DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 25, 2024

The scientist also responded to questions from his lawyer about “ Climategate ,” a 2009 global media frenzy touched off by the release of hacked emails from climate scientists at the University of East Anglia, not long before that year’s United Nations climate conference in Copenhagen.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 25, 2022

But there are numerous examples still available online of the outlet promoting climate science denial. These include articles plugging the work of the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), which is currently working with the Net Zero Scrutiny Group to use Russia’s invasion of Ukraine to demand more fossil fuel extraction.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 21, 2021

Conservative MP Steve Baker has joined the UK’s principal climate science denial group the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF). adults thought that addressing climate change was very or fairly important, while three in four wanted politicians to prioritise the issue. Read profile. Read profile.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Former Australian prime minister Tony Abbott , a director of the UK’s principal climate science denial group, the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), has been reappointed by the government as an adviser to the prestigious Board of Trade. The GWPF has gained a number of high profile directors over the last year.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 9, 2021

Lord Peter Lilley, who has disputed mainstream climate science and was one of just five MPs to oppose the UK’s climate change act in 2008, is listed alongside 12 other peers proposed as members of the new environment and climate change committee (ECCC), due to be formally appointed next week.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 11, 2023

The founder and honorary president of the Global Warming Policy Foundation has announced he will be retiring from parliament. The newspaper – which regularly runs columns attacking climate action – notes Lawson’s pivotal role in the official Brexit campaign, Vote Leave, during the 2016 EU referendum. Climate Denial Founder.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 26, 2023

This is despite new polling showing that 57 percent of 2019 Conservative voters think that Sunak hasn’t gone far enough to tackle climate change, while only 9 percent think he has gone too far. The study also found that burning fossil fuels made heatwaves in China 50 times more likely.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 19, 2021

Oxford University is facing criticism after the UK’s principal climate science denial group appointed a second professor to its ranks. Defending his membership of the thinktank, Dobson told DeSmog he did not consider members of the Global Warming Policy Foundation to be climate deniers “for the most part”.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 5, 2021

The “Status of Coral Reefs of the World: 2020” report , released on 5 October, documents the loss of approximately 14 per cent of the world’s coral since 2009. This, the largest analysis of global coral reef health ever undertaken draws on data: spanning 40 years. in 73 countries. across 12,000 sites. Although reefs cover only 0.2

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Graham Stuart MP was listed as a keynote speaker on Tuesday at the four-day Global Investment in Sustainable Development conference in London, hosted by the CC Forum, a company which touts itself as the “green Davos”. climate science denial activist. Climate Science Deniers. in a call and response chant of “Global warming is?”

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 27, 2022

A Tory donor who has helped fund the UK’s leading climate science denial group is to be made a member of the House of Lords, prompting Green MP Caroline Lucas to call for an “urgent” investigation. The GWPF was founded by former chancellor Lord Lawson in 2009 and is currently part of a campaign against the UK’s 2050 net zero target.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Vinson, a supporter of the late Margaret Thatcher, has previously donated nearly £50,000 to the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) through his own charity. The GWPF was founded in 2009 by climate denier Nigel Lawson , the ex-chancellor, to combat “extremely damaging and harmful policies” designed to mitigate climate change.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

May said the UK has “confounded the pessimists” by taking action on climate change while growing the economy. May went on to say government action on climate change is popular, including among voters in the “Red Wall” seats the Conservatives won from Labour in 2019. A Unifying Issue’. Chequered Record.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Professor Ray Bates, an Emeritus Professor at University College Dublin , has been appointed to the academic advisory council of the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF). Climate ‘Contrarian’.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 21, 2022

In a joint letter , the scientists say that they are “consistently faced with a major and needless challenge” of having to correct false information and rebut the fossil fuel industry’s efforts to downplay the severity of climate change. August 18, 2009. And as this letter makes clear, they have had enough. CC BY-NC-ND 2.0).

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 7, 2021

The implications and ingenuity of the suit gave the people of Kivalina an international media platform to raise awareness of their ongoing fight to survive the perils of climate change. Cole’s journey was tragically cut short in 2009 before he could see the full impact of his life’s work unfold. Landmark Climate Change Lawsuit.

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Business Green

JUNE 23, 2022

Ed Miliband last night promised that a Labour government would provide long-term certainty to businesses through the delivery of an ambitious new climate policy framework, as he hailed the net zero transition as "not just the ethical choice; it is the economic choice as well". I'm truly honoured to be presenting this award.".

