Sentences with phrase «wing think tanks»

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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:

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

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.

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.

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.

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.»

Other funders include the Walton Family Foundation, and the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, and the Scaife Foundation — all big supporters of right - wing think tanks and school privatization advocacy groups.

And this is what's reinvigorated the opposition movement, which was frankly before just a fringe of far - right - wing think tanks and groups like this, but now has become reinvigorated by the tea party's interest in this and by interest that has arisen in the anti-testing crowd.

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

It's no different from the irresponsible scare tactics right - wing think tanks use.»

The Lib Dem leader is keen to use his drug policy to win back votes from young people he may have lost over tuition fees, but there's a price to be paid for that and the Daily Mail and right - wing think tanks are intent on making sure he pays it.

A report last week suggested two right - wing think tanks, Civitas and Policy Exchange, are pushing for Ofsted to be reformed or scrapped.

His comments come a week after another former Ofsted boss Sir Michael Wilshaw said he was «spitting blood» at the idea that right - wing think tanks could criticise the school standards watchdog.

What are we seeing in our country today?It is no secret that plans are being made in right wing think tanks and some law firms, within the elephants media and among Npp leaders to bring back to life the 18th century notion that the heavenly prescribed duty of the opposition is to obstruct government business and to incite the public against the establishment.

But the right wing think tanks know this, these fundamentalists are visible to the think tanks and policy makers, they are just invisible to the masses here in the West.

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.

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.

In passing in the penultimate paragraph of a 1000 word piece, I quote Shiraz Maher saying that an investigation he has done into misogynist, racist, anti-semitic, anti-democratic and anti-enlightenment groups would not have been published by a left - wing think tank, which is true, in my view.

It comes after reports that right - wing think tank Civitas has urged the Government to create a new body to inspect free schools and academies.

That's according to the Tax Foundation, once derided as a «right - wing think tank» by a top aide to Gov. Andrew Cuomo, which gave credit to changes made in the 2014 - 15 budget to the state's corporate tax structure that reduce the rate and simplified the code.

«Top Cuomo staffers have called the Tax Foundation a «right - wing think tank,» and that's accurate.

«It's not a shock that a right - wing think tank would use a flawed report to oppose paying an honest day's pay for an honest day's work and to protect a status quo that has starved New York's infrastructure needs for generations,» spokesman Rich Azzopardi said in prepared remarks.

Never mind that only two years ago, a top Cuomo aide knocked the organization as a right - wing think tank.

When the foundation attacked New York as uncompetitive in 2013, Cuomo's top aide denounced it as a «right - wing think tank.»

Labor - backed groups who oppose the foundation cried foul, and noted that Schwartz denounced the group as a right - wing think tank when it set New York's ranking at 50th.

Shortly after accepting an «Outstanding Achievement in State Tax Reform» award from the Washington, D.C. - based Tax Foundation — which Mr. Cuomo's Secretary Larry Schwartz once called a «right - wing think tank» that manipulated data — the governor lavished praise on the current state legislature, which he credited with helping move New York State up in the Foundation's corporate tax rankings from number 25 to number four out of all 50 states.

She is the Chair of the Fabian Society, Britain's oldest left wing think tank, and a Council Member of the Electoral Reform Society.

After its latest report, Schwartz blasted the Tax Foundation, saying it was «a right - wing think tank that has a personal word view and manipulates data to support that world view.»

ALBANY — A top aide to Governor Andrew Cuomo has been consulting with the Tax Foundation — a Washington - based organization the administration once denounced as a «right - wing think tank» — as lawmakers consider a number of tax cuts in the state budget.