Some of the papers cited by the IPCC predate the Harvard Smithsonian Center involvement, but Soon's long history of taking fossil
fuel industry money is well established.
My focus is on the accusation that skeptic climate scientists are paid fossil
fuel industry money to lie about the issue to the public.
How a combination of fossil
fuel industry money and free market fundamentalists support PR firms like CFACT and writers like David Wojick and we end up with lame strawman arguments and delay in a rational response to address climate change: http://www.merchantsofdoubt.org
Not exact matches
In a utopian world, Canadian auto workers would get huge raises, governments would lavish
money on the
industry, and cars would drive themselves as they met
fuel efficiency and emissions standards effortlessly.
«
Money from megadonors from multibillion dollar fossil
fuel industry should be rejected by all Long Island elected officials,» said Diane Goins of Hempstead, chairwoman of the Long Island Chapter of New York Communities for Change, a nonprofit coalition of working families in low and moderate income communities.
Bernie Sanders» campaign thinks Clinton owes the Vermont senator an apology for accusing him of «lying» about how she accepts
money from the fossil
fuel industry.
«Unfortunately, our governments have become so dominated by
money that both parties are heavily dependent on contributions from
industry, including especially the fossil
fuel industry.»
Environmental groups, climate activists, and some Democrats in Congress have long complained that federal agencies, and DOE in particular, have spent too much
money supporting the fossil
fuel industry, even as it racked up decades of impressive profits.
So, if Inhofe lets
money dictate his policies, what does it mean that the top three contributors to his campaign are dirty energy companies (Koch
industries being # 1), or that he has taken well over $ 1 million from the fossil
fuel industry since 1999?
He has accepted more than $ 1.2 million in
money from the fossil -
fuel industry over the last decade while failing to disclose that conflict of interest in most of his scientific papers.
Kelly Reichardt works resolutely outside of the Hollywood system, making integrity -
fuelled art, and so
money and
industry reach are not her currency.
The problem is, the
fuel stack itself is still right around 100,000 bucks,
industry - wide — that's a lot of
money.
In fitting with the Detroit motor show's (and American car
industry's) heightened awareness of
fuel economy and
money saving, the Sportback boasts a 3 - litre V6 «clean diesel»; it's a TDI, but the US market is seemingly still in some need of convincing that diesel isn't completely the devil's work.
Security is a multi-Billion dollar
industry and the fear of your data being compromised or your device whether it's a phone or computer being ruined, is what
fuels the
industry and gets people to shell out
money for things they might not necessarily need in the first place.
I think there would be a lot to be said for producing a complimentary package that for starters explains where
money for science comes from and how many scientists work for fossil
fuel and smokestack
industries whereas a paid climatologist of any description is a rare bird indeed.
As far as I can tell, he has made a point of avoiding associations with the main body of scepticism, nor has he taken
money from the fossil
fuel industry or the Scaife crowd.
And part of what happened in the U.S. auto
industry was because oil appeared relatively cheap, the U.S. auto
industry decided we're just going to make our
money on SUVs, and we're not going to worry about
fuel efficiency.
• Commits to partnering with
industry and stakeholders to develop
fuel economy standards for heavy - duty vehicles to save families
money at the pump and further reduce reliance on foreign oil and
fuel consumption post-2018; and
Mr. Romm and many environmental campaigners and energy entrepreneurs say that markets, laws, public campaigns and leadership can prompt the technological transformation, and that government research
money has mainly been a distraction and a delaying device promoted by
industries or political operatives wedded to fossil
fuels.
When energy consumers, like Japan's gov» t, decide that it's better to spend a bit more
money on limitless and safe ethanol, solar, wind, water, or geothermal power than on limited and dangerous fossil
fuels, then the energy
industry will change because it must.
It's important to note that there's also sometimes a kind of «false inequivalence» in the fight over climate science and policies — an implication that the lack of action on greenhouse gases is largely the result of the unfair advantage in
money and influence held by
industries dealing in, or dependent on, fossil
fuels.
Yet while
money may be flowing away from many fossil
fuel investments, investing in solar projects has traditionally been somewhat cumbersome — requiring significant capital, legal expertise, and
industry connections.
That will look like a number of things, first, continuing fights around the world to keep fossil
fuel in the ground, and second, continuing to follow the
money and expose the corporations and
industries that stand in the way of progress.
This move will not only cut carbon emissions, it will keep
money in the hands of American consumers and out of the pockets of the dirty fossil
fuel industry.
Similarly, people in the fossil
fuel industries are making a lot of
money by digging up and burning fossil
fuels.
Accusations of corrupt fossil
fuel industry influence over skeptic climate scientists are irrelevant material — worthless — in the absence of any physical evidence (full context document scans, undercover video / audio transcripts, leaked emails,
money - transfer receipts) proving such skeptics were paid and orchestrated to lie about the certainty of catastrophic man - caused global warming.
