Atlas Shrugs as Exxon Launches New Blitz of False Prophets

onFeb 7, 2010 @ 08:37 PST

An orchestrated campaign is being waged against climate change science to undermine public acceptance of man-made global warming, environment experts. Free-market, anti-climate change think-tanks such as the Atlas Economic Research Foundation in the US and the International Policy Network in the UK have received grants totalling hundreds of thousands of pounds from the multinational energy company ExxonMobil. Both organisations have funded international seminars pulling together climate change deniers from across the globe.

By Ross Gelbspan

us/Tribal Leaders Raise ‘Serious Concerns’ About Plans to Turn Their Shrinking Louisiana Island Home Into a ‘Sportsman’s Paradise’

ByNathan Jessee

onJul 23, 2021 @ 10:42 PDT

After a long state and federal push to relocate the Indigenous people of Isle de Jean Charles from their threatened homeland, new recreational development around the island risks further colonial displacement.

uk/Boris Johnson ‘Missing in Action’ Ahead of COP26 Climate Summit, Say Campaigners

ByXindi Wei

onJul 23, 2021 @ 05:41 PDT

Protesters in Parliament Square this morning said the government was failing to show enough leadership in the run-up to the UN summit, due to start in Glasgow in 100 days.

European Business Groups Voice Support for New ‘Fit for 55’ Climate Agenda While Lobbying to Water It Down

ByNick Cunningham

onJul 22, 2021 @ 17:06 PDT

A new report finds that powerful lobbying associations in Europe almost uniformly support 2050 net-zero targets but are seeking to weaken the policies needed to get there.