Geoff Dembicki has been DeSmog’s global managing editor since 2024. He works closely with the UK, United States, Canada, and Global Investigations teams, as well as overseeing a growing number of partnerships with other publications and an expanding roster of freelance journalists across North America, Europe, Africa, Latin America, and Asia.
Geoff’s 2022 book, The Petroleum Papers, was named best book of the year by The Washington Post, and is based in part on his DeSmog reporting on an Imperial Oil archive of internal memos tracing ExxonMobilโs early understanding of climate science, and its subsequent pivot to denial and disinformation. This reporting also contributed to the 2025 documentary The White House Effect, which uses three decades of archival footage to chart the evolution of climate change from science-informed policy to right-wing wedge politics in the U.S.
Geoff contributed to the publication Climate Obstruction: A Global Assessment, released by Oxford University Press. He has bylines in The Guardian, Rolling Stone, and The New York Times, and been featured on NPR and CBC. He is based in Montrรฉal.
Boosting energy production is one of the top โpublic policy benefits to Canadaโ of data centres, internal Privy Council document explains.
The Alberta premier gave a biblical justification for oil expansion at a Christian conference featuring Conservative MPs and provincial cabinet ministers.
Trump-aligned CPAC is backing far-right electoral candidates across Latin America and Europe โ including Hungarian strongman Viktor Orbรกn.
Former fracking magnate Gwyn Morgan has funnelled millions to right-wing media and think tanks, a DeSmog analysis reveals.
Briefing notes obtained by DeSmog reveal the Carney government had major knowledge gaps about CCS even as it made the technology central to its climate plan.
Singerโs foundation gave $100,000 to the expertโs think tank, the Hudson Institute, according to 2024 tax records.
Across the U.S., UK, Europe, and Canada, Donald Trump and his allies worked tirelessly to supercharge climate denial, boost fossil fuels, and foment political chaos.
Right-wing political group Americans for Prosperity, backed by oil and gas billionaire Charles Koch, sees data centers as part of a larger pro-fossil fuel agenda.
With Brazil about to host COP30, DeSmog has obtained copies of checks Exxon mailed to the right-wing Atlas Network in the 1990s to turn Latin America against climate treaties.
Interior Secretary Doug Burgum told an AI conference that data centers should be powered by coal, gas, and nuclear. Ruth Porat said his โcomments were fantastic.โ
