In my leadership role on the EPW Committee, I have watched the Obama administration prioritize more than $ 120 billion for the president's global
warming agenda at the expense of real investment in critical infrastructure.»
Not exact matches
It must have seemed a good idea
at the time, this attempt to blunt the global
warming agenda and head off a regulatory train wreck.
I've been discussing climate change with lots of people
at campaign stalls recently, and it has opened my eyes as to how far this «balanced» climate sceptic reporting is shaping the thinking of even those people who are concerned and want to see some action («I am aware that flying might make climate change worse, but I'll still do it because the
warming may just be part of a natural cycle — I would stop if I was more certain»; «I am worried, but I have also heard that it is just water vapour which makes us
warmer, so we just don't kow if this CO2 thing is true, everybody seems to have a different
agenda» etc.).
The editor of this journal freely admits to an anti-global
warming agenda: The journal's editor, Sonja Boehmer - Christiansen, a reader in geography
at the University of Hull, in England, says she sometimes publishes scientific papers challenging the view that global
warming is a problem, because that position is often stifled in other outlets.
Margaret Thatcher, Sarah Palin and many other conservatives accepted what was presented as a scientific consensus on «global
warming», until the political
agenda of the advocates became clear
at Kyooto, Copenhagen, and finally the release of the CAGW manfesto called the SPM of the AR4.
For anybody not eager to see a socialist
agenda implemented, the «global
warming» movement,
at least until a few years ago, definitely represented things «starting to go wrong».
And they are pursuing this
agenda despite global
warming again being dead last in the latest Gallup poll of 15 issues of greatest concern to Americans: only 25 % say they worry about it «a great deal,» despite steady hysteria; 24 % are «not
at all» worried about the climate.
However, it is precisely these essentials — especially access to abundant, reliable, affordable energy — that are most
at risk under the
agendas being promoted by global
warming (climate change) alarmists.
«Scott Pruitt and his team are doing an outstanding job implementing President Trump's ambitious de-regulatory
agenda, which is designed to restore robust growth to resource and energy - intensive manufacturing industries that have been stagnant for the past decade,» said Myron Ebell, director of energy and global
warming policy
at the Competitive Enterprise Institute.
Plenty of anthropogenic
agenda signal in anything from the NCDC stable, (There's
at least 4 of them based on that farcical not - data) but that is not real
warming.
On June 30 I made a presentation
at the Sixth International Conference on Climate Change sponsored by the Heartland Institute in Washington, DC, entitled «Obama's Multifaceted Global
Warming Doctrine
Agenda and What Might Be Done to Slow It Down.»
The original impetus for the use of global
warming for a political
agenda involved the claim that the world was overpopulated and while everybody was using resources
at an increasing rate, the industrialized nations using fossil fuels were doing it more rapidly than others.
Four years on, Germany, which currently holds the presidency of the body, has reignited the debate, placing global
warming and security back on the council's
agenda at a meeting yesterday.
Our policy
agenda is a difficult sale to many on the Right given their conviction that global
warming is —
at best — a wildly overwrought problem and —
at worst — a fairy tale told by a corrupted scientific community for those that want to shut - down modern industrial capitalism.
This paper rests on foundations laid in four earlier Cornwall Alliance documents: The Cornwall Declaration on Environmental Stewardship (2000), A Call to Truth, Prudence, and Protection of the Poor: An Evangelical Response to Global
Warming (2006); The Cornwall Stewardship
Agenda (2008); and A Renewed Call to Truth, Prudence, and Protection of the Poor: An Evangelical Examination of the Theology, Science, and Economics of Global
Warming (2010), all available
at www.CornwallAlliance.org.
Hacked emails reveal systematic attempts to block requests from sceptics — and deep frustration
at anti-global
warming agenda
OTOH when it comes to pseudo-Science, i.e. the use of «sciency sounding» terms and phrases to pursue a religious / social / ideological
agenda, political ideology seems (to me) to make a big difference: religious types spout creationism (including «intelligent» design) or «divine providence», socialists spout environmentalism (including «global
warming»), «conservatives» seem to usually resort to mis - understood, or
at least mis - applied engineering formulas, and libertarians are all over the map.
(I might say it's «against» rather that «for» global
warming but...) he provides director James Cameron's Hollywood Reporter interview as proof that the $ 357 million epic has an environmental
agenda: «
At whatever price tag, it's a PSA for global
warming — obviously Republican,» says Cameron with a laugh.