Sentences with phrase «funding climate»

And the same with the heavy involvement of the government in funding climate research.

Instead of funding the climate crisis, council pensions could be backing a clean, regenerative economy.

We called on them to not only step - up and make serious commitments to funding climate solutions but to stop supporting the fossil fuel industry.

In the current funding climate combined with the lack of a sustainable research enterprise, there is no easy way for academia to absorb the extra cost of increased salaries.

As it stands, a generation of federally funded climate science intelligence and public policy advancement is at serious risk.

And the billion - dollar + government - funded climate model (s) that actually predicted this very inconvenient climate cooling outcome.

And if that is the case, is there any reason to keep funding climate research?

Therefore, the paper recommends abandoning negotiations about «equitable» emissions reduction commitments and attack climate change through commitments on funding climate friendly technologies.

Being a successful principal investigator or member of a research team requires winning grants in an increasingly competitive funding climate.

To be sure, today's overall funding climate does not have the combination of will and resources to back this kind of work.

The new company would go on to put at least $ 16 million towards funding climate - denying advocacy groups and think tanks between 1998 and 2005.

However, what is worse is the deliberate manipulation of data and the refusal to fund climate satellites.

This has taken place despite the assurance of almost every taxpayer - funded climate scientist that the exact opposite would happen.

There's an irony to this, especially in the current funding climate.

Is it any wonder that wealthy people with connections to mining are funding climate science denial?

«The Virginia political figure we most admire was the preeminent scientist of the day, Thomas Jefferson,» Senator Tim Kaine said recently during a floor speech in which he scrutinized the undue influence of fossil fuel funded climate deniers in Virginia.

If you are unfamiliar with Bridenstine, let me introduce you to his moment of infamy, where he demanded that President Obama apologize to the people of Oklahoma for funding climate change research.

As we detailed in our report «Koch Industries: Secretly Funding the Climate Denial Machine,» oil billionaires David and Charles Koch have become kingpins of climate denial, funneling tens of millions of dollars to front groups and think tanks that oppose climate and clean energy policies.

We don't have to create an entire command economy to take a big stick to a company that actively delayed a response to global warming by funding climate change deniers, that continues to fight payment of damages for despoiling the Prince William Sound after 20 years, and has proved again and again it can't be trusted to protect our environment.

The company, known for funding climate denial groups, has declared on the voluntary Register that it has spent between $ 200,000 and $ 299,999 ($ 223,634 — $ 335,449 or # 142,464 — # 213,695) on its European lobby efforts in 2014.

Fisher even mixed in the sort of rhetoric common among the network of fossil fuel funded climate skeptics that IER and AEA are a part of.

The city asked the court to require the companies to abate the nuisance by funding a climate adaptation program to build sea walls and other infrastructure necessary to protect public and private property from sea level rise and other climate impacts.»

Three Videos on Why the Fossil Fuel Funded Climate Change Disinformation Campaign Is Neither an Exercise of Free Speech nor Responsible Scientific Skepticism and Should Be Understood as Some Kind of New Crime Against Humanity

Another key finding: From 2003 to 2007, Koch Affiliated Foundations and the ExxonMobil Foundation were «heavily involved» in funding climate change denial efforts.

At local scales, Clean Development Mechanisms (CDMs) are being developed to help fund climate mitigation actions that may include coastal ecosystem conservation.

... then read further on page 36, and you can't miss the insinuation that this sinister mega-dollar organization plotted out a scheme starting in 1991 to pay skeptics big bucks to participate in «a well funded climate denial machine.»

«Now it's time for the fossil fuel industry to come clean about funding climate change deniers.»

Plaintiffs would go after easy targets and companies like Whitehaven Coal — which are already in the sights of climate activists — and other companies that resisted the need to change the way they do business to help slow man - made global warming or funded climate sceptics could be vulnerable.

Eldridge also serves on the board of Scenic Hudson, where he helped fund a climate change action plan for the City of Kingston and helped fund a 3 - D printing center at SUNY New Paltz.

An example of such translational engagement is the NOAA - funded Climate Impacts Group at the University of Washington, Seattle, which studies the impacts of climate change on water, fishery, coastal, and forest resources in the Pacific Northwest.

They rely, in other words, on narrowing the range of acceptable public debate to the point that even alleged havens of free inquiry like Columbia University begin endorsing the unleashing of legal force against critics of publicly funded climate scientists.

An early reference in filings comes in 1991, when Exxon tells shareholders of funding climate studies.

The bill also gives further tax giveaways to the oil industry, leading to Janet Redman, from Oil Change International to argue that: «the GOP's generosity to the dirty energy industry in the tax bill stands in stark contrast to their reticence to fully fund climate disaster relief for Harvey, Irma and Maria victims.

Since at least 2005, both the company, its foundations and the Koch family itself have spent millions quietly influencing the climate debate, often in insidious ways: a typical example has the Charles G. Koch foundation funding a climate denying scientist to write a flawed study undermining previous studies about the risks climate change poses to polar bears, which was then broadcast on the websites of other Koch - affiliated groups.

I tried to look into the «Koch funded climate denial machine» and I had a lot of difficulty finding hard figures.