Sentences with phrase «think tanks who»

It is called close minded thinking, and it is very different, and it usually finds ways to substantiate itself — to convince itself it is using reason and perpetuate the pattern and persistence in a false belief or idea; only further enabled when so many others want to do the same, the issue produces a lot of passion, and there is massive information (often put out by ideological think tanks who are fighting possible ways of redress by instead sowing doubt over the issue itself.)

Yep, it's the small underfunded band of free market think tanks who are stifling the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the U.S. Global Change Research Program, the National Academy of Sciences and their numerous brethren overseas, the European Environment Agency, the U.S. Climate Action Partnership, the EPA, NRDC, Greenpeace, etc. etc..

Many who criticise the science that claims to show that human activity is causing global warming are accused of being funded by the oil industry and free market think tanks who oppose the sort of government regulation that it seems will be necessary to implement large reductions in greenhouse gases, especially CO2

According to Kert Davies, the director of research for Greenpeace in the US, the Kochs have spent more than $ 50m since 1998 on «various front groups and think tanks who... oppose the consensus view that climate change is real, urgent and we have to do something about it».

UCS and its analysts used corporate data to «imply that General Electric executives were climate change hypocrites,» because GE has said it believes the «scientific consensus» is humans are causing dangerous climate change while also supporting some think tanks who have written skeptically concerning the causes and consequences of climate change, including the Reason Foundation, which UCS accused of «misrepresenting climate change science.»

UCS was a leading force behind the proposed effort by the Justice Department and various Democratic Party state attorneys general to prosecute ExxonMobil, other fossil - fuel companies, researchers, and think tanks who have expressed doubts about the claim humans are driving dangerous climate change.

Here are recent statements by vocal media impressarios and think tanks who spend their time, not in a laboratory, but in the popular media trying to convince the public that global warming is either not happening, or is not caused by our continued consumption of fossil fuels (oil, coal, gas etc).

At times taking stabs at the ineffectiveness and greed of the pharmaceutical industry and making light of very real think tanks who believe in the superiority of some individuals over others, the book is a fast - paced thrill ride of pandemic proportions.

There are pockets of individuals in think tanks who still do quality empirical work.

Because, despite having this breadth of knowledge within its walls, and for many years after these climate science programs were run at Exxon, the company has spent years and millings of dollars funding climate deniers and think tanks who attack the scientific consensus, spreading doubt and uncertainty.

It's a concern highlighted by the three page statement put out after the centre - left Paris meeting on the 17th March by the think tanks who organised the event.

Said Donald Kohn, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution think tank who was Fed vice chairman from 2006 to 2010: «She's been able to lead the committee in a way that's avoided major financial disruption while beginning the rollback of unconventional monetary policy.

A conversation with Ted Nordhaus, the head of a green think tank who thinks that environmentalism is dead, nuclear energy and gas are alive, and maybe the conservatives had it right all along.

You have a privately funded think tank who are recieving approximately $ 7 - 8M a year from various private and corporate sources.

It's right up there with that Russian scholar in a Foreign Ministry think tank who accused Western climate scientists of causing global warming by beaming secret climate weapons at Russia during the fires.

Not exact matches

There is little talk of tax cuts and balanced budgets, items which form the economic lodestar of the Official Opposition; think tanks such as the Fraser Institute, the Macdonald - Laurier Institute, the Atlantic Provinces Economic Council; and almost everyone who writes a column for the Financial Post, including former finance minister Joe Oliver.

Michael Tanner, senior fellow at libertarian think tank The Cato Institute who shared the stage with Faye on Friday, said the U.S. government has nearly 100 programs for combating poverty.

Lighthizer, who lacks his boss's need for public attention, appeared at a Washington - based think tank on Sept. 18 to explain at length why the administration is so obsessed with narrowing the trade deficit.

«Carly Fiorina was the only one who didn't sound like she had time - traveled from the Reagan administration,» says Lanae Erickson Hatalsky, director of social policy and politics at Third Way, a left of center think tank.

On Jan. 11, Stanford economics professor Raj Chetty and his colleagues from the Equality of Opportunity Project spoke at a conference held by the Washington, D.C., think tank Brookings Institution about new findings on who becomes inventors in the U.S.

«It's gone beyond just writing a paper,» says Montreuil, who now heads up a virtual think - tank called the Physical Internet Initiative.

The panel discussion featured some of the smartest folks in the health field — Dr. Toby Cosgrove, the pioneering heart surgeon and former CEO of Cleveland Clinic; Bob Kocher, the Venrock partner who helped shape the Affordable Care Act; Humana CEO Bruce Broussard, who's very thoughtful on the healthcare value chain; and two JPM folks — Bei Ling, JPMorgan Chase's global head of compensation and benefit, and moderator Diana Farrell, CEO of the JPMorgan Chase Institute (hereafter, please, JPMCI), the bank's in - house socially minded think tank.

From the bank's universe of 37 million checking account customers, the think tank's researchers stripped identifiers and grabbed a sample of 2.3 million families across 23 U.S. states for whom they had «a very good window into their financial lives,» said Fiona Greig, JPMCI's Director of Consumer Research, who presented the study's key findings prior to the panel discussion.

«They won't liberalize dairy very much,» said Gary Clyde Hufbauer, a former U.S. Treasury international trade official who is now a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, a nonpartisan think tank in Washington D.C. «They might do some token stuff on ice cream but it won't amount to anything.»

Which is how Donna Maurillo, a Scotts Valley, California, resident who works at a think tank, came up with an interesting strategy when she shops.

