Sentences with phrase «fueled right wing»

This component of the debate is what fuels right wing opposition to the «warmists», not any dispute with the science.

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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 many ways, the rise of these right - wing alternative media and the rise of Donald Trump as a presidential candidate parallel each other, and they have arguably been fueled by similar undercurrents in U.S. society.

The right - wing press, in particular, actively fuels these misconceptions.

Over the period of falling support the Labour leadership has announced or supported a raft of right - wing policies including: accepting the Tories 2015 - 16 spending plans, ending universal winter fuel payments, capping welfare spending, restricting migrants» rights and weakening Labour's union link.

But fossil - fuelled politicians and the right - wing media serving as their megaphones will continue to wring every ounce of faux controversy they can out of this episode.

«These documents are breathtaking, and they reveal what many of us have long suspected: That there is a campaign afoot by groups directly funded by the fossil fuel industry and right - wing foundations such as Koch Industries to mislead the public about climate change,» Pennsylvania State University climatologist Michael Mann wrote in an email to LiveScience.

Now that Obamacare has become more successful than critics predicted, «Obamacore» is their next target, he says, «fueled by right - wing talk show hosts feeding listeners a steady stream of misinformation.»

Right now the government dominated by left wing cranks, and mindless bureaucrats, has gone completely overboard in dictating not only fuel economy numbers but kinds of drivetrains and power plants that must be built.

The boot was usefully expanded, helped by a slight increase in the car's overall length, and with more careful packaging of the spare wheel (under the floor) and the fuel tank (in the rear wing on the right).

Modern Fuel Artist Run Centre, 21 Queen St., Kingston ON With the new exhibit Fraternity by Kevin Rodgers (London, ON) minimalist sculpture becomes a platform for right - wing political pundits.

The warnings have been ignored or ridiculed at the international, national, state and even local level, thanks in part to a well - funded, right - wing campaign representing the short - term interests of heavy industry, mining and fossil fuel corporations.

You can point the finger at all sorts of participants in this battle, but I believe (and we have been examining and discussing at length on this site for more than 8 years now) the principal drivers of the polarization are coming more from: (1) the corporate energy interests who are protecting their profits against regulation and other policies that would move the system away from fossil fuels, and using their clout in the political process to tie things up; (2) right - wing anti-government and anti-regulatory ideologues whose political views appear threatened by scientific conclusions that point toward a need for stronger policy action; (3) people whose religious or cultural identities appear threatened by modern science; and so forth.

It's either political (conservative, right wing or libertarian) or being funded by or in the employment of the fossil fuel industry or one of their front groups.

I'm sure the Wall Street Journal and their cohorts in the right - wing echo chamber are having fun twisting this whole concept around in service to their fossil - fuel friends, but let's take a step back.

With the release of a major climate science report by the United Nations coming this week, the self - proclaimed climate «skeptics,» better referred to as the climate deniers or flat - earthers, are kicking it into high gear for their fossil fuel clients and right wing ringleaders.

Right - wing collaboration with the fossil fuel industry is obvious, but connivance of liberals is widespread.

Potentially stranded fossil fuel assets are largely why responsible climate risk management is being opposed today by fossil fuel companies and libertarian right - wing forces.

ExxonSecrets documents how climate deniers are funded through fossil fuel money laundered through right - wing think tanks:

An overarching framework for right - wing and fossil fuel opposition to climate science and climate risk management can be found at Greenpeace's website ExxonSecrets, which documents «Exxon Foundation and corporate funding to a series of institutions who have worked to undermine solutions to global warming and climate change.»

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.

A constant theme of the Progressive Left is that the fundamental reason why America is not taking effective action on climate change is that action is being blocked by right - wing politicians in the US Congress and in numerous state governments who are being funded by fossil fuel interests to oppose anti-carbon legislation.

Tom Fuller, a constant theme of the Progressive Left is that the fundamental reason why America is not taking effective action on climate change is that action is being blocked by right - wing politicians in the US Congress and in numerous state governments who are being funded by fossil fuel interests to oppose anti-carbon legislation.

And if these anti-climate, right - wing facists are also funded by evil corporate interests (especially of the fossil fuel variety)?

For the past four years, a set of right - wing advocacy groups, largely funded by the Koch brothers and the fossil fuel industry, has been waging jihad on bipartisan government policies that support renewable energy.

Fossil fuel companies facing a future with stranded carbon assets, powerful contrarian ideologues, and right - wing media spreading climate disinformation remain major obstacles to progress.

As the head of the Regulatory Unit at the Institute for Public Affairs, a right - wing think tank with close ties to greenhouse sceptics, Moran's role has been to support the Government and the fossil fuel corporations with anti-environmental opinions about climate science, the costs of emission reductions and the pitfalls of renewable energy.

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.

All this wondering about peoples motivations (marxist, socialist, right wing, creationsist, fossil fuel funded (i wish!)

[Translate] Environment This isn't the first time right - wing operatives allied with the fossil fuel industry have targeted...

It is a strategy often referred to as «poisoning the well» where someone basically tries to make the case that the normally reputable authorities are all so biased that the only ones we should trust are (in this particular case) Lindzen and the small band of scientists (many affiliated with the aforementioned right - wing organizations and fossil fuel industry).

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.

I don't believe I have become more conservative since then, although judging by the attacks on me over the last decade or so by the Murdoch press, the fossil fuel lobby and various right - wing politicians, I must be more dangerous.

For over two decades, fossil fuel interests and right - wing ideologues have sought to cast doubt on the consensus:

Other organizations behind the letter include many which have received significant funding from the fossil fuel industry and right - wing foundations:

Exxon used the American Petroleum Institute, right - wing think tanks, campaign contributions and its own lobbying to push a narrative that climate science was too uncertain to necessitate cuts in fossil fuel emissions.

Right wing conservatives like Jacob Rees Mogg joined in saying that because of the obsession of «the doomsayers of the quasi religious Green movement» poor people «may die because they can't afford fuel»

It's what Joe Romm at Climate Progress calls «a declaration of dependence on fossil fuels, a figurative declaration of war on a livable climate and the health and well - being of countless future generations» and my colleague Elias Isquith describes as an effort to «design a right - wing machine to dominate American politics in the near - and medium - term future» — which, if successful, will be more than enough time to set Earth on an irreversible path to catastrophic climate change.

The Post printed a Fred Singer fairy tale and an Open Letter to UN Secretary Bam without so much as suggesting this gang of clowns were connected to right wing think tanks and the fossil fuel industry.

Documentation for right - wing and fossil fuel opposition to climate science and climate risk management can be found at Greenpeace's website ExxonSecrets, which documents «Exxon Foundation and corporate funding to a series of institutions who have worked to undermine solutions to global warming and climate change.»

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.