MokshithSai15/ClimeAI huggingface dataset:
Claim: 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."
Verdict: NOT_ENOUGH_INFO
Evidence:
- Clean Power Plan: 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. [NOT_ENOUGH_INFO]
- Clean Power Plan: 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. [NOT_ENOUGH_INFO]
- Clean Power Plan: 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. [NOT_ENOUGH_INFO]
- Clean Power Plan: The plan would create 30 percent more renewable energy generation in 2030 and help to lower the costs of renewable energy. [NOT_ENOUGH_INFO]
- Clean Power Plan: The Obama administration designed the plan to lower the carbon dioxide emitted by power generators. [NOT_ENOUGH_INFO]
Claim: The Obama administration's "own Environmental Protection Agency" has said its Clean Power Plan "will have a marginal impact on climate change."
Verdict: NOT_ENOUGH_INFO
Evidence:
- Clean Power Plan: 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. [NOT_ENOUGH_INFO]
- Clean Power Plan: 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. [NOT_ENOUGH_INFO]
- Clean Power Plan: "The EPA Could Soon Formally Propose Repealing Obama's Key Climate Change Regulation". [NOT_ENOUGH_INFO]
- Clean Power Plan: 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." [NOT_ENOUGH_INFO]
- Clean Power Plan: 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. [NOT_ENOUGH_INFO]
Claim: The United States is the leading nation in the world "with the highest amount of doubt about the conventional wisdom of climate change."
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Evidence:
- Climate change denial: An Angus Reid poll released in 2010 indicates that global warming skepticism in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom has been rising. [NOT_ENOUGH_INFO]
- Climate change denial: 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." [SUPPORTS]
- Climate change denial: The number of these climate skeptics is greater in the US than in any other country. [SUPPORTS]
- Climate change denial: Today, climate change skepticism is most prominently seen in the United States, where the media disproportionately features views of the climate change denial community. [SUPPORTS]
- United States: The United States leads the world in scientific research papers and impact factor. [NOT_ENOUGH_INFO]
Claim: There are about 120,000 solar energy jobs in the United States, but only 1,700 of them are in Georgia.
Verdict: REFUTES
Evidence:
- Georgia (U.S. state): 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. [NOT_ENOUGH_INFO]
- Renewable energy in the United States: 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. [REFUTES]
- Renewable energy in the United States: There were 90,000 wind operations jobs in the United States in 2015. [NOT_ENOUGH_INFO]
- Solar power in the United States: The solar industry is currently one of the fastest growing in the United States, employing more than 250,000 people as of 2018. [REFUTES]
- Solar power in the United States: [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. [REFUTES]
Claim: There are already more American jobs in the solar industry than in coal mining.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Evidence:
- Coal mining: Cerrejón directly employs 4,600 workers, with a further 3,800 employed by contractors. [NOT_ENOUGH_INFO]
- Coal mining: The country's coal industry employs about 500,000 people. [NOT_ENOUGH_INFO]
- Renewable energy commercialization: A key benefit that this investment growth brings is a growth in jobs. [SUPPORTS]
- Renewable energy commercialization: Renewable power has been more effective in creating jobs than coal or oil in the United States. [SUPPORTS]
- West Virginia: "Today's Energy Jobs Are in Solar, Not Coal". [SUPPORTS]
Claim: There is a link between climate change and the NSW bushfires.
Verdict: DISPUTED
Evidence:
- 2013 New South Wales bushfires: 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. [REFUTES]
- 2013 New South Wales bushfires: "'Absolutely' a link between climate change and wildfires, U.N. climate chief Figueres tells Amanpour". [SUPPORTS]
- 2019–20 Australian bushfire season: 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. [SUPPORTS]
- 2019–20 Australian bushfire season: 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." [SUPPORTS]
- Wildfire: White House explains the link between Climate Change and Wild Fires. [SUPPORTS]
Claim: there is no relationship between temperature and carbon dioxide emissions by Â­humans[...]
