DeSmogBlog

MAY 18, 2020

Read time: 11 mins The head of a federal committee tasked with advising the Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA ) on air quality science recently disparaged a new Harvard study examining the link between air pollution and coronavirus fatalities across the country. Environmental Protection Agency

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 30, 2020

The decision , issued October 27, effectively denies the youths the chance to present their case and the supporting climate science at trial. Tags: climate lawsuits canada Juliana v. United States youth climate lawsuits

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Greenability Magazine

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

As part of Monarch Mania events, the MDC will also host Monarch Tagging from 9 – 10 a.m. Participants will learn how to capture, tag and release monarchs. The project is part of a large-scale citizen science effort that began in 1992 across North America to understand the dynamics of the fall monarch migration.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 12, 2020

Read time: 11 mins Climate science deniers at think tanks with fossil fuel ties are doubling down on attempts to undermine the bases for regulating climate pollution, from attacking estimated carbon pollution costs used in regulatory analyses to urging the U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 27, 2020

Tags: QAnon conspiracy theories climate science denial Heartland Institute Naomi Seibt

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 14, 2020

Science gets a lot of respect these days. Seven in 10 Americans think the benefits from science outweigh the harms, and nine in 10 think science and technology will create more opportunities for future generations. On the other hand, Americans are surrounded by a rising tide of misinformation and fake science.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Tags: American Institute for Economic Research oregon petition COVID-19 COVID Denial This think tank, funded in part through a corporate investment firm with holdings in major oil and petrochemical companies, operates a network for the international business community that partners with other institutions backed by Koch and fossil fuel cash.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Tags: electric vehicles Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) climate science denial ExxonMobil Koch Union of Concerned Scientists Energy and Policy Institute In the U.S., the transportation sector is the largest contributor to planet-warming emissions.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 7, 2020

Tags: climate science denial Drilled robert brulle ExxonMobil (NYSE: XOM) Read time: 1 min You thought you knew the story of climate denial, but what about its connection to cigarette filter tips or public broadcasting?

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Read time: 15 mins This article was published as part of the launch of DeSmog’s Agribusiness Database , where you can find a record of companies and organisations’ current messaging on climate change, lobbying around climate action, and histories of climate science denial.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Those journalistic efforts exposed the facts that Exxon’s own climate science research had confirmed the role of fossil fuels in driving global warming, and that the company pivoted away from that advanced knowledge, choosing instead to spend tens of millions of dollars funding climate science denial campaigns.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 16, 2020

Read time: 8 mins You don’t have to look far to find misinformation about climate science continuing to spread online through prominent social media channels like YouTube. Tags: climate science denial youtube avaaz PragerU Patrick Moore google

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 25, 2020

is suing the four largest investor-owned oil and gas companies — BP , Chevron, ExxonMobil , and Shell — for allegedly misleading consumers about climate change, including historically undermining climate science and even now using deceptive advertising about the companies’ role in leading solutions to the climate crisis.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Read time: 3 mins Organisations promoting climate science denial and anti-environmentalism in Europe share the same rhetoric, narratives and right-wing links as their US counterparts, new research has found.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 28, 2020

The investigation , published Monday, October 26, also describes how the auto giants largely dismissed those risks and actively lobbied to block action and fund climate science denial campaigns. Tags: climate change Ford general motors automakers E&E News Center for International Environmental Law SUVs climate liability

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Read time: 3 mins This article was published as part of the launch of DeSmog’s Agribusiness Database , where you can find a record of companies and organisations’ messaging on climate change, lobbying around climate action, and histories of climate science denial. Tags: Agribusiness Database

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

Tags: australia wildfires climate science denial Tony Abbott scott morrison Malcolm turnbull This story originally appeared in The Nation and is republished here as part of Covering Climate Now, a global journalism collaboration to strengthen coverage of the climate story.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 27, 2020

This study directly refutes myths perpetuated by climate science deniers and EV antagonists, who claim that EV s are really not all that green. Tags: electric vehicles heat pumps clean cars bjorn lomborg jonathan lesser

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 11, 2019

Read time: 4 mins Climate science deniers are becoming desperate as their numbers diminish in the face of incontrovertible evidence that human-caused global warming is putting our future at risk. Tags: climate science denial Heartland Institute cornwall alliance ross mckitrick frank luntz

