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Pro-Trump Platform Promotes Climate Science Denial Ads to Millions Across Europe - desmog (May 3) |
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May 3 · The pro-Trump Epoch Times has run hundreds of anti-climate social media adverts in Europe since the beginning of 2024 that have been seen millions of times, DeSmog can reveal.
Epoch Times accounts in Europe have run 425 adverts on Facebook, Instagram, and X (formerly Twitter) that have attacked or undermined climate science, green energy, or climate action since the start of the year. These adverts have been run in the UK, Germany, Slovakia, and Bulgaria, appearing on social media feeds at least 2.3 million times across Facebook and Instagram, and 3.1 million times on X.
These anti-climate ads were active for 22 days on average on Meta platforms (Facebook and Instagram), ... Read more ...
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Revealed: The Climate Denial Network Behind ‘Classic Astroturf’ Farmers’ Campaign - desmog (Feb 8) |
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Feb 8 · A network of climate science deniers has been accused of “hijacking” rural concerns over a new social media campaign “to save the farming industry”.
'No Farmers, No Food’ has gained over 50,000 followers on X in the fortnight since its launch, which was framed as a response to the widespread farmers’ protests sweeping across Europe.
The campaign, which started in the UK, has rapidly won support from a number of international pundits, from Canadian climate science denier Jordan Peterson, to Fox News contributor and host Tomi Lahren, who has called climate change a “hoax”. Populist politicians in the UK and elsewhere have also declared their support.
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Revealed: Scale of The Telegraph's Climate Change ‘Propaganda’ - desmog (Nov 23) |
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Nov 23 · Joey joined DeSmog as a Researcher and Reporter in April 2023. He continues to work freelance with Deutsche Welle in Berlin.
The influential newspaper featured ten opinion writers with links to the UK’s main climate science denial group.
The broadcaster has regularly platformed climate science denial and attacks on net zero since it launched in 2021.
Influential right-wing groups are set to host events featuring major polluters, days after Prime Minister Rishi Sunak watered down green targets.
Rishi Sunak appears to have sided with anti-green MPs as officials are left confused over how the UK will achieve its legal commitment to net zero.
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American PR Firm Edelman Enabled Oil Baron Al Jaber’s Ascension to Lead COP28 Climate Conference - desmog (Sep 13, 2023) |
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Sep 13, 2023 · With three months to go until the COP28 United Nations climate talks begin in Dubai, critics have stepped up their condemnation of the decision to put Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber, the head of Abu Dhabi’s state oil company ADNOC, in charge of the conference.
What few may realize, however, is that Al Jaber’s ascent to the highest levels of climate diplomacy began 16 years ago, and Edelman, the largest public relations firm in the world, played a crucial role.
Hundreds of pages of documents filed with the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) recently reviewed by DeSmog show that from 2007 to 2009, Edelman carried out a $6.4 million campaign to boost the United Arab Emirates’ green ... Read more ...
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Meet the Shadowy Network Vilifying Climate Protestors - desmog (Sep 12, 2023) |
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Sep 12, 2023 · Earlier this year, news footage began making the rounds on social media of young activists from the German climate organization Letzte Generation (Last Generation) being assaulted by their fellow citizens as they obstructed streets in an effort to draw attention to the German government’s inaction on climate. A young woman, with her hand glued to a road was ripped off the road by her hair; a young man was run over by a truck driver; a passerby punched the protestors and was cheered on. A few months later, German police raided the homes of Last Generation activists and seized their bank accounts. It all seemed like a gross overreaction to a pretty tame form of protest. Although Last ... | By Amy Westervelt, Drilled, and Geoff Dembicki, DeSmog, with additional reporting by Julianna Merullo and Lyndal Rowlands Read more ...
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Two-Thirds of Conservative Endowment Fund Directors Are Linked to Fossil Fuels and Polluting Industries - desmog (Aug 23, 2023) |
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Aug 23, 2023 · Two-thirds of the directors who run the Conservative Party’s multi-million-pound endowment fund have interests in fossil fuel firms or polluting industries, DeSmog can reveal.
The Conservative Party Foundation Limited was founded in 2009 with the purpose of raising and managing “legacy funds to support the long term finance of the Conservative Party”.
At the end of its latest accounting period, December 2022, the Conservative Party Foundation boasted reserves of £6.7 million.
The foundation’s nine directors include some of the biggest donors to the Conservatives in recent years. Collectively they have donated more than £8.5 million to the party since ... Read more ...
