Sentences with phrase «by fossil fuel interests»
It's been think tanks funded by fossil fuel interests and Republican politicians that have made climate change a political issue.
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That's partly because of a long campaign by fossil fuel interests to muddy the science on global warming and fight pollution regulation.
The huge financial investment by fossil fuel interests into electoral politics might reflect how threatened they feel these days.
This is a point routinely mentioned at the top of the list of challenges for wider deployment of clean energy (and too often blown way out of proportion by fossil fuel interests).
The records offer a glimpse into the decades - long effort by fossil fuel interests to engage researchers who doubt the scientific consensus that global warming is real and caused by human activity.
The Soon controversy runs deeper than the fact that he is funded by fossil fuel interests.
«At a time when the federal government has abdicated its leadership on climate change,» the decision «ensures our progress will not be blocked or rolled back by fossil fuel interests and others seeking to maintain the status quo,» Cuomo said in a statement.
If congressmen coming from gerrymandered districts with campaigns financed by fossil fuel interests put climate scientists out of work, perhaps those scientists will find lucrative positions where more resources will be made readily available.
While the money is modest compared with that donated by fossil fuel interests, the support provides GOP candidates with added credibility on clean energy, an issue polling shows swing voters care about.
He has published work for the Greening Earth Society, a PR front group funded by the fossil fuel interest Western Fuels Association.
Last year Greenpeace revealed that Willie Soon is exclusively funded by fossil fuel interests like Koch Industries, ExxonMobil and Southern Company, a major contributor to mercury air pollution from its coal plants.
It also leaves the document somewhat open to hijacking by fossil fuel interests.
Watchdog exposing the attacks on renewable energy and countering misinformation by fossil fuel interests
In the U.S. alone, the estimated 2013 bill for lobbying activities by fossil fuel interests amounted to $ 160 million, said the report called Food, Fossil Fuels and Filthy Finance.
an understanding of the nature of the well - organized, well - financed disinformation campaign that has been operating in the United States for over 20 years and that has been funded largely by fossil fuel interests and free market fundamentalist foundations.
And the larger question is, why do no others corroborate his accusation that skeptic scientists were paid to lie to the public by fossil fuel interests about the global warming issue?
That rings especially hollow this election season, given the current massive pro-Republican and anti-regulation push by fossil fuel interests, led as usual by Koch Industries.
The reason: much of the past 10 years has been squandered fighting rear guard actions by fossil fuel interests denigrating scientific reality, Now that two of America's biggest coal companies have filed for bankruptcy, things may change.
«We are in a global fight to combat climate change, and today's ruling ensures our progress will not be blocked or rolled back by fossil fuel interests and others seeking to maintain the status quo,» Cuomo said in a news release.
I would welcome any amount of scientific investment by fossil fuel interests to research alternative models to the consensus model of Earth's climate.
Along with Heartland, the NCPA has been a member of the Cooler Heads Coalition, a network of climate denying groups funded by fossil fuel interests, since 1998.
Given the long history of consensus denial campaigns by fossil fuel interests and climate contrarians, continued resistance to the consensus is an expected result.
It all sounds so reasonable, until you realize that this is the same guy that says human - caused global warming theory is all bunk and then find that his efforts have been funded by fossil fuel interests.
In the briefest of descriptions, Rado claimed the video presented biased information from scientists who were funded by fossil fuel interests, but it turned out he voiced a dislike of the video before viewing it, had a preconceived notion about the funding of skeptic scientists, and failed to disclose precisely who his complaint reviewer William Connolley was.
Yet the IPCC still primarily focuses on these two facts, in part to counter misinformation campaigns by skeptics groups backed by fossil fuel interests that oppose caps on greenhouse gases.
Except for two grants from the Mount Wilson observatory, all of Willie Soon's research since 2002 was funded by fossil fuel interests, according to information provided to InsideClimate News by Soon's employer, the Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.
... The response of those industries was to mount a very successful campaign of disinformation, using a tiny handful of greenhouse sceptics, most of whom failed to voluntarily disclose the fact that they were funded by fossil fuel interests.
The head of Illinois anti-nuclear organization Environmental Law and Policy Center — which is funded by fossil fuel interests and other energy companies that would benefit from closing nuclear plants — has doubled down on his efforts to increase carbon emissions by closing nuclear power plants and replacing them with fossil fuels.
Sixty organizations are either funded by fossil fuel interests or have known ties to the Koch Brothers» political network.
16 state reports opposing the EPA Clean Power Plan, written by the Beacon Hill Institute and distributed in partnership with members of the State Policy Network (SPN)-- both of which have been funded by fossil fuel interests, will reportedly be released in 2015.
Pielke says he's never been funded by fossil fuels interests — a fact to which Grijalva already knows since Pielke disclosed as much when he testified before Congress.
We are in a global fight to combat climate change, and today's ruling ensures our progress will not be blocked or rolled back by fossil fuel interests and others seeking to maintain the status quo.
This speaker put forth as an alternative the work of Willie Soon, who has been paid more than $ 1 million by fossil fuel interests.
On April 2, during his lecture in Madison, Soon became defensive after receiving the following question regarding his funding by fossil fuel interests: [21]
The Smithsonian has opened an investigation into the ethical conduct of Willie Soon, one of its part time scientists and a climate - change skeptic who is facing scrutiny for failing to properly disclose his work was funded by fossil fuel interests.
The studies in question were co-authored by Willlie Soon, a prominent climate - change skeptic whose work was funded by fossil fuel interests.
The studies in question were co-authored by a prominent climate - change skeptic whose work was funded by fossil fuel interests.
The governor in a statement after the judge's decision said «At a time when the federal government has abdicated its leadership on climate change, [this ruling] ensures our progress will not be blocked or rolled back by fossil fuel interests and others seeking to maintain the status quo.»
And it's not, as you seem bizarrely to think, AGW «deniers» funded by fossil fuel interests.