DeSmogBlog
JUNE 29, 2023
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. government.
DeSmogBlog
MARCH 30, 2023
I’m the author of The Petroleum Papers , which was named a top 10 book of 2022 by the Washington Post. While researching my book, I read through hundreds of pages of internal documents from the company, which revealed that Imperial Oil was studying the link between fossil fuels and global warming as early as the 1970s.
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DeSmogBlog
MAY 7, 2024
Other recipients of Aurea funding that have downplayed or denied the catastrophic consequences of global temperature rise include the Frontier Centre for Public Policy , the Montreal Economic Institute and the Atlantic Institute for Market Studies (which in 2019 merged with Fraser). They in turn belong to a U.S.
Grist
FEBRUARY 6, 2023
This shift has forced fossil fuel companies — and the organizations they fund — to alter their tactics to avoid regulation. The institute’s last big mailout was in 2017 when it sent out 350,000 copies of its “Why Scientists Disagree About Global Warming.”
DeSmogBlog
FEBRUARY 5, 2024
Canadian conservative newspaper columnist Rex Murphy, who has referred to global warming as an “anti-Western ideology,” is also on board, with a course “on poetry and Paradise Lost.” These arguments are being termed “the new climate denial” by watchdog organizations such as the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH).
Grist
APRIL 21, 2023
This point is repeated ad infinitum in tips about how to talk about the climate crisis, in books, articles, and guides for public officials. The myth that most people imagine global warming as a distant concern “could be one explanation of why people tend to underestimate other people’s climate change perceptions,” van Valkengoed said.
Grist
JULY 17, 2023
In her new book Blight: Fungi and the Coming Pandemic , author, professor, and researcher Emily Monosson unravels the expansive and unsettling history of fungal invasions across the globe and how they have shaped our lives in both visible and invisible ways. And global warming could help other fungal pathogens spread, too.
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