Sentences with phrase «warming denier groups»
If that's the new company line, Mr. Tillerson, then how do you explain the $ 2.1 million that ExxonMobil and its corporate foundation spent in 2006 to fund dozens of global warming denier groups?
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Under this sort of rule, environmentalist groups would have to accept global warming deniers as members / officers, and African - American groups would have to accept neo-nazis, etc..
Environmental groups have been frustrated by the Bush administrations rejection of the Kyoto treaty and what Sohn describes as its tendency to deny, deflect blame and delay when it comes to issues involving global warming.
a Greenpeace research project highlighting the more than a decade - long campaign by Exxon - funded front groups — and the scientists they work with — to deny the urgency of the scientific consensus on global warming and delay action to fix the problem.
Independent group BBC Trust tells network giving man - made global warming deniers too much press creates «false balance»
«The influence of global warming deniers, consisting of a small group of scientists plus others that are motivated to deny global warming owing to the implications associated with any policy to control greenhouse gas emissions»
The Philadelphia Inquirer reported, «In the high - stakes conflict over U.S. climate - change policy, groups that deny or cast doubt on global warming brought in $ 7.2 million from 2003 to 2010... «Powerful funders are supporting the campaign to deny scientific findings about global warming,» reported Robert J. Brulle...» In the eighth paragraph, the Inquirer noted the response by James Taylor of the Heartland Institute, who observed that many of the groups «support other causes as well» and, in some cases, spend «less than 10 percent of their funding... on climate - related efforts.»
Working as a hired gun on behalf of ExxonMobil at the Washington, DC PR firm DCI Group, Saul was listed as the contact person on a press release that denied that global warming is intensifying extreme weather events:
The climate science denying group the Global Warming Policy Foundation has admitted that it shared an «erroneous» temperature dataset to support Lord Lawson's false claims to the BBC last week that global temperatures aren't rising.
After spending time at the largest gathering of world class climatologists, meteorologists, physicists, engineers, and economists, among other very brainy folks, I came away with the feeling that the battle remains joined by this hearty group, otherwise derided as skeptics and deniers of global warming.
seems to me that the only group more «religious» than global warming supporters are the global warming deniers.
Some of the groups they include may have a 25 - 30 million dollar budget and have one of their many papers a year be about global warming - that doesn't mean that $ 30 million was spent on denier research.
Climate Change Deniers, also known as Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW) Deniers, refers to individuals or groups who disagree with the global scientific consensus that emissions of man - made CO2 significantly enhance the natural atmospheric greenhouse effect.
As Media Matters reported, CFACT has received funding from ExxonMobil and Chevron, as well as an «anonymously - funded» group, Donor's Trust, that specializes in backing groups denying the existence of global warming.
Ridley is an advisor to the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), a group run by climate change denier Nigel Lawson.
«Defendants stole a page from the Big Tobacco playbook and sponsored public relations campaigns, either directly or through the American Petroleum Institute or other groups, to deny and discredit the mainstream scientific consensus on global warming, downplay the risks of global warming, and even to launch unfounded attacks on the integrity of leading climate scientists,» the San Francisco suit reads.
I do not mean to use the term «denier» pejoratively — it has been accepted by some of the group as a self - description — but simply to designate those who deny any likelihood of future danger from anthropogenic global warming.
Feds close 600 weather stations amid criticism they're situated to report warming Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/science/2013/08/13/weather-station-closures-flaws-in-temperature-record/#ixzz2bs0Bki00 More about the Yosemite Weather Station here =============================================================== Unicorns doled out for climate change deniers — CNN Political Ticker The group sent a message on Twitter Tuesday with a...
I think the self - described grouping in the case of luke - warmers is more of a label whereby this group can at least attempt to separate itself from the true deniers and those that point to catastrophes from AGW without good evidence.
SPPI was founded in mid-2007 with a strong focus on global warming skepticism, and draws heavily on papers published by climate change science denier Christopher Monckton who was the editor of the SPPI's «Monthly CO2 Report,» (last published in January of 2011) has had many of his papers published with SPPI, and is also listed as the group's «Chief Policy Advisor.»
And climate deniers â $» who claim that researchers at NASA and other groups analyzing climate trends have massaged and distorted the data â $» had been hoping that the Berkeley project would conclude that global warming is a myth.
In my mind, there are pervasive forms of denial common amongst such groups that almost approach the level of dangerous attitude as in those who deny global warming;
The society had sent an official letter to Exxon, complaining about the oil company's «inaccurate and misleading» portrayal of the science of climate change and about its funding of lobby groups that deny global warming is taking place.
The #ExxonKnew campaign has gained enormous traction in the public mind and many want to know why the corporation started out as such an honest broker in the 1970s, conducting its own climate science research, and then doing an about - face in the 1980s, blatantly denying the reality of global warming and working with other groups to manipulate public opinion so as to thwart a rational public response.
The Donors Trust and Donors Capital Fund, both based in Virginia, are donor - advised funds that have channeled money from the Kochs, owners of the sprawling conglomerate Koch Industries and outspoken supporters of conservative causes, to groups that deny the link between fossil fuels and global warming, the paper says.
Cohen tries to explain this away by arguing that Exxon only funded such groups because they were against the Kyoto Protocol (which it still firmly rejects) and not because they vehemently denied the existence of global warming.
In any case, it is simply an effort to reconcile the rapid rates of warming in the Arctic with the output of the most recent group of global climate models — everyone agrees that global warming is real, except for a very large number of editors and reporters with the U.S. press, who continue to advocate for the positions held by a small number of fossil fuel funded contrarians and insist on giving them «equal time» — a luxury denied to renewable energy experts.