Verdict: REFUTES
Evidence:
- Global warming: "Response of Arctic temperature to changes in emissions of short-lived climate forcers". [NOT_ENOUGH_INFO]
- Global warming: 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. [NOT_ENOUGH_INFO]
- Scientific consensus on climate change: Human-induced warming and associated sea level rises are expected to continue through the 21st century... [REFUTES]
- Scientific consensus on climate change: 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 ... [REFUTES]
- Scientific consensus on climate change: 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... [REFUTES]
Claim: There is not a single candidate in the Republican primary that thinks we should do anything about climate change.
Verdict: REFUTES
Evidence:
- Bernie Sanders 2016 presidential campaign: I believe we should have a tax on carbon and deal aggressively with climate change. [NOT_ENOUGH_INFO]
- Jill Stein: 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". [NOT_ENOUGH_INFO]
- Lindsey Graham: 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. [REFUTES]
- Republican Party (United States): Since then, Republicans have increasingly taken positions against environmental regulation, with some Republicans rejecting the scientific consensus on climate change. [NOT_ENOUGH_INFO]
- Ted Cruz: Cruz rejects the scientific consensus on climate change. [NOT_ENOUGH_INFO]
Claim: They (Clinton and Obama) have never to my knowledge been involved in legislation nor hearings nor engagement on this issue (climate change).
Verdict: NOT_ENOUGH_INFO
Evidence:
- Al Gore: 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." [NOT_ENOUGH_INFO]
- Al Gore: 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." [NOT_ENOUGH_INFO]
- Barack Obama: 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. [NOT_ENOUGH_INFO]
- Don't ask, don't tell: The United States Senate held two days of hearings on December 2 and 3, 2010, to consider the CRWG report. [NOT_ENOUGH_INFO]
- Hillary Clinton: The controversy occurred against the backdrop of Clinton's 2016 presidential election campaign and hearings held by the House Select Committee on Benghazi. [NOT_ENOUGH_INFO]
Claim: Tony Abbott the Opposition must respect the Government's mandate to overturn the carbon tax.
Verdict: DISPUTED
Evidence:
- Tony Abbott: 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. [REFUTES]
- Tony Abbott: 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. [NOT_ENOUGH_INFO]
- Tony Abbott: 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. [NOT_ENOUGH_INFO]
- Tony Abbott: 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. [SUPPORTS]
- Tony Abbott: With Abbott as Opposition Leader, the Liberal party opposed a carbon emissions tax and an Emissions Trading Scheme. [NOT_ENOUGH_INFO]
Claim: Top Scientist Hal Lewis Resigns Over Climate Change Corruption
Verdict: NOT_ENOUGH_INFO
Evidence:
- Arthur D. Levinson: "President Obama Honors Nation's Top Scientists and Innovators". [NOT_ENOUGH_INFO]
- Bangladesh: However, the country continues to face the challenges of the Rohingya genocide and refugee crisis, corruption, and the erratic effects of climate change. [NOT_ENOUGH_INFO]
- Developing country: This lack of access to modern energy technology limits income generation, blunts efforts to escape poverty, affects people's health due to indoor air pollution, and contributes to global deforestation and climate change. [NOT_ENOUGH_INFO]
- Sarah Palin: He was forced to resign in November 2003. [NOT_ENOUGH_INFO]
- That Hideous Strength: A scientist named Bill Hingest, who is resigning from the N.I.C.E., warns Mark to get out. [NOT_ENOUGH_INFO]
Claim: U.S. Pays $1 Billion into Green Climate Fund, Top Polluters Pay Nothing
Verdict: DISPUTED
Evidence:
- Emissions trading: President Barack Obama in his proposed 2010 United States federal budget wanted to support clean energy development with a 10-year investment of US$15 billion per year, generated from the sale of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions credits. [NOT_ENOUGH_INFO]
- Emissions trading: In terms of dollars, the World Bank has estimated that the size of the carbon market was US$11 billion in 2005, $30 billion in 2006, and $64 billion in 2007. [NOT_ENOUGH_INFO]
- Green Climate Fund: U.S. President Obama committed the US to contributing US$3 billion to the fund. [NOT_ENOUGH_INFO]
- Paris Agreement: "United States delivers first payment to global climate fund". [SUPPORTS]
- Paris Agreement: So far, the Green Climate Fund has now received over $10 billion in pledges. [REFUTES]
Claim: U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson "led the fight to let polluters release unlimited amounts of carbon pollution and took nearly $225,000 from polluters."
