Sentences with phrase «fuel funded skeptic»
While the ensuing fame increased demand for Solomon as a speaker and «expert» panelist within the fossil - fuel funded skeptic community, two things jump out as particularly strange about the book.
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You do take funds from fossil fuel companies for your skeptic «research» in order to distract, obfuscate, and confuse voters into thinking climate change is not happening or that it isn't the fault of us humans.
In the briefest of descriptions, Rado claimed the video presented biased information from scientists who were funded by fossil fuel interests, but it turned out he voiced a dislike of the video before viewing it, had a preconceived notion about the funding of skeptic scientists, and failed to disclose precisely who his complaint reviewer William Connolley was.
So long as prominent skeptics are free of fossil fuel funding this strategy will not work — by definition.
«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.»
After an initial effort to discredit the book failed, Western Fuels, along with a leading industry - funded «greenhouse skeptic,» S. Fred Singer, accused Gelbspan of resume fraud.
For most of the 1990s, Western Fuels, a $ 400 million coal industry propaganda outlet, funded the most visible of the greenhouse skeptics.
On May 29, 2015, Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, Democrat of Rhode Island, attended a Big Green - funded League of Conservation Voters event where he called for using RICO against climate skeptics and fossil fuel companies (see the YouTube here), then in a Washington Post op - ed, «The fossil - fuel industry's campaign to mislead the American people,» prompting a backlash asserting that the charge was false, and defending the right to dissent.
So, let's see, when we (those defending the AGW theory) note that, of the small minority of scientists on the skeptic side making discredited arguments, many if not most seem to have quite direct connections to right - wing or libertarian organizations like the Cato Institute or the George C. Marshall Fund or with the fossil fuel (especially coal) industry, we are derided as engaging in «ad hominem» attacks and so forth.
In a new entertaining development inadvertently reinforcing the problem that these memos are the only «smoking gun evidence» indicting skeptic climate scientists of industry - funded corruption, Desmog's 1/29/17 piece trumpeted the arrival of former Western Fuels CEO Fred Palmer to the Heartland Institute.....
The World Climate Report (website) is funded by the Western Fuels Association (website) which promote various forms of climate change skepticism and have funded individual skeptics, such as Patrick Michaels.
(The sock puppet earns bonus points if those same scientists also get to slur the whistleblower and skeptics with unsubstantiated implications that «they are funded by fossil fuels».)
The Smithsonian has opened an investigation into the ethical conduct of Willie Soon, one of its part time scientists and a climate - change skeptic who is facing scrutiny for failing to properly disclose his work was funded by fossil fuel interests.
On Feb. 23, the Smithsonian opened an investigation into the ethical conduct of Willie Soon, one of its part time scientists and a climate skeptic who has failed to disclose funding from fossil fuel companies in papers he published.
Well I guess we know the intent of fossil fuel interests to fund a «skeptic» to do climate science must be benign?
The studies in question were co-authored by Willlie Soon, a prominent climate - change skeptic whose work was funded by fossil fuel interests.
Skeptics don't have to rely on vested fossil fuel interests to do research, nor do fossil fuel interests have to fund their research to learn about alternatives to the consensus position.
But anyway, the point I am trying to make is that is likely that fossil fuel interests would fund a known skeptic has to do with the results they hope to get.
I don't understand how fossil fuel interests funding «skeptics» like WIlie Soon is going to get us any closer to understanding the science of climate change.
The unpaid volunteers who have no reason to lie or the fossil fuel funded «skeptics» that have every reason to lie.
Yes, it's true — skeptical, legitimate climate scientists like the ones who run this site have been very frustrated by the deliberately deceitful pseudoscience, outright lies — and most recently vicious personal attacks against them — that have been cranked out for the last couple of decades by fossil fuel industry - funded frauds and cranks and given unwarranted legitimacy by the mass media, and regurgitated ad nauseum on blogs everywhere by Ditto - Heads who unquestioningly believe whatever drivel is spoon - fed to them by the phony «conservative» media, and call themselves «skeptics» for doing so.
They claimed that the problem has been that fossil fuel interests have massively outspent underdog environmental groups, funding skeptics to mislead the public and duping the media into giving too much credence to skeptical views about climate change.
During the deposition process of Dr Singer (full text here), Lancaster acted as his own attorney, posing most of his questions on the Revelle - Singer - Starr paper and related science points, but closed with questions about skeptic climate scientists and Western Fuels» funding of them.