Sentences with phrase «market think tanks»

Note how this story runs contrary to how free market think tanks and pundits describe technological development.

«And what we learned was that virtually none of the free market think tanks were addressing the science.

A recent study in the journal American Behavioral Scientist, reported on DeSmogBlog, found almost all books which dismiss the risks of human - caused climate change have strong links to conservative free - market think tanks.

Additionally, he listed roughly 100 academic institutions and free market think tanks in his subpoena.

The Heartland Institute is one of the world's leading free - market think tanks.

Heartland hosts an online database and search engine called PolicyBot containing the complete text of (not just links to) more than 32,000 reports and commentaries from some 300 free - market think tanks and advocacy groups.

Yep, it's the small underfunded band of free market think tanks who are stifling the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the U.S. Global Change Research Program, the National Academy of Sciences and their numerous brethren overseas, the European Environment Agency, the U.S. Climate Action Partnership, the EPA, NRDC, Greenpeace, etc. etc..

Many who criticise the science that claims to show that human activity is causing global warming are accused of being funded by the oil industry and free market think tanks who oppose the sort of government regulation that it seems will be necessary to implement large reductions in greenhouse gases, especially CO2

Since the late 1980s, this well - coordinated, well - funded campaign by contrarian scientists, free - market think tanks and industry has created a paralyzing fog of doubt around climate change.

Local free - market think tanks arranged those events.

Paul Chesser publishes CarolinaPlottHound.com, a news aggregator for North Carolina, and is a contributor of articles, research and investigative reports for both national and state - level free - market think tanks.

[2] Climate change denial has been associated with the energy lobby, industry advocates and free market think tanks, often in the United States.

Yet, these different participants, according to Newsweek, since the 1990s for the most part have acted in a well - coordinated campaign among contrarian scientists, free - market think tanks, and industry to create a fog of doubt around climate change.

Indeed, these individuals never directly associated with the directly oil money funded Global Climate Coalition, an organization that went away during the 90s, and instead plied their trade in free market think tanks like George Marshall.

For decades, fossil fuel - funded groups, free market think tanks (some of which also qualify as fossil fuel funded groups) and the fossil fuel industry itself have known the importance of the public's understanding of the state of climate science.

Much more puzzling has been the fervid opposition to the Common Core by some conservatives, including tea party activists, several free - market think tanks and, most recently, the Republican National Committee.

The estimate, which comes from a consortium of free - market think tanks, says the new standards could cost more than $ 15.8 billion across the 45 Common Core states over the next seven years.

While this clique is best represented in free - market think tanks (and on Jay Greene's blog), it is increasingly influential in our politics, thanks to gains by the Tea Party.

We give special attention to perhaps today's poster child of the climate denial machine's free market think tanks, the Heartland Institute, which is about to launch a new version of its «NIPCC» or «climate change reconsidered» report next week in Chicago.

The market determines the price of a stock, not the company that issued the stock or the «experts» at trading houses or stock market think tanks.

The Conservatives» success has also hardened their attitude to economic advice from the free - market think tanks that once expected a hotline to Number 11.

According to Forbes Magazine, «the history of Canadian free - market think tanks and their contribution to Canadian reforms continues to be written.

Academics at the AEI, a free - market think tank, have hit on what may be a simple solution to the nation's home - loan morass: replace the 30 - year mortgage with a 15 - year product that quickly gets borrowers» skin in the game.

Alberto Mingardi is Director General of Istituto Bruno Leoni, Italy's free - market think tank (www.brunoleoni.it) which he helped to establish in 2004.

The Empire Center for Public Policy, a pro-free market think tank, estimates unions stand to lose more than $ 110 million — nearly 13 percent of their total collections — as agency fee payers who pay partial dues would be able to fully opt out of making any payments to the unions.

[citation needed] He is a member of the advisory board of the free - market think tank Reform, and of the generally conservative but also «broad church» magazine Standpoint.

