Sentences with phrase «scaremongering by»

THE farcical scaremongering by global warming activists about the «dying» reef has cost Australians jobs and money:

The influence of Fukushima is an emotional reaction as a result of 50 years of scaremongering by the Left.

This story sees much of the debate as scaremongering by naïve idealists who erroneously believe the world can be made a better place (profligacy story), or by international bureaucrats looking to expand their budgets and influence (lack of global planning).

As Downing Street rejected claims of scaremongering by the Commons leader, Chris Grayling, after No 10 warned that it would take a decade to extricate the UK from the EU, Patel warned of a threat to the impartiality of the civil service.

However, the nationalists in both Scotland and Wales have dismissed such talk as scaremongering by Labour governments fearful of the results of the Welsh assembly and Scottish parliament elections in May this year.

Labour need to show they not succumb to scaremongering by the shadowy figures in the home office bureaucracy with clear human rights based framework to privacy and security, rejecting the authoritarian excesses of the last Labour government.

The IFA's strategy for Irish - produced fresh milk — «Milkwise 2025» — has been described as scaremongering by Ruairi Cunningham from Strathroy Dairy.

Not exact matches

«Despite all the scaremongering, research now shows that of those housing benefit claimants affected by the cap, a third said they would now be looking for a job,» work and pensions secretary Iain Duncan Smith wrote in a letter to the Daily Mail.

Business Secretary Vince Cable has criticised Royal Mail bosses for «scaremongering» by indicating universal service may be under threat.

Hunt's comments have been attacked by Matthew Elliott, the chief executive of Vote Leave, who has accused the Health Secretary of» scaremongering» and suggests that leaving the EU would unlock funds that could be used to improve the health service.

There is a risk that the narrow party interests, point - scoring politics and divisive scaremongering encouraged by the present system — and perpetrated by leading Conservatives in the No campaign — will succeed in defeating attempts to move to a new one.

That vacuum gets filled by an immense amount of fear and, in some cases, outlandish scaremongering.

Ahead of its second reading in the Lords, Humanists UK published research that revealed the extent of the religious lobby on the Bill, and the scaremongering and misinformation being given out by religious groups about the issues.

«Now of course, things have turned against them, the positive campaign being run by the Yes side has raised so much ground, then all of a sudden we have two things: an increase in scaremongering and a calling - in of big organisations to help them out, and then secondly we have the last - minute desperate visits to shore things up.

Also, to show what's really in the bill and that they are not being unnecessarily worried by some of these myths and scaremongering that sometimes happens.

Cameron said the debate was «plagued by scaremongering and inaccurate statistics», and yet he was the one responsible.

IAIN DUNCAN SMITH: At the EU referendum the British people refused to be intimidated by the deceitful scaremongering about our supposedly apocalyptic future after Brexit.

«If he continues to refuse to denounce those calling for a split, members will think he is simply trying to scaremonger them to vote for him by his talking up of threats from a minority of MPs supporting his campaign who are plotting to split our party in Tory newspapers, while at the same time refusing to denounce them.

Mr Osborne and Mr Darling were also attacked by leftwing economists, who also accused him of «scaremongering».

The fact that Labour are scaremongering about police budget cuts is compounded by the sheer hypocrisy of their position.

Earlier in the programme, Nigel Farage faced accusations of «inflammatory» scaremongering and he slipped up by telling a female audience member to calm down.

He has a difficult balancing act: he also has to try to maintain Labour unity, so today's attack on «scaremongering» by the No camp is aimed at its Tory, rather than Labour, figures.

Such scaremongering is especially painful to me because even though I do not think that government - approved GMO foods pose meaningful health risks to consumers, and even though I believe strategic genetic engineering can be an important tool to ease human suffering on our warming and resource - constrained planet, I share the concerns of many environmentalists about the homogenization and consolidation of the global food system — trends that are accelerated by the spread of industrially produced GMOs.

Eisinga was fired by the desire to reassure his neighbours by pointing out that this was mere scaremongering.

