Sentences with phrase «wing think»

The decision by Croakey to publish Mr Barnes was not universally welcomed, however, with Professor Simon Chapman questioning the decision on Twitter, going so far as to ask «why write for Croakey when your support lies with a right wing think tank?»

How they donate: While the Kochs have personally have donated tens of millions of dollars to political causes, the network of wealthy donors and right - wing think tanks they've created is more important.

Strangely, it was a senior fellow from right - wing think - tank, the Adam Smith Institute, who made that point most forcibly in response to the Council of Europe report.

For example, regarding the validity of the evidence that the basic greenhouse gas mechanism is causing recent global warming, there is near - unanimous scientific consensus among the experts that have real climate credentials, are working in the field with a position in a recognized scientific department at a university or laboratory (not a right - wing think tank), and who publish in the peer - reviewed scientific literature (non-peer reviewed think tank papers don't count).

The paper was funded in part by the fossil fuel industry, and both authors at the time were paid consultants for a right - wing think tank.

Others with an ideological right - wing libertarian philosophy and funded by right - wing think tanks, distort the science to influence public opinion with the real goal of preventing governments from acting against global warming.

Our 97 % consensus paper has been incessantly critiqued by Republican senators, right - wing think - tanks, Republican congressmen and contrarian blogs promoting a conservative agenda (eagle - eyed readers might detect a pattern here).

The Post printed a Fred Singer fairy tale and an Open Letter to UN Secretary Bam without so much as suggesting this gang of clowns were connected to right wing think tanks and the fossil fuel industry.

by Tim Ryan Courthouse News Service WASHINGTON (CN)-- Missing statutory deadlines drew federal complaints Monday against the Environmental Protection Agency both from conservationists and a coal - funded right - wing think tank... In the same court Monday, the EPA was hit with a federal complaint by... the Energy and Environment Legal Institute.

Real science is done in peer - reviewed science publications, not at bogus journals and right - wing think tanks.]

«The campaign against the 1997 Kyoto global warming treaty waged by right - wing think tanks has been another area where corporate America has heavily invested in right - wing policy groups that advance its interest» noted author David Callahan in 1999.»

Exxon used the American Petroleum Institute, right - wing think tanks, campaign contributions and its own lobbying to push a narrative that climate science was too uncertain to necessitate cuts in fossil fuel emissions.

[Update, July 8: In another astonishing twist, I have just discovered that Marlo Lewis, the National Review columnist whose piece Carlin lifted as discussed below, is — wait for it — a Senior Fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, which just happens to be the right - wing think tank that has been touting the so - called «suppression» of Alan Carlin's report.

Right - wing think tanks dutifully produced studies showing that it would cost US consumers $ 200 billion extra by 2030.

* I been duped by big oil and / or right wing think tanks * I have opened my mind so wide to skeptics that my brains have fallen out * I'm in the pay of big oil or right wing think tanks * I'm being blackmailed * I have become either physically or mentally disabled

Then when you get criticized for making these attacks, conclude that big oil and the right wing think tanks are attacking the IPCC's detection and attribution arguments.

August 2, 2002 The Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow was one of a group of right - wing think tanks including Americans for Tax Reform, the American Enterprise Institute, and the Competitive Enterprise Institute who lobbied for President Bush to boycott the World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD) in Johannesburg.

Likewise, since before I ever became a skeptic, the establishment climate scientists and their supporters have been characterizing, ad infinitum, the skeptical community as shills of the oil industry and other large industrial concerns, and especially as paid - off pawns of right - wing think tanks and right - wing concerns.

Conservative MP Jason Kenney is a member, as are Brian Lee Crowley, head of the Atlantic Institute for Market Studies and Michel Kelly - Gagnon of the Montreal Economic Institute, the second and third most important right - wing think tanks after the Fraser Institute.

Monbiot's efforts to distinguish between good and bad science by fishing around for links on the Internet that hint at conspiracies between energy companies, right wing think tanks and fundamentalist Christians are by far the most desperate.

HuffPost has obtained a list of prominent climate - change deniers that the Heartland Institute, a right - wing think tank, assembled and submitted to the agency in May.

Appropriate climate credentials are not possessed by those who have positions in other fields, or who have only published in journals that are not respected peer - review climate journals, or who have not published anything in many years, or who only publish material for right - wing think tanks, or who have expertise only in non-climate-related fields, or who have no scientific expertise at all.