A member of the free market think tank Reform, Browne has been associated with the more right wing and free - market orientated wing of the Liberal Democrats, and occassionally suggested as a target for seduction by a Conservative party looking to lure Liberal Democrat defections (more information at They work for you)

On Monday afternoon Tony Blair is set to announce new government plans for secondary education and, with rather excellent timing, the free - market think tank Reform have published a new ICM poll on education.

The unanimous decision from a panel of judges on Thursday supported two previous losses in the same case for Attorney General Eric Schneiderman in which the free - market think tank the Competitive Enterprise Institute sought documents related to a multi-state effort to investigate energy companies for allegedly profiting by «creating misperceptions» about climate change.

For the most recent report, Green Scissors 2012, the two organizations were joined by free market think tank R Street, which was started by former staffers of the libertarian Heartland Institute (previously a Green Scissors partner).

The Heartland Institute is a free market think tank at the forefront of denying manmade climate change.

The America First Energy Conference is organized by The Heartland Institute, a free market think tank at the forefront of denying manmade climate change.

Lance Izumi is a Koret senior fellow in education studies and senior director of the Center for Education at the Pacific Research Institute, a free - market think tank.

A policy brief from the Commonwealth Foundation, a free - market think tank in the Keystone State, tackles the subject.

«Use the money you have more wisely and educate our children,» says Jon Caldara of Colorado's Independence Institute, a free - market think tank.

San Francisco — Government red tape and inertia, plus union opposition, have prevented widespread student access to K - 12 online learning according to the new book Short - Circuited: The Challenges Facing the Online Learning Revolution in California, released by the Pacific Research Institute (PRI), a California - based free - market think tank.

Michigan's Mackinac Center, a free - market think tank that has received money from the DeVos family, estimates there are about 21,000 spots in private Michigan schools that could be filled by voucher students.

Ben DeGrow is senior education policy analyst for the Independence Institute, a free - market think tank.

The free - market think tank American Enterprise Institute recently praised this particular brand of charter school.

The Heartland Institute is a Chicago - based free market think tank launched in 1994, which has accepted millions of dollars from conservative groups and fossil fuel interests.

Economist at the University of Guelph in Ontario; fellow at the Fraser Institute, a free - market think tank

The unanimous decision from a panel of judges on Thursday supported two previous losses in the same case for Attorney General Eric Schneiderman in which the free - market think tank the Competitive Enterprise Institute sought documents related to a multi-state effort to investigate energy companies for allegedly profiting by «creating misperceptions» about climate change...

Laframboise's trip has been organised by free market think tank the Institute of Public Affairs, which has a long history of promoting doubt about the science of human - caused climate change and the risks of the unmitigated burning of fossil fuels.

On March 8 - 10, more than 500 of those scientists who dispute the vast global warming hoax will meet in New York for a second international conference on climate change sponsored by The Heartland Institute, a non-profit, free market think tank.

«Multiple feet of sea level rising in the next few decades, that's just fantasy,» says Myron Ebell, the director of energy and global - warming policy at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a free - market think tank.

In the US, the recent unauthorised release of fundraising documents from the free - market think tank The Heartland Institute revealed a plan to spend at least $ 100,000 to design a climate science curriculum for schools from Kindergarten to Grade 12 which would focus on the «controversy» of climate science.

Lehr is science director and senior fellow of the Heartland Institute, a Chicago - based free market think tank that attacks the scientific evidence for human - caused climate change.

eight) January 6, 2011: The American Tradition Institute, a free - market think tank that routinely attacks climate scientists and refuses to accept the scientific consensus on climate change, submits a Freedom of Information Act Request to the University of Virginia for the same personal correspondence that Attorney General Cuccinelli is seeking through his subpoenas.

On Valentine's Day an anonymous source emailed documents to various journalists that were leaked from the Heartland Institute, a free - market think tank.

A nonprofit, free - market think tank in Chicago with a $ 6 million annual budget, Heartland has been hosting conferences since 2008 for those dubious of the science confirming human - caused climate change.