Revealed: EPP-Linked Tax Group ‘Collaborated’ With Far-Right Party on Criminal Complaints

A taxpayers group with close ties to the European People’s Party (EPP) coordinated with Austria’s far-right in the latest escalation of the NGO funding debate, DeSmog can reveal. The Taxpayers Association of Europe (TAE) filed a criminal complaint with the EU’s top prosecutor on July 23, alleging that two former commissioners behind the EU Green Deal — Frans Timmermans […]

‘Don’t Patronize Us’: Data Center Charm Offensive Irks Opponents in Rural Georgia

On a Thursday morning in late August, Georgia country music radio station The Bear 92.5 FM awarded a 10-minute spot to a special guest. Phoning in to the Half & Half Morning Show was J.C. Witt, an executive of San Francisco-based Prologis (NYSE:PLD), the world’s largest industrial real estate company. Prologis wants to build “Project Sail” — […]

Reform’s New Board Members: What Have They Said About Climate Change?

After skipping Parliament’s return from recess this week, Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has flown back from Washington DC to kick off his party’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 Alberta’s Expensive, Ideological War on Renewable Energy

“This is what happens when ideology runs the power grid,” said Alberta Premier Danielle Smith in July 2023 when asked about the province’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 […]

Reform’s Decision to Ban Journalists from Conference Branded ‘Shocking’ by Press Freedom Watchdog

A leading press freedom group has accused Reform UK of drawing from the “authoritarian playbook” 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 year’s event. It did not offer an explanation. The New World […]

Meet the UN-backed ‘green’ investors’ group that invested in fossil fuels

Launched in 2020, the Net Zero Asset Managers initiative committed its members to “supporting the goal of net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 or sooner, in line with global efforts to limit warming to 1.5°C.” 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 Farage’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 Trump’s administration, which has called human-induced climate change a “delusion”. The conference will also play host to Net Zero Watch, the campaign arm of the […]

M&S Shelled Out on GB News Ads as Broadcaster’s Owner Bet on the Retailer’s Failure

Marks and Spencer (M&S) continued to advertise on GB News even while the broadcaster’s boss was betting against the company, DeSmog can reveal. Since the start of the year, Marshall Wace – the hedge fund owned by GB News’ proprietor Paul Marshall – has been shorting M&S, one of the UK’s most trusted brands. Shorting […]

Scores of Climate Experts Condemn Trump Climate Report as ‘Junk Science’

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

Mark Carney’s 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 Lloyd’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 “vast […]