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Net Zero Secretary Claire Coutinho Took Donation From Climate Science Denial Funder

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Hintze, a Conservative peer and hedge fund manager, was one of the early funders of the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) , founded by the late Conservative chancellor Nigel Lawson. Hintze has said that he believes “there is climate change” caused “in part due to human activity over the past century”.

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GB News Owner Hires Tory Kingpin’s Oil and Gas Linked Lobbying Firm 

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CT Group was founded by political consultant and lobbyist Lynton Crosby in 2002. Hiring CT Group appears to be the latest attempt by the Legatum Group to expand its political influence. This raises a number of interesting political questions.” global warming target established by the 2015 Paris Agreement.

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Industry ‘Sabotaged’ Climate Solutions, ‘Petroleum Papers’ Author Told Canadian Senate

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and The Petroleum Papers: Inside the Far-Right Conspiracy to Cover Up Climate Change. My name is Geoff Dembicki, and I’m an investigative climate change journalist. That was more than a decade before NASA scientist James Hansen first brought climate change to the general public’s attention. In the U.S.,

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Andrew Coyne Helped Run Charity That Gave $6.4M to Climate Crisis Denial Groups

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One of Canada’s top political journalists and pundits served on the board of a foundation that gave $6.4 million to national groups denying climate change is a crisis, according to federal tax data reviewed by DeSmog. This Manitoba-based think tank received over $2 million from 2006 to 2016.

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Obituary: Climate science pioneer and former IPCC chair Sir John Houghton

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Editor of landmark IPCC reports – who famously called global warming "a weapon of mass destruction" – has passed away in his native Wales at the age of 88. He become chair of the World Climate Research Programme in 1980 and served as director-general of the UK's Met Office between 1983 and 1987.

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Rishi Sunak Boasts That Oil Funded Think Tank ‘Helped Us Draft’ Crackdown on Climate Protests

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Grant Shapps, Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, has repeatedly attacked Labour over the connection, writing in the Daily Mail that Labour has become “the political wing of Just Stop Oil”. million from fossil fuel interests, high-polluters and climate science deniers last year alone.

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1.5 and 2°C: A Journey Through the Temperature Target That Haunts the World

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In 2015, nearly 200 countries agreed to “Holding the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2°C above pre-industrial levels and pursuing efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5°C C above pre-industrial levels , recognizing that this would significantly reduce the risks and impacts of climate change”.

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