Given the long history of consensus denial
campaigns by fossil fuel interests and climate contrarians, continued resistance to the consensus is an expected result.
That's partly because of a long
campaign by fossil fuel interests to muddy the science on global warming and fight pollution regulation.
Not exact matches
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.
It is noteworthy that in the recent
campaign of libels against him there has not been, as far as I know, a single suggestion that any particular result or conclusion was reached in part or in whole because either that particular research project or his scientific work in general was funded
by fossil -
fuel interests.
In fact, most states with renewable energy standards have chosen to stand
by their bipartisan commitments to clean energy, and reject the disinformation
campaign funded
by fossil fuel and utility
interests.
We are writing now to express our concern at Taiwan's transition away from clean, nuclear energy to
fossil fuels, warn against a misinformation
campaign being waged
by financial
interests, and encourage a democratic resolution to Taiwan's energy crisis.
APS appears to be leading the first assault of a national
campaign by the utility industry trade association, Edison Electric Institute (EEI), and
fossil fuel interests like APS, to weaken net metering policies.
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.
Ashton, there is no doubt that the misinformation
campaigns conducted
by those who have a vested
interest in the continuing unabated use of
fossil fuels have been very effective, thank you for confirming that.
... 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.
And the funding of a systematic disinformation
campaign — see, for example, my Hub on Hoggan's «Climate Coverup» —
by fossil fuel interests is a matter of public record.