Sentences with phrase «against climate action»

Because you can very well accept that climate change exists and still find arguments against climate action because the costs of doing something are so great.

It is this argument, along with climate scepticism and the over-riding priority given to economic growth, which has, in various combinations, been used against climate action since the threat became clear in the late 1980's.

The business interest group has fought against climate action in the Congress and has challenged the validity of climate science.

Pooley also gave me permission to post a short excerpt from the book describing how the pollster and «word doctor» Luntz migrated from writing the war plan against climate action for Republicans in 2003 to working with the Environmental Defense Fund in recent months.

We have this president doing more than any other previous president has, but we have this very vehement backlash from the right against any climate action.

In a world where the GOP has united against climate action (a major shift from a decade ago, as this article documents), attitudes about climate are a reflection of tribal identities, instead of the rational, fact - driven approach that David Roberts describes as cosmopolitanism.

Building an argument against climate action upon a forceful claim about the most likely outcome of greenhouse gas emissions is to build an argument upon analytic sand.

«Perhaps if they had spent more time and money diversifying their business rather than on lobbying against climate action and sowing the seeds of doubt about the science, they might not have joined the long (and ever growing) list of bankrupt global coal companies.»

By repealing the Clean Power Plan and slow - walking a possible substitute, EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt once again sides with polluters against climate action

But climate despair produces some odd bedfellows: Koch - fueled insistence that emission limits would kill economic growth is echoed by some who see this as an argument not against climate action, but against growth.

He prefers to be opaque close mouthed about it by preference, vague and contradictory if pressed — and willing to say the problem is real and needs to be addressed if that is necessary to dodge the open, public debate that might get out of the bounds that allow him to act so ruthlessly against climate action.

The nation's largest and most powerful industry groups — the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the National Association of Manufacturers — are now leading voices against climate action.

The ads on global warming in particular set out the history of the companies» campaign against both climate action and the science.

An economic argument was also used against climate action, with claims that a treaty like the Kyoto Protocol would ruin the economy.

The Center tracks the activities of companies and organizations that fight against climate action.

O'Leary acknowledged that there is a danger that the positive tone of this report could be misinterpreted to bolster arguments against climate action.

Jon wrote a very interesting paper in which he argued that even if the skeptic narratives are correct, the old narratives I was telling wasn't an argument against climate action.