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In D.C. Defamation Trial, Climatologist Michael Mann Confronts the Climate Deniers Who Maligned His Work

DeSmogBlog

Guided by Fontaine, Mann set the record straight, testifying that he had received a certificate from the IPCC acknowledging his contributions towards the group’s receipt of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize, which it shared with Al Gore. Many other scientists on the IPCC panel have also said they won the 2007 award, Mann testified.

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Revealed: How the Aides of ‘Anti-Net Zero’ MP Craig Mackinlay are Linked to a Leading Climate Denial Group

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Craig Mackinlay, chair of the Net Zero Scrutiny Group (NZSG), recently hired Harry Wilkinson, head of policy at the anonymously-funded Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), to work for him in Parliament. Gesture Politics’. But his two taxpayer-funded aides have both regularly challenged mainstream climate science.

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Why people still fall for fake news about climate change

Grist

Yet almost 30 years after that warning, during the hottest year on Earth in 125,000 years , people are still arguing that the science is unreliable, or that the threat is real but we shouldn’t do anything about climate change. climate conference in Dubai. And is there anything that can be done to bring them around to reality?

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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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 In Brazil, Right-Wing Think Tanks Align with Agribusiness to Seek a Path Back to Power

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“I even took off my farm boots and wore high heels to come here today,” Camila Telles told the audience of political activists, business executives, and students at April’s Liberty Forum, an annual conservative gathering in Brazil sponsored by the Atlas Network. Some camps supported the reelection of populist strongman Jair Bolsonaro.

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Leading Think Tank Met With Minister Over North Sea Energy While Funded by Fossil Fuel Interests

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The Ministerial Meeting DeSmog has obtained the details of a meeting held on 23 February 2021 between Policy Exchange’s Energy and Environment Unit and Anne-Marie Trevelyan, who at the time was serving as Minister for Energy, Clean Growth and Climate Change at the Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS).

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How climate change spurs megadroughts

Grist

In one sense, the climate change link seems obvious. Since 1850, global temperatures have climbed 1.2 Since 1850, global temperatures have climbed 1.2 But the connection between climate change and drought is not as straightforward as it seems. degrees Celsius (2.2 degrees Fahrenheit); in areas of the U.S.