The climate change establishment failed to understand this changing dynamic, and continued to blame skepticism on the denial machine
funded by big oil.
You guys were not richly
funded by big oil (or coal) interests?
You must be
funded by big oil!
Regarding the essay by Judith Curry, her account of history alludes to skeptics in the 1980s or 1990s being
funded by Big Oil.
I do not deny that the climate changes and I am not
funded by Big Oil — or, sadly, anyone else to express my opinion on these matters.
Once again, it was not climate - change deniers and secret PR campaigns
funded by Big Oil companies that caused the failure.
Both the BBC and the Huffington Post have decided to write off the expertise of the dozens of PhDs and professors speaking at this event to concentrate on the issue that really matters: it was
funded by Big Oil.
I'm not one who believes skeptics are «
funded by Big Oil,» which seems cartoonishly reductive to me.
«Deniers» are
funded by Big Oil.
Those on the other side may say there is no problem, that they are the enlightened few saving the planet from the evil skeptics
funded by big oil, but we can always hope that over time some new standards will develop.
Or lies like «Heartland Institute is hugely
funded by big oil»?
Note that I don't accept that even if you were to uncover SM was lavishly
funded by Big Oil behind the scenes it would make a blind bit of difference to the analyses, but the question is one of the sizzle and not real bacon.
It is frequently alleged that climate skeptics are being
funded by big oil — and that their views should therefore not be trusted.
But I'm sure there's a conspiracy to discredit honest psychologists who are just trying to make a crust, and I'm sure it's
funded by Big Oil, Big Tobacco, and Big Macs.
Of course people will say that these studies must be
funded by big oil and then dismiss them.
Now the Alaska Wilderness League has sifted the financial backers for Mr. Gingrich's campaign and released a list of donors that it says shows Mr. Gingrich's push for drilling is «
funded by Big Oil, for Big Oil.»
So now what happens to the warmist's argument that the succes of the deniers is due to lavish
funding by big oil / coal / Koch?
Not exact matches
The shale
oil industry was scam
by the
big private equity
funds who took a flier on the shale business because the bond market gave them access to dirt cheap capital thanks to the Fed's ZIRP.
As much as I would like to hate your comment above I have to agree with what you've said here I know there are a hardcore of bloggers on here that will be derisory and downright insulting (Keyboard warriors are always really tough) but unless we have the two new additions we need then we will sadly be another fourth spot contender again, its as simple as that the current squad is nearly there but nearly there is not THERE and I hate to say it but I think its gonna be another case of Wenger stubbornly trying to convince the world he is a genius
by winning things without spending much OR
by lamenting the injury problems and bad refs and being desultory about
big oil funded clubs while the Club we love turns a fat profit for the board and we see no silverware at all.
According to Bloomberg, Saudi Arabia's government relies on
oil for at least 80 % of its revenue and faces its
biggest budget deficit in nearly 30 years (20 % of GDP, according to an estimate
by the International Monetary
Fund).
The broader TSX index and almost all Canadian Equity Mutual
Funds are dominated
by the
Big 5 Banks,
Big 3 Insurance names, a couple of Utilities and a couple of
Oil & Gas companies.
The worst that he could expect to find in these types of documents is that Heartland is
funded by Koch and
big oil — but he has (or greens generally have) been claiming that for years anyway, and nobody except them really cares — at best the documents would serve as proof of this allegation.
And no, he's not
funded by the
oil industry or
big business — the Toronto native is unpaid, living off his savings as he tends to his blog www.climateaudit.org.
If I were a fanatic as detailed
by Bertrand Russell (see Anthony Watts» recent post on this topic), and I was obsessed with exposing the «
big oil funding» of a hated demonic organization that opposes my views, * and * that organization has a member writing a column in the same national magazine as myself — often directly mocking my published views, * and * that same organization was in the process of inviting me to debate «for entertainment» at their
big oil -
funded conference, then I might be more than irritated.
The Greenpeace report, «Dr. Willie Soon: a Career Fueled
by Big Oil and Coal,» reveals that $ 1.033 million of Dr. Soon's funding since 2001 has come from oil and coal interes
Oil and Coal,» reveals that $ 1.033 million of Dr. Soon's
funding since 2001 has come from
oil and coal interes
oil and coal interests.
* Ad hominem * attacks are commonplace, with activists routinely suggesting that dissent is
funded by «
Big Oil».
«The contradictory statements of a tiny handful of discredited scientists,
funded by big coal and
big oil, represent a deliberate — and extremely reckless — campaign of deception and disinformation.»
If one is forthcoming then you can then claim that you are nolonger (like the rest of us) in the pay of «
Big oil» but have been
funded by the «consensus» instead.
Alternatively you can remind
Big oil where I live so they can
fund these expensive activities you want me to carry out because you don't seem willing to read the collective wisdom put together over many years
by noted historians who have gleaned the weather observations from numerous sources.
The really smart ones denounce Monckton beforehand and announce that they do not «joust with jesters» who are obviously
funded by evil
Big Oil to avoid debate.
The money spent on exploring for and producing
oil, gas, etc., and the resulting profits earned
by the
BIG EVIL fossil energy companies is not spent countering the money spent on
funding CAGW biased research, and the related promotional propaganda.
I haven't spent years alleging that every second climate blogger is part of a «well -
funded disinformation campaign» bankrolled
by big oil.
Mann and others claim they're the victims of an attack
funded by «
big oil».
Greenpeace's own ExxonSecrets web site (created and run
by Davies) has a page dedicated to Dr Soon, where it cites the above John Vidal Guardian article as the source to say Dr Soon received a million dollars of «
big oil»
funding.
Something legitimate for the hard work and non-funded
by the
big oil, the
big coal and remotely from the Government
fund to skeptics.
Mention those skeptics are
funded by «
big coal &
oil», and you'll gain more adoration as someone who exposes sinister hidden truths.
Besides the benefits that the use of fossil fuels brings to us all, the taxes paid
by Big Oil go to
fund all that climate «research».
I find it interesting that Monbiot has utter faith in research financed
by Big Oil, though of course no sane human being would believe that the source of
funding for research is a valid argument for or against the truth of the findings, would they?
Just for context, that is a paper that in late 2005 ran a story about me leading a
Big Oil -
funded global conspiracy against the Kyoto Protocol — not true, but I am willing to listen to offers — based on a cobbling of unrelated offal - smeared papers taken from my trash and given them
by the dumpster divers of Greenpeace.
The slowdown, in a sector that needs billions of dollars to
fund ambitious expansion plans, started in 2012, after Ottawa approved two
big takeovers
by state - owned enterprises, the $ 15 - billion purchase of Nexen Energy
by CNOOC, the Chinese National Offshore
Oil Corp., and the $ 5 - billion purchase of Progress Energy Canada Ltd.
by Malaysia's Petronas.