Sentences with phrase «like fossil fuel industry»

The value of consensus is well understood by the opponents of climate action, like the fossil fuel industry.

In a lame effort to fill out the TRNN video with other material which looked like fossil fuel industry orchestrating things, a line from the American Petroleum Institute's 1998 leaked «Global Climate Science Communications Team» memo was highlighted, while the narrator read it: «Victory will be achieved when average citizens understand uncertainties in climate science.»

Of course, the landfillers are fighting it, but they, like the fossil fuel industry, can not fight physics.

Says Mr. Suzuki: «The skeptics are a small group known for their support of corporations like the fossil fuel industry.

Not exact matches

A: They're doing a not - bad job of it if that's your goal, to find that big mushy middle where the Liberal party likes to live, where most Canadians or at least a lot of Canadians see themselves: we see the benefits of this industry and want it do continue to prop up our economic success, while we also see that we need to move away from fossil fuels.

Christy Clark, and her «Liberals», like the BC Chamber of Commerce, have been, and continue to be shills for the fossil fuel industry, for which they are paid handsomely in political donations, and / or «membership fees», and whatever other benefits come to them.

In plain terms, we are choosing to penalize our own energy industry with severe financial measures, when other jurisdictions like the U.S. are slashing taxes and red tape, rejecting carbon taxes, and calling for expanded fossil fuel production due to growing global demand.

«For years, through a campaign of scare tactics and misinformation, the oil and gas industry has made expanding fossil fuel infrastructure seem like the only choice,» he said.

With new, eco-friendly technologies waiting to replace old - school nuclear or fossil - fuel turbines like this one, the energy industry is going to drastically change... eventually.

Trump's energy plan reads like a wish list from the fossil fuel industry: it envisions unfettered oil, gas and coal development as a path to national prosperity and energy independence.

Last year Greenpeace revealed that Willie Soon is exclusively funded by fossil fuel interests like Koch Industries, ExxonMobil and Southern Company, a major contributor to mercury air pollution from its coal plants.

Eliminate (100 %) all unsustainable tax incentives: Tax exemptions, subsidies, regulatory frameworks and other incentives are redirected towards sustainable, knowledge and employment - intensive sectors and local sustainable value chains and away from unsustainable activities, including industrial fisheries, forestry and agriculture, risky and otherwise unsustainable forms of energy production like fossil fuels, nuclear energy, unconventional energy production / franking and industrial bioenergy, extractive industries and chemical industry

Maybe they should stop listening to the fossil fuel industry and instead to people like you and I.

At first sight this may look like a scientific conference — especially to those who are not familiar with the activities of the Heartland Institute, a front group for the fossil fuel industry that is sponsoring the conference.

It's clear this is already happening and we can expect more op - eds in major newspapers from the likes of George Will, more full - page adverts from industry - funded propaganda mills masquerading as «conservative» think tanks, and more comments posted on every blog where global warming is discussed, denouncing the «vast liberal hoax» of anthropogenic global warming, because, you know, it's been proved that the earth isn't warming, and if it is, it has nothing to do with fossil fuels.

Despite what the fossil fuel industry would like you to believe, it does not follow at all that the only way to reduce emissions is to reduce energy use.

Re «Instead, what is needed is for scientists like the contributors to this site to write to Gerald Wheeler and ask him to reconsider the NSTA's alliance with the fossil fuel industry, to stop distributing (not to mention co-producing!)

When energy consumers, like Japan's gov» t, decide that it's better to spend a bit more money on limitless and safe ethanol, solar, wind, water, or geothermal power than on limited and dangerous fossil fuels, then the energy industry will change because it must.

Moniz is already taking heat from some environmental campaigners for his work directing the M.I.T. Energy Initiative, which — like many university energy and climate research hubs — receives ample funding from industries selling or dependent on fossil fuels.

These include ending subsidies for the fossil fuel industry, boosting energy efficiency, advancing renewable sources like wind and solar power and moving away from the idea that «drill baby, drill» is a solution.

How a combination of fossil fuel industry money and free market fundamentalists support PR firms like CFACT and writers like David Wojick and we end up with lame strawman arguments and delay in a rational response to address climate change: http://www.merchantsofdoubt.org

That will look like a number of things, first, continuing fights around the world to keep fossil fuel in the ground, and second, continuing to follow the money and expose the corporations and industries that stand in the way of progress.

«We can not continue to allow the fossil fuel industry or any industry to treat our atmosphere like an open sewer or mislead the public about the impact they have on the health of our people and the health of our planet,» Vice President Gore said.

«The fossil fuel industry and its shills are willing to exploit any crisis and go to any lengths in their effort to extract more dirty fuels and dismantle critical climate policies,» said Erich Pica, president of Friends of the Earth U.S. «Rather than promoting dirty fossil fuels like tar sands and fracked natural gas, Obama and Barroso should be doing everything they can to keep these fuels in the ground and help avert climate catastrophe.»

And this same period saw the expansion of fossil fuel burning from the traditional family needs like heating / cooking, then on to quickly power - up both modern modern agriculture and also the industrial - mass production revolution in manufacturing industries, and finally the large - scale generation of ubiquitous electrical power, eventually distributed into nearly every home and business in the industrialized societies, with close to 24x7x365 availability.

