Sentences with phrase «by denying climate»

We know that ALEC members include not only the Heartland Institute, but a who's who of dirty energy interests that stand to make money by denying climate change.

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These predictions make sense given the strong support for Trump in coal - producing states and the fact that the Trump EPA transition team is led by a climate science denier.

Notley also kicked off the week by letting cameras into the NDP caucus meeting, where she teed off on the «UCP's job killing, climate - denying, gay - outing, school - cutting, health - privatizing, backward - looking, hope - destroying, divisive agenda.»

With a climate change denier in the Oval Office, these innovators are poised to clean up in the U.S. market, spurred by a Canadian government determined to see them succeed.

The district is currently represented by former Wildrose and current UCP MLA Don MacIntyre (known for his climate - change denying views).

The irony continues with the feting of Okotoks as the greenest community in Canada by such pundits as Prime Minister Stephen Harper and CBC's Peter Mansbridge at the same time the «rurban» community sits in the chosen provincial riding of Wildrose leader Danielle Smith — a right wing student of the climate - change - denying Fraser Institute and cheerful avower that global warming science is «not settled.»

According to Giberson and Stephens, you might be an anti-intellectual fundamentalist if you are an evangelical who: dismisses evolution as «an unproven theory»; deny that «climate change is real and caused by humans»; think that «the founders were evangelicals who intended America to be a Christian nation»; defend spanking children; believe in traditional roles for the sexes; think that reparative therapy can «cure» homosexuality; and / or oppose gay marriage.

The immediate reasons for the low expectations of England are well - trodden, but to quickly recap: the sudden resignation of Fabio Capello and the timescale for locating his replacement; the reported fissures in the squad stemming from the pending court case against John Terry; the litany of injuries that denied Hodgson the services of, among others, Jack Wilshere, Gareth Barry, Kyle Walker, Frank Lampard, and Gary Cahill; the climate created by the cries of knicker - twisted horror that arose from various of the commentariat at the appointment of Not Harry Redknapp; and Wayne Rooney's two - game suspension.

Meanwhile, Trump has denied the reality of climate change and even called it a hoax perpetuated by the Chinese.

The formation of the new fringe ECR group in 2010, memorably described by Nick Clegg as «a bunch of homophobes, anti-Semites and climate - change deniers,» isolated the Conservatives and dealt a major blow to Britain's influence in Europe.

Judging by the lengthening queue of prominent Tories lining up to deny climate change, if we do get a Tory government in 2010, it will not be a green one.

«Climate change is a serious problem already impacting New Yorkers across the state, but far too often has been put on the back - burner or even denied by the Senate Majority,» said Squadron, who chairs the panel.

Anyone who denies climate change, and the dangers posed by non-renewal fossil fuels, is not in touch with reality.

Met with much enthusiasm by the conference hall, which even managed a laugh at his weak joke about climate change deniers refusing to believe DECC exists (Ed Davey LOVED that.

He will continue to deny climate change caused by human activity; and will use his committee position to attack the EPA move to cut power plant carbon emissions.

A climate change denier who believes carbon dioxide is a harmless gas and once said there are «almost no major environmental problems» has been nominated by Trump to serve as a top environmental adviser.

Cameron's creation of the European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR)-- an association of the Tory MEPS with «homophobes, anti-Semites and climate - change deniers», as Nick Clegg described it during one of the 2010 TV leaders» debates — was initially considered a triumph by Cameron.

I was just a researcher without money, connections or crowd - pulling charisma, moved to action by the election of Donald Trump, a powerful climate change denier and anti-vaxxer, as US president.

«I see myself quoted by creationists, climate change deniers,» he says.

Ruling in a suit brought by Massachusetts over the regulation of car emissions, the court said that the EPA has the authority to regulate such climate - destabilizing greenhouse gases as carbon dioxide — something the agency had denied.

Derision from deniers Muller's work has been rejected by climate skeptics, including some he once called collaborators.

And the number who denied the scientific consensus that human - caused climate change is happening declined by 10 percentage points among Catholics and 6 points among the US population in general.

Climate deniers study tree rings, ice cores and the ppm of greenhouse gases because they are passionate about freedom, especially that of markets and industries to operate unencumbered by restrictive government regulations.

To counter this effort, Maibach and others are using the same strategies employed by climate change deniers.

The 1991 paper is still frequently cited by climate deniers.

Beset by rising seas and fiercer storms, Virginia's mayors voice frustration with a state government still denying the problem of climate change

Climate change deniers exploit disillusion brought on by often gloomy scientific findings, but evolving views on antibiotic use show it needn't be that way

In view of the ongoing destruction caused by rampant deforestation, the introduction of alien species and climate change — to name but a few of the forces we are unleashing on the planet — the idea that we might deny future generations the opportunity to perform a small act of creation through cloning seems woefully short - sighted.