Of course there is big
money in the fossil
fuel industry and where there is big
money there is often great dishonesty, consider the tobacco
industry.
A news report coming out of the 2010 G20 Summit reported that «Every day governments give away an estimated two billion dollars of taxpayer
money to the fossil -
fuel industry.»
As ever, the fatal problem with enviro - activists» enslavement to the «reposition global warming as theory» phrase as proof that skeptics are paid illicit
money to lie about certainty of global warming is that there is no evidence of it being a top - down fossil
fuel industry directive of any kind.
Most people not involved in the fossil
fuel industry will be glad that tax
monies don't go to their coffers)
However, I want it to be clear that, although I - 732 is the closest proposed law to a simple honest carbon fee and dividend, a good example for other states and nations of a nearly revenue - neutral rising carbon fee, the national fee - and - dividend should be simpler, with 100 % of the
money collected from the fossil
fuel industry distributed uniformly to the public.
Recently the fossil
fuel industry has decided to throw
money to the opposition ($ 250,000 from American
Fuels and Petrochemical Manufacturers).
But in a case study of the power of fossil
fuel interests to shape government policy, the
industry's
money and alliances with conservative think tanks and advocacy groups transformed the committee's membership and supported the rise of Smith, son of an old oil and ranching family in South Texas.
«If other G20 governments are serious about standing up to Trump's climate denial and meeting their commitments under the Paris Agreement, they need to stop propping up the outdated fossil
fuel industry with public
money.»
Do follow their advice: research the signatories of this letter and follow their
money trail, which leads straight to the fossil
fuel industry.
Considering that at least 43 % of the letter's signatories have received
money from the fossil
fuel industry, being given large sums of
money just for being climate «skeptics» and publishing error - riddled nonsense like this op - ed, the sheer nerve it must have taken to make this «follow the
money» argument is astounding.
That's when fossil
fuel industry lobbyists and executives started pouring more
money into front groups and advocacy campaigns aimed at spreading doubt about climate science and blocking action to reduce emissions.
Follow - up from that suggested there's a lot of
money coming from the fossil
fuel industry - kind of obviously, really.
These guys get tons of
money from the fossil
fuel industry, and then they lead their party off the deep end.
The PR
industry is a major component of the influence peddling
industry that stretches across Washington and the world, and they are making large sums of
money from energy companies and other important players that have businesses connected casino online to fossil
fuels and energy policy,
I know your tongue is planted firmly in cheek, but I did some research on the matter, and found that the fossil
fuel industry, automobile
industry, and wal - mart - like fossil -
fuel - based mega-scale consumer goods distribution
industry have many thousands of times more
money at stake (~ $ 10 trillion annually) on the outcome of this debate than do the scientists in question.
I found that the amount of
money available in the fossil
fuel - related
industries (coal, oil, and natural gas production, transportation, and immediate consumption) exceeded the
money available for academic and government - funded climate research by approximately 2,500 times.
I did a study on the
money involved in climate science vs. the
money involved in fossil
fuel related
industries and found that any
money - motivated scientist was better off working for
industry than laboring away as a government or academic scientist.
Choose to spend your
money with businesses and
industries that are
fuel efficient and investing in renewable energy and LEED certified buildings, producing products sustainably and reducing use of packaging.
They promote spending $ 22 billion just in federal
money during FY - 2014 on climate change studies; costly solar projects of every description; wind turbines that blight scenic vistas and slaughter millions of birds and bats annually, while wind energy developers are exempted from endangered species and other environmental laws that apply to all other
industries; and ethanol programs that require millions of acres of farmland and vast quantities of water, fertilizer, pesticides and fossil
fuel energy to produce a gasoline additive that reduces mileage, harms engines, drives up food prices... and increases CO2 emissions.
The New York Times writes «He has accepted more than $ 1.2 million in
money from the fossil -
fuel industry over the last decade while failing to disclose that conflict of interest in most of his scientific papers.»
Carbon taxes in Denmark are used to push
industry away from fossil
fuels while pulling companies toward renewables, and the
money is invested to make it easy - and affordable - for
industry to switch to low - carbon technologies.
Taking action to produce cleaner operations and cleaner products takes
money — and
industry is spending it to invent substitute and less carbon - intensive
fuels, by supporting technologies such as wind, solar, biofuels, geothermal and others, and by improving efficiency and pursuing technologies such as carbon capture and storage and advanced technology vehicles.
So, if none of those deliver (pardon the pun) evidence clearly showing how skeptic climate scientists agreed to accept illicit
money in exchange for spreading lies that meet the approval of fossil
fuel industry executives, what do we have left?
But when it comes to
fuel economy — the one thing that would save consumers
money — the
industry claims it costs too much.