Sentences with phrase «fossil fuel funding»

And now, many students are taking the fight further — challenging university sponsorship, fossil fuel funding banks and more.

City authorities could shift billions of dollars from fossil fuel funds in latest victory for divestment movement

«The Virginia political figure we most admire was the preeminent scientist of the day, Thomas Jefferson,» Senator Tim Kaine said recently during a floor speech in which he scrutinized the undue influence of fossil fuel funded climate deniers in Virginia.

A watchdog group has alerted several academic journals that Soon failed to disclose fossil fuel funding in papers they published.

Dr. Balling has reluctantly owned up to hundreds of thousands of dollars in fossil fuel funding as well as direct research support from Exxon [PDF] and the Kuwaiti government [PDF] to downplay global warming.

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.

On the other hand, Mann keeps talking about fossil fuel funded conspiracies...

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Those consensus advocates may perceive this as evidence of an astroturf coordinated multi million dollar funded, fossil fuel funded PR denial machine.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Willie Soon Suspected fossil fuel funding — Compensation for services to Western Fuels Assoc. funded project

Senator Seitz also looked to include disinformation from fossil fuel funded special interest groups in the report.

Where many question fossil fuel funding as a potential source for conflicts of interest, Palmer had no such worries: [40]

Similarly, a recent letter published by the Wall Street Journal, signed by 16 climate «skeptics» (few of which have any climate or economics expertise, and many of which have received fossil fuel funding) misrepresented Nordhaus» research as supporting climate inaction from an economic standpoint.

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.

during a floor speech in which he scrutinized the undue influence of fossil fuel funded climate deniers in Virginia.

Fisher even mixed in the sort of rhetoric common among the network of fossil fuel funded climate skeptics that IER and AEA are a part of.

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».

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.

Heartland has misrepresented the Chinese NAS for political purposes before, and Science Bulletin was the latest victim of Dr. Soon's serial lack of disclosure of fossil fuel funding to science journals.

In the video above, we asked Dr. Soon about his fossil fuel funding at a climate denial event hosted by the Heritage Foundation last month — the event that wraps up Christopher Rowland's article in the Globe.

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.

[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.]

Thomas Pyle, the president of the fossil fuel funded Institute of Energy Research (IER) who served as President - elect Trump's DOE transition team leader, responded to the news by doubling down on his group's misleading claims about clean energy policies:

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.

Now more than 20 years on, Democratic Senators from across the pond have completed a blitz of speeches describing the fossil fuel funded «web of denial» — with organisations including the CEI featuring heavily in their forensic analysis.

If this place is fossil fuel funded it's most certainly not obvious.

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.

A grand jury investigation that everyone knows is ongoing, of RICO provisions of law as they apply to fossil fuel funding of scientific research, would be an improvement.