Reformโs New Board Members: What Have They Said About Climate Change?
 
After skipping Parliamentโs return from recess this week, Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has flown back from Washington DC to kick off his partyโs 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 Albertaโs Expensive, Ideological War on Renewable Energy
 
โThis is what happens when ideology runs the power grid,โ said Alberta Premier Danielle Smith in July 2023 when asked about the provinceโs 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 […]
Reformโs Decision to Ban Journalists from Conference Branded โShockingโ by Press Freedom Watchdog
 
A leading press freedom group has accused Reform UK of drawing from the โauthoritarian playbookโ by blocking media outlets from attending its annual conference this weekend. The party informed DeSmog and the New World yesterday that its journalists would not be accredited for this yearโs event. It did not offer an explanation. The New World […]
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 โsupporting 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 Farageโs 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 Trumpโs administration, which has called human-induced climate change a โdelusionโ. The conference will also play host to Net Zero Watch, the campaign arm of the […]
M&S Shelled Out on GB News Ads as Broadcasterโs Owner Bet on the Retailerโs Failure
 
Marks and Spencer (M&S) continued to advertise on GB News even while the broadcasterโs boss was betting against the company, DeSmog can reveal. Since the start of the year, Marshall Wace โ the hedge fund owned by GB Newsโ proprietor Paul Marshall โ has been shorting M&S, one of the UKโs most trusted brands. Shorting […]
Scores of Climate Experts Condemn Trump Climate Report as โJunk Scienceโ
 
A group of more than 85 climate experts today released a scathing review of the Trump administrationโs “Climate Working Group” report on climate change science, condemning it as โbiased, full of errors, and not fit to inform policymaking.โ The reviewers include MacArthur โGeniusโ Fellows, a half-dozen members of the National Academy of Sciences, Royal Society […]
Mark Carneyโs Climate Warning from 2015 and the Perils of Pragmatism
 
On Sept. 29, 2015, then-Bank of England Governor Mark Carney strode to the podium at Lloydโs 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 โvast […]
Meet the Canadian Aiding Trumpโs ‘Insane’ War on Climate Science
 
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 […]
 
				