Brendan DeMelle

Brendan DeMelle is Executive Director of DeSmog. He is also a writer specializing in media, politics, and disinformation. He also serves as Chair of DeSmog UK, and lives in Seattle, Washington.

Articles by Brendan DeMelle

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Mocking the scam that is the BP cleanup, Greenpeace today released the โ€˜ScamWow!โ€™ infomercial targeting BP and other oil companies who need a quick solution whenever pesky ecological devastation re...
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Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore over the weekend called for Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli to end his baseless witch hunt against climate scientist Michael Mann.ย  Ignoring the fact tha...
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An exhaustive six-month independent review into the Climategate emails has concluded that the โ€œrigor and honestyโ€ of the climate scientists caught up in the non-scandal are โ€œnot in doubt.โ€ [PDF] Th...
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Pennsylvania State University today issued its final report thoroughly exonerating climate scientist Dr. Michael Mann of any wrongdoing in the wake of the โ€œClimategateโ€ myth that emerged late last ...
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Intrepid British journalist George Monbiot has a piece in The Guardian today that absolutely smashes the London Sunday Timesโ€™ handling of its botched โ€˜Amazongateโ€™ story.ย  The Times was forced to re...
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In yet another brutal take-down of โ€˜Lordโ€™ Christopher Moncktonโ€™s claims to royalty and relevance, Bob Ward at The Guardian exposes the fabrications Monckton has whipped up to endear Margaret Thatch...
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Ending a dispute that has dragged on for months, London newspaper The Sunday Times has finally retracted and apologized for an article filled with blatant misinformation and smears against the IPCC...
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The damage inflicted on the Gulf of Mexico from the BP blowout goes far beyond the ecological and economic impacts this catastrophe has wrought on the region.ย  As evidenced painfully well in the vi...
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Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) has told reporters that he will vote against the climate bill that he helped to craft along with remaining co-sponsors Sens. John Kerry (D-MA) and Joe Lieberman (I-CT)....
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Climate deniers often like to talk about โ€œglobal warming profiteers,โ€ some mysterious breed led by Al Gore who, so the story goes, are out to make the big bucks off scaring people about climate cha...