Sentences with phrase «by activist»

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«IPCC is not about science, it is about politics, the politics of global governance... IPCC is run by activist scientists obsessed with the supposed threat of climate change.»

The negative effects of global warming have been well - documented by activist politicians and scientists such as Al Gore and David Suzuki, but the positive effects have so far received less attention.

Mr. Stewart learned about finning when he joined the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, a Greenpeace - style group led by the activist Paul Watson.

Accordingly, major industrial drivers of deforestation — the palm oil, cattle ranching, and logging industries — were significantly affected by activist campaigns in 2009.

The IPCC was founded by activist scientists and environmentalists to provide governments with information that would encourage them to limit emissions of GHG's.

It is certainly very true that the majority of his audience comprises left - leaning Guardian readers, predisposed to believe in the line — heavily promoted by the activist journalists who write for the Guardian's environment pages — that AGW is a fact and that anyone who disputes it is evil.

Because it directly undermines the central claim of their whole series — the charge that has been picked up by the activist echo chamber and others — that we definitively knew enough in the early 1980s to support curbs on fossil fuel use.

These papers will appear in a special edition of a journal guest - edited by an activist scientist.

«But the relentless focus by activist scientists on the Arctic decline does suggest a political imperative rather than a scientific one — and when put together with the story of the US temperature records, it's hard to avoid the impression that what the public is being told is less than the unvarnished truth»

If the climate bible includes significant mistakes, if it uses newspaper & magazine articles to make its case, if it relies on literature generated by activist organizations — then it is rather a different animal from the uber - respectable paragon of virtue so many journalists have described.

She then cites data compiled not by a respectable scientific body but by the activist World Resources Institute (WRI).

The zealots finally abandoned any connection, however tenuous, with Scientific Method quite several years ago when the MSM started saturating the public space with «CAGW causes every extreme weather event» and this egregiousness went entirely publicly unchallenged by our activist heroes

In the interview Mörner tells science journalist Alex Reichmuth that climate and sea level science has been completely politicized and hijacked by an activist agenda and has become a «quasi religion».

I'm still waiting to see a copy of that wind power report by the activist.

The report contained misleading data about the melting rate of glaciers in the Himalayas and is riddled with citations to data furnished by activist groups, non-scientific journals and material that was never peer - reviewed.

catastrophic climate change is a scaremongering campaign pushed by activist climate scientists and their disciples.

The New Scientist article is just another political rant by an activist in a journal sporting Science in its title.

The art of the eighties is, therefore, an important reminder that art has the power to open the dialogues about the society, and the sense of urgency followed by activist approach can make art a relevant tool in raising awareness about the pressing issues in any point in history.

Co-curated by activist artist Ai Weiwei, «FUCK OFF 2» presents, unsurprisingly, disturbing and shocking artworks by 37 Chinese artists and artist groups that reflect on the state of China today.

For the artist, this concept of Love Forever stood for civil rights, sexual liberation and the antiwar movement, brought to the cultural mainstream by activist groups of the 1960s.

Founded in 2009 as a platform for emerging Middle Eastern artists, the Running Horse presented «In the Trenches» (12/20/10 — 3/26), a group exhibition by emerging artists Rasha Kahil, Hiba Kalache and Alfred Tarazi exploring internal and external struggles, followed by a solo show for Kahil (6/20 — 7/30), and «Dial 911 for the New Middle East» (9/11 — 10/1) by activist group the Feel Collective, who explored the September 11 attacks destabilizing impact on the region.

Aggressive in its politics and visual language, the project by the activist collective General Idea was an integral piece of art history at the time.

Notably, the most indelible protest artwork of the era — the iconic «Silence = Death» power with its pink triangle — was created by the activist Silence = Death project as a work of agitprop.

After a year - long campaign by the activist group New Yorkers Against Gun Violence, Apple has replaced its revolver emoji with a squirt gun.

