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Top Fossil Fuel Ad Ban Critic Runs Group That Got $450K from Oil Company

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His column ricocheted across the internet, where it was shared or referenced by industry groups , conservative columnists and rightwing politicians, including federal Conservative Party leader Pierre Poilievre. Calgary Herald columnist Don Braid called it “the most damaging criticism.”

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Andrew Coyne Helped Run Charity That Gave $6.4M to Climate Crisis Denial Groups

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Records from the Canada Revenue Agency show that Andrew Coyne , currently a columnist at Canada’s national newspaper of record, the Globe and Mail, spent a decade as a director at the Toronto-based Aurea Foundation. Coyne moved to the National Post in 2011, where he became a nationally syndicated columnist.

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Revealed: Scale of The Telegraph’s Climate Change ‘Propaganda’

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Telegraph columnists routinely questioned climate science and criticised green reforms as a major backlash against net zero policies raged in the UK, DeSmog can reveal. A new analysis by this website reviewed over 2,000 Telegraph opinion pieces and editorials published online over the six months ending 16 October. Credit: Telegraph.co.uk

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Jordan Peterson’s New Online School Will Be Rife with Climate Crisis Deniers

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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.” And it seems to be having an impact on public opinion. Rex Murphy speaking at the 2014 UBCM conference.

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Op-Eds Linked to Climate Science Deniers Bash Canada’s New EV Mandate

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Canada’s three largest newspapers ran opinion pieces attacking a planned phase-out of gas and diesel powered passenger vehicles within hours of the government’s official announcement that it would do so. Postmedia newspapers tend to focus on the opinions of conservative pundits and politicians.

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Why Words Matter in the Fight Against Climate Change

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I wasn’t quite sure what my role in this fight was going to be, but then in 2017 The New York Times hired columnist Bret Stephens, who at the time was on record as being a climate denier. So you never see opinions that you would disagree with. I took online courses in climate science through the edX platform.

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Climate Deniers and the Language of Climate Obstruction

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In the 1990s, for example, “sound science” was an expression used by climate deniers to attack and counter climate science — or “junk science,” as some deniers, such as former Fox News columnist and founder of the website JunkScience.com Steve Milloy , referred to the work of climate scientists like Michael E.Mann.