Exposed: Two Funders of Lord Lawson's Climate Denial Charity Linked to Energy Industry
Lord Lawsonโs climate denial charity has accepted secret donations from a consultant who worked for the nuclear industry and a wealthy Tory peer who claims to have been the first person in Britain to have built subsidised windย farms. An investigation by DeSmog UK has identified two funders of the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) who […]
Media Coverage of Climate Science Is Stunting Climate Action, Especially in US
The UNโs Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change plays an enormous role in shaping how climate science gets translated into policy in countries around the world, but so does the media. A new report finds that, while the IPCC could have managed the rollout of its Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) better, lack of compelling coverage, especially […]
DeSmog UK Weekly Round-Up: Tory Donor Exposed as Climate Denier
Busy week last week? Catch up on all the news you may have missed with our DeSmog dispatch over your morning cup of coffee (or afternoon, we don’t judge). And sign up here to receive our round-up viaย email. Last week a megamerger was announced between Shell and BG Group. So, we took a look at […]
Wisconsin Climate Change Gag Order Part of Broader Industry-Tied Attacks on Science
On April 7, Wisconsin’s Board of Commissioners of Public Lands voted 2-1 to ban those employed by the agency from doing any work pertaining to climate change or global warming while doing public lands relatedย work. Although the story was covered by multiple media outlets, lost in the public discussion so far is how the vote […]
DeSmogCAST 14: Canada's Silenced Scientists, Tanker Train Industry Fights and Coal's Climate Secret
In this episode of DeSmogCAST host Farron Cousins discusses DeSmog Canada’s recently unsuccessful attempt to interview an Environment Canada scientist. ย Steve Horn from DeSmogBlog gives the background story to the in-fighting between oil refiners and tanker train operators who don’t want to pay extra to transport dangerous fuels like Bakkan oil or diluted bitumen […]
Revealed: Climate Denier Neil Record Backs Tory Energy and Climate Change Minister Matthew Hancock
Conservative energy and climate change minister Matthew Hancock has accepted ยฃ18,000 in donations from climate sceptic Neil Record it has been revealed today by the Guardian. Neil Record, a City currency manager and trustee of the free market Institute of Economic Affairs, was exposed by DeSmog UK last September as a key backer of Nigel […]
Why Did Scotlandโs First Minister Meet with Pro-Fracking Firm Ineos the Same Day Scotland Announced a Moratorium?
Scotlandโs First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon, is facing mounting criticism after it was revealed that she met with pro-fracking Ineos chairman Jim Ratcliffe on the same day that Scotland announced a moratorium onย fracking. The January 28 meeting between Sturgeon and Ratcliffe coincided with a U-turn from Ineos.ย Just 48 hours prior, the firm had spoken out […]
Chevron Whistleblower Videos Show Deliberate Falsification Of Evidence In Ecuador Oil Pollution Trial
Chevron has already lost the lawsuit filed against the company by a group of Indigenous villagers and rural Ecuadorians who say Texaco, which merged with Chevron in 2001, left behind hundreds of open, unlined pits full of toxic oil waste it had dug into the floor of the Amazon rainforest. That hasnโt stopped the oil […]
Mark Serwotka: Trade Unions and the Environmental Movement are Natural Allies
The trade union movement and the environmental movement should be โtogether like hand in glove, they should be allies,โ argues Mark Serwotka, the General Secretary of the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) โ the trade union for British civilย servants. We should watch out for those who try to divide us and try to get […]
Fracking Flack And Climate Denier David Blackmon Paid To Attack Drilling Regulations
This is a guest post by Jesse Coleman and originally appeared on the Greenpeace blog.ย Inside Climate News has revealed that a key leader of oil and gas industry front groups that oppose new fracking regulations may have been playing both sides of the issue. In an investigation into the funding of the Environmental Defense […]