In any case, it is simply an effort to reconcile the rapid rates of warming in the Arctic with the output of the most recent group of global climate models — everyone agrees that global warming is real, except for a very large number of editors and reporters with the U.S. press, who continue to advocate for the positions held by a small number of
fossil fuel funded contrarians and insist on giving them «equal time» — a luxury denied to renewable energy experts.
The unpaid volunteers who have no reason to lie or
the fossil fuel funded «skeptics» that have every reason to lie.
And the head of the IPCC has been «
fossil fuel funded» forever - here's a half - decade old write up about it.
However, Linowes still has ties to
the fossil fuel funded Institute for Energy Research (IER), which has promoted Linowes work on its blog, Masterresource.org
However, the majority of
the fossil fuel funded commercials are actually repeats of the same messages that the Big Coal and Big Oil have been trumpeting for years.
Then he later he swore up and down that nobody in climate spliced proxy and instrumental data, saying that only
fossil fuel funded miscreants would even dare make such a claim.
Senator Seitz also looked to include disinformation from
fossil fuel funded special interest groups in the report.
during a floor speech in which he scrutinized the undue influence of
fossil fuel funded climate deniers in Virginia.
A leaked email chain reported earlier this week on DeSmog shines a harsh light on the behind - the - scenes coordination between well - known climate deniers and
fossil fuel funded spindoctors.
I believe you yourself also used to talk of attacks from
fossil fuel funded websites directed at yourself before you appreciated the nuances of the different sides of these issues, so perhaps you can see where Oreskes may be seeing things with a certain myopic viewpoint, which you have outgrown.
All this wondering about peoples motivations (marxist, socialist, right wing, creationsist,
fossil fuel funded (i wish!)
And straying briefly into more dangerous territory, lukewarmers can and do remain highly critical of the IPCC, the hockey stick, the climategate fiasco, the Lewandowsky nonsense, and the bizarre idea that sceptics are a bunch of «
fossil fuel funded deniers».
The DVD «Unstoppable Solar Cycles» claims the sun could be driving climate change and features Dr Willie Soon,
a fossil fuel funded part time researcher at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Laboratory who has also received funding from Donors Trust.
I am convinced that the real hope of sustainability lies in getting every Exxon / Shell / racist / misogynist / fat / lazy
fossil fuel funded politician worldwide out of any kind of power position they have lied their way into.
Whether it's pushing banks to stop project - level loans to pipelines, demanding insurance companies to stop underwriting fossil fuel infrastructure, or pressuring cities to stop using
fossil fuel funded banking, «no new fossil fuel finance» is a driving movement strategy.
For decades, fossil fuel - funded groups, free market think tanks (some of which also qualify as
fossil fuel funded groups) and the fossil fuel industry itself have known the importance of the public's understanding of the state of climate science.
Which could include an analysis of the rhetoric from
the fossil fuel funded denial machine, ala Frank Luntz.
First, thanks to everyone at realclimate for all their excellent work; this website goes a long way to help negate the impact of the mostly
fossil fuel funded denier charade, and is especially useful for the interested layperson to stay abreast of current research on global warming.
Michael is also right to point out that
the fossil fuel funded sceptics have cleverly kept the argument on whether global warming is happening and on its cause, thus diverting attention away from the dangers.
Referring to Gavin Schmidt's «explanations» as helpful and pulling out tired lines about a vast
fossil fuel funded conspiracy under the current circumstances tells me that politics are more important to her than the ethics (or lack thereof) involved.
and Whitehouse slammed two of their Republican colleagues for challenging the Clean Power Plan, citing
the fossil fuel funding of Soon in their letter.
In 2014, the Smithsonian gave Davies a set of documents that carried the ball a bit further: the contracts between Soon and
his fossil fuel funders.
[Willie Soon's
fossil fuel funding, and failures to disclose, are hot in the news right now, see New York Times, The Guardian, Inside Climate News, and DeSmogBlog.]
