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Dark Money, CCS Bonanza, Corporate Comms Offensives: What to Watch in 2024

DeSmogBlog

DeSmog has been pulling back the veil on climate misinformation and disinformation like this since 2006. In 2019, the year of the last election, UK political parties received £113 million, a record figure. It is relatively cheap to fund a political party in the UK, and to wield influence over its policies.

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Why Is Diesel Being Exported During A Shortage?

R-Squared Energy

For example, in 2006 EPA began to phase-in more regulations to lower the amount of sulfur in diesel fuel to 15 parts per million (PPM). That’s ultimately a political question. This can drive up costs, and make it more economical for that Gulf Coast refiner to export to Europe or South America.

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The Business Roundtable’s statement of purpose, one year on

GreenBiz

And that anything businesspeople might do otherwise would be part of "the socialist view that political mechanisms, not market mechanisms, are the appropriate way to determine the allocation of scarce resources to alternative uses.". As I noted in a 2006 essay on the occasion of Friedman’s passing: We know better now.

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DeSmog Was Created to Combat Climategate-Style Misinformation. We’re Still Going

DeSmogBlog

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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Tracing EthicalEvidence in Moral Obligation to Future Generations

The Environmental Blog

The substantial variability of climate change has contributed to detrimental effects in the economic, social, political and environmental sphere that will continue to persist long after we are gone. “Virtue Ethics” The Oxford Handbook Of Ethical Theory, David Copp, Oxford University Press, New York, 2006, pp. 4, 2008, pp.

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Tributes flow following death of Peter Ainsworth, Conservative MP and pioneering Green Tory

Business Green

Former colleagues and friends have paid tribute to former Conservative frontbencher Peter Ainsworth, who played an integral role in pushing conservation and climate action into the political mainstream. Will be hugely missed, love & condolences to his family #RIP. — Gregory Barker (@GregBarkerUK) April 7, 2021. Awful loss.

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Why people still fall for fake news about climate change

Grist

Spreading lies about global warming like these can further social divisions and undermine public and political support for action to reduce emissions, according to the Climate Action Against Disinformation’s report. Story: Narrative Strategies for Science Communicators. To sow doubt, you only need to arouse some suspicion.