«The argument is the types of things we're doing now with information technology just don't show up in GDP because a lot of what we do on the Internet is free,» or very nearly so, says Philip Cross, a former chief of economic analysis at Statistics Canada who wrote a paper on the slow - growth economy for the Fraser Institute think tank last year.

Because of her work with think tank Canada 2020 and reviews for environmentally - friendly products, the Telegraph has labelled her an eco-warrior who thinks «banks are rotten.»

The ACA «is a big boon to small businesses and their workers, who care about health care insurance,» says Dean Baker, co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research, a nonpartisan policy think tank.

The number of Chinese who said they thought food safety was a major concern has more than tripled between 2008 and 2012, a report by private U.S. think - tank Pew Research Center shows.

«There are the people who just want to keep doing what they are doing, and their concern is that the new regulations will make what has always worked suddenly become legally ambiguous,» says Alex Mittal, co-founder and CEO of Funders Club, an online venture capital firm that has been invited to comment on the changes by the White House, the Treasury and several D.C. think tanks.

Various academic and think tank studies have found that reductions in the small business tax rate disproportionately benefit wealthy individuals who incorporate their businesses in order to reduce their personal income tax burden, split income with family «shareholders» and avoid capital gains taxes.

«Essentially, what this does is it wipes out the last remaining option for U.S. coal exporters to get their products off the northwest coast to Asia,» said Williams - Derry, who works for the Sightline Institute, an energy think tank based in Seattle.

The beachhead groups were part of a larger constellation of advisers, including Oklahoma oil and gas mogul Harold Hamm (once considered for energy secretary), billionaire investor Carl Icahn (last seen shadily pushing for policy that would benefit his oil refineries), GOP energy lobbyist Mike McKenna (in charge of the DOE transition team), longtime climate skeptic (and hopeless dope) Myron Ebell, North Dakota Rep. Kevin Cramer (the oil devotee who supposedly wrote Trump's big energy speech last May), and Thomas J. Pyle, the director of the Institute for Energy Research (IER), a pro-fossil fuel «think tank» which, as we shall see, has provided several Trump staffers.

Donors Trust's board of directors, which ultimately decides who gets funded, reads like a conservative who's - who directory: Arthur Brooks, president of American Enterprise Institute; John Von Kannon, vice president of the Heritage Foundation; William Mellor, president of the Institute for Justice, a libertarian legal firm; and Kris Alan Mauren, director of the Acton Institute, a Michigan - based conservative think tank.

-LRB-...) The paper was written by Jim Parrott, a former housing advisor in the Obama White House who is now a senior fellow at the Urban Institute, a left - leaning think tank, and Mark Zandi, chief economist of Moody's Analytics.

Think of an investor who deployed significant capital in October 2008 after the markets tanked in late September.

«I'd question the logic of running into a trade deal with a president who sees trade less as a means of achieving mutual prosperity and more an instrument of war,» Sam Lowe, a trade expert at the Centre for European Reform think tank, told the Guardian.

Nonetheless, out of a population this large, the number of Muslim Americans who either perpetrated or were arrested for terrorist crimes in 2010 was... 20, according to the Triangle Center on Terrorism and Homeland Security (a consortium of Duke University, the University of North Carolina and RTI International, a think tank).

Nonetheless, denial of that evidence is a sizable, well - financed industry Conservative think tanks have produced scores of studies that try to discredit the data, the methodology and, not least, the motives of those who report the obvious.

In contrast, a fair comparison would have matched up children of same - s3x parents with children of heteros3xual parents who looked otherwise similar — no extra divorces, no extra separations, no extra time in foster care for the kids, said Gary Gates, a researcher at the Williams Inst itute, a s3xual orientation policy think tank at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Carol Lancaster, who teaches at Georgetown University, has worked on U.S. policy toward Africa as a fellow of various Washington think tanks, as deputy assistant secretary of state for Africa in the Carter administration, and as deputy administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) during the Clinton administration.

Religious people in general are more proud to be British than those who call themselves atheists or non-believers, the survey by the think tanks Demos said.

It was all laid out some time ago by a republican think tank called the Project for A New American Centurywhich included many people who would hold high ranking position in the Bush Administration in a docu / ment ti / tled «Rebuilding America's Defenses»

The think tank Demos who conducted the research is recommending that the government now provides grants to promote Digital Citizenship classes where teenagers are taught good online behaviour.

I think its worth playing Giroud bcos vs barca we will need pace on the counter (not girouds strong point) and set pieces cud be key (Walcott isn't exactly a tank) Who has pace and strength up top for Arsenal??? Welbeck!!!! Plus he is in good form and high on confidence after Leicester.

Anyone who thought that Didier Drogba didn't have anything left in the tank needs to watch just three or four of him games with the Montreal Impact.

I think facing Crystal Palace in the Premier League opener will be a tantalizing proposition for Arsenal, who should have enough in the tank to put it past a resilient Palace defence.

Neither is the pimple faced intern that takes the worn out old idea to some in - the - tank producer who can't think of anything better to waste out time with.

Only 6 percent of college - educated single women had children from 2006 - 2008, according to the National Marriage Project, a pro-marriage think tank housed at the University of Virginia, versus 54 percent of women who didn't graduate from high school and 44 percent of those with high school diplomas.

You may be like many families entering parenthood who balk at the thought of owning a travel system; visions of enormous strollers taking up too much room, difficulty steering and being heavy as tanks seem more of a nightmare than a convenience.