He argued that unlike stem cell research, whose detractors» religious motivations are more clear, evangelicals who deny climate change are being deliberately misled by the religious right juggernaut.

This hasn't gone unnoticed by climate deniers; they frequently point to a hiatus in temperature rises since the late 1990s and a lower than expected upward trend in the past decade.

So he sexes up his narrative by presenting it as a battle between the «short, professorial looking» Emanuel, a «nuanced and sophisticated» man who talks in complete sentences, and the obdurate William Gray of Colorado State University, «a towering figure of American hurricane science,» who has for many years produced remarkably accurate forecasts of the upcoming Atlantic hurricane season and who repeatedly and loudly denies — in congressional hearings and everywhere else — that humans have any role in climate change.

They also reexamine the alternative case made by climate deniers: that it is the Sun's changing activity and not us that is causing the Earth to heat up.

The acknowledged role of sunspots and cosmic rays in forming clouds has been fertile ground for climate deniers, who have cast doubt on whether anthropogenic climate change (in other words, change caused by humans) is occurring at all.

U.S. Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, a sixth - term Republican from Washington State who is a climate change denier and an ardent opponent of regulations for greenhouse gas emissions, has been nominated by President - elect Donald Trump for Secretary of Interior.

That's a fact likely to be seized on by those who wish to deny climate change.

But he also said his decision to fraudulently acquire and then leak a set of explosive documents from the conservative, climate skeptic think tank was prompted by sustained attacks from climate deniers.

Republicans often seem comfortable shrugging off the climate issue, noting that GOP candidates cruised to victory in the midterm elections last year despite heavy spending by outside groups like Tom Steyer's NextGen Climate, which depicted some GOP candidates as «deniers.climate issue, noting that GOP candidates cruised to victory in the midterm elections last year despite heavy spending by outside groups like Tom Steyer's NextGen Climate, which depicted some GOP candidates as «deniers.Climate, which depicted some GOP candidates as «deniers.»

The most obvious example of this is the handful of climate - change deniers paid for by the fossil - fuel industry who have been quoted in innumerable articles.

Hartnett White, a member of President Donald Trump's economic advisory team during his campaign, also is labeled a climate change «denier» by some environmental activists.

So when the word «denier» gets used by a climate scientist in this way, a lot of people are inferred by the reader / listener to be under this umbrella...

The America First Energy Conference is organized by The Heartland Institute, a free market think tank at the forefront of denying manmade climate change.

Gird yourself for Christmas dinner with Uncle Jasper, the family climate - change denier, with this talk by UNLV physics professor Michael G. Pravica

The deep dependence on Donors Trust by climate deniers goes far beyond the Heartland Institute.

Willie Soon continues to attend industry - funded climate denier events and detests questions that highlight the dirty energy companies funding his work: watch Dr. Soon shout at a student asking critical questions last April, at events run by the campus arm of CFACT, a well known climate denial organization.

Dr. Willie Soon is a Smithsonian Institution astrophysicist paid by Charles Koch, ExxonMobil, the American Petroleum Institute and coal utility Southern Company to write papers dismissing climate change, publish op - eds saying coal pollution won't affect our health, refute the seriousness of ocean acidification, and apparently anything else he can be paid to deny.

For years, we at Greenpeace have been working to make public the secret paper trails that show what everyone already knows: climate science deniers - #Fakexperts - are few and far between, and most of them are paid by companies most responsible for global warming to downplay the problem.

But as far as I can tell, most sceptics don't flat out deny greenhouse gas warming, but they incorporate their «extra» forcing by assuming a lower climate sensitivity.

David Legates is often a co-author on work with Willie Soon, an aerospace engineer who has worked with Heartland for years and whose climate denying research has often been sponsored by the fossil fuel industry.

Toller seems to be kept on a short leash by Jeffers, who's overseeing First Reformed's 250th anniversary re-consecration celebration, funded (and influenced) by the corrupt and vehement corporate CEO Edward Balq (Michael Gaston), a denier of climate change whose company, we learn, is one of the world's worst environmental offenders.

And so, perhaps, when NJEA leaders objected to the selection of Paula White because of her association with DFER, Murphy, who had breached his contract with them, made a promise he could keep, even though that decision makes Repollet look far removed from the loop of state educational leadership, makes Murphy look like Pavlov's dog when confronted with a whiff of dissension from his patron, and makes NJEA look like Pavlov himself, a metamorphosis it may welcome after a humiliating defeat of the $ 5 million campaign to unseat Senate President Steve Sweeney by replacing him with a Trump - supporting climate - change - denying immigration - foe.