The Climate Denier's Playbook

Carbon dioxide is part of a plant’s diet THEREFORE unmitigated carbon emissions are automatically a good thing.

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SOURCES

• 1992 Western Fuels Association “The Greening of Planet Earth.” (1992, January 1). Climate Files.
• Burrell, A. L., Evans, J. P., & De Kauwe, M. G. (2020). Anthropogenic climate change has driven over 5 million km 2 of drylands towards desertification. Nature Communications, 11(1), 3853. 
• Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change. (n.d.). DeSmog. Retrieved September 2, 2023
• Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change. (n.d.). CO2 Science. Www.co2science.org.
• Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change. (2004, June 7). Center Staff. Web.archive.org.
• Cho, R. (2022, January 27). How Climate Change Will Affect Plants. State of the Planet; Columbia Climate School. 
• CO2 Science. (n.d.). Www.co2science.org. 
• Columbia Earth Institute. (2017, August 28). Climate May Quickly Drive Forest-Eating Beetles North, Says Study. State of the Planet. 
• Congressional Record - 108th Congress. (2003). PROCEEDINGS AND DEBATES OF THE 108 th. United States Congress. [PDF DOWNLOAD] 
• Copenhagen Consensus Center. (n.d.). DeSmog. 
• Craig Idso. (n.d.). DeSmog.
• Duffy, K. A., Schwalm, C. R., Arcus, V. L., Koch, G. W., Liang, L. L., & Schipper, L. A. (2021). How close are we to the temperature tipping point of the terrestrial biosphere? Science Advances, 7(3), eaay1052. 
• Dykstra, P. (2006, February 10). CNN.com - Commentary: Global warming sizzles in pop culture - Oct 13, 2005. Www.cnn.com. 
• EIR. (1990, February 26). CO2 increase could benefit Earth’s biosphere. EIR Science & Technology; EIR Volume 17, Number 5. [PDF]
• Gilbert, N. (2020, December 19). Will Rising Temperatures Make Superweeds Even Stronger? Wired. 
• Goldenberg, S. (2014, April 9). Climate change is good for you, says ultra-conservative Heartland Institute. The Guardian. 
• Goldenberg, S. (2018, February 14). Greenpeace exposes sceptics hired to cast doubt on climate science. The Guardian; The Guardian. 
• Goldenberg, S., & Bengtsson, H. (2016, June 13). Biggest US coal company funded dozens of groups questioning climate change. The Guardian. 
• Green, J. K., Seneviratne, S. I., Berg, A. M., Findell, K. L., Hagemann, S., Lawrence, D. M., & Gentine, P. (2019). Large influence of soil moisture on long-term terrestrial carbon uptake. Nature, 565(7740), 476–479.
• Greening Earth Society. (1998). IN DEFENSE OF CARBON DIOXIDE: A Comprehensive Review of Carbon Dioxide’s Effects on Human Health, Welfare, and The Environment. In Desmog. New Hope Environmental Services. [PDF] 
• Harkinson, J. (2009, December 5). No. 8: Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change (A.K.A. The Idso Family). Mother Jones. 
• Heartland Institute. (2012, January). Confidential Memo: 2012 Heartland Climate Strategy. Heartland Institute. [PDF] 
• Heritage Academy Mesa. (2022, August 25). Talent Show, Trips, PTO. Heritage Academy Mesa.
• Hille, K. (2019). Carbon Dioxide Fertilization Greening Earth, Study Finds. NASA. 
• Idso, S. B. (1980). The Climatological Significance of a Doubling of Earth’s Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Concentration. Science, 207(4438), 1462–1463. 
• Idso, S. B. (1982). Carbon Dioxide Friend or Foe? IBR Press.
• Information Council for the Environment. (1991). ICE Memo Archive. [PDF] 
• IPCC. (2019). Chapter 3 : Desertification — Special Report on Climate Change and Land. IPCC.
• Jones, M. (2005, June). Put a Tiger In Your Think Tank. Mother Jones. 
• Keith Idso. (n.d.). DeSmog. 
• Kirk, K. (2020, September 27). The video origin of the myth that global warming is good for agriculture. ClimateConnections.
• Lee, G. (1996, March 21). INDUSTRY FUNDS GLOBAL-WARMING SKEPTICS. The Washington Post.
• Molar-Candanosa, R. (2021, September 1). NASA at Your Table: Climate Change Impacts on Crop Growth. NASA.
• NASA. (2016, May 3). Rising Carbon Dioxide Levels Will Help and Hurt Crops. NASA. 
• NASA SVS. (2020, December 10). NASA Scientific Visualization Studio | Plants Are Struggling to Keep Up with Rising Carbon Dioxide Concentrations. NASA.GOV; NASA. 
• Oregon Petition. (2023, August 9). Wikipedia. 
• Readfearn, G. (2014, June 26). Bjorn Lomborg and the mysterious millions. Theecologist.org. 
• Sherwood B. Idso. (n.d.). DeSmog. 
• Sneed, A. (2018, January 23). Ask the Experts: Does Rising CO2 Benefit Plants? Scientific American.
• Surgey, N. (2016, June 13). Peabody Coal Bankruptcy Reveals Climate Denial Network Funding. PR Watch. 
• Terrer, C., Phillips, R. P., Hungate, B. A., Rosende, J., Pett-Ridge, J., Craig, M. E., van Groenigen, K. J., Keenan, T. F., Sulman, B. N., Stocker, B. D., Reich, P. B., Pellegrini, A. F. A., Pendall, E., Zhang, H., Evans, R. D., Carrillo, Y., Fisher, J. B., Van Sundert, K., Vicca, S., & Jackson, R. B. (2021). A trade-off between plant and soil carbon storage under elevated CO 2. Nature, 591(7851), 599–603.

