Greenpeace have said that Koch industries invested more than US$ 50 million in the past 50 years on spreading
doubts about climate change.
Whether speaking to her digital audience, or with fellow parishioners, Hayhoe's approach is patient and compassionate and modeled after conversations she had with her husband, a linguistics professor and pastor who once himself had
doubts about climate change.
But his sharp attacks on climate scientists have made him a popular witness at hearings convened by Republican lawmakers aiming to highlight
doubts about climate change (explore his 2015 testimony at a Senate hearing and 2010 House testimony to get the idea).
«Elite Domination of Public
Doubts About Climate Change (Not Evolution).»
The holding of
doubts about climate change is often referred to as «scepticism».
For someone so notoriously controlling of his news organizations, he allows FoxNews commentators to spread disinformation and
doubts about climate change — giving those viewpoints far more weight than they deserve.
Yet the context was hard to miss, as Katrina proved a devastating political event for President George W. Bush, whose administration had made a habit of sowing
doubts about climate change.
Representative Jack Kingston has
doubts about climate change and Darwin's theory, but biomedical research advocates upbeat
Months after the language of a global climate treaty known as the Kyoto Protocol was finalized in 1997, an internal memo obtained by The New York Times laid out API's plans to infuse
doubt about climate change into K - 12 materials.
Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders asked the Department of Justice Tuesday to investigate ExxonMobil for sowing
doubt about climate change after the company's own scientists had confirmed and accepted the role of fossil fuels in global warming.
But it's the web of media influence the Kochs have created that perhaps accounts best for their power — particularly when it comes to sowing
doubt about climate change.
These are organizations, many representing fossil fuel interests, that work to sow
doubt about climate change science and to delay or prevent policy solutions.
For years, ExxonMobil had been a participant in public efforts to sow
doubt about climate change.
He edited scientific reports, striking out evidence that glaciers were retreating and inserting phrases suggesting that there was serious scientific
doubt about climate change.
«That there is a chilling effect on scientists who are in extreme
doubt about climate change, I think that is good.»
A water and climate scientist with decades of research in his field has admitted to deceiving the free - market conservative Heartland Institute into leaking confidential documents about their donors, fundraising efforts and plans to spread
doubt about climate change.
During the last few years, reports based on Exxon's public filings have shown that the company continues to support politicians and organizations that sow
doubt about climate change and work to halt action on it.
Since then, InsideClimate News published an exposé detailing a $ 30 million, multi-decade effort by Exxon Mobil to sow
doubt about climate change, despite the company's own internal deliberations about known climate risks associated with fossil fuel use.
Clinton joins a growing number of politicians — including both of her Democratic presidential challengers — calling for the Justice Department to investigate ExxonMobil for sowing
doubt about climate change after the company's own scientists had confirmed and accepted the role of fossil fuels in global warming.
Democratic U.S. Senators Sheldon Whitehouse (RI), Ed Markey (MA) and Brian Schatz (HI) introduced an amendment to the energy bill expressing Congress's disapproval of the use of industry - funded think tanks and misinformation tactics aimed at sowing
doubt about climate change science.
The periodical follows the Murdoch media pattern of sowing
doubt about climate change threats http://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2014/sep/22/wall-street-journal-downplays-global-warming-risks
He's fully aware of the myriad PR campaigns launched by the fossil fuel industry and the organizations and think tanks it funds that routinely seek to sew
doubt about climate change in the media.
To leave no room for excuses, here's plenty of the well - documented history about how the fossil fuel industry paid to manufacture
doubt about climate change:
Not exact matches
Looking ahead: The Environmental Protection Agency, under its new management, decided to issue new talking points to staffers instructing them to disperse
doubt when talking
about human activity being a cause of
climate change.
House Democrats, led by Reps. Ted Lieu of California and Peter Welch of Vermont, also announced Thursday they are planning a broader probe into when other energy companies first understood that fossil fuels drive
climate change, what they did with that information and whether they funded or participated in sowing
doubt about the matter.
The National League of Conservation Voters said it would spend $ 1.5 million on its initial ad campaign against the «Flat Earth Five» aimed at defeating five House members who have raised
doubt about global
climate change.
The survey's findings on
climate change will raise fresh
doubts about the depth of Tory commitment to the environment.
