Sentences with phrase «funded think tanks»

I would advise you once again not to get your science from popular media, environmental groups or oil industry funded think tanks.

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.

Democratic U.S. Senators Sheldon Whitehouse (RI), Ed Markey (MA) and Brian Schatz (HI) introduced an amendment to the energy bill expressing Congress's disapproval of the use of industry - funded think tanks and misinformation tactics aimed at sowing doubt about climate change science.

SourceWatch identifies the Mercatus Center as «one of the best - funded think tanks in the United States.»

When the loudest voices are fossil - fuel funded think tanks, when they don't publish in journals but instead write error - laden op - eds in partisan venues, when they have to manipulate the data to support their point, then what they're doing isn't science.

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

about The Koch and Exxon Funded Think Tanks Supporting, and Being Courted by, Britain's Brexit Campaigners

Lindzen and Michaels are deeply integrated into Koch - and Exxon - funded think tanks such as Cato, the George C. Marshall Institute, Tech Central Station and the Heartland Institute.

Keeping industry funded Think Tanks and lobbyists away from Congress is vital.

Lindzen and Michaels are deeply integrated into Koch - and Exxon - funded think tanks such as Cato, the George C. Marshall Institute, Tech Central Station and the Heartland Institute.

Industry - funded think tanks like the Heartland Institute and the Competitive Enterprise Institute, both long known for their climate skepticism, have both recently been promoting GMOs.

Skip forward to 2015 and a scathing report by the Kings Fund think tank found that the changes had been «disastrous» and that it seemed likely that they had contributed to «widespread financial distress and failure to hit key targets for patient care».

However, a report from the King's Fund think tank found that by June 2006, 98.9 per cent of people suspected of having cancer were seeing a specialist within two weeks, and 99 per cent of those diagnosed began treatment within a month.

A union - funded think tank finds that New York has the greatest income disparity in the nation.

«Prediction is the holy grail everyone is in pursuit of,» says Brian Tivnan, a modeling expert at a U.S. Department of Defense — funded think tank called the Mitre Corp..

Our ExxonSecrets project and database now shows that has spent nearly $ 31 million since 1998 funding think tanks and campaigns against the climate science consensus and climate policy progress.

Money does make it easier to publish papers, fund think tanks that share the same viewpoints, and start new initiatives that share one's message.

Philanthropic groups — the Charles Koch Foundation, the Coors Foundation, the DeVos Family Foundation, to name just a few — fund the think tanks and advocacy groups profiled in the report (see graphic above).

If a meteorologist is also a senior fellow at the Marshall Institute, an industry - funded think tank that opposes many environmental regulations, then the journalist's responsibility is to know that connection and to mention it.

In addition to Lehr, Simmons, and Taylor, another of Stacy's witnesses had ties to a fossil fuel - funded think tank.

Tom Stacy once staked the credibility of his Ohio - based anti-wind power group on a claim that they had received «zero dollars and zero cents» from the energy industry, but that was before he became a paid consultant for a fossil fuel - funded think tank.

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.

Singer was revealed by DeSmog to have funded the think tank of Danish climate contrarian Bjorn Lomborg.

Similarly deceptive is an upcoming junk study from a Koch - funded think tank that has taken on the format and appearance of a truly scientific report from the US Government, but is loaded with lies and misrepresentation of actual climate change science.

Commissioned by the Center for Naval Analyses, a government - funded think tank, the report boasts a list of contributors that includes eight retired four - star generals and three three - stars.

You have a privately funded think tank who are recieving approximately $ 7 - 8M a year from various private and corporate sources.

This fossil - fuel funded think tank recently offered $ 10,000 to any scientist willing to criticize the recent landmark 2007 Summary of Policy Makers (PDF File) climate change report issued by the United Nations sponsored Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

Yeah... I know: Some Koch funded think tank could probably put together a mirror opposite joint statement attacking these principals.

In particular, he asked about New Hope Environmental Services, which was described by Dr. Michaels in litigation as his sole source of income outside of modest speaking fees; Intermountain Rural Electric Association (IREA) and Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association, Inc., which paid Dr. Michaels $ 100,000 and $ 50,000 respectively, according to information Dr. Michaels provided in the course of litigation; and the Heartland Institute, an industry - funded think tank that published a journal on which Dr. Michaels served as contributing editor.

