Heartland Institute 58 Experts Poster Remixed by DeSmog, Willie Soon Among Denialist Dozens
With the news of Willie Soon’s fossil-fuel-funded career featured on the front page of The New York Times on Sunday, there’s no time like the present to take a look at all of Soon’s friends in the anti-science climate denial echo chamber. Where to begin? Well, the climate denial think tank Heartland Institute graciously created a poster of […]
Anti-Science Associations: Rand Paul, Jane Orient, Art Robinson, Willie Soon And Friends, Plus HHS Nominee Tom Price & Funder Robert Mercer
Update 11/30/16 Tom Price, Donald Trump’s nominee to run Health and Human Services was(is?) an AAPS Member, discussed in far more detail by Orac in this recommended 11/30/16 post. Update 12/01/16 A year ago, Zachary Mider wrote What Kind of Man Spends Millions to Elect Ted Cruz? about Robert Mercer, who then strongly backed Donald Trump’s […]
How Often Were Willie Soon’s Industry-Funded “Deliverables” Referenced by the IPCC?
Thanks to a bombshell investigation reported over the weekend by The New York Times, The Guardian, Inside Climate News and more, we now know that the prominent climate denialist Willie Soon, oft-cited by climate denying politicians and industry figures, calls his publications “deliverables” to his fossil fuel funders. Some of these “deliverables” have even found their way into […]
Labour Leader Ed Miliband's Plan for the Paris Climate Deal
This is a cross-post from Carbon Brief Prospective UK prime minister Ed Miliband has set out his vision for a global climate deal, in an article for the Observer newspaper. The Labour leader’s article says tackling climate change would be one of his highest priorities as prime minister, calling it an “economic necessity” and the “single most important thing […]
Climate Denyin' Scientist Willie Soon Says 'I'm Lovin' It'…
Climate scientists tempted by the millions of dollars paid by the oil industry to researchers who happen to come up with the right conclusions have been warned – you would be better off flipping burgers. Willie Soon, a researcher at the Harvard-Smithsonian Centre for Astrophysics, has accepted cash from the oil baron Koch brothers, oil behemoth […]
What You've Always Been Getting Wrong About Big Tobacco Funding Climate Deniers
The DeSmog UK epic history series marches on as Roger Bate continues to court the tobacco industry. He was a man on a mission. This is part two of an epic history double-feature. Vickie Curtis, a Cambridge science graduate who worked under Keith Gretton in the corporate communications department at British American Tobacco (BAT), was […]
Four Years After Greenpeace Sting: PR Firm Dumps Oil Lobbyists
Crossposted from PolluterWatch. Perhaps you heard the good news – the world’s largest public relations firm, Edelman, just spun off an advertising subsidiary so that it could show a commitment to not aiding the denial of climate change science. The Guardian explains how API‘s contracts with Edelman were so massive–tens of millions of dollars–that it […]
Sued by Chesapeake Energy for Stealing Trade Secrets, Aubrey McClendon Hires PR Giant Edelman
Chesapeake Energy has sued its former CEO, Aubrey McClendon, for allegedly stealing its trade secrets in the months between his resignation and the formation of his new company, American Energy Partners. To defend itself outside of the courtroom, American Energy Partners has hired Edelman, the ‘world’s largest’ and often controversial public relations firm. Filed on February 17 at […]
How Can Cameron Stop Fracking Causing Earthquakes? Easy. Change the Definition of Fracking..
David Cameron’s government has snuck a new definition of fracking onto the statute books – allowing hydraulic fracturing for shale gas to take place outside the new regulatory regime. Cuadrilla’s exploratory fracking, which caused two earthquakes in 2011 at Preese Hall in Lancashire, would not be classified as hydraulic fracturing under the new official definition set out in the controversial Infrastructure […]
Company Presses Forward on Plans to Ship Fracking Wastewater via Barge in Ohio River, Drawing Objections from Locals
A major dispute is brewing over transporting wastewater from shale gas wells by barge in the Ohio River, the source of drinking water for millions of Americans. On January 26, GreenHunter Water announced that it had been granted approval by the U.S. Coast Guard to haul tens of thousands of barrels from its shipping terminal and […]