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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. In her book, Ten Years to Save the West , which she is promoting widely this week, Truss writes that “the zealous drive to net zero”, the UK’s legally binding 2050 climate target, amounts to “unilateral economic disarmament” and is “a drag on economic growth”.

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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”. DeSmog has previously revealed that the Conservative Party received £3.5

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

DeSmogBlog

While there, Jones edited a 1997 Fraser Institute book entitled Global Warming: The Science and the Politics , which contained essays by people like Willie Soon and Patrick Michaels , prominent spreaders of doubt about the foundations of climate science whose work has been funded by fossil fuel companies.

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

GreenBiz

At one such event in 2014, speaker Christopher Monckton surveyed the room and declared that everyone there agreed that humanity’s "emissions of CO2 and other greenhouse gases have contributed to the measured global warming since 1950." His point was to make it clear that "we are not climate change deniers." Risk & Resilience.

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Climate Science Deniers Go Unchallenged at London ‘Green’ Summit

DeSmogBlog

A “sustainable development” conference taking place in London gave a platform to two prominent climate science deniers, who used the event to claim that coal-fired power is “clean” and call global warming a “religion”. in a call and response chant of “Global warming is?”, If global warming is your religion, that’s fine.

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Old School Climate Science Denial Lingers on Outskirts of Tory Conference

DeSmogBlog

Printed by the Bruges Group, which has a history of backing climate science denial, the leaflets promoted the new book CO2 – Nature’s Gift by Jeremy Nieboer, who was scheduled to give multiple talks. Net Zero Watch Fracking Panel. Reform UK leader Richard Tice at the Bruges Group event. Credit: DeSmog.

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Earth911 Quiz #23: Drawdown Your Carbon Footprint

AGreenLiving

Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed To Reverse Global Warming is a must-read book… The post Earth911 Quiz #23: Drawdown Your Carbon Footprint appeared first on Earth911. Read more: Earth911 Quiz #23: Drawdown Your Carbon Footprint.

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