Sentences with phrase «funding climate change deniers»

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.

I think the other point — you mentioned that not all the reserves are controlled by private corporations from which we can divest — that is really the other issue that Ben alluded to, which is that for a lot of these companies (you mentioned Exxon specifically), we have data to prove that as little as about 2 years ago, Exxon was actively funding climate change deniers about a mile and a half from where I am sitting here at MIT.

Pharmaceutical giants Bayer and GlaxoSmithKline, along with Verizon, Wisconsin Insurance Alliance, and Credit Union National Association, have announced that they will not fund the climate change denying Heartland Institute in 2012.

Yet journalists continued to report updates from the best climate scientists in the world juxtaposed against the unsubstantiated raving of an industry - funded climate change denier - as if both were equally valid.

Plays in Time collects four plays by Karen Malpede set during influential events from the late twentieth century to the present: the Bosnian war and rape camps; the invasion and occupation of Iraq and Israel's 2006 bombardment of Lebanon; 9/11 and the US torture program; and the heroism of climate scientists facing attack from well - funded climate change deniers.

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The group has funded much of the climate - change denier movement — bankrolling, for instance, the Heartland Institute, a torchbearer in the denier movement.

At the same time, climate - denier funding from family and corporate foundations — say, Exxon's foundation — has declined, according to Robert Brulle, a sociologist at Drexel University who studies the climate change «counter-movement.»

According to IRS tax returns, between 2002 and 2010, Donors Trust provided over $ 90 million in funding ($ 90,989,710 to be exact) to 84 groups that deny the scientific realities of climate change.

Between 2004 and 2010, the partner group Donors Capital Fund, provided more than $ 28 million in funding ($ 28,490,862) to 75 groups that deny the scientific realities of climate change.

We see that in a lot of ways: Families deciding not to have their kids vaccinated; federally - funded R&D was half of what is was 50 years ago; people are denying climate change when the evidence is right in front of them; and so on.

More and more activists who deny climate change are asking for e-mail records from climate scientists, prompting calls for a legal defense fund

She says Pres. Donald Trump's administration is carrying out a «war on science» with proposed cuts in scientific research funding and appointments of climate change deniers to top positions.

Industry - funded research, meanwhile, has been used to deny dangers of well - established risks such as smoking and climate change.

Resolution in Opposition to a Carbon Tax: Despite support for a carbon tax from ALEC members like ExxonMobil, ALEC is creating a model bill to weigh in on what will become the keystone policy battle for climate change science deniers, a battle that is already creating a rift among conservative groups, like the Koch - funded Heritage Foundation and the Heartland Institute against the R Street Institute.

Here's one climate change denier who really doesn't want you to think twice about his funding from Koch, coal and oil: Dr. Willie Soon, freshly profiled in today's Boston Globe.

And it's very clear that the Koch Brothers, the largest privately held fossil fuel interest and major funders of the public relations campaign to deny and attack the science of climate change — they have a level of influence now within the Trump Administration unlike anything we've ever seen before.»

Toller seems to be kept on a short leash by Jeffers, who's overseeing First Reformed's 250th anniversary re-consecration celebration, funded (and influenced) by the corrupt and vehement corporate CEO Edward Balq (Michael Gaston), a denier of climate change whose company, we learn, is one of the world's worst environmental offenders.

He won't even reprimand the union for its reptilian attempts to depose Steve Sweeney — NJEA is backing Fran Grenier, a Trump - supporting, climate change - denying, immigration foe — because the Senate President can do math and wouldn't allow an amendment on the ballot to fully fund pensions because such lunacy would fast - track state bankruptcy.

Already, deep fissures are emerging between, on one side, a base of ideological voters and lawmakers with strong ties to powerful tea - party groups and super PACs funded by the fossil - fuel industry who see climate change as a false threat concocted by liberals to justify greater government control; and on the other side, a quiet group of moderates, younger voters, and leading conservative intellectuals who fear that if Republicans continue to dismiss or deny climate change, the party will become irrelevant.

Both organizations have funded international seminars pulling together climate change deniers from across the globe.

As everyone knows (or ought to know by now), one of main reason controversy over climate change is continuing in the face of overwhelming evidence is the fact that ExxonMobil has the cash spigot open to fund anyone willing to deny the evidence — the Competitive Enterprise Insitute, George Marshall Institute and the old tobacco industry network run by Steven Milloy, Fred Seitz and Fred Singer have been among the main beneficiaries.

The company continues to fund politicians who deny climate change and to fight any efforts to hold it accountable.

These scientists (and, for that matter, anyone with a public profile who has anything critical to say about global warming) are whores — «industry shills», «corporate toadies», or part of the «well funded denial machine» — who not only prostitute themselves, but also sell us all out to an apocalypse for dirty, dirty dollars... Those who «deny» climate change are in fact, denying a «holocaust ``.

«Muller is a long - standing, colorful critic of prevailing climate science, and the Berkeley project was heavily funded by the Charles Koch Charitable Foundation, which, along with its libertarian petrochemical billionaire founder Charles G. Koch, has a considerable history of backing groups that deny climate change.»

Representatives of the Chicago - based Heartland Institute, perhaps the best - known and best - funded organization dedicated to denying the existence of anthropogenic climate change, were in Rome recently, respectfully calling on the Holy Father.

(Coincidentally, the Heartland Institute's position denying the reality of human - induced climate change harkens back to its work in the 1990s, funded by Philip Morris, that disputed the negative effects of second - hand smoke.)