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Montana Is Paying a Climate Denier to Give Expert Testimony in Upcoming Trial - desmog (Apr 03, 2023) |
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Apr 03, 2023 · Montana has repealed its 30-year-old energy policy – including a 2011 amendment that prioritized fossil-fuel development. The move comes as a June trial date approaches for a youth-led climate lawsuit against the state.
In the lawsuit, Held v. State of Montana, sixteen Montana children and teenagers say that by actively promoting a fossil-fuel based energy system that is dangerous to the climate, state officials are violating the “right to a clean and healthful environment” for present and future generations under the state Constitution. It is the first constitutional climate case to go to trial in the United States.
Montana first enacted a state energy policy in 1993. ... Read more ...
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House Committee Wraps Up Historic Investigation Into Oil Industry - desmog (Dec 14, 2022) |
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Dec 14, 2022 · Congressional investigators released a new set of documents that underscored the oil and gas industry’s ongoing attempts to block climate policies and confuse the public about their long-term investments in fossil fuels. The latest tranche of documents caps off a nearly two-year investigation that appears set to come to an end with Republicans taking control of the House of Representatives in January.
On December 9, the U.S. House Oversight and Reform Committee published its latest set of documents as part of its ongoing investigation into the oil industry’s history of climate denial and obfuscation. The documents offer more evidence showing that the industry’s “greenwashing” ... Read more ...
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GB News - desmog (Oct 10, 2022) |
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Oct 10, 2022 · GB News is a UK-based TV and radio outlet founded in June 2021. It operates a range of news and opinion programmes and claims to “not shy away from controversial issues”.1GB News. “Our Editorial Charter,” GB News. Archived March 1, 2023. Archive URL: https://archive.vn/pUwpN
The outlet has provided a platform to climate science denial groups, including CAR26 and the Global Warming Policy Foundation. Libertarian groups have also been given a regular platform, with the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) stating in its 2021/22 annual report that the launch of GB News “has increased opportunities for IEA commentary, direct to the public”.2“Trustee’s report and financial ... Read more ...
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Internal Documents Show Big Oil PR Messages Still 'Mislead' Public on Climate - desmog (Sep 16, 2022) |
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Sep 16, 2022 · New documents released by a congressional committee show that major oil companies, under pressure from the worsening climate crisis, have carefully crafted public messages to convey an effort of transitioning to cleaner technologies, but that the campaigns appear aimed at obscuring the fact that they remain “devoted to a long-term fossil fuel future,” the committee report states.
The U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Reform released a memo on September 14 that detailed documents and internal communications from oil companies including BP, Shell, and ExxonMobil, which show efforts to heavily promote their investments in promising technologies to address climate change, such ... Read more ...
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Climate Intelligence Foundation (CLINTEL) - desmog (Jun 27, 2022) |
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Jun 27, 2022 · The Climate Intelligence Foundation (CLINTEL) is a Netherlands-based1“Contact,” Climate Intelligence Foundation. Archived April 6, 2020. Archive.fo URL: http://archive.fo/dra0S climate science denial group founded in 2019 by retired professor of geophysics Guus Berkhout and journalist Marcel Crok.2“About Us,” Climate Intelligence Foundation. Archived April 6, 2020. Archive.fo URL: http://archive.fo/PhIuc Its principal view is that “there is no climate emergency.”3“There is no climate emergency,” Climate Intelligence Foundation. Archived April 6, 2020. Archive.fo URL: http://archive.fo/HnDgD
According to Dutch broadcaster KRO-NCRV Pointer, the 800 “scientists, scholars, and ... Read more ...
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Appalachia does not need more fossil fuel greed - desmog (May 31, 2022) |
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May 31, 2022 · A fossil fuel executive recently told Fortune, “Appalachia is the elephant in the room,” referring to the claim that demand for natural gas is rising, while supply in Appalachia and the United States is falling. Such corporate executives would like to see expansion of production in order to bail out their dying industry.
And Fortune’s interviewee is right. Appalachia is the elephant in the room. We need to talk more about the role of Appalachia in the country’s energy system. But what he gets wrong is that the future does not entail further dependence on fossil fuels. The future that Appalachia can and will lead is in renewable energy.
For over a century, this region has ... | By Emily Satterwhite Read more ...
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Media Gives Climate Denier Fuel Lobbyist a Platform to Attack 'Just Stop Oil' Protests - DeSmog - desmog (Apr 14, 2022) |
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Apr 14, 2022 · A climate denier and fuel lobbyist who campaigns against net zero policies was given a platform by major media outlets to attack fossil fuel protests – without any mention of his climate views or industry funders.
