Sentences with phrase «partisan political climate»

Not exact matches

The Republican Party's fast journey from debating how to combat human - caused climate change to arguing that it does not exist is a story of big political money, Democratic hubris in the Obama years and a partisan chasm that grew over nine years like a crack in the Antarctic shelf, favouring extreme positions and uncompromising rhetoric over co-operation and conciliation.

Advertisers have been grappling with how to reach consumers in the political climate under Trump, when viewers» increasingly partisan attitudes make it more difficult to market to a broad audience.

While the massive rally has prompted New York City elected officials to be more responsive to the need to take action on climate change, it has had little impact on state and national political leaders who used their partisan gridlock to avoid needed action on this and many other critical issues while promoting increased wealth and tax giveaways for the 1 %.

Other recent surveys show a partisan political gap, however, in views on scientific topics such as evolution and climate change.

The March for Science was clearly on the liberal end of the political spectrum, he finds, nearly matching the partisan flavor of the Women's March and the Tax March and exceeding the liberal leanings of those in the People's Climate March.

Regardless of political affiliation, people are more likely to believe facts about climate change when they come from Republicans speaking against what has become a partisan interest in this country, says a new University of Connecticut study.

«The Political Divide on Climate Change: Partisan Polarization Widens in The U.S.» by Riley E. Dunlap, Aaron M. McCright, and Jerrod H. Yarosh appeared in Volume 58, Issue 5 of Environment.

Most of these claims are political attacks that promote a partisan agenda and are not objective information about climate change science.

Sacramento, CA — The Energy & Environment Legal Institute (E&E Legal) has filed suit under California's Public Records Act (PRA) against the state's Attorney General Xavier Becerraa for withholding all but one email showing or mentioning its work with partisan and environmentalist activists to use law enforcement in going after opponents of the «climate» political agenda».

This means we're putting a man who has written an entire book calling climate change a hoax, who has used scripture to refute climate science, who truly seems to believe that environmental groups are a «political machine» dedicated to «misleading the American public regarding their purely politically partisan agenda under the guise of environmental protection» and who has insisted, with a straight face, that CO2 is not a «real pollutant,» in charge of solving climate change.

And yet, the acceptance of the basic science of climate change has cleaved across partisan lines — a political reality that would have my grandfather, a construction engineer and businessman, aghast and angered.

«At its core, global climate change is not about economic theory or political platforms, nor about partisan advantage or interest group pressures.

Whether to even accept the overwhelming evidence that climate change is real and human - caused has become a partisan political issue, thanks in large parts to the efforts of bad actors like the Koch Brothers to poison both our atmosphere and our public discourse.

These «Concerned,» «Cautious,» and «Disengaged» segments for the most part do not have a strong political or partisan identity and rely mostly on local TV news, local newspapers and word of mouth for information and to form decisions about climate change, if they had even considered the issue much at all.

In 2015, IGES, with Shukla as its president, fell under congressional investigation for violating non-profit law with «partisan political activity» by «requesting a RICO («racketeering influenced and corrupt organization») investigation of companies and organizations that disagree with the Obama administration on climate change,» according to the House Science, Space and Technology committee.

Shukla and IGES fell under congressional investigation as a government - funded tax - exempt organization for violating non-profit law with «partisan political activity» by requesting the use of RICO against companies and organizations «that disagree with the Obama administration on climate change,» according to the House Science, Space and Technology committee.

Climate change has become a partisan political issue, so positions become more entrenched.

It will require immense effort — and profound good fortune — to find political openings that can resolve the debilitating partisan divide on climate change.

«Culture,» in this context (IMO) is not tightly constrained, and includes partisans who bridge an overlap between political perspectives and loyalties in the climate debate.

It was a partisan political coalition to support the Obama Administration's climate agenda and nothing else.

Climate change became partisan in 2010, shortly after the five Republican - appointed justices of the Supreme Court upended a century of law and precedent to issue the Citizens United decision, which rejected limits on corporate spending on political campaigns.