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 9, 2020

In recent days, Morrison’s position has been bolstered by a group of fringe climate science deniers pushing conspiracy theories and misinformation about the relationship between the fires and climate change.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

They are also backed by thinktanks and campaign groups with histories of obstructing climate action and ties to funders of climate science denial, and are affiliated with UK organisations closely connected to the UK 's Department of International Trade, DeSmog can reveal.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 24, 2020

The lawsuit claims these organizations violated Minnesota consumer protection laws for orchestrating a campaign of deception around climate science and the danger of fossil fuels. Tags: Minnesota Keith Ellison koch industries Flint Hills Resources American Petroleum Institute climate lawsuits

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Tags: Imperial Oil ExxonMobil (NYSE: XOM) climate science denial oil industry public relations Gasoline “The present trend in legislation will require substantial expenditures to reduce emissions and waste discharge for all facilities and reduce the impact on the environment of the products we sell.”.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 25, 2020

The new research published in the journal Science Advances found that methane emissions in the Permian Basin were equivalent to 3.7 Tags: Bridge Fuel methane natural gas emissions Permian percent of the total methane produced by the oil and gas industry there. Howarth’s latest research estimated that 3.4

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 17, 2019

Read time: 4 mins DeSmog was launched in January 2006 to call out the public relations industry for working with fossil fuel industry clients to sow doubt and seed misinformation about climate science.

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Green Technology

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Department of Education and the National Science Foundation, meet Next Generation Science standards. These materials can be found here.This entry was posted in Uncategorized and tagged Curriculum , Environmental Literacy , K-12.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Jacobson's study, published last month in the peer-reviewed journal Energy and Environmental Science, concludes that carbon capture technologies are inefficient at pulling out carbon, from a climate perspective, and often increase local air pollution from the power required to run them, which exacerbates public health issues.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 17, 2019

Read time: 8 mins DeSmog UK ’s first editor, Brendan Montague, shares his personal experience of investigating climate science deniers at the time of Climategate. Tags: Climategate Nigel Lawson Christopher Monkton S. Fred Singer Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) Benny Peiser institute of economic affairs

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 26, 2020

Environmental advocates say Pennsylvania’s participation in RGGI would be a “game-changer,” but climate science deniers and other fossil fuel allies claim it would be too costly and kill jobs in a state where the coal and fracked gas industries have long dominated the energy landscape.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 30, 2019

Read time: 6 mins Back in 2015, if you’d searched YouTube for information about climate change, the videos offered up might have left you with a warped sense of the state of climate science and the degree of scientific certainty that people are heating the world’s climate, a new study published in the journal Frontiers in Communication suggests.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 17, 2019

Climate science deniers pounced on the leaked emails as supposed proof that scientists were manipulating data and creating panic about climate change out of nothing. Tags: James Delingpole Christopher Booker Graham Stringer Nigel Lawson roger tattersall Anthony Watts Patrick J.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

Tags: Association of American Railroads climate denial In conjunction with their allied trade associations, these coalitions have served as a central coordination mechanism in efforts opposed to mandatory limits on carbon emissions.”. And the allied trade association that was most active was the AAR.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 2, 2020

Read time: 3 mins In its latest end of year accounts, the Global Warming Policy Foundation ( GWPF ), the UK ’s most prominent climate science denial group, has reported that its total income has increased by around £75,000 over the last year – an increase of almost 20 percent.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 19, 2019

European and US scientists have cleared up a point that has been nagging away at climate science for decades: not only is the planet warming faster than at any time in the last 2,000 years , but this unique climate change really does have neither a historic precedent nor a natural cause. Tags: climate science little ice age

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 10, 2019

Tags: Mark Mathis clear energy alliance Marcellus shale climate science denial Despite this widespread scientific agreement, shale pipeline executives attending this year’s Marcellus Utica Midstream conference last week in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, siteheard a very different message on the climate.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 13, 2020

Tags: climate science denial climate change psychology climate change communications Although the press release is promisingly headlined as “ pathways to changing the minds of climate deniers ,” we remain skeptical that there’s any real way to change a denier’s mind. After all, if they were open to change, they wouldn’t be deniers!

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

The BBC documentary, Climategate: Science of a Scandal , begins with Michael Mann, a climatologist at Pennsylvania State University recounting how he opened a letter and unleashed wafts of white powder. “My All because I decided to study applied math and physics, and move into climate science.”. And that’s kind of what it is. .

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