This fossil -
fuel funded think tank recently offered $ 10,000 to any scientist willing to criticize the recent landmark 2007 Summary of Policy Makers (PDF File) climate change report issued by the United Nations sponsored Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
When the loudest voices are fossil -
fuel funded think tanks, when they don't publish in journals but instead write error - laden op - eds in partisan venues, when they have to manipulate the data to support their point, then what they're doing isn't science.
Fred Singer and other contrarian scientists didn't do work for fossil -
fuel funded think tanks?
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.
In particular, we
think an increase in investment spending, to the extent that it is bank
funded, should
fuel bank credit growth and benefit the French banking sector.
GENYOUth Foundation, formed by National Dairy Council and National Football League (NFL) engages students, schools, communities, business partners and
thought leaders to help
fund Fuel Up To Play 60.
I had also been working with the National Dairy Council / NFL «
Fuel Up to Play 60» program and
thought this was a way to bridge the two and get some
funding.
Those scientists readily identified with organizations such as the IPCC, the National Academy of Science, and NASA and NOAA had a shared viewpoint: Not only did they
think Taylor was simply «drinking the Kool Aid» prepared and fed to him by fossil
fuel -
funded interests, but they also recognized that he was effective — that is very good.
It's clear this is already happening and we can expect more op - eds in major newspapers from the likes of George Will, more full - page adverts from industry -
funded propaganda mills masquerading as «conservative»
think tanks, and more comments posted on every blog where global warming is discussed, denouncing the «vast liberal hoax» of anthropogenic global warming, because, you know, it's been proved that the earth isn't warming, and if it is, it has nothing to do with fossil
fuels.
I suspect that we will be hearing a lot more about hydrogen cars too; the fossil
fuel companies might well
fund a fake «hydrogen economy» because the cheapest hydrogen is made by steam reforming of natural gas; people
think that this is somehow better than just running a car on CNG.
As documented in more detail below, by 2014 Stacy had been «hired» to do work for the Institute for Energy Research (IER), a
think tank that has received
funding from the fossil
fuel industry.
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 addition to Lehr, Simmons, and Taylor, another of Stacy's witnesses had ties to a fossil
fuel -
funded think tank.
Tom Stacy once staked the credibility of his Ohio - based anti-wind power group on a claim that they had received «zero dollars and zero cents» from the energy industry, but that was before he became a paid consultant for a fossil
fuel -
funded think tank.
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.
He founded an anti climate - action
think tank, the Science and Environmental Policy Project, using fossil
fuel funds.
Driessen is senior policy adviser at the Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow, a Washington, D.C. - based libertarian
think tank focused on environmental issues that has received
funding from fossil
fuel interests such as ExxonMobil and Chevron.
It's been
think tanks
funded by fossil
fuel interests and Republican politicians that have made climate change a political issue.
ExxonSecrets documents how climate deniers are
funded through fossil
fuel money laundered through right - wing
think tanks:
William Happer is a Princeton physicist and Chairman of the Board of Directors at the right - wing fossil
fuel -
funded think tank George C. Marshall Institute.
Hobby sites like «WattsUpWithThat» are a start to effective opposition, but to be honest it really is time that the fossil
fuel industry who so many believers
think are
funding the sceptics, got off their backsides, put their hands in their pockets and did the decent thing to
fund the professional science «opposition» which is needed to force the climategate forecasters to stop feeding this monster with their PR and start to try to justify the existence of their monster based on real science in the face of real decently financed opposition and not part - time unpaid people like us here.
Into this scene enter serial data deleter Patrick Michaels and his fossil
fuel -
funded Cato Institute political
think tank, which have released a voluminous report attempting to undermine the endangerment finding, with their misguided efforts of course being promoted by the usual climate denial enablers.
Based outside of Chicago, Heartland is a conservative
think tank that lobbies against climate regulation, has received
funding from fossil
fuel - linked groups, and lauded President Donald Trump's recent decision to withdraw from the Paris climate agreement.
Because I accept the science and from what I can tell attempts to discredit the science are
funded by fossil
fuel industries funnelling money to
think tanks, opinion bloggers and facebook pages in an effort to influence the political process.
