Koch Brothers Exposed: Watch Free Documentary on the Fifth Anniversary of Citizens United
Today marks five years since the U.S. Supreme Court ruled the wrong way on the Citizens United case, allowing unlimited spending by corporations in elections. Protesters in Washington spent the morning disrupting the Supreme Court to register their frustration with the ruling, yelling “overturn Citizens United!” from the back of the courtroom. In case you haven’t […]
Obama Vows To Fight For Climate Policies In State Of The Union But What He Didn’t Mention Was Just As Telling
President Barack Obama could not have signaled more clearly in his 2015 State of the Union address that he intends to fight for his legacy on climate change in the face of a hostile, anti-science GOP-led House and Senate. But it was what the President didn’t mention that could negate his climate legacy: free trade […]
Britain's First Climate Denier Was Bag Carrier for Oil Baron Charles Koch
DeSmog UK’s epic history series continues with a peek into the intimate friendship between free-market libertarian John Blundell and the Koch brothers. “Without… Charles and David Koch… without their far-sighted commitment, we would not be here today and we would not be witnessing a world-wide move toward freedom and free markets,” John Blundell once wrote. The free-market […]
Low Prices Driving Record U.S. Crude Oil Exports Despite Crude Oil Export Ban
“Are you more desperate to get a better deal when you’re poor? I guess you are.” That was John Auers, executive vice president of oil industry consulting firm Turner Mason & Company, describing the oil industry as being “poor” and “desperate” to Bloomberg. As the oil industry cries poverty due to low oil prices in […]
Why Does Ridley Still Mine Coal If He Could Make More Money From Renewables?
BY BRENDAN MONTAGUE, KYLA MANDEL AND RICHARD HEASMAN Lord Ridley, a landed aristocrat and prominent climate denier, will earn an estimated £4.1 million each year from opencast coal mines on his Blagdon Estate with income guaranteed until 2020, a DeSmog UK investigation has found. The British peer and author of the Rational Optimist has a total […]
Social Cost Of Carbon Drastically Underestimated: Report
The U.S. government could be drastically underestimating how much climate change is going to cost us, according to a study published by Stanford researchers in the journal Nature Climate Change. The researchers concluded that the Obama Administration is using a Social Cost of Carbon estimate that may be just one-sixth of the true cost—and that […]
Yet Another Record Breaking Hot Year 'Does Not Bode Well for Civilisation' Says NASA
Scientists confirmed this week that 2014 was the hottest year on record with global temperatures undermining claims from climate deniers that global warming is not a serious threat to civilisation. Both NOAA and NASA have confirmed last year was the hottest year since the invention of the thermometer; National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) says temperatures […]
Tory Keeps Schtum About Oil Investment During Parliamentary Climate Change Debate. Guess What Happened Next…
Conservative MP Peter Lilley failed to disclose a financial interest in Asian oil company Tethys Petroleum during two parliamentary debates on the Climate Change Act and energy prices, profits and poverty. The self-described ‘global lukewarmist’ is a non-executive director of Tethys Petroleum. He argues that because the company operates solely in Central Asia his position at […]
That Time a Tobacco Tycoon Halved Funding to a Think Tank That Dared Fire His Chosen Boss
DeSmog UK’s epic history series recounts the moment when John Blundell was recruited into Antony Fisher’s free-market think tank, the Institute of Economic Affairs. The free-market libertarian John Blundell (pictured) was at home in Fairfax, Virginia, when late one afternoon he received a phone call from his old friend Mike Fisher, the younger son of Antony […]
DeSmogCAST 8: Oilsands Tailings Ponds, UK Drilling Imperative and Skeptics vs. Deniers
In today’s January 15, 2015 episode DeSmogCAST host Farron Cousins joins DeSmoggers Carol Linnitt, Kyla Mandel, and Mike Gaworecki to discuss Canada’s efforts to prevent a NAFTA-led investigation into the management of Alberta’s oilsands tailings ponds. We also discuss a clause in the UK‘s new Infrastructure Bill that mandates efforts to “maximize economic recovery of UK […]