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 4, 2023

The International Energy Agency has stated that new oil and gas exploration is incompatible with the effort to limit global warming to 1.5C – the legally-binding limit set by the 2015 Paris Agreement. Climate change will disproportionately affect young people.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 7, 2021

A new report released by the Global Coral Reef Monitoring Network found that up to 14% of the world’s coral reefs have been depleted due to climate change between the years 2009 and 2018. In the period under review, mass coral bleaching events were experienced due to warming waters.

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Grist

AUGUST 9, 2022

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.

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Business Green

MAY 7, 2021

The firm said it expected to increase investment in "important emerging transition opportunities" such as zero emissions transport, hydrogen, carbon sequestration, nature-based solutions, and climate resilient infrastructure, and that it expects its coal-related lending exposures to "run off" by 2024.

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Unsustainable

APRIL 30, 2019

Climate: severe climate change and increasing levels of atmospheric CO 2 have been noticed since 1950. Freshwater: freshwater is severely affected by climate change and human activities such as deforestation, agricultural need, urbanisation, and industrialisation. 2009; Steffen, W.,

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Grist

JULY 17, 2023

Candida auris, a drug-resistant yeast, emerged in 2009 on three continents simultaneously. But as global temperatures have risen over the decades, the fungus may have evolved to adapt to a warmer climate. Climate change, the theory goes, has trained C. Some researchers theorize that C.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 22, 2021

In just ten years, Jacobson has harnessed passion, determination and science to re-frame the way renewable energy is seen and, ultimately, accepted as a viable solution to climate change and air pollution. Climate Change Conference in Paris. This was the first time we “met,” albeit via a cross-country phone call.

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Green Market Oracle

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

As emissions keep rising and global carbon budgets decline, it is becoming increasingly apparent that if we are to stave off the worst of climate change we must deploy and scale these desperate remedies as quickly as possible. Carbon capture and sequestration have often been considered technologies of last resort.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Britain's right-wing tabloids have historically not been champions of action on climate change and other environmental issues. Dec 2009 vs today pic.twitter.com/eEohLzX60P. Climate change is a notoriously difficult story to tell. The Daily Express. — Leo Hickman (@LeoHickman) February 8, 2021.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Mordunat is a director at the Global Warming Policy Foundation and served as its chair from April 2017 to November 2019. The GWPF was set up by the late Nigel Lawson , a former chancellor of the exchequer, in 2009, and has consistently spread climate science denial. billion invested in fossil fuels.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

West Cumbria suffered a " once-in-a-thousand-year " flood in 2009. Climate change is increasing the risk of precisely the kind of intense downpours that triggered these floods, so that once-freak weather events now happen far more regularly. To limit global warming to 1.5C And then again in 2015.

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Grist

DECEMBER 16, 2019

As changing weather patterns driven by global warming have extended California’s wildfire season and increased the intensity and size of the infernos burning across the state, residents who don’t take precautions do so at their own peril. According to Emily Williams, a Ph.D.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

In interviews afterward, Shatner made a plea for the planet as TV hosts tried to steer him toward topics lighter than death and global warming. The 90-year-old man, the oldest person to go to space, said humans can’t continue “burying our heads in the sand” about climate change, and that “we’re at a tipping point.”.

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Greentown Labs

JULY 16, 2020

According to scientists, reducing greenhouse gas emissions alone will not be enough to keep global warming below an average of two degrees Celsius globally. Mitigating the impacts of climate change is essential. Corporations worldwide would be negatively impacted if we don’t do this and can prosper if we do.

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Rinexii

JANUARY 22, 2021

This would become the first official pandemic plan, only to be reshaped again in 2009. Climate change awareness also began decades ago. Although it might seem like climate change has only been acted on in the past few years, countries were concerned back in the 1970s. A similar problem.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 12, 2023

Students for Liberty has received over $1 million in funding since 2009 from the philanthropic organisations of Charles Koch, who co-owns Koch Industries – one of the largest privately-held companies in the US – which trades heavily in oil and gas. Consumer Choice Center was part of US-based Students for Liberty until 2020.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

The UK is among a host of wealthier nations which have yet to stump up their "fair share" of funding to help developing countries decarbonise their economies and contend with the worsening impacts of climate change, despite a long-held pledge that they would collectively provide $100bn a year in climate funding by 2020.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 11, 2022

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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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 31, 2023

Nor does it refer to a topic that was of unequivocal scientific concern at the time: The “greenhouse effect,” or what is now known as climate change. He dubbed his project “ Dirty Pearls: exposing Shell’s hidden legacy of climate change accountability, 1970-1990.”

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Business Green

JULY 10, 2020

The UK's most prominent source of climate change denial' is soliciting donations, but, argues Andrew Warren, its influence is waning. He is the 63 year old founder-director of the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF). Quite who provides the funds to run either the Foundation, or indeed the Forum, remains a mystery.

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