APS appears to be leading the first assault of a national campaign by the utility industry trade association, Edison Electric Institute (EEI), and fossil fuel interests like APS, to weaken net metering policies.

But let's get one thing straight, Oreskes is little more than yet another «cog in the wheel» when it comes to accusing skeptic climate scientists of being paid shills of the fossil fuel industry, enslaved just like all the other cogs to the same single source for the accusation, Ross Gelbspan.

While European politicians and financiers continue to put their support behind the fossil fuel industry, the local communities that will directly feel the negative impacts on their lives are determined to stop projects like these gas mega-pipelines from ever being built.

Like my post on how many greenhouse gasses humanity can safely emit and my post on the (absent) long - term future of the fossil fuel industry, it highlights how preventing catastrophic climate change obliges humanity to keep a significant proportion of all available fossil fuels in the ground.

A movement called Just Transition aims to do just that — phase out jobs in high - emitting industries like fossil fuels or coal and replace them with equally good jobs in low - emitting sectors.

And the club's Super PAC disclosures show that its wealthy donors include some heavily invested in the fossil fuel industry and connected to the Koch brothers, like hedge fund manager Paul Singer of Elliott Management, and Quantum Energy, a Houston private equity and venture capital firm specializing in oil and gas.

It is due to a calculated disinformation campaign by the fossil fuel industry and a cadre of front groups like ALEC to make people believe the science is unsettled, exploiting the natural human tendency to do nothing in the face of uncertainty.

PAYNE: Anytime we hear these kind of things, it feels like another impediment to growing out our fossil fuel industry, another thing for environmentalists to rally around, although we know accidents are bound to happen.

Considering that at least 43 % of the letter's signatories have received money from the fossil fuel industry, being given large sums of money just for being climate «skeptics» and publishing error - riddled nonsense like this op - ed, the sheer nerve it must have taken to make this «follow the money» argument is astounding.

PM Abbott has proposed an «alliance of like - minded nations» in an effort to keep the obscenely profitable fossil fuel industry alive and to slow the accelerating rise in clean renewable energy such as wind and solar.

But fossil - fuel extraction has many more risks as well including pollution, ecosystem destruction, and the very costly disruption of other local industries like fishing and tourism.

I know your tongue is planted firmly in cheek, but I did some research on the matter, and found that the fossil fuel industry, automobile industry, and wal - mart - like fossil - fuel - based mega-scale consumer goods distribution industry have many thousands of times more money at stake (~ $ 10 trillion annually) on the outcome of this debate than do the scientists in question.

State looked no further than oil industry contractors to run the draft SEIS — companies like Cardno ENTRIX, which calls TransCanada a «major client,» and ERM Resources, a dues paying member of the American Petroleum Institute which is being investigated by the State Department's Inspector General for trying to hide its prior consulting for fossil fuel giants like ExxonMobil, BP and Shell.

Like Scaife and Gulf Oil, Olin made his bucks in part from the fossil fuel industry via the Olin Corporation, which manufactured blasting powder for coal mining companies.

Declarations that skeptic climate scientists knowingly lie about the certainty of man - caused global warming as paid shills of the fossil fuel industry appear devastating...... but dig deep into the details, and all those claims look more like a «Keystone Kops - style» farce.

Rapid development and adoption of carbon capture technology will require close collaboration between leading research universities like MIT and the fossil fuel industry.

Hobby sites like «WattsUpWithThat» are a start to effective opposition, but to be honest it really is time that the fossil fuel industry who so many believers think are funding the sceptics, got off their backsides, put their hands in their pockets and did the decent thing to fund the professional science «opposition» which is needed to force the climategate forecasters to stop feeding this monster with their PR and start to try to justify the existence of their monster based on real science in the face of real decently financed opposition and not part - time unpaid people like us here.

While some of the defenders of the fossil fuel industries deny climate change, there are others like President Obama and those who support his energy policy, who simultaneously admit that climate change is a problem and continue encouraging the expansion of fossil fuel extraction and therefore its ongoing use.

Did he stop denying and is he now insisting on rational action to avoid climate catastrophe — like a climate mobilization and nationalizing and shutting down the fossil fuel industry?

Distressingly, McKibben and activists like him have persuaded some colleges, churches, charitable institutions, and municipalities to divest from the fossil fuel industry.

Some readers still buy the «pox on both their houses» idea about this election, — the fossil fuel industry knows that is definitely not so, and would very much like you Johnson / Stein folks to stay strong and express your inner child.

«Grant aid is always seen as benefit and will give a boost to the heat pump industry on the whole, mainly due to the government's stamp of approval to say «this is the future — replacing fossil fuel with a renewable source like heat pumps is the way forward,»» said Brian Cooley.

Therefore, speaking as a layman trying to understand what to believe or not to believe, seeing a term like «fossil fuel industry», one so broad as to defy specific facts and data, I can't help but to wonder about motive and objectives.

For decades, the fossil fuel industry has used its influence to spread false or misleading information about climate change — a strong motivation for choosing low - carbon energy sources like wind or solar (in addition to the economic reasons).

Some research (such as this) suggests that work in fracking, like throughout the fossil fuel industry, is extremely dangerous.