Not exact matches

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.

And, again, this is the core example of the evolution of environmental bullshit: a long history of industry creation of lies; conservative funding of think - tanks, front groups and the echo chamber; the development of an ideological imperative of denialism; and then the necessity of completely groundless bullshit to shore up the lies.

At other times, however, donors may not realize that their funds are going to terror organizations: Extremists also conduct fundraising under fake charities that indicate donations will be used for humanitarian purposes, according to an October report by the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), an independent defense and security think - tank.

Today, in addition to raising capital for junior precious metals outfits, he runs Longwave Group, an economic think - tank based in White Rock, B.C., that has won the respect of billionaire fund manager Eric Sprott.

* An earlier version of this entry mistakenly identified the paper's publisher as the Center for American Progress, a think - tank affiliated to the Action Fund and led by top Democrats, though it is officially non-partisan.

Overseeing Trump's transition team for the agency is Myron Ebell of the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a libertarian think - tank funded by corporate interests.

He fashioned the think tank into a vehicle for his white nationalist ideology, and although NPI has a very small staff and funding stream, Spencer managed to hold several conferences before the 2016 presidential election.

According to the New Yorker, The Mercatus Center was first founded and funded by the billionaire conservative Koch Brothers, and the small think tank advocates environmental deregulation.

«There are the people who just want to keep doing what they are doing, and their concern is that the new regulations will make what has always worked suddenly become legally ambiguous,» says Alex Mittal, co-founder and CEO of Funders Club, an online venture capital firm that has been invited to comment on the changes by the White House, the Treasury and several D.C. think tanks.

The court's decision to hear the case was welcomed by Sam Kazman, general counsel of the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a libertarian think tank that is funding the litigation.

There was nothing new in their proposed strategy that could not be found in policy statements made by G - 7 leaders, G - 20 leaders, the International Monetary Fund (IMF), and most credible Economic think tanks over the past decade.

Donors Trust's board of directors, which ultimately decides who gets funded, reads like a conservative who's - who directory: Arthur Brooks, president of American Enterprise Institute; John Von Kannon, vice president of the Heritage Foundation; William Mellor, president of the Institute for Justice, a libertarian legal firm; and Kris Alan Mauren, director of the Acton Institute, a Michigan - based conservative think tank.

Research findings from the Center for Talent Innovation, a New York - based think tank headed by Sylvia Ann Hewlett, found that having something inherently in common with the funder, decision maker or investor makes an enormous difference, since 56 percent of decision makers in the study did not value ideas they didn't personally see a need for, even when evidence suggests that it's a good, marketable idea.

Some of the top think tank mutual funds companies are constantly dealing with innovative mutual fund research to continue improving their stocks investments and the investors they bring into the fold.

The think tanks that provide research supplementary to the universities are also heavily biased by the sources of their funds and the selection of their leaders.

In a blog post for the think - tank's website, McMahon takes issue with AFL / CIO President Denis Hughes» statement that with the high rate of return on the state employee pension fund during the last fiscal year, the need for an overhaul of the system (i.e. less generous benefits, is unnecessary).

However, Energy think tank Africa Centre for Energy Policy (ACEP) has warned the government to stay away from the Heritage Fund to finance its Free Senior High School programme (SHS).

Labour's manifesto spending plans will leave the NHS facing a # 7bn funding shortfall by 2021, an independent health think tank claimed today.

Established think - tanks across the political spectrum such as the Fabian Society, ippr, Demos, Policy Exchange, the Social Market Foundation, Civitas and so on will make a point of stating who the funder of any piece of work or any event is.

That's good ol Roy Spencer, creationist and fellow at the ExxonMobil funded Heartland Institute, a libertarian think tank and propaganda machine whose past endeavors include working with Philip Morris to question the science linking second hand smoke and cancer.

Ron Deutsch, with the Fiscal Policy Institute, a think tank partly funded by unions, says putting off a decision on the half a billion dollars in projects is the right thing to do, given all the questions swirling around the Buffalo Billion right now.