Verdict: NOT_ENOUGH_INFO
Evidence:
- Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme: AUD 4.8 billion of assistance (in the form of free permits) for the most polluting electricity generators. [NOT_ENOUGH_INFO]
- Emissions trading: They all put a price on pollution (for example, see carbon price), and so provide an economic incentive to reduce pollution beginning with the lowest-cost opportunities. [NOT_ENOUGH_INFO]
- Emissions trading: The program caps the amount of carbon dioxide that can be emitted from large installations with a net heat supply in excess of 20 MW, such as power plants and carbon intensive factories and covers almost half (46%) of the EU's Carbon Dioxide emissions. [NOT_ENOUGH_INFO]
- Emissions trading: The international community began the long process towards building effective international and domestic measures to tackle GHG emissions (carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, hydroflurocarbons, perfluorocarbons, sulphur hexafluoride) in response to the increasing assertions that global warming is happening due to man-made emissions and the uncertainty over its likely consequences. [NOT_ENOUGH_INFO]
- Ron Johnson (Wisconsin politician): Johnson's 2010 Senate campaign raised a total of $15.2 million, $9 million of which was his own money. [NOT_ENOUGH_INFO]
Claim: U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson voted to let oil and gas companies emit "unlimited carbon pollution into our air"
Verdict: NOT_ENOUGH_INFO
Evidence:
- Emissions trading: If every participant complies, the total pollution emitted will be at most equal to the sum of individual limits. [NOT_ENOUGH_INFO]
- Emissions trading: Under a cap-and-trade system, permits are issued to various entities for the right to emit GHG emissions that meet emission reduction requirement caps. [NOT_ENOUGH_INFO]
- Emissions trading: According to the Environmental Defense Fund, cap-and-trade is the most environmentally and economically sensible approach to controlling greenhouse gas emissions, the primary cause of global warming, because it sets a limit on emissions, and the trading encourages companies to innovate in order to emit less. [NOT_ENOUGH_INFO]
- Emissions trading: The program caps the amount of carbon dioxide that can be emitted from large installations with a net heat supply in excess of 20 MW, such as power plants and carbon intensive factories and covers almost half (46%) of the EU's Carbon Dioxide emissions. [NOT_ENOUGH_INFO]
- Emissions trading: For emissions trading where greenhouse gases are regulated, one emissions permit is considered equivalent to one metric ton of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. [NOT_ENOUGH_INFO]
Claim: Weather Channel Co-Founder John Coleman Calls Global Warming a Hoax
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Evidence:
- Global warming conspiracy theory: Climate change has also been called the "greatest scam in history" by John Coleman, who co-founded the Weather Channel. [SUPPORTS]
- John Coleman (meteorologist): He has called global warming the "greatest scam in history" and made numerous false or misleading claims about climate science. [SUPPORTS]
- John Coleman (meteorologist): "'Global warming the greatest scam in history' claims founder of Weather Channel". [SUPPORTS]
- John Coleman (meteorologist): "Weather Channel boss calls global warming 'the greatest scam in history'". [SUPPORTS]
- The Weather Channel: 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). [NOT_ENOUGH_INFO]
Claim: Weather Channel co-founder John Coleman provided evidence that convincingly refutes the concept of anthropogenic global warming.
Verdict: DISPUTED
Evidence:
- Climate change denial: There is no convincing scientific evidence that human release of carbon dioxide, methane, or other greenhouse gases is causing or will, in the foreseeable future, cause catastrophic heating of the Earth's atmosphere and disruption of the Earth's climate. [SUPPORTS]
- John Coleman (meteorologist): He has called global warming the "greatest scam in history" and made numerous false or misleading claims about climate science. [SUPPORTS]
- Scientific consensus on climate change: International Council of Academies of Engineering and Technological Sciences (CAETS) in 2007, issued a Statement on Environment and Sustainable Growth: As reported by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), most of the observed global warming since the mid-20th century is very likely due to human-produced emission of greenhouse gases and this warming will continue unabated if present anthropogenic emissions continue or, worse, expand without control. [REFUTES]
- Scientific consensus on climate change: "Climate Scientists Virtually Unanimous Anthropogenic Global Warming Is True". [SUPPORTS]
- Scientific consensus on climate change: Scientists Reach 100% Consensus on Anthropogenic Global Warming. [REFUTES]
Claim: Wisconsin employers have repeatedly said in surveys that our anti-business litigation climate is one of the most important factors affecting their expansion decisions.
