Sentences with phrase «fund skeptic groups»
UCS report finds that the oil company spent nearly $ 16 million to fund skeptic groups and create confusion around the certainty of global warming.
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In the area of climate change, the leaked documents revealed that the group funds vocal climate skeptics, including Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change founder Craig Idso ($ 11,600 per month), physicist Fred Singer ($ 5,000 plus expenses per month), and New Zealand geologist Robert Carter ($ 1,667 per month).
We had firsthand experience dealing with climate skeptics, amplified by advocacy groups like the Competitive Enterprise Institute and a lot of the think tanks that were allegedly funded by ExxonMobil and other firms.
The fund is designed to help scientists like Professor Michael Mann cope with the legal fees that stack up in fighting attempts by climate - skeptic groups to gain access to private emails and other correspondence through lawsuits and Freedom of Information Act requests at their public universities.
A recent story in the Los Angeles Times provided an update on the funding behind two associated climate skeptic groups that have been involved in attacks on clean energy in Ohio.
These two corporations are infamous for their funding of climate change «skeptic» think tanks and front groups.
There is «empirical evidence» but it's identified by skeptics despite efforts by government funded agencies and environmental groups to block, deny, and discredit with personal attacks.
Just when we thought the op - ed letter couldn't get worse, these fake skeptics have the gall to suggest that we «follow the money,» because climate «alarmism» supposedly brings bountiful research funding, «an excuse for governments to raise taxes», «big donations» for environmental groups, and other similar tinfoil - hattery.
The investigative blogger Deep Climate has been working to set the record straight on how an orchestrated campaign by members of Congress, industry - funded global warming denialist groups and PR operatives, and professional «skeptics» has spread misleading information about the paleoclimate... Continue reading →
«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.»
He has criticized both industry - funded skeptics and environmental groups on their biased treatment of the Global Warming issue.
A 2010 investigation by the Institute for Southern Studies found the John Locke Foundation to be one of the most outspoken climate skeptics in North Carolina, working together with other groups funded by the Koch Brothers and Art Pope.
DCI Group is a lobbying and PR firm, which has historically worked with R.J. Reynolds Tobacco and was behind the now - defunct Tech Central Station (TCS), a website that worked as a forum for climate change skeptics and received direct funding from ExxonMobil for «climate change support.»
The U.S. government has enlisted an outspoken skeptic of global warming in a legal fight with environmental groups over U.S. funding for overseas energy projects.
The use of this tiny group of «skeptics» became clear in the spring of 1995 when they were forced to disclose for the first time under oath how much funding they had received from industry sources.
(Reuters)- Willie Soon, a U.S. climate change skeptic who has also discounted the health risks of mercury emissions from coal, has received more than $ 1 million in funding in recent years from large energy companies and an oil industry group, according to Greenpeace.
Anthony Leiserowitz, director of the Yale Project on Climate Change Communication, attributes this decline to five factors: The economic collapse, a severe decrease in media coverage, weather events like «Snowmaggedon,» the efforts of the «denial industry» (the network of industry - funded think tanks and political advocacy groups that push skeptic views), and the «ClimateGate» debacle.
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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.