Sentences with phrase «warming denial»

The «global warming denial machine» was alive and well in 2013, and continued to have an impact on public opinion regarding the seriousness of the problem.

I had thought at the beginning of last year that this battle was largely won against the global warming denial machine.

For the global warming denial industry, congressional hearings will be the least of their worries.

Heck, a paper that got lots of play in the global warming denial sphere was so flawed a journal editor resigned over it, saying it should not have been published.

I've personally studied global warming and global warming denial more than most people you'll ever meet.

I see a lot of pretty amazingly bad global warming denial online.

We talked about the global warming denial machine and some of my experience with it, and went on from there.

Now he believes global warming denial is quite absurd given the science / facts.

With ExxonMobil's global warming denial campaign behavior and the Bush administration's suppression of the National Assessment process coming under greater critical scrutiny, Dr. MacCracken has authorized us to post his letter as part of the record.

In what has become an annual non-event, the Heartland Institute will gather the who's - who of the global warming denial network together in Chicago this weekend for the fourth International Conference on Climate Change.

In 2015, Cooler Heads was announced as a co-sponsor of the premier of Climate Hustle, a global warming denial documentary featuring Marc Morano.

The folks behind the 22nd episode of «Rap News» then bring in über conservative Tony Abbot and have him spout some global warming denial talking points while slipping in implications of corruption and global warming — driven bush fires.

Since right wing fundies are clearly a powerful part of the Republican and global warming denial power base, it is appropriate that we hear other points of view within the religious community.

Tracking the global warming denial movement from its inception, public relations advisor James Hoggan (working with journalist Richard Littlemore), reveals the details of those early plans and then tracks their execution, naming names and exposing tactics in what has become a full - blown attack on the integrity of the public conversation.

Finally, while numerous global warming denial sites are getting excited by Sheehan's conversion, as if he is some great arbiter of scientific truth, it seems perhaps that he hasn't always been that great at assessing science anyway as Tim Lambert points out in this comments thread at Deltoid.

In a backward leap of anti-Copernican proportions, North Carolina's state legislature recently passed what may be the nation's first state - wide global warming denial legislation.

And if you trace global warming denial back to its source, almost EVERY TIME you will find fossil fuel money and right - wing think - tanks behind it.

Singer co-authored a global warming denial book called Unstoppable Global Warming, with Dennis Avery, a «Senior Fellow» at an organization called the Hudson Institute, a US think - tank that has received funding from ExxonMobil.

Then again, John Cook thought that Skeptical Science would be obsolete by now due to global warming denial becoming an untenable belief, so we suspect The Escalator will continue to be a useful myth debunking tool for some time to come, particularly since climate contrarians seem to prefer nitpicking the graphic to learning from it.

Clinton said that the single most important thing an American can do right now is to make it unacceptable to be a climate change denier — and that the GOP's global warming denial makes us «look like a joke» in the international community.

Fox News on the morning of September 27, 2013, covering the new IPPC report on climate change.Media Matters / Fox News The latest data is out on the prevalence of global warming denial among the US public.

Farley, John W., «Petroleum and Propaganda: The anatomy of the global warming denial industry», Monthly Review, 2012

API's web of influence in the global warming denial network reveals numerous anti-climate legislation organizations that have been funded by ExxonMobil, including the Heartland Institute, the George C. Marshall Institute, the Competitive Eneterprise Institute and the Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow.

See our annotated version of the ALEC bill showing how ALEC's language can be used to peddle global warming denial in schools.

It closely resembled the RJ Reynolds campaign that provided the blueprint for the initial global warming denial campaign.

They were lying dormant, but as soon as you saw movement toward serious climate change legislation, the possible regulation of greenhouse gases by EPA, the possibility of a new diplomatic agreement, a treaty at Copenhagen, the global warming denial machine ramped up and became more aggressive than ever.

But it's not that the people of the United States are voting for the politics of racism, war and global warming denial; it's primarily the matrix of the two capitalist parties and mountains of billionaire - driven political campaign cash that can make it look that way.

And the question of how science on the fringe should be dealt with remains open: some observers say that Meldrum, who has been lambasted by colleagues and passed over for promotion twice, should just be left alone to do his thing; others counter that in this era of creationism, global warming denial, and widespread antiscience sentiment and scientific illiteracy, it is particularly imperative that bad science be soundly scrutinized and exposed.

After a question referencing emails with ExxonMobil lobbyists to undermine climate research at the United Nations before it even hit publication, Dr. Soon quickly loses his cool over his record of global warming denial, peppering the student with mild insults before owning up to his actions.

Rap News video presents our energy crises, global warming denial, Elon Musk on Mars, and our # 1 energy solution

In terms of non-scientists, I have proposed that there are limits on free speech, and perhaps the public promotion of global warming denial might be classified the same as holocaust denial is in some countries:

Obama's formulation in the State of the Union speech — the notion that even skeptics should support a climate bill because it was what the economy needed — had been developed by an unlikely source: Frank Luntz, one of the dark princes of Republican messaging, who a decade before had written a founding document of GOP global warming denial.

Many will argue, to the contrary, that certain flags go up when a public official who plays a critical role in developing policy on the future of petroleum extraction embraces an ideologically loaded position such as global warming denial.

The politically orchestrated parts of it, in which Heartland has played a very active role, I refer to as the global warming denial machine.

Royal Society letter to ExxonMobil: Exemplary citizen - science for public accountability (September 23) UK science academy letter tells ExxonMobil to stop funding global warming denial machine (September 23) Study author accuses CEI global warming TV ads of misrepresenting science (May 25) CEI TV spots continue global warming denial communications strategy (May 25)

Some of our earlier posts on the global warming denial machine and ExxonMobil: «The Denial Machine» — Canadian TV to air investigative documentary on global warming denialists (October 26)(Includes interview with CSW Director Rick Piltz.

This is the dark underside of right - wing sociopathy and the global warming denial machine.

«Holocaust denial» was the first political application, followed closely by «Aids denial,» «global warming denial» and a host of others.

Perhaps the Moscow Serbsky Institute could assist the APA to prove that global warming denial is a form of «politically defined madness» or «sluggishly progressing schizophrenia».

Global warming denial is a thoughtcrime.

S. FRED SINGER: A godfather of global warming denial, author of The Scientific Case Against the Global Climate Treaty and Hot Talk, Cold Science: Global Warming's Unfinished Debate.