Lawson Stands By Academic William Happer Embroiled in Latest Oil Funded Denial Scandal
Lord Lawson has taken the extraordinary decision to stand by a โdistinguishedโ academic advisor to his charity who has become embroiled in a new scandal about climate denier groups being secretly funded by oilย companies. The former chancellor and chairman-for-life of the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) has dug in his heels after a member of […]
Amber Rudd Joins High Ambition Coalition as 1.5C Target Survives Another Day
BY KYLA MANDEL AND BRENDAN MONTAGUE IN PARIS Amber Rudd has joined a โhigh ambition coalitionโ along with the European Union during tense negotiations at the UNFCCC Paris climate change negotiations, which passed an important landmark thisย afternoon. A new draft of the international agreement was released by the French government just after 3pm and environment […]
Democrats Ignoring Climate Implications of Lifting Oil Export Ban – โWe Can Have Our Cake and Eat It Tooโ
Jason Bordoff wants to lift the oil export ban and has been actively working on this for the past two years. Which is odd if you believe that President Obama is against lifting the ban as the White House claims. Prior to Bordoffโs work to lift the oil export ban at Columbia Universityโs Center on […]
Why is Loss and Damage a Big Deal at the Paris Climate Talks?
The issue of loss and damage has emerged as one of the top issues for negotiators at the Paris climateย talks. Swedish and Bolivian ministers have beenย leading the discussions on loss and damage, trying to iron out theย issues. But big polluters and wealthy nations refuse to be held liable for compensating climate-vulnerable nations for future impacts […]
Lord Lawson Denier Charity Investigated As Advisor Accepts Cash from Coal Company
EXCLUSIVE by BRENDAN MONTAGUE in PARIS Lord Lawson’s climate denial charity the Global Warming Policy Foundation is helping a Charity Commission inquiry after one of its academic advisors was exposed as willing to author a report praising carbon dioxide while hiding donations from an oilย company.ย An undercover investigator from Greenpeace UK posed as a representative […]
Major Climate Science Denial Groups Offer to Hide Fossil Fuel Funding, Greenpeace Investigation Finds
An undercover investigation by environment group Greenpeace has found some of the worldโs most vocal climate science denial groups were willing to accept cash from fossil fuel interests in return for writing articles and reports that reject the impacts of greenhousesย gases. Greenpeace operatives posing as representatives of coal and oil companies were told that while […]
Climate Denialists in Paris Claim They Are Being Shut Out of COP21, While Shutting Out Journalists
Professional climate science deniers and delayers have been busy playing the victim card here at the Paris climate changeย talks. As we head into the guts of week two, negotiators at the vast Le Bourget venue are heading into the business end of agreeing a global deal to cut greenhouse gas emissions and stave off the […]
Heartland Institute Kicks Journalists Out of 'Public' Climate Denial Event in Paris
Accredited journalists were kicked out of a sparsely attended climate denial conference hosted by the US oil-and tobacco-funded Heartland Institute today inย Paris. Heartland’s โDay of Examining the Dataโ event was repeatedly advertised as open to the public and media. However the freedom-of-speech espousing think tank had French security guards from the Hotel California outside the […]
Prankster Protesters Posing as Coal Profiteers Punk Climate Denial-a-Palooza
BY BRENDAN MONTAGUE AND KYLA MANDEL IN PARIS Coral Bleach, from the Billionaire United Mining Services, arrived this morning at the Heartland Institute‘s much vaunted Day of Examining Data repleat with an emerald-studed hard hat, high-viz jacket, and furs. But her excitement soon turned toย dissapointment. The fearless champions of freedom of speech at the Chicago-based […]
Heat on EPA as National Study on Fracking's Risks to Drinking Water is Challenged
The Environmental Protection Agency’s draft national assessment on fracking‘s potential to pollute drinking water is still under review. If it is to reflect science over policy, some dramatic changes to the wording of the study’s conclusions are needed, EPA‘s review panel was told during a public comment teleconference onย Thursday. Back in 2010, when Congress first […]