If these are truly risks (and, as I've pointed out previously, the public health threat argument is scaremongering more than anything else), they are risks that (1) are already present, (2) have been allowed to persist — even worsen — due to the admitted ineffectiveness of the trap - and - kill approach (where's the accountability for that, by the way?)

As I reported in my previous post, the Florida Veterinary Medical Association came out in opposition to the proposed legislation last week, their «concerns» (PDF) a mix of misinformation and scaremongering (similar to the various complaints made by Audubon Florida when HB 1121 was before the Agriculture and Natural Resources Subcommittee).

Cat Wars is, to anybody familiar with the topic, an obviously desperate attempt to fuel the ongoing witch - hunt against outdoor cats «by any means necessary,» including the endorsement of discredited junk science, an oceanful of red herrings, and B - movie - style scaremongering.

Instead, listeners (the broadcast is available here) were in for a campaign of misinformation and scaremongering fueled by useless factoids — including, for example, a reference to the estimated «14 tons of cat poop» deposited annually in Hawaii's state parks.

Nevertheless, in March, Ztohoven was brought to trial, accused by the government - run Czech TV of «scaremongering and propagating false information.»

I think Labor's strategy is to get this plan passed by hook or by crook and then let people see that the sky does not fall as the opposition has been saying, revealing the scaremongering of the latter by the time of the next election in two years.

Here we have the same exact doomsday scaremongering being perpetrated by people who claim to be rational.

catastrophic climate change is a scaremongering campaign pushed by activist climate scientists and their disciples.

The proof that the AGW scaremongers» proigram will lead toi millions of deaths is simple: by squandering capital and other resources on chasing the CO2 bogeyman, less resources will be available to improve health conditions in poorer countries.

What this leads to is that scaremongering has no effect on me other than to make me more determined to educate people to realise what would be the cost to humanity of the irrational mitigation policies proposed by the CAGW Alarmists.

Following the collapse of the Soviet Union, however, the Marshall Institute has adapted to the times by devoting much of its firepower to the war against environmentalism, and in particular against the «scaremongers» who raise warnings about global warming.

ivan: Arrhenius was debunked by Robert Wood in 1909, et al & not revived until Hansen's scaremongering in the 1980's.

Rather, they mean «global warming» in the sense that is most commonly used today by grant - troughing scientists, and huxter politicians, and scaremongering green activists, and brainwashed mainstream media (MSM) environmental correspondents.

Maybe the biggest of all the lies put out by the global warming scaremongers is that the science is on their side.

The problem is the scaremongering (global warming, radiation, etc.) induces stress — stress killed more Japanese than the Tsunami (the argument if anyone was killed by radiation is still underway).

By its nature scaremongering attracts attention, and the poll indicates many Americans need more information about the process that has made possible the ongoing U.S. energy renaissance — natural gas and oil.

This scaremongering claim by Gore is a perfect example of what presenter Marc Morano means by the «Climate Hustle»: just like in a card game where tricksters use sleight - of - hand, distraction techniques, and dirty tricks in order to con the mark (the mug punter) out of his money, so the alarmist establishment is withholding key details and presenting false or distorted information in order to extract vast sums from the gullible public.

That said, both Smith and Moorhead are impressed by chief exec Des Hudson who arrived at Chancery Lane in 2006 to knock some shape into what was seen to be an organisation lurching from crisis to crisis — for example, a bruising encounter with the then Lord Irvine over its campaign against the Access to Justice Bill («irresponsible scaremongering») and the bitter recriminations following the departure of Kamlesh Bahl, the first Asian woman to become vice-president, who resigned following bullying allegations.

That mission is done a great disservice by scaremongering headlines from Bloomberg and sound bites from Kent Zimmerman saying that the bogeyman comes in the shape of LPOs.

Having made a significant investment in this industry it disturbs me to see Gary Morse being led by the nose by these self enriching scaremongering advisers in a very supportive speech of the need for these changes.