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uk/Comment: A Just Transition in Scotland Doesn’t Mean Riots on the Streets
ByMike Small
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The Scottish government established a Just Transition Commission in 2018, recognising the country’s unique need for a participatory plan to rapidly cut its emissions. That commission has just publi...
uk/Election 2019: Climate Pledges in the Scottish Party Manifestos
ByMike Small
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The general election in Scotland is inevitably seen through the bifocal lenses of Brexit and independence, regularly morphed into a single telescope of 'constitutional crisis'. But alongside that e...
uk/ExxonMobil Accused of Covering Up Two Explosions at Mossmorran Chemicals Plant
ByMike Small
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The Mossmorran ethylene plant, operated by Exxon-Mobil and Shell, has been dogged by controversy and safety fears for years. Now an investigation has been launched into two explosions at the plant,...
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uk/Comment: Why Aggressive Media Attacks on Extinction Rebellion Should Concern Everyone
ByMike Small
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Like in so much of public debate, the Prime Minister sets the tone. As a fortnight of peaceful protest started in London, Boris Johnson called the Extinction Rebellion protestors “importunate nose-...
Series: Extinction Rebellion: Direct Action to Save the Planet from Climate Change
Series: Extinction Rebellion Activism
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uk/Comment: Of Course These Climate Science Deniers Jumped to Bolsonaro's Defence Over Amazon Fires
ByMike Small
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The burning of the Amazon rainforest has unified the public in shock and fear like no other event in recent times. It has become a symbol of where ecocide meets human suffering. Dismay at the dest...
uk/Residents Lament 'Profound Social Impacts' of Ongoing Problems at Exxon's Mossmorran Chemicals Plant
ByMike Small
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The Mossmorran plant in Fife, Scotland has been shut down for a month over safety fears due to unplanned flaring.  Plant operator ExxonMobil notified the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SE...
Opinion
uk/Comment: Why was the Blackout Used to Attack Renewables? Because Some Media Still Have an Anti-Climate Action Agenda
ByMike Small
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England recently experienced its most severe blackout in more than a decade, leading to a cacophony of calls from the usual suspects to scrap windfarms and abandon plans to turn the country’s elect...
uk/Comment: Mark Field's Attack on ‘Environmental Extremists’ Allowed the Climate Crisis to be Conveniently Forgotten
ByMike Small
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After protests around the Newbury Bypass in the 1990s, Conservative minister John Watts famously claimed that he would like to see Swampy “buried in concrete”.  The descent of peaceful protest in ...
uk/ExxonMobil's Community Engagement on Plastics Plant Flaring 'Utterly Ineffectual', Residents Say
ByMike Small
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At a packed meeting in Lochgelly on Friday, about 200 people, including disgruntled residents, community leaders and local politicians, voiced their anger at continued environmental breaches at a p...
uk/Claire Fox: This Climate Science Denying Former Revolutionary Communist Might Win in the European Election
ByMike Small
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Polls suggest Nigel Farage’s Brexit Party is set to win big in Thursday’s European Parliament elections. Surprisingly, for a party that mainly pitches itself as an ally of Europe’s far right, that ...
uk/Community Anger Rising Over Flaring at ExxonMobil's Mossmorran Plant
ByMike Small
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Representatives of ExxonMobil’s Fife Ethylene Plant have apologised after unexpected flaring sent black smoke high into the skies across Fife for most of the past week. But the community remains fu...
uk/Comment: Climate Science Deniers Resort to Attacking Greta Because They've Lost the Argument
ByMike Small
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Oh, to be Greta. The queue of (mostly) middle aged men using their media platforms to attack her is now running around the block. They have resorted to these ad hominem attacks because they have n...
uk/Comment: Climate Deniers are Threatened by Extinction Rebellion Because It Challenges the Ideology on Which Their Luxurious Lifestyles are Built
ByMike Small
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The Extinction Rebellion protest movement has grown in scale and impact in recent weeks, bringing energy and chaos to the streets as people wake up to grim climate realities. Alongside the School S...
Series: Extinction Rebellion: Direct Action to Save the Planet from Climate Change
Series: Extinction Rebellion Activism
uk/Comment: The BBC Broke More Than its Editorial Guidelines in Inviting a Climate Science Denier to Discuss the School Strikes
ByMike Small
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The fresh and jazzy new BBC Scotland “Nine” news programme has come under a wave of criticism after inviting a renowned climate science denier onto its show on the very day of the global school str...
uk/Comment: Children Are Making the Media's Climate Science Deniers Look Desperately Out of Touch
ByMike Small
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The demographics of climate breakdown are stark. Not just the obvious north-south divide where those in parts of the world already facing the daily reality of climate crisis aren’t afforded the bou...
uk/Comment: Climate Science Deniers Throw Stones at Climate Chief from Their Greenhouse
ByMike Small
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A row has broken out over the apparent lack of disclosure of a conflict of interest by Tory politician John Gummer, also known as Lord Deben, who heads government scientific advisory body, the Comm...
uk/Climate Heroes and Villains of 2018
ByMike Small
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The earnest, cherubic face of Greta Thunberg preaching common sense to the UN climate talks in Katowice was a memorable sight. The 15 year-old Swede put world leaders to shame telling them: “You ar...
Controversial Australian Climate Science Denier Cardinal George Pell Removed from Vatican Advisory Group
ByMike Small
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Australian Cardinal George Pell has been removed from his role as one of the Vatican's key advisors as Pope Francis moves to distance himself from the controversial figure. Pell last year took an ...
uk/Analysis — The Climate Change Act 10 Years On: A Decade of Denialism in Retreat
ByMike Small
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The UK's landmark Climate Change Act passed into law 10 years ago with near-unanimous support, setting a legally-binding target to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by at least 80 percent of 1990 lev...
uk/Revealed: US Oil Billionaire Charles Koch Funds UK Anti-Environment Spiked Network
ByMike Small
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For years, people have speculated about who is behind a shadowy group of well-connected ‘free speech advocates’ spreading far-right ideologies and climate science denial. The group emerged from a ...

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