Reformโ€™s New Board Members: What Have They Said About Climate Change?

After skipping Parliamentโ€™s return from recess this week, Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has flown back from Washington DC to kick off his partyโ€™s annual conference today in Birmingham. DeSmog has been banned from the event, which will be packed full of climate science deniers, anti-vaccine activists, and dark money lobby groups. One agenda item […]

Understanding Albertaโ€™s Expensive, Ideological War on Renewable Energy

President Donald Trump (left) and Alberta Premier Danielle Smith (right)

โ€œThis is what happens when ideology runs the power grid,โ€ said Alberta Premier Danielle Smith in July 2023 when asked about the provinceโ€™s sky-high electricity rates. Smith was attempting to cast blame on renewable energy policies of the former New Democratic Party government that had left office more than four years earlier. Just one month later the premier […]

Meet the UN-backed ‘green’ investorsโ€™ group that invested in fossil fuels

Launchedย in 2020, theย Net Zero Asset Managersย initiative committed its members to โ€œsupporting the goal of net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 or sooner, in line with global efforts to limit warming to 1.5ยฐC.โ€ Over 230 firms signed up to it, including European ones such as Germany’s DWS, the Netherlands’ Robeco, France’s AXA, and Italy’s Eurizon. Some […]

Climate Deniers to Converge on Reform Conference

Nigel Farageโ€™s Reform UK is hosting a number of radical anti-climate groups at its conference this weekend, DeSmog can report. They include the Heartland Institute, a group close to Donald Trumpโ€™s administration, which has called human-induced climate change a โ€œdelusionโ€. The conference will also play host to Net Zero Watch, the campaign arm of the […]

Scores of Climate Experts Condemn Trump Climate Report as โ€˜Junk Scienceโ€™

A growing memorial of wooden crosses lines the banks of the Guadalupe River in Kerr County, part of a riverside installation by Dallas artist Roberto Marquez to honor the more than 100 victims of Central Texasโ€™s deadly Julyโ€ฏ4 flash floods. The crosses โ€” some fashioned from debris swept up by the torrent of the Guadalupe River โ€” stand against the backdrop of its surging waters, the sound of rushing currents filling the air as the community continues to mourn and search for those still missing.

A group of more than 85 climate experts today released a scathing review of the Trump administrationโ€™s “Climate Working Group” report on climate change science, condemning it as โ€œbiased, full of errors, and not fit to inform policymaking.โ€ The reviewers include MacArthur โ€œGeniusโ€ Fellows, a half-dozen members of the National Academy of Sciences, Royal Society […]

Mark Carneyโ€™s Climate Warning from 2015 and the Perils of Pragmatism

Two side-by-side photos of Mark Carney as prime minister (left) and as Bank of England governor (right)

On Sept. 29, 2015, then-Bank of England Governor Mark Carney strode to the podium at Lloydโ€™s of London and delivered a landmark speech on the threat of climate change to the financial sector, insurance industry and the world in general.  To avoid catastrophic consequences, Carney urged governments and business leaders to recognize that the โ€œvast […]

Meet the Canadian Aiding Trumpโ€™s ‘Insane’ War on Climate Science

A black-and-white photo of a light-skinned middle-aged man against an orange background.

This story is being published in collaboration with The Tyee, an award-winning independent media outlet based in BC.  A controversial report published this summer by the U.S. Department of Energy that alleges humans may not be the primary cause of climate change is being cited by the Donald Trump administration to abolish regulations on the […]