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First it was getting colder, now it’s getting hotter? wHiCh oNe iS iT?!

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• Researcher: Carly Rizzuto 
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• Music: Tony Domenick

SOURCES

• The Public Domain Review: First Paper to Link CO2 and Global Warming, by Eunice Foote (1856)
• Royal Meteorological Society: The artificial production of carbon dioxide and its influence on temperature (G.S. Callendar, 1938)
• NASA: World of Change: Global Temperatures
• SCISPACE: The Dominance of Tropospheric Sulfate in Modifying Solar Radiation (R.J. Charlson, 1976)
• Science: Climate Forcing by Anthropogenic Aerosols (R.J. Charlson, 1992)
• TIME: Another Ice Age? (1974)
• SCRIBD: Newsweek's 'Global Cooling' Article From April 28, 1975 
• Brett Peake: In Search Of The Coming Ice Age ... With Leonard Nimoy (1978)
• American Meteorological Society: The Myth of the 1970s Global Cooling Scientific Consensus (Peterson et al., 2008)
• National Research Council: Carbon Dioxide and Climate: A Scientific Assessment (1979)
• Climate Files: 1997 Exxon’s Lee Raymond Speech at World Petroleum Congress (1997) 
• Perma.cc: Exxon Media Statement - Global Climate Change (2001)
• Inside Climate News: Exxon’s Own Research Confirmed Fossil Fuels’ Role in Global Warming Decades Ago (2015)
• C-SPAN: Sen. James Inhofe Clip (2003)
• Politifact: “How to Survive The Coming Ice Age" was a Time magazine cover story in 1977 - FALSE (2019)
• Climate Feedback: 1977 “coming ice age” Time magazine cover is a fake (2019)
• TIME: Sorry, a TIME Magazine Cover Did Not Predict a Coming Ice Age (2019)
• Politico: How Trump gets his fake news (2017) 
• Twitter: Trump Tweet (2013) 
• JRE Podcast: Joe Rogan Experience #1928 – Jimmy Corsetti & Ben van Kerkwyk (2023)
• C-SPAN: President Trump: "I don't think science knows, actually." (YouTube, 2020)
• Wikipedia: Global Cooling

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NO!!! The radical left is using climate lockdowns to imprison us in communist cities where we’ll be forced to walk to all the nearby amenities.

