Gelbspan just didn't credit Lancaster for the «big
oil funds skeptics» tip.
Not exact matches
Saw the movie, wasn't at all surprised to see the usual menagerie of
oil industry
funded skeptics as mouth pieces for the film.
jeremy, the amount of
skeptics»
funding from
oil companies is a tired nostrum; the big money is to be made from the trillions to be siphoned from cap and trade offsets, carbon taxes to be collected, academic «research» grants to co2 warriors, etc. not to mention al gore's recently closed (filled!)
Senators Demand that the Worlds Largest
Oil Maker Make Public Its History of
Funding Climate Change «
Skeptics»
It is frequently alleged that climate
skeptics are being
funded by big
oil — and that their views should therefore not be trusted.
Those on the other side may say there is no problem, that they are the enlightened few saving the planet from the evil
skeptics funded by big
oil, but we can always hope that over time some new standards will develop.
I'm not one who believes
skeptics are «
funded by Big
Oil,» which seems cartoonishly reductive to me.
The flow of
funds to AGW supporters from the
Oil or Green Energy industries is, however, very easy to trace, and is far larger than all the
funding of «
skeptic» researchers combined.
Do you honestly believe that big
oil is
funding skeptics anywhere near on the scale that big green and governments are
funding compliant scientists?
The fact that the coal and
oil boys make more money doesn't mean they spend it on research and
funding skeptics...
And about
funding in general, over the pasty 20 year 50 BILLION has been funneled into some form of AGW, with less than 2 - 3 million from «Big
Oil»
funding the
skeptics.
Junior Wakefield wrote: And about
funding in general, over the pasty 20 year 50 BILLION has been funneled into some form of AGW, with less than 2 - 3 million from «Big
Oil»
funding the
skeptics.
UCS report finds that the
oil company spent nearly $ 16 million to
fund skeptic groups and create confusion around the certainty of global warming.
The idea is that
funding global warming
skeptics has enabled
oil companies to influence congressional action, which is something only Big Green is allowed to do.
Regarding the essay by Judith Curry, her account of history alludes to
skeptics in the 1980s or 1990s being
funded by Big
Oil.
Back in 2007, a giant 176 page official complaint was lodged at Ofcom, (the UK's communications regulator of broadcasts) about
skeptic climate scientists seen in the British video «The Great Global Warming Swindle», and the complaint went so far as to include its criticism of Dr Soon's non-speaking contribution to the film, while noting his «big
oil»
funding.
ExxonMobil is sabotaging the work of more than 2,000 scientists from 100 countries by
funding the most visible «greenhouse
skeptics» — one of whom, S. Fred Singer, publicly denied receiving
oil industry money as recently as February, 2001.
Something legitimate for the hard work and non-funded by the big
oil, the big coal and remotely from the Government
fund to
skeptics.
Given all that I've dug up on the origins of the «industry - corrupted
skeptic climate scientists» accusation, I'd call it a can't - lose wager if you bet that the «e-mail message circulated at a U.S. climate research lab» which Myanna Lahsen referred to owes its «
funded by the
oil and coal industry» accusation against
skeptic climate scientists to Gelbspan / Ozone Action.
(Reuters)- Willie Soon, a U.S. climate change
skeptic who has also discounted the health risks of mercury emissions from coal, has received more than $ 1 million in
funding in recent years from large energy companies and an
oil industry group, according to Greenpeace.
Mention those
skeptics are
funded by «big coal &
oil», and you'll gain more adoration as someone who exposes sinister hidden truths.
Soon is a prominent climate change
skeptic who has received much of his research
funding from the
oil and gas industry.
The global warming community spends a lot of time with ad hominem attacks on
skeptics, usually accusing them of being in the pay of
oil and power companies, but they all know that their own
funding in turn would dry up rapidly if they were to show any bit of skepticism in their own work.