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us/Australia's Controversial Adani Coal Mine Gets Final Government Approval
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The Adani Carmichael coal mine — one of the most controversial fossil fuel projects in Australia’s history — has been handed its final environmental approval. Based in Queensland, the Indian-owned...
us/Comment: Judge in Peter Ridd Case Says Trial Was Not About Climate Science or Freedom of Speech
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Sacked Australian scientist and hero of climate science deniers everywhere — Dr. Peter Ridd — has won his case against former employer James Cook University (JCU). Judge Salvatore Vasta, in Austra...
us/On Health of the Great Barrier Reef and Case of Sacked Scientist Peter Ridd, Sky News Creates Alternate Reality
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Australia’s Great Barrier Reef is in some serious trouble, with the latest research in the journal Nature showing the number of new corals has dropped by 89 percent. In 2016 and 2017, the reef w...
us/Guns, Climate Denial and Conspiracies: Al Jazeera Captures Australian Far Right Political Figures Meeting Koch Industries
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Sitting in the offices of Koch Industries in Washington D.C., far-right Australian politician Steve Dickson shows his hand in a request for their cash. “This lefty attitude that just thinks solar ...
Why We Should Not Be Surprised That Murdoch Tabloid's Favorite Sydney School Pupil Didn't Join Climate Strike
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Somewhere in the order of 150,000 students went absent from classes in Australia on Friday afternoon for the global “School Strike 4 Climate” marches. In what might be seen as an afternoon pract...
What President Trump, Fox and Breitbart Are Not Saying About Climate Science Denier Patrick Moore
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What does it take to become a legitimate spokesperson on climate change science and energy policy in the eyes of President Donald Trump and partisan conservative media like Fox News and Breitbart? ...
us/Can YouTube Solve Its Serious Climate Science Denial Problem?
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“What are we in for next?” asks the narrator on the YouTube video. “Will the temperature resume an upward trend? Will it remain flat for a lengthy period? Or will it begin to drop? No one knows, n...
us/Physicist William Happer, the 'Unmoored' Climate Science Denier Heading a White House Climate Probe
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In 2016, retired Princeton physicist Professor Will Happer accepted an invitation from conspiracy theorist G. Edward Griffin to give a keynote at his conference to talk about the “positive effects ...
us/Mining Director Ian Plimer Misrepresents Climate Consensus Studies in The Australian Newspaper
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Because most of us aren’t trained as oncologists or meteorologists, we tend to do the sensible thing and rely on those folk for facts on cancer, or the weather. It’s likely too that we’d act on ...
us/Climate Advocates Underestimate Power of Fossil Fueled Misinformation Campaigns, Say Top Researchers
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Climate action advocates have underestimated the strength and sophistication of decades-long fossil fuel-funded misinformation campaigns and need a coordinated set of strategies to fight back, say ...
us/Bitter Legal Fight Between Climate Deniers Ends With $630,000 Transfer to New Group Targeting Climate Scientists and Campaigners
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A bitter court battle between climate science deniers known for pursuing scientists with legal demands for their emails has ended with a former Trump EPA official releasing $630,000 to his former c...
The Christian Vacation Camp Where Kids Are Taught by Notorious Climate Science Deniers
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Each morning at Camp Constitution’s summer camp, the kids and parents go off to classes while staff members do a room inspection. “What we look for is not just cleanliness, but a patriotic and God...
us/'Vast Blind Spot': IPCC Accused of Ignoring 'Decades Long' Fossil Fuel Misinformation Campaign on Climate
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The United Nations (UN) climate science panel is being accused of ignoring research into fossil fuel-funded misinformation campaigns that have been key to holding back action on global warming. Th...
IPCC Report Says 1.5C Climate Target Is Reachable, But Only With Rapid Fossil Fuel Phase Out
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There is no scenario to keep global warming to 1.5°C (2.7°F) that allows coal to be burned for electricity by the middle of this century, a major United Nations (UN) climate report says. The UN’s ...
us/Five Climate Science Deniers to Know in Trump's Administration
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There are five folks spearheading the United States government who think that when it comes to climate change, they know better than all of the world’s main scientific institutions. There’s Donal...
us/'Mud and Confusion': Oil and Gas Industry Goes On Defense as Studies Show Offshore Exploration Could Kill Zooplankton
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“We knew it was going to cause a stir,” said Australian marine scientist Dr. Robert McCauley. McCauley was referring to the results of an experiment testing the impacts of a common oil and gas ind...
us/'Doing the Lord's Work' Heartland Institute Gathers Climate Deniers For America First Energy Conference
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One of the world’s most notorious climate science denial groups — the Heartland Institute — will gather its supporters and fellow ideologues this week for a one-day energy conference in Louisiana. ...
us/Billionaire Mining Magnate Gina Rinehart Revealed As Key Donor to Australian Climate Science Denial Promoter Institute of Public Affairs
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Australia’s richest person, mining magnate Gina Rinehart, has been revealed as a key funder of the right wing think tank the Institute of Public Affairs (IPA) — a major pusher of climate science de...
us/Climate Science Deniers From Around Globe Rally Around Sacked Scientist Peter Ridd
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Climate science denial groups from the UK, U.S., and Australia have leapt to support a controversial marine scientist who was fired from his job at an Australian university. Dr. Peter Ridd, former...
us/Friend of Mike Pence and a Coal-Funded Lawyer Form 'Accountability' Group to Attack Climate Lawsuits
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For a group apparently hooked on transparency, the latest organization to spring from the loins of the fossil fuel–funded climate science denial industry certainly manages to obscure one or two per...