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Liz Truss Book Calls for Climate Laws to be Abolished and Boasts of Effort to Cancel UK COP Summit

DeSmogBlog

The new book by former Prime Minister Liz Truss urges the UK, U.S. and EU to drop their landmark climate change laws, spreads falsehoods about green policies, and fondly recalls an attempt to cancel a major climate conference. She adds that “the U.S. is beyond reach.

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Former Climate Change Denier Now Leading BC’s Top Business Lobby Group

DeSmogBlog

A business lobby group that regularly meets with top elected officials and policymakers in British Columbia is now being led by someone who once argued that human-caused climate change is an “untested proposition.” The papers in this volume make it clear that global warming is not a settled issue,” Jones wrote in the introduction. “The

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Climate change author to deliver keynote at water technology event

Envirotec Magazine

Renowned environmentalist, entrepreneur and bestselling author Paul Hawken has been announced as a keynote speaker at global water technology event BlueTech Forum 2022 , which takes place 7-8 June 2022 in Vancouver. He has written eight books that have been published in 50 countries, selling more than two million copies.

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A common talking point about climate change gets it all wrong, new study says

Grist

Common wisdom says that the average person doesn’t care about climate change because they think its effects will unfold in the far-off future or in faraway places. This point is repeated ad infinitum in tips about how to talk about the climate crisis, in books, articles, and guides for public officials. One problem?

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Government’s New Low Pay Advisor Heads Climate Denial Network

DeSmogBlog

Last month, Energy Security and Net Zero Secretary Clare Coutinho met with and praised fuel pricing lobbyist Howard Cox , a Reform UK candidate who wants to “scrap net zero” and claims that “man is not responsible for global warming”. million in donations from fossil fuel interests and climate science deniers in 2022.

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Risk, doubt, and the burden of proof in the climate debate

GreenBiz

Risk, doubt, and the burden of proof in the climate debate. Excerpted from " Industrial-Strength Denial: Eight Stories of Corporations Defending the Indefensible, from the Slave Trade to Climate Change " by Barbara Freese, published by the University of California Press. Barbara Freese. Sat, 05/16/2020 - 14:20.

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Exxon Could Have Helped Stop Climate Change 30 Years Ago, ‘Proprietary’ Docs Show

DeSmogBlog

If Exxon had back then used its vast political and financial power to aggressively push for a national carbon tax to be adopted in major economies around the world, global emissions might have already peaked by now. Read a Q&A with Geoff Dembicki, author of the book The Petroleum Papers. Credit: TheKurgan , CC BY–SA 3.0.