“The Key Was the Secret Campaign Cash, and it Should All be Traced…”
Lord Lawson is the latest leader in the long history of climate denial. In the past, such anti-science groups have been funded by industry. So where has Lawson got his £1million in funding? The concluding post in our inaugural series, An Honourable Man. There remains one incredibly important thing the public still does not know about […]
Safety of Citizens in Bomb Train Blast Zones in Hands of North Dakota Politicians
When North Dakota Congressman Kevin Cramer was asked recently if it was scientifically possible to make Bakken crude oil safer by stripping out the explosive natural gas liquids with a process like oil stabilization, his response was quite telling. “So scientifically can you do it? Sure, but you have to look at it holistically and consider […]
Federal Judge: BP's "Willful Misconduct," "Gross Negligence" Led To Deepwater Horizon Disaster
A federal judge in New Orleans minced no words in handing down a ruling this week that found BP‘s “willful misconduct” and “gross negligence” caused the worst offshore oil spill in U.S. history. The ruling is the result of a jury-less trial to determine who was at fault for the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster and […]
What Does Climate Adaptation Actually Look Like? Check Out This Awesome New Infographic Series from Cambridge
A new series looking at the likely impacts of climate change could help companies, politicians, financial planners, entrepreneurs, defence analysts and leaders of various industrial sectors learn how to adapt to the increasing pressures of global warming. Based on work already done by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability […]
‘The Donor is Well Known…A Person of Considerable Personal Wealth’
Find-A-Funder launched to encourage readers to investigate and reveal the name of seed donor to GWPF from clues in Charity Commission response to Freedom of Information requests > It’s like a crossword. Except more difficult. And significantly more important. The identity of the seed funder of Lord Lawson’s climate denial Global Warming Policy Foundation remains a […]
Heartland's Jay Lehr calls EPA "Fraudulent," Despite Defrauding EPA and Going to Jail
Crossposted from PolluterWatch blog on Jay Lehr. If you’re John Stossel and you want to host a segment to rail against the US Environmental Protection Agency, who ought you call? It turns out, a man who was convicted and sentenced to six months in prison for defrauding the EPA! Stossel’s guest last night, Jay Lehr, was […]
Shale Oil Drillers Deliberately Wasted Nearly $1 Billion in Gas, Harming Climate
In Texas and North Dakota, where an oil rush triggered by the development of new fracking methods has taken many towns by storm, drillers have run into a major problem. While their shale wells extract valuable oil, natural gas also rises from the wells alongside that oil. That gas could be sold for use for electrical […]
Climate Change Could Force Thousands From Small Islands in Less Than a Decade: UN
In less than a decade, climate change-induced sea level rise could force thousands of people to migrate from some small island developing states (SIDS), according to the executive director of the United Nations Environment Program. The world’s 52 small island developing states (SIDS) increasingly share sea level rise and other escalating environmental threats that are further […]
The Integrity of Science and the Politics of Integrity: Lawson v Jones
Lawson achieves his first major political victory by ensuring a powerful Parliamentary committee investigates ‘climategate’ in the second of our three part inaugural series, An Honourable Man. Lord Lawson was bathed in light as the cameras pulled to focus and proceedings began. Just three months after the founding of his climate denial foundation and he was […]
UK Scientist Unveils Plan to Make Renewables Cheaper Than Coal Within 10 Years
This is a guest post by Alex Kirby originally published by Climate News Network. Three weeks before the UN Secretary-General’s extraordinary meeting of world leaders in New York to tackle climate change, a leading British scientist unveils plans for a global low-carbon fund on a par with the Apollo Moon programme. There are prospects of significant progress […]