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Maps enhance flood risk modelling

Envirotec Magazine

Malmsbury, Wiltshire, during the 2012 flooding: The Climate Suite products are intended to provide insight into future flood hazards. Terrain data from aerial mapping company Bluesky is being used to upgrade the first national climate change flood model for the UK.

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

DeSmogBlog

In 2012, Rand Simberg and Mark Steyn publicly accused Mann, then a professor at Penn State University, of scientific misconduct and fraud. Michele Bachmann, who once claimed that global warming is “all voodoo” and “a hoax,” was in court to support Steyn as he testified. On Monday, former Minnesota GOP Rep.

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‘Lukewarmist’ Peer Set for Role Scrutinising Government Climate Policy

DeSmogBlog

The former MP for Hitchin and Harpenden was until last year a trustee of the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) , a group founded by former Conservative chancellor and climate science denier, Lord Nigel Lawson , to combat what it described as “extremely damaging and harmful” climate policies.

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Heartland Institute’s Survey Actually Supports the 97% Climate Science Consensus It’s Trying to Attack

DeSmogBlog

Back in 2012, it erected a billboard in a Chicago suburb, not far from its headquarters, featuring a glowering photograph of the “Unabomber” Ted Kaczynski, whose bombing campaign killed three and injured nearly two dozen. The billboard read: “I still believe in global warming. And there’s plenty of evidence about that consensus.

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A tech-backed mission to monitor methane pollution launches today

The Verge: Energy

Methane pollution is responsible for around 30 percent of global warming that’s raising sea levels and causing more extreme weather disasters. Between 2012 and 2018, it discovered that US methane emissions were actually 60 percent higher than the Environmental Protection Agency’s estimates.

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Media Repeats Kremlin Anti-Fracking Claims – While Ignoring Russia’s Promotion of Climate Denial

DeSmogBlog

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. It concludes that “the theory supporting global warming has taken a significant blow”.

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Climate Denial Funder Set to Become Tory Peer

DeSmogBlog

Billionaire Australian hedge fund manager Michael Hintze, one of the few known funders of the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), is set to receive a peerage, according to a Sunday Times report over the weekend. Hintze, founder and co-CEO of the global asset management fund CQS , has given £4.7