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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/President Obama Pegs Fate of Keystone XL On Climate Change Impact; Slams Climate Denial Flat Earth Society
ByBrendan DeMelle
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“I refuse to condemn your generation, and future generations, to a planet that is beyond fixing. And that’s why today I’m announcing a new national climate action plan, and I’m here to enlist your ...
us/Frackalypse Now: Mark Fiore Spoofs Oil Industry's PSYOPS Campaign To Derail Fracking "Insurgency"
ByBrendan DeMelle
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DeSmogBlog partnered with Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Mark Fiore to produce this spoof video in the vein of Francis Ford Coppola's “Apocalypse Now.” Making its debut today in honor of Gasland...
us/Climate Denial's Death Knell: 97 Percent of Peer-Reviewed Science Confirms Manmade Global Warming, Consensus Overwhelming
ByBrendan DeMelle
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A new survey conducted by a team of volunteers at Skeptical Science has definitively confirmed the scientific consensus in climate science literature - 97 percent of peer-reviewed papers agree that...
us/DeSmog’s Graham Readfearn Joins Guardian Environment Blog, First Post Jumps to Guardian UK Front Page
ByBrendan DeMelle
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On his first day joining the Guardian Environment blog, DeSmogger Graham Readfearn’s first post - How climate scientists are being framed - quickly gained traction and ended up featured on the Guar...
us/Animation of Arctic Sea Ice Minimum Volume 1979-2012
ByBrendan DeMelle
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If your roof is leaking, do you ignore it and hope it will fix itself?  This new animation created by Andy Lee Robinson depicts Arctic Sea Ice minimum volumes reached every September since 1979....
us/Fox Snooze: Global Warming Name Game Debunked By Media Matters (Again)
ByBrendan DeMelle
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Media Matters put out a video this past week with clips of all the recent FOX News mentions of a global warming name conspiracy. The Fox 'conspiracy' is that 'liberals' stopped calling it global wa...
us/President Obama Slams Climate Deniers on Twitter
ByBrendan DeMelle
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You don't see this every day. President Barack Obama used Twitter today to call out climate deniers in Congress who are blocking political action to address climate change.  The tweet links to th...
us/Breaking: Enbridge Pipeline Spills in Minnesota (Updates original)
ByBrendan DeMelle
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Enbridge's Line 2 **Line 67 tar sands** pipeline has leaked an estimated 600 gallons of crude oil at its pump station near Viking, Minnesota. Line 2 was built in 1956 and has a history of spills. R...
us/DeSmog's Kevin Grandia Featured in Rolling Stone's Fossil Fuel Resistance Edition
ByBrendan DeMelle
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Kevin Grandia, DeSmog's former Managing Editor and current senior consultant, is featured in this month's Rolling Stone magazine. Kevin Grandia: The Muckraker, as Rolling Stone aptly calls him, is ...
us/Alberta Govt Hires Bipartisan Team of Lobbyists to Woo Washington on Risky KXL Tar Sands Pipeline
ByBrendan DeMelle
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The Alberta government has hired a team of “foreign special interest groups“ to lobby the U.S. Congress and the White House in a desperate attempt to garner support for the risky Keystone XL pipeli...