Earlier in this suit over
fossil fuel funding, says the LAT, the Bush administration argued that «alleged impacts of global climate change are too remote and speculative» to be part of project reviews.
He founded an anti climate - action think tank, the Science and Environmental Policy Project, using
fossil fuel funds.
Well, the «surprise» will be that there is little to no evidence of any undeclared
fossil fuel funding influence the work or testimony of these individuals.
So long as prominent skeptics are free of
fossil fuel funding this strategy will not work — by definition.
And now, many students are taking the fight further — challenging university sponsorship,
fossil fuel funding banks and more.
Soon starts out in good spirits, cracking jokes before becoming emphatic and increasingly unhinged about the investigations and requests for emails revealing
his fossil fuel funds are terrible.
On page 271 we read that the WWF only began to «phase - out»
fossil fuel funding from «BP, Shell and others» in the year 2000.
And on page 271 we're told that the WWF began to «phase - out»
fossil fuel funding from companies such as «BP, Shell and others» in the year 2000.
The University of Cambridge, Imperial College London and Oxford University are the top three recipients of Exxon's
fossil fuel funding.
You are the one drawing the equivalence, and trying to tar
all fossil fuel funds with the same simplistic brush, not me.
In order to save your children from the evil fossil fuel industries who pay copious amounts of money to this blog to spread misinformation, you spend hours of your own time astroturfing this blog with post after post demanding peer reviewed answers to all your questions whilst ignoring anything directing you to what you think is an opinion blog (unless it's «proof» of
fossil fuel funding, then blogs are apparently OK) just to convince us that man emits CO2 and the world has warmed since industrialisation??
The witchhunt over tenuous connections to
fossil fuel funding wants to do a lot more than just silence a few people.
I don't think it's too big a leap to associate that with the growth in power of the religious right when it comes to topics like evolution and with
fossil fuel funding when it comes to climate change.
Time magazine made it sound as though the big news was that the Sierra Club had turned its back on an additional $ 30 million of
fossil fuel funding.
Soon has previously stated that
his fossil fuel funding does not influence his scientific work.
Willie Soon Suspected
fossil fuel funding — Compensation for services to Western Fuels Assoc. funded project
Where many question
fossil fuel funding as a potential source for conflicts of interest, Palmer had no such worries: [40]
InsideClimate News details «11 times Willie Soon failed to Disclose
Fossil Fuel Funding», with the primary contributor being Southern Company, which generates power for nine states (largely from coal).
Scientific journals are being alerted by watchdog groups to
fossil fuel funding of contrarian climate studies [link].
Are we not to be concerned by
fossil fuel funding of consensus climate science (there is plenty of that, see below)?
Other CEI
fossil fuel funding, [12] according to DeSmogBlog, includes ExxonMobil ($ 2,100,000), Massey Energy, three Koch - controlled foundations and the American Petroleum Institute.
Not exact matches
It has been based on the production of lies developed by the
fossil fuel industry through industry -
funded conservative think - tanks, laundered through conservative foundations, spun and repeated by right - wing media outlets, and adopted as ideology by the Republican Party.
It is often difficult to calculate the precise proportion of
fossil fuel investments in complex
funds, but about $ 400bn of the $ 5.2 tn total is likely to be in coal, oil and gas.
Tutu, a Nobel peace prize - winner, joined with other Nobel laureates this week to demand that the $ 350m Nobel foundation
fund divest from
fossil fuels.
«$ 5tn in five years is a stunning and unprecedented figure,» said Ellen Dorsey, at the philanthropic Wallace Global
Fund, one of the earliest backers of the
fossil fuel divestment movement.
The
fossil fuel divestment campaign began on university campuses in 2011 but the new report reveals that concerns over investments in coal, oil and gas have now entered the financial mainstream, with more than 80 % of the
funds now committed to divest being managed by commercial investment and pension
funds.
Fossil Fuel Foes: Adani Cancels $ 1.5 Billion Australian Mine Contract After Failing to Secure
Funding