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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/Climate Denier Rod Liddle Considered For Editor Position at The Independent
ByBrendan DeMelle
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The Independent, one of the only progressive papers in the UK, especially when it comes to climate change coverage, is considering appointing a climate denier as its newย editor.ย  The Independentโ€™s ...
us/BBC Trots Out Skeptic Benny Peiser To Question Global Warming In A Snow Storm
ByBrendan DeMelle
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The BBC used Britainโ€™s recent snowy cold snap to trot out the climate skepticism of Dr. Benny Peiser, a social anthropologist at Liverpoolโ€™s John Moores University with absolutely zero scientific e...
us/Scientists Call for Moratorium on Mountaintop Removal Mining
ByBrendan DeMelle
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A group of the nationโ€™s leading environmental scientists is calling on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to stop issuing new mountaintop mining permits, ...
us/Whole Foods CEO John Mackey Also a Global Warming Denier
ByBrendan DeMelle
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Whole Foods Market CEO John Mackey is not only delusional about healthcare, it turns out heโ€™s also a first rate climate change denier.Mackey upset many Whole Foods customers, employees and sharehol...
us/Inhofe Questioned About Manipulating Climate Polling Data
ByBrendan DeMelle
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โ€œDid Jim Inhofe Manipulate Poll Data On Climate Change Policy?โ€ asks Eric Kleefeld today at Talking Points Memo.ย  Kleefeld questions whether Inhofe falsely represented polling data on American publ...
us/Breaking: LEAKED final draft of Copenhagen treaty declaration
ByBrendan DeMelle
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[Update: Iโ€™ve added in analysis of the keyย text] With only hours left in the Copenhagen climate treaty talks we have obtained an early version of the final agreementโ€™ draftย text. President Obamaโ€™s ...
us/U.S. Chamber of Commerce declared a โ€œGlobal Warming Crime Scene"
ByBrendan DeMelle
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Hours before President Obama leaves for the Copenhagen climate summit, Greenpeace activists deployed an emergency response team to declare the U.S. Chamber of Commerce headquarters a โ€œClimate Polic...
us/Monckton lies to AP, denies he called clean energy advocates โ€œHitler youthโ€
ByBrendan DeMelle
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Despite video evidence, Christopher Monckton stated in an interview yesterday with Associatedย Press: โ€œIt was not I who called them Hitler Youth. It was three Germans and a Dane in theย audience.โ€ I...
us/Exec. Publisher of Science journal responds to Palin op-ed in Washington Post
ByBrendan DeMelle
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Alan Leshner, the CEO of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the executive publisher of the journal Science, responded to Sarah Palinโ€™s op-ed in the Washington Post, calling...
us/Climate Contrarian Monckton calls young climate activists โ€œHitler Youthโ€ and "Nazis"
ByBrendan DeMelle
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Fifty young U.S. clean energy activists stormed the stage today in Copenhagen during a live webcast organized by Americans for Prosperity and featuring climate denier Lord Christopher Monckton.ย  Wh...