Sentences with phrase «fuel funding»

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

Renewable energy is, of course, what climate deniers and their fossil fuel funders fear most.

Soon has previously stated that his fossil fuel funding does not influence his scientific work.

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

«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.

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.

The group has a committee of well - known climate action blockers and fossil fuel advocates, including British hereditary peer Lord Christopher Monckton and US - based Marc Morano, of the fossil fuel funded think tank Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT).

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.

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

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

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.

Perhaps he really doesn't know better (although a man in his position certainly ought to know better), and has just repeated what he saw on a fossil - fuel funded denial group's website, or heard at an ALEC conference.

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.

Together, in addition to providing nutritious meals to pets in SDHS's care, Purina has helped fuel funding for the shelter by supporting countless fundraisers throughout the year and partnering for promotions to drive adoptions.

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:

Looks like that US nuclear customers paying at most $ 0.003 / kWh for decommissioning and spent fuel fund are doing pretty well.

In fact, POLITICO's Emily Holden reports that fossil - fuel funded trade groups, including EEI, have asked the administration not to open the endangerment finding.

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.

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.

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.

Art for Justice: $ 100 Million From Sale of «Masterpiece» by Roy Lichtenstein Fuels Fund to End Mass Incarceration in United States

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.

While fossil - fuel funded propagandists worked to cast doubt on the reality of climate change, legitimate researchers published papers to debunk denier claims and educate the public on the state of consensus among climate scientists.

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.

Freese returns later to question Dr Pat Michaels, the particular highlight being her question about Western Fuels funding which was immediately followed up by Ms Hedman.

Now one that is almost sure to revive the nausea: A Conversation on Climate Intimidation with Richard Lindzen and fossil - fuel funded Willie Soon, moderated by lawyer Andrew Grossman.

Should Greenpeace want us to believe it is pure as the driven snow in this regard it will have to give back its Rainbow Warrior flagship vessel — since it was partially paid for by the fossil - fuel funded WWF.

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.

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.

but try putting a little elbow grease into figuring out who their source for the fossil fuel funding accusation is, though.

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.

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

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.

Except for the fossil - fuel funded ones like Tim Ball and Fred Singer, who don't even publish at all in climate science journals, and have no credibility whatsoever.

I very much doubt the IPCC's Fifth Assessment Report will move the needle on climate action because of its inadequacies; because the media has scaled back climate coverage and let go of its best climate reporters; and because the fossil fuel funded disinformation campaign will try to exploit those first two problems to make it seem like this report gives us less to worry about, when it simply underscores what we have known for a quarter - century.

Fred Singer and other contrarian scientists didn't do work for fossil - fuel funded think tanks?

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.

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