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Chris Hayes: ‘The solution to global warming is just that—global’ — MSNBC

Without immediate intervention, extreme weather is predicted to continue and even worsen, the documentary reports.

EPA chief: 'Global warming' agenda will grow economy | Forbes on FOX | The Cost of Freedom

STEVE FORBES: ...The senator is right. The regulations coming out of the EPA are often not based on real science at all. This has done damage to the energy industry, hurt energy production, hurt the economy and if there is any opportunity out there, entrepreneurs will find it. Big government smothers opportunities, entrepreneurs find and create opportunities.

King: Global warming ‘not proven, not science’ - MessengerNews.net | News, Sports, Jobs, Community Info. - The Messenger

On the environment, [Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa] said efforts to fight global warming are both economically harmful and unnecessary.

"It is not proven, it's not science. It's more of a religion than a science," he said.

He said that even if carbon dioxide in the atmosphere causes the earth to warm, environmentalists only look at the bad from that, not the good.

"Everything that might result from a warmer planet is always bad in (environmentalists') analysis," he said. "There will be more photosynthesis going on if the Earth gets warmer. ... And if sea levels go up 4 or 6 inches, I don't know if we'd know that."

Bjørn Lomborg: We can’t defeat climate change by sticking to tired old policies

Lastly, David Nussbaum, chief executive of WWF­UK (Letters, August 5), argues that renewables are quite ready to take over. Yet, solar and wind contribute less than one­third of 1 per cent of global energy, and without massive subsidies almost nobody would deploy them. This is also the reason Mr Nussbaum can gloat that the Chinese are investing heavily in solar panels: they sell 98 per cent of all their solar panels to our incredibly subsidised markets.