Tim Yeo Just Called Out ‘Old, White, Male’ Tories For Not Accepting Climate Change
The UK Conservative party has a climate sceptic problem warns Tory MP Tim Yeo, current chair of the Commons’ Energy and Climate Change (ECC) committee. There is a strong minority of open climate sceptics in the Conservative party, Yeo told Leo Hickman, editor of Carbon Brief. This is mainly due to the party’s age profile, he […]
Fred Singer Recalls Silly Attack On Consensus And Naomi Oreskes By Klaus-Martin Schulte, Lord Monckton's Endocrinologist Front Man
By the 1950s, smoking’s cause of disease had risen to strong scientific consensus, but Big Tobacco needed an illusion of scientific controversy to keep the public in doubt. As seen in the new film Merchants of Doubt, they developed superb marketing tactics copied by others, including the fossil fuel industry and allies. The scientific consensus […]
Naomi Klein Calls for System Change to Address Climate and Inequality
A radically new economic and social system is urgently needed to tackle climate change and address intersecting social justice issues, the internationally bestselling author Naomi Klein told activists meeting in London today. “It’s not too late to get off the road, to grab the wheel of history and swerve,” the author of This Changes Everything told […]
What Are The Top 5 American Cities Best Poised To Reap The Benefits Of The Solar Boom?
Representatives from 30 European cities got together in Paris last week to formally commit themselves to reducing greenhouse gas emissions no less than 40% by 2030 — the same target set by the European Union’s climate change roadmap — and to call attention to the role major urban centers can play in combating global warming. […]
The Moment When Global Leaders Signed The Kyoto Protocol, And How Industry Responded
Our DeSmog UK epic history series recalls the moment when leaders from around the globe agreed to limit emissions under the Kyoto Protocol. Exxon boss, Lee Raymond‘s attempt to warn the developing world against signing the Kyoto Protocol – which would threaten his business – appeared to be unsuccessful. At 4am on the 11th December 1997, the […]
Texas-sized Dose of Hypocrisy Served Up To Local Governments Statewide in an Effort to Overturn Denton's Fracking Ban
On March 24, the Texas House of Representatives’ Energy Resources Committee passed a bill that would rescind the fracking ban in Denton and other efforts by local Texas municipalities to protect themselves from the oil and gas industry. Once language in the bill is finalized, which could happen today, the legislation will make its way to the full Texas Senate for a vote. […]
Industry-Stacked Energy Department Committee: Shale Running Dry, Let's Exploit the Arctic
A report assembled by an industry-centric US Department of Energy committee recommends the nation start exploiting the Arctic due to oil and gas shale basins running dry. In the just-submitted report, first obtained by the Associated Press, the DOE‘s National Petroleum Council — many members of which are oil and gas industry executives — concludes that oil and […]
Industry-Funded Taskforce for Shale Gas Just Published Its First Report. This Is How People Reacted
The industry-backed Taskforce for Shale Gas has just published its first report. But as Ben Lucas, MA Investigative Journalist student at City University, finds, the reaction from local communities and industry shows it may have missed the mark. This week, the Taskforce for Shale Gas published its first interim report, calling for a new single regulator […]
Dramatic UK Emission Drop Just a ‘Taste of What Could Be Achieved’
UK greenhouse gas emissions fell by 8.4 percent between 2013 and 2014, according to official figures released today by the Department for Energy and Climate Change (DECC). Carbon emissions fell by 9.7 percent. A 23 percent reduction in coal use and record warm temperatures were the main contributors to the decline in emissions. Continued falls in […]
'Greater Public Scrutiny' Needed of Secret US-EU Trade Negotiations, MPs Warn
The debate over the controversial Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) continues to suffer from a lack of transparency, warns a report by the UK Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) Committee. The secretive nature of the negotiations between the European Union and the United States on this major free trade deal has resulted in an “oversimplification […]