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

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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’. Wilkinson is joining political economist Ruth Lea on Mackinlay’s team.

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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. IEE also participates directly in Brazilian politics, Brun says.

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

Business Green

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. Throughout the 80s, Houghton was influential in encouraging parliament to engage with the issue of global warming.

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

DeSmogBlog

The Helmsley website says that it provides “communications, government relations, thought leadership and political risk to companies on the front line of the energy transition.” “The Meanwhile, the chair of the Policy Exchange board is Alexander Downer, who served as Australia’s Foreign Minister from 1996 to 2007.

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

DeSmogBlog

Like a chicken and egg dilemma, who came up with these goals first, politics or science? For the first time, it proposed encompassing all the gases that cause global warming in a single indicator. Political Origins of 2°C. The next key moment in the 2°C story is no longer scientific, but political.

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Why people still fall for fake news about climate change

Grist

Why, after all this time, do 15 percent of Americans fall for the lie that global warming isn’t happening? 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.