Sentences with phrase «to cast doubt on climate science»

Despite virtual unanimity among scientists that climate change is real, and that it is caused by human activities, people who cast doubt on climate science continue to dominate the debate.

As Witherspoon researched the options starting around 1993, Exxon had embarked on a public campaign casting doubt on climate science as a basis for strong policy actions.

Fox News tipped the balance toward those on the opposite side of the facts, as 69 percent of guests and 75 percent of mentions cast doubt on climate science.

Instead, people were responding to cues from political and opinion leaders — specifically tea party Republicans who cast doubt on climate science.

«The Mercers, Trump mega-donors, back group that casts doubt on climate science» Reporters Matea Gold and Chris Mooney of the Washington Post published an exposé of the Heartland Institute...

The letter is very much in the style of recent American - led efforts to counter groups and individuals who have mastered the use of the Web as a means of aggregating and disseminating just about anything — factual or not — as long as it casts doubt on climate science or stalls action on curbing greenhouse emissions.

Since the release in mid-February of a series of documents related to the internal strategy of the Heartland Institute to cast doubt on climate science, there has been extensive speculation about the origin of the documents and intense discussion about what they reveal.

The scientists also put paid to claims that global warming has «stopped» because global temperatures in the past 15 years have not continued the strong upward march of the preceding years, which is a key argument put forward by sceptics to cast doubt on climate science.

This document, authored by the American Petroleum Institute, laid out how groups, including CFACT, could cast doubt on climate science and inject doubt into the public's understanding of the issue.

Despite Exxon pumping $ 1.7 million into ALEC in years past to cast doubt on climate science — the focus of an IRS whistleblower complaint filed by Common Cause and CMD last year — the oil giant says it objects to the resolution's language.

There's always been a vocal subset of conservatives who cast doubt on climate science, but what were once fringe views among broader Republicans — like warming's a hoax — are enjoying a growing acceptance in the GOP, worrying academics, -LSB-...]

Taylor appeared on major cable and network news shows eight times between 2009 and 2014 to cast doubt on climate science or criticize environmental policies.

Their main tactic was to cast doubt on climate science.

Exxon Mobil went on to become one of the leading funders of «climate dis - information» — organizations that existed to cast doubt on the climate science.