Since Heartland does not deny climate change is occurring, and in fact is bringing together the world's leading scientists and economists to study the issue, it is entirely appropriate that corporations and foundations that have publicly stated their concern over climate change would continue to fund us.

Also, Inside Climate News recently described a new study published in Science about how fossil - fuel funded climate - science deniers disingenuously shift their arguments and use normal scientific uncertainties to deflect attention from the overwhelming scientific consensus on climate change and argue for no action to reduce greenhouse - gas emiClimate News recently described a new study published in Science about how fossil - fuel funded climate - science deniers disingenuously shift their arguments and use normal scientific uncertainties to deflect attention from the overwhelming scientific consensus on climate change and argue for no action to reduce greenhouse - gas emiclimate - science deniers disingenuously shift their arguments and use normal scientific uncertainties to deflect attention from the overwhelming scientific consensus on climate change and argue for no action to reduce greenhouse - gas emiclimate change and argue for no action to reduce greenhouse - gas emissions.

Fourth Place: The Koch Brothers for funding the promotion of bad climate science Fourth place goes to fossil - fuel billionaires Charles and David Koch of Koch Industries, Inc., who provide substantial funding to groups and politicians who deny the science of climate change....

It began cutting off funding for some nonprofit climate - change deniers in 2007.

Among the rogues gallery of leading climate change deniers are (from left to right, top to bottom): Congressman Joe Barton (R - TX), fossil fuel shill Steve Milloy, media mogul Rupert Murdoch, self - styled «Skeptical Environmentalist» Bjorn Lomborg, scientist - turned - denier - for - hire Fred Singer, the inimitable Sarah Palin, conservative funders Charles and David Koch (aka the Koch Brothers), and «swift - boat» architect Marc Morano.

Republican donor David Herro is standing by Lord Lawson's UK climate change science denying charity — which he helped to fund — amidst allegations that its peer review process is flawed.

A recent article by a sociology professor at Drexel University, Robert Brulle, has uncovered the semi-secret network of funding for the climate change deniers.

None of the funds made available to the Environmental Protection Agency by this division or any other Act may be expended for purposes of enforcing or promulgating any regulation (other than with respect to section 202 of the Clean Air Act) or order, taking action relating to, or denying approval of state implementation plans or permits because of the emissions of greenhouse gases due to concerns regarding possible climate change.

The Philadelphia Inquirer reported, «In the high - stakes conflict over U.S. climate - change policy, groups that deny or cast doubt on global warming brought in $ 7.2 million from 2003 to 2010... «Powerful funders are supporting the campaign to deny scientific findings about global warming,» reported Robert J. Brulle...» In the eighth paragraph, the Inquirer noted the response by James Taylor of the Heartland Institute, who observed that many of the groups «support other causes as well» and, in some cases, spend «less than 10 percent of their funding... on climate - related efforts.»

The State of California, providing an official listing of traits of the «deniers,» includes funding from «industries with a financial interest in ignoring climate change.

Climate change has long been a tug - of - war issue between scientists and politicians, as many oil - funded politicians deny that a.) it exists and b.) humans are to blame.

Michaels is a notorious climate change denier who stated in August 2010 on CNN that 40 percent of his funding comes from the oil industry.

The Koch Empire was recently outed by DeSmogBlog as a key seed funder of the climate change denier think - tank, the Heartland Institute.

Patrick Michaels of the Koch - funded Cato Institute - who recently authored a report described by Greenpeace USA's Connor Gibson as a «Counterfeit Climate Report to Deceive Congress» - denied any connection between climate change and Sandy, going so far as to raise the specter of «global cooling.Climate Report to Deceive Congress» - denied any connection between climate change and Sandy, going so far as to raise the specter of «global cooling.climate change and Sandy, going so far as to raise the specter of «global cooling.»

Therefore, silence of the candidates about climate change is understandable, but it gives the climate deniers a sense that their views are prevailing, of course, with the help of generous funding by the coal and oil lobbies.

... the «coalition» created by Philip Morris, was the first and most important of the corporate - funded organisations denying that climate change is taking place.

And indeed, over the past four years, Exxon has reduced its grants to prominent climate change deniers from the peak spending in 2005 of over $ 3.5 M. Greenpeace's research shows a $ 2.2 million reduction in annual funding to these organizations, down to roughly $ 1.3 million in 2009.

Priorities for the team will be oceans and fishing, deforestation and climate change, in particular the undermining of climate agreements and funding of climate change deniers.

But Muller's study made waves in the media because he had been a prominent climate - change skeptic, partly funded by a foundation linked to global - warming deniers, and his research focused on skeptics» objections to previous studies of warming.

It denies both mitigation in the form of renewable energy funding even as it denies the necessary level of support in response to the disasters that climate change produces in ever - greater numbers and on increasingly destructive scales.

Exxon still funds groups such as the National Black Chamber of Commerce (NBCC) and the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) that deny climate change and lobby against action to address it.

Between 2002 and 2013, Donors Capital Fund (DCF) distributed some $ 170 million to conservative causes, many of which deny the science and impacts of human - caused climate change or the need to cut greenhouse gas emissions.

Once again, it was not climate - change deniers and secret PR campaigns funded by Big Oil companies that caused the failure.

As the science of man - made climate change has become increasingly certain over the last three decades of work by thousands of researchers, a cadre of deniers, often funded by fossil fuel industries,... Continue reading →