UKIP Leader Has ‘No Idea’ About Climate Change as 2014 is set to be Warmest on Record
Nigel Farage said he has “no idea” whether he believes in global warming last night during a Leaders Live event hosted by voter engagement group, Bite the Ballot. The UK Independence Party (UKIP) leader’s comments come as the Met Office announces that 2014 is on course to be the hottest year on record – adding that […]
The Kochtopus Spreads its Tentacles To Strangle Climate Science
DeSmog UK tells the story of how the ideologically matched and politically inseparable Blundell and Dr Fred Singer became close and controversial allies, in our epic history series. One evening John Blundell arrived at the Hickory Farm neighbourhood watch meeting in Virginia, and to his surprise discovered he was living close to Dr S Fred […]
Coal Giant Peabody Energy Denies Social Media Poverty Campaign Is Bogus
On the fringes of Brisbane’s G20 summit inside the Queensland capital’s grand city hall, Peabody Energy president Glenn Kellow made a remarkable claim. Almost half a million people in countries across the globe had supported his coal company’s PR campaign to urge the world to act on “energy poverty”, claimed Kellow. Kellow was referring to the company’s […]
Hard Times in a Boom Town: Pennsylvanians Describe Costs of Fracking
If you’re looking for the shale gas boom, northeastern Pennsylvania is the place to start. The Marcellus is the largest and fastest growing shale gas play in the U.S. and more than half of its 50 most productive wells were drilled in Susquehanna County in the northeast. Susquehanna and neighboring Bradford County produced 41 percent of […]
State Department Keystone XL Contractor ERM Bribed Chinese Agency to Permit Project
Environmental Resources Management (ERM Group), the consultancy selected by TransCanada to conduct the environmental review for Keystone XL‘s northern leg on behalf of the U.S. State Department, is no stranger to scandal. Exhibit A: ERM once bribed a Chinese official to ram through major pieces of an industrial development project. ERM was tasked to push through the […]
What Can We Expect From the Lima Climate Talks?
The pressure is on for leaders to move forward on climate change as delegates descend into Peru for the two-week UN climate change conference in Lima today. Diplomats are calling these negotiations “the best chance in a generation of striking a deal on global warming” according to the Guardian, with the US and China’s commitment […]
Obama’s Argument Against Keystone XL Pokes Holes in Industry's Argument to Lift Crude Oil Export Ban
Larry Summers, former secretary of the treasury and top economic advisor to President Barack Obama, has strongly advocated to lift the crude oil export ban. And he has a compelling, if not necessarily fact-based, argument. “Permitting the exports of oil will actually reduce the price of gasoline,” Summers told an audience at the Brookings Institute on […]
McIntyre's Mission: An Obsessive Quest to Disprove Michael Mann's Hockey Stick
There is no better way to describe self-appointed climate auditor Steve McIntyre than ‘determined’. Highly determined even. And you would have to be pretty obstinate to try and poke holes in peer-reviewed climate science given that McIntyre claims he does not receive a salary signed by Big Oil. As author of the sceptic blog Climate Audit, […]
Blundell: The Missing Link Between Oil Baron Charles Koch and British Climate Denial
John Blundell is welcomed into the inner circle of the Koch elite at at time of inner-family squabbling and political scandal. He soon gains insight into an empire run by obsession and apparent deception. This is part two of DeSmog UK’s history of Blundell and Charles Koch. Blundell was offered a well paid job at the […]
Walmart’s Reliance On Dirty Energy Responsible For 8 Million Metric Tons of Carbon Pollution Per Year
Recent revelations that the Walton Family, majority owners of Walmart, are funding attacks against the rooftop solar industry called into question the big-box retailer’s very public “100% renewable energy” commitment. A new report by the Institute on Local Self-Reliance (ILSR) documenting Walmart’s massive carbon emissions is likely to add even more fuel to that fire. […]