Sentences with phrase «change denying organizations»

It was established as a climate change denier organization by Philip Morris's private public relations firm APCO & Associates.

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Doubting or rejecting the science on climate change no longer makes someone a «skeptic» or «denier» in the views of a leading news organization.

People for the American Way, a national civil - liberties advocacy group founded by the television producer Norman Lear, began working to have the procedures changed last year after it was denied the opportunity to testify in favor of textbooks criticized by Mel and Norma Gabler of Education Research Analysts, a nonprofit organization...

«The NAACP, a proud organization with a historic legacy of expanding opportunity for communities of color, now itself stands in the schoolhouse door, seeking to deny life - changing educational opportunities to millions of children whose parents and families desperately seek alternatives to schools that have failed them for too long.»

Non-profit organizations in Canada that lobby to change government policy are generally denied charitable status.

For those who seek to curtail travel in a feeble attempt to fight global warming: Given the non-emergency that climate change has thus far proven to be and the real and dire crises that presently plague the planet, should we also deny transportation (by aid organizations and concerned citizens) to regions, like the Darfur or Sierra Leone, that require our immediate attention?

Both organizations have funded international seminars pulling together climate change deniers from across the globe.

Representatives of the Chicago - based Heartland Institute, perhaps the best - known and best - funded organization dedicated to denying the existence of anthropogenic climate change, were in Rome recently, respectfully calling on the Holy Father.

At least one news organization now has an explicit editorial policy «discouraging reporters from quoting climate change deniers in environment or science coverage,» the Washington Examiner noted.

... Indeed, the brothers have spent $ 31.3 million since 2005 on organizations that deny or downplay climate change, according to a forthcoming report from Greenpeace that updates its report on Koch's climate denial work released last year.

What we don't cover is the fact that these organizations and deniers are also working on another front, attacking solutions to climate change.

The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) was among organizations named in a Massachusetts subpoena looking for communications between ExxonMobil and organizations denying climate change, reports The Washington Times.

Brulle, in the paper, stated that this was the total income of organizations that, he believes, «deny climate change,» and he collectively labeled these groups «the climate change counter-movement (CCCM).»

The evidence for this widespread failure to understand the practical significance of seeing climate change as a moral issue includes the almost universal failure of the press or advocates of climate change policies to ask those governments, businesses, organizations, or individuals who oppose national climate change policies on the grounds of national economic cost alone whether they deny that in addition to national economic interest nations must comply with their obligations, duties, and responsibilities to prevent harm to millions of poor, vulnerable people around the world.

And indeed, over the past four years, Exxon has reduced its grants to prominent climate change deniers from the peak spending in 2005 of over $ 3.5 M. Greenpeace's research shows a $ 2.2 million reduction in annual funding to these organizations, down to roughly $ 1.3 million in 2009.

«Climate change is a serious problem, and yet some in the coal industry deny that the problem of global warming even exists and have contributed to organizations that spread doubt about science and policy,» Markey said.

«For years Heartland was a minor think tank that defended the tobacco industry by fighting for «smoker's rights» but then moved into climate change and has gradually become arguably the leading denial organization,» Riley Dunlap, a sociologist at Oklahoma State University who monitors climate deniers, told HuffPost.

The ad serves as an open letter from 43 signatories including organizations and individuals in response to New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, U.S. Virgin Islands Attorney General Claude Walker, and the coalition of Attorneys General investigating groups denying man - made climate change.

The use of front - groups and fake grass - roots organizations, known as Astroturf groups, to promote the views of climate change deniers that hide the real parties in interests,

The evidence for this widespread failure to understand the practical significance of seeing climate change as a moral issue includes the almost universal failure of the press or advocates of climate change policies to ask businesses, organizations, or individuals who oppose national climate change policies on the grounds of economic cost alone, whether they deny that, in addition to economic interests, nations must comply with their obligations, duties, and responsibilities to prevent harm to millions of poor, vulnerable people around the world.

The ad serves as an open letter from 43 signatories including organizations and individuals in response to New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, U.S. Virgin Islands Attorney General Claude Walker, and the coalition of Attourneys General investigating groups denying man - made climate change.

Two organizations got letters from ALEC's lawyers, insinuating there would be legal action taken for accurately describing ALEC's legacy of denying climate change.

That the researcher responsible for the study is clearly not a «climate change denier» makes the IPCC's credibility gap all the more significant, and it raises new questions regarding the fundamental credibility of any claim coming from an organization which has relied on shaky science to back its demand for the power to take $ 76 trillion from the economies of the industrialized world and «redistribute» those funds for «green technologies» in the third world.

When pressed, Oliver was not able to identify which scientists he was using as a source, La Pressereported, but his staff pointed to an article by Lawrence Solomon, a Canadian writer and infamous climate - change skeptic and denier, and the founder and executive director of Energy Probe, an environmental policy organization and fossil fuel lobbyist group.

Last month, a man by the name of Jagadish Shukla (along with several other scientists) sent a letter to the President and Attorney General Loretta Lynch, demanding that RICO charges — that is, «racketeering, influenced and corrupt organization» charges — be brought against so - called «climate deniers,» as though those who disagree with the theory that global climate change is inherently man made and undeniably catastrophic, were joined together in a conspiracy that amounts to organized crime.

The Mercatus Center was among organizations named in a Massachusetts subpoena looking for communications between ExxonMobil and organizations denying climate change, reports The Washington Times.

Europäisches Institut für Klima und Energie (EIKE), the European Institute for Climate and Energy in English, is a German nonprofit organization of climate change deniers founded in February 2007 in Hanover.

Likewise, the present demagoguery in the UK against the EU arises at least in part from the same well - funded but nebulous network of organizations who deny that the climate is changing because of human activity.

The ad serves as an open letter from 43 signatories including organizations and individuals in response to New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, U.S. Virgin Islands Attorney General Claude Walker, and the coalition of AttorneysGeneral investigating groups denying man - made climate change.

From the article:... On Sunday, Post reporters Tom Hamburger, Joby Warrick and I reported that the conservative - leaning American Legislative Exchange Council is stressing that (in our words) it «does not deny climate change» and has been «overhauling their organization to be more transparent and more welcoming to divergent views.»

In an embarrassing display of scientific illiteracy and political gullibility, news organizations have repeatedly played into the deniers» hands: Implicitly endorsing their unfounded accusations of fraud against scientists whose emails were stolen, by portraying a single error in a thousand - page Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report as reason to question all of mainstream climate science.

According to a new analysis by The Guardian, Peabody Energy, the U.S.'s largest coal mining company, has been funding dozens of different climate change - denying organizations for years.