Howard Cox, founder of the FairFuelUK campaign against fuel duty, was quoted in The Sun, MailOnline, inews and the Telegraph’s live blog and was interviewed on Sky News this week about “Just Stop Oil” activists, who were blocking fuel terminals to protest against new oil drilling licences.
The Sun story quotes FairFuel claiming “1 in 3 garages have run dry of petrol” and 1,200 petrol stations have been affected. The claims, which were shared by the Labour ... Read more ...
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The oil and gas industry is using the war in Ukraine to profit and push its interests - desmog (Mar 23, 2022) |
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Mar 23, 2022 · Editor’s Note: This is part of a new column, Gaslit, which will navigate society’s dysfunctional relationship with fossil fuel disinformation. Have a tip or idea? Get in touch.
When Russia invaded Crimea, the EU and United States issued a joint statement stressing the importance of promoting U.S. liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports for Europe. It was 2014 and “American gas” would save Europe from being dependent on Russian gas imports.
Eight years later, Russia again invaded Ukraine on February 24. Europe still imports more than 40 percent of its gas from Russia, and the American fossil fuel industry is still pushing the U.S. government to implement policies that “ensure ... Read more ...
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Ahead of COP26, top Biden appointees pushing natural gas are undermining his climate credibility - desmog (Oct 25, 2021) |
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Oct 25, 2021 · In roughly two weeks, leaders from around the world will converge on Glasgow for COP26, the 26th United Nations Climate Change summit and U.S. President Joe Biden will be among them - setting the stage to further reclaim the United States’ position as an international climate leader and a willing participant in the global discourse about how to save the planet.
Since officially taking over the White House in January, which formally marked the end of the Trump presidency, the Biden administration has been bold in its promise to usher in a new era where tackling climate change head-on would be put at the center of U.S. foreign policy and national security. On Inauguration Day, ... Read more ...
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Ahead of COP26, top Biden appointees pushing natural gas are undermining his climate credibility - desmog (Oct 25, 2021) |
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Oct 25, 2021 · In roughly two weeks, leaders from around the world will converge on Glasgow for COP26, the 26th United Nations Climate Change summit and U.S. President Joe Biden will be among them - setting the stage to further reclaim the United States’ position as an international climate leader and a willing participant in the global discourse about how to save the planet.
Since officially taking over the White House in January, which formally marked the end of the Trump presidency, the Biden administration has been bold in its promise to usher in a new era where tackling climate change head-on would be put at the center of U.S. foreign policy and national security. On Inauguration Day, ... Read more ...
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And on Tuesday, a - desmog (Apr 07, 2021) |
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Apr 07, 2021 · The majority of directors at the world’s biggest banks have affiliations to polluting companies and organisations, a DeSmog investigation shows. The findings raise concerns over a systemic conflict of interest at a time when the international financial sector is under increasing pressure to stop funding fossil fuels.
DeSmog’s analysis found 65 percent of directors from 39 banks had 940 past or current connections to industries that could be considered climate-conflicted.
Directors with affiliations to companies involved in extracting oil, gas and coal – the world’s most polluting energy sources – were well-represented across bank boardrooms, with 16 percent of all board ... Read more ...
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But not only is violence, and threats or celebrations - desmog (Jan 06, 2021) |
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Jan 06, 2021 · Prominent climate science deniers moved rapidly to spread false and misleading conspiracy theories online during and after the attack on the U.S. Capitol by Trump supporters this week.
Some climate deniers, including some with ties to the Heartland Institute and other organizations that have historically helped to create the false impression that there is sizeable scientific disagreement on climate change, also directly expressed support for the attackers and called for more violence.
“Striking fear in politicians is not a bad thing,” the @ClimateDepot Twitter account tweeted on the afternoon of January 6 in a message describing the Capitol as then-“under ... Read more ...
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Meet the Shadowy Global Network Vilifying Climate Protesters - desmog (Jun 13, 2016) |
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Jun 13, 2016 · The Atlas Network is a Washington, DC-based non-profit organization that describes itself as working to support a growing network of more than 500 “free market” organizations in nearly 100 countries promoting free market ideas.
Many of the member think tanks of the Atlas Network have supported climate science denial and have campaigned against legislation to limit greenhouse gas emissions.
The Atlas Economic Research Foundation (AERF) was founded by Antony Fisher in 1981 with the goal of spreading “innovative, market-based perspectives to issues of public policy” globally.
In 1955, Fisher had founded the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA), ... Read more ...
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