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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

us/Evidence Provided In UK Parliamentary Inquiry Into Climate Scientists Was Prepared By Oil and Gas Industry Consultant
ByBrendan DeMelle
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The Guardian just broke the news that a consultant to Shell and other oil and gas interests was the source of โ€˜evidenceโ€™ provided by the Institute of Physics in the current UK parliamentary review ...
us/PolluterHarmony: A Match Made In Washington
ByBrendan DeMelle
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Congressmembers, are you too busy being indentured servants to corporations to find love?Lobbyists, did that pickup line about healthcare flop with your beloved Senator?ย  Well, have you heard the o...
us/ACCCE Hires New PR Firm With Bush Ties To Push Coal
ByBrendan DeMelle
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The American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity (ACCCE) has hired two new public relations firms to hock its message in the wake of the disastrous job done by Bonner & Associates.ย  ACCCE has reta...
us/Climate Skeptics Try To Spin Penn State Exoneration of Dr. Michael Mann Into โ€œWhitewashโ€
ByBrendan DeMelle
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Penn State Universityโ€™s inquiry into climate scientist Dr. Michael Mannโ€™s conduct surrounding the emails stolen from the Climate Research Unit at East Anglia University concluded there is no eviden...
us/CRU Hack Was A Highly Sophisticated Spy Job, Prominent British Scientist Says
ByBrendan DeMelle
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Sir David King, the UKโ€™s former chief scientist, strongly believes that the theft of hundreds of emails from the Climatic Research Unit in East Anglia was carried out by highly-paid professionals, ...
us/When Corporations Rule The World (thanks to the Supreme Court)
ByBrendan DeMelle
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With its ruling in Citizens United v. the Federal Election Commission (FEC), the Supreme Court has granted corporations even further unfettered access to destroy the fundamental Constitutional prot...
us/George Monbiot Unveils Winner of Annual Award For Most Distorted Climate Coverage
ByBrendan DeMelle
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George Monbiot, the Guardianโ€™s straight-shooting environmental columnist, today unveiled the winner of the second annual (and final, if Monbiot can resist the urge to dole it out next year) Christo...
us/Climate Denial Industry Blowing Hot Air On Himalayan Glaciers
ByBrendan DeMelle
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The climate denial industry is once again trying to make a huge to-do about a tiny error by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climateย Change.ย  With the Climategate Swifthack episode fading from the li...
us/Tucker Carlsonโ€™s 'Daily Caller' Website Bankrolled by Climate Change Denier
ByBrendan DeMelle
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The primary funder of Tucker Carlsonโ€™s new website โ€˜The Daily Callerโ€™ is climate change denier and GOP bankroller Foster Friess, and Carlson has reportedly lined up sponsorship from the U.S. Chambe...
us/Murkowski Amendment To Protect Polluters Was Written By Dirty Polluter Lobbyists
ByBrendan DeMelle
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The Washington Post is reporting that Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowskiโ€™s amendment to gut EPA authority to regulate carbon dioxide under the Clean Air Act was written by two Washington lobbyists known fo...