Those differences can be caused by people intent on misleading the public, like the organized campaigns to create
doubt about the science pointing to human - caused
climate change, she said.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — President - elect Donald Trump's choice to lead the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency expressed
doubt about the science behind global
climate change during a contentious Senate confirmation hearing on Wednesday, but added he would be obliged for now to uphold the EPA's finding carbon dioxide poses a public danger.
The cities allege that, for decades, the companies sold fossil fuels they knew were contributing to
climate change, while engaging in a multimillion - dollar campaign to sow
doubt about global warming.
I suppose there may be some
doubts about our quantitative predictions of
climate change, and there were certainly
doubts about the quantitative predictions of deaths due to it.»
Both senators asked Perry
about remarks he made this past Monday on a CNBC news program casting
doubt on carbon dioxide's role in
climate change.
The Sydney Morning Herald, no
doubt attempting to reverse The Australian «s sunny optimism
about climate change, is reporting predictions of multi-metre sea level rise by the turn of the century.
For those still unconvinced
about the reality of
climate change, the year that just ended should erase any
doubt.
In the same way that creationists urge schools to «teach the controversy,»
climate change skeptics aim to sow
doubt about scientific consensus, said Mark McCaffrey, the programs and policy director of the National Center for Science Education, a nonprofit that has long supported the teaching of evolution in schools and recently began to defend
climate change education.
Heading into the 2015 True / False Film Festival in Columbia, Missouri, the last two documentaries I reviewed were Kirby Dick's The Hunting Ground,
about rape on college campuses, and Robert Kenner's Merchants Of
Doubt,
about the industry - financed «experts» who deliberately muddy the debate over the settled science of
climate change and cigarette - smoking.
West Virginia education officials on Wednesday retreated from an earlier curriculum decision that expressed
doubts about widely held views of
climate change.
While I'm much less expert on Indonesia, I
doubt very much that its government is as far advanced as China's is in its thinking
about how to tackle the challenge of
climate change.
I have no
doubts about the fact that
climate change is happening and that the warming trend is real and unusual, given the GHG / aerosol forcings.
Whatever you think of this particular effort, it has become ever clearer that
climate information not only «wants» to be free, but will be — whether through pressure for further transparency and objectivity on the part of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change or the liberation / hacking / theft / disclosure of climate documents produced with government money, whether they raise questions about the motives of some scientists or reveal attempts by political operatives to raise public doubt about climate fi
climate information not only «wants» to be free, but will be — whether through pressure for further transparency and objectivity on the part of the Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change or the liberation / hacking / theft / disclosure of climate documents produced with government money, whether they raise questions about the motives of some scientists or reveal attempts by political operatives to raise public doubt about climate fi
Climate Change or the liberation / hacking / theft / disclosure of
climate documents produced with government money, whether they raise questions about the motives of some scientists or reveal attempts by political operatives to raise public doubt about climate fi
climate documents produced with government money, whether they raise questions
about the motives of some scientists or reveal attempts by political operatives to raise public
doubt about climate fi
climate findings.
As you might expect in a debate
about whether or not the U.S. should make a risky move to perpetuate the use of fossil fuels, some committee members took the opportunity to voice
doubt that the constant burning of that energy source was behind the rising temperatures, melting ice sheets, and abnormal weather events most scientists associate with
climate change.
In what may prove to be a turning point for political action on
climate change, a breathtaking new study casts extreme
doubt about the near - term stability of global sea levels.
IER is known for its efforts to sow
doubt about the risks of
climate change and for its misleading attacks on clean energy policies.
What may surprise many delegates is that it appears to have been published without any attempt at censorship, despite President Trump's decision to withdraw the US from the Paris Agreement and his
doubts about the reality of the threat
climate change poses.
It comes at a time when President Donald Trump and other members of the administration have expressed
doubt about the accepted science of
climate change, and are considering drastic cuts to federal funding for scientific research.
The company later led a decades - long campaign to create
doubt about the scientific evidence for man - made
climate change.
for its efforts to sow
doubt about the risks of
climate change and for its misleading attacks on clean energy policies.
We argue that two main types should be distinguished: epistemic scepticism, relating to
doubts about the status of
climate change as a scientific and physical phenomenon; and response scepticism, relating to
doubts about the efficacy of action taken to address
climate change.
Our
climate is
changing, no
doubt about it.
«My years spent gathering and studying data from in and around Antarctica leave me in no
doubt about the seriousness of the risks that
climate change poses.