Sentences with phrase «conservative think tanks»

Lisa Waller's research found that, in the bilingual education debate, mainstream news media were more likely to seek out spokespeople who represented conservative think tanks, such as Helen Hughes or Noel Pearson, than Indigenous policy advocates or academic experts.

In all, the foundation gave nearly $ 35 million to conservative think tanks and policy groups in those five years, according to records compiled by The Washington Post and GuideStar USA.

Conservative think tanks and energy industry insiders devise a plan to make climate change a «non-issue» and derail Kyoto and any «further initiatives» to thwart global warming.

There is no need for Big Oil to hire expensive PR and lobbying firms or fund «conservative think tanks», because the environmental movement and politicians do all their own negative PR for them.

By taking a unified stand and claiming the individual mandate was unconstitutional, the Republican Party, conservative think tanks, right - wing media and Republican activists helped create a climate of controversy about the legislation, which then pressured the mainstream media to report on the controversy, which then created a cloud of doubt among the public, which ultimately created an environment in which the right - leaning members of the Supreme Court could make a judgement that may have looked radical or outrageous if not for the contextual cover provide by permission structure.

A few libertarian / conservative think tanks / magazines think Dr. Holdren's scientific credentials are bogus!

Critics and skeptics — primarily industry spokespeople and scientists from conservative think tanks — immediately attacked the theory.

I prefer Mike Hulme's solution but none of these are going to matter if the talk show hosts (radio and TV) and conservative think tanks are allowed to lie about the science.

Among the many conservative think tanks faithfully pushing the skeptic message in Washington, D.C., few are as prominent — or, should I say, infamous — as the Heartland Institute.

For skeptics, it'd probably require dismantling major chunks of the «denial industry» — the multinational corporations, conservative think tanks, and partisan cable networks that have an interest in promulgating doubt about climate science.

O'Brien has written articles for two conservative think tanks, the Marshall Institute and the Fraser Institute, denying scientific consensus on global warming.

Mayer craftily connects the dots between the players in the Koch network, their money, and how it gets contributed to politicians and conservative think tanks to create the outcome beneficial to the bottom - line of the Koch network.

Interestingly, the volume of climate work from conservative think tanks has skyrocketed; from 203 documents between 1990 and 1997 to 16,028 documents from 1998 — 2013.

If you have not visited the «About» page on my Blog, and not come across it before, you should read the 2008 article, entitled «The organisation of denial: Conservative think tanks and environmental scepticism», by Peter J Jaques et al in the journal Environmental Politics.

McCright (2) defines climate contrarians to be those who vocally challenge what they see as a false consensus of mainstream climate science through critical attacks on climate science and eminent climate scientists, often with substantial financial support from fossil fuels industry organizations and conservative think tanks.

Establishing conservative think tanks and media outlets, they propagated sophisticated intellectual arguments and expert public - relations campaigns against government regulation for any purpose whatever.

A study of major U.S. newspapers found that up to 1994, climate scientists who were highly respected by their peers were cited considerably more frequently than the skeptics associated with conservative think tanks, but after 1995, as the conservatives grew more active, newspapers cited the two groups about equally.

The ideological dimension was also stressed by conservative think tanks (the Cato Institute, Competitive Enterprise Institute, Heritage Foundation, Hoover Institution, etc.) which increasingly sponsored pamphlets, press releases, public lectures and so forth, arguing that global warming was not really a problem at all.

Representatives from major fossil fuel corporations and industry groups had joined forces with operatives from major conservative think tanks and public relations experts to draft what they called their Global Climate Science Communications (GCSC) plan.

Some scholars associated with conservative think tanks like the Hoover Institution and the Hudson Institute have written optimistically about geoengineering.

Read Climate Change Denial Books and Conservative Think Tanks Exploring the Connection, recently published in ABS, freely available.

Pew believed individual freedom was closely linked to political, religious, and «industrial freedom,» and until shortly after his death the Pew Trusts supported a variety of conservative think tanks.

The raw material the feeds the populist anger is generated overwhelmingly by a network of conservative think tanks in part funded by Big Carbon.

