Pope "Mic Drop" Video Might Be Best Commentary On Climate Encyclical Yet
We’ve already seen Pope Francis cast as an action hero in an epic movie trailer for his encyclical on climate justice, but this might be the best take yet: The Pope gets up on stage to drop a few rhymes โ and the mic โ at an otherwise dull open mic night. โCynical about my […]
Who's Behind the Attack on the Pope's Climate Encyclical?
It is an open secret now that Pope Francis will deliver a papal encyclical on June 18 focusing heavily on the issue of energy consumption, climate change and โthe unprecedented destruction of the ecosystem.โย ย And of course with any major public event on climate change, the same small and very vocal group of climate change […]
Popeโs Climate Encyclical Gets An Epic Movie Trailer As Climate Science Deniers Scramble To Attack the Pope
Pope Francis will officially unveil his encyclical on climate change and human stewardship of the environment this Thursday, which can mean only one thing. The Koch Brothers and other fossil fuel interests have failed in their attempts to thwart the Popeโs call for climate action andย justice. Joe Bast, president of the anti-science Heartland Instituteย who never […]
How an ExxonMobil-Funded Think Tank Took Over a Scientific Journal
This epic history series post reveals how the ExxonMobil-funded International Policy Network think tank took over a scientific publication as โguestย editorโ. The real coup de grรขce for Julian Morris came in 2005, when he persuaded his friend and fellow sceptic, Sonja Boehmer-Christiansen, (pictured) to allow staff at his UK think tank, the International Policy Network […]
UK Climate Deniers Invite American Sceptic Judith Curry to Speak in the House of Lords
Lord Lawsonโs climate denial charity, the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), invited climate sceptic Judith Curry, a professor of School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at the Georgia Institute of Technology, to speak in the House of Lords onย Monday. The organisation, which DeSmog UK has revealed to be supported by several Conservative Party donors, invited […]
That Time When an International Free Market Think Tank Attacked The Kyoto Protocol
This DeSmog UK epic history post looks at how Julian Morrisโs free market think tank spread its influence in its attack on the Kyotoย Protocol. The free marketeer, Julian Morris, and his team at his International Policy Network (IPN) think tank continued to lead the charge against climate science in the autumn of 2003 โ all […]
Want More U.S. Jobs? Enforce Carbon Pollution Limits
One of the main talking points that Republicans use to bash environmental protections is that theyโll cost us too many jobs.ย That is one of their main complaints about the new carbon emissions standards for power plants.ย They believe that if we put limits on the amount of greenhouse gases that these coal-fired power plants […]
Right-wing Circles Angry but Pope's Climate Intervention Makes Complete Sense
This is a guest post by Charles J. Reid Jr., professor of law at the University of St.ย Thomas. It is a line repeated with tiresome regularity in right-wing circles: Pope Francis has no business proposing solutions to the crisis of global climate change. He is not a scientist, they say. He should stick to morals […]
Meet the 15 Fossil Fuel Giants Behind the Controversial Law to Maximise UK Oil and Gas Extraction
Shell, BP, Total UK and Centrica are just a few of the 15 oil and gas companies courted by the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) to help implement the Wood Review recommendation to maximise the economic recovery of UK petroleum (MER UK) โ a policy which is now law under the Infrastructure Act. […]
Obamaโs Bipolar Approach To Energy And Climate Change
With less than two years to go in office, President Obama has already sealed his fate with regards to his legacy on climateย change. When historians look back and assess his actions on what could be one of the biggest issues of his presidency, they will undoubtedly be using the term โdisappointingโ quite aย bit. The main […]