Sentences with phrase «funded thinktanks»

While the idea of verification of results is a good (if unexceptional) one, it should be remembered that part of the political tactic of the anti-science politicians in Washington on other issues (see examples in Chris Mooney's book) has been to introduce as many conflicting studies from industry - funded thinktanks as possible, however faulty those studies are, to bury the debate under noise.

«It is a bit like taking out a pretty big mortgage in the expectation your income is going to rise, but the NHS is facing a period where that is not going to happen,» Professor John Appleby of the King's Fund thinktank told the BBC.

The NHS» efficiency drive is already beginning to damage hospital waiting times, according to the King's Fund thinktank.

Letters sent by the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), an ExxonMobil - funded thinktank with close links to the Bush administration, offered the payments for articles that emphasise the shortcomings of a report from the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

I'm sure your readers are aware that The Competitive Enterprise Institute is a thoroughly discredited Exxon - funded thinktank listed with the rest of the $ 16 million dollars worth at / / www.exxonsecrets.org/html/listorganizations.

Dr Indur Goklany is affiliated with the Exxon Funded thinktank the International Policy Network (US).

CG, yes, as you can see by the failure of various industries through the decades to change unfavorable results to them by funding thinktanks or other devices.

Letters sent by the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), an ExxonMobil - funded thinktank with close links to the Bush administration, offered the payments for articles that emphasise the shortcomings of a report from the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

Not exact matches

The thinktank argues that the fact local government in Britain is dependent on 80 % central funding leaves the UK lagging behind nearly all other European countries in transferring power to local people.

Neal Lawson, chair of the centre - left thinktank Compass, said: «A hypothecated tax for the NHS could do three things: provide essential extra funding, get round the loss of trust in politicians and provide confidence that the one national institution people still believe in has a future.»

The localism thinktank highlighted a funding gap brought about by public spending cuts and the savings councils are currently making through shared services.

Increasing state support for political parties will make the party funding problem worse, not better, a thinktank has warned.

Lord Sainsbury of Turville, one of Tony Blair's biggest champions and a major donor to the Labour party until Miliband took over the leadership reins, is the biggest funder to the thinktank since Progress was set up in 1996.

James Lloyd, an expert in long - term care funding at the Social Market Foundation thinktank, said creating a fair and properly funded system would need the political parties to agree and for everyone, both young and old, to contribute financially.

Idso is president of the Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change, a thinktank which has been funded by ExxonMobil.

[4] See, for example, Suzanne Goldenberg, «Secret funding helped build vast network of climate denial thinktanks,» February 14, 2013, The Guardian.

The Climate and Health Council supports Nasa scientist James Hansen as he joins the campaign to uncover secret funders bankrolling climate sceptic Nigel Lawson and his lobbying think - tank (Climate experts back unveiling of Lawson thinktank donor, 23 January).

Those of us who discuss man - made climate change are cast as elitists by people who happily embrace the claims of Lord Monckton, Lord Lawson or thinktanks funded by ExxonMobil or the Koch brothers: now the authentic voices of the working class.

The funds went to building a network of thinktanks and activist groups that worked to defeat climate bills in Congress and mobilized against Environmental Protection Agency rules to reduce carbon pollution from power plants due to be finalised in the summer of 2015.

They see science through the tint of their thinktanks and party - funding bosses and act accordingly, and still will after this process.

You fund desalination, crop research, hydroponics and greenhouses, apiculture, levee infrastrucutre research, thinktanks that specialize in finding solutions for mass migrations.

«They see science through the tint of their thinktanks and party - funding bosses and act accordingly»

Peabody's filings revealed funding for the American Legislative Exchange Council, the corporate lobby group which opposes clean energy standards and tried to impose financial penalties on homeowners with solar panels, as well as a constellation of conservative thinktanks and organisations.

On the plus side, Tillerson turned Exxon round from the Raymond days where they funded denialist thinktanks, and he is now funding the AGU and getting climate change recognized as the real deal while also supporting a carbon tax.

Thinktanks, litigation groups, climate scientists, political organisations, dozens of organisations blocking action on climate all receiving funding from the coal industry,» said Nick Surgey, director of research for the Center for Media and Democracy.

re: PolyisTCOandbanned You are likely familiar with the idea of «money - laundering» whether in the formal sense of washing illegal funds, or in the more general sense of moving money around so you can't tell where it came from, as in some political donations and the whole funding complex of thinktanks and and fronts,.

After consistent campaigning by Greenpeace through ExxonSecrets, ExxonMobil was forced, in 2006, to drop funding to some of its key allies in the campaign to deny climate science and delay policy action The Competitive Enterprise Institute was the key group dropped — it had received $ 2.2 million fromExxonMobil since 1998, more than any other thinktank.

Extreme weather killed 530,000 people between 1993 and 2012 and caused more than $ 2.5 tn of damage, according to an annual risk report published on Tuesday by Germanwatch, a thinktank partly funded by the German government.

New study by thinktank funded by Koch brothers aims to debunk authoritative UN climate change report