The most strictly conceptual piece in the show is by the activist artist collective, called Occupy Museums.

«Too often, well - meaning American lawmakers looking for answers to animal control problems have fallen prey to attractive quick - fix solutions and feel - good laws offered by activist groups.

Again, I would really appreciate feedback — especially on whether such voting power analyses are commonly applied either in the boardroom or by activist investors.

We've been following COSN (see our COSN post archive) because it is a cash box controlled by activist investor Steel Partners.

We've been following COSN (see Greenbackd's COSN post archive) because it is a cash box controlled by activist investor Steel Partners.

Earlier this year, the company fended off an attempt by activist investor George Armoyan and his firm, Clarke Inc. (symbol CKI on Toronto), to place three of its nominees on Sherritt's board of directors.

London - based hedge fund advisor Audley Capital Advisors was established in 2005 by activist investor Julian Treger and private equity investor Michael Treichl.

* Entrepreneurial Shareholder Activism: Hedge Funds and Other Private Investors, which shows that the filing of a 13D notice by an activist hedge fund is a catalytic event for a firm that heralds substantial positive returns in the stock.

-LSB-...] recent study conducted by April Klein and Emanuel Zur on shareholder activism found that stock prices of companies targeted by activist investors earn 10.2 % average returns -LSB-...]

The authors find that the filing of a 13D notice by an activist hedge fund is a catalytic event for a firm that heralds substantial positive returns in the stock.

The paper confirms our view that the filing of a 13D notice by an activist hedge fund is a catalytic event for a firm that heralds substantial positive returns in the stock.

However, management's been shareholder - friendly to date (also prompted by activist Everest's 3.4 % stake), particularly with a v aggressive share buyback programme which has significantly enhanced NAV.

A study by Greenwood and Schor notes that while a strategy of buying stocks that have been targeted by activist investors generates excess returns, almost all of those returns can be attributed to the subset of these firms that get taken over in hostile acquisitons.

• The right activists: If the median activist hedge fund investor essentially breaks even, as the evidence suggests, a blunderbuss approach of investing in a company targeted by any activist investor is unlikely to generate value.

Property's a sector they're fond of, evidenced by their activist property vehicle, Terra Catalyst (TCF: LN).

A study of 888 campaigns mounted by activist hedge funds between 2001 and 2005 finds that the typical target companies are small to mid cap companies, have above average market liquidity, trade at low price to book value ratios, are profitable with solid cash flows and pay their CEOs more than other companies in their peer group.

You can try to identify companies that are poorly managed and run, and thus most likely to be targeted by activist investors.

For example, Buffett's standard on buy backs, whether advocated by an activist or initiated by company management, is as follows: «First, a company [must have] ample funds to take care of the operational and liquidity needs» and «Second, its stock [must be] selling at a material discount to the company's intrinsic business value, conservatively calculated.»

I would add that this paves way to de-regulation of EMIR and much more hands on and aggressive self regulation by activist regulators like AMF FCA and BaFIN, smaller country regulators who are understaffed and less experienced will continue relying on the basic framework set out by MiFID.

The fund looked to invest in companies where the public filings, typically Form 13D, showed activity by activist investors.

Their target investments include a number of firms whose share prices might be influenced by high insider buying, spun - off divisions, reduced float, and targeting by activist shareholders, as well as your basic «good buys.»

A recent study conducted by April Klein and Emanuel Zur on shareholder activism found that stock prices of companies targeted by activist investors earn 10.2 % average returns during the period surrounding an activist's ownership disclosure and an additional 11.4 % abnormal return during the following year.

The company is further distracted by activist shareholders that are agitating for the company's sale.

The Chicago Teachers Union sees itself as having been on the front lines of education reform for more than a decade, and this is now a radicalized union, taken over two years ago by an activist faction.

Back to Troy Senik, on how back in 2010 the CTA squelched a parent trigger campaign by activist parents in Compton.