Sentences with phrase «huge vested interest»

Indeed, those campaigning for action to prevent further warming have had to battle against huge vested interests, including the fossil - fuel industry and its many political allies.

There are of course huge vested interests in the status quo — anyone who relies on anything from any infrastructure within a meter of mean sea level (this is almost everyone if you work it out), and yet you think that someone investing in solar energy, maybe just because they'd like to see it succeed means that nothing they say can be trusted?

It seems that a cap and trade system is the politicians favourite way of generating the funds needs to roll these schemes out; Not that Prof Jim Hansen would agree but he doesn't think like a politician or have the pressures of politicians or huge vested interest groups breathing down his neck.

That clouds the issue, since huge vested interests can skew the debate.

Some groups have huge vested interests in the status quo, and they are spending a lot of money to create Fear, uncertainty and doubt (FUD).

So China has a huge vested interest in signing on to the global IP protection rules framework.

They have a huge vested interest in keeping the publishing industry frozen in amber, exactly as it is.

Could it be because GISS is run by James Hansen, one of the most rabid of the warming doomsayers, and someone with a huge vested interest in showing temperatures as going high — very high?

-- All of which, though, is way off the original topic, which is that government — funds (and hence controls) climate science — as a huge vested interest in climate science preaching alarmism (CAGW).