When the global warming deniers and delayers at right wing think tanks like the Hoover Institute agree with your analysis, you should start to ask yourself whether you really know what you're talking about.

As the head of the Regulatory Unit at the Institute for Public Affairs, a right - wing think tank with close ties to greenhouse sceptics, Moran's role has been to support the Government and the fossil fuel corporations with anti-environmental opinions about climate science, the costs of emission reductions and the pitfalls of renewable energy.

Environmentalists have long claimed that their desire to save the world has been thwarted by conspiracies of Big Oil and right - wing think - tanks.

They are often linked to right - wing think - tanks and some of them were also involved in trying to halt anti-smoking regulation by arguing that negative health effects of smoking were not proven.

In its opposition to the tariffs, the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) had not only the backing of the majority of the solar industry, but also enlisted the aid of right - wing think tanks including the Heritage Foundation and American Legislative Exchange Council, as well as a host of manufacturing interests and large energy consumers.

Owen Paterson, the sacked environment secretary, claims his new right - wing think tank UK2020 is not funded by the GM industry.

I encourage ETC to join the conversation constructively rather than sniping from the sidelines, misrepresenting the science and attacking climate scientists — leave that to the right - wing think tanks.

The Heartland Institute — the right - wing think tank that, after years of defending big tobacco through the lens of «smokers» rights,» has become a leading proponent of climate change denial — included Manuel on a spreadsheet of 205 scientists and economists submitted to the EPA in May for a planned red team - blue team exercise to debate the threat posed by climate change.

That disqualifies virtually all the major right - wing think tanks, both here and in the US.

Scientific Alliance are 200 sceptical scientists who have imported wholesale the views of right - wing think - tanks in the US.

Almost everybody can be said to be «brainwashed» either by the right wing or left wing think tanks.

Well so far, they only dirt they seem to have dug up is hurricane forecasting funded by an energy company, devastating criticisms in the blogosphere by the likes of Thingsbreak, and the possibility of some mythical relative with an involvement with a right wing think tank.

Laundering financial support through right - wing think tanks, they support a small number of loud climate science deniers along with right - wing libertarian media that trumpet this climate disinformation.

ExxonSecrets documents how climate deniers are funded through fossil fuel money laundered through right - wing think tanks:

Those damning words come not from any industry lobby or right - wing think - tank.

Much of Reagan's deregulatory and anti-environment agenda, including his proposals for cost - benefit analysis, was developed at the Heritage Foundation, a right - wing think tank, and implemented by ideologically - driven OIRA directors such as Christopher C. DeMuth and Wendy Lee Gramm.

This is because the source of political contamination was right wing think tanks that were worried that the scientific results might lead to regulation.

In their turn the ALG are linked to the so - called Australian Environment Foundation (AEF), an off - shoot of the right - wing think tank the pro-nuclear Institute of Public Affairs.

According to the Independent's investigation, Donors Trust has given significant funding to the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a right - wing think tank.

The only people saying that «alarmists» claim that the «science is settled» are right wing think tanks, like Cato, SEPP, and Friends of Science, and industry funded politicians like Inhofe.

Dummies Guide to the Latest «Hockey Stick» Controv Most climate change denial is normally left to nuts posting on the internet and the occasional bit of disinformation published by right wing think tanks and astroturf organisations.

There are far worse things being done by «scientists» with an agenda, already biased opinions that leapfrog onto anything they see as backing up their psychoses or appeasing their right - wing think - tank supporters.

and for some strange reasons, during debates about how to «bridge the gap between the sides in this debate, she came to the conclusion that «WattsupWiththat» and right wing think tanks are valuable sources.

# 3 Jennifer Marohasy is employed by an Australian extreme right wing think tank, whose job description seems to involve taking a contrarian view towards anything that suggests rampant laissez faire capitalism is not good for the environment.

NSCW was created in 2011 by the Gleason Family Foundation, which as the Media Matters report notes, also gives to a number of education privatization and Koch - affiliated anti-union groups and a number of right - wing think thanks.

ALEC convenes legislators, corporate lobbyists, and right - wing think tanks to vote as equals, behind closed doors, on «model bills» that benefit ALEC's corporate members, industry funders, and right - wing allies.

That department was then headed by Jay Greene, who until then had been in charge of a right wing think tank called the «Manhattan Institute.»

Accordingly, right - wing think tanks like the Mackinac Center for Public Policy, the Heartland Institute and the Acton Institute have in recent years published screeds denouncing «the command and control mentality» of «government schools» that are «prisons for poor children.»