Are Europe’s Farmers Protesting Green Reforms? It’s Complicated
Across France, Italy and Belgium last week thousands of farmers descended on capital cities to express their deep discontent with the European food system. The scenes were dramatic. Parked tractors brought traffic to a standstill in Paris, and on Thursday burning piles of hay and debris sent up huge, dark plumes of smoke in Brussels. The […]
How the Oil Industry Indefinitely Delays Cleaning Up Oil and Gas Wells in California
A new report from the Sierra Club has found that more than 40,000 unplugged oil and gas wells are sitting idle across California — potentially leaking planet-warming gas and unsafe chemicals, but no longer actively extracting fossil fuels. In theory, it shouldn’t be possible to leave so many wells in that neglected state. Companies that […]
New Liz Truss Faction ‘Pops’ With Climate Science Denial and Fossil Fuel Ties
Liz Truss’s new ‘Popular Conservatism’ faction of the Conservative Party launched today with attacks on net zero targets and environmental bodies, using the playbook established by libertarian lobby groups. The self-styled PopCons included politicians critical of climate policies and science, including Lord Frost, who is a director of the climate science denial Global Warming Policy […]
Jordan Peterson’s New Online School Will Be Rife with Climate Crisis Deniers
Over a dozen instructors associated with a new online school called Peterson Academy, created by Canadian conservative influencer Jordan Peterson, have disputed the existence of a climate emergency, or opposed solutions that could address dangerous levels of warming. Their taped two-hour lectures for the venture will be part of its offerings if and when it […]
Mann’s Lawyers Challenge Climate Denier in Defamation Trial
Last week, Rand Simberg took the stand in a dark-paneled Washington, D.C., court room to defend himself in the defamation suit brought against him by the scientist he targeted, University of Pennsylvania researcher Michael Mann.
This Psychologist is Bringing A New Lens to the Climate Crisis
As the climate crisis intensifies, more employees of polluting industries, and the consultancies, media, advertising and financial firms that serve them, are waking up to a dilemma: Stay, and feel complicit in the death and destruction; or go, and risk losing status, income, and a sense of security. As a UK-based climate psychologist, Steffi Bednarek […]
DeSmog Remembers Ross Gelbspan, Who Inspired Our Founding
The DeSmog team was saddened to learn of the recent death of Ross Gelbspan, to whom we all owe a debt of gratitude and appreciation for his intrepid commitment to exposing those who made the climate crisis worse through their actions to deny the science and delay solutions. Without Ross Gelbspan, DeSmog may have never […]
Tory Lord’s Firm Awarded New North Sea Oil and Gas Licences
A company whose largest shareholder is a former Conservative treasurer and major party donor has been awarded two new North Sea exploration licences, DeSmog can reveal. It was announced on Wednesday (31 January) that Deltic Energy had been awarded the new licences in the latest North Sea oil and gas licensing round. Conservative peer Michael […]
Research Undermines Claims that Soil Carbon Can Offset Livestock Emissions
A recent study has found it is currently “not feasible” for the global livestock industry to sequester enough carbon to cancel out its planet-warming emissions — and that policy efforts geared toward that goal may be deeply misguided. The study, which was published in the journal Nature Communications, shows that 135 gigatons — or 135 […]
Revealed: Reform Party Accepts £10k Donation from Disgraced Financier Crispin Odey
The climate sceptic party Reform UK accepted £10,000 from a former Conservative Party donor who has been accused by more than a dozen women of sexual misconduct, DeSmog can reveal. The donation was made last August by Crispin Odey, a British hedge fund manager whose company, Odey Asset Management, has announced that it will close […]