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SOURCES

• Google Trends: “15 Min City” Search term interest since 2018
• What Is A "15 Minute City" & Why Are They Part Of "The Great Reset"? w/ Marc Morano – Ask Dr. Drew (YouTube)
• AFP Factcheck: Ohio train derailment fuels 15-minute city conspiracy theories (2023) 
• Instagram post by standupcardiff (2023)
• Reuters Fact Check: Fact Check-‘15-minute city’ is an urban planning concept that promotes easy access to essential amenities (2023)
• Institute for Strategic Dialogue: ‘Climate Lockdown’ and the Culture Wars: How COVID-19 Sparked a New Narrative Against Climate Action (2021) 
• Project Syndicate: Avoiding a Climate Lockdown (2020)
• MarketWatch: Opinion: We need to act boldly now if we are to avoid economy-wide lockdowns to halt climate change (2020) 
• TedTalk by Carlos Moreno: The 15-minute city
• MPDI: Introducing the “15-Minute City”: Sustainability, Resilience and Place Identity in Future Post-Pandemic Cities (2021)
• NYT: He Wanted to Unclog Cities. Now He’s ‘Public Enemy No. 1.’ (2023)
• Teen Vogue: What Are “15-Minute Cities” and Why Are Conspiracy Theorists Worried About Them?  (2023)
• NewsBusters: Soros/Gates-Funded Org ($6.5M): World May Need ‘Climate Lockdown' (2020)
• IPCC: Climate Change 2022 Mitigation of Climate Change, Working Group III Contribution to the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (2022, PDF Download)
• Coin Bureau: 15 Minute Cities: Oxford Won't Be the Same! (YouTube, 2023)
• Climate Depot: UK Guardian activists hope Coronavirus lockdown becomes climate lockdown: ‘What was once impossible (socialist, reckless) now turns out not to be, at all’ (2020)
• Oxfordshire County Council: Consultation on trial traffic filters (2022)
• Oxfordshire County Council: Traffic filters: What traffic filters are and how they will work.
• Oxfordshire City Counci’s Twitter post about 15 Minute Cities
• Vision News: Oxfordshire County Council Pass Climate Lockdown 'trial' to Begin in 2024 (2022)
• The Daily Sceptic: Oxford County Councillors to Introduce Trial Climate Lockdown in 2024 (2022) 
• Archive.org: Jordan Peterson Tweet (2022)
• Twitter: The New Statesman: The 15-minute City is a working-class nightmare (2023)
• Forbes: Tory MP Uses Conspiracy Theory In U.K. Parliament Against 15-Minute City Concept (2023)
• Archive.org: Fox News: The Ingraham Angle: In a Net-Zero Economy, You’ll Be Cold and Hungry (2023)
• USA Today: Fact Check: False claim UK city will test 'climate lockdowns' in 2024 (2022)
• AP News: Traffic plan in Oxfordshire, England, isn’t a ‘climate lockdown’ (2022)
• Reuters: Fact Check-Oxfordshire County Council to trial congestion-reducing traffic filters, not a ‘climate lockdown’ that stops residents leaving neighbourhoods (2022)
• DeSmog: Revealed: The Science Denial Network Behind Oxford’s ‘Climate Lockdown’ Backlash (2023)
• Bloomberg: The 15-Minute City Freakout Is a Case Study in Conspiracy Paranoia (2023)
• C40: Introducing Spotlight On: 15-minute cities (2021)
• Portland.gov: The Portland Plan (2012) 
• The Guardian: The Guardian view on the climate and coronavirus: global warnings (2020)

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The thing these “scientists” will never tell you is that the sun has natural cycles that are causing all the climate change.

