Sentences with phrase «undermine public understanding»

... the «Global Climate Science Team» formed by ExxonMobil at the American Petroleum Institute in 1998 which sought to undermine public understanding of and confidence in global warming science... This was the team executing the plan to «reposition global warming as theory not fact» according to leaked campaign strategy memos.

The study cites Spencer and Bast along with other «manufacturers of doubt,» whose work to undermine the public understanding of this consensus has been stunningly successful — only 12 percent of Americans, their previous work found, know that more than 90 percent of scientists agree on this — and has resulted in «cascading effects on public understanding that climate change is happening, human caused, a serious threat, and in turn, support for climate change mitigation and adaptation policies.»

At the same time, well - funded contrarian groups continue to manufacture doubt around climate science in an attempt to undermine public understanding.

But an unintended side effect of the libertarian strategy — the rise of the myth of value - neutral schooling — now threatens to erode progress in the courts and to undermine public understanding of the First Amendment.

Alan Johnson wrote to the professor: «It is important that the government's messages on drugs are clear and as an advisor you do nothing to undermine public understanding of them.

Presenting such alternative figures confuses and undermines the public understanding of the actual science, which is an understanding about the driving mechanisms of sea level rise: thermal expansion of ocean water, melting of mountain glaciers and complex dynamics of large ice sheets — in correspondence again with projected temperature rise, that is in turn a product of projected rises of greenhouse gas concentrations using calculated estimates of climate sensitivity, together creating a net disturbance in Earth's energy balance, the very root cause of anthropogenic climate change.

Cartoons which mock the injured worker as «faking it» perpetuate a false stereotype that is personally offensive — and undermines public understanding and support for a fair workers» compensation system.

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The widespread misreporting of these cases under the guise of «Christian persecution» when they are anything but has undermined the chance of the public to get a really clear understanding of what the issues engaged by these cases really are.

While imploring the general public for their understanding and cooperation towards the enforcement of this order, the Force noted that the order was informed by the need to forestall plans by criminal elements to undermine the electoral process as gathered through intelligence reports.

«He understands how abuse of power undermines our democracy and has made it a top priority to uphold the integrity of our government by removing bad actors, bringing corruption cases against 40 New York public officials,» she wrote of Schneiderman.

I don't understand or accept efforts to undermine them by keeping legislation from a public vote.

Moreover, this complexity has led to great variance in the amount of funding that is provided to local communities across the country relative to their population of disadvantaged students, and the system's increasing bureaucratic complexity has clouded transparency and public understanding, thereby undermining accountability for the largest federal K - 12 program.

Because quality public schools are widely understood as foundational to democracy, accountability procedures should strengthen, not undermine, participatory democracy.

The notion that parents understand that Common Core SBAC testing is undermining public education was just too much for the State to handle and last Thursday, after communications that the State Department of Education has yet to release a response to a Freedom of Information request, the Sherman Board of Education held a «special meeting» to «focus solely on a presentation to the Board of Education by our superintendent, Don Fiftal, and a panel of educational experts to provide direct and up - to - date information about the Connecticut Common Core Standards and the SBAC Assessments.»

Willfully disregarding scientific evidence about the impact of climate change undermines scientific authority and polarises public understandings.

Prof Curry, the only «war on science» is the one being waged to undermine the scientific method itself and the public understanding thereof, and it's being run out of the office of an N. Oreskes in the bowels of Harvard.

This needs to be clearly understood by the public that the Heartland, Cato, and George C Marshall Institutes have a common objective (and common funding source) to undermine climate science and to spread disinformation about global warming /

In response to charges by the UCS that the administration has «consistently sought to undermine the public's understanding of the view held by the vast majority of climate scientists,» Marburger stresses that Bush has «clearly acknowledged the role of human activity in increased atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases.»

This helps provide a definition of the concept of sustainability that's easily understood among the broader public... but it also creates the risk of undermining the complexities of the concept.