Sentences with phrase «by the fossil fuel industry»

It has been based on the production of lies developed by the fossil fuel industry through industry - funded conservative think - tanks, laundered through conservative foundations, spun and repeated by right - wing media outlets, and adopted as ideology by the Republican Party.

If it were, those television commercials by the fossil fuel industry would have convinced everyone by now that coal can be «clean.»

«These documents are breathtaking, and they reveal what many of us have long suspected: That there is a campaign afoot by groups directly funded by the fossil fuel industry and right - wing foundations such as Koch Industries to mislead the public about climate change,» Pennsylvania State University climatologist Michael Mann wrote in an email to LiveScience.

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.

There's a public relations strategy used in the late 1990s by the fossil fuel industry to get their talking points across (they were all bogus talking points, but it was a fairly effective strategy).

Among his most contested findings, Nisbet asserts that a huge influx of contributions and grants to environmental campaigners more than eliminated any advantage once enjoyed by fossil fuel industries and conservatives opposed to restrictions on greenhouse gases.

- Chip Knappenberger to some degree, supported by the fossil fuels industry since 1992 and Pat Michaels is my boss

Most such sites are sponsered by fossil fuels industry.

In conclusion, despite recent explosions suggesting the contrary, I still feel that the future of Earth's climate in this century and beyond will be determined mostly by the fossil fuel industry, and not by Arctic methane.

I find it interesting that a particular organization might be indicted for supposedly being funded by the fossil fuel industry when so many organizations and studies fueling the global warming alarmism are funded by governments and not suprisingly endorse MORE government (in the form of regulations, regulatory agencies, taxes, fees, etc...) as a supposed «solution» to the problem.

``... the future of Earth's climate in this century and beyond will be determined mostly by the fossil fuel industry, and not by Arctic methane.»

The missing piece is the relentless, heavily funded propaganda campaign by the fossil fuel industry that keeps these denialist views in the public eye.

There's ample evidence that reckless deceit of this kind is practiced by the fossil fuel industry in their desperation to ward off financial threat from AGW.

- Chip Knappenberger to some degree, supported by the fossil fuels industry since 1992 (and, as is the case with virtually all of you, a beneficiary of the fossil fuels since birth)

, demonstrate how public support for wind power remains strong despite the years of misleading attacks backed by the fossil fuel industry.

Judge Denies Motions by Fossil Fuel Industry and Federal Government in Landmark Climate Change Case

Gradually, the whole network of phony science and litigation woven by the fossil fuel industry is being undone.

In my prior piece about the spread of Ross Gelbspan's accusation that skeptic climate scientists are paid by the fossil fuel industry to «reposition global warming as theory rather than fact ``, I barely skimmed the surface of the sheer number of repetitions of it.

The real problem with politics in climate science if the continuing efforts by the fossil fuel industry, led by ExxonMobil, to distort scientific facts in an effort to deceive the public about the real extent of the problem.

He literally wants to let the market decide... the market that is run (and paid for) by the fossil fuel industry.

But in mid-2006 I was told by an executive that the channel had realised it had been misled by people who were sponsored by the fossil fuel industry.

It amplified the credentials of some of its contributors and failed to reveal that some were funded by fossil fuel industries.

It is due to a calculated disinformation campaign by the fossil fuel industry and a cadre of front groups like ALEC to make people believe the science is unsettled, exploiting the natural human tendency to do nothing in the face of uncertainty.

Here's a story we all now know well: A small number of groups backed by the fossil fuel industry have for decades shed doubt on the science of climate change, even as the actual scientific community consensus on the issue — that greenhouse gas pollution posed a significant threat to our climate — remained strong and continued to grow stronger.

We need a grassroots - movement to push Congress past the tipping point so that they can keep their jobs whole working for us, rather than be bullied into submission by the fossil fuel industry.

It is almost possible to dismiss Michael Mann's account of a vast conspiracy by the fossil fuel industry to harrass scientists and befuddle the public.

b) PR funded by fossil fuel industry: Friends of Science projects are largely funded by oil and gas companies, along with related foundations and individuals, via various conduits, chiefly the Calgary Foundation.

But it was Schneiderman who assembled a coalition of attorneys general under the banner of AGs United for Clean Power and proclaimed them «dedicated to coming up with creative ways to enforce laws being flouted by the fossil fuel industry and their allies in their short - sighted efforts to put profits above the interests of the American people.»

Clean energy jobs are high paying jobs and more people are already employed by this growing sector than by the fossil fuel industry.

In my previous post, I detailed at length how an apparently hapless college student's «Misinformation Campaigns Spread by the Fossil Fuel Industry» research paper fell apart under hard scrutiny.

On the horizon, though there have been successful concerted delaying actions by the fossil fuel industry to address it to date, is the issue of mandating limited Mercury (Hg) emissions largely released from coal - fired power plants.

Records reveal that, following requests by fossil fuel industry groups, a top official at the Department of the Interior appeared to take credit for helping to delay new federal protections for a once - endangered species.

UCS works to strengthen these existing standards, defend them from attacks by the fossil fuel industry, and expand RES policies to new states.

The report also included highlights of a leaked document showing a public relations campaign funded by the fossil fuel industry which was designed to use these scientists and others to «reposition global warming as theory (not fact).»

They were essentially handed a huge megaphone by the fossil fuel industry and its allies...

[2] Cook is the author of GelbspanFiles.com, where he «dig [s] deeply into the accusation that scientists and others who express skepticism about the theory of man - made global warming are being paid by the fossil fuel industry to lie about the issue.»

To quash the notion that no valid scientific criticism exists against the idea of man - caused global warming, enviro - activists often say «denier scientists» are paid by the fossil fuel industry to lie about the issue, insinuating a parallel to expert «shills» who did the same for «big tobacco».

And fraudulent «studies» bought by the fossil fuel industries to dispute the reality of the temperature record are not science.

Most of the prominent climate change deniers who are not employed solely by the fossil fuel industry have a similar profile: men whose professional careers are about to end or have ended already.

Have our politicians ever looked at the figures, or are they blinded by fossil fuel industry spin?

Because I accept the science and from what I can tell attempts to discredit the science are funded by fossil fuel industries funnelling money to think tanks, opinion bloggers and facebook pages in an effort to influence the political process.

How many young college students are studying to be employed by the fossil fuels industry?

Yours is backed by a handful of scientists, some sincere, others (though not all) funded by the fossil fuel industry, and others mad as a Monckton.

«attempts to discredit the science are funded by fossil fuel industries funnelling money to think tanks, opinion bloggers and facebook pages in an effort to influence the political process»

On the other hand, campaigns that focus only on demand - side policy, on the population's demand for cheap, polluting fuel, tend to overlook the effects of the massive political - economic disinformation campaign by the fossil fuel industries and their political surrogates on laming climate action once human - caused climate change was recognized internationally as a problem around 25 years ago.

«It's a settled science with a 97 % consensus to back it up, and the critics who pop up are bribed to lie by the fossil fuel industry,» they say.

And so the world's most comprehensive assessment of climate science is forced to at least consider pseudo-science fully paid for by the fossil fuel industry.

As the science of man - made climate change has become increasingly certain over the last three decades of work by thousands of researchers, a cadre of deniers, often funded by fossil fuel industries,... Continue reading →

The Competitive Enterprise Institute is fully sponsored by the fossil fuel industry.

It is the AGW believers» side that says «ignore the skeptic scientists» data and assessments because they are all corrupted by fossil fuel industry corruption.