Sentences with phrase «environmentalists claim»

The environmentalists claim to have been «intentionally rammed» by whalers, and had one of their boats completely destroyed in recent weeks.

Atmospheric CO2 levels depend primarily on global temperatures (not human emissions of CO2 as the climate alarmist environmentalists claim).

In real life, anti-fracking environmentalists claim that fracking is responsible for methane getting into groundwater while also pointing out that the contaminated water will burst into a ball of fire when a flame is applied to it.

A point noted here often is that although environmentalists claim that their perspective is grounded in science, their desire for social control is palpable.

We are not on an «emission reduction» journey, as so many environmentalists claim; we are on a technology replacement journey.

Environmentalists claim that their argument is grounded in scientific objectivity.

You make a different point which is also worth considering: that environmentalists claim that there is more to life than being part of some kind of industrial machine.

My view (11/1/2011), after reading extensively and having some science background, is that it's about as likely to be three times milder than environmentalists claim (really bad) as to be as bad as they say.

That means there's a 5 % chance that global warming will be much milder than the environmentalists claim.

Environmentalists claim the route — utilising a short - cut through the supposedly protected Great Barrier Reef Marine Park — poses a danger to the delicate ecosystem, with the government turning a blind - eye to the problem.

Environmentalists claim the highly saline water discharged from desalination plants could harm marine life.

Environmentalists claim that Charles Monnett of the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement (BOEMRE) is the victim of a «witch hunt» aimed at opening up more of Alaska to oil and gas drilling.

Environmentalists claim that carbon disulfide may endanger factory workers.

Top attorneys led by New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman and former Vice President Al Gore announced a collective effort to investigate Exxon Mobil over environmentalist claims that the company misled the public about its role in climate change.

Africa's surviving rainforests are under renewed threat following an agreement between the governments of Cameroon and France, environmentalists claimed last week.

In Michigan, CMS Energy Corp. had to back off from plans to expand a gas - fired plant in Dearborn due to environmentalists claiming that it would worsen air quality.

I'm also sceptical in the sense that I try to evaluate each issue on its merits, and to reach my own conclusions, rather than accepting or rejecting environmentalist claims holus - bolus.

That should make him wary of environmentalist claims that EPA is just carrying out the will of Congress.

It requires a great deal of energy to mine Bitcoin with many environmentalists claiming it unsustainable.

Not exact matches

The pipeline, which is a project of TransCanada Pipelines, is reviled by environmentalists and clean energy supporters throughout the U.S. who claim that it will lead to the expansion of «dirty» oilsands projects in Alberta.

We do well to see the relevance of the denial of an atomized self for an environmentalist like Callicott and then see how Buddhism supports and enriches his claim.

He shows how the fear of dire ecological disaster has repeatedly allowed the unscientific claims made by environmentalists and the consequences of the reforms they propose to escape unchallenged.

In this particular instance it is not very difficult to imagine scenarios in the not - too - distant future in which there might occur resurgences of socialist policies and ideals: the failure of neo-capitalist regimes in developing societies and / or the formerly Communist countries in Europe to achieve economic take - off; the insight granted to sundry dictators and despots that, while socialism invariably immiserates the masses, it is a very good recipe for enriching those who claim to hold power as the vanguard of the masses; the «creeping socialism» (still an aptly descriptive term) brought on by massive government intervention in the economy in the name of some societal good, e.g., there could be an environmentalist road to socialism, or a feminist one, or one constructed (perhaps inadvertently) with some other building blocks of politically managed regulations and entitlements; or, last but not least, the actual restoration of socialism, by coup or by voting, in a number of countries, beginning with Russia.

NYSUT claims: «New Yorkers Against Corruption (NYAC) is an unprecedented alliance of progressive activists, conservatives, environmentalists and labor organizations.»

«The environmentalists who oppose all fracking are wrong, and the drillers who claim that regulation will kill the industry are wrong,» Bloomberg said in a prepared statement.

Phelim McAleer is the creator of Fracknation, a film that claims to rebut charges made by environmentalists and the popular anti fracking movie «Gasland».

The environmentalist said Mr. Pawlowski claims to have preservation as his first priority, but noted he is a businessman.