Verdict: NOT_ENOUGH_INFO
Evidence:
- 2011 Wisconsin protests: Another lawsuit was filed by opponents of the Budget Repair Bill, raising claims that public workers could lose their jobs to Wisconsin prisoners by officials who will now have greater leeway to assign those jobs previously reserved for unionized employees. [NOT_ENOUGH_INFO]
- Google: In 2013, a class action against several Silicon Valley companies, including Google, was filed for alleged "no cold call" agreements which restrained the recruitment of high-tech employees. [NOT_ENOUGH_INFO]
- United States labor law: The Act has spawned years of litigation by industry groups that have challenged the standards limiting the amount of permitted exposure to chemicals such as benzene. [NOT_ENOUGH_INFO]
- United States labor law: This has meant that union organizing in the US may involve substantial levels of litigation which most workers cannot afford. [NOT_ENOUGH_INFO]
- Wisconsin: Walker enacted other bills promoting conservative governance, such as a right-to-work law, abortion restrictions, and legislation removing certain gun controls. [NOT_ENOUGH_INFO]
Claim: You're going to have an increase in the amount of ice in Antarctica because of global warming.
Verdict: REFUTES
Evidence:
- Antarctica: The amount of surface warming in West Antarctica, while large, has not led to appreciable melting at the surface, and is not directly affecting the West Antarctic Ice Sheet's contribution to sea level. [NOT_ENOUGH_INFO]
- Antarctica: 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). [NOT_ENOUGH_INFO]
- Effects of global warming: These include the large-scale singularities such as the melting of the Greenland and West Antarctic ice sheets, and changes to the AMOC. [NOT_ENOUGH_INFO]
- Global warming: Surface temperature increases are greatest in the Arctic, which has contributed to the retreat of glaciers, permafrost, and sea ice. [REFUTES]
- Global warming: The atmosphere and ocean have warmed, the amounts of snow and ice have diminished, sea level has risen, and the concentrations of greenhouse gases have increased "Myths vs. Facts: Denial of Petitions for Reconsideration of the Endangerment and Cause or Contribute Findings for Greenhouse Gases under Section 202(a) of the Clean Air Act". [NOT_ENOUGH_INFO]
Claim: cutting speed limits could slow climate change
Verdict: NOT_ENOUGH_INFO
Evidence:
- Climate change adaptation: According to the study, the safest and most predictable method of moderating climate change is early action to reduce GHG emissions. [NOT_ENOUGH_INFO]
- Climate change adaptation: "Gardeners can slow climate change". [NOT_ENOUGH_INFO]
- Holarctic: Melting permafrost may also accelerate climate change in the future. [NOT_ENOUGH_INFO]
- Scientific consensus on climate change: People and nations can act individually and collectively to slow the pace of global warming, while also preparing for unavoidable climate change and its consequences. [NOT_ENOUGH_INFO]
- White-tailed deer: Climate change is affecting the white tailed deer by changing their migration patterns and increasing their population size. [NOT_ENOUGH_INFO]
Claim: Bill Gates claims pandemic's 'misery' will 'happen regularly' if climate change is not stopped
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Evidence:
- Climate change adaptation: The climatic conditions that cause this warning became more frequent because of climate change, and will worsen if temperatures continue to increase. [NOT_ENOUGH_INFO]
- Climate change feedback: "Loss of soil carbon 'will speed global warming'". [NOT_ENOUGH_INFO]
- Climate change feedback: "Peat bog gases 'accelerate global warming'". [NOT_ENOUGH_INFO]
- Climate change mitigation: According to the IPCC's 2014 assessment report, "Mitigation is a public good; climate change is a case of the 'tragedy of the commons'. [NOT_ENOUGH_INFO]
- Scientific consensus on climate change: It said that Continued emission of greenhouse gases will cause further warming and long-lasting changes in all components of the climate system, increasing the likelihood of severe, pervasive and irreversible impacts for people and ecosystems. [SUPPORTS]