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SOURCES

• Milankovitch Cycles NASA Article
• How scientists know it’s not just Milankovitch Cycles 
• More Milankovitch Science
• NASA 11-Year Cycle
• Space.com Solar Cycle
• Sun Spots
• NASA on Sun Spots and Solar Flares
• PBA Lane Maintenance Philosophy
• Best of Bowling: “Bowling Oil Patterns Explained (2022 Complete Guide)” 
• NASA: “Is the Sun Causing Global Warming?”
• NASA: “Why Milankovitch (Orbital) Cycles Can't Explain Earth's Current Warming” (2020)
• Skeptical Science: “Sun & climate: moving in opposite directions”
• Media Matters: “Fox Responds To New Obama Climate Action With Global Warming Denial” (2013)
• Tucker Carlson clip
• Ron Johnson clip
• 2003 James Inhofe speech video (C-SPAN)
• Willie Soon paper: “Proxy climatic and environmental changes of the past 1000 years” (PDF download)
• Transcription of Willie Soon’s 2003 testimony before U.S. Congress Committee on Environment and Public Works 
• Catalog of Willie Soon’s academic publications (ResearchGate)
• Inside Climate News: “Documents Reveal Fossil Fuel Fingerprints on Contrarian Climate Research” (2015)
• NYT: Deeper Ties to Corporate Cash for Doubtful Climate Researcher (2015)
• “Global Warming Swindle Debate Pt2” (YouTube)
• Piers Corbyn on RT in 2010, video clip
• Politifact: No, climate change isn’t driven by solar activity and lunar phases (Piers Corbyn clip on social media in 2022)
• Laura Ingraham 2022 Fox News clip, “There is no climate crisis: Tom Harris” (YouTube)

CORRECTIONS

• The documented meeting in which Dr. James Black informed Exxon executives of the dangers of climate change and its connection to fossil fuels took place in 1977, not 1979.

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Once we get everyone in an electric vehicle, we’ll be all good, brother! 

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SOURCES

• E.P.A. Lays Out Rules to Turbocharge Sales of Electric Cars and Trucks (NYT, 2023) 
• E-BIKE ACT (Congress.gov) 
• 9,000-Pound Electric Hummer Shows We Can’t Ignore Efficiency of EVs (ACEE, 2021) 
• Carmakers are pushing electric SUVs, but smaller is better when it comes to EVs (Guardian, 2023)
• Big electric trucks and SUVs are the new gas guzzlers (QZ, 2022) 
• Will Ferrell Super Bowl Ad - General Motors [2021] (YouTube)
• The Death of the Chevy Bolt Is Bad News for Earth (Gizmodo, 2023)
• Credits for New Clean Vehicles Purchased in 2023 or After (IRS, 2023) 
• Democratic Lawmakers Want to Give You Up to $1,500 to Buy an Electric Bike. Here's Why (NBC New York, 2023)
• These are the electric vehicles that qualify for a $7,500 tax credit (CBS News, 2023)

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How dare you criticize fossil fuels! Don’t you know you live in a society that has become utterly dependent on them?!? 

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SOURCES

• Richard Madeley Clashes With Climate Activist In Fiery Oil Protest Debate | Good Morning Britain (ITV, 2022) 
• Leslie Nielsen for Shell 1981 TV commercial (YouTube) 
• Energy Transfer: Life Runs On Energy, Connected by Oil and Natural Gas, Energy Transfer TV Commercial (YouTube) 
• 1997 Newspaper Advertisements by ClimateFacts.org, Global Climate Coalition, trade associations and unions (ClimateFiles) 
• Epcot's 30th: Mickey and Goofy Explore The Universe of Energy (Practical WDW) 
• API: Oil Progress Week Cartoon 
• The forgotten oil ads that told us climate change was nothing (Guardian, 2021) 
• Clear Energy Alliance: Thanks, Fossil Fuels (YouTube) 
• Friday Funny: Greta Thunberg’s perfect petroleum-free world (Watts Up With That?)

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From the minds that brought you Climate Town, comes… a podcast that's suspiciously similar to Climate Town.

Rollie Williams (Climate Town) and Nicole Conlan (The Daily Show) are two comedians with Master's Degrees in Climate Science & Policy and Urban Planning. But don’t get too excited, because they’re here to examine the pervasive myths and misinformation campaigns that are making it obnoxiously difficult to address the looming climate crisis you've probably heard about.

If you're looking to get your hands (ears) on some of the absolute coldest, hardest, climate changing-est facts to help sift through the noise, then you've come to the right place, brother.

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