«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.»
«attempts to discredit the science are
funded by fossil
fuel industries funnelling money to
think tanks, opinion bloggers and facebook pages in an effort to influence the political process»
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 Heartland Institute, a climate science denying fossil
fuel -
funded free market
think - tank in the US, recently put the noses of the Chinese Academy of Sciences firmly out of joint with a spectacular piece of overreach.
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.
What you describe is exactly the outcome that Exxon - Mobil and other fossil
fuel companies desire, and have achieved by their
funding of right - wing propaganda mills, disguised as «
think tanks», that spew a steady stream of fake, phony, pseudoscientific bunk and employ cranks and liars to create the completely false impression that there is a genuine «debate» about the reality of anthropogenic global warming.
According to a detailed analysis by the blogger Deep Climate, McIntyre and McKitrick's criticism of the Hockey Stick graph was aggressively promoted and disseminated by an echo chamber of
think tanks and blogs, all of which had financial or ideological associations with fossil
fuel industry
funders.
The Heartland Institute, a
think tank
funded by the fossil
fuel industry and infamous for backing ACD denial, recently distributed a non-science-based report denying the scientific consensus on ACD to elected officials.
In response to a Reddit user's question regarding Epstein's sources of
funding, Epstein wrote he was «proud to work with the fossil
fuel industry,» which he believes has «historically done a horrible job of educating the public,» and
thinks his ideas «will help [the fossil
fuel industry] make a better case for freedom.»
In answer to this, Talisker says that exxonsecrets et al «do not focus on what scientists (or
think - tank staff) do after they have produced «research» favourable to the commercial interests of fossil
fuel companies — they focus instead on the actual
funding of such «research» by corporate interests».
I
think it was always a given that Watts is
funded by the fossil
fuel industry, but its good to have the facts now.
Rud — we do need a source of
funding for transportation infrastructure, but I
think a
fuel tax ignores the fact that even people with no personal vehicle benefit from roads.
PBS should obviously not be contacting a fossil
fuel -
funded global warming denying anti-science
think tank which has previously compared climate realists to mass murderers for interview suggestions on a climate story.
Media pundits, partisan
think tanks, and special interest groups
funded by fossil
fuel and related industries raise doubts about the truth of global warming.
A UCS investigation showed that the U.S. news media routinely fail to inform the public about the fossil
fuel industry
funders behind climate change contrarian
think tanks.
The fossil
fuel industry is
funding all kinds of ad campaigns,
think tanks that prove that smog is good for you, etc..
So [edited] I
think that the results of Vecchi and Soden do put a dent in the hypothesis that human industrial emissions are largely responsible for the observed increase in Atlantic tropical cyclones and that they will have a larger impact into the future [edited]- Chip Knappenberger to some degree,
funded by the fossil
fuels industry since 1992
Perhaps believing his own propaganda, he
thought that if he could get the confidential packet of documents distributed at the Heartland board meeting, he could prove that Heartland had a nefarious agenda
funded by the fossil
fuel industry.
The
fuel industry will
fund whoever they
think will help them make more money in the future, regardless of what they say.
The reports have been released in partnership with industry -
funded state
think tanks with ties to the Koch brothers and other fossil
fuel special interest groups.
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.
Bill Dotzler, a state senator who helped the TPC gain the necessary initial
funding, is hopeful about their potential: «You almost get a trifecta with this — you clean the streams, you provide habitat for pheasants and other wildlife and you produce an alternative
fuel... It's not going to be the whole answer, but I
think burning the native plants could be an important part of the whole puzzle.»
In the meantime because society is not resilient to current extreme weather I
think that in addition to
funding research for cheaper fossil
fuel alternatives we should be spending money on adapting to extreme weather rather than subsidizing any current technology renewable energy.
The paper was
funded in part by the fossil
fuel industry, and both authors at the time were paid consultants for a right - wing
think tank.
I
think this growth will continue to be
fueled by traditional asset management approaches, including bitcoin futures, crypto hedge
funds and the like, all of which will increase the demand for cryptocurrencies and tokens.