of the science now be considered settled as a result of AR5s publication, if so which? Unfortunately very few things are settled in the global warming debate.
5_science_unreliable
FLICC
https://huggingface.co/datasets/fzanartu/FLICCdataset
en
CARDS
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