She claimed nuclear energy would not be as cheap as supporters claimed, and cited safety issues, in a debate with environmentalist Mark Lynas after they watched his Daily Politics film at Hinkley Point

Phelim McAleer is the creator of FrackNation, a film that claims to rebut charges made by environmentalists and the popular anti-fracking movie «Gasland.»

Environmentalists who litter do not by doing so disprove the claims of environmentalism.

Lomborg, a Danish political scientist with a background in statistics, argues in his text that claims made by environmentalists about global warming, overpopulation, energy, deforestation, species loss, water shortages, and a variety of other issues are exaggerations unsupported by a proper analysis of environmental data.

In California, the issue of water supply has pitted farmers against city dwellers and environmentalists, who claim that the farmers waste most of their water on low - value crops and inefficient irrigation systems.

Environmentalists, he claimed, had invented «the figure of the uncontacted native jungle dweller» in order to stop oil and gas development in the Amazon.

A dissident Greenpeace founding member claims the environmentalist group has become «a force for evil» in its campaigns against GM golden rice.

And it invests Mowgli with a touch of optimistic environmentalist fantasy: where human mastery of fire and tools was presented in earlier films as a threat, and Mowgli's fated exit from the jungle as an unfortunate necessity, in this film the boy is shown using his ingrained ingenuity to solve problems beyond the capabilities of his animal pals, as when he builds a rappel and pulley system to help Baloo claim honey from a cliffside beehive he's been coveting.

Opposing this operation is a local teacher (the still amazing at 87 Hal Holbrook, treading into Oscar territory again) and a new face in town, Dustin (Krasinski), an environmentalist who's not all he claims to be.

There is no doubt that some environmentalists make exaggerated claims on global warming, but when was the last time these were shown in a major news outlet?

There is also no doubt that there are powerful political and economic interests funding disinformation campaigns with their own exaggerations, and it seems to me that these have lately been making it into the news more than the claims of environmentalists.

The report extolls the value of the oil and gas sector to the Canadian economy, and adds that many environmentalists «claim» that climate change is the most serious global environmental threat, and «claim» it is a direct consequence of human activity and is «reportedly» linked to the use of fossil fuels.

Environmentalists can't claim to be «free» anything when so many of them support policies designed to keep the third world poor and to control human reproduction.

Over at the environmentalist news site Grist, I have been arguing that environmentalists should be careful about making claims that can not be based on scientific facts.

I just was watching your interview with Michael Shellenberger and reading / listening up on this whole «centrist environmentalist» concept and I have to say, I take issue with people claiming the longtime «left» environmental movement was all about being a culture of restriction and somehow not in tune with the idea that this global warming crisis could lead to newer, alternative, healthy economics of another kind.

In 2004, the Dane made his name as a green contrarian with his bestselling book The Skeptical Environmentalist, and outraged scientists and green groups around the world by arguing that many claims about global warming, overpopulation, energy resources, deforestation, species loss and water shortages are not supported by analysis.

It said «the site has quickly become a must - read for interested amateurs, and a perfect foil to both the climate skeptic misinformation that saturates sections of the web and the overexcitement of the claims of some environmentalists.»

He didn't allow me to speak much, but I did get in my favorite argument about scientists needing 95 % certainty to make claim and thus being overly cautious (they need to avoid false positives in order to protect their reputations — which is understandable), while those living in the world (environmentalists, potential victims) would want to follow the «medical model» of avoiding false negatives, and would be concerned about possible problems at a much lower standard of certainty (a doctor would not tell her patient that there is only 94 % certainty the lump is cancerous, so we won't operate).

Let me add that mindless environmentalists opposed oil drilling claiming it would harm marine ecology.

However hundreds of published reports from scientists, engineers, physicians and environmentalists refute misleading claims by wind power developers that industrial wind technology will be either effective or harmless.

This is the first time we've heard the claim that environmentalists blame «traditional religion» directly for environmental degradation.

So you might expect those same environmentalists to be rather excited by a project that claims to be able to stabilise global temperatures at the push of a button, and keep them stable while the world makes the transition to energy sources of the future.

One of the biggest debates between sceptics and their counterparts is in fact the role played by feedback mechanisms — a response in part to claims by environmentalists such as Mark Lynas in «Six Degrees: our future on a hotter planet» that a relatively small increase in CO2 could cause «runaway climate change» by triggering (unknown and possibly non-existent) feedback mechanisms to form.