Sentences with phrase «muzzling on climate scientists»

Aside from government - ordered muzzling on climate scientists (as happened to Hansen and others), there is a «chilling effect» on people's speech regarding climate science.

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A push for oil sands oversight and new climate targets Harper has been a target of environmentalists for most of his tenure — they say he turned Canada into an international pariah by not regulating greenhouse gases from oil and gas, cutting clean energy and climate science programs, withdrawing from the Kyoto Protocol, «muzzling» scientists, pressing aggressively on Keystone XL and fossil fuels, and allowing the country's emissions trajectory to spiral away from targets under the Copenhagen Accord.

The Harper government has abandoned Canada's climate commitments, cut back on science spending and muzzled government scientists who might stray from the official line.

John Bjornson, a crusading climate scientist modeled closely on the retired NASA scientist Jim Hansen, is muzzled by political appointees and betrayed by his twin sister and brother in law — both of whom are blinded to looming environmental danger by their investments in fossil fuels.

Greens of course won't be jumping to volunteer for another Bush campaign, especially after eight tumultuous years battling Jeb's brother on air and water pollution policies and complaints that the last White House muzzled climate scientists.