Sentences with phrase «opponent of climate action»

Just as the tobacco industry demanded unreasonable levels of proof that smoking caused cancer, opponents of climate action employ the same technique of unrealistic expectations.

Various opponents of climate action have submitted legal briefs in a court case over climate change - related costs, attacking the 97 % consensus.

As some professional opponents of climate action almost instantly noticed, the caption provided by the photo agency said it was a montage of several images — what the agency called «a Photoshop design.»

Among them are leading opponents of climate action such as Americans for Prosperity, the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI), the Heartland Institute, and the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), all of which have received funding from the oil billionaire Koch brothers.

What I am referring to is that costly Clean Air Act regulation of CO2 will play into the hands of right - wing opponents of climate action, creating a poster - child of excessive regulatory intervention that will bring about a backlash against sensible climate policies.

It summarizes research into how opponents of climate action have cast doubt on consensus, why that matters, and how we (including journalists) can respond.

This criticism is important because it underlies one of the key arguments we see from opponents of climate action: that the costs of climate change are impossible to know, or too hard to estimate, and could be small.

Attacking the consensus is a central strategy by opponents of climate action.

Opponents of climate action have frequently highlighted data that seemed to suggest global temperatures stopped rising from about 1998 to the early part of the 21st century.

recounts the basic science of human - caused climate change, analyzes the multiple risks posed to humanity by unrestrained carbon pollution, debunks the tired and dishonest arguments forever trotted out by opponents of climate action, and reviews the long and sordid history of industry - funded attacks on inconvenient scientific findings.»

Opponents of climate action have been attacking climate science for years.