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Boris Johnson’s Honours List Includes Climate Science Deniers and Fossil Fuel Lobbyists 

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Tory Climate Science Denial Jenkyns, MP for Morley and Outwood, two weeks ago joined the board of NZW, an arm of the UK’s foremost climate denial group, the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF). Last August, Cox said : “I am now even more convinced man is not responsible for global warming.”

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Climate Sceptic Goes Unchallenged on BBC’s Today Programme

DeSmogBlog

The consultant was the sole interviewee in the segment, in which she claimed that the move to renewable energy, primarily wind power, was increasing the risk of blackouts. Porter’s blog repeatedly cites the work of the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), the UK’s main climate science denial group.

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Liz Truss Hires Anti-Green Aides With Ties to Libertarian Think Tanks

DeSmogBlog

Ruth Porter, who will be Truss’s senior special advisor and ran her election campaign, was communications director from 2010 to 2013 at the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA), an influential anti-regulation think tank with a record of opposing climate policies. BP-Funded Think Tank. Let Them Eat Carbon’.

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A decidedly impartial review of Mark Jacobson’s 100% Clean, Renewable Energy and Storage for Everything

Renewable Energy World

The plans, available at The Solutions Project’s “ Clean Energy ” link, reveal the unique mix of wind, water and sun technologies capable of powering states, countries and even select U.S. Wind, Water and Sun (aka WWS) include wind power; waterpower from tides, rivers, and subsurface water (geothermal water); and solar power.

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Wind project off North Carolina coast gets overwhelming support

Renewable Energy World

Undeniably, wind turbines can and do kill birds, often undetected. Some studies suggest land-based wind farms in the United States could cause over a million bird deaths a year — a figure sure to increase as wind power ramps up. . But unchecked global warming poses an exponentially greater danger.

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Trump Replaces FERC Chairman Neil Chatterjee with Commissioner James Danly

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The Trump administration has restricted federal agencies from sharing information on the global warming impacts of human-caused carbon emissions. Danly graduated from law school in 2013 and worked as a corporate energy lawyer before he was named general counsel at FERC in 2017. Danly’s rise to a Republican-dominated FERC.

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