Sentences with phrase «to confuse the public»

This «web of denial» has held back action to cut greenhouse gas emissions while confusing the public on climate change.

It will not confuse the public, he thinks, but it will not help them understand climate science either.

The tobacco companies hired these scientific camp followers to go out and try to confuse the public into thinking that the science wasn't clear.

Such a strategy will only confuse the public and ourselves.

It is sure to further raise expectations of a cure — and further confuse the public about just how near a cure might be.

It's a given that an organized and well - funded campaign has led efforts to confuse the public regarding the consensus around anthropogenic climate change.

The pyramid has tremendous «brand recognition,» and to abandon this icon «would cause massive confusion among an already confused public,» she said.

Please don't respond to the comments of climate change deniers, they are creating a debate where none exists to confuse public who come here to learn about climate change.

You are confusing public domain (a concept related to copyright) with the use of a word as a trademark.

There are attempts to confuse the public between achievement (absolute) scores and growth (change in scores).

At present there is a small minority which is seeking to deliberately confuse the public on the causes of climate change.

There are right ways and wrong ways for scientists to fight back against the climate skeptics who are trying to confuse the public about global warming.

In the 1980s, big tobacco paid big money to establish «independent» think tanks and «research» institutes that were charged with confusing the public over the dangers of sidestream smoke.

The OACIQ maintains DuProprio acts in a matter similar to that of real estate brokers and by doing so confuses the public

Some in the weather and emergency management community had criticized the service for confusing the public by failing to issue hurricane warnings as Sandy moved ashore, because it was no longer technically a hurricane.

On Afghanistan, Dr Fox criticised Labour's inability to define strategy as an «appalling failure that risks confusing the public and diminishing support for the mission».

'' The presidency really should quickly clean up its current chaotic and confusing public messaging on President Buhari's health.

Experts, charities, the media and government confuse the public by speaking «different languages» on climate change, a new study says.

Many of the arguments used to promote a raw food diet are unscientific and needlessly confuse the public.

And politicizing everyday language continues confusing the public.

However, the reader is rarely as well equipped as the writer to determine the bottom line, and in practice this plays into the hands of those who might seek to confuse the public through clever disinformation campaigns.

There was uncertainty about the degree of global warming, and media - hyped speculation about global cooling confused the public.

In order to block proactive government policymaking and keep corporate interests unregulated, libertarian groups have focused a significant part of their efforts on climate change on distorting the science to confuse public opinion, denying the seriousness of the problem, and, most recently, impugning the integrity of the climate science community.

Like the tobacco lobbyists who spent years denying the links between smoking and cancer, global warming denialists don't have to win the debate — they simply have to confuse the public indefinitely to successfully undermine any political action which might hit the interests of their backers in the fossil fuel industries

Climate scientists and political scientists often confuse the public and the media by focusing on the narrow question, «Did climate change cause the drought» — that is, did it reduce precipitation?

Opponents of the change say the name has historical value and that changing it could actually confuse the public.

Jackson has accused the Law Society of confusing the public interest with the interest of its members.

- Marketing costs: Time spent developing a marketing campaign for the new SKU that, cruicially, must not confuse the public into thinking the Switch is a tablet.

Do not confuse public domain with Creative Commons licensing, in which the author licenses the public to use a work with various restrictions but without needing to request permission.

The decision could provide some relief to users — or it could further confuse the public about Spiegel's vision.

Image from a USA Today article detailing Willie Soon's at events to confuse the public over climate science.

To claim that sceptics «don't believe in climate change» is an Orwellian manipulation of the language designed to confuse the public about what the debate is really on about.

«Recent statements from the infant formula industry distort clear evidence and can confuse the public regarding two important facts,» said Colin Davis of UNICEF.

On the heels of a press release about why the news media must not conflate CREC schools with Hartford Public Schools, the latter sent communication about how the State, with its Commissioner's Network, may help to confuse the public even more on the question of who is running the show.