The simmering controversy sheds light on the vast influence of the Koch political machine, which spans from the top conservative think tanks, Republican politicians, a small army of contracted lobbyists, and Tea Party front groups in nearly every state.

The American Enterprise Institute (AEI) and the Heritage Foundation, two of the best - known conservative think tanks in the U.S., were also among the top recipients of funding.

The organisation of denial: Conservative think tanks and environmental scepticism.

«A group of climate skeptics who weighed in on climate lawsuits in California revealed their recent funding, and court documents show their donors are a mix of fossil fuel companies and conservative think tanks.»

Either by design (the researchers found conservative think tanks prefer «global warming» to «climate change») or because of how our minds processes the terms («global warming» seems to lead to an expectation of noticeably higher temperatures here and now), the concept of «global warming» meets significantly more resistance than «climate change.»

Our research has been relentlessly attacked by conservative think tanks, politicians and newspapers.

Dr Travis Coan, of the University of Exeter, and Dr Constantine Boussalis, of Trinity College Dublin, analysed 16,000 articles, reports, transcripts, letters, reviews and press releases from the websites of 19 conservative think tanks, mainly based in the U.S, who work on climate change.

I read anti-AGW websites at conservative think tanks that are funded by big business.

Conservative think tanks in the United States are a sort of «ground zero» for the production of doubt about the links between fossil fuel burning and dangerous climate change.

The climate change disinformation movement can be understood to be comprised of many organizations and participants including conservative think tanks, front groups, Astroturf groups, conservative media, and individuals.

The disinformation campaign's most important participants have been conservative think tanks according to the sociological literature.

(Beder, 1998) • Amplify the voices of contrarian scientists, (Cooler Heads Coalition, created by conservative think tanks) Dunlap and McCright, 2011: 151) • Convince people that «using fossil fuels to enable our economic activity is as natural as breathing.»

The Organization of Denial: Conservative Think Tanks and Environmental Scepticism, Environmental Politics 17:349 - 385.

This finding is compatible with the observation that conservative think tanks use the term «global warming» more often than «climate change,» whereas liberal think tanks use «climate change» more often than «global warming.»

There are those who favor prioritizing the top - left quadrant (conservative think tanks), the top - right quadrant (Breakthrough Institute), and the bottom - right quadrant («energy democracy» fans, the Sierra Club).

Those who push using RICO laws against «corporations and other organizations that have knowingly deceived the American people about the risks of climate change» («other organizations» meaning conservative think tanks and any skeptic climate scientist having any association with such entities) are likely emboldened because they've never before encountered push - back on the very core of their accusation.

Exactly that's why they call them conservative think tanks.

The research by its affiliated scientists is funded by a mix of anonymous sources, companies, trade groups, conservative think tanks and government grants.

According to DeSmog research, Mont Pelerin members have ties to a wide range of conservative think tanks, many which have consistently denied the human influence on climate change.

Weyrich helped found the Heritage Foundation in the same year, and also went on to found a range of other conservative think tanks including the Free Congress Foundation.

Crockford has published «briefings» on conservative think tanks and has been described as a polar bear expert, but uses a «scientific uncertainty» and «public accountability of science» framework to criticize scientists» findings.

But in a case study of the power of fossil fuel interests to shape government policy, the industry's money and alliances with conservative think tanks and advocacy groups transformed the committee's membership and supported the rise of Smith, son of an old oil and ranching family in South Texas.

This countermovement involves a large number of organizations, including conservative think tanks, advocacy groups, trade associations and conservative foundations, with strong links to sympathetic media outlets and conservative politicians.

In the 1990s, conservative think tanks started turning into a political thing, producing misinformation.

Conservative think tanks that once championed geoengineering as easier and cheaper than cutting emissions have now all aligned with the view that the human impact on climate is so small that we don't even have to worry about it.

As with the conservative think tanks and the arguments they generate, it's kind of a double whammy.

On the one hand, it is very important for the political right to have this echo chamber out there — and the arguments generated by conservative think tanks would interact with the biased reasoning processes that are the subject of my piece in a kind of one - two combination.